REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Integrative Evolutionary Biology

该奖项为南卡罗来纳大学生物科学系在综合进化生物学领域建立本科生研究体验(REU)网站提供资金。这个REU网站将使合格的本科生能够花一个夏天做独立的研究项目，这些项目涉及分子技术在进化论研究中的应用。每个学生都将在一名教师导师的指导下进行基础研究，该导师在进化生物学的某个领域拥有积极的研究计划。学生学习假设的产生和检验，以及分子生物学和一个或多个其他子专业领域--行为学、生活史进化、系统学、种群生物学和生态生理学--所采用的技术和实验设计。在暑期结束时，每个学生将在系里的小型研讨会上提交他/她的工作总结。REU项目的合格申请者将通过互联网在全国范围内招募，并通过与这些机构的教职员工的个人接触从附近的学院和大学招募。代表非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和美国原住民少数民族的更多申请者将通过美国和波多黎各各地AMP项目的联系人来寻找。之前的参与者来自全美的大学，大约25%的参与者来自代表性不足的群体。

This award provides funds for the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of South Carolina to establish a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site in the area of integrative evolutionary biology. This REU Site will enable qualified undergraduate students to spend a summer doing independent research projects that involve the application of molecular techniques to evolution studies. Each student will conduct basic research under the direction of a faculty mentor who has an active research program in some area of evolutionary biology. Students learn about hypothesis generation and testing, as well as the techniques and experimental designs employed in molecular biology and one or more other sub-specialty areas -- behavior, life history evolution, systematics, population biology, and ecological physiology. At the end of the summer, each student will present a summary of his/her work in a departmental mini-symposium. Qualified applicants for the REU program will be recruited nationally via the internet and from nearby colleges and universities through personal contacts with faculty at these institutions. Additional applicants representing African American, Hispanic and native American minorities will be sought through contacts at AMP programs throughout the US and Puerto Rico. Previous participants have come from universities throughout the US and approximately 25% have been from underrepresented groups.