"The Network's resources and support will be a great complement to the work that Lehigh has already begun in examining our institution's academic environment with a commitment to making the systemic changes needed to ensure that it is not only inclusive but fully empowering of all people."
"We are pleased to join our esteemed colleagues as part of the Aspire IChange Network," said Donald Outing , vice president for equity and community. The network provides universities with comprehensive support and resources for institutional change, including access to national partners in a concierge-style approach to technical assistance. The Aspire Alliance, which APLU and the University of Wisconsin-Madison facilitate with the involvement of several universities, is engaging the new cohort of universities through its Institutional Change (IChange) Network. "While this particular initiative is focused on STEM faculty, it will have a positive impact on faculty across the university and on our ongoing work to create and sustain systems and structures that support a diverse and inclusive community and intellectual environment." “Joining the Aspire IChange Network is a great opportunity to learn from and work with colleagues as we strengthen our efforts to make Lehigh's academic enterprise more inclusive and welcoming," said Nathan Urban, Provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. The institutions will then develop and implement campus action plans to drive change and scale such efforts across all their STEM programs. Lehigh is one of 19 universities to join the new cohort.Īimed at ensuring all STEM faculty use inclusive teaching practices and that institutions increase the diversity of their STEM professoriate, participating universities begin their work with a self-assessment of current practices and assets. The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) co-leads the effort, known as Aspire: The National Alliance for Inclusive & Diverse STEM Faculty, along with the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL). Important variations are seen in the Cu particle size and metal dispersion depending on the initial state of the copper oxide-ceria systems.Lehigh is joining a three-year institutional change effort to develop inclusive faculty recruitment, hiring and retention practices. Additionally, the dynamic behavior of the supported metal species can be further exploited to realize exquisite control and rational design of multicomponent =.
Combining soft and solid-state chemistry of colloidal nanocrystals provide a well-defined platform to understand, elucidate, and harness metal–support interactions.
This interfacial restructuring behavior facilitates tuning of the copper dispersion and the associated creation of surface oxygen defects on CeO 2, which gives rise to enhanced activities and stabilities catalyzing water–gas shift reaction. Driven by the interfacial interactions between the presynthesized Cu and CeO 2 nanocrystals, Cu atoms migrate and redisperse onto the CeO2 surface via a solid–solid route. Here, a nanocrystal-based atom-trapping strategy to access atomically precise Cu-CeO 2 nanostructures for enhanced catalysis is reported. However, accurately identifying and rationally tuning the local structures in Cu-CeO 2 have remained challenging, especially for nanomaterials with inherent structural complexities involving surfaces, interfaces, and defects. Due to tunable redox properties and cost-effectiveness, copper-ceria (Cu-CeO 2) materials have been investigated for a wide scope of catalytic reactions.
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