BP-ENDURE: The St. Louis Neuroscience Pipeline

这项申请将重新支持圣路易斯的BP-ENDURE项目，以培养神经科学领域代表性不足的本科生。该补助金的目的是为来自三个合作机构的不同学生群体提供神经科学方面的严格和批判性培训：华盛顿大学，密苏里大学-圣路易斯分校和哈里斯-斯托州立大学。通过在两年的研究，教育和网络经验中每年支持8名新学生，该提案将建立一个通往研究生院的管道。管道强调口头和书面科学交流，发现科学和推广经验的持续培训。我们寻求成为一个程序，通过帮助我们的学生追求重要和创新的问题和概念，采用新技术，并与他们的同龄人和公众有效地沟通，以应对研究环境的变化。该培训将通过三门互动式和沉浸式课程、在与学生兴趣和背景相匹配的神经科学实验室进行全日制夏季和兼职学年研究以及在会议上进行演讲，创建一个年轻神经科学家社区。管道为导师提供密集讲习班。课程和研究环境将保持广泛和深入，结合分子，细胞和系统水平的方法来研究神经功能和功能障碍的专业知识。旨在实现这些目标的主要新举措包括：1）在我们的合作机构创建一个新的课程，以发展未来的研究人员网络，2）引入ENDURE-ing突触，一个课程，以加强神经科学基础，文学阅读和演讲技巧和学生之间的社区意识，3）在神经科学脑蜂协会为本科生提供指导经验，作为他们科学传播培训的一部分，以及4）完善一个类似于同伴指导的项目，即研究生与本科生合作，本科生与高中生合作。这些举措将确保我们的学生保持在神经科学研究，教学和外展发展的最前沿。

This application would renew support for the BP-ENDURE program in St. Louis to train undergraduate students underrepresented in the neurosciences. The objective of the grant is to provide rigorous and critical training in neuroscience to a diverse cohort of students from three partner institutions: Washington University, the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Harris-Stowe State University. By supporting 8 new students per year over two years of research, education, and networking experiences, this proposal will establish a Pipeline to graduate school. The Pipeline emphasizes sustained training in oral and written science communication, discovery science and outreach experience. We seek to be a Program that responds to changes in the research environment by helping our students to pursue important and innovative problems and concepts, to adopt new techniques and to communicate effectively with their peers and the general public. The training will create a community of young neuroscientists through three interactive and immersive courses, full-time summer and part-time academic year research in a neuroscience lab matched to the student’s interests and background, and presentations at conferences. The Pipeline provides intensive workshops for mentors. The curriculum and research environments will remain broad and deep, combining expertise in molecular, cellular and systems-level approaches to the study of neural function and dysfunction. Major new initiatives aimed at accomplishing these goals include: 1) creation of a new course at our Partner Institutions to develop the network of future researchers, 2) the introduction of ENDURE-ing Synapses, a course to bolster neuroscience fundamentals, literature reading and presentation skills and a sense of community among the students, 3) mentoring experiences for undergraduates in the Society for Neuroscience Brain Bee as part of their training in science communication, and 4) refinement of a near peer-mentoring program that has graduate students working with undergraduates and undergraduates working with high school students. These initiatives will ensure our students remain at the forefront of developments in neuroscience research, teaching and outreach.