REU: Undergraduate Research in Neurobiology at Ohio University

该奖项每年将支持10名本科生参加俄亥俄大学提供的神经科学本科研究项目。该计划是一个独立的十周神经科学研究介绍，围绕四个主要思想构建。首先，通过科学工作者的讲座，包括研究生、博士后、学院和大学教师、拨款管理人员和私营企业的研究人员，参与者获得了关于研究职业的报酬、要求和结构的一般知识。其次，通过42小时的学习，他们对神经科学有了基本的了解。结构化的课堂教学。第三，为了直接体验研究的乐趣和挫折，他们与自己选择的教师导师一起研究特定的研究课题，分析他们的结果，并在项目结束时的研讨会上以书面形式和口头形式展示他们的发现。第四，为了更深入地理解成为一名研究科学家意味着什么，每个学生都被分配了一名研究生导师，并且还接触到各种专业、学术和社会环境，学生可以与从研究生到教授的各个层次的研究科学家互动。我们特别注意课程的结构，以便学生随着知识和技能的发展而不断进步，获得更大的独立性；为特别合格的学生提供资金，让他们参加科学会议，展示他们的成果，并更多地接触科学文化。该奖项将促进个人的继续教育和培训，这些个人将成为神经科学各个方面的下一代基础研究人员的一部分。

This award will support the participation of 10 undergraduate students each year in the Undergraduate Research in Neuroscience program offered by Ohio University. The program is a self-contained ten week introduction to research in neuroscience that is constructed around four main ideas. First, through lectures from scientific workers including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, college and university faculty, grant administrators, and researchers in private industry, the participants acquire a general knowledge of the rewards, requirements, and structure of a research career. Second, they achieve a basic understanding of neuroscience through 42 hrs. of structured classroom instruction. Third, in order to directly experience the joys and frustrations of research, they work with a faculty mentor of their choice to study a particular research topic, analyze their results, and present their findings in written form and orally at a colloquium at the end of the program. Fourth, in order to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a research scientist, each student is assigned a graduate student mentor and is also exposed to a variety of professional, academic, and social settings where the students can interact with research scientists at all levels from graduate students to professors. Particular care has been taken to structure the program so that the students continually advance to greater independence as their knowledge and skills develop; funds are provided for particularly qualified students to attend scientific conferences to present their results and experience even greater exposure to the culture of science. This award will foster the continued education and training of individuals who will be part of the next generation of basic researchers in the diverse aspects of neuroscience.