Summer Research Experience in Translational Neuroscience and Neurological Surgery

 描述(由申请者提供)：我们暑期研究项目的主要目标是让选定的6名高中生和6名本科生沉浸在基础神经科学、神经工程和神经外科的翻译环境中。在项目实施的头7年里，我们已经安排了来自49所不同学校的75名高中和大学本科生参加该项目。学生们参加了17个不同的实验室，总共有22名教职员工，参加了80多场不同的大型巡回演讲，跟随12名不同的外科医生观察了150多例手术，并由20名不同的教职员工每周进行学生小组演讲。我们以前班上的几个学生现在已经被医学院或博士神经科学项目录取，许多高中生在大学继续学习神经科学或医学预科。我们的参与者中超过50%是妇女，15%来自代表性不足的群体。该计划的参与者将通过当地高中、社区学院、学院和大学的科学系宣布我们的计划来招募。将特别努力通过包括雷尼尔学者、DO-IT和华盛顿梅萨在内的不同外展计划，从代表性不足的群体中招募个人。通过这些计划的协调招募将确保我们将有来自群体的参与者，包括非裔美国人、拉美裔拉美人、美洲原住民、来自没有大学教育经验的家庭的孩子以及从那里产生的机会、弱势群体(例如，身体、感官剥夺、学习障碍)，以及有养育经验的人。通过暑期体验，参与者将获得自信和自信，这将使他们能够利用教育机会，将更好地了解科学过程，将基础研究转化为临床应用的挑战，将为他们提供导师，这些导师可以成为他们对教育的持续兴趣的一部分，并可能在科学、工程和/或医学领域取得成功。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of our summer research program is to immerse a selected group of 6 high school students and 6 undergraduates in a translational environment of basic neuroscience, neural engineering, and neurological surgery. In the first 7 years of program operation, we have placed 75 high school and college undergraduate students from 49 different schools in the program. Students have participated in 17 different laboratories engaging a total of 22 faculty, attended over 80 separate Grand Rounds presentations, observed over 150 procedures by following 12 different surgeons, and had weekly student group presentations by 20 different faculty members. Several students (8) from our earlier classes have now been accepted into medical school or PhD neuroscience programs, and many of the high school students have gone on to neuroscience or premedical studies in college. Over 50% of our participants have been women and 15% have been from underrepresented groups. Participants in this program will be recruited by announcing our program through science departments at local high schools, community colleges, colleges and universities. Special efforts will be made to recruit individuals from underrepresented groups through different outreach programs including The Rainier Scholars, DO-IT, and Washington MESA. Coordinated recruitment through these programs will ensure that we will have participants from groups including individuals who are African Americans, Hispanic Latinos, Native Americans, children from families where there is no experience with college education and the opportunities that arise there from, disadvantaged (e.g. physical, sensory deprived, learning disorders), and have fostering experiences. Through their summer experiences participants will gain the self-assurance and confidence that will enable them to take advantage of educational opportunities, will have a better understanding of the scientific process, challenges of translating basic research to clinical application, will provide them with mentors that can become part of their continuing interest in their education and may lead to careers in science, engineering, and/or medicine.