REU Site: A Summer Experience for Undergraduates Integrating Research, Education, and Career Development in an Interdisciplinary Environment

该奖项由美国国家科学基金会化学部（CHE）颁发，旨在支持由大卫教授领导的本科生研究经验（REU）网站。Benson和Joseph A.赫佩特在堪萨斯大学（KU）。在这个网站支持的研究项目题为“本科生在跨学科环境中整合研究，教育和职业发展的夏季体验”，致力于为学生提供一个刺激的跨学科环境，多方面的职业提升计划，鼓励和准备参与者在化学科学的研究生学习和职业生涯。该计划的关键组成部分包括道德和安全培训，小组讨论，突出各种职业选择提供给化学家（包括创业），短期课程绿色化学，并实地考察公司和机构在大堪萨斯城地区从事跨学科科学。参与者将受益于大型KU化学社区提供的高度协作环境，与教师和研究生（或博士后）导师的密切互动，最先进的设施，以及以书面和口头形式交流和传播其成就的机会。此外，NSF每年资助10名参与者的资金将提供给那些在家乡机构研究机会有限的学生。这包括主要本科院校的学生，以及因个人经济原因无法参与现有研究机会的其他学校的学生。额外的参与者将得到个别教师研究赠款的支持。目标是至少50%的国家科学基金会资助的参与者是妇女，20-30%来自科学领域传统上代表性不足的群体。在过去的25年里，REU网站计划为来自全国各地的450多名本科生提供了暑期研究经验，从而有效地成为本科生研究的区域中心。

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) at the National Science Foundation supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site led by Professors David R. Benson and Joseph A. Heppert at the University of Kansas (KU). The research projects supported at this Site entitled "A Summer Experience for Undergraduates Integrating Research, Education, and Career Development in an Interdisciplinary Environment", is dedicated to providing for the students a stimulating interdisciplinary environment with a multifaceted career enhancement program that encourages and prepares the participants for graduate studies and careers in the chemical sciences. Key components of the program include ethics and safety training, panel discussions highlighting the variety of career options available to chemists (including entrepreneurship), a short course on green chemistry, and site visits to companies and institutions in the greater Kansas City Area that are engaged in interdisciplinary science. The participants will benefit from the highly collaborative environment provided by the large KU chemical community, close interactions with faculty and graduate student (or postdoctoral) mentors, state-of-the-art facilities, and opportunities to communicate and disseminate their accomplishments in written and oral forms. Additionally, the NSF funding that is requested to support 10 participants per year will be given to students who have limited opportunities for research at their home institutions. This includes students at primarily undergraduate institutions, as well as students at other schools who cannot partake of available research opportunities for personal economic reasons. Additional participants will be supported by individual faculty research grants. The goals are for at least 50% of the NSF-funded participants to be women, and for 20-30% to come from traditionally underrepresented groups in the sciences. This REU Site program has provided summer research experiences for more than 450 undergraduates from across the country over the past 25 years, thereby effectively serving as a regional hub for undergraduate research.