REU Site: Ole Miss Physical Chemistry Summer Research Program REU

该奖项是根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）的全部或部分资助。该研究经验本科生（REU）网站在密西西比大学，位于牛津，MS，支持10名学生在2023年至2025年的夏天10周的培训。该网站由首席研究员内森·哈默和伊登坦纳管理，提供实验和理论物理化学方面的原创研究项目。这些研究项目促进了物理和计算化学小组成员之间的沟通和合作，从而提高了高性能计算及其对化学的适用性。除了参与研究，学生通过教师主导的讲座，如量子化学，分子光谱学和药物化学的主题，在物理化学发展更深入的知识。学生们与密西西比大学的本科生和研究生、教职员工一起参加为期一个夏天的有组织的专业发展和社交活动。预计这些活动将为学生的化学职业做好准备，并有助于建立同行和教师的网络。为了扩大参与和发展多样化的化学劳动力，这个网站招募来自美国各地的学生，特别是那些来自化学领域代表性不足的群体和研究机会有限的机构的学生。学生参与者将在教员的实验室和使用密西西比超级计算研究中心（MCSR）进行原创性研究。以实验和理论物理化学为中心，研究项目包括光捕获，光电发射和催化材料的合成设计;表征新开发材料的生物物理特性;重要生物相关相互作用的光谱研究和计算建模;以及具有重要能源或药物开发和交付应用的新开发材料的合成和计算建模。高级人员指导学生进行原创性研究，讲授物理化学相关主题，管理迷你课程，并组织社会活动。该计划的学生获得物理科学的实践经验，同时也将化学知识应用于真实的世界问题并共同撰写学术出版物。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 award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the University of Mississippi, located in Oxford, MS, supports the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2023-2025. Managed by principal investigators Nathan Hammer and Eden Tanner, the site offers original research projects in experimental and theoretical physical chemistry. These research projects foster communication and collaboration between members of physical and computational chemistry groups, which increases literacy in high performance computing and its applicability to chemistry. In addition to participating in research, students develop a deeper knowledge in physical chemistry through faculty-led lectures on topics like quantum chemistry, molecular spectroscopy, and medicinal chemistry. Students engage in a summer-long schedule of organized professional development and social activities with University of Mississippi undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff. These activities are expected to prepare students for chemistry careers and help to build a network of peers and faculty. To broaden participation and develop a diverse chemistry workforce, this site recruits students from throughout the U.S., particularly those from underrepresented groups in chemistry and from institutions with limited research opportunities.Student participants will perform original research in the laboratories of faculty members and using the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research (MCSR). Centered around experimental and theoretical physical chemistry, the research projects include synthetic design of light-harvesting, photoemissive, and catalytic materials; characterizing the photophysical properties of newly-developed materials; the spectroscopic study and computational modeling of important biologically relevant interactions; and the synthesis and computational modeling of newly-developed materials with important energy or drug development and delivery applications. Senior personnel mentor students in original research, present lectures on physical chemistry-related topics, administer mini-courses, and organize social activities. Students in the program gain practical experience in the physical sciences, while also applying knowledge in chemistry to real world problems and co-authoring scholarly publications.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.