REU: An Undergraduate Research Participation Program in theBiological Sciences

该奖项为霍普学院生物系提供了额外三年的持续支持，以继续开展1988年建立的本科生研究经验网站。该项目将为10名本科生提供深入的暑期环境生物学研究经验。为了给那些在科学领域没有得到充分代表的个人提供研究机会，该系将招募女性和少数群体成员参加该项目，目标是至少有50%的学生参与者是女性，50%是少数群体成员。根据学习成绩、研究能力和潜力、主动性、独立性和专业目标，将从希望学院和其他学校选出5名学生参加。学生将从与环境生物学相关的五个不同领域中选择一个研究项目：1)固氮分子生物学，2)环境生物化学与生理学，3)遗传毒理学，4)植物和动物寄生虫学，5)生态学和系统学，并将在12名博士教师的指导下进行研究。学生们将完成独立的研究项目，对他们正在进行的工作进行口头报告，参加研究生院和科学写作研讨会，参加特别的科学研讨会，并准备一份研究海报和研究论文，总结他们的工作。

This award provides an additional three years of continuing support to the Department of Biology at Hope College to carry on with the Research Experience for Undergraduates Site that was established in 1988. The program will provide ten undergraduate students with an in-depth summer experience in research in environmental biology. In order to provide research opportunities to individuals who are not well represented in science, the department will recruit women and members of minority groups to participate in the program with the goal of having at least 50% of the student participants being women and 50% being members of minority groups. Five students from Hope College and five students from other schools will be selected for participation on the basis of academic record, research ability and potential, initiative, independence and professional objectives. Students will select a research project from five different areas related to environmental biology: 1) Molecular Biology of Nitrogen Fixation, 2) Environmental Biochemistry and Physiology, 3) Genetic Toxicology, 4) Plant and Animal Parasitology and 5) Ecology and Systematics and will work under the supervision of twelve Ph.D faculty members. Students will perform independent research projects, give oral presentations on their work in progress, attend workshops on graduate school and scientific writing, attend special scientific seminars and prepare a research poster and research paper summarizing their work.