REU Site in Animal Behavior

该印第安纳州大学REU网站将在2009年至2013年夏季为本科生提供一个研究计划，虽然由生物科学（BIO）和社会，行为和经济科学（SBE）的NSF董事会提供的支持。每年将选出10名学生参加动物行为领域的密集研究计划。欢迎来自生物学，神经科学，心理学和人类学的学生申请。目标是增加学生成功进入研究生院或科学工作的可能性。学生与个人实验室相匹配，并有机会执行和完成自己的研究项目-包括分析数据，以海报格式准备研究结果，并在总结研讨会上发表。该计划强调一个跨学科的环境，首先是与一系列动物行为教师的介绍性研讨会会议，并包括接触进行遗传和神经内分泌测定，收集动物园数据，并使科学向公众开放的技术。学生接受推理应用于科学的行为，重点是基础和应用动物行为研究，在如何提出研究，采取GRE考试的策略，以及在科学和教育的职业选择援助的培训。由于核心重点是研究经验，培训活动的安排旨在让学生在计划的第一周内开始在他们的主机实验室工作。特别鼓励来自研究机会有限的机构的学生和来自科学代表性不足的群体的学生申请。欲了解更多信息，请访问http：//www.indiana.edu/paganimal/REU，或联系琳达萨默斯（812-855-9663或cisab@indiana.edu）或项目主任艾米莉亚·马丁斯博士（812-855-1646或emartins@indiana.edu）。

The Indiana University REU Site will provide a research program for undergraduates during summers of 2009-2013, though support provided by NSF Directorates of Biological Sciences (BIO) and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). Ten students will be selected each year to participate in an intensive research program in an area of animal behavior. Students from biology, neuroscience, psychology and anthropology are welcome to apply. The goal is to increase students' likelihood to successfully enter a graduate school or a job in science. Students are matched with individual labs and have the opportunity to perform and complete their own research projects--including analyzing data, preparing findings in a poster format, and presenting at a concluding symposium. The program emphasizes an interdisciplinary environment beginning with introductory seminar meetings with a range of Animal Behavior faculty, and includes exposure to techniques of conducting genetic and neuroendocrine assays, collecting data in zoos, and making science accessible to the public. Students receive training in reasoning applied to the conduct of science with an emphasis on basic and applied animal behavior research, assistance in how to present research, strategies in taking GRE tests, and career options in science and education. Because the core emphasis is on the research experience, the scheduling of training events is designed to allow students to begin work in their host laboratories during the first week of the program. Students from institutions with limited research opportunities for research and those from groups under-represented in science are especially encouraged to apply. More information is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~animal/REU, or by contacting Linda Summers (812-855-9663 or cisab@indiana.edu) or the Program Director, Dr. Emilia Martins (812-855-1646 or emartins@indiana.edu).