National Museum of Natural Research Training Program

该奖项为植物学系提供资金， 国家自然历史博物馆帮助支持48 本科生在三年的时间里， 参加正式的课程，并密切 监督独立研究的领域， 系统学、植物学、动物学和古生物学。 研究 以及有机体生物学、系统学和生态学方面的培训 在过去的十年里， 尽管这些字段对于评估和 应对生物多样性丧失和全球变化。 博物馆 仍然在这些领域进行基础研究，但已经 与本科教育关系不大。 国家 自然历史博物馆（NMNH）研究培训计划 史密森尼学会旨在刺激 大学生从事自然科学事业 通过一个平衡的实践研究计划， 讲座和小组讨论。 为期10周的夏季 该计划强调独立的研究项目 由一名科研人员监督 的 该计划的培训价值通过一系列 讲座，讨论，实地考察，实验室和 收藏品展示 NMNH的优势 研究培训计划是大量的研究 工作人员（120多名博士-科学家和250名技术人员）， 研究项目的广度（如形态学和 分子系统学，古生物学，行为学， 形态学，生态学），收藏品的大小（更多 超过1.19亿的植物、动物、化石标本， 等等），和优秀的图书馆（超过100万文本， 期刊）。 这些资源的结合创造了一个 无与伦比的环境让本科生开始 作为自然科学研究人员的职业生涯。 截至 1992年，完成该计划的学生现在拥有 有机会申请皮尤系统研究奖学金 史密森尼学会的生物学， 他们在NMNH的研究培训，通过他们的结束， 本科教育。

This award provides funds to the Department of Botany at the National Museum of Natural History to help support 48 undergraduate students over a three year period who will participate in both a formal curriculum and closely supervised independent research in areas such as systematics, botany, zoology, and paleobiology. Research and training in organismal biology, systematic, and ecology has declined at most universities over the last decade, even though these fields are critical for evaluating and addressing loss of biodiversity and global change. Museums still carry out basic research in these fields, but have had little to do with undergraduate education. The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) Research Training Program at the Smithsonian Institution is designed to stimulate undergraduates to pursue careers in the natural sciences through a balanced program of hands-on research, scientific lectures, and group discussions. The 10-week long summer program emphasizes an independent research project supervised by a member of the scientific staff. The training value of the project is enhanced by a set of lectures, discussions, field trips, and laboratory and collections demonstrations. The strengths of the NMNH Research Training Program are the large number of research staff (over 120 Ph.D.-level scientists and 250 technicians), the breadth of research projects (e.g. morphological and molecular systematics, paleobiology, behavior, morphometrics, ecology), the size of the collections (more than 119 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, etc.), and the excellent libraries (over 1 million texts and journals). The combination of these resources creates an unparalleled environment for getting undergraduates started on careers as researchers in the natural sciences. As of 1992, students who complete the Program now have the opportunity to apply for a Pew Fellowship in Systematic Biology at the Smithsonian that will allow them to continue their research training at the NMNH through the end of their undergraduate education.