REU Site: Give Research Opportunity to Underrepresented Minority STEM Students (GRO URMSS)

该项目由化学部资助，支持本科生（REU）网站的研究经验，旨在为来自美国各地研究机会有限的两年制学院的优秀代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生提供实践研究机会。该项目是在夏季将两年制大学生带到威斯康星大学欧克莱尔分校，与化学、生物和材料科学系的教师一起进行为期十周的研究项目。该项目旨在通过实践研究丰富和增强URM学生的学习能力，培养学生对STEM领域的兴趣和能力，并使他们能够从两年制学院过渡到四年制学院，从而增加他们的专业机会。该项目将增加URM本科生在威斯康星大学欧克莱尔分校进行研究的人数。这种研究环境的多样性增加反过来将加强化学，材料科学和生物学的计划。学生将获得使用现代仪器的实际动手研究经验，并沉浸在以学生为中心的研究环境中。学生将从事的科学研究项目包括新的环状粘蛋白肽和新的“智能”联苯和三联苯衍生物的合成，可逆自组装“智能”共聚物的开发，超导线材的微观结构研究和腈-IV族刘易斯酸配合物的研究。其他待研究的主题包括醌还原酶的电子和氢化物转移机制，Pro-tRNA合成酶内的长距离分子通讯和动力学，新金属-甲烷氧化物纳米颗粒的合成和性质研究，以及最后，密歇根湖上空和沿着的大气臭氧和CO分布，

This project funded by the Chemistry Division supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at that is designed to provide hands-on research opportunities to talented underrepresented minority (URM) students from two-year colleges throughout the United States where research opportunities are limited. The project is to bring in two-year college students to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire during the summer for ten weeks to work on research projects with faculty in the departments of Chemistry, Biology and Materials Science. The project aims to enrich and empower URM students' learning through hands-on research, develops students' interest and competence in the STEM fields, and enables them to bridge from two-year colleges to four-year colleges, thereby enhancing their professional opportunities. This project will increase the number of URM undergraduate students conducting research at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. This increased diversity in the research environment in turn will strengthen the programs in Chemistry, Materials Science and Biology. Students will gain practical, hands-on research experience using modern instrumentation, and become immersed in a student-centered research environment at a four year institution.The scientific research projects that students are to work on include synthesis of new cyclic mucin peptides and of new "smart" biphenyl and terphenyl derivatives, development of reversible self-assembled "smart" copolymers, the study of microstructures of superconducting wires and the study of nitrile-Group IV Lewis acids complexes. Other topics to be investigated include electron and hydride transfer mechanisms of quinone reductases, long range molecular communication and dynamics within the Pro-tRNA synthetases, the synthesis and study of the properties of new metal-mathanobactin nanoparticles and, finally, the distribution of atmospheric ozone and CO over and along Lake Michigan,