Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

密歇根州立大学凯洛格生物站（KBS）的本科生研究经验（REU）站点为本科生提供了一个参与生态学和进化生物学领域跨学科研究活动的机会。学生将接触到各种学科和生物组织水平的概念和技术，从基因到景观，包括微生物生态学，动物行为和植物生态遗传学。个人研究项目在指导教师的监督下进行，每周的研讨会和其他活动有助于促进学生、教师和访问科学家之间的知识交流。KBS为观测和实验研究提供了各种各样的陆地和水生栖息地，包括自然的和人工管理的，以及一流的实验室设施；活跃的为期一年的项目定期将大量研究生、博士后助理和高级研究人员带到该站，他们可以与本科生互动并帮助指导本科生。学生参加自己的REU午间研讨会系列以及KBS的其他研讨会和讨论小组，这使他们接触到其他研究领域。每个学生在夏季课程中开发并进行一个独立的研究项目，涉及科学过程的所有阶段：识别和改进科学问题或假设；实验设计和抽样技术；现场和实验室工作；数据分析和展示。学生们在REU研讨会上向KBS社区展示他们的研究成果，并鼓励他们与指导教师合作将研究成果综合发表。

9605168 Klug The Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at Michigan State University's W. K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) offers undergraduate students an opportunity to participate in interdisciplinary research activities in the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology. Students are exposed to concepts and techniques from a variety of disciplines and levels of biological organization, from genes to landscapes, including microbial ecology, animal behavior, and plant ecological genetics. Individual research projects are carried out under the supervision of faculty advisors, and weekly seminars and other activities help foster intellectual exchange among students, faculty, and visiting scientists. The KBS offers a wide variety of terrestrial and aquatic habitats, both natural and managed, for observational and experimental research, as well as superb laboratory facilities; active year-long programs bring numerous graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and senior researchers to the Station regularly, who can be expected to interact with and help mentor undergraduates. Students participate in their own REU Noon Seminar series as well as other seminars and discussion groups at KBS, which exposes them to other areas of research. Each student develops and conducts an independent research project during the summer sessions, involving all stages of the scientific process: identification and refinement of a scientific question or hypothesis; experimental design and sampling techniques; field and laboratory work; data analysis and presentation. Students present their research to the KBS community at a REU Symposium, and are encouraged to synthesize their results for publication in collaboration with their faculty advisors.