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

来自国家科学基金会的资金将使七名本科生到加州科学院，在该学院的夏季系统学研究所进行为期8周的夏季课程。 招聘将在国家一级进行，重点是选拔女生和来自生物科学领域传统上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旅费。 每个准实习生将申请与学院研究科学家一起研究项目。 成功的申请者将参加系统生物学的正式讲座，学院九个研究部门的图尔斯之旅，以及系统生物学的研究研讨会。 学生将从事定向项目，为他们提供对问题和生物体的介绍，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。 每个学生将以科学论文的形式制作一份项目结果的手稿，并向同龄人口头介绍他们的结果。 每年将对实习生和参与培训的学院工作人员进行评估，以便在今后几年改进学院。

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.