The Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation of Biodiversity

这一奖项授予来自生态与进化生物学系和分子与细胞生物学系的21名教员，将资助5名研究生参加一个培训计划，该计划强调保护生物学、有机体和分子系统学与进化、功能多样性的生态学与进化以及种群动力学和群落生态学等相关领域。除了现有的活动，培训计划还将包括一个新的保护生物学讲座和一个新的生物多样性研究生研讨会。该学院的优势在于热带生物学领域，重点是植物和节肢动物。对一些学生的培训将包括在哥斯达黎加国家生物多样性研究所(INBO)进行新的实习计划。该奖项包括一些资金，用于招生、研讨会和NSF资助的学员的研究费用。

This award to a group of 21 faculty from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology will fund positions for 5 graduate students in a training program that emphasizes the related areas of conservation biology, organismic and molecular systematics and evolution, ecology and evolution of functional diversity, and population dynamics and community ecology. Besides existing activities, the training program will include a new lecture course in Conservation Biology and a new graduate seminar in Biodiversity. The faculty's strength lies in areas of tropical biology with emphasis on plants and arthropods. Training of some students will include a new program of internships at the Costa Rican National Biodiversity Institute (INBio). The award includes some funds to be used for student recruiting, seminars, and research expenses of NSF-supported trainees.