REU Site: Project-TRAIN-2

这个本科生研究体验网站项目，培训美国印第安人的环境生物学-2，有四个目标。它将：(1)通过提供研究经验和指导，增加美国印第安人进入环境生物学研究生院和从事环境生物学工作的人数；(2)扩大蒙大拿大学(UM)和萨利什·库特奈学院(SKC)之间现有的合作关系，将该邦的其他部落学院包括在内；(3)增加UM教职员工和学生对少数群体问题的了解；以及(4)在整个印度国家传播环境生物学培训的相关性。它将为扩大和改进现有的NSF资助的项目提供支持，环境生物学本科生辅导：项目培训，为额外的8个暑期奖学金提供支持，并将每个暑期奖学金的数量从6个增加到14个。学生将从蒙大拿州的七所部落学院和该地区其他部落学院招收。暑期研究体验将包括一个为期八周的项目，根据学生的兴趣和表现以及项目要求，可能会延长到12周。每个研究员都将在一名学术导师的监督下参与一个独立的研究项目。研究人员将有机会从环境生物学的广泛主题中进行选择。UM和SKC的教职员工将举办一个关于研究方法的暑期课程，并安排迎新和其他活动，作为多层次指导结构的一部分，在这个结构中，学生与教职员工、以前的项目参与者和彼此进行互动。

This Research Experience for Undergraduates Site project, Training American Indians in Environmental Biology - 2, has four objectives. It will: (1) Increase the number of American Indian students entering graduate school and careers in environmental biology by providing research experiences and mentoring; (2) Expand the existing collaborative relationship between the University of Montana (UM) and Salish Kootenai College (SKC) to include the other tribal colleges in the state; (3) Increase the knowledge of UM faculty and students about minority issues; and (4) Disseminate throughout Indian country the relevance of training in environmental biology. It will provide support to expand and improve an existing NSF-funded program, Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology: Project TRAIN by providing support for eight additional summer fellowships and increasing the number of fellowships from six to fourteen per summer. Students will be recruited from Montana's seven tribal colleges and those from other tribal colleges in the region. The summer research experience will consist of an eight-week program, with possible extension to 12 weeks based on student interest and performance as well as project requirements. Each fellow will participate in an independent research project under the supervision of an academic mentor. Fellows will have the opportunity to choose from a broad array of topics in Environmental Biology. Faculty and staff from both UM and SKC will conduct a summer course in research methods as well as arranging orientation and other events as part of a multilayered mentoring structure where students interact with faculty, previous program participants and one another.