Summer Student Program (Undergraduate)

这一奖项为杰克逊实验室提供持续的支持，该实验室是一家私人非营利性研究机构，继续他们的本科生研究经验网站。1990年，从全国范围内的申请者群体中挑选出12名本科生，他们将在夏季进行为期9周的独立动手研究，并由科学家教员直接监督。这些学生在赞助商的实验室工作，对哺乳动物遗传学和发育中的问题进行原创性的基础研究，这些问题是赞助商正在进行的研究项目的组成部分。学生在做研究项目的所有方面都获得了经验，从项目设计到报告结果。近亲繁殖和突变的实验室小鼠在许多项目中都得到了利用。所有学生都来自主办机构以外的机构；大约一半来自本科院校。接受具有广泛科学准备的学生，每个参与者的研究项目都根据他或她的个人背景和兴趣而量身定做。学生们在工作台上工作的同时，还组织了小组教育活动，包括一次正式的研讨会。还有后续活动，以帮助培养学生对科学和研究的持续兴趣。对项目校友的非正式研究表明，获得生物科学或医学博士学位的比例很高。

This award provides ongoing support to The Jackson Laboratory, a private, non-profit research institution, to continue their Research Experience for Undergraduates Site. In 1990 12 undergraduates, selected from a nationwide group of applicants, will conduct independent hands-on research for 9 weeks in the summer under the direct supervision of staff scientists. Working in their sponsors' laboratories, the students conduct original basic research on problems in mammalian genetics and development that are components of their sponsors' on-going research programs. Students gain experience in all aspects of doing a research project, from project design to reporting the results. Inbred and mutant laboratory mice are utilized in many projects. All students are from outside the host institution; about half are from baccalaureate colleges. Students with a wide range of science preparation are accepted, with each participant's research project tailored to his or her individual background and interests. The students' work at the bench is supplemented by organized group educational activities, including a formal symposium. Follow-up activities are in place to help foster the students' continuing interest in science and research. Informal studies of program alumni indicate that a very high percentage receive doctoral degrees in the biological sciences or medicine.