Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences in the Biological Sciences

该奖项为弗曼大学生物系提供资金，以建立本科生研究经验网站。在这种支持下，该部门将招收有才华的女性和少数民族学生，在南卡罗来纳邻近机构学习生物学的大三学生，并将NSF-REU项目的好处扩展到他们身上。两到三人一组的学生将与每位教师密切合作，进行全日制暑期实验室研究。本系师生合作的研究项目涵盖了本系的许多子课程，包括种子发育中的基因表达研究、植物发育中光敏色素活性的免疫细胞学研究、植物同工酶研究、昆虫的紫外线吸收和荧光分子研究、植物防御机制中活性化合物的分离。群落生态学和神经生物学。在选择过程中，教师导师将与适当的学生同事相匹配。学生参加者将提交一份正式的书面总结他们的暑期成就。定期安排的特殊科学、社会和体育活动将使该计划更加完善，并为在不同的参与者群体中培养团队精神提供额外的机制。

This award provides funds to the Biology Department of Furman University to establish a Research Experiences for Undergraduates SITE. With this support the department will recruit talented women and minority students, rising juniors studying biology at neighboring institutions in South Carolina, and extend to them the benefits of this NSF-REU program. Student groups of two or three will work closely with each faculty member in full-time summer laboratory research. The student-faculty research projects span many of the sub-curricula of the department, including gene expression studies in seed development, immunocytological studies on phytochrome activity in plant development, isoenzyme studies in plants, ultraviolet absorbing and fluorescing molecules in insects, isolation of active compounds in plant defense mechanisms, community ecology, and neurobiology. In the selection process faculty mentors will be matched with appropriate student co- workers. Student participants will submit a formal written summary of their summer's accomplishments. A regular schedule of special scientific, social, and athletic events will round out the program and provide an added mechanism for developing esprit de corps among the diverse group of participants.