REU Site: A Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Program in the Biological Sciences at Hope College

霍普学院的生物系认为，本科生通过做生物学来学习生物学是最好的。该机构将这一信念付诸实践，将研究和教学整合到课程中，并为学生提供机会，与教师一起进行专业水平的研究。该奖项将为30名本科生提供研究任命（每年夏季10人，为期三年）。一半的学生将来自霍普学院，一半将来自美国各地的其他学院和大学。REU项目将特别努力招募和任命女性和在科学领域代表性不足的少数群体成员。学生们将参与生物学各个层面的研究，从克隆一种新的抗利血激素受体到研究热带云雾森林中的种子传播。学生和教师之间的互动将为每个参与者提供有关广泛的生物学问题和解决这些问题的方法的知识。除了研究本身，参与者还将参加每周一次的会议，旨在提高口头和书面沟通技巧，探索生物学中的伦理问题，并了解生物学的研究生院和职业机会。学生将在正式的会谈（在Hope和专业会议上）、海报研讨会和科学论文中交流他们的研究结果。希望项目将对学生参与者对科学的理解产生影响，当学生向科学界展示他们的成果时影响科学，当学生进入研究生院和各种职业时影响社会。

The Department of Biology at Hope College believes that undergraduate students learn biology best by doing biology. The institution has put this belief into practice by integrating research and teaching in their courses and by providing students with opportunities to become partners with the faculty in professional level research. This award will provide research appointments for thirty undergraduate students (ten per summer for three years). Half of the students will come from Hope College and half will come from other colleges and universities throughout the U.S. This REU project will make special efforts to recruit and appoint women and members of minority groups underrepresented in science. Students will participate in research at all levels of biology, from cloning a new receptor for vasopressin to studying seed dispersal in a tropical cloud forest. Interactions among students and faculty will provide each participant with knowledge about a wide range of biological problems and ways in which those problems are addressed. In addition to the research itself, participants will take part in weekly meetings aimed at improving oral and written communication skills, exploring ethical issues in biology, and learning about graduate school and career opportunities in biology. Students will communicate the results of their research in formal talks (at Hope and at professional meetings), at a poster symposium, and in a scientific paper. The Hope program will have an impact on the student participants' understanding of science, impact the sciences as the students present their results to the scientific community, and impact society as students move on to graduate schools and a variety of careers.