Student and Mentor-Student Travel Scholarship Program

本科生研究经验（REU）计划为本科生提供丰富而有意义的研究经验。作为专业科学家的“学徒”，这些学生接受实践指导，使他们能够在自己的研究领域内达到高水平的科学成熟度。所有这些课程都要求学生在当地的校园场地展示他们的研究成果，然而，REU学生从参加专业会议中受益匪浅，在那里他们可以会见所在领域的国内和国际专家。此外，他们直接受益于与他们的REU导师在准备会议演示文稿，并在导师的指导下，在国家一级的会议与其他专业人士建立联系。正是这种“在会议”网络，由REU导师促进，这往往是关键组成部分REU学生满足他们未来的研究生导师和/或雇主。拟议的学生和导师-学生旅行奖学金计划的目标是为完成生物科学指导委员会和海洋科学司支持的研究的学生和学生-导师团队提供旅行支持，以参加国家级会议。该计划建立在先前的奖项的结果，支持学生旅行奖学金的科学会议为240名学生。从以前的旅行奖学金的结果显示，获得旅行支持的学生的学习成果显着。此外，旅行奖学金计划支持了大量代表性不足的少数民族学生和主要来自本科院校的学生。这些奖学金使学生能够参加科学会议并介绍他们的研究，并增加了他们与未来科学顾问或导师见面的机会。该奖项将继续成功的学生奖学金，并包括一个新的重点支持学生导师团队的目标，进一步提高谁参加全国会议与他们的顾问学生的网络能力。

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs provide undergraduate students with rich and meaningful research experiences. As "apprentices" to professional scientists, these students receive hands-on mentorship that enables them to attain a high level of scientific sophistication within their field of study. All of these program require students to present results of their research at local on-campus venues, however, REU students benefit greatly from attending specialized meetings where they can meet national and international experts in their field. Moreover they directly benefit by working with their REU mentor in preparing a meeting presentation and, under their mentor's guidance, making connections at national-level conferences with other professionals. It is this "at meeting" networking, facilitated by the REU Mentor, that is often the key component to REU students meeting their future graduate advisor and/or employer. The goal of the proposed Student and Mentor-Student Travel Scholarship Program is to provide travel support for students and student-mentor teams who have completed research supported by the Diretorate of Biological Sciences and the Division of Ocean Sciences to attend a national-level meeting. This program builds on the results of a prior award that supported student travel scholarships to scientific conferences for 240 students. Results from previous travel scholarships showed significant learning gains for the students who received travel support. Moreover the travel scholarship program supported a significant number of underrepresented minority students and students from primarily undergraduate institutions. These scholarships enabled the students to attend scientific meetings and present their research, and improved their opportunities to meet future scientific advisors or mentors. This award will continue the successful student scholarships and includes a novel focus on supporting student-mentor teams with the goal of further enhancing the networking capacity for students who attend national meetings with their advisors.