iREU Site: The US/France REU Exchange Site in Chemistry

化学系(CHE)的这一奖项支持佛罗里达大学和法国大学之间2012-2014年夏季的本科生国际研究经验(IREU)站点的续签。此次续签涉及莫尔豪斯学院，这是一所主要是本科生的机构(PUI)。该美国项目将由密歇根大学的禤浩焯·E·罗伊特伯格教授、瓦莱里娅·D·克莱曼教授、丹尼尔·塔勒姆教授和莫尔豪斯学院的詹姆斯·P·布朗教授全面指导。该计划的重点是提供一个延长的材料化学国际暑期研究项目。它从每年春季在美国举行的出发前会议开始，为参与者在国外的长期逗留做好准备。该课程的长度允许对研究项目做出有意义的贡献，这些项目将导致与本科生共同撰写同行评议出版物。美国教职员工每年夏天也将在法国提供现场指导。这是通过法国合作伙伴提供的特邀教授职位实现的。学生被分配到分布在3个不同地点(巴黎、图卢兹和斯特拉斯堡)的每个研究地点，每组至少2人，并根据他们以前的经验和申请声明分配到研究小组。学生们将有机会在夏季研究经验之后的美国化学学会全国春季会议的本科生海报会议上向广大观众传播他们的研究成果。拟议的i-REU网站将提供高水平的研究体验，让参与者深入文化沉浸，有机会学习另一种文化，并为欧洲统一对美国科学日益增长的影响做好准备。与美国莫尔豪斯学院非常成功的合作关系仍在继续，这为一大批才华横溢、未被充分代表的少数族裔本科生提供了机会。这一计划的影响是通过参加该计划的来自不同社区的代表不足的STEM群体数量的增加来衡量的。大多数前往法国的学生将不是来自佛罗里达大学。参与者将具有化学、生物化学或物理背景的研究经验。作为一项真正的交流计划，通过一系列法国和密歇根大学的资助，将有类似数量的法国学生被带到美国，在密歇根大学化学系进行研究，增加本科和博士项目的国际化。

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) supports the renewal of an International Research Experiences for Undergraduates (iREU) site between the University of Florida and France for the summers of 2012-2014. This renewal involves Morehouse College, a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI). The U.S. program will be under the overall direction of Professors Adrian E. Roitberg, Valeria D. Kleiman, and Daniel Talham of UF and Professor James P. Brown, of Morehouse College. The focus of the program provides an extended international summer research project in materials chemistry. It starts each year with a spring pre-departure meeting in the US in order to prepare participants for their extended stay abroad. The length of the program allows for meaningful contributions to research projects that will lead to peer review publications with undergraduate co-authorship. US faculty will also be in France each summer to provide on-site mentoring. This is made possible through invited professor positions contributed by French partners. Students are distributed in groups of at least 2 per research site spread over 3 different sites (Paris, Toulouse and Strasbourg) and assigned to research groups according to their previous experience and application statements. The students will have the opportunity to disseminate their research results to a broad audience at the undergraduate poster session at the American Chemical Society National Spring meeting following the summer research experience.The proposed i-REU Site will provide a high-level research experience, allow the participants a deep cultural immersion with an opportunity to learn another culture, and prepare for the increasing impact of European unification on US science. The very successful partnership with Morehouse College in the US is continuing, which has provided access to a large pool of talented underrepresented minority undergraduates. The impact of this program is measured by the increased number of underrepresented STEM groups participating in the program who are from diverse communities. The majority of the students going to France will not be from the University of Florida. Participants will have previous research experiences with backgrounds in chemistry, biochemistty or physics. As a true exchange program and through a collection of French and UF funding, a similar number of French students will be brought to the US to perform research at UF's chemistry department, increasing the internationalization of the undergraduate and PhD programs.