Undergraduate Research in Biology

该奖项为自然科学部提供资金， 佩珀代因大学建立一个研究经验， 本科生网站。该网站将加强一个已经活跃的 生物学本科生研究计划 研究过程中的共同要素，并增加其 对生物学分支学科多样性的欣赏。 在 此外，该计划提供了一种机制，使学生从 传统上在科学领域代表性不足的群体将拥有 体验生物学研究的机会。 的经验 开始时将在卡塔利纳举办一个研究方向讲习班 海洋科学中心期间，学生将沉浸在 研究过程（文献综述，假设制定， 和假设检验），并介绍了使用和 具体研究工具和技术的局限性。 控股 这个偏远地区的研讨会将确保学生 与他们的日常生活隔离，使他们能够投入 他们充分注意学习的共同要素， 研究过程。 在定向研讨会之后，学生将 在以下指导下进行个人研究项目： 生态学、细胞生物化学或 神经生物学 所有的研究项目都将提供 了解科学家如何制定研究的学生 问题，设计实验，收集和分析数据， 将他们的研究成果传达给科学界。 来 在夏季，来访的科学家们将举行特别的 每个研究领域的研究研讨会，让学生 有机会与其他科学家讨论自己的数据。 每个研究小组将每周举行一次文学研讨会， 讨论与他们的研究有关的当前期刊文章 利益 该计划将结束与学生的研究 8月初的座谈会。

This award provides funds to the Natural Sciences Division at Pepperdine University to establish a Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site. The Site will enhance an already active program of undergraduate research in biology by teaching students the common elements of the research process and increasing their appreciation for the diversity of biological subdisciplines. In addition, the program provides a mechanism whereby students from traditionally under-represented groups in science will have the opportunity to experience biological research. The experience will begin with a research orientation workshop at the Catalina Marine Sciences Center during which students will be immersed in the research process (literature review, hypothesis formulation, and hypothesis testing) and introduced to the uses and limitations of specific research tools and techniques. Holding the workshop in this remote location will insure that students are isolated from their normal routines, enabling them to devote their full attention to learning the common elements of the research process. After the orientation workshop, students will pursue individual research projects under the direction of faculty in either ecology, cellular biochemistry, or neurobiology. All research projects will be designed to provide students with insight into how scientists formulated research questions, design experiments, collect and analyze data, and communicate their results to the scientific community. Over the course of the summer, visiting scientists will hold special research seminars in each research areas, giving students an opportunity to discuss their own data with other scientists. Each research group will hold weekly literature seminars to discuss current journal articles pertaining to their research interests. The program will conclude with a student research symposium in early August.