REU: National Museum of Natural History Research Training Program

该奖项将为本科生提供参加史密森学会国家自然历史博物馆研究培训计划的机会。本课程向本科生介绍现代自然史和系统生物学领域的科学学科、研究技术和职业选择的多样性。这个为期十周的项目重点是一个研究项目，由一名研究顾问指导，他是该机构100多名科学人员中的博士之一。每个学生参与者与研究顾问一起，使用适当的技术开发和测试一个科学假设，并以书面手稿和口头报告的形式传达结果。这种研究经验与讲座、讨论、演示、实地考察和旅游相辅相成，为自然历史事业提供了广泛而平衡的观点。这个以前资助的REU网站在鼓励女性和少数民族学生从事自然历史和系统生物学方面非常有效。该奖项将促进我们下一代生物科学研究人员的继续教育和培训。

This award will provide opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in the National Museum of Natural History Research Training Program at the Smithsonian Institution. This program introduces undergraduates to the diversity of scientific disciplines, research techniques, and career choices available in the fields of modern natural history and systematic biology. The ten-week program focuses on a research project guided by a research advisor who is one of the over 100 Ph.D.s on the institution's scientific staff. Each student participant, in conjunction with the research advisor, develops and tests a scientific hypothesis(es) using appropriate techniques and communicates the results in written manuscripts and oral presentations. That research experience is supplemented with lectures, discussions, demonstrations, field trips, and tours to provide a broad and balanced view of natural history careers. This previously funded REU Site has been very effective in encouraging women and minority students to pursue careers in natural history and systematic biology. This award will foster the continued education and training of our next generation of researchers in the Biological Sciences.