Summer School of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology

自2005年以来，密歇根州立大学的行为神经内分泌暑期学校一直在成功运作。该计划将于2010年搬迁到埃默里大学。该领域的领导者将从美国各地来到埃默里大学校园，讨论诸如行为和神经系统的性别差异、激素对大脑结构和过程的影响以及压力的神经内分泌学等主题。参与者将接受写作，数据归档和生物信息学以及依赖行为分析的培训。本课程是为本科生（或最近获得本科学位的人）谁正在考虑申请研究生院。其目的是让学员欣赏行为神经内分泌学作为一门学科，以及它是什么样的感觉，在科学的职业生涯。该课程的一个重要方面是，学员与教授和研究生谁是有成就的科学家互动。在为期一周的课程之后，学员参加行为神经内分泌学会（SBN）的年度会议，以巩固他们所学到的知识，并扩大他们在该领域的社会联系。参加SBN会议是一个很好的方式为学员找到研究生课程和教师导师与匹配的兴趣。将汇集对科学职业感兴趣的学生，招聘工作将针对代表性不足的少数群体。因此，总体目标是在全国范围内增加这一科学领域申请人的实力和多样性。

A Summer School of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology has been operating successfully at Michigan State University since 2005. The program will relocate in 2010 to Emory University. Leaders in the field will be brought to Emory's campus from all over the U.S. to discuss topics such as sex differences in behavior and the nervous system, the effects of hormones on brain structures and processes, and the neuroendocrinology of stress. Participants will receive training in writing, data archiving and bioinformatics, and the analysis of hormone-dependent behaviors. The course is intended for undergraduates (or people who have recently received their undergraduate degree) who are contemplating applying to graduate school. The aim is to give trainees an appreciation for behavioral neuroendocrinology as a discipline as well as a sense of what it is like to have a career in science. One important aspect of the course is that the trainees interact with professors and graduate students who are accomplished scientists. Following the one-week course, trainees attend the annual meeting of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) to consolidate what they have learned and to expand their social contacts within the field. Attending the SBN meeting is an excellent way for trainees to find graduate programs and faculty mentors with matching interests. A mixture of students who have expressed interest in a career in science will be brought together, and recruitment efforts will target underrepresented minorities. Thus, the overall goal is to increase the strength and the diversity of the applicant pool in this area of science nationwide.