REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Animal Behavior

在动物行为研究经验的本科生网站补助金使有前途的本科生参与动物行为的实验室或实地研究项目。 每年，该计划将实习机会授予10名学生，他们将亲身体验研究过程的性质，科学的一般行为以及动物行为的综合研究。 为了实现这些目标，REU支付差旅费，食宿费和津贴，以便实习生可以在夏季在布卢明顿校园或实地与来自印第安纳州大学动物行为综合研究中心的科学家进行研究。 参与研究项目提供了该计划的主要重点，但实习生也参加研究伦理研讨会，参加讲座，向他们介绍研究动物行为的综合方法，并在最后的REU研究研讨会上撰写和口头介绍他们的研究结果。 实习生还参加社交活动，实地考察和帮助他们为研究生院或其他研究生培训做准备的活动。 REU在动物行为计划的一个重要目标是提供给学生从传统上在科学中代表性不足的群体，并从研究机会有限的机构获得前沿研究和研究型大学社区的成员资格。 预计从长远来看，该计划将帮助这些学生考虑动物行为或相关学科的职业生涯，并增加他们在科学领域的代表性。

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Animal Behavior Site Grant enables promising undergraduate students to participate in laboratory or field research projects in animal behavior. Each year, the program awards internships to 10 students who experience firsthand the nature of the research process, the conduct of science in general, and the integrative study of animal behavior. To accomplish these goals, REU pays travel expenses, room & board, and a stipend so that interns can spend 10 weeks in the summer on the Bloomington campus or at a field site conducting research with scientists from Indiana University's Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior. Participation in the research project provides the main focus of the program, but interns also participate in research ethics workshops, attend lectures that introduce them to the integrative approach to studying animal behavior, and write up and orally present their research findings at a final REU Research Symposium. Interns also participate in social activities, field trips and activities that help them prepare for graduate school or other postgraduate training. An important objective of the REU in Animal Behavior program is to provide to students from groups traditionally underrepresented in science and from institutions with limited research opportunities access to cutting-edge research and membership in a research university community. It is expected that in the long term this program will help such students consider careers in animal behavior or related disciplines and increase their representation in science in general.