Undergraduate Research in Biology

该奖项向佩珀丁大学自然科学分部提供资金，通过向学生传授研究过程的共同要素并增加他们对生物子学科多样性的欣赏，继续开展已经在生物学领域开展的本科生研究计划。此外，该计划还提供了一种机制，让来自传统上在科学领域代表性不足的群体的学生有机会体验生物研究。该计划将在每年夏天开始，在Murchison科学中心举行为期6天的研究导向研讨会，在此期间，学生将被介绍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)。在指导工作坊结束后，学生将在教师的指导下进行细胞生物化学、行为生态学、植物解剖学或植物生理生态学的个人研究项目。所有研究项目都将为学生提供对科学家如何制定研究问题、设计实验、收集和分析数据以及将结果传达给科学界的洞察力。在夏季期间，来访的科学家将在每个研究领域举办专门的研究研讨会，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学研讨会，讨论与其研究兴趣有关的当前期刊文章。该计划将在每年8月初以学生研究研讨会结束。

This award provides funds to the Natural Science Division at Pepperdine to continue 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 under- represented groups in science will have the opportunity to experience biological research. The program will begin each 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 cellular biochemistry, behavioral ecology, plant anatomy or plant physiological ecology. 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 each year with a student research symposium in early August.