Biological Rhythms: Laboratory and Field Studies

贝萨尼学院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)接触到受农业、采矿和社会因素影响的流域环境的跨学科研究。该项目的目标是鼓励设施有限或缺乏与科学家接触的学校的学生考虑在科学或工程领域工作。每个参与者都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团队的一部分。在科学研究方法的课堂教学后，学生们将在实地收集样本，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.