REU Site: Interdisciplinary undergraduate research projects based in the New Jersey Pinelands

该奖项由美国国家科学基金会生物基础设施和化学部门资助。罗格斯大学卡姆登校区的REU Site项目每年夏天将为10名本科生提供为期10周的研究实习机会。学生们将与他们的教师导师密切合作，进行与新泽西松地有关的独立研究项目，学生们将有机会在项目的前两周使用实验室设施并居住在松地野外站。新泽西松林是一个独特的生态系统，占地约110万英亩，已被赋予国际生物圈地位。该计划的目标是为生物和化学本科学生提供机会，体验各种学科（生物，化学和物理）和重点的前沿研究，以拓宽学生在科学研究生涯中的视角。这一目标将通过跨学科指导、从事从实验设计到数据收集和分析的独立研究项目的机会，以及通过不同的讲习班来实现，例如，为同行评议的期刊撰写科学文章、科学伦理、科学中的妇女和环境正义。被录取的学生将获得津贴、住宿、膳食和机票。特别鼓励代表性不足的少数民族和来自研究机会有限的大学的学生申请。更多信息请联系Heike buckking （bucking@camden.rutgers.edu）或访问http://reu-pinelands.camden.rutgers.edu/index.html。

This award is funded by the Divisions of Biological Infrastructure and Chemistry at NSF. The REU Site program at Rutgers University Camden campus will provide research internship for ten undergraduate students for ten weeks each summer. The students will work in close collaboration with their faculty mentors on independent research projects relevant to the New Jersey Pinelands, and the students will have the opportunity in the first two weeks of the program to use the lab facilities and to reside at the Pinelands Field station. The NJ Pinelands is a unique ecosystem with approximately 1.1 million acres, which has been given International Biosphere status. The goal of the program is to provide biology and chemistry undergraduate students with the opportunity to experience cutting-edge research over a wide range of various disciplines (Biology, Chemistry and Physics) and emphases, in order to broaden students' perspectives on a research career in the sciences. This goal will be accomplished via interdisciplinary mentoring, the opportunity to work on independent research projects from experimental design to data collection and analysis, and via different workshops, for example, scientific writing for peer-reviewed journals, scientific ethics, women in sciences and environmental justice. Students who are admitted to the program will be supplied with a stipend, housing, meals and airfare. Under-represented minorities and students from colleges with limited research opportunities are particularly encouraged to apply. More information is available by contacting Heike Bucking at bucking@camden.rutgers.edu, or by visiting http://reu-pinelands.camden.rutgers.edu/index.html.