Individual PAESMEM Award: Nomination of Julio J. Ramirez

个人 PAESMEM 奖：Julio J. Ramirez 提名

• 批准号: 0930153
• 负责人: Julio Ramirez
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: Davidson College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-15 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0930153&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Individual; PAESMEM; Award; Nomination; Julio

Dr. Julio J. Ramirez is a behavioral neuroscientist. He obtained his Ph.D. in Psychology from Clark University and conducted his postdoctoral work in neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Ramirez joined the Davidson College Department of Psychology in 1986 and in 1998 was named the first R. Stuart Dickson Professor of Psychology, an honor that acknowledges his commitment to science and science education. Dr. Ramirez' work has positively impacted both undergraduate students of neuroscience and faculty members teaching courses in undergraduate neuroscience across the nation. Dozens of Davidson students who have worked with Dr. Ramirez on independent study projects and as laboratory assistants have gone on to pursue postgraduate degrees in neuroscience, psychology or medicine. Indeed, he has involved well over a hundred undergraduate students in his research program since 1981. During the past 22 years at Davidson, Dr. Ramirez has provided undergraduate students, the majority of whom were from underrepresented groups, with research experiences in his laboratory. These research opportunities have yielded significant experiential learning for young minds, not only in the laboratory, but also through co-authored papers and presentations at national and international conferences. A total of 45 women and six men from underrepresented groups who worked with him are either presently pursuing doctoral level degrees in the biomedical and health sciences or have already been awarded doctorates in the sciences, medicine, dentistry, or veterinary medicine. Dr. Ramirez' reach goes far beyond the walls of Davidson College. He co-founded the national organization, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience in 1991 and the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education in 2002. In 2004, Dr. Ramirez created a national mentoring program entitled Support of Mentors and their Students (SOMAS) that has to date supported 48 faculty and their students conducting summer research at their home institutions. In 2008, the SOMAS program was renamed "Support of Mentors and their Students from Underrepresented Minority groups" (SOMAS-URM) and restructured to strengthen the engagement of underrepresented individuals in neuroscience by creating a program tailored to their needs. The SOMAS-URM Program addresses two important observations made in recent studies. The Program provides a path for research experiences for underrepresented students working in collaboration with the faculty at their home institutions with the intent of enhancing their competitiveness for entry into scientific careers. The Program aims to enhance the mentoring abilities of junior faculty to strengthen a key aspect of the undergraduate research experience, which has been reported to be the weakest aspect of the undergraduate research experience. The SOMAS-URM Program has the potential to serve as a model for a variety of summer undergraduate research and the intensive one-on-one mentoring framework has already been shown to promote the recruitment and retention of women and underrepresented minorities in the sciences.

Julio J. Ramirez 博士是一位行为神经科学家。 他获得了博士学位。他拥有克拉克大学心理学博士学位，并在麻省理工学院进行神经科学博士后工作。 Ramirez 博士于 1986 年加入戴维森学院心理学系，并于 1998 年被任命为首任 R. Stuart Dickson 心理学教授，这一荣誉表彰了他对科学和科学教育的承诺。拉米雷斯博士的工作对全国神经科学本科生和教授本科神经科学课程的教师产生了积极影响。数十名曾与拉米雷斯博士一起进行独立研究项目并担任实验室助理的戴维森学生已经继续攻读神经科学、心理学或医学的研究生学位。事实上，自 1981 年以来，他已经让一百多名本科生参与了他的研究项目。在过去 22 年里，拉米雷斯博士在戴维森大学为本科生（其中大多数来自弱势群体）提供了实验室的研究经验。这些研究机会不仅在实验室，而且通过在国家和国际会议上共同撰写的论文和演讲，为年轻人带来了重要的体验式学习。与他共事的共有 45 名女性和 6 名男性，来自代表性不足的群体，他们要么正在攻读生物医学和健康科学博士学位，要么已经获得科学、医学、牙科或兽医学博士学位。拉米雷斯博士的影响力远远超出了戴维森学院的范围。他于 1991 年与他人共同创立了国家组织“本科生神经科学学院”，并于 2002 年共同创立了“本科生神经科学教育杂志”。 2004 年，拉米雷斯博士创建了一项题为“导师及其学生支持”(SOMAS) 的国家指导计划，迄今为止该计划已得到支持48 名教师和学生在其所在机构进行暑期研究。 2008 年，SOMAS 计划更名为“对来自代表性不足的少数群体的导师及其学生的支持”(SOMAS-URM)，并进行了重组，通过创建适合代表性不足的个人需求的计划，加强他们对神经科学的参与。 SOMAS-URM 计划解决了最近研究中的两个重要观察结果。该计划为代表性不足的学生提供了一条获得研究经验的途径，与所在机构的教师合作，旨在提高他们进入科学职业的竞争力。该计划旨在提高初级教师的指导能力，以加强本科生研究经验的一个关键方面，据报道，这是本科生研究经验中最薄弱的方面。 SOMAS-URM 计划有潜力成为各种暑期本科生研究的典范，并且密集的一对一指导框架已被证明可以促进科学领域女性和代表性不足的少数群体的招募和保留。