Undergraduate Research in Biology

该奖项为自然科学部提供资金， 佩珀代因继续一个成功的REU网站。 资金 将加强一个已经活跃的本科课程， 生物学研究。 学生将被教导共同的 研究过程中的元素，并增加他们的 对生物学分支学科多样性的欣赏。 此外，该计划还提供了招募机制， 传统上代表性不足的群体的学生， 科学和学校的学生可能没有 体验生物学研究的机会。 每个 这个项目开始是一个为期六天的研究 在Murchison科学中心举办的定向研讨会 哪些学生将被介绍给使用， 特定研究工具和技术的局限性， 沉浸在研究过程中（文献综述， 假设公式化和假设检验）。 后 定向研讨会，学生将追求个人 在教师指导下的研究项目， 细胞生物化学，行为生态学，植物 海洋潮间带生理生态学 动物 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。 超过 整个夏天，来访的科学家们将举行 每个研究领域的特别研究研讨会， 学生有机会与他人讨论自己的数据 科学家 每个研究小组将举行每周文献 研讨会，讨论当前期刊文章， 他们的研究兴趣。 该计划将结束每个 夏季，八月初举行学生研究研讨会。 后续工作将包括学生参与当地 和区域本科生研究会议。 情况下 特别优秀的学生，将被鼓励提出 在国家会议上审议其成果，并编写其 结果发表在科学杂志上。

This award provides funds to the Natural Science Division at Pepperdine to continue a successful REU Site. The funds will enhance an already active program of undergraduate research in biology. Students will be taught the common elements of the research process and increase their appreciation for the diversity of biological subdisciplines. In addition, the program provides mechanisms for recruiting students from traditionally underrepresented groups in science and from schools where students may not have opportunities to experience biological research. Each summer the program will begin with a six-day research orientation workshop at the Murchison Science Center during which students will be introduced to the uses and limitations of specific research tools and techniques and immersed in the research process (literature review, hypothesis formulation, and hypothesis testing). After the orientation workshop, students will pursue individual research projects under the direction of faculty in either cellular biochemistry, behavioral ecology, plant physiological ecology or ecophysiology of marine intertidal animals. All research projects will be designed to provide students with insight into how scientists formulate 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 area, 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 each summer with a student research symposium in early August. Follow-through will include student participation at local and regional undergraduate research conferences. In cases of special merit, students will be encouraged to present their results at national meetings and to prepare their results for publication in a scientific journal.