Summer Student Program

70多年来，杰克逊实验室的暑期学生计划为成千上万的高中生和大学生提供了一个改变人生的10周研究学徒期。该课程让学生沉浸在实验室科学中：假设驱动的研究，使用实验方法对想法进行严格测试，收集和解释实验结果以得出结论，并在公开论坛上报告结果。它灌输了在报告和解释结果时对智力诚实的坚定不移的要求。其目的是向学生介绍研究的真正本质，并改变对科学如何完成的看法。每个暑期学生参与者都作为赞助科学家研究团队的贡献成员进行原创的动手研究。项目是根据学生的背景和兴趣量身定制的。每个学生的独立项目集中在一个重要的主题上，如癌症、计算机在生物学中的应用、衰老、遗传学、免疫系统如何对抗疾病或神经系统疾病。学生们将大部分精力投入到他们的个人研究项目中，但该项目也提供了正式的接触实验室遗传学研究的广度，通往科学职业生涯的不同途径，以及对研究伦理行为的考虑。总体主题是向学生介绍一个科学家的职业生活和思维习惯。科学既是一种知识体系，又是探索自然世界的一种方式。在学校里，学生接触到大量的知识，但往往不欣赏科学研究的创造性。一个研究项目改变了这些误解。校友们报告说，这些课程会影响他们的一生，影响他们的职业生涯，并改变他们看待世界的方式。学生与研究科学家建立密切的工作关系，并更好地理解促进人类对自然的理解的职业生涯的深刻满足感；超过95%的杰克逊REU参与者现在在研究生院或医学院或从事科学工作。

The Jackson Laboratory's Summer Student Program has provided a life-altering 10-week research apprenticeship for thousands of high school and college students for more than seventy years. The program immerses students in laboratory science: hypothesis-driven research, rigorous testing of ideas using the experimental method, collecting and interpreting experimental results to arrive at a conclusion, and reporting results in an open forum. It inculcates the unyielding demand for intellectual honesty in reporting and interpreting results. The object is to introduce students to the real nature of research and change perceptions of how science is done.Each summer student participant conducts original hands-on research as a contributing member of a sponsoring scientist's research team. Projects are tailored to the student's background and interests. Each student's independent project focuses on a vital subject such as cancer, the use of computers in biology, aging, genetics, how the immune system fights disease, or diseases of the nervous system. Students devote most of their effort to their individual research projects, but the program also provides formal exposure to the breadth of genetics research at the Laboratory, to different paths leading to careers in science, and to consideration of the ethical conduct of research. The overall theme is to introduce students to the professional life and habits of mind of a scientist.Science is both a body of knowledge and a way of exploring the natural world. In school, students are exposed to the body of knowledge but often do not appreciate the creative nature of scientific research. A research program changes these misperceptions. Alumni report that these lessons last a lifetime, shape careers, and change the way participants perceive their world. Students develop a close working relationship with a research scientist and come to better understand the profound satisfaction of a career in advancing human understanding of nature; more than 95% of Jackson REU participants are now in graduate or medical school or are employed in science.