REU Site: An REU Site in Interdisciplinary Chemistry at Oklahoma State University

白色教授、莫汉蒂教授和俄克拉荷马州州立大学化学系的同事们主持了一个本科生研究经验（REU）网站。该项目由化学部的REU网站计划和刺激竞争性研究的实验计划（EPSCoR）资助，这两个项目都在美国国家科学基金会（NSF），在三个资助年度中的每一年为12名学生提供10周的支持。这个REU网站使早期职业阶段的本科生接触到现代化学科学的跨学科研究，包括先进材料，化学传感器，纳米化学和化学生物学。这项工作的更广泛的影响包括所有REU参与者接触工业和政府科学家，强调拓宽化学职业的视角，增加代表性不足的群体的学生接触化学科学，并积极参与REU参与者在综合性博士研究型大学的更大的研究领域。俄克拉荷马州拥有全国最高的美洲原住民人口之一，与四年制本科院校的教师建立了特定的关系，以帮助促进他们的招聘。十九个活跃的研究小组在俄克拉荷马州州立大学REU网站接待学生。具体项目的例子包括调查，以促进了解聚合物链组织如何影响大分子的有用材料特性，核磁共振研究糖基化对膜蛋白的结构，动力学和相互作用的影响，以及地球丰富的N-杂环卡宾过渡金属络合物的发展。其他包括的项目范围从合成方法开发和药物合成到可用于有机电子，传感器和生物电子的有机半导体和电子材料的开发。从当地招募的学生包括美洲原住民和主要来自本科学校的学生。

Professors White, Mohanty, and colleagues in the Chemistry Department at Oklahoma State University host an Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site. This project is funded by the REU Sites Program in the Chemistry Division and the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) both at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support 12 students for 10 weeks in each of the three grant years. This REU site exposes early career stage undergraduates to interdisciplinary research in modern chemical sciences, including advanced materials, chemical sensors, nanochemistry, and chemical biology. Broader impacts of this work include the exposure of all REU participants to industrial and government scientists, emphasizing broadened perspectives on chemistry careers, increasing exposure of students from underrepresented groups to the chemical sciences, and actively involving REU participants in the larger research landscape of a comprehensive doctoral research university. Oklahoma has one of the highest Native American populations in the country and specific relationships with faculty at four-year undergraduate institutions are in place to help facilitate their recruitment. Nineteen active research groups host students at the Oklahoma State University REU Site. Examples of specific projects include investigations to promote understanding of how polymer chain organization influences the useful material properties of macromolecules, NMR studies of the effects of glycosylation on the structure, dynamics, and interactions of membrane proteins, and the development of earth-abundant transition metal complexes of N-heterocyclic carbenes. Other included projects range from synthetic methods development and drug synthesis to the development of organic semiconductors and electronic materials that can be used in organic electronics, sensors, and bioelectronics. Students recruited from the local area include Native Americans and students from primarily undergraduate schools.