i-REU: The US/France Exchange Program in Chemistry: Forming Global Scientists for the 21st Century

佛罗里达大学的瓦莱里娅·克莱曼教授、禤浩焯·罗伊特伯格教授和他的同事们主持了美国/法国本科生化学研究经验交流活动。该网站由化学部和国际科学与工程办公室的REU站点计划共同资助。该网站促进了科学的进步，支持美国本科生的国际教育。交流的重点是在法国实验室为每个学生提供一个有意义的国际暑期化学研究项目。为了造就一支多样化的、具有文化意识的STEM劳动力队伍，科学国际化势在必行。那些参与国际科学的人受益于更高的能见度、资金和职业进步，而那些参与全球研究环境的人学会了跳出框框思考。此外，这些都是改变生活的经历，学生们成为全球公民，并学习与具有不同背景的科学家互动，这些科学家在化学方面教授和指导他们。为了补充研究环境，该项目的智力价值通过队列活动得到增强，在这些活动中，学生学习传播他们的发现并成为全球科学家。这个项目起到了真正的交流作用，在项目期间，来自法国的学生也会来美国进行研究。参与者被分配到法国的三个地点(巴黎、图卢兹和斯特拉斯堡)，每组两人或两人以上。根据他们以前的经验，他们会与可用的主办组进行匹配。研究课题涵盖化学领域的广泛领域，包括材料的自下而上的结构和图案化；超分子体系的设计、合成和表征；无机、有机和生物固体材料的表征；N-酰基高丝氨酸内酯对上皮细胞的抗炎作用的研究；复杂纳米颗粒的受控合成；以及在均相或多相催化中潜在应用的分子的制备。

Professors Valeria Kleiman, Adrian Roitberg, and colleagues at the University of Florida host the United States/France exchange for undergraduate research experiences in chemistry. This site is cofunded by the REU Sites Program of the Division of Chemistry and the Office of International Science and Engineering. The site promotes the progress of science supporting the international education of undergraduate students from the US. The emphasis of the exchange is to provide each student with a meaningful international summer research project in Chemistry in French laboratories. Internationalization of science is an imperative in order to create a diverse and culturally-aware STEM work-force. Those participating in international science benefit from increased visibility, funding and career advances and those participating in a global research environment learn to think outside the box. In addition, these are life-changing experiences where students become global citizens and learn to interact with scientists with different backgrounds who teach and mentor them in chemistry. To complement the research environment, the intellectual value of the program is enhanced by the cohort activities where students learn to disseminate their discoveries and become global scientists. This program acts as a true exchange, where students from France also come to the US to perform research during the time of the program. Participants are assigned in groups of two or more at each of the three French sites (Paris, Toulouse and Strasbourg). They are matched with available host groups according to their previous experience. Research topics cover broad areas of the chemistry field and include the bottom up structuring and patterning of materials; the design, synthesis, and characterization of supramolecular systems; the characterization of inorganic, organic, and biological solid materials; studies of the anti-inflammatory effects of N-acyl-homoserine lactones on epithelial cells; the controlled synthesis of complex nanoparticles; and the preparation of molecules with potential applications in homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysis.