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

该项目将在三年的资助期内，每年安排七名本科生到加州科学院（California Academy of Sciences）的夏季系统学研究所（summer Systematics Institute）参加为期10周的暑期课程。招生工作将在全国范围内进行，重点放在少数族裔和理科女生身上。每个潜在的实习生将申请与学院策展人一起研究项目。成功的申请者将参加正式的系统生物学讲座，参观科学院的九个研究部门，以及由科学院以外的科学家举办的系统生物学研究研讨会。学生将在有指导的项目上工作，这样就可以完成对问题和要研究的生物的介绍，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写出项目结果的手稿，并向他们的同龄人口头介绍他们的结果。每年将对实习生和参与的学院工作人员进行评估，以便在今后几年微调/改进研究所。实习生也将被带回科学院进行额外的工作，发表他们的发现，并在专业科学会议上展示他们的成果。

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.