UMEB: Environmental Endocrinology and Physiology

该项目将每年在爱荷华州州立大学招募8名有才华的本科生，通过提供研究培训，强化指导以及对该领域的兴奋，奖励和重要性的清晰认识，从事环境生物学职业。 招聘工作将针对环境生物学领域代表性不足的群体，特别是在中西部地区。 该计划将增加代表性不足的群体在该领域的参与，在招聘代表性不足的群体到大学的援助，并培养一批为继续取得研究生和博士后成功做好准备的人，该项目将与爱荷华州州立大学合作，并利用其在招募代表性不足的群体参与科学和技术方面的强大机构重视和投资。该项目的重点是学生作为全面参与者参与科学研究计划，从项目设计到成果的展示和出版，所有这些都是在大学教师的一对一指导和强有力的指导下进行的。 每个学生的研究经验将得到一组计划元素的支持，包括通过实验室工作相关项目的轮换，涉及整个小组在培训和参与环境科学领域的年度研讨会，学术研讨会，将提供工具，以增加环境生物学的成功，和年度研讨会，特邀演讲者，并参加专业科学团体的会议，以产生环境科学界的广度，深度和成员感。研究重点将是三组教师，所有这些都涉及“河流之间的土地”、爱荷华州中西部生态系统及其周边地区的脊椎动物环境内分泌学和生理学。 这些研究领域的每一个都侧重于本地物种，包括在被人类严重改造的地区具有保护重要性的物种，以及对人类生态和自然生物多样性都非常重要的物种。 每个研究都使用动物生理和发育作为测量变量来研究环境压力的影响，并包括对可能介导环境影响的内分泌途径的研究。 每个项目都是多样化的，足以提供必要的范围，以确保学生的独立性，并让学生拥有自己的研究项目。 它们的共同要素将使与任何项目相关的学生能够理解并为他人做出贡献，这意味着一个共同的培训和充实计划对所有人都具有同等价值。

This project will recruit 8 talented undergraduates per year at Iowa State University to careers in environmental biology by providing research training, intensive mentoring, and a clear view of the excitement, rewards, and importance of the field. Recruiting efforts will target groups underrepresented in environmental biology, particularly in the midwest. The program will increase participation of underrepresented groups in the field, aid in recruitment of underrepresented groups to the University, and produce a set of individuals exceptionally well prepared for continued success in graduate and post-graduate careers.The project will collaborate with and take advantage of Iowa State University's strong institutional emphasis on and investment in recruiting underrepresented groups to participate in science and technology in general, and will add a particular focus on environmental biology.The project focus is involvement of students in scientific research programs as full participants, from project design to presentation and publication of the results, all carried out in the context of one-on-one mentoring and strong guidance by University faculty. Each student's research experience will be bolstered by a set of program elements, including rotations through laboratories working on related projects, annual workshops involving the whole group in training and participation in environmental science in the field, an academic seminar that will provide tools for increasing success in environmental biology, and annual symposia, invited speakers, and participation in meetings of professional scientific groups to produce breadth, depth, and a sense of membership in the community of environmental science.The research foci will be those of three groups of faculty, all involving vertebrate environmental endocrinology and physiology in "the land between the rivers," the midwest ecosystems of Iowa and its surroundings. Each of these research areas focuses on native species, including species of conservation importance, in a region heavily modified by humans, and of great importance to both human ecology and natural biodiversity. Each studies the effects of environmental stresses using animal physiology and development as measurement variables, and includes study of endocrine pathways by which environmental effects may be mediated. Each project is diverse enough to provide the necessary scope to ensure student independence, and to give students ownership of their research project. Their common elements will enable students associated with any project to understand and contribute to others, and mean that a common plan for training and enrichment can be equally valuable to all.