Undergraduate Research in Biology

该奖项为佩佩尔丁的自然科学分部提供资金，以继续建立一个成功的REU站点。这笔资金将加强已经在进行的生物学本科生研究项目。将向学生传授研究过程的共同要素，并增加他们对生物分支学科多样性的欣赏。此外，该计划还提供了从传统上代表人数较少的科学群体和学生可能没有机会体验生物研究的学校招收学生的机制。每年夏天，该计划将在Murchison科学中心举行为期六天的研究导向研讨会，在此期间，将向学生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，学生将在学院的指导下进行细胞生物化学、行为生态学、植物生理生态学或海洋潮间带动物生态生理学的个人研究项目。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。该计划将在每年夏天结束，并在8月初举行一次学生研究研讨会。后续将包括学生参与当地和地区的本科生研究会议。在有特殊优点的情况下，将鼓励学生在全国会议上展示他们的结果，并准备将他们的结果发表在科学期刊上。

This award provides funds to the Natural Science Division at Pepperdine to continue a successful REU Site. The funds will enhance an already active program of undergraduate research in biology. Students will be taught the common elements of the research process and increase their appreciation for the diversity of biological subdisciplines. In addition, the program provides mechanisms for recruiting students from traditionally underrepresented groups in science and from schools where students may not have opportunities to experience biological research. Each summer the program will begin with a six-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 physiological ecology or ecophysiology of marine intertidal animals. 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 summer with a student research symposium in early August. Follow-through will include student participation at local and regional undergraduate research conferences. In cases of special merit, students will be encouraged to present their results at national meetings and to prepare their results for publication in a scientific journal.