REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research in Chemistry at James Madison University: A Regional REU Site that Includes Deaf and Hard of Hearing Participants

化学系(CHE)的这一奖项支持詹姆斯·麦迪逊大学(JMU)2008-2010年夏季本科生研究经验(REU)网站的续签。还为教师研究经验(RET)部分提供了资金，该部分将在每年夏天将一名聋人或教授聋人学生的高中教师和两名高中生纳入该计划。可再生能源技术部分由数学和自然科学理事会内的多学科活动办公室提供支持。这个REU/RET网站将由JMU化学系的Daniel Downey和Gina MacDonald管理。这个REU网站将在每年夏天将12名本科生带到校园进行为期10周的化学研究。八名学生将得到NSF的资助，两名学生将得到机构资金的支持。为学生提供的研究机会涵盖了广泛的化学领域，包括有机、无机、生物化学、具有化合物表征的有机金属合成、环境分析化学、核化学和物理化学。每年夏天，两名外部教师导师也将加入该网站。这些导师在JMU期间将获得自己的实验室空间，并将有机会从事自己的研究项目，或与JMU的教职员工合作。该网站面向大西洋中部较小的地区性学校，将通过与弗吉尼亚聋人和盲人学校(VSDB)、聋人模范中学(MSSD)、罗切斯特理工学院和加拉代特大学的接触，特别招募聋人和重听学生作为暑期计划的组成部分。为了增加聋人的机会，两名学生手语翻译员将协助听力/聋人学生/教师之间的交流，并研究包含陌生字形组合和语音簇的新奇手写单词。

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) supports the renewal of a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at James Madison University (JMU) for the summers of 2008-2010. Funding for a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) component has also been awarded which will incorporate one high school teacher, who is either Deaf or teaches Deaf students, and two high school students into the program each summer. The RET component is supported by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA) within the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Directorate. This REU/RET site will be managed by Daniel Downey and Gina MacDonald both from the Department of Chemistry at JMU. This REU site will bring twelve undergraduate students to campus for a ten-week period each summer to conduct research in chemistry. Eight students will be supported by NSF and two will be supported with institutional funds. The research opportunities available to the students span a wide range of chemical areas including organic, inorganic, biochemistry, organometallic syntheses with compound characterization, environmental analytical chemistry, nuclear chemistry, and physical chemistry. Two outside faculty mentors will also join the site each summer. These mentors will be provided with their own laboratory space while they are at JMU and will have the opportunity to either pursue their own research projects or work in conjunction with a faculty member at JMU. Recruitment for this site targets smaller mid-Atlantic regional schools and will specifically recruit Deaf and hard of hearing students as an integral part of the summer program through outreach to the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind (VSDB), the Model Secondary School for the Deaf (MSSD), Rochester Institute of Technology, and Gallaudet University. To extend opportunities for the Deaf, two student sign-voice interpreters will assist communication between the hearing/Deaf students/faculty and research novel fingerspelled words containing unfamiliar grapheme combinations and phonetic clusters.