SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 今年，连续第八个暑期本科生研究奖学金(SURF)项目经历了组织变革。最初，SURF项目由大约16名本科生组成，他们获得了为期10周的夏季研究体验，专门在罗德岛大学(URI)和布朗大学(Brown)的实验室举行。虽然暑期研究经验也提供给主要是本科生院校的本科生，但在本科生学院实验室培训的学生并不被正式承认为暑期本科生研究员。然而，他们被邀请并预计将参加SURF计划的所有活动。 该计划现在涵盖并管理统一了整个国际扶轮-INBRE网络的所有暑期本科生研究人员。虽然URI和Brown的奖学金申请是由URI集中管理的，但每个PUI的SURF计划的申请都是由该机构的SURF计划协调员处理的，他是指导委员会的两名成员之一。这位协调员协助PUI调查人员挑选合格的学生参加SURF项目。被录取的学生被分配了一个个性化的研究项目，由其中一个网络机构的一名教员指导。每名PUI调查员通常培训三名国际扶轮-INBRE暑期本科生研究员。共有66名学生参加了2009年的冲浪项目(罗德岛大学16名，普罗维登斯学院12名，罗德岛学院15名，罗杰·威廉姆斯大学10名，萨尔维里贾纳大学13名)。其中6名学生是代表性不足的少数民族，66名学生中有39名是女性。 这一行政改革极大地增加了公认的SURF学生的总数，从而提高了该计划在参与院校的知名度。通过国际扶轮-INBRE和国际扶轮SURF网站宣传SURF计划、在暑期实习会上发表演讲、互联网张贴服务以及在罗德岛各高等教育机构展示宣传册等方式进行招生。这一变化也促进了对国际扶轮-INBRE社区的归属感和本科生研究人员的团结。此外，学生现在可以在他们的简历上列出国际扶轮-INBRE奖学金，并增加他们被研究生项目录取的机会。 为了将生物医学和生命科学领域的本科生研究人员聚集在一起，与罗德岛刺激竞争研究实验计划(RI EPSCoR)合作制定了一份活动日历。这些活动包括关于实验室安全、研究伦理、海报制作、研究生教育以及国际研究所--INBRE中央研究核心设施中的仪器设备的研讨会和讲习班。通过视频会议向所有网络机构播放选定的讲习班和研讨会。学生们还参观了辉瑞在康涅狄格州格罗顿的研究设施，以及位于密苏里州纽波特的生物燃料制造厂纽波特生物柴油公司。 该联合项目不仅为对生物医学研究感兴趣的本科生提供了一个有组织的培训环境，而且还为全州的暑期研究员提供了一个展示他们的研究成果的平台。2009年的SURF计划以半天的会议结束，来自国际扶轮-INBRE和国际扶轮EPSCoR计划的学生提交了84张科学海报。超过200人出席了活动，其中包括罗德岛州副州长伊丽莎白·罗伯茨，她致欢迎词。其他与会者包括参与机构的行政人员和教职员工，以及家长。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The eighth consecutive Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program underwent an organizational transformation this year. Originally, the SURF program consisted of approximately 16 undergraduate students who were given a 10-week summer research experience held exclusively in laboratories at the University of Rhode Island (URI) and Brown University (Brown). While summer research experiences were also provided to undergraduate students at the Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUI), students trained in PUI faculty laboratories were not formally recognized as Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows. They were however invited and expected to participate in all of the SURF Program events. The program now encompasses and administratively unifies all of the summer undergraduate researchers throughout the RI-INBRE Network. While applications for fellowships at URI and Brown were administered centrally at URI, the applications for the SURF Program at each PUI were handled by a SURF Program Coordinator, who was one of the two Steering Committee members, from that institution. This Coordinator assisted the PUI investigators in selecting qualified students for the SURF Program. Accepted students were assigned an individualized research project mentored by a faculty member at one of the network institutions. Each PUI investigator typically trained three RI-INBRE Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows. A total of sixty-six students participated in the 2009 SURF Program (16 at University of Rhode Island, 12 at Providence College, 15 at Rhode Island College, 10 at Roger Williams University, and 13 at Salve Regina University). Six of the students were underrepresented minorities and 39 of the 66 students were female. This administrative change greatly increased the total number of recognized SURF students, thus increasing the visibility of the program at the participating institutions. Student recruitment was carried out by advertising the SURF Program through the RI-INBRE and RI SURF web sites, presentations at summer internship fairs, internet posting services, and brochures displayed at various Rhode Island institutions of higher education. This change has also promoted a sense of belonging to the RI-INBRE community and unity among the undergraduate researchers. Furthermore, students can now list the RI-INBRE Fellowship on their resume and enhance their chances of acceptance at a graduate program. In order to bring together undergraduate researchers in the biomedical and life sciences, a calendar of events was developed collaboratively with the Rhode Island Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (RI EPSCoR). These events included seminars and workshops on laboratory safety, research ethics, poster preparation, graduate education, and demonstrations on instrumentation in the RI-INBRE Centralized Research Core Facility. Selected workshops and seminars were broadcasted via videoconferencing to all of the network institutions. The students also toured Pfizer's research facilities in Groton, Connecticut and Newport Biodiesel, a biofuels manufacturing plant in Newport, RI. The joint program has not only provided a structured training environment for undergraduates interested in biomedical research, but also a platform for Summer Research Fellows throughout the state to present their research findings. The 2009 SURF Program concluded with a half-day conference where students from the RI-INBRE and the RI EPSCoR Programs presented 84 scientific posters. Over 200 individuals attended the event including the Rhode Island's Lieutenant Governor, Elizabeth Roberts, who gave the welcome address. Other attendees included administrators and faculty from the participating institutions, and parents.