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

查普曼大学已获得资助，在施密德科学技术学院开设本科生研究经验网站。从社区大学中挑选的12名学生（重点是少数族裔、女性和低收入学生）将有机会参与从分子到全球尺度的环境和生态问题相关的研究项目。该项目将为服务不足的学生群体提供动手的跨学科研究经验，并加强对代表性不足的学生进入STEM领域的招聘/保留。查普曼大学将与当地5所社区学院合作，这些学院服务于多种族社区，缺乏科研设施。教师导师包括生物学家，化学家和地球科学家活跃的本科研究实验室。除了在这些实验室工作外，学生还将参加小组活动，包括经验前培训讲习班、研究教员和环境组织代表的研讨会、研究小组内的小组会议/报告、专业发展讲习班、研究海报展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和受过良好教育的科学家队伍。通过与在各自学科前沿工作的教师导师一起参与前沿研究，学生将参与新的科学研究课题，包括污染物的转化途径，对潮间带生物的环境影响，气候变化对极端天气相关事件的影响，以及湿地的碳封存。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，并推动主要研究者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.