REU Site: Internships in Nanosystems Science, Engineering and Technology (INSET)

这个为期三年的REU网站计划是一个非常成功的计划在加州大学圣巴巴拉分校（UCSB）的延续，它带来了来自整个加州社区大学的学生从事跨学科的研究。该计划名为“纳米系统科学，工程和技术实习”（INSET），将扩大社区大学生的机会，通过多层次的指导促进他们未来在科学和工程领域的学术和职业成功。INSET计划将由加州纳米系统研究所（CNSI）主办，该研究通过整合生物和电子材料的纳米级构建模块，探索形成新材料和复杂系统的丰富机会。在CNSI内进行研究的实习生将获得在科学和工程学科传统界限之外的尖端技术开发方面的实践经验。此外，INSET计划将与社会纳米技术中心合作，该中心将让学生参与关于新纳米技术社会影响的讨论和研究项目。这种合作将培养学生和研究人员的能力，使广泛的多学科研究，不仅涉及自然科学和工程，而且社会科学和数学。INSET的招聘工作将建立在与加州社区学院建立的关系上，这些社区学院有相当大的代表性不足和弱势群体。INSET将对UCSB社区产生广泛的影响。该计划还将通过培训讲习班和网络加强导师的作用和研究生导师的专业发展。此外，项目工作人员将在夏季与其他几个UCSB本科研究项目协调活动中发挥领导作用，包括校园范围内的本科研究座谈会。在全国范围内，该项目将提高其他机构的能力，通过提高高成就社区学院学生研究人员的形象，促进成功的大学/社区学院合作模式，并通过出版物和专业会议传播INSET评价结果。

This three year REU Site program is a continuation of a highly successful program at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), which brings community college students from across California to engage in interdisciplinary research. This program, entitled "Internships in Nanosystems Science, Engineering and Technology"(INSET), will expand opportunities for community college students, promoting their future academic and career success in science and engineering through multi-tiered mentorship. The INSET program will be hosted by the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), where research explores the richness of opportunities in forming new materials and complex systems by integrating nanoscale building blocks from both biological and electronic materials. Interns performing research within the CNSI will gain hands-on experience in the development of cutting-edge technologies that fall outside the traditional boundaries of science and engineering disciplines. Additionally, the INSET program will collaborate with the Center for Nanotechnology in Society, which will engage students in discussions and research projects on the societal impacts of new nanotechnologies. This collaboration will foster students' and researchers' abilities to enable broadly multi-disciplinary research, engaging not only the natural sciences and engineering, but also social sciences and mathematics.INSET recruitment efforts will build on established relationships with California community colleges that have sizable underrepresented and disadvantaged populations. INSET will have extensive impact on the greater UCSB community. The program will also enhance the role of mentorship and the professional development of graduate student mentors through training workshops and networking. Additionally, program staff will take a leadership role in coordinating activities with several other UCSB undergraduate research programs during thesummer, including a campus-wide undergraduate research colloquium.Nationally, this program will enhance the capacity of other institutions to support community college transfer students by raising the profile of high-achieving community college student researchers, promoting successful university/community college partnership models, and disseminating INSET evaluation findings through publications and professional conferences.