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The Big Sky Brain Project

大天空大脑计划

基本信息

批准号：
8517072
负责人：
MICHAEL PATRICK KAVANAUGH
金额：
$ 23.71万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2011-09-15 至 2016-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8517072
关键词：
Administrator Age Anatomy Area Awareness Back Brain Caring Collection Commit Communities Community Hospitals Computers Consult Contract Services County Development Drosophila genus Drosophila melanogaster Education Educational Curriculum Educational Materials Electroencephalography Ensure Epilepsy Evaluation Exhibits Faculty Glacier Goals Grant Housing Human Institutes Internships K-12 Education Laboratories Learning Life Location Measurement Memory Montana Museums Native Americans Neuraxis Neuroanatomy Neurobiology Neurodegenerative Disorders Neurons Neurosciences Neurosciences Research Patients Population Poverty Production Public Health Research Research Personnel Resources Rural Rural Community STEM field San Francisco Schools Science Signal Transduction Site Specialist Structure Students Synapses Synaptic plasticity Time Touch sensation Translating Traumatic Brain Injury Travel Universities Update Visit Work base career cost design digital exhibitions experience graduate student high school innovation instrumentation laboratory facility literacy multidisciplinary neurodevelopment neurophysiology novel outreach program programs research study role model science education square foot teacher tool tribal community undergraduate student

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goals of the The Big Sky Brain Project are to increase the neuroscience literacy of tens of thousands of Montana K-12 students and to enhance their opportunities for careers in the STEM field. Montana - with its vast and predominantly rural landscape, high rates of poverty, and large Native American population - requires novel science education approaches that are appropriate to the unique geographical, financial, and cultural challenges of the state. The Big Sky Brain Project team is made up of state and national leaders in the fields of neuroscience, science education, and Montana Indian education. In order to be responsive to these unique regional factors while providing a rigorous educational experience, the University of Montana's Center for Structural and Functional Neuroscience and the spectrUM Discovery Area, the University's hands-on science museum, will collaborate with the Exploratorium to create a world-class neuroscience exhibition called the Brainzone. This exhibition will be housed in the new spectrUM Discovery Area, which will open in late autumn 2011 in a major regional shopping mall near the University. In a state with a population of less than a million, Southgate Mall has seven million annual visits - more than double the number of Montana's Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks combined. The Brainzone will be an integral part of spectrUM's popular field trip program for local K-12 students and will also be used in its mobile science program, which brings hands-on exhibits to isolated, underserved rural and tribal K-12 schools. The Brainzone will feature four exhibits and a computer learning lab to implement grade-specific curricula centered on neuroscience core themes ranging from gross neuroanatomy to cellular neurophysiology to learning and memory. Unlike similar educational exhibitions, the Brainzone will also include a working laboratory, called the BrainLab, that will house research-grade EEG instrumentation and a wet lab for Drosophila melanogaster neurobiology. The BrainLab, which will be in full public view, will be staffed by a graduate-level lab manager, and it will be utilized for K-12 student research demonstrations as well as by researchers ranging from high school interns to K-12 teachers to neuroscience faculty and clinicians from the University of Montana and Community Hospital in Missoula. In partnership with the Missoula County Public Schools, the Brainzone will host field trips for K-12 students to participate in grade-specific hands-on neuroscience exhibits and bench research. At other times it will be open to the public. In the final two years of the five-year project, the Brainzone exhibition will travel with spectrUM's mobile science program to bring core neuroscience curriculum to thousands of K-12 students living throughout Montana including those in isolated rural and tribal communities. Beyond the five-year duration of the grant, committed institutional support from the University, the Center for Structural and Functional Neuroscience, and spectrUM will ensure the long-term value, care, and use of these unique educational resources.