Undergraduate Research in Biology

该奖项为佩珀代因大学自然科学系提供资金，通过教授学生研究过程的共同要素，增加他们对生物分支学科多样性的欣赏，继续开展一项已经很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，使来自传统上代表性不足的科学群体的学生有机会体验生物学研究。该计划将于每年夏天在默奇森科学中心开始为期6天的研究方向研讨会，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（文献回顾，假设制定和假设检验）。课程结束后，学生将在教师的指导下进行个人研究项目，包括细胞生物化学、行为生态学、植物解剖学或植物生理生态学。所有的研究项目都将旨在让学生了解科学家如何制定研究问题，设计实验，收集和分析数据，并将他们的结果传达给科学界。在整个夏季，访问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。每个研究小组将举行每周文献研讨会，讨论当前的期刊文章有关他们的研究兴趣。该项目将在每年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.