REU Site: Scripps Structure and Function Summer Institute (SFSI)

THIE REU网站奖斯克里普斯研究所，位于拉霍亚，加利福尼亚州，将支持十名学生在2022年至2024年的夏天十周的培训。结构和功能暑期研究所（SFSI）创造了一个充满活力和刺激的教育和研究环境，为本科生，特别是来自服务不足和代表性不足的人群的新生，大学生和大三学生提供了与教师和科学家合作进行尖端研究的机会，并激励他们选择STEM（科学，技术，工程和数学）职业。学生将学习如何进行研究，许多人将在科学会议上展示他们的工作成果。学生将在课程结束后进行跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路，并了解SFSI计划的影响。SFSI为不同的参与者提供了一个学术结构，将尖端的动手实验室研究与专业技能发展和指导相结合。每一个主要的计划组成部分-（1）课程和专业发展研讨会和（2）研究培训-是由几个元素一起工作，并提供了一个循序渐进的方法来提高实习生的批判性思维技能，科学准备技能，知识基础和研究专业知识。该计划的核心是在该网站的最先进的实验室之一，实习生通过与世界知名的教师和科学家一起参与科学过程来学习科学过程的实践研究经验。作为实验室研究的辅助，实习生参加每周一次的专业发展研讨会和科学研讨会，他们将阅读当前的科学文章，并领导关于实验背后的基本原理的讨论，批判性地分析工作，并与同行进行科学讨论。2月15日截止的申请由教师导师审查。选定的参与者将于4月15日联系。有关该计划的更多信息，请访问https：//education.scripps.edu/undergraduate/summer-research/reu-programs/，或联系PI（Dawn Eastmond博士，eduprgm@scripps.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智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Thie REU Site award to The Scripps Research Institute, located in La Jolla, CA, will support the training of ten students for ten weeks during the summers of 2022-2024. The Structure and Funcation Summer Institute (SFSI) creates a dynamic and stimulating educational and research environment, provides undergraduate students, particularly freshmen, sophomores and juniors from underserved and underrepresented populations with the opportunity to conduct cutting-edge research collaboratively with faculty and scientists and inspires them to choose STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers. Students will learn how research is conducted, and many will present the results of their work at scientific conferences. Students will be tracked after the program in order to determine their career paths and understand the impact of the SFSI program.The SFSI offers its diverse participants an academic structure that integrates cutting-edge hands-on laboratory research with professional skills development and mentoring. Each of the major program components – (1) curriculum and professional development workshops and (2) research training – is made up of several elements that work together and provides a stepwise approach to improving interns’ critical thinking skills, scientific preparation skills, knowledge base, and research expertise. The heart of the program is the hands-on research experience in one of the site's state-of-the-art laboratories where interns learn the scientific process by participating in the scientific process side-by-side with world-renowned faculty and scientists. As an adjunct to the lab research, interns attend themed weekly professional development workshops and scientific seminars where they are expected to read current scientific articles and lead discussions about the rationale behind the experiments, analyze the work critically, and engage in scientific discourse with their peers. Applications, due on February 15th, are reviewed by faculty mentors. Selected participants are contacted by April 15th. More information about the program is available by visiting https://education.scripps.edu/undergraduate/summer-research/reu-programs/, or by contacting the PI (Dr. Dawn Eastmond at eduprgm@scripps.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.