REU Site: Research in Environmental Studies and Evolutionary Developmental Biology

REU Site奖授予位于加利福尼亚州旧金山的旧金山州立大学(SFSU)，该奖项将支持2017-2021年夏季为期10周的10名学生的培训。该项目的重点是生态学、进化论和发育生物学。REU研究员将与REU导师组成的多样化团队合作，并拥有活跃的外部资助的研究实验室，其中许多实验室位于SFSU的海洋站-龙贝格·蒂伯伦环境研究中心(RTC)。该计划包括为期3天的强化实验室/现场方法课程、为期9周的独立研究项目、为期9周的专业发展研讨会、生物伦理研讨会、各种网络活动，以及在主校园和RTC举行的研究会议，学生在那里向更广泛的社区展示他们的研究项目。S的招聘工作包括“硬拷贝”和基于数字的广告，以及苏格兰皇家大学校友和教职员工的网络活动。预计共有50名来自不同背景、处于学术生涯早期、主要来自研究机会有限的学校的学生将在该计划中接受培训。学生们将学习研究是如何进行的，许多人将在科学会议上展示他们的成果。目标是鼓励学生不仅完成理科本科学位，还考虑研究生水平的培训和理科职业。因此，根据学生的学业成绩、推荐信、对生态、进化和发展的兴趣以及未来的职业目标来选择学生。将使用由生物基础设施司资助的所有REU现场方案使用的事前和事后调查以及通用的基于网络的评估工具来确定培训方案的有效性。对学生进行跟踪，以确定研究经验对他们的学术和职业道路的影响。学生将被要求回复通过NSF报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。欲了解更多信息，请访问http://biology.sfsu.edu/faculty-pages/reu，，或联系国际和平组织(Carmen Domingo博士，电子邮件：cdomingo@sfsu.edu)或共同国际组织(Sarah Cohen博士，电子邮件：sarahcoh@sfsu.edu)。

This REU site award to San Francisco State University (SFSU), located in San Francisco, CA, will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2017- 2021. The program's focus is in the area of ecology, evolution, and developmental biology. REU fellows will work with a diverse team of REU mentors with active extramurally funded research labs, many of which are located at SFSU's marine station, the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies (RTC). The program includes a 3-day intensive lab/field methods course, 9-week independent research project, 9-week professional development seminar, bioethics workshop, variety of networking activities, and research conferences on the main campus and at RTC where students present their research projects to the broader community. The program?s recruitment effort consists of "hard copy" and digitally-based advertising, as well as through networking activities by REU alumni and faculty.It is anticipated that a total of 50 students from diverse backgrounds, at an early stage of their academic careers, and primarily from schools with limited research opportunities, will be trained in the program. Students will learn how research is conducted, and many will present their results at scientific conferences. The goals are to encourage students to not only complete their undergraduate degrees in the sciences, but also consider graduate-level training and careers in the sciences. Therefore, students are selected based on their academic record, letters of recommendation, interest in ecology, evolution, and development, and future career goals. Pre and post surveys as well as a common web-based assessment tool used by all REU Site programs funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure will be used to determine the effectiveness of the training program. Students are tracked to determine the impact of the research experience on their academic and career paths. Students will be asked to respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information is available by visiting http://biology.sfsu.edu/faculty-pages/reu, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Carmen Domingo at cdomingo@sfsu.edu) or the co-PI (Dr. Sarah Cohen at sarahcoh@sfsu.edu).