The Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience holds biannual workshops centered around designing, implementing and assessing neuroscience programs in undergraduate settings. Our most recent meeting was held in 2008 at Macalester College (see below).  Stay tuned for information about our next workshop that will be held at Pomona College in 2011.

Background

• At the 1st FUN workshop, held at Davidson College in 1995, participants developed four blueprints to guide faculty in their efforts to enrich the undergraduate science curriculum of their institutions by developing courses and programs in an interdisciplinary and marvelously fertile young science: Neuroscience.
• At the 2nd FUN workshop, held at Oberlin College in 1998, participants used these blueprints as a foundation to explore cutting-edge laboratory exercises designed to serve as the basis for the development of investigative, discovery-based laboratory experiences and the steps involved in launching regional meetings emphasizing undergraduate neuroscience research.
• At the 3rd FUN workshop, held at Trinity College in 2001, participants again explored laboratory exercises as well as simulations of synaptic transmission, and further examined issues in developing regional meetings emphasizing undergraduate neuroscience research.
• At the 4th FUN workshop, held at Macalester College in 2005, in addition to exploring new laboratory experiences and development of leadership skills, the participants revisited the four original curricular blueprints that served as curricular models in neuroscience since 1995, and, to address the directions that neuroscience is headed in the coming decades, added a fifth curricular blueprint, neuroscience studies

2008 FUN Undergraduate Neuroscience Education Workshop

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

A Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Workshop
In conjunction with Project Kaleidoscope

In July 2008, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) held its fifth workshop on designing, implementing and assessing neuroscience programs in undergraduate settings.  See the workshop website for more information about the meeting, the featured presenters, and to read the 2008 FUN Workshop Notebook.