REU: Undergraduate Research in Neurobiology at Ohio University

该奖项将支持每年10名本科生参加俄亥俄州大学提供的神经科学本科生研究项目。该计划是一个独立的十周介绍神经科学研究，围绕四个主要思想构建。首先，通过讲座从科学工作者，包括研究生，博士后研究员，学院和大学教师，资助管理人员和研究人员在私营企业，与会者获得的奖励，要求和结构的研究生涯的一般知识。第二，他们通过42小时获得对神经科学的基本理解。结构化的课堂教学。第三，为了直接体验研究的喜悦和挫折，他们与他们选择的教师导师一起研究特定的研究课题，分析他们的结果，并以书面形式和口头形式在计划结束时的座谈会上展示他们的发现。第四，为了更深入地了解成为研究科学家意味着什么，每个学生都被分配了一个研究生导师，并接触到各种专业，学术和社会环境，学生可以与研究科学家互动从研究生到教授的各个层次。特别注意结构的程序，使学生不断推进到更大的独立性，因为他们的知识和技能的发展;资金提供给特别合格的学生参加科学会议，介绍他们的成果和经验，甚至更多地接触到科学文化。该奖项将促进个人的继续教育和培训，他们将成为神经科学各个方面的下一代基础研究人员的一部分。

This award will support the participation of 10 undergraduate students each year in the Undergraduate Research in Neuroscience program offered by Ohio University. The program is a self-contained ten week introduction to research in neuroscience that is constructed around four main ideas. First, through lectures from scientific workers including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, college and university faculty, grant administrators, and researchers in private industry, the participants acquire a general knowledge of the rewards, requirements, and structure of a research career. Second, they achieve a basic understanding of neuroscience through 42 hrs. of structured classroom instruction. Third, in order to directly experience the joys and frustrations of research, they work with a faculty mentor of their choice to study a particular research topic, analyze their results, and present their findings in written form and orally at a colloquium at the end of the program. Fourth, in order to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a research scientist, each student is assigned a graduate student mentor and is also exposed to a variety of professional, academic, and social settings where the students can interact with research scientists at all levels from graduate students to professors. Particular care has been taken to structure the program so that the students continually advance to greater independence as their knowledge and skills develop; funds are provided for particularly qualified students to attend scientific conferences to present their results and experience even greater exposure to the culture of science. This award will foster the continued education and training of individuals who will be part of the next generation of basic researchers in the diverse aspects of neuroscience.