REU Site: A Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Program in the Biological Sciences at Hope College

霍普学院生物系认为，本科生通过做生物来学习生物是最好的。该机构将这一信念付诸实践，在课程中整合了研究和教学，并为学生提供了在专业水平的研究中与教师合作的机会。该奖项将为30名本科生提供研究预约(为期三年，每个暑期10名)。一半的学生将来自霍普学院，另一半将来自美国各地的其他学院和大学。这个REU项目将特别努力招募和任命女性和在科学界代表性较低的少数群体成员。学生们将参与生物学各个层面的研究，从克隆一种新的加压素受体到研究种子在热带云雾森林中的传播。学生和教职员工之间的互动将为每个参与者提供关于广泛的生物学问题和解决这些问题的方法的知识。除了研究本身，参与者还将参加每周一次的会议，旨在提高口头和书面交流技能，探索生物学的伦理问题，并了解生物学的研究生院和就业机会。学生将在正式演讲中(在Hope和专业会议上)、在海报研讨会上和在科学论文中交流他们的研究结果。希望计划将对学生参与者对科学的理解产生影响，在学生向科学界展示他们的成果时影响科学，在学生进入研究生院和从事各种职业时影响社会。

The Department of Biology at Hope College believes that undergraduate students learn biology best by doing biology. The institution has put this belief into practice by integrating research and teaching in their courses and by providing students with opportunities to become partners with the faculty in professional level research. This award will provide research appointments for thirty undergraduate students (ten per summer for three years). Half of the students will come from Hope College and half will come from other colleges and universities throughout the U.S. This REU project will make special efforts to recruit and appoint women and members of minority groups underrepresented in science. Students will participate in research at all levels of biology, from cloning a new receptor for vasopressin to studying seed dispersal in a tropical cloud forest. Interactions among students and faculty will provide each participant with knowledge about a wide range of biological problems and ways in which those problems are addressed. In addition to the research itself, participants will take part in weekly meetings aimed at improving oral and written communication skills, exploring ethical issues in biology, and learning about graduate school and career opportunities in biology. Students will communicate the results of their research in formal talks (at Hope and at professional meetings), at a poster symposium, and in a scientific paper. The Hope program will have an impact on the student participants' understanding of science, impact the sciences as the students present their results to the scientific community, and impact society as students move on to graduate schools and a variety of careers.