REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Environmental, Materials, and Biological Chemistry

这项由化学系颁发的奖项支持明尼苏达双城大学2006-2008年夏季的本科生研究体验(REU)网站。该项目的负责人是史蒂文·卡斯，他由共同的少年派·菲利普·布尔曼协助。每年有十名学生进行环境、材料或生物化学方面的研究。参与者将获得化学前沿的研究经验，在那里他们将看到分析、无机、有机化学和物理化学的核心学科如何为一个或多个新兴的、非传统的化学领域的研究提供背景。学生的实验室经验将通过非正式的工作报告、为期两天的图书馆研讨会、明尼苏达超级计算机研究所的教程以及核磁共振和质谱学数据的操作和解释来补充。其他活动包括在课堂上讲授和讨论职业道德，关于化学职业的研讨会，教师研究报告，暑期结束研究研讨会报告，以及有机会在下一学年的全国化学会议上发表论文。还计划了各种社会活动，在这些活动中，知识可以在光明的环境中传授。将特别努力纳入代表性不足的少数群体的成员，这些群体是经济上处于不利地位的、大器晚成的人，他们通常没有机会从事化学科学。

This award by the Chemistry Division supports a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities for the summers of 2006-2008. The program director is Steven Kass who is assisted by co-PI Philippe Buhlmann. Ten students each year will carry out research in environmental, materials, or biological chemistry. Participants will gain a research experience at the forefront of chemistry where they will see how the core disciplines of analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry provide background for research in one or more of the emerging, nontraditional areas of chemistry. The students laboratory experience will be supplemented by giving informal presentations of their work, a 2 day library workshop, tutorials at the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute and in the operation and interpretation of NMR and mass spectrometry data. Additional activities include instruction and discussion of professional ethics in a classroom setting, a workshop on chemistry careers, faculty research presentations, an end-of-summer research symposium presentation, and an opportunity to present a paper at a national chemistry meeting during the following academic year. A variety of social activities also are planned where knowledge can be imparted in a light setting. Special efforts will be made to include members of under-represented minority groups, the economically disadvantaged, late bloomers who ordinarily would not get an opportunity to pursue careers in the chemical sciences.