REU Site: Cross-Disciplinary Training in Sustainable Chemistry and Chemical Processes

这个国家科学基金会奖从化学部（CHE）支持本科生（REU）网站的研究经验，由教授格雷格M。Swain和Robert L.拉杜卡都在密歇根州立大学。在这个项目中，学生们正在学习可持续实践如何影响化学的所有领域，以及这些实践如何跨越科学和工程的不同学科。研究经验将为他们提供以环保方式进行化学研究或化学过程所需的技能。因此，该项目的总体目标是：（一）让本科生参与可持续化学研究生水平的研究，（二）为本科生提供积极的指导经验，（三）更好地为本科生进入研究生院做好准备，（四）激励本科生考虑从事学术事业，以及（五）为密歇根州立大学的研究生院招募本科生。实习生还将参加外联活动，为高中和初中学生提供教育福利，并为实习生提供传播科学信息和指导的宝贵经验。当实习生在自己的机构与其他人交流他们的积极经验时，影响将更加广泛。这些活动将向学生实习生（他们将成为下一代劳动力的一部分）传授如何以可持续和负责任的方式进行化学研究。参与的学生实习生将获得为期10周的可持续化学和化学工艺方面的跨学科实践研究经验。实习生将从事绿色合成、水净化和质量监测、可再生能源相关材料以及先进成像和光谱学等研究。学生还将受益于每周的期刊俱乐部，指导教师的研究报告和网络晚餐，并从参与研究伦理，统计，实验室和化学品安全，申请研究生院的策略和专业发展的教学模块。所有的项目活动都是为了提高学生的能力？的批判性和科学思维能力，为他们提供从实验设计到性能和分析的研究各个方面的经验，并帮助他们了解可持续化学和化学过程。

This National Science Foundation award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) supports a Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) site led by Professors Greg M. Swain and Robert L. LaDuca both at Michigan State University. In this project, students are learning how sustainable practices impact all fields of chemistry and how these practices cut across different disciplines of science and engineering. The research experience will provide them with the skills needed to carry out chemical research or chemical processes in an environmentally-conscientious manner. The overall objectives of the project are therefore, (i) to involve undergraduate students in graduate-level research in sustainable chemistry, (ii) to provide a positive mentoring experience for undergraduates, (iii) to better prepare undergraduate students for graduate school, (iv) to motivate undergraduate students to consider pursuing an academic career, and (v) to recruit undergraduate students for graduate school at MSU. Student interns will also participate in outreach activities that will provide high school and middle school students with educational benefits and the interns with valuable experience in communicating scientific information and mentoring. The impact will be even broader when interns communicate their positive experience with others at their own institutions. The activities will teach the student interns, who will be part of the next generation workforce, how chemical research is conducted in a sustainable and responsible manner.Participating student interns will receive 10 weeks of hands-on, interdisciplinary research experience in sustainable chemistry and chemical processes. Student interns will be engaged in research involving green synthesis, water purification and quality monitoring, renewable energy-related materials, and advanced imaging and spectroscopy. Students will also benefit from weekly journal clubs, mentoring faculty research presentations and networking dinners, and from participation in teaching modules on research ethics, statistics, laboratory and chemical safety, strategies for applying to graduate school, and professional development. All of the program activities are designed to sharpen the student?s critical and scientific thinking skills, provide them with experience in all aspects of research from experimental design through performance and analysis, and help to make them knowledgeable about sustainable chemistry and chemical processes.