Undergraduate Research in Biology

生物学本科研究

• 批准号: 9000647
• 负责人: Dwayne Simmons
• 金额: $ 4.01万
• 依托单位: Pepperdine University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-05-01 至 1991-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9000647&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Undergraduate; Research; Biology

The award provides funds to the Natural Science Division at Pepperdine University to enhance an already active program of undergraduate research in biology by teaching students the common elements of the research process and increasing their appreciation for the diversity of biological subdisciplines. In addition, the program provides a mechanism whereby students from traditionally underrepresented groups in science will have the opportunity to experience biological research. The program will begin in the summer with a 6-day research orientation workshop at the Murchison Science Center during which students will be introduced to the uses and limitations of specific research tools and techniques and immersed in the research process (literature review, hypothesis formulation, and hypothesis testing). After the orientation workshop, students will pursue individual research projects under the direction of faculty in either ecology, cellular biochemistry, or neurobiology. All research projects will be designed to provide students with insight into how scientists formulate research questions, design experiments, collect and analyze data, and communicate their results to the scientific community. Over the course of the summer, visiting scientists will hold special research seminars in each research area, giving students an opportunity to discuss their own data with other scientists. Each research group will hold weekly literature seminars to discuss current journal articles pertaining to their research interests. The program will conclude with a student research symposium in early August.

该奖项为佩珀代因大学自然科学部提供资金，通过教授学生研究过程的共同要素并提高他们对生物分支学科多样性的认识，加强已经活跃的生物学本科研究项目。 此外，该计划还提供了一种机制，使来自传统科学领域代表性不足的群体的学生将有机会体验生物学研究。 该项目将于夏季在默奇森科学中心举行为期 6 天的研究方向研讨会，在此期间，学生将了解特定研究工具和技术的用途和局限性，并沉浸在研究过程中（文献综述、假设制定和假设检验）。 定向研讨会结束后，学生将在生态学、细胞生物化学或神经生物学教师的指导下开展个人研究项目。 所有研究项目都旨在让学生深入了解科学家如何提出研究问题、设计实验、收集和分析数据以及向科学界传达他们的结果。 在整个夏天，访问科学家将在每个研究领域举办特别研究研讨会，让学生有机会与其他科学家讨论他们自己的数据。 每个研究小组将每周举行一次文献研讨会，讨论与其研究兴趣相关的最新期刊文章。 该计划将于八月初以学生研究研讨会结束。