IGERT: Brain, Mind, and Society: An Integrative Training Program in Valuation, Decision-making, and Social Exchange

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持大脑、心理和社会领域多学科研究生培训项目的发展。其目的是为学生提供在神经科学和社会科学交叉领域从事科学事业所需的分析基础和实验技能，他们能够整合神经学，心理学和经济学方法来解决与估值，人类决策和社会交换相关的基本和应用问题。学员将学习严格设计的、以团队授课为主的课程序列，从神经系统组织和功能到决策和社会交流的数学模型。本课程将以跨学科的实验室研究作为补充，从而将研究训练与学术研究紧密结合，在两个学科之间创造真正的智力混合体。“大脑、心智和社会”项目通过一个四层拓展项目“科学问题”（Science Matters），强调将高素质、代表性不足的学生纳入其中，其中包括一个基于团队的指导项目，将来自该项目的学生、洛杉矶加州州立大学（Cal State University, Los Angeles）代表性不足的本科生和洛杉矶贝尔蒙特学校（Belmont Schools）代表性不足的高中生聚集在一起。该项目合作团队的多样性将反映出该项目在五个关键社会应用领域的广泛影响，这可能最终提供一种新的科学丰富的话语，帮助我们理解经济、治疗、教育、哲学、商业和政治应用中的关键社会问题。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，促进研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports the development of a multidisciplinary graduate training program in Brain, Mind, and Society. Its purpose is to provide students with the analytical foundations and the experimental skills needed to pursue scientific careers at the intersection of neuroscience and the social sciences, who are capable of integrating neural, psychological, and economic approaches to attack basic and applied problems related to valuation, human decision making, and social exchange. Trainees will take a rigorously designed, largely team-taught course sequence, spanning from nervous system organization and function to mathematical models of decision making and social exchange. This coursework will be complemented by equal balance in cross-disciplinary laboratory research, thereby tightly integrating research training with scholarship to create true intellectual hybrids across both disciplines. The Brain, Mind, and Society program emphasizes the inclusion of highly qualified underrepresented students through a four-tiered outreach program, Science Matters, involving a team-based mentorship program bringing together students from the this program, underrepresented undergraduate students at Cal State University, Los Angeles and underrepresented high school students in Los Angeles' Belmont Schools. The resulting diversity of the program's collaborative teams will reflect the program's broader impact in five key social application areas, which may ultimately provide a new scientifically-enriched discourse to help us understand critical social problems, in economic, therapeutic, educational, philosophical, and business and political applications. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.