REU Site: Research Addressing Problems in Biological Chemistry

这个本科生（RE）研究经验网站奖波士顿大学，位于马萨诸塞州波士顿，支持10名学生的培训10周。该计划由数学和物理科学理事会化学部资助，参与化学研究项目，强调分子水平上的生物化学问题。除了完整的沉浸式实验室体验外，该计划还为参与者提供广泛的指导和专业发展机会。参与者参加了一个双指导计划，与研究生和其他本科生研究人员。 学生获得当代科学演讲技巧，并与众多来访的演讲者进行互动。该计划培养参与者的研究文化，并激励有才华的年轻科学家在STEM领域从事研究事业。参与者可获得的研究项目涵盖了化学和生物学界面的广泛努力，包括用于诊断和药物输送的新型纳米材料的设计和合成，蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用的研究，有机分子的设计和合成，人类病原体的光谱检测和识别，蛋白质聚集的计算建模等等。该计划的招聘工作重点是从社区学院和研究机会有限的四年制学院招聘学生。通过有针对性的招聘、广泛的专业发展和个人研究项目，该网站在早期阶段向有才华的学生推广STEM职业。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Research Experience for Undergraduate (RE) site award to Boston University, located in Boston, MA, supports the training of 10 students for 10 weeks. This program, funded by the Division of Chemistry in the Mathematical and Physical Science Directorate, engages participants in chemistry research projects emphasizing problems in biological chemistry at the molecular level. Alongside a full immersion laboratory experience, the program provides participants with extensive mentoring and professional development opportunities. Participants take part in a dual-mentoring plan, with graduate students and other undergraduate researchers. The students gain contemporary scientific presentation skills and engage with numerous visiting speakers. This program trains participants in research culture and stimulates talented young scientists to pursue research careers in STEM fields. Research projects available to participants cover a wide range of endeavors at the interface of chemistry and biology, including the design and synthesis of new nanomaterials for diagnostics and drug delivery, investigation of protein-protein interactions, design and synthesis of organic molecules, spectroscopic detection and identification of human pathogens, computational modeling of protein aggregation, and many others. This program's recruitment efforts place an emphasis on recruiting students from community colleges and four-year colleges with limited research opportunities. Through targeted recruitment, extensive professional development, and individual research projects, this site promotes STEM careers to talented students at a early stage.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.