REU Site: Research Experience in Molecular Biotechnology and Genomics

REU 网站：分子生物技术和基因组学的研究经验

• 批准号: 0097463
• 负责人: David Oliver
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-05-01 至 2006-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0097463&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Research; Experience; Molecular

One of the best ways to keep undergraduate students excited about science is to involve them in actual laboratory research. The opportunity to become a working member of an active research group provides the impetus for many students to continue into graduate school in science. The NSF REU program at Iowa State University focuses on providing an intensive research experience with an active research group at Iowa State. The research groups work on biotechnology and genomics of plants and animals. Understanding that these types of research opportunities are available for undergraduate students at large research universities, this program focuses its efforts on students that do not have the same research opportunity at their home colleges. Specifically these are schools that serve minority institutions (particularly the 1890 Land Grant Schools) and small liberal arts colleges in the Midwest. Outstanding students that have finished their sophomore or junior years will spend ten weeks on the Iowa State University campus where room and board and a stipend are supplied. The students will join university research teams that are working in laboratories on problems in biotechnology and genomics. The students also meet together weekly for lunch and discussions on ethics, diversity, applying to graduate schools, written and oral scientific presentations, and frontiers of biological research. The students practice writing for general and scientific audiences, publish their research on the program web page, and present their work at a mini-symposium for the other students, mentors, and colleagues.

让本科生对科学保持兴奋的最好方法之一就是让他们参与实际的实验室研究。有机会成为一个活跃的研究小组的工作成员，为许多学生继续进入科学研究生院提供了动力。爱荷华州州立大学的NSF REU计划专注于与爱荷华州的一个活跃的研究小组一起提供密集的研究经验。这些研究小组从事生物技术和动植物基因组学的研究。了解到这些类型的研究机会可供大型研究型大学的本科生使用，该计划将重点放在那些在家乡大学没有相同研究机会的学生身上。具体来说，这些学校是服务于少数民族机构（特别是1890年的赠地学校）和中西部的小型文理学院。完成大二或大三学业的优秀学生将在爱荷华州州立大学校园度过十周，那里提供食宿和津贴。学生们将加入大学的研究团队，在实验室研究生物技术和基因组学的问题。学生们每周还一起吃午饭，讨论伦理，多样性，申请研究生院，书面和口头科学报告，以及生物研究的前沿。学生们练习为一般和科学观众写作，在节目网页上发表他们的研究，并在一个小型研讨会上为其他学生，导师和同事介绍他们的工作。