REU Site: Columbia University Research Experiences for Undergraduates

哥伦比亚大学化学系（CHE）颁发的这一奖项支持2008-2010年夏季哥伦比亚大学本科生研究经验（REU）站点的更新。该项目将由詹姆斯·瓦伦蒂尼指导，并得到哥伦比亚大学化学系教员弗吉尼亚·康沃尔和鲁本·冈萨雷斯的协助。每年夏天，REU将邀请8名NSF资助的学生到校园进行为期10周的化学前沿研究。另外八名REU学生将获得院校资助。从全国招收大三、大二和高素质的大一本科生。这个项目可以为REU本科研究生提供的一个特殊优势是有机会参与超出化学系教师和资源的研究。哥伦比亚大学有一个纳米科学与工程中心和一个材料研究科学与工程中心，每个中心都汇集了化学系、物理系和工程与应用科学学院的教师。化学系的许多教师都是中心的主要研究人员，REU的学生将有机会选择中心研究工作的一部分项目。化学REU的学生也可以选择与中心的非化学教师一起工作，或者在与化学系成员有广泛合作的生物科学系教师的实验室工作。这些跨学科的努力跨越了化学研究的前沿，为哥伦比亚大学REU的学生提供了独特的机会。

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) supports the renewal of a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Columbia University for the summers of 2008-2010. The program will be directed by James Valentini with assistance from Virginia Cornish and Ruben Gonzalez, faculty members in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia. This REU site will bring eight NSF funded students to campus for a ten-week period each summer to conduct cutting edge research in chemistry. An additional eight REU students will be supported with institutional funds. Junior, sophomore, and highly qualified freshman undergraduate students will be recruited from across the nation. One of the special advantages that this program can offer to the REU undergraduate research students is the opportunity to participate in research that extends beyond the faculty and resources of the Chemistry Department. Columbia has a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center and a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, each of which brings together faculty from the Chemistry Department and faculty in Physics and in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Many faculty in the Chemistry Department are principal investigators in the Centers and the REU students in this program will have the opportunity to choose projects that are part of the Centers research efforts. Chemistry REU students can also choose to work with non-Chemistry faculty in the Centers or work in the labs of faculty in the Biological Sciences Department who have extensive collaborations with members of the Chemistry Department. These many interdisciplinary efforts span the frontiers of chemistry research and provide Columbia's REU students unique opportunities.