REU Site: Research in Chemistry at West Virginia University

本研究经验本科生（REU）网站奖给西弗吉尼亚大学，位于摩根敦，西弗吉尼亚州，支持10名学生在2019年至2021年的夏天10周的培训。该计划由数学和物理科学理事会化学部资助，参与以健康化学为中心的研究。这些项目的重点是研究的潜力，以直接和间接地造福社会在卫生保健，法医/犯罪学，能源和可持续发展领域。除了研究，该计划还提供广泛的培训计划，包括研究过程和尖端科学仪器，实验室安全，科学道德，科学交流和有效合作战略的培训。参加者还在Shack Neighborhood House进行科学外展活动，以加强当地阿巴拉契亚青年对科学的热情。通过REU项目，参与者发现他们的研究工作如何直接和间接地造福社会，从而使劳动力更加意识到科学研究的价值。参与者的研究项目专注于解决与健康化学相关的基础科学问题。这些项目包括通过使用地球上丰富的过渡金属催化剂合成药物和精细化学品来发展化学的可持续性。参与者与教师和研究生合作开展研究，并接受现代科学设备和/或使用高性能计算资源和计算化学/生物物理软件的培训。该计划主要从本科院校和社区学院招收学生，特别是女性，代表性不足的少数民族，第一代大学生，美国武装部队退伍军人和来自经济萧条地区的人（例如，阿巴拉契亚）。参与可以提高参与者参加化学或相关学科研究生水平培训的可能性，从而提高科学劳动力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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 Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site award to West Virginia University, located in Morgantown, WV, supports the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2019-2021. This program, funded by the Division of Chemistry in the Mathematical and Physical Science Directorate, engages participants in research centered on the chemistry of health. These projects focus on the potential of research to benefit society both directly and indirectly in the fields of health care, forensics/criminology, energy, and sustainability. Alongside research, this program features an extensive training program, which includes training in the research process and cutting-edge scientific instrumentation, laboratory safety, scientific ethics, scientific communication, and strategies for effective collaboration. Participants also perform scientific outreach activities at the Shack Neighborhood House to strengthen local Appalachian youths' enthusiasm for science. Through this REU program, participants discover how their research efforts can benefit society both directly and indirectly, resulting in a workforce more aware of the value of scientific research.The participants' research projects focus on solving fundamental scientific problems related to the chemistry of health. These projects include the development of sustainability in chemistry through the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals using earth-abundant transition metal catalysts. Participants carry out their research in collaboration with faculty and graduate students and are trained on modern scientific equipment and/or in the use of high-performance computing resources and computational chemistry/biophysics software. This program recruits students from primarily undergraduate institutions and community colleges, especially women, underrepresented minorities, first generation college students, U.S. Armed Forces veterans and persons from economically depressed areas (e.g., Appalachia). Involvement can improve the likelihood that participants enroll in graduate-level training in chemistry or a related discipline, thereby improving the scientific workforce.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.