Undergraduate Summer Research Opportunities
The Center for Molecular Neurobiology provides research opportunities
for undergraduate students throughout the state of Kentucky. The
objective of this program is to encourage undergraduate students
in Kentucky to consider a career in science. Students need to see
and feel the research environment to be able to evaluate the possibilities.
We provide students with a deeper appreciation of the nature of
scientific research.
Students are placed in the laboratory
of a professor-mentor which provides them with the chance to learn
research methods and techniques and where they can 
become involved
in the research program of their mentor. Group demonstrations of
several of the more common experimental methods are provided. This
is also an occasion to interact with other undergraduate students,
graduate students, postdoctoral students and professors and to see
all levels of development of the research career in action. Students
discuss what they have learned and what data they have collected
at informal group meetings. Additional group meetings are used to
provide students with information on higher education, graduate
and professional degree programs and career advancement.
