Bridge the the PhD in Neuroscience

衔接神经科学博士学位

• 批准号: 9249116
• 负责人: William D Atchison
• 金额: $ 33.47万
• 依托单位: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-04-01 至 2020-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9249116
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 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A five year program to Enhance Neuroscience Diversity through Undergraduate Research Experiences (ENDURE) will be developed at Michigan State University (MSU). Its goal is to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) Ph.D.s trained in neurosciences: specifically to facilitate their entry into high quality and highly competitive mainland Ph.D. or dual degree (M.D. / Ph.D., D.O./Ph.D., D.V.M./Ph.D) programs with a Neuroscience emphasis and enhance their likeliness of their success in the program. Central to this is the need to 1) identify talented students with potential for Ph.D studies in Neuroscience; 2) introduce them to career opportunities in neuroscience; 3) provide research training and individual mentoring; 4) increase their competitiveness for graduate study; 5) and provide additional professional development activities. To do this a "bridge program" is proposed encompassing the last two years of undergraduate study. It entails established partnerships between MSU and 4 minority serving institutions (MSIs): two campuses in Puerto Rico in the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) system (UPR-Cayey and UPR-Arecibo), as well as two MSIs in the Southwest (Northern New Mexico College and St. Mary's University). To introduce students to neuroscience, a day-long workshop entitled, "What is Neuroscience?" will be held annually on each of the partnering campuses. Annual support will be provided for 8 summer students to work full-time at MSU on a 10-12 weeks research project in productive laboratories which are actively funded by extramural grants. To sustain student interest in neuroscience, a two semester videoconference journal club will be held at MSU and broadcast live to the 4 MSIs. It will be led by URM grad students in the neurosciences at MSU. Six URM students annually from the four MSIs will spend the fall semester between their 3rd and 5th yrs at MSU taking 9 credits of classwork and continuing on an original, hypothesis-based research project. Included will be a seminar-type course stressing translational and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the etiology of human disease. This course will entail significant practice in writing, as well as an integral journal club. Improvement of communication skills will involve both informal and more formalized settings (research presentations, participation in class, journal club participation and paper writing). Student progress in both course work and research will be closely monitored and externally evaluated. This program will increase the number of URM students entering Ph.D programs in Neuro-/Behavioral Science, by 1) increasing the student's awareness for research career opportunities in neuroscience, 2) improving their English language skills, 3) providing high quality mentored research experience during the undergraduate studies to `springboard" the student into the Ph.D program, and 4) providing further didactic training in neuroscience principles, scientific writing and career enrichment activities. Through these combined activities, the student will become more confident in the application process, present a more competitive application and make valuable contacts (network) with researchers at MSU and elsewhere.

 描述(由申请者提供)：密歇根州立大学(MSU)将开发一个通过本科生研究经验加强神经科学多样性的五年计划(耐久)。它的目标是增加接受神经科学培训的少数族裔(URM)博士的数量：特别是帮助他们进入高质量和竞争激烈的大陆博士或双学位(M.D./Ph.D.、D.O./Ph.D.、D.V.M./Ph.D)项目，并提高他们在该项目中成功的可能性。这一点的核心是需要1)发现有潜力的有才华的学生 为他们提供神经科学方面的博士学习；2)向他们介绍神经科学方面的职业机会；3)提供研究培训和个人指导；4)提高他们在研究生学习方面的竞争力；5)并提供额外的专业发展活动。为了做到这一点，我们提出了一个包含最后两年本科学习的“过桥计划”。这需要密歇根州立大学与4个少数群体服务机构建立伙伴关系：波多黎各大学系统中的两个波多黎各校区(普遍定期审议-凯伊和普遍定期审议-阿雷西博)，以及西南部的两个少数群体服务机构(新墨西哥北部学院和圣玛丽大学)。为了向学生介绍神经科学，为期一天的研讨会题为“什么是神经科学？”将在每个合作校园每年举行一次。每年将为8名暑期学生提供支持，让他们在密歇根州立大学从事10-12周的生产性实验室研究项目，该项目由校外补助金积极资助。为了保持学生对神经科学的兴趣，密歇根州立大学将举行为期两个学期的视频会议期刊俱乐部，并向4名MSI进行现场直播。它将由密歇根州立大学神经科学专业的URM研究生领导。来自四个MSI的六名URM学生每年将在密歇根州立大学三至五年级的秋季学期中学习9学分的课堂作业，并继续进行一项基于假设的原创研究项目。将包括一个研讨会式的课程，强调翻译和跨学科方法来理解人类疾病的病因学。本课程将包括大量的写作练习，以及一个完整的日记俱乐部。交流技能的提高将包括非正式和更正式的环境(研究报告、课堂参与、期刊俱乐部参与和论文写作)。学生在课程作业和研究方面的进展将受到密切监测和外部评估。这一计划将通过以下方式增加URM学生进入神经/行为科学博士项目的数量：1)提高学生对神经科学研究职业机会的认识，2)提高他们的英语语言技能，3)在本科学习期间提供高质量的指导研究经验，以帮助学生进入博士项目，4)提供进一步的神经科学原理、科学写作和职业充实活动的教学培训。通过这些综合活动，学生将在申请过程中变得更有信心，提出更具竞争力的申请，并与密歇根大学和其他地方的研究人员建立有价值的联系(网络)。