REU Site: Engineering Materials for a Healthy World

科罗拉多博尔德大学为期三年的REU网站：健康世界的工程材料将每年为10名本科生举办为期10周的暑期研究体验，参与高度创新的材料研究和科学政策项目，这些项目处于应对能源、卫生和基础设施领域重大挑战的前沿。参与者将参与多学科项目并进行实践研究，同时与教师、研究生和博士后导师密切合作。这个REU网站将为来自少数族裔服务机构的本科生运行一个新的指导计划，在这些机构中，潜在的学生与研究生导师配对。导师计划将在REU之前开始，并持续两年，目的是加强学员的REU申请，增强自我效能，并引导申请进入研究生院。REU计划的参与者将通过该领域领导人的研讨会演讲来扩大他们对科学正义和科学政策的知识，并将学习如何通过专业发展活动进行科学研究、有效沟通和建立网络，为学生未来在材料科学和工程领域的职业生涯做准备。REU网站：科罗拉多博尔德大学的工程材料健康世界将为每年10名本科生举办为期10周的暑期研究体验，参与高度创新的材料研究和科学政策项目。下一代科学家和工程师将越来越有责任开发创新的解决方案，以解决能源、健康和基础设施危机。REU网站将专注于使劳动力多样化，让少数族裔和女性理工科学生代表不足，以应对这些危机。REU网站将吸引本科生参与高度跨学科和创新性的研究项目。REU材料研究项目将专注于为替代可再生能源开发创新和创造性的Just技术，通过患者特定的生物材料解决健康和疾病方面的差异，并设计从水泥替代品到清洁水的可持续基础设施。科学政策项目将重点关注媒体和社交网络如何影响这些技术的刚刚过渡。学生将通过材料设计、开发、加工和表征以及实际应用中的环境科学政策来促进材料科学和工程方面的基础知识的发展。该奖项反映了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。

The three-year REU Site: Engineering Materials for a Healthy World at the University of Colorado Boulder will host a 10-week summer research experience for ten undergraduate students each year to participate in highly innovative materials research and science policy projects that are at the forefront of addressing major challenges in energy, health, and infrastructure. Participants will engage in multidisciplinary projects and conduct hands-on research while working closely with faculty, graduate student, and post-doc mentors. This REU Site will run a new mentoring program for undergraduate students from minority serving institutions where prospective students are paired with a graduate student mentor. The mentoring program will begin prior to the REU and extend for two years, with the goal of strengthening the mentee’s REU application, bolstering self-efficacy, and navigating applications to graduate school. Participants in the REU program will expand their knowledge of science justice and science policy through seminar talks by leaders in the field and will learn how to conduct scientific research, communicate effectively, and network through professional development activities that prepare students for future careers in materials science and engineering.The three-year REU Site: Engineering Materials for a Healthy World at the University of Colorado Boulder will host a 10-week summer research experience for ten undergraduate students each year to participate in highly innovative materials research and science policy projects. The next generation of scientists and engineers will become increasingly responsible for developing innovative solutions to address the energy, health, and infrastructure crises. The REU Site will focus on diversifying the workforce with underrepresented minority and female science and engineering students to address these crises. The REU Site will engage undergraduate students in highly interdisciplinary and innovative research projects. The REU materials research projects will focus on developing innovative and creative just technologies for alternative renewable energy sources, addressing disparities in health and disease through patient-specific biomaterials, and engineering sustainable infrastructure from cement alternatives to clean water. The science policy projects will focus on how media and social networks impact the just transition of these technologies. Students will contribute to the advancement of fundamental knowledge in materials science and engineering through materials design, development, processing, and characterization and environmental science policy in real-world applications.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.