16-Mar-2008

TEACHING SURVIVAL SKILLS AND ETHICS
14th Annual Trainer-of-Trainers Conference
June 8-13, 2008
Snowmass, Colorado

Travel fellowships are available!

Supported by the National Institutes of Health and the University of Pittsburgh

This conference provides faculty and administrators with the background and materials needed to establish or improve instruction in the responsible conduct of research and in a broad range of professional skills, including the ability to write research articles, give research seminars, obtain employment, secure funding, and teach and mentor.

This conference is co-directed by Michael Zigmond and Beth Fischer (University of Pittsburgh). Members of the conference faculty include Jeannette Hoit (Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Arizona), Debra Parrish (Partner, Parrish Law Offices, specializing in research integrity and intellectual property law), David Jensen (professional career counselor and contributor to Science Next Wave), Jeffrey Kahn (Professor and Director, University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics), Julio Ramirez (Professor of Psychology, Davidson College), and Craig Wilcox (Professor of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh.)

Details on the conference, as well as an application form, are available on our website at www.survival.pitt.edu/events/trainer.asp. Conference participants will receive an extensive set of lecture outlines, ethics cases, student handouts, readings, slides, and a comprehensive bibliography.

Travel fellowships are available to cover all but $395 of the cost of the conference package. Attendance is limited to 50 persons and applications are considered on a rolling basis.

The Survival Skills and Ethics Program
University of Pittsburgh
3500 Fifth Avenue, Suite 202
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
phone: 412-578-3716
fax 412-578-3790
survival@pitt.edu
www.survival.pitt.edu/events/trainer.asp

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03-Feb-2008

The Undergraduate Neuroscience Education:
Interactions, Interdisciplines, and Curricular Best Practices
Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota
July 18-20, 2008

Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN), in partnership with
Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL), has sponsored four previous workshops
focused on developing and sustaining undergraduate neuroscience
programs. FUN and PKAL are pleased to announce a fifth FUN workshop July
18-20, 2008 at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.

At the first (1995) workshop participants developed four blueprints to
guide faculty in their efforts to enrich undergraduate curricula by
developing interdisciplinary courses and programs in the emerging
discipline of Neuroscience. Using these blueprints as a foundation,
participants at the second (1998) and third (2001) workshops explored
cutting-edge exercises designed to build investigative, discovery-based
laboratory experiences and launch regional meetings emphasizing
undergraduate neuroscience research. The fourth (2005) PKAL/FUN workshop
also featured new laboratory experiences, developed leadership skills,
and revisited the four original curricular blueprints--adding a fifth
blueprint in neuroscience studies to address the directions that
neuroscience is headed in the coming decades.

The 2008 FUN workshop will explore a wide range of topics, including new
laboratory experiences emphasizing discovery-based learning,
incorporating community outreach into neuroscience education, and
programming focused on the development of interdisciplinary coursework
and curricular innovations to ensure that undergraduate education in
neuroscience remains vibrant well into the future.

More information will be forthcoming shortly. Please mark these
important dates in your calendar, watch for announcements with schedule
information and registration details, and plan to attend!

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04-NOV-2007  

2007 FUN ELECTION RESULTS

The FUN Election Committee would like to thank all the the candidates in the recent FUN election for demonstrating their willingness to serve FUN. Regardless of the candidates elected, FUN owes its successes to the dedicated efforts of all members who are willing to serve FUN as a member of the FUN Executive Committee. In particular we would like to acknowledge and thank our outgoing officers for their service and dedication: Mary Lou Caspers, Secretary; Shelly Dickinson, Chris Korey, Noah Sandstrom & Keith Trujillo (Councilors).

As in past years, there was an exceptionally strong slate of candidates and the the election was lively and close. The results are as follows:

President-Elect: Chris Korey
Secretary: Alexia Pollack
Councilors: Kristina Mead, Seth Ramus, Jennifer Yates

SYNAPSE 2008 at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Save the Date: March 15, 2008

The College of Charleston is pleased to announce that the 2008 Symposium for Young Neuroscientists and Professors of the Southeast will be held March 15th, 2008. Neuroscientists will fill the "Holy City" at the end of this year’s Brain Awareness Week with the MUSC Neuroscience Institute’s Frontiers in Neuroscience Research Day being held on Friday at Folly Beach and SYNAPSE 2008 on Saturday. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Diane O’Dowd an HHMI professor at the University of California, Irvine. As in previous years, we will feature a panel of students and admissions officers to answer questions about graduate/medical school admissions and student life. New additions this year will be a featured lecture on neuroethics by Dr. Jerome Kurent, Professor of Medicine, Neurology, and Psychiatry at MUSC and a workshop by the Harvard Personal Genetics Education Project (www.pged.org ). We are pleased to announce a student platform session where four undergraduates will present their research. The students selected for this session will be awarded a travel stipend to cover their meeting expenses.

Registration and Abstract Submission will open January 15th, 2008. For more information please visit our website at www.cofc.edu/synapse or email Chris Korey at koreyc@cofc.edu .

We look forward to having you join us to experience the beautiful azaleas and warm weather of Charleston in the springtime.

Sincerely,

The College of Charleston Organizers

Chris Korey
Beth Meyer-Bernstein
Mark Hurd

It has been an active first year for Nu Rho Psi, The National Honor Society in Neuroscience. To date, the society has established 9 new chapters in 7 different states. The first chapter was placed at Baldwin-Wallace College, which is also the location of the National Office. The awarding of this first charter was closely followed by chapters at Baylor University, Macalester College, Drew University, University of St. Thomas, Knox College, Johns Hopkins University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and the University of Scranton. We have inducted 81 student and faculty members so far.

Applications for establishing a new chapter are being accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the year. Apply now.

For more information go to:

http://undergraduateneuroscience.org/NuRhoPsi/index.html , or contact the Executive Director of Nu Rho Psi, Dr. G. Andrew Mickley , Professor and Chair of the Neuroscience Program, Baldwin-Wallace College, email: amickley@bw.edu , phone: 440-826-2194. 

FUN member, Robert, Calin-Jageman, has developed a directory of undergraduate neuroscience programs at http://nsmajor.homeip.net . Please check out this website and help refine the information about your programs and institution!

From: Robert Calin-Jageman [mailto:rcalinjageman@dom.edu ]
Subject: Directory of Undergraduate Neuroscience Programs

I'm working on founding a neuroscience major at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. I wanted to canvas the programs offered at other institutions, and I was surprised to find it rather difficult to determine which schools do/don't offer a neuroscience major.

I ended up writing some automated scripts to harvest a comprehensive list of undergraduate neuroscience programs. Basically, the bot searched Google for "neuroscience major" and "neuroscience program" within the domain of every higher ed institution I could identify. Programs were identified as possible if they returned 1-2 hits, likely if they returned > 2 hits. The top hit was logged as the program url. This netted 185 likely and 177 possible programs, nationwide (from 747 institutions).

As this seems like it might be a useful resource for other FUN faculty members, I've posted the resulting directory online at http://nsmajor.homeip.net

The online directory can be queried by institution type, state, and the likelihood of having a program. Links to the institution and program are provided.

Because web harvesting is always imperfect, I have added a feature to let others suggest changes to the directory (e.g., if I missed a program, falsely identified a program, and/or harvested the wrong URL for a program). You can help greatly improve this list if you take a moment to find your home institution and suggest any necessary changes.

If this would be useful for FUN, I'd be glad to mirror this for the FUN website, or just have it linked in.

It has been an active first year for Nu Rho Psi, The National Honor Society in Neuroscience. To date, the society has established 9 new chapters in 7 different states. The first chapter was placed at Baldwin-Wallace College, which is also the location of the National Office. The awarding of this first charter was closely followed by chapters at Baylor University, Macalester College, Drew University, University of St. Thomas, Knox College, Johns Hopkins University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and the University of Scranton. We have inducted 81 student and faculty members so far.

Applications for establishing a new chapter are being accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the year. Apply now.

For more information go to:

http://undergraduateneuroscience.org/NuRhoPsi/index.html , or contact the Executive Director of Nu Rho Psi, Dr. G. Andrew Mickley , Professor and Chair of the Neuroscience Program, Baldwin-Wallace College, email: amickley@bw.edu , phone: 440-826-2194. 

Please submit Undergraduate SUMMER INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES to Alan Gittis

Dear Colleagues,

I am editing the Summer Internship Opportunities which is linked to the FUN website- http://www.psych.westminster.edu/psybio/internops.htm .

Please send me the URLs of internship opportunities for undergraduates not currently posted or in need of update

Thanks very much!!

In fact, there are many ways to get to the FUN website, but all of them lead to the same place. The shortest route to FUN is <funfaculty.org >. Persons who like to type and enjoy multi-syllabic speaking and spelling (and think others enjoy it too!) prefer the <www.undergraduateneuroscience.org > address.

Whether you prefer funfaculty.org or undergraduateneuroscience.org , you'll still have the same FUN once you get there!

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