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

生物学教师将指导30名本科生物学学生（每年夏天10名，为期三年）参加一个基于科罗拉多大学山地研究站的本科生研究经验项目。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工作。我们将积极招募来自弱势群体的学生参加我们的项目。该项目侧重于生态学、行为和进化，参与社区和生态系统生态学项目的学生最多。每年夏天，学生将参加为期一周的密集研究介绍，然后在教师导师的指导下进行为期九周的研究。该大学的国家科学基金会资助的长期生态研究（LTER）项目以山站为基础，学生从与LTER研究人员的正式和非正式互动中受益。在进行项目的同时，学生们学习了生物学研究的基本原理，并获得了当前科学技术的经验。除了在夏季结束时发表他们的最终结果外，学生们还被鼓励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.