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REU Site: Engineering Tools for Disease Diagnosis and Treatment

  • Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)

Program Overview

  • The REU site located at Washington State University (WSU) will train 9 undergraduate students over 9.5 weeks in summer to design, fabricate and utilize engineering tools to diagnose and treat divers ubiquitous and emerging diseases. While performing hypothesis-driven research, students? skills in experimental design, problem solving, quantitative reasoning and communication will be improved. Our students' cohort will be diverse, including Males and Females, juniors and seniors, and students often underrepresented in STEM fields. To broaden minorities' participation in our program, we will utilize existing ties with researchers at Morehouse College and Howard University to recruit students of African American descent. In addition, we will recruit Hispanics and Latinos through a unique relationship with Walla Walla Community College. Finally, we will partner with an NSF-funded Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate-Transformation program at WSU to recruit American Indians. Students will be mentored by a diverse team of research faculty consisting of 6 Males and 3 Females, representing several interdisciplinary backgrounds and ethnicities with established records in mentoring undergraduates in their coursework and research. Our REU program has six goals in research and technical as well as professional development. These are to: 1) provide scholars with hands-on research activities focused on developing engineering tools for disease diagnostics and treatment, 2) increase our scholars' awareness of emerging grand challenges to global health, 3) strengthen the academic credentials and technical skills of participating scholars, 4) clarify career paths for REU scholars, 5) diversify the pool of talented students interested in STEM fields, and 6) broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM fields. To achieve our goals, students will participate in mentored, hypothesis-based, research projects that address health problems with real-world relevance. These research experiences will be intertwined with a set of technical seminars that expose students to cutting edge, engineering research tools used in disease diagnosis and treatment. Activities such as entrepreneurship and proposal writing will be used to develop students' professional skills. https://voiland.wsu.edu/reu/

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Program Contact

  • Cornelius Ivory
  • cfivory@wsu.edu

Location

  • Southeast
  • Pullman, WA 99164, USA
Pullman, WA 99164, USA

Type Of Program

Audience

  • Collegiate

Discipline(s)

  • Engineering

  • STEM

History

Established

05/2017

Individuals Served

  • 0-50

Research, Roles & Responsibilities

Research Components

  • Mentored research experience(s)

Identity & Inclusion

Race/Ethnic Minority Group

  • African American/Black

  • European American/White

  • Hispanic/Latino

  • Native American

  • Pacific Islander

Voice

Mentoring Components

  • Mentees Are Allowed To Attend Events With Mentors (I.E. Dinners, Social Events, Conferences, Retreats)

  • Mentors Provide Mentees With Access To Academic Resources

    (E.G. Precollegiate, Collegiate, Graduate, Postdoc, Faculty Training, Standardized Test Preparation, Writing Workshops, Research Workshops, Tenure And Promotion Information)

  • Mentors Provide Support With Academic Or Discipline Specific Knowledge Through Direct Teaching

Empowering Activities

  • Knowledge Transfer To The Community (E.G., Parents, Peers, Stakeholders)

  • Mentoring Opportunities

Expectation

  • All of our REU students participated in workshops, weekly seminars and training sessions including safety and biosafety training, responsible conduct of science presentations including how to keep a laboratory notebook, human subjects in research training, abstract writing and poster preparation. All students presented the research component of their Summer work during the last week of the REU in both a 15-minute technical slide presentation to the core REU cohort and their faculty mentors as well as a poster presentation to the larger WSU-REU program.

Evaluation Methods

  • Annual Performance Report

Key Performance Indicators

Workshop participation, research presentations, research training

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  This material is based upon work partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. and 1818458 and 2010676. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed on this site are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation

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