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Title: SFNs Educational Initiative: Undergraduate Neuroscience is the the K 12 Bridge


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SFNs Educational Initiative Undergraduate
Neuroscience is the the K 12 Bridge
  • Alan Gittis, PhD
  • Neuroscience Program
  • Psychology Department
  • Westminster College
  • New Wilmington, PA

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P.U.I.s
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Alternative Career
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Undergraduate Neuroscience
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The Liberal Arts Public
Undergraduate Neuroscience
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The Liberal Arts Public
Undergraduate Neuroscience
K- 12 Programs
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The Liberal Arts Public
Students
Graduate Programs
Undergraduate Neuroscience
K- 12 Programs
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The Liberal Arts Public
Students
Graduate Programs
Undergraduate Neuroscience
K- 12 Programs
Placement
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Some PKAL Workshops
  • An Introduction to Neurochemistry
    Acetylcholinesterase Assay and Enzyme Kinetics.
    Paul- Wellesley
  • Purinergic Synaptic Transmission Effects of
    Adenosine Evoked Field and ATP on Potentials in
    the Hippocampal Slice. Smith-Oberlin
  • Effects of Lesion on Spatial and Nonspatial
    Learning. Dunbar- Central Michigan University
  • Human Psychophysiology- Porterfield-Oberlin

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K-12 Contributors
  • Jean Hardwick Ithaca
  • Barbara Lom Davidson
  • Bob Jacobs Colorado College
  • James Stellar Northeastern
  • Jan Thornton Oberlin
  • Bart Hoebel - Princeton

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Cynthia Gibson- Creighton
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Undergraduate Neuroscience as a Career Path
The fact that university professors arent
actually trained/encouraged/hired to teach is
something that bothered me for a long time. In
fact the whole academic culture, ironically,
seems to frown upon anyone who expresses that
kind of tendency. I hear theres a small cohort
of people at various universities/colleges who
are trying to draw some attention to the issue
with the ultimate goal, I think, of creating
something like teaching professorships
-e-mail from grad student
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Undergraduate Neuroscience as a Career Path
The ANDP Survey-
  • Fragmented community
  • Little clout with administrators
  • Limited professional development opportunities
  • Neuroscientists not actually teaching neuroscience

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Undergraduate Neuroscience as a Career Path
The Institutional Setting
  • Institution size 1500-2500 but some much larger
  • No. of Faculty Involved 3
  • Includes support faculty
  • Structure
  • Interdisciplinary (biology and psychology)
  • Minor/concentration with bio and psych
  • Conclusion- Undergraduate neuroscience is a
    microcosm of the graduate field

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Undergraduate Neuroscience as a Career Path
What Education Should Provide-
  • Broad Training
  • Broad Teaching Competencies

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Undergraduate Neuroscience as a Career Path
  • FUN membership graduate degrees
  • 50 behavioral
  • 25 neuroscience or neurobiology
  • 25 traditional natural sciences

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Undergraduate Neuroscience as a Career Path
  • Broad Training
  • Broad Teaching Competencies
  • Pioneering

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Undergraduate Neuroscience as a Training Pipeline
I recently got a call from a friend who is on the
admissions committee at a VERY prestigious
neuroscience program.. . Committee was willing
to consider students from liberal arts colleges
when primarily undergraduate institutions but
they dont demonstrate any time doing real
research at a real research environment
-FUN colleague
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Undergraduate Neuroscience as a Training Pipeline
Boitano and Seyal, 2001
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Undergraduate Neuroscience as a Training Pipeline
Boitano and Seyal, 2001
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Undergraduate Neuroscience as a Training Pipeline
An Example- Baldwin-Wallaces Program
  • Funded through ILIs and R15s
  • 5-6 different research projects per semester
  • Diverse training experiences
  • 2 to 3 years of sustained work
  • Students selected competitively
  • Senior associates selected
  • Supervision
  • Project Planning

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Neuroscience in Liberal Arts Education
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Neuroscience in Liberal Arts Education
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Neuroscience in Liberal Arts Education
Publications   Grady, Charleston, Maris, Witgen,
Lifshitz. Neuronal and Glial Cell Number in the
Hippocampus After Experimental Traumatic Brain
Injury Analysis by Stereological Estimation.
Journal of Neurotrauma (In Press)   Witgen,
Lifshitz, Grady, Cohen. Regional Alterations in
Limbic Excitability Underlie Hippocampal
Cognitive Deficits Following Experimental
Traumatic Brain Injury. Journal of Neuroscience
(Submitted)   Invited Speaker Federation of
American Societies for Experimental Biology,
2003 Quantification of Hippocampal Neurons in
the Mouse Following Brain Injury
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Neuroscience in Liberal Arts Education
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Neuroscience in Liberal Arts Education
Chudik - Russian Orthodox Seminary
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Neuroscience in Liberal Arts Education
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Neuroscience in Liberal Arts Education
Tomnay- Med student Peterson lab work???
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Neuroscience in Liberal Arts Education
Neural Networks Cluster Course
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Neuroscience in Liberal Arts Education
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Neuroscience in Liberal Arts Education
According to Savage, the emergent interactionism
theory explains very well how consciousness
depends on brain activity, however does not
explain how consciousness directs or regulates
neuronal activity. In the solidity of water
example, the solidity itself does not regulate
the water molecules. So it turns into a question
of control.(Globus, p130
All sensory information from both the body and
the brain start in the thalamus and are carried
in oscillating loops to the corresponding regions
in the cortex, which are combined into more
global waves of activity. These activity waves
sweep from the front to the back of the cortex
every 12.5 milliseconds and equals one quantum
of conscious experience.
2nd year psych students integration of
Neuropsychology of Mind and Philosophy of Mind
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Undergraduate-Graduate Cooperative Ventures
  • More summer programs- less competition from home
    team- employment opportunities
  • Give undergrads more responsibility
  • Sponsor regional research symposia
  • Send grad students and post-doc to interact
  • Have grad students mentor research projects
  • List of faculty who would be willing to give an
    address- (for free?)

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Undergraduate-Graduate Cooperative Ventures
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Undergraduate-Graduate Cooperative Ventures
Proposed Residency Program
  • Goals
  • Extend teaching competencies
  • Development of undergrad teaching venues
  • Increase impact of neuroscience in undergrad
    curricula
  • Duration 2 3 years
  • Location- Competitively selected PUIs

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Undergraduate-Graduate Cooperative Ventures
Proposed Residency Program
  • Equipment budget
  • Workshops- training? / outcomes?
  • ANDP / FUN review panel

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Undergraduate-Graduate Cooperative Ventures
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Undergraduate-Graduate Cooperative Ventures
  • Development of FUN-ANDP educational programs
  • Support for Residency Programs
  • Graduate/Post-doc Information Gathering
    Opportunities
  • Visit at the Annual SFN Meeting
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