REU Site: Psychology Research Experience Program

威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的心理学系在为自己的本科生提供研究机会方面有着良好的记录，并在1998年和1999年成功地为来自弱势群体的学生管理了暑期项目。该系拥有一支国际公认的研究团队，致力于本科和研究生教育，并渴望指导个人研究项目。在接下来的三个夏天，2000-2002年，该系将提供心理学研究经验计划（PREP），一个暑期计划，提供研究经验，将有助于从代表性不足的人群准备研究生院的本科生。除了国家科学基金会的支持外，该大学研究生院还将提供额外的支持。PREP的主要目标是吸引积极进取的学生从事学术研究事业。PREP将在三个夏季每年为810名学生提供机会，与研究实验室的教师导师一起获得实践经验。这个为期八周的项目将促进由教师、研究生和本科生组成的实验室小组对研究技术的学习。预备课程的本科生将来自威斯康辛大学麦迪逊分校以及其他院校。然而，在每一个案例中，他们都将来自代表性不足的少数民族，来自低收入背景，和/或他们是家庭中第一代上大学的人。整个研究过程，从文献检索到数据收集和分析，最终将以口头和书面报告结束，如果适当的话，将在期刊上发表。此外，教师们将在每周的午餐研讨会上讨论心理学的各个研究领域，从而突出学科的多样性。

The Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has an established record of providing research opportunities for its own undergraduates and successfully administered summer programs for students from underrepresented populations in 1998 and 1999. The Department has an internationally recognized research faculty committed to undergraduate and graduate education and eager to direct individual research projects. For the next three summers, 2000-2002, the Department will offer the Psychology Research Experience Program (PREP), a summer program to provide research experiences that will help to prepare undergraduate students from underrepresented populations for graduate school. In addition to support from the National Science Foundation, additional support will come from the University's Graduate School.The main goal of PREP is to attract motivated students who will pursue an academic research career. PREP will provide the opportunity for eight-ten students in each of the three summers to gain hands-on experience with faculty mentors in research laboratories. The eight-week program will foster learning of research techniques in laboratory groups of faculty, graduate, and undergraduate participants. The PREP undergraduates will come from the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as from other institutions. In every case, however, they will be from an underrepresented minority population, from a low-income background, and/or be from the first generation in their family to attend college.The entire process of research, from literature search through collection and analysis of data, will culminate in an oral and written presentation and, if appropriate, journal publication. In addition, faculty members will discuss various research areas in psychology in weekly lunch seminars, thus highlighting the diverse nature of the discipline.