REU Site: Interdisciplinary biological sciences research and community engaged learning experiences for undergraduates

这个REU网站奖给位于宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡的迪克讷大学，将支持8名学生在2019年至2021年的夏天进行10周的培训。该网站将作为一个试点的培训模式与更大的跨学科团队与四个学生和导师的组合。 每个学生将根据研究兴趣与一位导师配对，每对将加入另一对，组成一个来自两个近邻学科的团队（例如，纳米技术和神经遗传学）。学生将从两个独特的角度了解研究问题。每个学生都将专注于跨学科项目的不同方面，并将在最后的研讨会上制作独特的海报或口头报告。这些跨学科项目涉及疼痛感觉和行为的蛋白质运输，神经炎性疼痛的分子基础，脂质代谢的比较基因组学和功能分析以及皮肤微生物群的时空动力学等领域。计划内容包括职业和道德/负责任的研究培训，期刊俱乐部和社区参与，学生在夏令营与中学生分享科学活动，培养沟通，专业和公民技能。 特别鼓励代表性不足的少数民族和/或第一代大学生申请。预计该计划将培训24名主要代表性不足的少数民族和第一代大学生，他们来自研究机会有限的学校。学生将学习如何进行跨学科研究，许多人将在科学会议上展示他们的工作成果。他们将接受与研究和职业相关的指导，与其他本科学员建立一个支持性的队列，并通过与儿童分享科学来吸引公众参与他们的研究。由生物基础设施部门资助的所有REU网站计划使用的一个基于网络的通用评估工具将用于确定培训计划的有效性。学生将在课程结束后进行跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路。学生将被要求通过NSF报告系统自动发送电子邮件。更多信息可在http：//www.duq.edu/academics/schools/natural-and-environmental-sciences/undergraduate-research获得，或联系PI（O？odonne15@duq.edu woodleys@duq.edu该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This REU Site award to Duquesne University, located in Pittsburgh, PA, will support the training of 8 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2019-2021. This site will serve as a pilot for a training model with larger interdisciplinary teams with a combination of four students and mentors. Each student will be paired with a mentor based on research interests, and each pair will join another pair to form a team from two near-neighbor disciplines (e.g., nanotechnology and neurogenetics). Students will gain an understanding of the research question from two unique perspectives. Each student will focus on a different aspect of the interdisciplinary project and will produce a unique poster or oral presentation at the final symposium. These interdisciplinary projects are in the areas of protein trafficking on pain sensation and behavior, molecular basis of neuroinflammatory pain, comparative genomics and functional analysis of lipid metabolism, and spatiotemporal dynamics of skin microbiota. Program components include career and ethics/responsible conduct of research training, journal clubs, and community-engagement where students share science activities with middle school students at a summer camp, fostering communication, professional and civic skills. Applicants from underrepresented minorities and/or first-generation university students are especially encouraged to apply. It is anticipated the program will train a total of 24 primarily underrepresented minority and first-generation college students from schools with limited research opportunities. Students will learn how interdisciplinary research is conducted and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences. They will receive mentoring related to research and careers, build a supportive cohort with fellow undergraduate trainees, and engage the public in their research by sharing science with children.A common web-based assessment tool used by all REU Site programs funded by the Division of Biological Infrastructure will be used to determine the effectiveness of the training program. Students will be tracked after the program to determine their career paths. Students will be asked to respond to an automatic email sent via the NSF reporting system. More information is available at http://www.duq.edu/academics/schools/natural-and-environmental-sciences/undergraduate-research, or by contacting the PI (Dr. O?Donnell, at odonne15@duq.edu) or Co-PI (Dr. Sarah Woodley at woodleys@duq.edu).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.