REU Site: Experimental and Computational Modeling of Materials and Biomolecular Systems

REU 网站：材料和生物分子系统的实验和计算模型

• 批准号: 2150526
• 负责人: Ming Hammond
• 金额: $ 36.45万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150526&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Experimental; Computational; Modeling

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 award to the University of Utah, located at Salt Lake City, UT, continues a training program for 9 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2022-2024. In this program, participants will pursue cutting-edge research projects under the guidance of experienced and committed mentors, addressing a range of challenging chemistry-related problems in energy, health, environment, and education. Participants will also take part in professional development activities to enhance skills in data analysis and computation, develop scientific communication skills, and prepare for graduate schools and modern STEM careers. By providing research experiences enriched by cohort building, mentor training, workshops, a graduate school mini expo, and a research conference, this site will broaden participation in STEM and strengthen ties between the University of Utah and other local schools.Participants will advance research projects with an emphasis on model building, data analysis, and computation from all areas of chemistry. These projects include crystal structure prediction based on solution species; discovering chemical ligands of bacterial sensory domains; modeling the hydrothermal synthesis of zeolites; and studies of nitrogenase activity by electrochemistry and simulation. To support the data analysis and modeling aspects of their projects, students will participate in a series of summer workshops run by the Center for High Performance Computing. To increase diversity in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) pipeline, this REU site will endeavor to recruit students from underrepresented groups at local community colleges and primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) from around the nation.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.

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。该研究经验本科生（REU）网站奖给犹他州，位于犹他湖城的大学，继续在2022-2024年的夏天为9名学生提供10周的培训计划。在该计划中，参与者将在经验丰富和忠诚的导师的指导下开展尖端研究项目，解决能源，健康，环境和教育方面的一系列具有挑战性的化学相关问题。参与者还将参加专业发展活动，以提高数据分析和计算技能，发展科学沟通技能，并为研究生院和现代STEM职业做准备。通过提供丰富的研究经验，通过队列建设，导师培训，研讨会，研究生院小型博览会和研究会议，这个网站将扩大参与STEM和加强犹他州和其他地方学校之间的联系大学。参与者将推进研究项目，重点是模型构建，数据分析和计算从化学的所有领域。这些项目包括基于溶液物种的晶体结构预测;发现细菌感觉域的化学配体;模拟沸石的水热合成;以及通过电化学和模拟研究固氮酶活性。为了支持他们的项目的数据分析和建模方面，学生将参加由高性能计算中心运行的一系列夏季研讨会。为了增加STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）管道的多样性，REU网站将奋进从当地社区学院和主要是来自全国各地的本科院校（PUI）的代表性不足的群体中招募学生。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。