Basic Science Scholars Program

马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校的基础科学学者（BASS）项目侧重于为本科生提供跨学科的研究经验。巴斯项目为学生提供了一个严谨的、跨学科的、以研究为基础的项目，它整合了分子遗传学、计算机科学和工程学。参与学者获得学术支持和密集指导，目的是促进他们进入和完成理工科博士课程。BASS学者在该项目中连续两年（大三和大四），并在学士学位课程的同时，在一位或多位教师导师的指导下进行研究项目。目标是使学生具备必要的研究技能，以成功追求STEM学科的博士学位。这项研究调查了遗传学和计算机科学的方法，这些方法可以用来重新连接个人与他们失去的祖先。BASS项目的遗传学部分侧重于通过y染色体和线粒体DNA分析将非裔美国人和加勒比黑人与他们在非洲的祖先族群联系起来。新的计算机技术和方法的发展，允许对收集的人类DNA数据进行快速遗传分析，是工程和计算机科学参与者关注的焦点。

The Basic Science Scholars (BASS) Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell focuses on providing interdisciplinary research experiences for undergraduate students. The BASS program provides students with a rigorous, interdisciplinary, research-based program, which integrates molecular genetics, computer science and engineering. Participating scholars receive academic support and intensive mentoring with the objective of promoting their entry into, and completion of, doctoral programs in science and engineering. BASS Scholars spend two consecutive years (Junior and Senior years) in the program and undertake research projects under the direction of one or more faculty mentors concomitant with their baccalaureate degree courses. The objective is to equip students with the requisite research skills for the successful pursuit of doctoral degrees in STEM disciplines.The research investigates genetics and computer science methodologies, which can used to reconnect individuals to their lost ancestry. The genetics component of the BASS Program focuses on linking African-Americans and Caribbean blacks to their ancestral ethnic groups in Africa via Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA analysis. The development of new computer technologies and methodologies that allow the rapid genetic analysis of the human DNA data collected is the focus of engineering and computer science participants.