A Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Summer Research Program in Biology

布拉德利大学长期致力于教学卓越。密切的师生关系，强调共享奖学金是中央的使命。生物系通过充满活力的研究丰富的课程，体现了这种在教育和研究方面的共同伙伴关系。跨学科的研究经验贯穿整个课程，无论是在课堂内外，每一个教师都是一个积极的研究导师。社区服务也是该使命的核心;因此，该项目接受了从当地两年制社区学院转来的大部分学生。这些学生处于不利地位，但是，当他们进入我们的研究密集型课程没有大量的事先调查经验。该学院将实施为期10周的夏季研究计划，将研究机会和研究方法的教育相结合。该计划将是全面的，包括科学的文化，理论和实践，以促进科学研究中的智力独立性，无论先前的研究暴露。个人研究项目将包括在不同的实验系统中进行各种生物学研究，为学生和教师导师之间进行广泛的跨学科讨论提供机会。从本科生研究机会有限的机构，特别是当地社区学院，招聘将是沉重的，这些学院提供了大量的转学生进入课程。最后，教师已经开发了一个招聘团队和战略，以确保在夏季研究计划的显著少数民族参与，期望这种经验将增加少数民族在本科科学课程的招聘和保留。

Bradley University has a long-standing commitment to teaching excellence. Close faculty-student relationships that stress shared scholarship are central to the mission. The Biology Department has exemplified this shared partnership in education and research through a vigorous research-rich curriculum. Interdisciplinary research experiences run throughout the curriculum, both in and out of the classroom, and every faculty member is an active research mentor. Also central to the mission is community service; thus this project accepts a high proportion of students as transfers from local two-year community colleges. These students are at a disadvantage, however, when they enter our research-intensive curriculum without substantial prior investigative experience. The faculty will implement a 10-week summer research program that integrates research opportunities and education in research methodologies. This program will be comprehensive, encompassing the culture, theory and practice of science, to foster intellectual independence in scientific research, regardless of prior research exposure. Individual research projects will encompass a variety of lines of biological investigation in different experimental systems, providing opportunities for broad interdisciplinary discussions among students and faculty mentors. The recruiting will be heavy from institutions with limited undergraduate research opportunities, particularly local community colleges that supply a high number of transfer students into the curricula. Finally, the faculty has developed a recruitment team and strategy to assure significant minority participation in the summer research program with the expectation that this experience will increase the recruitment and retention of minorities in undergraduate science programs.