SOMAS: Support of Mentors and their Students in the Neurosciences

SOMAS：神经科学领域导师及其学生的支持

• 批准号: 0426266
• 负责人: Julio Ramirez
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Davidson College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0426266&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SOMAS; Support; Mentors; their; Students

This project aims to enhance the recruitment and retention of students in the sciences, by developing a summer research program in the neurosciences for undergraduate students wherein junior faculty members and participating students receive intensive mentoring. The faculty members are being mentored in launching and maintaining a teaching/research career at a predominantly undergraduate institution. The undergraduate students are being mentored in conducting research as well as the steps involved in applying to graduate school. Ethics in research will be central feature of the training. The thread weaving the experiences of the participants together is the intensive mentorship that will be provided throughout the project. Junior faculty from across the United States are invited to submit applications to obtain summer research support for undergraduate students who spend 10 weeks collaborating with the faculty member on projects of common interest. Faculty members with little experience in grant-writing and who are just beginning their research programs as well as those from institutions serving women and minority groups that are underrepresented in the sciences are particularly encouraged to apply. The faculty mentors and their students receive travel support to attend the joint Annual Meetings of the Society for Neuroscience and the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN), where they participate in the Professional Survival Skills and Ethics Workshop, or other workshops that seek to help faculty develop grant-writing skills. The students present their research findings at the FUN Poster Session held jointly with the Society for Neuroscience Meeting, and attend Survival Skills Workshop sessions that provide them with tips on applying to graduate school as well as what to expect after enrolling as a graduate student. The SOMAS Program aims to serve as a model for other summer research programs that have traditionally focused on the undergraduate student. In the long term, preparing junior faculty to integrate teaching and research at predominantly undergraduate institutions amplifies the impact of the program because it influences SOMAS Faculty Awardees throughout their careers. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the neurosciences, the SOMAS Program has the potential to influence departments as wide-ranging as biology, psychology, chemistry, mathematics, and computer science at predominantly undergraduate institutions.

该项目旨在通过为本科生开发神经科学暑期研究项目来加强科学专业学生的招募和保留，其中初级教职人员和参与的学生将得到强化指导。 教职人员正在接受指导，以在以本科为主的机构中开展和维持教学/研究生涯。 本科生将接受指导进行研究以及申请研究生院的步骤。 研究道德将是培训的核心内容。 将参与者的经验编织在一起的主线是将在整个项目中提供的强化指导。 来自美国各地的初级教师被邀请提交申请，为本科生获得暑期研究支持，这些学生与教师在共同感兴趣的项目上合作 10 周。 特别鼓励在资助申请方面缺乏经验、刚刚开始研究项目的教职人员，以及来自为科学界代表性不足的妇女和少数群体服务的机构的教职人员提出申请。 教师导师及其学生获得参加神经科学学会和本科生神经科学学院 (FUN) 联合年会的差旅资助，他们在会上参加专业生存技能和道德研讨会，或其他旨在帮助教师的研讨会培养拨款写作技巧。 学生们在与神经科学学会联合举办的 FUN 海报会议上展示他们的研究成果，并参加生存技能研讨会，为他们提供申请研究生院的建议以及作为研究生入学后的期望。 SOMAS 项目旨在成为传统上专注于本科生的其他夏季研究项目的典范。 从长远来看，培养初级教师在本科院校中整合教学和研究会放大该计划的影响，因为它会影响 SOMAS 教师获奖者的整个职业生涯。 由于神经科学的跨学科性质，SOMAS 计划有可能影响以本科院校为主的生物学、心理学、化学、数学和计算机科学等广泛部门。