BP-ENDURE St. Louis: A Neuroscience Pipeline

 描述(由申请者提供)：该申请将在圣路易斯为正在接受神经科学培训的本科生创建BP-Entrure项目。这笔赠款的目的是为来自三个合作机构(华盛顿大学、密苏里大学圣彼得堡分校)的不同类别的学生提供严格和关键的神经科学培训。路易斯和哈里斯-斯托州立大学)。通过为10个暑期研究资助职位提供支持，这项提议将建立一个通往研究生院的管道。该管道强调在口头和书面科学交流、发现科学和外展经验方面的持续培训。具体地说，这项提议将每年支持10名早期受训人员，每人最多三年。我们的渠道长期致力于尖端研究、跨学科教育和提供现代职业发展。我们致力于成为一个响应研究环境变化的项目，通过帮助我们的学生追求重要的和创新的问题和概念，采用新的技术，并与他们的同龄人和公众进行有效的沟通。该提案将允许增加三门吸引青少年的互动和身临其境的课程，并创建一个年轻科学家社区，他们最早可以在大一结束后的夏天开始学习。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进行创新和专注的协调，招收和留住有才华的、多样化的学生，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)引入三门互动课程(青少年大脑、神经科学未来和神经科学家的技能)，以增强学生的神经科学基础和社区意识；3)加强本科生对神经科学蜜蜂协会的参与，作为他们科学交流培训的一部分；以及4)完善近同行指导计划，让研究生与本科生和本科生一起工作，与高中生一起工作。这些举措将确保我们的学生始终走在神经科学研究、教学和外展发展的前沿。

 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.