REU Site: Research Addressing Problems in Biological Chemistry

这个本科生研究经验（RE）网站奖授予位于马萨诸塞州波士顿的波士顿大学，支持对10名学生进行为期10周的培训。该项目由美国数学与物理科学理事会化学学部资助，主要研究分子水平上的生物化学问题。除了完整的浸入式实验室体验外，该计划还为参与者提供广泛的指导和专业发展机会。参与者与研究生和其他本科生研究人员一起参加双重指导计划。学生们将获得当代科学演讲技巧，并与众多客座演讲者进行交流。该项目培养参与者的研究文化，并激励有才华的年轻科学家在STEM领域从事研究事业。参与者可参与的研究项目涵盖了化学和生物学的广泛领域，包括用于诊断和药物传递的新纳米材料的设计和合成，蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用的研究，有机分子的设计和合成，人类病原体的光谱检测和鉴定，蛋白质聚集的计算建模等等。这个项目的招生工作重点是招收来自社区大学和四年制大学的学生，他们的研究机会有限。通过有针对性的招聘、广泛的专业发展和个人研究项目，该网站在早期阶段向有才华的学生推广STEM职业。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。

This Research Experience for Undergraduate (RE) site award to Boston University, located in Boston, MA, supports the training of 10 students for 10 weeks. This program, funded by the Division of Chemistry in the Mathematical and Physical Science Directorate, engages participants in chemistry research projects emphasizing problems in biological chemistry at the molecular level. Alongside a full immersion laboratory experience, the program provides participants with extensive mentoring and professional development opportunities. Participants take part in a dual-mentoring plan, with graduate students and other undergraduate researchers. The students gain contemporary scientific presentation skills and engage with numerous visiting speakers. This program trains participants in research culture and stimulates talented young scientists to pursue research careers in STEM fields. Research projects available to participants cover a wide range of endeavors at the interface of chemistry and biology, including the design and synthesis of new nanomaterials for diagnostics and drug delivery, investigation of protein-protein interactions, design and synthesis of organic molecules, spectroscopic detection and identification of human pathogens, computational modeling of protein aggregation, and many others. This program's recruitment efforts place an emphasis on recruiting students from community colleges and four-year colleges with limited research opportunities. Through targeted recruitment, extensive professional development, and individual research projects, this site promotes STEM careers to talented students at a early stage.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.