REU Site: Integrated Computational and Experimental (ICE) REU at North Carolina State University

本科生的研究经验（REU）授予北卡罗来纳州州立大学（NCSU）的网站支持10名学生在2022-2024年的夏天进行为期10周的培训。在这个网站上，由国防部与NSF REU计划和化学部合作支持，学生参加跨越化学领域的研究项目。该程序集成了计算和实验，使得计算组件在不同的项目中提供了一个统一的主题。参与者将参加一系列促进其专业发展的活动，包括伦理研讨会，准备海报，申请和准备研究生院或工业职业以及科学传播。参与者还将了解工业和政府研究以及非研究职业选择，以便他们能够对自己的职业和教育道路做出明智的决定。校园内提供的其他社交活动为参与者提供了与其他本科研究项目的研究人员互动的机会，以获得社区和学院支持的感觉。在这个REU网站上提供的学生研究项目涵盖了化学领域的许多主题，包括：材料科学（聚合物合成、纳米材料合成）、生命科学（生物分子定向合成，生物分子传感和生物分子相互作用研究）和能源科学（均相和多相催化，电子捕获，生物燃料，光化学），以及更传统的化学子领域的研究（有机、无机、物理和分析）。程序的综合计算/实验性质的一个优点是，无论个人研究项目的性质如何，计算方面都是参与者的统一主题。该计划利用NCSU的地理位置，让学生在研究三角公园（RTP）地区的非学术环境中从事职业。此外，学生参加由NCSU本科研究办公室组织的各种活动，旨在鼓励与其他本科研究人员的互动，并在他们开始未来职业生涯时帮助他们的专业发展。该计划旨在从代表性不足的群体中招募学生（有色人种、女性和第一代大学生）（历史上的黑人学院和大学），农村和非城市主要是本科院校，该奖项反映了NSF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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites award to North Carolina State University (NCSU) supports the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2022-2024. At this site, supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program and the Division of Chemistry, students take part in research projects spanning the field of chemistry. This program integrates computation and experiment, such that the computational component provides a unifying theme across a diverse set of projects. Participants will engage in a series of activities that facilitate their professional development including workshops on ethics, preparing a poster, applying and preparing for graduate school or industrial careers, and science communication. Participants will also learn about industrial and governmental research and non-research career options so that they can make informed decisions about their own career and educational paths. Other social activities offered on campus provide participants opportunities to interact with fellow researchers in other undergraduate research programs to gain a sense of community and collegial support.Available student research projects at this REU site cover many topics in chemistry including: materials science (polymer synthesis, nanomaterials synthesis), life sciences (biomolecule-directed synthesis, biomolecule sensing, and biomolecular interaction studies), and energy sciences (homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, electron capture, biofuels, photochemistry), as well as research in more traditional chemistry sub-fields (organic, inorganic, physical and analytical). An advantage of the integrated computational/experimental nature of program is that the computational aspect serves as a unifying theme for participants regardless of the nature of the individual research project. The program takes advantage of the geographic location of NCSU and exposes students to careers in non-academic settings in the Research Triangle Park (RTP) area. Additionally, students participate in various activities organized by the NCSU Office of Undergraduate Research that are designed to encourage interaction with other undergraduate researchers and aid in their professional development as they embark on future careers. The program aims to recruit students from underrepresented groups (persons of color, women, and first generation college students) from local HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities), rural and non-urban primarily undergraduate institutions, and from Puerto Rican 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.