REU Site: A Community College Based REU in the Wyoming Region

怀俄明大学（UW）的本科生研究经验（REU）网站奖将于2021年至2023年每年夏天将七名社区学院（CC）学生和两名CC教授带到UW。该计划由化学系和促进竞争性研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同支持，将允许学生和教师为从能源，材料到生物相关主题的化学研究项目做出贡献。每位学生将与一名参与的教师导师密切合作，这些导师是根据他们的研究成就和成功指导本科生研究人员的记录精心挑选的。这种实践研究经验还包括各种各样的活动（研讨会，关于道德和写作的迷你课程，以及与能源相关的实地考察），以教育和培训学生未来的科学家职业。怀俄明州的高等教育系统由一所四年制研究生水平的大学和七所社区学院组成。这个REU网站强调为区域cc的学生和教师提供服务，以积极影响WY和周边州的学生和科学。这个项目将吸引一年级和二年级的本科生，他们在大学生涯的早期，并让他们接触研究生水平的化学研究。提供的项目范围广泛，包括纳米颗粒催化剂的合成和表征；位点选择性光化学蛋白修饰；以及氢分子量子晶体的化学性质。在后一个项目中，值得注意的是，由于各种量子力学效应，如单个H分子的大幅平移零点运动以及邻位和对位核自旋流形的存在，低温固体氢分子是一个独特的凝聚相环境。在液氦温度下，这种晶体内部发生了多种非经典动力学。这些研究经历将为化学研究提供更深入的视角，并为化学科学的潜在工作机会提供视角。该项目的学生还将有机会获得专业发展，包括道德培训、科学交流、准备简历和研究生申请材料。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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 Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site award to the University of Wyoming (UW), located in Laramie WY, will bring seven community college (CC) students and two CC professors to UW each summer from 2021 to 2023. This program, jointly supported by the Division of Chemistry and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), will allow students and faculty to contribute to chemistry research on projects ranging from energy, to materials, to bio-related topics. Each student will work closely with one of the participating faculty mentors who have been carefully selected for their research accomplishments and successful mentoring records with undergraduate researchers. This hands-on research experience also includes a variety of activities (seminars, mini-courses on ethics and writing, and energy-related field trips) to educate and train students for their future careers as scientists.The higher education system in Wyoming is comprised of a single 4-year/graduate level university along with seven community colleges. This REU site emphasizes serving students and faculty from regional CCs to positively impact students and science in WY and surrounding states. This program will engage first and second-year undergraduates, who are early in their college career, and expose them to graduate level chemistry research. The wide range of projects offered includes the synthesis and characterization of nanoparticule-based catalysts; site-selective photochemical protein modification; and the chemistry of molecular hydrogen quantum crystals. On this latter project, it is worthy of note that cryogenic solid molecular hydrogen is a unique condensed phase environment due to a variety of quantum mechanical effects such as large amplitude translational zero point motion of the individual H molecules and the presence of ortho and para nuclear spin manifolds. A variety of non-classical dynamics occur within such crystals at liquid helium temperatures. These research experiences will provide a more in-depth view of chemistry research and of perspective on potential job opportunities in the chemical sciences. The students in this program will also have opportunities for professional development including training in ethics, scientific communication, and preparation of resumes and graduate school application materials.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.