CAREER: Dendritic Approach to Career-Development: Dendrimers, Multidisciplinary Courses, and Girl Scouts

这个教师早期职业发展（CAREER）项目，在支持 分析和表面化学计划，侧重于 新型高分子化学荧光光谱研究 介质，树枝状聚合物。 树枝状聚合物是高度支化的三维结构 其结构包括空腔微体积的聚合物， 研究用于化学分离和药物 交付. 塔克教授和她的学生将使用各种 光学探针来研究结构-功能关系， 系统地改变家族的树枝状聚合物提出用于 分离应用。 这个职业生涯项目包括开发 “成功面试和工作技能”的课程， 科学`。 塔克教授还将为女孩举办周末讲习班 书名为《化学的魔力》。 人们对开发新的化学物质很感兴趣。 这些化合物有效地用于包封其它离子或分子， 把它们运进运出目标星系 一个这样的团体 化合物是树枝状聚合物。 树枝状聚合物是三维聚合物 它们正在被严格评估用于化学分离， 在药物输送应用中。 塔克教授和她的学生们 利用光学光谱学研究树枝状聚合物的化学性质 结构-功能关系。 研究生和本科生 我将通过一门专门介绍面试和工作的课程获得见解 科学工作场所的技能。 女童子军将接触到 “化学的魔力”，努力弥合科学的性别差距。

This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project, supported in the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program, focuses on the spectrofluorometric study of chemistry involving novel macromolecular media, dendrimers. Dendrimers are highly-branched, three-dimensional polymers whose structures include cavity microvolumes which are being investigated for use in areas such as chemical separations and drug delivery. Professor Tucker and her students will use a variety of optical probes to study structure-function relationships in a systematically varying family of dendrimers proposed for use in separations applications. This CAREER project includes the development of a course entitled `Interviewing and Job Skills for Success in the Sciences`. Professor Tucker will also conduct weekend workshops for Girl Scouts entitled `The Magic of Chemistry`. There is a great deal of interest in the development of novel chemical compounds which effectively act to encapsulate other ions or molecules to transport them into and out of target systems. One such group of compounds is the dendrimers. Dendrimers are three-dimensional polymers which are being evaluated intensely for use in chemical separations and in drug delivery applications. Professor Tucker and her students will study the chemistry of dendrimers using optical spectroscopy to probe structure-function relationships. Graduate and undergraduate students will gain insights through a course devoted to interviewing and job skills in the scientific workplace. Girl Scouts will be exposed to the `The Magic of Chemistry` in an effort to bridge the science gender gap.