REU Site: Advancing Chemistry with Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration - Chemical Sciences at CSU

科罗拉多州立大学本科生研究体验(REU)站点奖授予科罗拉多州立大学，位于科罗拉多州柯林斯堡，支持在2023-2025年夏季对10名学生进行为期10周的培训。在这个由化学系资助的项目中，参与者在所有化学领域进行合作研究项目，以了解如何将提出基础研究问题转化为在合作环境中解决现实世界的问题。参与者还参加职业发展和道德培训计划，重点是科学交流和为研究生院或工业职业生涯做准备。通过独立的研究项目以及研讨会和研讨会系列，该网站扩大了对STEM的参与。参与这个项目的学生的个人研究项目将把我们科学的相关性与当前的社会挑战联系起来，从环境到能源，从国防到人类健康。该项目的参与者将与一个由两名教师导师指导的团队一起进行研究，该团队由23名教师导师组成的合作项目。我们将通过针对科学专业发展的活动来增加基础研究经验，包括写作研讨会、职业小组、演讲机会以及我们最近开发的科学伦理部分的延续。该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划合作提供部分支持。这一奖励反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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 Colorado State University, located in Fort Collins, CO, supports the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2023-2025. In this program, funded by the Division of Chemistry, participants pursue collaborative research projects across all flavors of chemistry to understand how posing fundamental research questions can be translated to addressing real world problems in collaborative environments. Participants also take part in a professional development and ethics training program, with a focus on science communication and preparation for graduate school or industrial careers. Through independent research projects and workshop and seminar series, this site broadens participation in STEM. Individual research projects for students involved in this program will connect the relevance of our science to current societal challenges, spanning from the environment to energy to defense to human health. Participants in this program will perform research with a team mentored by two faculty mentors on collaborative projects amongst 23 faculty mentors. We will augment the fundamental research experiences with activities directed toward scientific professional development, including writing workshops, career panels, presentation opportunities, and the continuation of our recently developed scientific ethics component. This site is partially supported by the Department of Defense, in partnership with the NSF REU program.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.