Undergraduate Research Center for Chemistry and Closely Allied Fields

化学部的奖项支持本科研究中心（URC）规划补助金。 私家侦探是格雷戈里·赫尔佐格。 共同PI是罗格斯大学的约翰·克诺斯和约瑟夫·波滕扎，拉里坦山谷社区学院的保罗·舒勒和黛安·C。米德尔塞克斯郡社区学院的培训师。 规划补助金将致力于1）通过增加小组进行的研究型项目来改善大型第一年的实验室课程; 2）招募学生进行第二学期的研究项目; 3）将这些学生与活跃的研究小组相匹配; 4）创建一个新的第二学期3学分课程，其中包括研究和实验室组件。 项目负责人将协助学生寻找进一步的研究机会，监督他们的最终报告，评估项目要素的有效性和规模，并对结果进行广泛的讨论。 学生参与者将从罗格斯大学的两所社区学院和本科学院中选出。 教师研究导师将来自罗格斯大学和新泽西医学和牙科大学的几个学术单位。 来自新泽西制药公司的工业科学家将帮助教授这门新课程。

The award from the Chemistry Division supports an Undergraduate Research Centers (URC) planning grant. The PI is Gregory Herzog. The co-PIs are John Krenos and Joseph Potenza from Rutgers, Paul Schueler from Raritan Valley Community College and Diane C. Trainor of Middlesex County Community College. The planning grant will work towards 1) improvement of a large first-year laboratory course by adding a research-oriented project carried out in small groups; 2) recruit students for a second semester research project; 3) match these students with an active research group; 4) create a new second semester 3-credit course with research and laboratory components. The project directors will assist students to find further research opportunities, supervise their final reports, evaluate the program elements for effectiveness and scale up, and initiate wide ranging discussions of the results. Student participants will be drawn from the two community colleges and the undergraduate colleges at Rutgers. Faculty research mentors will be drawn from several academic units at Rutgers and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Industrial scientists from pharmaceutical companies in New Jersey will help to teach the new course.