Opportunity Description:

This REU Site provides participants with ten weeks of summer research experiences that are intellectually stimulating, have societal relevance, and improve participants’ research self-efficacy by rapidly moving participants from dependence to a relatively independent status. Site objectives are to: provide authentic research opportunities for students majoring in chemistry or biochemistry and attending predominately undergraduate institutions; involve participants in research projects that benefit society, either directly or indirectly; improve participant understanding of the research enterprise (from project inception, attainment of funding, to research completion, and dissemination of results); and retain participants within the chemistry/biochemistry major and encourage them to continue to post-baccalaureate opportunities.