Undergraduate Research in Biology

该奖项为自然科学部提供资金， 佩珀代因继续本科已经活跃的计划 通过教授学生生物学研究的共同要素， 研究过程，并提高他们对 生物学科的多样性。 此外，该方案 提供了一种机制，使学生从传统的下- 科学界的代表团体将有机会 体验生物学研究。 程序将开始， 夏季，在 默奇森科学中心期间，学生将被介绍 特定研究工具的使用和局限性， 技术和沉浸在研究过程中（文献 审查、假设制定和假设检验）。 后 在迎新工作坊，学生将追求个人 在教师指导下的研究项目， 细胞生物化学、行为生态学、植物解剖学或植物 生理生态学 所有的研究项目将被设计为 让学生深入了解科学家如何制定 研究问题，设计实验，收集和分析数据， 并将他们的研究结果传达给科学界。 超过 在夏季，访问科学家将举行特别的 每个研究领域的研究研讨会，让学生 有机会与其他科学家讨论自己的数据。 每个研究小组将每周举行一次文学研讨会， 讨论与他们的研究有关的当前期刊文章 利益 该计划将结束每年与一名学生 8月初的研究会。

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.