REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

REU 网站：生态学和进化生物学本科生的研究经验

• 批准号: 0097223
• 负责人: Helen Alexander
• 金额: $ 18.16万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-06-01 至 2005-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0097223&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Research; Experiences; Undergraduates

The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Kansashas developed a summer program to help undergraduate students understandhow scientific research is conducted. To achieve this goal, 30 students(10 in each of the years 2001-2003) will be recruited to spend 10 weeks atthe University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kansas. Students in theprogram will learn about research in two main ways. First, each studentwill be paired with a faculty mentor and will complete their own researchproject. Participating faculty have varied interests (ecological study atmany spatial scales; research on evolutionary patterns and processes atseveral time scales), so a diversity of research projects will be done.Second, students will participate in many group activities including weeklyseminars and tours of research facilities. Students will also getadditional research exposure by presenting their results at a researchsymposium and attending a national scientific meeting in their discipline.An objective of this program is to provide research experiences forstudents who are unlikely to have this opportunity at their homeinstitution and therefore help encourage a diverse population of studentsto consider scientific careers. Thus, although recruitment will benationwide, a particular focus will be to attract students from smallerinstitutions with fewer research faculty, and students from institutionswith high minority enrollment. In particular, students from Haskell IndianNations University, Lawrence, KS will be encouraged to become involved.

堪萨斯大学的生态与进化生物学系制定了一项夏季计划，以帮助本科生了解如何了解科学研究。 为了实现这一目标，将招募30名学生（在2001 - 2003年中，每年有10名学生在堪萨斯州劳伦斯的堪萨斯大学校园度过10周。 计划中的学生将以两种主要方式学习研究。 首先，每个学生都将与教师的导师配对，并将完成自己的研究项目。 参与的教师具有多种利益（生态研究Atmany空间量表；对进化模式和过程的研究，因此将完成多种研究项目。第二，学生将参加许多小组活动，包括每周一次的活动和研究设施。 学生还将通过在研究中的研究中介绍结果并参加其学科的全国科学会议，从而获得研究的研究。该计划的一个目标是提供研究经验的法国人，他们不太可能在他们的家庭机构中获得这一机会，从而帮助鼓励多样化的学生群体考虑科学职业。 因此，尽管招聘将在整个范围内招聘，但特别的重点将是吸引来自较小研究教师的小规模的学生以及来自少数群体入学率的机构的学生。 特别是，将鼓励来自堪萨斯州劳伦斯的Haskell印第安纳大学的学生参与其中。