REU site: Chemistry for a Sustainable Future - an International Research Experience in the UK

本科生的研究经验（REU）网站奖给北卡罗来纳州格林斯伯勒，位于北卡罗来纳州格林斯伯勒的大学，支持8名学生在2023年至2025年的夏天10周的培训。 在这个程序中，由化学部资助，参与者在英国巴斯大学进行化学合作研究。学生将与巴斯大学可持续发展研究所的教师合作，该研究所汇集了多学科的专业知识，通过应用于聚合物，能源，催化，化学转化和环境化学的可持续化学技术研究来解决与气候和可持续性有关的问题。学生们还将参加研讨会和活动，旨在提高他们的沟通技巧和科学道德的理解，并准备他们过渡到研究生课程或在STEM领域的工业职位。研究，研讨会和其他活动将注入国际视野，以帮助参与者成为未来多元化，具有全球竞争力的STEM劳动力的一部分。学生们将开展涵盖可持续化学所有领域的个人项目。其中包括研究可再生资源的可持续聚合物，新电池技术，可再生资源和清洁能源的升级。该项目的目标是通过集中在两个学生池中招募至少50%的化学代表性不足的学生。 第一个重点是由九所院校组成的地方联合会的学生（三所HCBU、一所MSI、六所主要是本科院校（PUI）、一所女子学院和一所社区学院）。 第二个重点是将招聘工作集中在美国东南部的HCBU、MSI和PUI。该奖项反映了NSF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。

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site award to the University of North Carolina Greensboro, located in Greensboro, NC, supports the training of 8 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2023-2025. In this program, funded by the Division of Chemistry, participants pursue collaborative research in chemistry at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Students will work with faculty who are members of University of Bath’s Institute for Sustainability, which brings together multidisciplinary expertise to address problems related to climate and sustainability through research in sustainable chemical technologies as applied to polymers, energy sources, catalysis, chemical transformations and environmental chemistry. The students will also participate in workshops and activities designed to enhance their communication skills and understanding of scientific ethics, and prepare them to make the transition to graduate programs or industrial positions in STEM fields. The research, workshops and other activities will be infused with an international perspective to help participants become part of a diverse, globally competitive STEM workforce in the future.The students undertake individual projects encompassing all fields of sustainable chemistry. These include research into sustainable polymers from renewable sources, new battery technology, upgrading of renewable resources and clean energy. The goal of the project is to recruit a minimum of 50% underrepresented students in chemistry by concentrating on two pools of students. The first focus is on students in a local consortium of nine institutions (three HCBU’s, one MSI, six primarily undergraduate institutions (PUI’s), one women’s college and a community college). The second focus is concentrating recruitment efforts on HCBU’s, MSI’s and PUI’s in the southeastern U.S.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.