REU Site: An Undergraduate Research Incubator Site at Furman University

REU网站奖授予南卡罗来纳州格林维尔的弗曼大学，支持在2019-2021年夏季培训10名学生，为期10周。在该项目中，由数学和物理科学理事会化学系资助，Karen L. Buchmueller教授及其同事主持了一个REU网站，涉及三个访问团队，每个团队由一名教师导师和两到三名学生组成，他们每年夏天来弗曼大学进行研究。该项目还包括弗曼大学的两个团队，每个团队由一名教师导师和一名学生组成。暑期项目以研究训练营开始，提供实验室安全、科学伦理、职业咨询和部门仪器实践经验等迷你课程。夏季研究计划的高潮是在一个口头研讨会和一个为弱势儿童举办的当地夏令营的外展计划。整个夏季旨在促进未来科学家的发展，通过直接参与实验室的实际科学问题，并与参与本科生研究经验（REU）计划的教师和学生建立有意义的关系。弗曼大学提供了一个独特的夏季REU项目，包括来自小型学院，历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）和技术学院的学生和教师的访问团队。REU网站提供研究和教育的机会，作为垫脚石在本科学生作为一个科学家的发展。该项目招收大学生涯头两年的学生和来自代表性不足群体的学生。访问学生由REU大使（前REU学生）和来自其所在机构的一名教员提供支持。REU网站还作为一个孵化器，在这里访问的教师建立研究项目，有可能扩大REU项目超出弗曼大学的范围。我们的目标是培养未来的科学家，无论是直接在项目中，还是通过我们合作机构的可持续研究项目的发展。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The REU site award to Furman University in Greenville, SC supports the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2019-2021. In the program, funded by the Division of Chemistry in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate, Professor Karen L. Buchmueller and colleagues host an REU site that involves three visiting teams, each consisting of a faculty mentor and two to three students who come to Furman University each summer to conduct research. The program also includes two Furman University teams, each consisting of a faculty mentor and one student. The summer program begins with a research boot camp, providing mini-courses in laboratory safety, scientific ethics, career advising and hands-on experience with departmental instrumentation. The summer research program culminates in an oral symposium and an outreach program at a local summer camp for disadvantaged children. The entire summer is designed to facilitate the development of future scientists, through direct engagement with real scientific problems in the lab and the development of meaningful relationships with faculty and students participating in the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. Furman University provides a unique summer REU program that incorporates visiting teams of students and faculty from small colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and technical colleges. The REU site provides research and educational opportunities that act as stepping stones in the development of the undergraduate student as a scientist. The program recruits students in the first two years of their college careers and students from under-represented groups. Visiting students are supported by REU ambassadors (former REU students) and a faculty member from their home institution. The REU site also serves as an incubator, a place where visiting faculty build research programs that have the potential to amplify the REU program beyond the bounds of Furman University. The goal is to cultivate future scientists, both directly within the program and through the development of sustainable research programs at our partner institutions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.