Young Scholars Program in Life Sciences and Biochemistry

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校将启动一个为期9周的住宿青年学者项目，招收50名生命科学专业11 - 12年级的学生。项目活动将包括参与生命科学和生物化学的研究，广义上也包括营养学、运动生理学、生理心理学和一些地球科学（古生物学）等相关领域。前五周的上午有特别的高级课程，下午有研究参与。最后四周包括全职的研究参与，晚上有研讨会。课程包括现代细胞，分子，进化和发育生物学和生物化学的选定主题；阅读和讨论生物学和生物化学的重要实验；还有研究科学家的客座讲座。研究是指学生作为团队的初级成员参与正在进行的研究，有时是联合项目，有时是一个问题的独立方面。在项目结束时，参与者提交一份书面论文，并在为期两天的模拟专业会议上对他们的研究进行口头或海报展示。后续活动将包括向同学展示他们的研究成果，进行独立学习和研究，如果可能的话，继续在项目中完成的工作，学习科学职业信息。

The University of Texas-Austin will initiate a 9-week residential Young Scholars project for 50 students in grades ll-l2 in life science. Project activities will include research participation in the life sciences and biochemistry broadly defined to also include related fields as nutrition, exercise physiology, physiological psychology, and some earth sciences (paleontology). Special advanced coursework in the mornings of the first five weeks with research participation in the afternoons. The last four weeks involve full-time research participation with seminars in the evening. Coursework includes selected topics in modern cellular, molecular, evolutionary and developmental biology and biochemistry; readings and discussions of great experiments in biology and biochemistry; and guest lectures by research scientists. Research involves the student as a junior member of a team engaged in on-going research, sometimes on a joint project, and sometimes on an independent facet of a problem. At the program's end participants submit a written paper and give oral or poster presentation on their research at a two- day simulated professional meeting. Follow-up activities will include presenting their research to their classmates, doing independent study and research, if possible by continuing the work done in the program and studying science career information.