REU Site: Research Experience in Molecular Biotechnology and Genomics

REU 网站：分子生物技术和基因组学的研究经验

• 批准号: 0097463
• 负责人: David Oliver
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-05-01 至 2006-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0097463&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Research; Experience; Molecular

One of the best ways to keep undergraduate students excited about science is to involve them in actual laboratory research. The opportunity to become a working member of an active research group provides the impetus for many students to continue into graduate school in science. The NSF REU program at Iowa State University focuses on providing an intensive research experience with an active research group at Iowa State. The research groups work on biotechnology and genomics of plants and animals. Understanding that these types of research opportunities are available for undergraduate students at large research universities, this program focuses its efforts on students that do not have the same research opportunity at their home colleges. Specifically these are schools that serve minority institutions (particularly the 1890 Land Grant Schools) and small liberal arts colleges in the Midwest. Outstanding students that have finished their sophomore or junior years will spend ten weeks on the Iowa State University campus where room and board and a stipend are supplied. The students will join university research teams that are working in laboratories on problems in biotechnology and genomics. The students also meet together weekly for lunch and discussions on ethics, diversity, applying to graduate schools, written and oral scientific presentations, and frontiers of biological research. The students practice writing for general and scientific audiences, publish their research on the program web page, and present their work at a mini-symposium for the other students, mentors, and colleagues.

让本科生对科学保持热情的最佳方法之一是让他们参与实际的实验室研究。成为活跃研究小组的工作成员的机会为许多学生继续进入科学研究生提供了动力。爱荷华州立大学的 NSF REU 项目专注于为爱荷华州立大学活跃的研究小组提供深入的研究经验。研究小组致力于植物和动物的生物技术和基因组学。该项目了解到大型研究型大学的本科生可以获得这些类型的研究机会，因此将重点放在在其所在大学没有相同研究机会的学生身上。具体来说，这些学校是为少数族裔机构（特别是 1890 年赠地学校）和中西部的小型文理学院提供服务的学校。完成大二或大三学业的优秀学生将在爱荷华州立大学校园度过十周，提供食宿和津贴。学生们将加入在实验室研究生物技术和基因组学问题的大学研究团队。学生们还每周聚在一起吃午餐，讨论道德、多样性、研究生院申请、书面和口头科学演示以及生物学研究前沿等问题。学生们为普通读者和科学读者练习写作，在项目网页上发布他们的研究成果，并在小型研讨会上向其他学生、导师和同事展示他们的作品。