IGERT: Brain, Mind, and Society: An Integrative Training Program in Valuation, Decision-making, and Social Exchange

这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训(IGERT)奖项支持大脑、思维和社会领域多学科研究生培训计划的发展。其目的是为学生提供在神经科学和社会科学的交叉点从事科学职业所需的分析基础和实验技能，这些学生能够整合神经、心理学和经济学方法，解决与估值、人类决策和社会交流有关的基本和应用问题。学员将学习一门设计严谨、主要由团队授课的课程，从神经系统的组织和功能，到决策和社会交流的数学模型。这门课程将与跨学科实验室研究的平等平衡相辅相成，从而将研究培训与学术紧密结合起来，创造出跨两个学科的真正的智力混合体。大脑、心灵和社会计划强调通过一个名为Science Matters的四级外展计划纳入高素质的代表不足的学生，该计划涉及一个基于团队的导师计划，将这个项目的学生、洛杉矶加州州立大学的代表不足的本科生和洛杉矶贝尔蒙特学校的代表不足的高中生聚集在一起。由此产生的项目合作团队的多样性将反映该项目在五个关键社会应用领域的更广泛影响，这最终可能提供一个新的科学丰富的论述，以帮助我们理解关键的社会问题，在经济、治疗、教育、哲学、商业和政治应用方面。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports the development of a multidisciplinary graduate training program in Brain, Mind, and Society. Its purpose is to provide students with the analytical foundations and the experimental skills needed to pursue scientific careers at the intersection of neuroscience and the social sciences, who are capable of integrating neural, psychological, and economic approaches to attack basic and applied problems related to valuation, human decision making, and social exchange. Trainees will take a rigorously designed, largely team-taught course sequence, spanning from nervous system organization and function to mathematical models of decision making and social exchange. This coursework will be complemented by equal balance in cross-disciplinary laboratory research, thereby tightly integrating research training with scholarship to create true intellectual hybrids across both disciplines. The Brain, Mind, and Society program emphasizes the inclusion of highly qualified underrepresented students through a four-tiered outreach program, Science Matters, involving a team-based mentorship program bringing together students from the this program, underrepresented undergraduate students at Cal State University, Los Angeles and underrepresented high school students in Los Angeles' Belmont Schools. The resulting diversity of the program's collaborative teams will reflect the program's broader impact in five key social application areas, which may ultimately provide a new scientifically-enriched discourse to help us understand critical social problems, in economic, therapeutic, educational, philosophical, and business and political applications. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.