Recruiting Native American Students into Environmental Sciences

9317582 Pierotti大多数美洲原住民部落的文化遗产包含了相当多的自然世界的知识和经验。其中一些传统知识包括对习惯、生态群落和周期、季节变化、微分布、植物生态学、动物行为以及动植物物种的近代历史的详细了解。尽管有这些强大的文化传统，但美洲原住民在科学领域，特别是在环境科学领域，是代表性最低的少数民族。我们的目标是在该领域顶尖科学家的密切监督下，在职业生涯早期向美国原住民大学生介绍环境研究，让他们有机会在本科生涯中从事研究项目。完成该计划的本地学生应该在实践研究经验方面与全国任何机构的最佳大学毕业生竞争。学生将开始在哈斯克尔印第安学院的基础研究方法的培训，在他们的第三年转移到堪萨斯大学完成学士学位。℃下导师活动将提供整个他们在哈斯克尔和堪萨斯的经验。该计划的长期目标是培养和发展美洲原住民专业人员，他们不仅将进行环境生物学研究，而且还将在高等学府如哈斯克尔的美洲原住民机构教授课程并监督环境科学研究。

9317582 Pierotti The cultural heritage of most Native American tribal groups incorporates considerable knowledge of and experience with the natural world. Some of this traditional knowledge includes detailed understanding of habits, ecological communities and cycles, seasonal variation, microdistributions, plant ecology, animal behavior, and the recent history of plant and animal species. Despite these powerful cultural traditions, Native Americans are the most underrepresented minority in the sciences in general, and in environmentally oriented sciences in particular. Our goal is to introduce Native American college students early in their careers to environmental research under the close supervision of top scientists in the field, giving them the opportunity to work on research projects during their undergraduate careers. Native students completing this program should be competitive with the best college graduates in the country from any institution in terms of hands-on research experience. Student will begin their training in basic research methods at Haskell Indian College, transferring in their third year to University of Kansas to complete the B.S. degree. Mentorship activities will be provided throughout their experience at both Haskell and Kansas. A long-term goal of the program is to train and develop Native American professionals who will not only carry on research in Environmental Biology, but will also teach courses and supervise research in the environmental sciences at Native American institutions of higher learning such as Haskell.