| Program Structure
and Organization Program Direction |
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| Dr. Cynthia F. Moss is our
program director and Dr. Catherine E Carr
serves as associate director. Dr. Moss is a Professor of Psychology
and was recently the Graduate Director of the NACS Program.
In 1995 she transferred to Maryland from Harvard University.At
Harvard, Dr. Moss was part of the core faculty in the Cognition, Brain
and Behavior Program. Dr. Moss has an active research program in the
neuroethology of sensorimotor integration of echolocation in bats
that is funded by NIMH. She was one of the organizers of the International
Biosonar Conferences in Portugal (1988) and an editor of Advances
in the study of echolocation in bats and dolphins, University
of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001, and she has organized several other
symposia on neurobiology and behavior. Dr. Moss has considerable
experience in developing undergraduate and outreach training programs.
She served as the director of the Undergraduate Behavioral Neuroscience
Program at Harvard University 1991-1995.
Dr. Carr is a Professor in the Department of Biology. She has been
at UM since 1990 and has an active research program in the neuroethology
of sound localization in birds with a particular interest on temporal
coding in the nervous system. Her research is supported by an R01
and a Research Scientist Award from NIH. Dr. Carr was Secretary
of the International Society for Neuroethology (ISN) and is presently
on the ISN council. She has served on committees of
the Society for Neuroscience, the ISN, the JB Johnstone club, the
CNS meetings and is a member of the editorial boards of Brain, Behavior
and Evolution and the Journal of Computational Neuroscience. She
teaches a section of the Neural Systems and Behavior course
at Woods Hole every summer, and became co-director of the course
in 2000. The administration of the training program will be carried out
by the co-directors in consultation with an Advisory Committee,
along with all the participating faculty, and with the Directors of graduate
studies in the Departments of Animal and Avian Sciences, Biology,
Psychology and the NACS Program. The Advisory Committee will include
the co-directors (non-voting), a representative from each of the
participating departments and programs(e.g.,
Chairs of Biology and Psychology, the Director of the NACS Program),
two faculty members from the training program, and one annually elected postdoctoral and
predoctoral trainees.
Members of the core faculty will rotate positions on the Advisory
Committee so that each individual will be involved in the program's governance.
The Advisory Committee will also be involved in the
coordination of program activities, selection and assignment of
new trainees, evaluation of current trainees and their progress,
and planning of courses and seminar programs. (Note: trainees who
are on the Advisory Committee will not participate in evaluation
of other trainees.) |
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