Biological Rhythms: Laboratory and Field Studies

贝瑟尼学院的生物系和化学系设计了一个为期六周的暑期项目，让20-25名高中生（10年级和11年级）参与一个跨学科的研究，研究受农业、采矿和社会因素影响的流域环境。该项目的目标是鼓励来自设施有限或缺乏与科学家接触的学校的学生考虑从事科学或工程方面的职业。每位参与者将成为由一名高级研究员、一名高中教师和一名大学生组成的研究小组的一员。在科学研究方法的课堂教学后，学生将在现场收集样本并在实验室进行分析。课程主题将包括污水处理、矿山和农业径流对水质的影响。许多科学学科的专家将就影响水质的因素举行研讨会。

The departments of Biology and Chemistry at Bethany College have designed a six week summer program to expose 20-25 high school students (grades 10 and 11) to an interdisiplinary study of a watershed environment that is influenced by agricultural, mining, and societal factors. The project goal is to encourage students from schools with limited facilities or who lack contacts with scientists to consider a career in science or engineering. Each participant will become part of a research team composed of a senior researcher, a high school teacher and college student. After classroom instruction in scientific research methods, the students will gather samples in the field and analyze them in the laboratory. Class topics will include the effects of sewage treatment and mine and agricultural runoff on water quality. Experts in many science disciplines will present seminars on factors that influence water quality.