REU Site: Experimental and Computational Spectroscopy: Fundamental Probes of Molecules, Molecular Interactions, and Materials

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。该研究经验为本科生（REU）在俄亥俄州州立大学网站将支持10名学生在2023 - 2025年的夏天10周。这些REU学生将在教师导师的指导下进行研究，并参加每周会议，提供研究，科学沟通技巧和获得STEM领域四年制或研究生学位的策略的培训。该计划将努力支持从两年制和四年制学院和大学招募的多元化参与者群体，这些学院和大学通常缺乏专门的研究仪器。将努力招募来自服务不足地区的学生参与者，如俄亥俄州和邻近州的锈带城市和阿巴拉契亚县。研究培训将侧重于如何使用实验室仪器和计算机来了解使用电磁辐射（如紫外线，可见光，红外线和射频辐射）的分子和材料。该研究主题与初始化学课程中教授的基本思想重叠，确保即使是初学者也拥有一些可以在其基础上建立的现有主题知识。光与物质相互作用的训练（即，REU在俄亥俄州州立大学（OSU）的实验室旨在扩大NSF最近两项中型仪器奖对新的光谱仪器的影响：国家极端超快科学设施（专注于高强度激光）和国家网关超高场核磁共振设施。来自世界各地的这两个用户设施的访问科学家将每周举办研讨会，并邀请REU的参与者参加。 这些学生将在OSU化学和生物化学系内从事以光谱学为重点的研究小组的个人研究项目。每周的研讨会将重点放在发展科学沟通技能的协助下，目前俄亥俄州国家博士。来自各种背景的学生，为指导过程增添了国际风味。其中一个重点是从区域本科院校招募学生参与者，包括许多规模较小、研究机会有限、为大量第一代大学生服务的院校。REU计划，通过长期的结果跟踪和计划有效性评估，将为这些学生提供指导和网络机会，以提高他们在科学和技术方面的职业机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得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的支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Ohio State University will support 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2023 – 2025. These REU students will conduct research under a faculty mentor and participate in weekly meetings that provide training in the conduct of research, scientific communication skills, and strategies for attaining four-year or postgraduate degrees in STEM fields. The program will strive to support a diverse group of participants recruited from two- and four-year colleges and universities that generally lack specialized instrumentation for research. There will be an effort to recruit student participants from underserved areas such as Rust Belt cities and Appalachian counties in Ohio and neighboring states. The research training will be focused on how to use laboratory instruments and computers to learn about molecules and materials using electromagnetic radiation such as UV, visible, infrared, and radio frequency radiation. This research theme overlaps foundational ideas taught in initial chemistry courses, ensuring that even beginning students have some existing subject-matter knowledge upon which they can build. Training in the interactions between light and matter (i.e., spectroscopy) is critical for creating a workforce prepared for 21st century jobs in fields such as biomedical imaging, materials characterization, and quantum information science.The REU site at Ohio State University (OSU) is designed to amplify the impact of two recent NSF mid-scale instrumentation awards for new spectroscopy-based facilities: The National Extreme Ultrafast Science Facility (focused on high-intensity lasers), and the National Gateway Ultrahigh-Field NMR facility. Visiting scientists at these two user facilities from around the world will give weekly seminars to which REU participants will be invited. These students will be engaged in individual research projects in spectroscopy-focused research groups within the OSU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Weekly workshops will focus on developing scientific communication skills with the assistance of current Ohio State Ph.D. students from a wide variety of backgrounds, adding an international flavor to the mentoring process. One focus will be to recruit student participants from regional undergraduate institutions, including many smaller ones with limited research opportunities that serve large numbers of first-generation college students. The REU program, augmented by long-term outcome tracking and assessments of program effectiveness, will provide these students with mentoring and networking opportunities to enhance their career opportunities in science and technology.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.