Award Abstract #0754800
REU Site: Interdisciplinary undergraduate research projects based in the New Jersey Pinelands

NSF Org:	DBI Division of Biological Infrastructure
Initial Amendment Date:	May 20, 2008
Latest Amendment Date:	May 20, 2008
Award Number:	0754800
Award Instrument:	Continuing grant
Program Manager:	Sally E. O'Connor DBI Division of Biological Infrastructure BIO Directorate for Biological Sciences
Start Date:	May 1, 2008
Expires:	April 30, 2009 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$211205
Investigator(s):	Heike Bucking bucking@camden.rutgers.edu (Principal Investigator) Georgia Arbuckle-Keil (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	Rutgers University Camden 311 N. 5th Street Camden, NJ 08102 856/225-2949
NSF Program(s):	SCIENCE, TECH & SOCIETY, UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS IN CHEM, RSCH EXPER FOR UNDERGRAD SITES
Field Application(s):
Program Reference Code(s):	SMET,9178
Program Element Code(s):	7603,1986,1139

ABSTRACT

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.

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