URM: Biology Research Fellowships for Undergraduates at Cornell University

URM：康奈尔大学本科生生物学研究奖学金

• 批准号: 0933921
• 负责人: Ronald Harris-Warrick
• 金额: $ 97.12万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0933921&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: URM; Biology; Research; Fellowships; Undergraduates

This award to Cornell University is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Cornell University will establish am Undergraduate Research and Mentoring (URM) program to engage under-represented minority students in intensive mentoring and research experience and prepare them for graduate studies in the biological sciences. The Cornell Biology Research Fellowships program will serve 35-50 Cornell undergraduates (7-10 per cohort) during the five-year period of the grant. NSF funds will support seven students in each cohort, or a total of 35 students. Through participation in research seminars and by shadowing faculty, freshmen and sophomores will have the opportunity to explore different fields of biology before applying to the program. The Biology Research Fellowships will offer a carefully designed set of activities that includes two years of funded research internships in faculty laboratories, a seminar series focusing on reading the scientific literature, writing research proposals, preparing and delivering scientific presentations, GRE preparation, and choosing and applying to graduate programs. Students are also involved in community outreach and peer-mentoring. Faculty mentors, all of whom have strong records of successfully training undergraduates in their laboratories, include at least twenty scientists whose research fields span the range of biology. The students will participate in all aspects of life in an academic laboratory: learning the approaches and techniques of their field, analyzing experimental results and developing new questions, and preparing the results for publications. All students will write an honors thesis, and faculty mentors will encourage and facilitate co-authorship on publications arising from research in which the students have been involved. The Biology Research Fellowships will produce young scientists who can serve as role models or mentors to groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences. During the program, students will begin to experience and contribute in those roles by working with underrepresented minority students (pre-freshmen, freshmen, sophomores) as well as through outreach to high school students and teachers. More information is available by contacting the URM Program Director, Dr Steven Kresovich ([e-mail]), or Dr. Myra Shulman ([e-mail]), or by visiting the Cornell Office of Undergraduate Biology website at: http://www.biology.cornell.edu/brf.

授予康奈尔大学的该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》（公法111-5）资助的。 康奈尔大学将建立本科研究和指导（URM）计划，让代表性不足的少数族裔学生接受密集的指导和研究经验，并为他们进入生物科学研究生学习做好准备。 康奈尔大学生物学研究奖学金计划将在五年的资助期内为35-50名康奈尔大学本科生提供服务（每个队列7-10名）。NSF的资金将支持每个队列中的7名学生，或总共35名学生。通过参加研究研讨会和阴影教师，新生和大学生将有机会探索生物学的不同领域，然后再申请该计划。 生物学研究奖学金将提供一套精心设计的活动，包括在教师实验室进行为期两年的资助研究实习，一系列研讨会，重点是阅读科学文献，撰写研究提案，准备和提供科学演讲，GRE准备以及选择和申请研究生课程。学生们还参与社区外展和同侪指导。 教师导师，他们都有成功的记录，在他们的实验室培训本科生，包括至少20名科学家，其研究领域跨越生物学的范围。 学生将在学术实验室中参与生活的各个方面：学习各自领域的方法和技术、分析实验结果和开发新问题，以及为出版物准备结果。 所有学生将写一篇荣誉论文，教师导师将鼓励和促进学生参与研究所产生的出版物的合著。 生物学研究奖学金将培养年轻科学家，他们可以成为传统上在科学领域代表性不足的群体的榜样或导师。 在该计划期间，学生将开始通过与代表性不足的少数民族学生（新生前，新生，新生）以及通过外展高中学生和教师的工作经验，并在这些角色作出贡献。更多信息可通过联系URM项目主任，史蒂芬Kresovich博士（[e-mail]），或博士迈拉舒尔曼（[e-mail]），或通过访问本科生物学的康奈尔办公室网站：http://www.biology.cornell.edu/brf。