OHIO UNIVERSITY OCEES

UGRIP

The UnderGraduate Research Immersion Program

The special learning community of OCEES faculty, post-docs, visiting professors, and graduate students provides the opportunity to engage EEB undergraduates in scientific inquiry-based learning and research. The UGRIP plan is open to all EEB majors on a competitive basis. It consists of two components (see below) designed to engage students during freshman through senior years with research engagement and a formal research course experience in the junior/ senior years. Our philosophy is to invoke research experience early and in parallel with their core major requirements, then add formal research experience as upper classmen. UGRIP graduates will receive a letter of accomplishment that will explain their research experience and serve as a letter of recommendation for future employment/ academic opportunities.

To get UGRIP started we are accepting applications from freshman, sophomores, and juniors interested in EEB research at OU. Students from participating departments (Biological Sciences, Environmental and Plant Biology, Geology, Geography, Philosophy) are welcome. Our second round of applications will be accepted in January and February 2010 and accepted students will be notified shortly thereafter in time to register for Spring Bios 394.

Once UGRIP is up and running we will induct ~10 new freshman each year. Applications are reviewed and selections are made each spring quarter. Students are evaluated on academic standing fall quarter GPA and their application.

UGRIP students will attend research seminars weekly (which are also attended by the OCEES student body and faculty) and follow up each presentation with a tutorial discussing the research with the presenter. This new undergraduate seminar program will bring in visiting speakers to add more formal and more diverse research exposure to the UGRIP students and our OCEES community. This goal is to immerses the UGRIP students into research thinking and methods early and throughout their undergraduate tenure. Because of the variety of speakers in the program (peers, graduate students, post-docs, faculty and visiting researchers) the participants are exposed to a wide variety of research areas, methods, and types of oral presentations. UGRIP students take BIOS 394 each spring quarter in each of their 4 years for a total of 8 credits.

This component of the UGRIP program involves active engagement in research offered in existing undergraduate research related or directed research courses (listed below). UGRIP students must complete one quarter (4 cr. hrs.) of directed undergraduate research courses during their sophomore though senior years.

For more information: call 740 593-0424 or contact reilly@ohiou.edu The Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Sciences, 107 Irvine Hall, Athens, Ohio 45701.

►OCEES Home ►UGRIP INFO SHEET ►UGRIP Application form ►Spring 2009 BIOS 394 Syllabus	Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies UGRIP The UnderGraduate Research Immersion Program The special learning community of OCEES faculty, post-docs, visiting professors, and graduate students provides the opportunity to engage EEB undergraduates in scientific inquiry-based learning and research. The UGRIP plan is open to all EEB majors on a competitive basis. It consists of two components (see below) designed to engage students during freshman through senior years with research engagement and a formal research course experience in the junior/ senior years. Our philosophy is to invoke research experience early and in parallel with their core major requirements, then add formal research experience as upper classmen. UGRIP graduates will receive a letter of accomplishment that will explain their research experience and serve as a letter of recommendation for future employment/ academic opportunities. GETTING INTO UGRIP To get UGRIP started we are accepting applications from freshman, sophomores, and juniors interested in EEB research at OU. Students from participating departments (Biological Sciences, Environmental and Plant Biology, Geology, Geography, Philosophy) are welcome. Our second round of applications will be accepted in January and February 2010 and accepted students will be notified shortly thereafter in time to register for Spring Bios 394. Once UGRIP is up and running we will induct ~10 new freshman each year. Applications are reviewed and selections are made each spring quarter. Students are evaluated on academic standing fall quarter GPA and their application. UGRIP Course Components Component 1: OCEES SEMINAR SERIES BIOS (394) EEB Research Inquiry & Analysis - Wednesdays at Noon, Room TBA 2 Cr. Hr. course each spring quarter UGRIP students will attend research seminars weekly (which are also attended by the OCEES student body and faculty) and follow up each presentation with a tutorial discussing the research with the presenter. This new undergraduate seminar program will bring in visiting speakers to add more formal and more diverse research exposure to the UGRIP students and our OCEES community. This goal is to immerses the UGRIP students into research thinking and methods early and throughout their undergraduate tenure. Because of the variety of speakers in the program (peers, graduate students, post-docs, faculty and visiting researchers) the participants are exposed to a wide variety of research areas, methods, and types of oral presentations. UGRIP students take BIOS 394 each spring quarter in each of their 4 years for a total of 8 credits. Component 2: Formal Research Immersion Courses (4 cr. hrs.) This component of the UGRIP program involves active engagement in research offered in existing undergraduate research related or directed research courses (listed below). UGRIP students must complete one quarter (4 cr. hrs.) of directed undergraduate research courses during their sophomore though senior years. Component 2 course list: _______________________________________________ BIOS 481 Methods in computational neuroscience BIOS 492 Topics in Zoology BIOS 422 Microbiological techniques BIOS 405 EEB quantitative research methods and approaches BIOS 491 Biological internship BIOS 493 Directed undergraduate research BIOS 494 Undergraduate research BIOS 495 Senior Honors thesis GEOG 418 Research methods in plant biogeography GEOG 466 Principles of Remote sensing GEOG 478 Principles of GIS GEOG 481 Senior seminar GEOG 485 Geography internship GEOG 490 Geography studies GEOG 494 Geography field problems GEOL 475 Field Camp I GEOL 476 Subsurface methods GEOL 481 Groundwater flow modeling GEOL 490 Seminar in Geology GEOL 491 Geologic studies GEOL 492 Geology Internship GEOL 495 Senior thesis PBIO 415 Quantitative methods in plant biology PBIO 499 Senior thesis PBIO 404, 406, 407 Undergraduate research PBIO 411 Global Plant Biology PBIO 480 Molecular approaches in systematics, ecology & evolution PBIO 490 Plant biology internship _______________________________________________________ For more information: call 740 593-0424 or contact reilly@ohiou.edu The Ohio Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Sciences, 107 Irvine Hall, Athens, Ohio 45701.