REU Neuroscience and Behavior Program

该奖项为神经科学和行为提供资金 马萨诸塞州大学的一个项目， 本科生研究经验网站。 此程序将 利用一个独特的神经科学社区， 这个区域网站。 美国五所大学的神经科学家 阿默斯特地区是马萨诸塞州大学的成员 神经科学和行为计划（NSB）。 该计划将带来 进入一个实验室环境， 成为一个研究团队的成员。 这种方法将有助于 师徒关系的发展，这可能有一个 对职业选择的深远影响。 程序 将包括一个为期八周的研究项目， laboratories. 实验室工作旨在介绍 神经科学的三个专业领域之一 NSB计划中的代表;学习和行为 神经内分泌学和神经发育。 除了它们 实验室工作，学生将参加一系列每周 研讨会旨在提供神经科学的概述， 引进国外实验室的知识和技术 学生们工作的地方。 这样，REU学生 将熟悉神经科学的广泛领域， 从而为选择神经科学领域的职业做好更充分的准备。 REU方案的后续行动将是鼓励在以下领域开展工作： 家机构。 将从当地五所大学中招收合格的本科生 机构以及从国家本科 人口 该计划将特别关注 招募在科学领域代表性不足的群体-妇女 和少数民族。 此外，与教师的个人接触在一个 一些少数民族人口众多的机构 同意帮助确定合格的少数民族本科生， 节目 由于REU教师由28%的女性组成， 少数群体，适当的榜样和导师将提供 对于所有参与者。

This award provides funds to the Neuroscience and Behavior Program at the University of Massachusetts to establish a Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site. This program will take advantage of a unique neuroscience community that exists in this regional site. Neuroscientists at each of five colleges in the Amherst area are members of the University of Massachusetts Neuroscience and Behavior Program (NSB). This program will bring undergraduates into a laboratory environment where they will become members of a research team. This approach will facilitate the development of mentor-protege relationships, which may have a profound and long-lasting affect on career choices. The Program will consist of an eight-week research project in one of the laboratories. The laboratory work is designed to introduce students to one of the three specialty areas in neuroscience represented in the NSB Program; Learning and Behavior Neuroendocrinology, and Neurodevelopment. In addition to their laboratory work, students will attend a series of weekly workshops designed to provide an overview of neuroscience by introducing the knowledge and technology of laboratories outside the one in which the student works. In this way REU students will become familiar with a broad segment of neuroscience and thus be better prepared to choose careers in the neurosciences. The REU program will be followed up by encouraging work in the home institutions. Qualified undergraduates will be recruited from the five local institutions as well as from the national undergraduate population. The program will focus special attention on recruiting groups that are under-represented in science - women and minorities. In addition, personal contacts with faculty at a number of institutions with large minority populations have agreed to help identify qualified minority undergraduates for the program. Since the REU faculty is made up of 28% women and minorities, appropriate role models and mentors will be available for all participants.