BP-ENDURE St. Louis: A Neuroscience Pipeline

 描述（由申请人提供）：本申请将在圣路易斯为本科生创建一个BP-ENDURE项目，以进行神经科学培训。该补助金的目的是为来自三个合作机构（华盛顿大学、密苏里-圣路易斯大学和哈里斯-斯托州立大学）的不同学生群体提供神经科学方面的严格和批判性培训。通过为夏季研究提供10个资助职位的支持，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。具体而言，该提案将每年支持10名早期受训人员，每人最多三年。我们的管道长期致力于前沿研究，跨学科教育，并提供现代职业发展。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。该提案将允许增加三个互动和沉浸式课程，这将吸引青少年，并创建一个年轻科学家的社区，他们可以开始早在大一后的夏天。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。该计划将通过与大学和合作学校的创新和专门协调来招募和留住有才华的多样化学生，并由董事会和外部评估员进行正式评估。旨在实现这些目标的主要新举措包括：1）为对神经科学感兴趣的本科生建立一个新的研究机会网络，2）引入三个互动课程（青少年大脑，神经科学的未来，和神经科学家的技能），以加强神经科学的基础知识和学生之间的社区意识，3）加强参与社会神经科学脑蜜蜂的本科生作为他们在科学传播的培训的一部分，和4）完善一个近同行指导计划，有研究生与本科生和本科生与高中生一起工作。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。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application would create a BP-ENDURE program in St. Louis for undergraduate students pursuing training 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 providing support for 10 funded positions for summer research, 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. Specifically, this proposal will support 10 early-stage trainees annually for up to three years each. Our Pipeline has long-standing commitments to cutting-edge research, to interdisciplinary education, and to providing modern career development. 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 proposal will allow for the addition of three interactive and immersive courses that will appeal to teens and create a community of young scientists who can begin as early as the summer after their freshman year. 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. The Program will recruit and retain talented, diverse students through innovative and dedicated coordination with the University and partner schools and be evaluated formally by a Board of Directors and an external assessor. Major new initiatives aimed at accomplishing these goals include: 1) the establishment of a new network of research opportunities for undergraduates interested in the neurosciences, 2) the introduction of three interactive courses (The Teen Brain, Neuroscience Futures, and Skills for a Neuroscientist) to bolster neuroscience fundamentals and a sense of community among the students, 3) enhanced involvement of the 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.