BP-ENDURE: The St. Louis Neuroscience Pipeline

这一申请将重新支持圣路易斯的BP-Endure项目，以培训在神经科学领域代表性不足的本科生。这笔赠款的目的是为来自三个合作机构的不同类别的学生提供严格和关键的神经科学培训：华盛顿大学、密苏里大学圣彼得堡分校。路易斯和哈里斯-斯托州立大学。通过在两年的研究、教育和网络体验中每年支持8名新生，该计划将建立一条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。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。培训将通过三个互动和身临其境的课程，在神经科学实验室进行符合学生兴趣和背景的全日制暑期和兼职学年研究，以及在会议上发表演讲，创建一个年轻的神经科学家社区。该管道为导师提供密集的研讨会。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。旨在实现这些目标的主要新举措包括：1)在我们的合作机构创建一门新课程，以发展未来研究人员的网络；2)引入耐力突触，这是一门加强神经科学基础知识、文献阅读和演示技能以及学生社区意识的课程；3)为神经科学大脑蜜蜂协会的本科生提供指导经验，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，并与高中生一起工作。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。

This application would renew support for the BP-ENDURE program in St. Louis to train undergraduate students underrepresented 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 supporting 8 new students per year over two years of research, education, and networking experiences, 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. 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 training will create a community of young neuroscientists through three interactive and immersive courses, full-time summer and part-time academic year research in a neuroscience lab matched to the student’s interests and background, and presentations at conferences. The Pipeline provides intensive workshops for mentors. 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. Major new initiatives aimed at accomplishing these goals include: 1) creation of a new course at our Partner Institutions to develop the network of future researchers, 2) the introduction of ENDURE-ing Synapses, a course to bolster neuroscience fundamentals, literature reading and presentation skills and a sense of community among the students, 3) mentoring experiences for 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.