The partnership of the Intramural research laboratories of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and the University of Maryland (UM) Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing (C-CEBH) creates for students interested in a broad scope of auditory neuroscience the novel opportunity to work with two major groups of faculty members with distinguished research records in this area.
Students in the NIH-UM program receive graduate course training through the University of Maryland, College Park, and receive the Ph.D. degree from the University. Graduate students are trained in broad areas of cell/molecular/systems, cognitive, and computational neuroscience. Students interested in working with UM and/or NIDCD investigators in the combined program are strongly encouraged to contact those investigators who share their research interests. Students are able to work with investigators at either UM or NIH or both. Students who are interested in collaborative research that involves investigators from both UM and NIH are strongly encouraged to explore such possibilities. Once a student has identified a mentor (or mentors), he/she should apply to the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) graduate program at UM for admission into the doctoral program.
The combined resources to support this NIH-UM program are unparalleled. The Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing (C-CEBH) at the University of Maryland, College Park is a campus-wide program that is devoted to studies of auditory neuroscience in the broadest sense. The laboratories in C-CEBH cover a broad range of research interests, approaches from molecular biology to human psychoacostics, and species from insects to mammals. The faculty of the C-CEBH comes from five departments: Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hearing and Speech Sciences, Linguistics, and Psychology. The training program is open to students admitted to the departments represented by any of the core faculty members in the program.
NIH is the world's premier biomedical research institution with over 1250 investigators and 3600 postdoctoral fellows doing research in state of the art facilities on cutting edge projects. Graduate students at NIH enjoy a scientifically rich environment that has trained over 100 Nobel Laureates in the past. The NIDCD holds a place of national and international prestige in the areas of auditory biosciences.
While in good standing, student support for stipend, tuition, and medical insurance is provided throughout the students training by a variety of UMCP and NIDCD mechanisms.
Students wishing to be considered for admission into this partnership need to submit the GPP application and the University application by the specified deadline.
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