REU Site: Collaborative Research Experience in Environmental Biology

诺福克州立大学将与伊丽莎白城州立大学合作，为总共12名本科生提供为期10周的合作研究项目。这个REU网站的目标是通过探索环境生物学各个领域的项目，让学生接触到基础研究。这一合作项目将为优秀的本科生提供机会，主要是二年级或三年级的学生；但也将鼓励完成大一年级并对研究表现出杰出承诺和承诺的学生参与，以获得开展研究项目的经验。学生研究员将体验一个广泛强调环境生物学和化学的项目。他们将参与积极的研究，包括生物修复、分子生物学和基因表达、水质和气象对栖息地的影响，以及环境化学。暑假期间，学生将被分配给特定的教师导师。他们将获得津贴和在校住宿，并在各自的地点住宿。除了研究项目，本科生暑期研究员还将参加各种研讨会、每周会议和社交活动。该项目将汇集来自两所历史上的黑人学院和大学的两所理学院的跨学科团队。其结果将是两个模范地点，它们将促进少数群体的成就，并显著增加少数群体在环境科学中的代表性。这将主要通过有监督的动手实验室和实地研究活动来实现，以激发学生的兴趣，并通过假设驱动的研究阐明科学概念。--计划活动的信息和传播将通过诺福克州立大学科学和技术学院网页(http://sst.nsu.edu/bioreu.htm).欲了解更多信息，请联系Camellia Mosse Okpodu博士(电子邮件：cmokpodu@nsu.edu)或Kathlene Fischer(电子邮件：kmfacher@mail.ecsu.edu)。

Norfolk State University, in partnership with Elizabeth City State University, will offer a 10-week collaborative research program for a total of twelve (12) undergraduate students. The goal of this REU site is to expose students to basic research through projects that explore various areas of environmental biology. This collaborative venture will offer opportunities for exceptional undergraduate students, primarily at the sophomore or junior level; however, students who have completed the freshman year and have shown outstanding promise and commitment to research will also be encouraged to participate to gain experience conducting research projects. Student research fellows will experience a program with a broad emphasis in environmental biology and chemistry. They will participate in active research including bioremediation, molecular biology and gene expression, water quality and meteorological effects on habitats, and environmental chemistry. Students will be assigned to specific faculty mentors for the summer. They will be awarded stipends and on-campus housing and board at the respective sites. In addition to the research program, undergraduate summer research fellows will participate in a variety of seminars, weekly meetings and social functions. The program will bring together an interdisciplinary team from two Schools of Science at two historically black colleges and universities. The result will be two model sites that will boost minority achievement and increase significantly minority representation in the environmental sciences. This will occur principally through supervised hands-on laboratory and field research activities to stimulate student interest and illustrate science concepts via hypothesis driven research. -- Information and dissemination of program activities will be via the Norfolk State University School of Science and Technology web page (http://sst.nsu.edu/bioreu.htm). For more information, contact Dr. Camellia Moses Okpodu at cmokpodu@nsu.edu) or Kathlene Fischer at kmfischer@mail.ecsu.edu.