REU Site: Interactive Biomaterials

锡拉丘兹大学的这项为期三年的REU现场项目将使本科生专注于交互生物材料领域的研究。REU网站计划的目标是：(1)在多学科、协作和开放的实验室环境中，通过独立的生物材料研究项目，培训学生前沿研究技术；(2)提供多方面的指导机会和网络建设经验，最终增加参与者在所选学科继续研究生教育的可能性；以及(3)培训学生成为他们的研究与同行和科学界的有效沟通者。这些目标将通过参与学院实验室的独立、互动的生物材料研究项目、教师顾问和研究生教练的一对一指导、创新的职业指导计划、与REU学生指导的互动实验室之旅、学生研究报告、团队建设活动和社交活动来实现。该项目旨在让本科生参与有意义和有启发性的研究、教育和社会体验，以此来提高他们的热情，并为未来在生物材料科学和工程领域的研究生水平的学习和职业生涯做准备。REU项目为学生提供的研究项目将促进以下领域的基础科学知识：形状记忆聚合物、刺激响应聚合物、药物输送、细菌生物膜的控制、细胞与生物材料的相互作用、金属生物材料的电化学、组织工程以及交互生物材料的分子建模。REU网站项目将扩大来自研究机会有限的机构的学生、女性和未被充分代表的少数族裔参与有意义的本科生研究，并由Hampton Roads HBCU集群伙伴关系加强。拟议的REU网站的一个标志性元素是职业指导倡议，重点放在博士水平的工业和学术职业道路上，强调STEM学科研究生教育的重要性和好处。该REU网站的最佳做法将通过网络和教育出版物广泛传播，目的是为今后的REU网站提供可复制的模式。

This three year REU Site program at Syracuse University will engage undergraduate students in research focused in the area of interactive biomaterials. The objectives of this REU Site program are to: (1) train students in leading edge research techniques through independent biomaterials research projects in a multidisciplinary, collaborative, and open laboratory environment; (2) to provide multifaceted mentoring opportunities and network building experiences that ultimately increase the likelihood that participants will pursue graduate education in their chosen discipline; and (3) to train students to be effective communicators of their research to their peers and the scientific community. These goals will be accomplished through participation in independent, interactive biomaterials research projects in faculty laboratories, one-on-one mentoring from faculty advisors and graduate student coaches, an innovative career mentoring program, interactive laboratory tours with REU student-led demonstrations, student research presentations, team building activities, and social events. This program aims to engage undergraduate students in meaningful and stimulating research, educational and social experiences as a means of increasing their enthusiasm and preparation for future graduate level study and careers in biomaterials science and engineering. The research projects available to students in the REU program will advance fundamental scientific knowledge in the areas of shape memory polymers, stimulus-responsive polymers, drug delivery, control of bacterial biofilms, cell-biomaterial interactions, electrochemistry of metallic biomaterials, tissue engineering, and molecular modeling of interactive biomaterials.The REU Site program will broaden the participation of students from institutions with limited research opportunities, women, and underrepresented minorities in meaningful undergraduate research, strengthened by the Hampton Roads HBCU Cluster Partnership. A signature element of the proposed REU site is a career mentoring initiative, focused on both industrial and academic career paths at the PhD level, which emphasizes the importance and benefits of graduate education in STEM disciplines. The best practices of this REU site will be broadly disseminated via the web and educational publications, with an aim to produce models for replication at future REU sites.