REU: Collaborative Cross-Disciplinary Research in Biology

9322186 Kunz该奖项提供资金，继续在波士顿大学成功的REU网站。五个跨学科的，以团队为导向的项目将为每组两名学生提供与两名经验丰富的教师导师密切合作的机会。这个REU网站项目的重点是促进学生和研究生物学家之间的合作研究，他们的学科传统上集中在不同的子学科。合作研究课题包括：细菌蛋白质的表达，视网膜细胞基因诱导机制，蝙蝠对压力的激素反应，田鼠的亲属关系和人口过程，白蚁觅食生态学和木材化学。教师的导师已经精心挑选的基础上，他们的经验与本科生在课堂上，研究接触与本科生，以及他们自己的学术贡献。五名学生将从不提供重要研究机会的区域四年制大学中选出，五名将从波士顿大学的学生中选出。招聘工作将专门针对少数民族，妇女和身体有障碍的学生。选拔程序将基于学术能力，研究潜力和以往的经验。伦理部分，每周举办研讨会，主题包括动物伦理治疗，记录保存和数据管理，科学价值观和诚信，作者责任以及报告和调查不当行为指控。这一伦理部分将与来自韦尔斯利学院和马萨诸塞州大学（波士顿校区）的REU学生分享，并计划与这些区域机构的REU项目合作举办联合研讨会、活动和实地考察。***

9322186 Kunz This award provides funds to continue a successful REU SITE at Boston University. Five cross-disciplinary, team-oriented projects will provide each group of two students with opportunities to work closely with two experienced faculty mentors on a collaborative project. The emphasis on this REU Site project is to promote collaborative research among students and research biologists whose disciplines have traditionally focused on different sub-disciplines. Collaborative research topics include: expression of bacterial proteins, mechanisms of gene induction in retinal cells, hormonal responses to stress in bats, kinship and population processes in voles, and termite foraging ecology and wood chemistry. Faculty mentors have been carefully selected on the basis of their experience with undergraduates in the classroom, research contacts with undergraduates, and their own scholarly contributions. Five students will be selected from regional, four-year colleges that do not provide significant opportunities for research and five will be selected from students attending Boston University. Recruitment efforts will specifically target minority, women, and physically-challenged students. Selection procedures will be based on scholarly aptitude, research potential, and previous experience. An ethics component with weekly seminars on topics such as ethical treatment of animals, record keeping and data management, values and integrity in science, responsibility of authorship, and reporting and investigating allegations of misconduct. This ethics component will be shared with REU students from Wellesley College and the University of Massachusetts (Boston Campus), and joint seminars, activities, and field trips have been planned in collaboration with REU programs at these regional institutions. ***