REU Site: Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics in a Changing World

该REU Site奖授予密歇根州立大学(MSU)位于密歇根州山核桃角的W.K.凯洛格生物站(KBS)，将在2018-2020年夏季支持10名学生在11周内进行培训。该计划侧重于推动植物、动物和微生物系统对全球变化做出反应的生态和进化过程。REU的学生在KBS教员实验室工作，这些实验室在密歇根州立大学的综合生物学、植物生物学、植物土壤和微生物科学系、微生物学和分子遗传学、动物科学、昆虫学和林业系设有附属职位。学生们将与他们的导师(S)合作设计一个研究项目，利用KBS多样化的栖息地和长期实验来测试关于气候变化如何影响管理系统和自然系统的假设。学生将参加一项专业发展计划，该计划涉及科学最佳实践、STEM领域的研究生准备和就业以及传播科学的有效方法等问题。招募目标是增加退伍军人、来自代表性不足群体的学生或来自生态学和进化生物学研究机会有限的机构的学生的参与。在线申请由项目协调员审查，他们将合适的候选人提交给导师，导师面试那些兴趣与他们的研究最匹配的申请者。预计将有30名学生参加该项目的培训。学生将学习研究问题是如何开发和测试的，并将在公共研讨会上展示他们的工作结果。学生将住在KBS，并将每天与常驻教师、研究生和博士后互动，他们在广泛的生态和进化主题上进行研究。由生物基础设施司(生物科学局)资助的所有REU项目使用的通用网络评估工具将用于确定培训方案的有效性。学生在项目结束后被跟踪，并预计会回复通过NSF报告系统发送的自动电子邮件。欲了解更多信息，请联系国际和平基金会(Katherine Gross博士，电子邮件：kgros@kbs.msu.edu)或联合国际组织(Danielle Zoellner博士，电子邮件：zoellne8@msu.edu)，或登录我们的网站(http://www.kbs.msu.edu/index.php/education/ugrad/reu).This奖项反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This REU Site award to the W.K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) of Michigan State University (MSU), in rural Hickory Corners, MI, will support training for 10 students over 11 weeks during the summers of 2018 - 2020. The program focuses on the ecological and evolutionary processes that drive responses in plant, animal and microbial systems to global change. REU students work in KBS faculty labs that have affiliated positions in departments of Integrative Biology, Plant Biology, Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Animal Science, Entomology and Forestry at MSU. Students will collaborate with their mentor(s) to design a research project that takes advantage of the diverse habitats and long term experiments at KBS to test hypotheses about how climate change impacts both managed and natural systems. Students will participate in a professional development program that addresses issues such as scientific best practices, preparation for graduate school and employment in STEM fields, and effective ways for communicating science. Recruitment targets increasing participation of military veterans, students from under-represented groups, or students from institutions with limited research opportunities in ecology and evolutionary biology. The on-line application is reviewed by program coordinators who forward appropriate candidates to mentors who interview applicants whose interests best match their research. It is anticipated a total of 30 students will be trained in the program. Students will learn how research questions are developed and tested, and will present the results of their work at a public symposium. Students will live at KBS, and will interact daily with resident faculty, graduate students and postdocs, who conduct research on a broad range of ecological and evolutionary topics. The common web-based assessment tool used by all REU programs funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure (Directorate for Biological Sciences) will be used to determine effectiveness of the training program. Students are tracked after the program and expected to respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information is available by contacting the PI (Dr. Katherine Gross at kgross@kbs.msu.edu), or the co-PI (Dr. Danielle Zoellner at zoellne8@msu.edu) or at our website (http://www.kbs.msu.edu/index.php/education/ugrad/reu).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.