Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences in the Biological Sciences

该奖项向福尔曼大学生物系提供资金，用于建立本科生研究经验网站。在这一支持下，教育部将招收有才华的女性和少数族裔学生，他们是在南卡罗来纳州邻近的机构学习生物的新兴大三学生，并向他们提供NSF-REU项目的好处。两到三个人的学生小组将与每位教职员工密切合作，进行全职暑期实验室研究。学生和教师的研究项目跨越了该系的许多子课程，包括种子发育中的基因表达研究，植物发育中光敏色素活性的免疫细胞学研究，植物同工酶研究，昆虫中紫外线吸收和荧光分子的研究，植物防御机制中活性化合物的分离，群落生态学和神经生物学。在遴选过程中，教师导师将与合适的学生同事相匹配。学生参与者将提交一份关于他们暑期成绩的正式书面总结。定期安排的特殊科学、社会和体育活动将完善该计划，并为在不同的参与者群体中培养团队精神提供一个额外的机制。

This award provides funds to the Biology Department of Furman University to establish a Research Experiences for Undergraduates SITE. With this support the department will recruit talented women and minority students, rising juniors studying biology at neighboring institutions in South Carolina, and extend to them the benefits of this NSF-REU program. Student groups of two or three will work closely with each faculty member in full-time summer laboratory research. The student-faculty research projects span many of the sub-curricula of the department, including gene expression studies in seed development, immunocytological studies on phytochrome activity in plant development, isoenzyme studies in plants, ultraviolet absorbing and fluorescing molecules in insects, isolation of active compounds in plant defense mechanisms, community ecology, and neurobiology. In the selection process faculty mentors will be matched with appropriate student co- workers. Student participants will submit a formal written summary of their summer's accomplishments. A regular schedule of special scientific, social, and athletic events will round out the program and provide an added mechanism for developing esprit de corps among the diverse group of participants.