URM: Cross-disciplinary Research at the Intersection of Biotechnology and the Environment

摘要阿肯色州州立大学的URM项目（环境科学研究实习-大学项目，RISE-UP）的目标是培养高素质的本科生，他们成功地入学并完成生物科学的研究生学位。 具体而言，RISE-UP旨在增加传统上在生物科学中代表性不足的学生的入学机会和机会。学生将在大学的第一年从事一系列致力于培养以下学习成果的活动：问题识别技能，问题表征技能，沟通能力（口头，书面和技术），研究技能和分析技能。在他们的第一年在程序的学生将从事有意义的研究，导致在国家/国际会议上介绍，并在同行评议的科学文献中发表他们的研究成果。 使用学徒模式，教师导师将在课堂上，研究环境和超越本科学位的本科生终身导师。参加RISE-UP的学生将完成他们的本科学位，并成功报名参加生物科学研究生课程。为了实现这些目标，学生将成为4个合作跨学科研究团队之一的成员。 每个团队由一名资深教师领导，该教师具有指导本科研究人员的丰富经验，并由3-5名导师组成，他们专注于利用大学在农业环境和分子生物科学方面的优势的研究项目。 这四个小组的研究重点是：河流通过城市和农村景观的演变，分子诊断高通量技术，纳米毒理学和代谢物鉴定。欲了解更多信息，请访问http://programs.astate.edu/rise/rise-up/index.htm。

ABSTRACTThe goal of the URM program at Arkansas State University (Research Internships in Science of the Environment- University Program, RISE-UP, is to produce highly competent undergraduate students who successfully enroll and complete graduate degrees in the biological sciences. Specifically, RISE-UP seeks to increase access and opportunity for students traditionally under-represented in the biological sciences. Students will be engaged in their first college year in a series of activities dedicated to fostering the following learning outcomes: Problem Identification Skills, Problem Characterization Skills, Communication Competency (oral, written, and technological), Research Skills, and Analytical Skills. Within their first year in the program students will be engaged in meaningful research that leads to presentation at national/international conferences and to publication of their research findings in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Using an apprentice model, faculty mentors will be engaged in life-long mentorship of undergraduate students in the classroom, research setting and beyond the undergraduate degree. Students participating in RISE-UP will complete their undergraduate degrees and successfully enroll in a research-based graduate program in the biological sciences. To realize these objectives, students will become members of one of 4 collaborative cross-disciplinary research teams. Each team is led by a senior faculty member with significant experience mentoring undergraduate researchers and consists of 3-5 mentors who are focused on a research project that leverages University strengths in the agri-environmental and molecular biosciences. The research focus of these four groups are: Evolution of Streams through Urban and Rural Landscapes, Molecular Diagnostics & High-throughput Technologies, Nanotoxicology and Metabolite Identification. For more information, visit http://programs.astate.edu/rise/rise-up/index.htm .