REU Site: Experimental and Computational Spectroscopy: Fundamental Probes of Molecules, Molecular Interactions, and Materials

该奖项的全部或部分资金来自《2021年美国救援计划法案》(公法117-2)。俄亥俄州立大学的本科生研究体验(REU)网站将在2023-2025年夏季为10名学生提供10周的支持。这些REU学生将在教师导师的指导下进行研究，并参加每周的会议，提供研究指导、科学沟通技能以及在STEM领域获得四年制或研究生学位的策略方面的培训。该计划将努力支持从两年制和四年制学院和大学招募的多样化参与者群体，这些学院和大学通常缺乏专门的研究工具。将努力从服务不足的地区招募学生参与者，如俄亥俄州的铁锈带城市和阿巴拉契亚县以及邻近的州。研究培训的重点将是如何使用实验室仪器和计算机来学习使用紫外线、可见光、红外和射频辐射等电磁辐射的分子和材料。这一研究主题与最初的化学课程中教授的基本思想重叠，确保即使是初学者也有一些现有的主题知识，他们可以在此基础上发展。光与物质相互作用(即光谱学)的培训对于培养一支为21世纪生物医学成像、材料表征和量子信息科学等领域的工作做好准备的劳动力至关重要。俄亥俄州立大学(OSU)的REU站点旨在放大最近两个NSF中型仪器奖对基于光谱学的新设施的影响：国家极端超快科学设施(专注于高强度激光)和国家网关超高场核磁共振设施。来自世界各地的这两个用户设施的来访科学家将每周举行研讨会，邀请REU参与者参加。这些学生将在俄亥俄州立大学化学和生物化学系内以光谱学为重点的研究小组中从事个人研究项目。每周的工作坊将集中在来自不同背景的现有俄亥俄州立大学博士生的帮助下培养科学沟通技能，为指导过程增添国际色彩。其中一个重点将是从地区性本科院校招募学生参与者，包括许多规模较小、研究机会有限的机构，这些机构服务于大量第一代大学生。REU计划，加上长期成果跟踪和计划有效性评估，将为这些学生提供指导和网络机会，以增强他们在科学和技术领域的职业机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Ohio State University will support 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2023 – 2025. These REU students will conduct research under a faculty mentor and participate in weekly meetings that provide training in the conduct of research, scientific communication skills, and strategies for attaining four-year or postgraduate degrees in STEM fields. The program will strive to support a diverse group of participants recruited from two- and four-year colleges and universities that generally lack specialized instrumentation for research. There will be an effort to recruit student participants from underserved areas such as Rust Belt cities and Appalachian counties in Ohio and neighboring states. The research training will be focused on how to use laboratory instruments and computers to learn about molecules and materials using electromagnetic radiation such as UV, visible, infrared, and radio frequency radiation. This research theme overlaps foundational ideas taught in initial chemistry courses, ensuring that even beginning students have some existing subject-matter knowledge upon which they can build. Training in the interactions between light and matter (i.e., spectroscopy) is critical for creating a workforce prepared for 21st century jobs in fields such as biomedical imaging, materials characterization, and quantum information science.The REU site at Ohio State University (OSU) is designed to amplify the impact of two recent NSF mid-scale instrumentation awards for new spectroscopy-based facilities: The National Extreme Ultrafast Science Facility (focused on high-intensity lasers), and the National Gateway Ultrahigh-Field NMR facility. Visiting scientists at these two user facilities from around the world will give weekly seminars to which REU participants will be invited. These students will be engaged in individual research projects in spectroscopy-focused research groups within the OSU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Weekly workshops will focus on developing scientific communication skills with the assistance of current Ohio State Ph.D. students from a wide variety of backgrounds, adding an international flavor to the mentoring process. One focus will be to recruit student participants from regional undergraduate institutions, including many smaller ones with limited research opportunities that serve large numbers of first-generation college students. The REU program, augmented by long-term outcome tracking and assessments of program effectiveness, will provide these students with mentoring and networking opportunities to enhance their career opportunities in science and technology.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.