INTERDEPARTMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE PROGRAM

描述（改编自申请人提供的摘要）：本申请的目标是 建议，提交给联合博士前培训计划，是为了支持 耶鲁大学跨部门神经科学计划（INP）的研究生培训 大学我们要求总共10个职位，5个第一年， 五年级研究生。INP是大学毕业生 耶鲁大学神经科学系的一个项目目前，该项目已进入第12个 一年，由来自19个部门和计划的89名教师组成， 艺术与科学学院（FAS）和耶鲁医学院。我们目前 该项目有49名研究生。虽然学生们做他们的 在主办部门的研究，在INP的研究生被录取， 耶鲁通过统一的神经科学轨道，并在进入INP预科 留在程序，直到他们毕业，当他们获得博士学位。 神经科学该计划由两位共同主任Haig Keshishian博士领导 和查尔斯格里尔，研究生研究主任（DGS），研究生主任 招生，和一个执行委员会代表广泛的横截面， 耶鲁大学的神经科学社区Haig Keshishian将担任该计划的 培训补助金主任国家警察还得到了 一个受薪的程序管理员和一个文书的形式大学 助理，办公空间，和八个研究生奖学金。它还经历了 大学的定期学术审查。受训人员从一个人才库中挑选 约90美元/永久居民申请人，约20人 每年招收8-10名美国学生（1999年 11级美国学生）。目前，该项目10%的学生来自 代表性不足的族裔和/或种族群体，以及该方案， 大学，积极参与招聘少数民族毕业生 耶鲁的学生入学的学生遵循一个特定的学习课程， 包括三个神经科学的核心学期研究生课程， 高级选修课程，计划研讨会和正在进行的研究 关于研究伦理行为的演讲、研讨会和 实验室研究轮换。所有的学生都是由不断监督 DGS和学生咨询委员会。在第二年的训练中， 学生完成他们的轮换，并与他们的博士研究附属 laboratories.他们参加博士资格考试，考试内容包括 口头和书面部分，在第二年年底之前。一旦成功 在第三年结束时，学生们要为论文答辩， 获得博士候选人资格耶鲁很幸运，因为它拥有广泛的基础， 活跃的神经科学研究人员，让学生有最广泛的 在研究方面的可能选择范围。这包括教师在 主校区的MCDB、MB&B、心理学和计算机科学系， 以及来自几个基础科学和临床部门的教师， 医学院此外，该计划还包括各部门的教师 集中在弗吉尼亚州医院，康涅狄格州精神卫生中心，和其他 耶鲁大学附属的神经科学研究小组。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted From The Abstract Provided By Applicant): The goal of this proposal, submitted to the joint pre-doctoral training program, is to support graduate training in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (INP) of Yale University. We are requesting a total of 10 positions, for five 1st year and five 2nd year graduate students. The INP is the university-wide graduate program in the Neurosciences at Yale. The program is now entering its 12th year, and consists of 89 faculty from 19 departments and programs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the Yale Medical School. We currently have 49 graduate students in the program. Although the students do their research in host departments, the graduate students in the INP are admitted to Yale through a unified Neuroscience track, and upon matriculation into the INP remain within the program until their graduation, when they receive the Ph.D. in Neuroscience. The program is led by two co-Directors, Drs. Haig Keshishian and Charles Greer, a Director of Graduate Studies (DGS), a Director of Graduate Admissions, and an executive committee representing a broad cross-section of the neuroscience community at Yale. Haig Keshishian will serve as program director for the training grant. The INP also receives support from the university in the form of a salaried program administrator and a clerical assistant, office space, and eight graduate fellowships. It also undergoes regular academic reviews by the University. Trainees are selected from a pool of approximately 90 U.S./permanent resident applicants, with about 20 being offered admission, for an entering class of 8-10 U.S. students each year (1999 class 11 U.S. students). Currently 10% of the students in the program are from underrepresented ethnic and/or racial groups, and the program, together with the University, is actively involved in the recruiting of minority graduate students to Yale. The entering students follow a specified course of study, consisting of three core semester-long graduate classes in neuroscience, three advanced elective courses, program seminars and research in progress presentations, seminars on the ethical conduct of research, and a system of laboratory research rotations. All students are continuously supervised by the DGS and the student advisory committees. In the second year of training, the students complete their rotations and affiliate with their doctoral research laboratories. They take their doctoral qualifier examination, which has both an oral and written component, before the end of year two. Upon successfully defending a dissertation prospectus by the end of year three, the students advance to candidacy for the Ph.D. Yale is fortunate is having a broad base of active neuroscience researchers, permitting the students to have the widest possible range of options with respect to research. This includes faculty in the MCDB, MB&B, Psychology and Computer Science departments on the main campus, as well as faculty from several basic science and clinical departments in the Medical School. In addition, the program includes faculty in departments centered in the VA hospital, the Connecticut Mental Health Center, and other Yale-affiliated research groups in the neurosciences.