REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Molecular Genetics and Proteomics

这个NSF奖将延续明尼苏达大学教师在过去20年里成功开发的REU项目。在接下来的三年里，参与者将在全国范围内招募，特别是来自少数民族和其他小型学院。学生们来到明尼苏达州参加为期10周的暑期课程，前3周在伊塔斯卡湖实验室进行3学分的强化实验课程，学习基本的分子生物学技术，并参加蛋白质组学研讨会。然后，学生将在双城校园度过7周时间，使用课程中学到的技术完成一个独立的研究项目。学生项目是在与该项目有关联的100多名教员之一的指导下进行的。补充活动包括每周的学生研讨会和夜间讲习班，旨在加强未来的研究生学习申请。所有学生在项目结束后的研讨会上以科学海报的形式展示他们的研究成果。校园宿舍的公共住房和整个夏天的众多社会、文化和娱乐活动将促进形成强大的个人和专业的学生与学生和学生与教师之间的联系。学生们期望获得信心和更大的愿望去读研究生。深入接触高质量的研究机会，以及与教师导师的支持和培养关系，将激励参与者继续研究生学习。此外，来自不同背景和种族的本科生将有机会与研究生榜样互动，以进一步鼓励来自不同背景的学生寻求研究生学位。从长远来看，越来越多的非裔美国人、美洲印第安人和西班牙裔学生将被激励去获得基础生命科学学科的研究生学位，并最终成为学院和大学的教员或私营部门的领导者。更多信息请访问http://www.cbs.umn.edu/main/summer_research/。

This NSF award will continue a successful REU program developed by University of Minnesota faculty over the past 20 years. For the next 3 years, participants will be recruited nationwide, particularly from minority-serving and other small colleges. Students come to Minnesota for a 10-week summer program, spending the 1st 3 weeks in an intensive 3-credit lab course at the Lake Itasca labs learning basic molecular biology techniques and at a Proteomics Workshop. Students then spend 7 weeks on the Twin Cities campus completing an independent research project using techniques learned in the course. Student projects are conducted under the direction of one of the more than 100 faculty members affiliated with the program. Supplemental activities include weekly student seminars and evening workshops designed to strengthen future applications for graduate studies. All students present their research results in a scientific poster at a symposium at the end of the program. Communal housing in campus dormitories and numerous social, cultural and recreational activities throughout the summer will foster the formation of strong personal and professional student-student and student-faculty bonds. Students are expected to gain confidence and increased desire to go to graduate school. Intensive exposure to the high quality research opportunities as well as the supportive and nurturing relationships with faculty mentors will motivate participants to pursue graduate studies. In addition, undergraduate students from all backgrounds and ethnicity will have the opportunity to interact with graduate student role models to further encourage those from diverse backgrounds to seek graduate school degrees. Over the long term, increased numbers of African American, American Indian and Hispanic students will be motivated to earn graduate degrees in basic life science disciplines and eventually to become members of the faculty at colleges and universities or leaders in the private sector. More information is available at http://www.cbs.umn.edu/main/summer_research/.