REU Site: Tampa Interdisciplinary Environmental Research

这个为期三年的更新REU网站计划的目标是提供一个结构良好的研究和专业发展经验，为大二和大三水平的本科生在工程，艺术和科学，公共卫生和教育学院在南佛罗里达大学（USF）的环境相关领域。它建立在2009年由首席研究员开始的REU网站的经验基础上，并将潜在的研究主题细化为水，能源，材料和人类的关系，特别强调坦帕湾地区。REU的目标是：1）培养学生参与科学研究所需的技能; 2）鼓励学生参与者在与环境相关的研究领域攻读高级学位; 3）鼓励学生考虑他们的研究的伦理方面以及研究对维持健康社区的贡献; 4）建立一个可持续的机制，扩大在学术研究中代表性不足的群体的参与; 5）促进研究生和REU学生之间的指导，和6）创建一个协作社区，致力于指导和建议本科生在推进教师研究的活动。36名学生将直接得到赠款的支持，其中6名学生将获得教育研究补助金。另外三个将通过USF的工程学院外展计划参与拉丁美洲和加勒比地区的学生。它涉及来自6个不同部门和4个不同学院的14名研究教师导师。教师和研究生将通过个人研究项目和小组会议，研究研讨会和实地考察，口头和海报展示，学生讨论，社会和社群活动，技术和专业培训研讨会，以及博客等在线社交媒体与REU学生互动。该项目的更广泛影响是：1）更多的学生就读于STEM学科并被其保留，2）在STEM领域处于有利地位的本科生的多样性增加，3）发展一个了解道德责任并致力于为可持续社区提供创新解决方案的研究和指导社区，4）通过互联网共享本科生研究过程和研究（REU-TIER.net）和地方或国家会议，以及5）36个大二/大三学生的直接支持和14名教师参与者的研究计划的增强，这可能有助于改善世界各地依赖于水，能源，材料和人类界面的实践。

The goal of this three year renewal REU site program is to provide a well structured research and professional development experience for sophomore and junior level undergraduate students in environmental related fields in the Colleges of Engineering, Arts and Sciences, Public Health, and Education at the University of South Florida (USF). It builds on the experience with a REU site started in 2009 by the Principal Investigator and refines the underlying research theme to the nexus of water, energy, materials and humans, with a particular emphasis on the Tampa Bay region. The objectives of the REU are to: 1) train student participants in the skills required for scientific research; 2) encourage student participants to pursue an advanced degree in an environmentally related area of research; 3) encourage students to consider the ethical aspects surrounding their research and the contribution of the research to sustaining healthy communities; 4) establish a sustainable mechanism for broadening participation of underrepresented groups in academic research; 5) promote mentoring between graduate and REU students, and 6) create a collaborative community committed to mentoring and advising undergraduate students in activities that advance faculty research. Thirty-six students will be directly supported by the grant, with six included on a supplement for education research. Three more will partake through USF's College of Engineering outreach program to Latin America and the Caribbean students. It involves fourteen research faculty mentors from six different departments and 4 different colleges. Faculty and graduate students will interact with REU students through individual research projects and group meetings, research seminars and field trips, oral and poster presentations, brown-bag student discussions, social and community activities, technical and professional training workshops, and online social media like blogs.The broader impacts of this project are: 1) a larger number of students enrolled in, and retained by STEM disciplines, 2) an increase in the diversity of undergraduates who are well-positioned in the pipeline to graduate school in a STEM field, 3) the development of a research and mentoring community aware of ethical responsibilities and committed to innovative solutions for sustainable communities, 4) the sharing of the undergraduate research process and research through the internet (REU-TIER.net) and local,or national conferences, and 5) the direct support of 36 sophomore/junior level students and enhancements of the research programs of 14 faculty participants that could contribute to improvements in practices throughout the world that depend on the interface of water, energy, materials and humans.