Site Research Experience for Undergraduates in Neuroscience

该奖项为伊利诺伊大学神经与行为生物学（NBB）项目（1970年开始授予博士学位的跨学科项目）在神经科学领域建立一个跨学科站点REU项目提供资金。共同的焦点是神经科学，这是一个跨学科领域，旨在从分子和细胞水平到行为水平了解神经细胞和系统的功能。在该项目中表现出广泛参与实验室研究的本科生历史的教师被选为联合首席研究员。总的来说，NBB的教师们已经派遣了大约75名与他们一起工作的本科生进入科学事业，包括在哈佛大学、耶鲁大学、芝加哥大学、斯坦福大学和宾夕法尼亚大学担任教职。更多的人在医学和其他专业的博士水平领域工作。提供研究经验的神经科学子领域包括行为神经科学，神经发育和可塑性，分子，细胞和遗传神经科学，神经生理学，神经解剖学，计算神经科学和认知神经科学。

This award provides funds to establish an interdisciplinary site REU program in Neuroscience at the University of Illinois Neural and Behavioral Biology (NBB) Program, a Ph.D. granting interdisciplinary program begun in 1970. The common focus is neuroscience, the interdisciplinary field that seeks to understand the function of nerve cells and systems from the molecular and cellular levels to that of behavior. Faculty in the program that demonstrate an extensive history of involvement of undergraduate in laboratory research have been selected as co- Principal Investigators. Collectively, faculty in NBB have sent about 75 undergraduates who worked with them into scientific careers, including faculty positions at Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Stanford, and Pennsylvania. Even greater numbers have gone on to careers in Medicine and other professional Doctorate-level fields. Neuroscience subfields in which research experience will be offered included behavioral neuroscience, neural development and plasticity, molecular, cellular and genetic neuroscience, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, computational neuroscience, and cognitive neuroscience.