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

希望学院生物系认为，本科生通过做生物学来学习生物学最好。该机构将这一信念付诸实践，将研究和教学融入课程，并为学生提供机会，成为专业水平研究的教师合作伙伴。该奖项将为30名本科生提供研究预约（三年内每年夏季10名）。一半的学生将来自希望学院，一半将来自美国各地的其他学院和大学。学生将参与生物学各个层次的研究，从克隆一种新的加压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能力，探索生物学中的伦理问题，并了解生物学研究生院和职业机会。学生将在正式会谈（希望和专业会议），海报研讨会和科学论文中传达他们的研究结果。希望计划将对学生参与者对科学的理解产生影响，影响科学，因为学生向科学界展示他们的成果，并影响社会，因为学生进入研究生院和各种职业。

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.