REU Neuroscience and Behavior Program

REU 神经科学和行为项目

• 批准号: 9100756
• 负责人: Rodney Murphey
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-05-15 至 1994-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9100756&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Neuroscience; Behavior; Program

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.

该奖项为马萨诸塞大学的神经科学和行为计划提供资金，以建立一个本科生研究经验网站。该计划将利用这个地区网站上存在的一个独特的神经科学社区。阿默斯特地区五所学院的神经科学家都是马萨诸塞大学神经科学和行为计划(NSB)的成员。这项计划将把本科生带入实验室环境，在那里他们将成为研究团队的成员。这种方法将促进师徒关系的发展，这可能会对职业选择产生深远而持久的影响。该计划将包括在其中一个实验室进行的为期八周的研究项目。实验室工作旨在向学生介绍NSB计划所代表的神经科学的三个专业领域之一：学习和行为神经内分泌学和神经发育。除了实验室工作外，学生还将参加一系列每周一次的研讨会，通过介绍学生工作所在实验室以外的实验室的知识和技术，提供神经科学的概述。通过这种方式，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好的准备。在REU计划之后，将鼓励在国内机构工作。合格的本科生将从五所地方院校和全国本科生中招聘。该计划将特别关注招聘在科学界代表性不足的群体--女性和少数族裔。此外，与一些拥有大量少数族裔人口的机构的教职员工的个人接触也同意帮助为该项目寻找合格的少数族裔本科生。由于REU的教职员工中有28%是女性和少数族裔，因此将为所有参与者提供适当的榜样和导师。