REU Site: A Collaborative Student-Faculty Research Program in the Biological Sciences at Hope College

霍普学院生物系将利用NSF-REU计划的一笔赠款，为48名本科生提供研究预约(为期4年，每年夏天12名)。一半的学生将来自霍普学院，另一半将来自全美其他学院和大学。我们将做出特别努力，包括与霍华德大学的正式优先录取计划，以招募和任命女性和在科学界代表性不足的少数群体成员。为了扩大未来教师对科学行为的理解，每年将有2名学生参加，他们的职业目标是教高中生物。学生们将参与生物学各个层面的研究，从表征加压素的新受体基因到研究热带云雾森林中的果树生态学。每年将有1至3名学生参与国际项目。学生和教职员工之间的互动将为每个参与者提供关于广泛的生物学问题和解决这些问题的方法的知识。除了研究本身，参与者还将参加每周一次的会议，旨在提高口头和书面交流技能，探索生物学的伦理问题，并了解生物学的研究生院和就业机会。学生将在正式演讲中(在Hope和专业会议上)、在海报研讨会上和在科学论文中交流他们的研究成果。希望计划将影响学生参与者对科学的理解，因为随着学生进入研究生院和从事不同的职业，他们将向科学界和社会展示他们的成果。

The Department of Biology at Hope College will utilize a grant from the NSF-REU program to provide research appointments for 48 undergraduate students (12 per summer for 4 years). Half of the students will come from Hope College and half will come from other colleges and universities throughout the U.S. We will make special efforts, including a formal preferred acceptance program with Howard University, to recruit and appoint both women and members of minority groups underrepresented in science. To broaden the understanding by future teachers of the conduct of science, 2 student participants each year will have a career goal of teaching high school biology. Students will participate in research at all levels of biology, from characterizing a new receptor gene for vasopressin to studying the ecology of frugivory in a tropical cloud forest. One to 3 students will be involved in internationally-based projects each year. Interactions among students and faculty will provide each participant with knowledge about a wide range of biological problems and ways in which those problems are addressed. In addition to the research itself, participants will take part in weekly meetings aimed at improving oral and written communication skills, exploring ethical issues in biology, and learning about graduate school and career opportunities in biology. Students will communicate results of their research in formal talks (at Hope and at professional meetings), in a poster symposium and in a scientific paper. The Hope program will impact the student participants' understanding of science, the sciences, as students present their results to the scientific community, and society as students move on to graduate schools and a variety of careers.