UMEB: Diversity & Excellence in Environmental Biology

UMEB：多样性

• 批准号: 0405409
• 负责人: Lori Stevens
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Vermont & State Agricultural College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0405409&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UMEB; Diversity; & Excellence; Environmental

NSF funding will establish an Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology (UMEB) program in the Department of Biology at the University of Vermont. The Biology Department has developed a program integrating spatial statistics and environmental biology that enhances minority opportunities in environmental biology. The program is based on the principle that all members of a community benefit from diversity, targeting the department as the center of implementation.Individual summer field research projects, spanning diverse topics including plant-animal interactions, environmental physiology, host-parasite interactions, molecular ecology, phylogenetics and community structure, will have spatial variation as a common theme. The program reaches early in the pipeline, recruiting eight high school seniors and pairing them with a faculty mentor for their undergraduate education. For four years, students will be involved with research going on in their faculty mentor's lab. The program includes training in problem oriented computer modeling, introductory statistics, population genetics and a capstone spatial statistics course. Students will have a semester colloquium devoted to developing peer reviewed research proposals, followed by a summer field research project. The capstone course is devoted to statistical analysis of their own dataset. The training initiative adopts the Minority Opportunities through School Transformation (MOST) program. MOST was developed to transform sociology curricula with the aim of creating a general model of change that would work in a variety of institutional settings and could transfer to other disciplines. Program evaluation is designed to facilitate comparison with sociology MOST programs, as well as examine the efficacy of the program in other disciplines. Dissemination of program efforts and evaluation will be done through the internet (http://www.uvm.edu/~biology/?Page=Otherlinks/umeb.html), presentations at meetings and publication. For more information, contact Dr. Lori Stevens at [e-mail]

NSF的资金将在佛蒙特州大学生物系建立一个环境生物学本科生导师计划(UMEB)。生物系开发了一项整合空间统计学和环境生物学的计划，以增加少数族裔在环境生物学领域的机会。该计划基于一个社区的所有成员都从多样性中受益的原则，以部门为实施中心。个别夏季实地研究项目将以空间变异为共同主题，涵盖植物与动物相互作用、环境生理学、宿主与寄生虫相互作用、分子生态学、系统发育和群落结构等不同主题。该项目在筹备阶段较早，招募了八名高三学生，并为他们的本科教育与一名教师导师配对。在四年的时间里，学生们将参与到他们教师导师的实验室里进行的研究中。该计划包括以问题为导向的计算机建模、统计学入门、种群遗传学和顶尖空间统计学课程的培训。学生们将有一个学期的座谈会，致力于制定同行评议的研究提案，然后是一个暑期实地研究项目。Capstone课程致力于对他们自己的数据集进行统计分析。培训计划采用了通过学校转型获得少数人机会(MOST)计划。社会变革管理计划是为了改革社会学课程而制定的，目的是创造一个在各种机构环境下都能发挥作用并可转移到其他学科的一般变革模式。课程评估的目的是为了便于与社会学MOST课程进行比较，以及检查课程在其他学科中的效果。将通过互联网在会议和出版物上发表(http://www.uvm.edu/~biology/?Page=Otherlinks/umeb.html)，演示文稿，传播方案努力和评估。欲了解更多信息，请联系洛里·史蒂文斯博士，电子邮件：[e-mail]