REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Chemistry at the University of Connecticut

该奖项来自化学系(CHE)，用于资助康涅狄格大学(UConn)2008-2010年夏季的本科生研究体验(REU)网站。这个REU网站将由Christian Brueckner在Mark Peczeh的帮助下管理，两人都来自康涅狄格州大学化学系。这个REU网站将在每年夏天将8名学生带到校园进行为期10周的化学前沿研究。每年暑假将增加1-2名学生，并将得到机构资金的支持。在有机、无机、分析、物理、生物和聚合物化学领域拥有活跃研究实验室的教师导师将提供给REU学生。将与中康涅狄格州立大学(CCSU)建立伙伴关系，CCSU是一所以本科生为主的机构，化学研究机会有限，每年夏天，CCSU将为两名学生提供两个职位。这些学生的研究项目将被设计成一旦康涅狄格州大学的暑期研究项目结束，他们就可以继续在CCSU学习。作为这个资金周期的新项目，CCSU的一名教员Guy Crundwell将介绍小分子单晶CCDX-射线衍射。其他各种研讨会将向学生介绍实验室中的安全实践、如何有效地展示研究成果、科学中的伦理问题、化学职业和科学写作等主题。辅助计划的另一个亮点是在导游的带领下参观辉瑞中央研究实验室，这是一家地区性工业研究机构。康涅狄格州大学的REU计划将在口头陈述和在康涅狄格州所有REU计划中共享的海报研讨会中达到高潮。

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) supports a previously funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Connecticut (UConn) for the summers of 2008-2010. This REU site will be managed by Christian Brueckner with assistance from Mark Peczuh, both from the Department of Chemistry at UConn. This REU site will bring eight students to campus for a ten-week period each summer to conduct cutting edge research in chemistry. An additional 1-2 students each summer will be supported with institutional funds. Faculty mentors with active research labs in the areas of organic, inorganic, analytical, physical, biological, and polymer chemistry will be available to the REU students. A partnership with Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), a primarily undergraduate institution where research opportunities in chemistry are limited, will be developed and each summer, two positions will be held for two students at CCSU. Research projects for these students will be designed so that they can be continued at CCSU once the summer research program at UConn has ended. As a new program for this funding cycle, a faculty member at CCSU, Guy Crundwell, will introduce small molecule single crystal CCD X-ray diffraction. Various other seminars will introduce the students to topics such as safe practices in the laboratories, how to present research results effectively, ethical issues in science, careers in chemistry, and scientific writing. Another highlight of the ancillary program is a guided tour of Pfizer Central Research Laboratories, a regional industrial research facility. The UConn REU program will culminate in oral presentations and a poster symposium shared among all of UConn's REU programs.