REU Site Program in Neurobiology and Behavior

该奖项为马里兰大学帕克分校（UMCP）神经科学中心和动物学系提供资金，以建立REU现场计划，帮助培养本科生对生物学研究的兴趣。该项目将侧重于神经生物学和行为学的研究，主要涉及马里兰大学医学院及其姊妹校区——马里兰大学东岸分校（University of Maryland Eastern Shore）的学生。马里兰大学东岸分校是马里兰大学历史上的黑人校区。学生研究将在UMCP进行。该项目将大力招募和培训少数族裔和女性，不仅来自马里兰大学和密苏里大学，也来自马里兰大学系统其他少数族裔入学率较高的校区。REU计划将向学生介绍基础研究，让他们有机会在活跃和富有成效的研究实验室工作。该计划的主要目标是为学生提供更广泛的研究/培训经验，而不是典型的在研究实验室工作的单个学生。利用UMCP在神经生物学和行为学方面大量活跃的研究项目，学生将有大量的机会与该项目的所有教师在讲座，演示和实地考察中互动。学生之间的互动将极大地受益，这将通过两周一次的学生主导的研讨会来发展，由一名教师协助，但由学生管理。

This award provides funds to the Center for Neurosciences and the Department of Zoology at the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) to establish an REU Site Program to help develop undergraduate interest in biological research. The program will place emphasis on research in Neurobiology and Behavior and primarily involve students from the UMCP and its sister-campus, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), a historically black campus of the University of Maryland. Student research will be conducted at UMCP. The program will place great effort on recruiting and training minorities and women, not only from UMCP and UMES, but also from other campuses of the University of Maryland System with high minority enrollments. The REU program will introduce students to basic research by giving them the opportunity to work in active and productive research laboratories. A major objective of the program is to provide students with a broader research/training experience than is typical with an individual student working in a research laboratory. Taking advantage of the large number of active research programs in neurobiology and behavior at UMCP, students will have substantial opportunities to interact with all of the faculty in the program in lectures, demonstrations, and field trips. Students will benefit immensely by interacting among themselves and this will be developed through a bi-weekly student-led seminar, facilitated by a faculty member, but run by students.