GENERAL INFORMATION The Cornell University Undergraduate Research Program on Biodiversity (CURPOB) offers an opportunity for undergraduate students to participate in research, related to the continuing exploration of the rich, biological complexity of the tropics, and through this participation learn about a wide range of topics related to biodiversity studies, including ecology, systematics, conservation, natural products chemistry, ethnobiology, agriculture, health, medicine, and biochemistry. A main thrust of this research is on the wealth of biomedicines derived from plants, animals, fungi, and microbes which constitute the biodiversity of the tropical world. The Summer 2000's program, CURPOB in the Amazon and Caribbean, will include investigations in the Amazon basin region (specifically based out of the Yutajé and/or La Esmeralda Research Station in the Amazonas State of Venezuela), or in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean where we will visit sites including the island of Hispaniola (specifically based out of the Cornell University Biodiversity Center at Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic).The purpose of the CURPOB is to learn through research. Each student participant will contribute, through material and data collection, to on-going field and laboratory research related to biodiversity and biomedicine discovery in these regions. Additionally, each participant will develop, over the course of the program, an individual research project related to biodiversity for which they will collect both field and laboratory data, and give oral presentations at national conferences and Cornell, as well as prepare a formal research paper to be published in "Emanations from the Rain Forest", an undergraduate research journal. All students selected will be required to take a one-credit preparatory course which will meet during the Spring semester.Who Should Apply? All undergraduates interested in the biological sciences, including field biology, conservation, systematics, biochemistry, chemical ecology, ethnobiomedicine, agriculture and health sciences, and anthropology may apply. The Cornell University Biodiversity Undergraduate Research Program is funded in-part by Cornell University and by the National Institutes of Health/Fogarty International Center's Minority International Research Training (MIRT) program, and underrepresented minorities are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: January 31, 2000 Selection: February 29, 2000
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http://bhort.bh.cornell.edu/phyto/CUBURP, http://bhort.bh.cornell.edu/nih-mirt, http://bhort.bh.cornell.edu/nih-mirt/emanations1-1/index.html, http://bhort.bh.cornell.edu/phyto/cublabpuntacana, or e-mail Dr. Francisco Guanchez (fg16@cornell.edu) or Dr. John Berry (jpb12@cornell.edu). Please also send cc: Dr. Eloy Rodriguez (er30@cornell.edu).
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