Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University

自1987年以来，卡耐基梅隆大学生物科学系在美国国家科学基金会REU项目的支持下提供了一个夏季本科生研究项目（SURP）。自1989年以来，该计划还得到了霍华德·休斯医学研究所的资助。1998年和1999年，该计划再次扩大，包括由贝克曼学者计划和默克公司基金会资助的计算生物学和化学计划支持的参与者。REU计划每年夏天运行，并在分子生物学和遗传学，细胞和发育生物学，生物化学和生物物理学方面提供密集，个性化的研究经验。所有参与者必须是美国公民或永久居民，并且在申请时必须在大二或大三。REU计划主要针对来自小型学院和大学的学生，这些学生没有广泛的研究机会。特别鼓励来自科学领域代表性不足群体的学生申请。该计划的参与者将获得3,000美元的津贴，免费的大学住宿和合理的差旅费报销。该计划的核心是在一名参与教师的监督下进行的个人研究项目。科学项目包括教师的研究报告，学生对科学文献文章的报告和讨论，关于职业选择和科学伦理的会议，以及所有学生展示其研究成果的总结研讨会。学生们接受培训，学习如何制作复杂的计算机演示文稿，并在课程结束时收到一份演示文稿的录像带。除了科学项目，学生们还参加各种其他活动，包括年度部门激流漂流之旅。# DBI - 9912216医学科学部是哈佛大学的一部分，负责监督文理研究生院为在医学院校园实验室从事基础生物学研究的学生提供的博士培训项目。本司提出了一项为期10周的夏季研究计划，供本科生参加细胞和分子生物学领域的研究项目。每年申请资助10名学生，为期三年。参加者将从全国范围内征聘，特别强调征聘对生物学研究事业感兴趣的学生和征聘合格的少数民族学生和妇女。除了他们的研究项目外，学生们还参加每周一次的师生研究讨论系列研讨会，在研讨会上他们互相教授他们的项目，以及每周一次的职业发展系列，包括选择研究生课程，成功完成申请和面试等主题。每年夏天有三次会议专门讨论生物科学中的伦理问题。学生还与在读研究生一起参加同伴咨询/指导计划，并提供额外的机会在学术和社会环境中与其他多数和少数民族的研究教师和研究生见面。这些机会是由项目、个人研究小组和住在医学院校园的住房提供的。学生将获得津贴、住房、往返旅行、紧急疾病和意外健康保险。形成性评价和总结性评价的几种机制被采用。作为不断发展的网络的一部分，项目校友将每年收到两次通讯，彼此的联系信息，并开放获得项目主任及其个人研究顾问的持续建议和咨询。

ABSTRACT Murphy, Robert F. Proposal # DBI-9912260Since 1987, the Department of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University has offered a Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) with support from the REU Program of the National Science Foundation. Since 1989, the SURP has also been supported by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In 1998 and 1999, the program was expanded again to include participants supported by the Beckman Scholars Program and a Computational Biology and Chemistry program underwritten by the Merck Company Foundation. The REU program is run each summer and provides intensive, individualized research experiences in molecular biology and genetics, cell and developmental biology, biochemistry and biophysics. All participants must be United States citizens or permanent residents and must be in their sophomore or junior year at the time of application. The REU program is primarily aimed at students from small colleges and universities that do not have extensive research opportunities. Students from groups underrepresented in the sciences are especially encouraged to apply. Participants in the program receive a stipend of $3,000, free University housing, and reimbursement for reasonable travel costs. The core of the program is an individual research project carried out under the supervision of one of the participating faculty. The scientific progf am includes research presentations by faculty, presentations and discussion by students of articles from the scientific literature, sessions on career options and scientific ethics, and a concluding symposium in which all students present the results of their research. Students receive tf aining in creating sophisticated computerized presentations and receive a video tape of their presentation at the end of the program. In addition to the scientific program, students participate in a variety of other activities, including the annual Department whitewater rafting trip.ABSTRACT Jocelyn Spragg Proposal # DBI - 9912216The Division of Medical Sciences is the part of Harvard University that supervises Ph.D. training programs of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for students who are engaged in basic biological research in laboratories on the Medical School campus. The Division submits this proposal for a 10-week summer research program for undergraduate students to participate in research projects in the field of cellular and molecular biology. Funds are requested for 10 students each year for three years. Participants will be recruited from a nation-wide pool, with particular emphasis on recruiting students who are interested in careers in biological research and on recruiting qualified minority students and women. In addition to their research projects, students participate in a weekly studentfaculty research discussion seminar series at which they teach each other about their projects, and in a weekly career development series, which covers such topics as choosing graduate programs, completing successful applications, and interviewing. Three sessions each summer are devoted to discussions of ethical issues in biological sciences.Students also participate in a peer advising/mentoring program with current graduate students and are provided additional opportunities to meet other majority and minority research faculty and graduate students in both academic and social settings. These opportunities are provided by the program, by the individual research groups, and through living in housing on the Medical School campus. Students receive a stipend, housing, travel to and from the program, and emergency illness and accident health insurance. Several mechanisms of formative and summative evaluation are employed. As part of a developing network, program alumni will receive twice-yearly newsletters, contact information about each other, and open access to continued advising and counseling by the program director and their individual research advisors.