REEU students only

REEU 2024 schedule - now updated summer schedule with bus pick up times.

REEU 2024 teams and research goals.

Team Holy Basil

Mentor: Dr Preeti Sharma

REEU team leader: Mr. Diack

FANE participating team leader:  Ms. Brandy

Team Holy Basil research goals:

1) Create products from holy basil that are all natural, organic, sugar and colorants free, rich by essentiak oils, and do not taste like a medicine. One possible product is concentrated gummies covered by very dark chocolate.

2) Work on composition on the product, technology of production, 3D printing of the molds as needed - to improve the taste

3) Perform full phytochemical characterization of the products in the lab and create label of content per gummy or unit of your product

4) Develop outreach presentation of health benefits of holy basil and products from it.

5) Submit final report, power points, posters and videos, as stated below in program assignments.

Team Gummies

Mentor: Ms. Ludan Osman

REEU team leader: Ms. Elizabeth

Participating FANE team leader: Ms. Cayla.

Team Gummies research goals:

1) Basing on the composition of existed power aid drinks, create a concentrated version of it as a gummies

2) Work on composition on the gummies, technology of production, 3D printing of the molds - to improve the taste

3) Perform full phytochemical characterization of the best gummies products in the lab and create label of content er gummy

4) Develop outreach presentation that includes both drinks and gummies

5) Submit final report, power points, posters and videos, as stated below in program assignments.

Assignments for team leaders only during spring semester - to complete with your team mentors and submit to Dr Volkis by teams. This is in addition to assignments that you do together with FANE team leaders.

1) Learn following techniques and obtain written completion statement from your team mentor that you know how to perform and calculate it - deadline is April 15th:

• Total anthocyanins - all UV/Vis on Genesis machines

• Total polyphenols

• Total flavonoids

• Total tannins

• pH and conductivity

• brix

• Preparation samples for ICP/MS and for GCMS

• Extraction on regular extractor

• Juicing bulk number of berries using the press.

• Preparing all types of Hawk Power drinks and learn how to present it on the outreach program.

• printing on 3D printer molds for gummies

2) Reading on MS Teams with your mentor all materials related to your assigned project and summarizing it in 5-6 pages MS word file with illustrations. File must end by your team's research goals for the summer. Deadline - April 1st.

3) Preparing a short Power Point presentation for the first day on campus - must have an unformal introduction of the leader (major, program, research and career goals, hobbies, clubs etc.), very short presentation of the program for someone who has never read or heard anything about it, and research goals of the team for summer times. Deadline is May 1st.

Workshops for REEU program only - delivering during two weeks of REEU only residency on campus, before FANE program joins.

SciFinder and ChemDraw workshop - with Dr. Volkis, team mentors and team leaders

Plant Nutrition and weather workshop - With Dr. Ristvey - on zoom. Link will be provided to your team leaders' calendar invite.

Instrumental Analysis Workshop - With Dr. Weaver.

Agro- Statistics Workshop - with Dr. Ristvey.

Materials for active experiential research by teams 2024 - please, note that additional materials are available via your team leaders on MS Teams.

Team Gummies 2024

Team Holy Basil 2024

Common forms for REEU program only - to use before, during, and after the program.  

• Pre-program forms are due before starting on campus. 

• Post-program forms are due last day on campus. 

• Evalution forms are due after each workshop. All forms are to be filled individually.

• Note that HR forms are filled in separately follow the email from Ms. Mary Ames from UMES HR.

Pre-program forms

Forms and templates during the program

Forms after the last (online) week of the program. 

Must be submitted at the last day on campus. Else - there is no last payment.