Award Abstract #0755022
iREU Site: The US/South America REU Site in Chemistry and Molecular Biodiversity

NSF Org:	CHE Division of Chemistry
Initial Amendment Date:	April 29, 2008
Latest Amendment Date:	April 29, 2008
Award Number:	0755022
Award Instrument:	Continuing grant
Program Manager:	Wilfredo Colon CHE Division of Chemistry MPS Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Start Date:	May 1, 2008
Expires:	April 30, 2009 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$126913
Investigator(s):	Randolph Duran duran@chem.ufl.edu (Principal Investigator) John Eyler (Co-Principal Investigator) Troy Sadler (Co-Principal Investigator) Adrian Roitberg (Co-Principal Investigator) James Brown (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	University of Florida 1 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GAINESVILLE, FL 32611 352/392-3516
NSF Program(s):	OTHER GLOBAL LEARNING & TRNING
Field Application(s):
Program Reference Code(s):	SMET, 9250, 9183, 9178, 5977, 5913, 5911
Program Element Code(s):	7731

ABSTRACT

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE), with co-funding from the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE), supports a new international Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site between the University of Florida (UF) and South America for the summers of 2008-2010. The U.S. program will be under the overall direction of Randolph Duran of the University of Florida (UF) and the South American program under the overall direction of Jose Manuel Riveros of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Duran will be assisted by Adrian Roitberg of UF in the administration and coordination of the U.S. students. Fifteen U.S. undergraduates each summer will travel to either Brazil or Argentina to participate in a twelve week chemistry research program. In Argentina, U.S. students will integrate into research laboratories at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and in Brazil, U.S. students will integrate into research laboratories at one of three locations: the University of Sao Paulo (USP); Sao Paulo State University (UNESP); or the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). This program is set up as a bilateral exchange and through a consortium of South American funding, an equivalent number of Brazilian and Argentinian students will be brought to the U.S. over the 12 week period and fully integrated into domestic REU sites. The U.S. students will each spend the vast majority of their summer in 'science immersion' distributed in groups of 2-4 students per institution. The main scientific focus of the participating laboratories is chemistry or molecular biodiversity. A three-day weekend post-REU meeting and poster session each October after the program ends will be held at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

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