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Training Program
Overview
Interdisciplinary Training Program in Cognitive Science
Announcing Predoctoral Traineeships in Cognitive Science
Application Deadline: 5 p.m. on February 4th, 2008
The Center for Cognitive Sciences is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications to fill at least two predoctoral traineeship positions. Eligible students must:
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Have a research focus in one of three areas of cognitive science: perception and action, learning and memory, or emotion.
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Be in their 2nd, 3rd or 4th years of a Ph.D. program at the University of Minnesota in Fall 2007.
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Identify faculty advisor and co-advisor from among the training program faculty.
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Be a U.S. citizen, a permanent resident, or a non-citizen national (e.g. born in a US possession).
Start Date: The anticipated start date of the traineeships is July 1, 2008, or soon thereafter. Students may be awarded funding for up to three years, but no students will be funded beyond their fifth year in the Ph.D. program. Continuation of funding beyond one year will be contingent on satisfactory progress.
Trainee information: The list of program faculty and critical information for interested students, including applying, stipends and other costs to be covered, can be found in the links to the left. The traineeships are made possible by an NIH training grant to the Center for Cognitive Sciences and are contingent upon continued NIH funding.
Application: The application for the traineeships is available at our documents page. All application materials should be submitted by e-mail to cogsci@umn.edu. Please include your name in the subject line of all emails regarding your application.
The application deadline is 5 p.m. on February 4th, 2008.
For questions about the training program or the application procedure, contact Ellen Seagren at cogsci@umn.edu, or 612-626-3570.
Program Overview
Note: This summary is intended to answer questions for students and faculty involved with the training program. Students wishing to apply for traineeships, or their faculty advisors, should review this summary.
Lists of program faculty, stipends and other details may change, so be sure you refer to the most recent version of this document. An up-to-date version should be available in the Center for Cognitive Sciences office in Elliott Hall.
Research Focus
The Program has modules in three topical areas:
- Perception and Action
- Learning and Memory
- Emotion
And four methodological approaches:
- Behavior
- Computational analysis
- Development
- Neuroscience
The grant proposal awarded us funding for ten predocs each year for the 5-year duration of the grant.
The plan is to equally distribute predocs across the three topical modules.
Our plan is to train predoc students for two to three years during the middle to latter part of their Ph.D. training. We believe that our training program will have optimal impact by supporting students beginning in their second or third year.
See Financial Table A, which includes FY 2004 stipends for predocs, and all other expenses covered for each trainee.
Program Faculty
Faculty Table B lists the 26 faculty in the three modules. In addition, the program includes the following governance:
Principal Investigator: Dan Kersten kersten@umn.edu
Steering Committee (Faculty Table 3 from the grant proposal): The steering committee will work with the PI and has overall responsibility for the content of the program. The committee will have one grad student and one postdoc member.
Admissions Committee: Membership on this committee will rotate through the preceptors to ensure broad input. The committee will have faculty representatives from the 3 research areas and 4 approaches.
For more details about the Interdisciplinary Training Program in Cognitive Science, please click on the links at the left of this page. Questions may be addressed to Dan Kersten kersten@umn.edu.