The California Academy of Sciences Summer Systematics Institute as an REU Site

该项目将在三年的资助中，每年将七名本科生带到加州科学院，在该学院的夏季系统学研究所进行为期10周的夏季课程。招生将在全国范围内进行，重点是少数民族和理科女学生。每个未来的实习生将申请与学院策展人合作进行一项研究项目。成功的申请者将参加系统生物学的正式讲座、参观学院九个研究部门的每个部门，以及学院以外的科学家举行的系统生物学研究研讨会。学生将从事有限制的定向项目，以便能够介绍要研究的问题和生物体，以及数据的收集、解释和传播。每个学生将以科学论文的形式制作一份项目成果的手稿，并向他们的同龄人口头陈述他们的成果。每年将对实习生和参与评估的学院工作人员进行评估，以微调/改进学院今后几年的工作。实习生也将被带回学院进行额外的工作，发表他们的发现，并在专业的科学会议上展示他们的结果。

The project will, in each of three year's funding, bring seven undergraduates to the California Academy of Sciences for a 10-week summer session in the Academy's Summer Systematics Institute. Recruitment will be on a national level, with emphasis given to minority and female students in science. Each prospective intern will apply to work with an Academy curator on a research project. Successful applicants will take part in formal lectures in systematic biology, tours of each of the Academy's nine research departments and research seminars in systematic biology by scientists outside the Academy. Students will work on directed projects circumscribed so that an introduction to the problem and organisms to be studied, as well as data collection, interpretation, and dissemination can be accomplished. Each student will produce a manuscript of the project's results, in the form of a scientific paper, and make an oral presentation of their results to their peers. Evaluations of interns and participating Academy staff will be conducted each year to fine tune/improve the Institute for the succeeding years. Interns will also be brought back to the Academy for additional work, to publish their findings, and to present their results at professional scientific meetings.