RSEC: Research Sites for Educators in Chemistry

威奇托州立大学(WSU)化学系由化学部、MPS多学科活动办公室和EPSCoR在“化学教育工作者研究站点”(RSEC)计划下提供支持。D·保罗·里莱马博士是首席调查员。威奇托州RSEC计划将通过发展研究合作，将重点放在大约30个为期两年和四年的机构上。至少有两名来自各机构的教职员工将获得资助，以便在西德克萨斯大学度过一到两个学期和一个夏天的时间进行研究。威奇托州RSEC的第二个组成部分是教授博士后研究员的方案，这些博士后研究员将参与研究并接受在两年或四年制机构任教的培训。培训将由威斯康星州立大学教职员工团队以及两年和四年制的教职员工提供。教授博士后研究员将在一名西苏里州立大学教员的指导下，每学期教授一门课程，并由一名两年或四年的机构教员参与。教师学员还将邀请他们所在机构的一名有前途的学生在暑假期间作为团队成员与他们一起在实验室工作，从而促进团队在其所在机构继续运作。最后，每个教学博士后研究员将从华盛顿州立大学或两年或四年制院校中挑选一名本科生，学习指导本科生进行研究的诀窍。化学教育工作者研究地点将参与研究的两年制学院、学士学位学院和硕士大学的教职员工与地理区域内研究型大学的教职员工聚集在一起，以提高所有学术和研究机构的研究和教育机会。在这些机构中，个人可以同时承担研究人员、教育工作者和学生的责任，所有人都可以共同努力，为教育注入发现的兴奋，并通过学习者的多样化视角丰富研究。像威奇托州立大学这样的RSEC提供了向更广泛的社区传播研究知识、技能、实践和道德的机制，包括那些来自代表不足的群体的社区；帮助参与机构制定可行的、可持续的研究计划；并让参与机构的教职员工和学生与更广泛的教职员工和学生接触。

The Chemistry Department of Wichita State University (WSU) is supported by the Chemistry Division, the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, and EPSCOR under the "Research Sites for Educators in Chemistry" (RSEC) program. Dr. D. Paul Rillema is the Principal Investigator. The Wichita State RSEC program will focus its attention on some 30 two- and four- year institutions via the development of research collaborations. A minimum of two faculty from institutions will receive support to spend one or two semesters and a summer at WSU doing research. A second component of the Wichita State RSEC is a program of teaching postdoctoral fellows who will be involved in research and trained for teaching in two- or four-year institutions. The training will be provided by a team of WSU Faculty and the two- and four-year faculty participants. The teaching postdoctoral fellows will teach one course per semester under the guidance of a WSU faculty member and from a two- or four-year institution faculty participant. The faculty participants will also invite one promising student from their institution to work alongside them as team members in the laboratory during the summer thus facilitating the continued functioning of the team at their home institutions. Finally, each teaching postdoctoral fellow will select an undergraduate student either from WSU or a two- or four-year institution to learn the ropes of directing undergraduate students in research.Research Sites for Educators in Chemistry bring together the faculty of participating two-year colleges, baccalaureate colleges, and master's universities with faculty at research universities within a geographic region to enhance the research and educational opportunities at all Academic and research institutions provide abundant opportunities where individuals may concurrently assume responsibilities as researchers, educators, and students, and where all can engage in joint efforts that infuse education with the excitement of discovery and enrich research through the diversity of learner perspectives. RSECs such as this one at Wichita State University provide mechanisms for disseminating the knowledge, skill, practices and ethics of research to a broader community, including those from underrepresented groups; assist in developing viable, sustainable research programs at participating institutions; and involve faculty and students at the participating institutions with a broader cross-section of faculty and students.