{"id":18,"date":"2009-06-14T23:34:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T03:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ombs\/?p=18"},"modified":"2009-06-14T23:34:30","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T03:34:30","slug":"faculty-for-undergraduate-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/2009\/06\/14\/faculty-for-undergraduate-neuroscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Encouraging Innovation in Undergraduate Neuroscience Education by Supporting Student Research and Faculty Development <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Jean C. Hardwick,* Michael Kerchner,\u2020 Barbara Lom,corresponding author\u2021 Julio J. Ramirez,\u00a7 and Eric P. Wiertelak\u2016<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The organization Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN; <span class=\"ext-reflink\"><a class=\"ext-reflink\" onclick=\"focuswin('pmc_ext')\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov\/redirect3.cgi?&amp;&amp;auth=0XSbBd7E7dYJQ8AjUUJ93t-hERrM4AcNF2GZeeAec&amp;reftype=extlink&amp;article-id=1618516&amp;issue-id=136169&amp;journal-id=421&amp;FROM=Article%7CBody&amp;TO=External%7CLink%7CURI&amp;rendering-type=normal&amp;&amp;www.funfaculty.org\" target=\"pmc_ext\">www.funfaculty.org<\/a><\/span>) was established in 1991 by a group of neuroscientists dedicated to innovation and excellence in undergraduate neuroscience education and research (<span><a class=\"cite-reflink bibr popnode\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov\/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1618516#B11\">Ramirez and Normansell, 2003<\/a> <img src=\"http:\/\/www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov\/corehtml\/pmc\/pmcgifs\/point-blue.gif\" alt=\"blue right-pointing triangle\" \/><\/span>). The founders experienced a need for a community of neuroscience educators because no formal division existed within the Society for Neuroscience (SfN; <span class=\"ext-reflink\"><a class=\"ext-reflink\" onclick=\"focuswin('pmc_ext')\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov\/redirect3.cgi?&amp;&amp;auth=00mWPuv1_2PP0hZJZLM-oj1d6Dz8AlfWCrEsURk9Q&amp;reftype=extlink&amp;article-id=1618516&amp;issue-id=136169&amp;journal-id=421&amp;FROM=Article%7CBody&amp;TO=External%7CLink%7CURI&amp;rendering-type=normal&amp;&amp;www.sfn.org\" target=\"pmc_ext\">www.sfn.org<\/a><\/span>) to support undergraduates or the faculty who focus on undergraduate neuroscience education.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov\/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1618516<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encouraging Innovation in Undergraduate Neuroscience Education by Supporting Student Research and Faculty Development Jean C. Hardwick,* Michael Kerchner,\u2020 Barbara Lom,corresponding author\u2021 Julio J. Ramirez,\u00a7 and Eric P. Wiertelak\u2016 The organization Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN; www.funfaculty.org) was established in 1991 by a group of neuroscientists dedicated to innovation and excellence in undergraduate neuroscience education and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ombs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}