Office of Research Educational Enrichment and Outreach Programs Receives $1.2M to Advance Diversity in Research - Office of Research

Educational Enrichment and Outreach Programs Receives $1.2M to Advance Diversity in Research

EEOP Director Connie Champagne, right, stands with (from left to right) Professor Aldrin Gomes and students Leib Lipowsky and Tayler Smith, who are part of the Biology Undergraduate Scholars Program. BUSP will act as a feeder program to ADNR. (David Slipher/UC Davis)

By Greg Watry

September 24, 2019

This fall, the College of Biological Sciences will launch the Advancing Diversity in Neuroscience Research (ADNR) Program to help grow diversity in biomedical, behavioral and clinical neuroscience research professions. The program is funded by a roughly $1.2 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

The college will welcome the program’s first 10 undergraduates this upcoming quarter.

“There’s a lot of reasons why we are well-poised to foster undergraduate research in the field of neuroscience,” said Connie Champagne, director of Educational Enrichment and Outreach Programs (EEOP), who praised the faculty and research of the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior. “With all those ingredients there, it just made perfect sense to put them all together.”

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