The California Academy of Sciences Summer Systematics Institute as a REU Site

这一奖项将支持每年9名本科生参加加州科学院夏季系统学研究所提供的本科生研究体验计划。该计划为期10周，在全国范围内招生将重点放在女性和少数民族理科学生身上。每个未来的实习生都将申请与学院策展人合作进行一个研究项目。成功的申请者将参加系统生物学的正式讲座、参观学院九个研究部门的每个部门，以及由学院以外的科学家举办系统生物学研究研讨会。学生将在有限制的定向项目上工作，以便能够完成对问题和要研究的生物体的介绍，以及数据的收集、解释和传播。每个学生将以科学论文的形式制作项目成果的手稿，并向同龄人口头陈述他/她的成果。每年将对实习生和参与该计划的学院工作人员进行评估，以微调/改进随后几年的计划。该奖项将促进个人的继续教育和培训，这些人将成为系统生物学下一代基础研究人员的一部分。它还将有助于让年轻公民了解与生物多样性及其保护有关的问题。

This award will support the participation of nine undergraduate students each year in the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program offered by the California Academy of Sciences' Summer Systematics Institute. The program is ten weeks long and recruitment on a national level will give emphasis to women and minority students in science. Each prospective intern would apply to work with an Academy curator on a research project. Successful applicants would take part in formal lectures in Systematic Biology, tours of each of the Academy's nine research departments and research seminars in systematic biology by scientists from outside the Academy. Students would work on directed programs circumscribed so that an introduction to the problem and organisms to be studied, as well as data collection, interpretation and dissemination can be accomplished. Each student will produce a manuscript of the project's results in the form of a scientific paper and will make an oral presentation of his/her results to peers. Evaluations of interns and participating Academy staff will be conducted each year to fine-tune/improve the program for subsequent years. This award will foster the continued education and training of individuals who will be part of the next generation of basic researchers in systematic biology. It will also help to inform young citizens about issues related to biological diversity and its preservation.