REU Site: Natural History Research Experiences

位于华盛顿，华盛顿特区的史密森学会国家自然历史博物馆（NMNH）将在2016-2020年夏季举办本科生研究体验（REU）网站。REU计划将支持16名学生每年夏天10周，在此期间，学生将进行独立的研究，并参加各种专业发展研讨会。学生们将被安置在乔治华盛顿大学校园的宿舍里，从那里步行很短的距离就能到达博物馆。项目集中在NMNH在地质学，生物学和人类学方面的研究优势。学生获得无与伦比的访问NMNH的收藏品，设施和智力资源，同时他们与博物馆研究科学家密切合作开发研究项目。该计划旨在通过提供结构化的理事会来支持和准备参与者进入研究生院，设计，进行和出版研究，并向科学界和公众展示结果。NMNH致力于扩大参与和提高自然历史学科的多样性，以发展具有国际竞争力的科学工作队伍的未来。此外，REU的学生将自己作为博物馆的“青年参与科学！“项目面向华盛顿-巴尔的摩地区的少数民族高中生，他们将直接与博物馆参观者交流他们的研究-每年与数千名博物馆参观者互动。该项目将在五年内支持80名学生进行独立研究项目并参加各种专业发展研讨会。 学生将获得住宿，助学金和旅费参加该计划。他们还将被鼓励发表他们的研究成果，并在项目结束后参加科学会议。虽然这些经验将为学生提供技术技能和进入科学职业的途径，但培训也将鼓励批判性思维和演讲技能的发展，这些技能在未来的职业生涯中都是有价值的。学生将有广泛的潜在研究导师和研究课题。在地球科学中，矿物科学系的科学家专注于地球和太阳系的起源和演化，重点是岩石行星和小行星的分化和化学演化，火山过程和危害，环境/土壤矿物学和早期太阳系过程。方法范围从岩石，矿物和陨石的微观分析，实验岩石学和火山学，以空间任务为基础的科学。古生物学系的成员探索地球上生命的动态，包括气候，海洋和环境变化的历史，分类群的起源和灭绝，以及大规模的进化模式和过程。四个生物科学系的科学家专注于发现地球的生物多样性，并了解其进化历史。使用的方法从传统的形态学和分类学到最新的基因组学和下一代测序。人类学的学者跨越考古学，民族学，语言学，人类及其亲属的法医，生物和体质人类学的子学科。

The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), located in Washington, D.C. will host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site during the summers from 2016-2020. The REU program will support 16 students each summer for 10 weeks, during which students will conduct independent research and participate in a variety of professional development workshops. Students will be housed in dorms on the George Washington University campus which is a short walking distance to the museum. Projects focus on the NMNH's research strengths in geology, biology, and in anthropology. Students are given unparalleled access to the collections, facilities, and intellectual resources of NMNH while they develop a research project in close collaboration with a museum research scientist. The program is designed to support and prepare participants for entry into scientific careers by providing structured council on entering graduate school, designing, conducting and publishing research, and presenting results to the scientific community and the public. NMNH is committed to broadening participation and enhancing diversity in natural history disciplines in order to develop an internationally competitive scientific work force for the future. In addition, the REU students will themselves serve as role models for the museum's "Youth Engagement in Science!" program for minority high school students from the DC-Baltimore area, and they will directly engage the museum-going public about their research - interacting with thousands of museum visitors annually.This program will support a total of 80 students over a five year period while they conduct an independent research project and participate in a variety of professional develop workshops. Students will be provided with housing, a stipend and travel expenses to attend the program. They will also be encouraged to publish results of their research and to participate in scientific conferences after the program is over. While these experiences will provide students with technical skills and pathways into science careers, the training will also encourage the development of critical thinking and presentation skills that will be valuable in any future career. Students will have a wide range of potential research mentors and research topics. Within the geosciences, scientists in the Department of Mineral Sciences focus on the origin and evolution of the Earth and Solar System with emphasis on the differentiation and chemical evolution of rocky planets and asteroids, volcanic processes and hazards, environmental/soil mineralogy, and early solar system processes. Approaches range from microanalysis of rocks, minerals, and meteorites, to experimental petrology and volcanology, to space mission-based science. Members of the Department of Paleobiology explore the dynamics of life on Earth including the history of climatic, oceanographic and environmental change, the origin and extinction of taxa, and large-scale evolutionary patterns and processes. Scientists in the four biological science departments focus on the discovery of Earth's biodiversity, and on understanding its evolutionary history. Approaches used range from traditional morphology and taxonomy to the latest in genomics and next-generationsequencing. Scholars in anthropology span the sub-disciplines of archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and forensic, biological and physical anthropology of humans and their relatives.