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

生物学教师将在科罗拉多大学山区研究站的本科生研究经验项目中指导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从事科学研究，并鼓励这些学生从事研究和教学事业。 来自代表性不足的群体的学生将被积极招募参加我们的计划。 该计划的重点是生态学，行为和进化，最多的学生从事社区和生态系统生态学项目。 每年夏天，学生将参加为期一周的密集研究介绍，然后是由教师导师监督的九周研究。 该大学的NSF资助的长期生态研究（LTER）计划是基于山站，学生从与LTER研究人员的正式和非正式的互动中受益。 在进行项目的同时，学生学习生物学研究的基本原理，并获得当前科学技术的经验。 除了在夏季结束时对他们的结果进行最终陈述外，还鼓励学生在同行评审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.