REU Site: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships in Environmental and Ecological Sciences (SURFEES)

查普曼大学已获得资金，将在施密德科技学院开设一个本科生研究体验网站。12名专门从社区大学挑选的学生(重点关注代表性不足的少数族裔、女性和低收入学生)将有机会参与从分子到全球范围内与环境和生态问题有关的研究项目。该计划将为服务不足的学生群体提供实践的、跨学科的研究经验，并加强在STEM领域招收/留住未被充分代表的学生。查普曼大学将与五所当地社区学院合作，这些学院服务于不同种族的社区，缺乏科研设施。教师导师包括生物学家、化学家和拥有活跃的本科生研究实验室的地球科学家。除了在这些实验室的工作外，学生还将参加小组活动，包括无工作经验培训工作坊、研究人员和环境组织代表的研讨会、研究小组内的小组会议/演示、专业发展工作坊、研究海报演示会议和经验后评估。南加州是一个城市化地区，面临着广泛的环境和生态挑战。解决这些复杂的问题需要一支跨学科、受过教育的科学家队伍。通过与在其学科前沿工作的教师导师一起参与尖端研究，学生将从事新颖的科学研究，主题包括污染物的转化途径、环境对潮间带生物的影响、气候变化对与极端天气有关的事件的影响，以及湿地的碳固存。这些互动将为通常服务不足的学生群体提供宝贵的跨学科研究经验，并推动主要研究人员的学术研究向前发展。

Chapman University has been granted funds to run a Research Experience for Undergraduates Site in The Schmid College of Science and Technology. Twelve students selected exclusively from community colleges (and focusing on under-represented minorities, women, and low-income students) will have the opportunity to engage in research projects related to environmental and ecological issues from the molecular to global scale. The program will provide an under-served student population with hands-on, interdisciplinary research experiences and enhance the recruitment/retention of under-represented students into STEM fields. Chapman University will partner with five local community colleges that serve ethnically diverse communities and lack scientific research facilities. Faculty mentors include biologists, chemists, and geoscientists with active undergraduate research labs. In addition to their work in these labs, students will participate in group activities including pre-experience training workshops, seminars by research faculty and environmental organization representatives, group meetings/presentations within their research groups, professional development workshops, a research poster presentation session, and a post-experience evaluation assessment.Southern California is an urbanized area featuring a wide range of environmental and ecological challenges. Addressing these complex issues requires an interdisciplinary and educated workforce of scientists. Through participation in cutting-edge research with faculty mentors working at the forefronts of their disciplines, students will engage in novel scientific studies on topics including the transformation pathways of pollutants, environmental impacts on intertidal organisms, effects of climate change on extreme weather-related events, and carbon sequestration in wetlands. These interactions will provide valuable interdisciplinary research experience to a typically under-served student population and drive the principal investigators' scholarly research forward.