REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution

生物学教师将在科罗拉多大学山地研究站的本科生研究体验项目中指导30名本科生(每年夏天10名，为期三年)。该计划的目标是让学生在学术发展的早期阶段参与科学研究，并鼓励这些学生从事研究和教学事业。来自代表性不足群体的学生将被积极招募参加我们的计划。该项目的重点是生态、行为和进化，参与社区和生态系统生态项目的学生人数最多。每年夏天，学生们将参加为期一周的密集研究导论，然后在教师导师的指导下进行为期九周的研究。该大学由NSF资助的长期生态研究(LTER)项目设在山区站，学生们从与LTER研究人员的正式和非正式互动中受益。在开展项目的同时，学生们学习生物学研究的基本原理，并获得当前科学技术的经验。除了在暑期结束时发表他们的最终结果外，还鼓励学生在同行评议的科学期刊上发表他们的发现。

Biology faculty will mentor 30 undergraduate biology students (10 each summer for three years) in a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program based at the University of Colorado's Mountain Research Station. The objectives of the program are to engage students in scientific research at an early stage in their academic development and to encourage these students to pursue careers in research and teaching. Students from underrepresented groups will be actively recruited to participate in our program. The program focus is on ecology, behavior, and evolution, with the largest number of students engaged in projects in community and ecosystems ecology. Each summer, students will participate in an intensive one-week introduction to research, followed by nine weeks of research supervised by faculty mentors. The University's NSF funded Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program is based at the Mountain Station, and students benefit from formal and informal interactions with LTER researchers. While undertaking their projects, students learn the principles underlying biological research and gain experience with current scientific techniques. In addition to final presentations of their results at the end of the summer, students are encouraged to publish their findings in peer reviewed scientific journals.