Extending the Summer Systematics Institute as an REU Site at the California Academy of Sciences

由美国国家科学基金会资助的7名本科生将在加州科学院的夏季系统学研究所进行为期8周的暑期课程。招生将在国家一级进行，重点是选拔女学生和传统上在生物科学领域代表性不足的群体的学生。特别鼓励非裔美国人、美国原住民和拉丁美洲人参加。参加者将获得津贴、住房津贴和往返其居住地的交通费。每个实习生将申请与学院的研究科学家一起研究一个研究项目。成功的申请者将参加正式的系统生物学讲座，参观学院的九个研究部门，以及系统生物学的研究研讨会。学生将参与指导项目，向他们介绍要研究的问题和生物体，并向他们介绍系统生物学研究的数据收集、解释和传播方面的内容。每个学生将以科学论文的形式写出项目结果的手稿，并向他们的同龄人口头介绍他们的结果。每年将对实习生和参加研训所的工作人员进行评价，以期在今后几年改进研训所。

Funding from the National Science Foundation will bring seven undergraduates to the California Academy of Sciences for an 8-week summer session in the Academy's Summer Systematics Institute. Recruitment will be on a national level, with selection emphasis given to female students and students from groups traditionally underrepresented in the biological sciences. African-Americans, Native-Americans, and Latinos are especially encouraged to participate. Participants will receive a stipend, housing allowance and travel funds to and from his/her place of residence. Each prospective intern will apply to work with an Academy research scientist on a research project. Successful applicants will participate in formal lectures in systematic biology, tours of each of the Academy's nine research departments, and research seminars in systematic biology. Students will work on directed projects that provide them with an introduction to the problem and organisms to be studied and introduce them to the data collection, interpretation, and dissemination aspects of research in systematic biology. Each student will produce a manuscript of the project's results, in the form of a scientific paper, and make an oral presentation of their results to their peers. Evaluations of interns and participating Academy staff will be conducted each year with a view towards improving the Institute for succeeding years.