1. Reviewed 29 Neuroscience Programs in 8 States (IL, IN, MI, NY, OH, PA, WI)

Kim Huhman

1. Reviewed 29 neuroscience programs in 8 states (IL, IN, MI, NY, OH, PA, WI)

2. Structures:  Department – N=4 (2 are actually in Biology Depts but give a Neuroscience degree)  Institute – N=3  Grad Program – N=17  Center – N=5

3. All are interdisciplinary, even the departments; all programs, regardless of structure, stress the collaborative, interdisciplinary nature of neuroscience and state that this a strength of their program

4. Vast majority only have graduate programs with the neuroscience entity acting as curricular infrastructure and promoting collaboration/collegiality; the few with undergraduate majors (approximately 10% of programs reviewed here) offer this either through a department (usually biology but also some in psychology) or via a BIS-type mechanism; lack of undergraduate degrees probably reflects the lack of a department-like structure (i.e., faculty appointed to many departments with no undergrad teaching responsibility in neuroscience) at most of the institutions

5. Almost all faculty have primary appointments in another department (with a range as wide as our B&B in most places); programs list their faculty as core/adjunct; core/affiliate &or associate; primary/secondary; some list as joint appointments but again the vast majority are appointed to a traditional dept (e.g., bio, psy, chem, zoology, physiol)

6. Only a very few entities have true appointments to neuroscience with space and indirects going to neuroscience (most at medical schools but also MSU and SUNY Stony Brook)

7. Most have no space actually assigned to Nsci except in the few departments and in medical schools