Welcome!
The Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Vermont is an interactive department with a strong track record of accomplishment in research, education, and service. The Department consists of 17 faculty members: 8 tenure track, 4 research track, and 5 educator track faculty. In fiscal year 2003, we generated approximately $2 million in total direct costs of extramural funding. In addition, we received continued funding of $1.5 million for a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in Neuroscience, which is being used to enhance the research infrastructure for neuroscience at UVM. We have competed successfully for two $0.5 million supplements to the COBRE. In 2002-2003, we purchased a BioRad Radiance Multiphoton Microscope for the COBRE Imaging and Electrophysiology Core. In 2003-2004 our supplement will be used to purchase a Ciphergen Protein Chip reader and a laser microdissection microscope. The extramural research carried out in our department ranges from molecular to systems neuroscience, and is recognized nationally and internationally.
The Department is also committed to promoting excellence in teaching. The courses we provide include those for medical students (Human Structure and Function, Neural Science, and Cell and Molecular Biology), undergraduates (Anatomy and Physiology; Undergraduate Gross Anatomy, and Undergraduate Neuroscience); graduate students (seminar courses such as Developmental Neurobiology, Translational Neuroscience, Comparative Neuroanatomy, Electrophysiology, and Neurochemistry), and summer school (Gross Anatomy and Neuroscience: Human Neuroanatomy). We have expanded our Graduate Training Program in Neuroscience into a multidisciplinary program that includes faculty across UVM as trainers. We also run a Summer Research Program for Undergraduates that combines in-depth research experience with seminars and discussion groups. We have received many teaching awards for our efforts, including the College of Medicine Basic Science Department of the Year Award and Basic Science Teacher of the Year Award, the UVM Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the American Medical Student Association of UVM Golden Apple Award.
We are very active in service. We run the Anatomical Gift Program for the College of Medicine and supply teaching aids to other courses and schools throughout the state of Vermont. Our faculty participates in outreach and lecturing to the general public and K-12 school students on neuroscience, neuroanatomy, and gross anatomy. A number of our faculty are also active in scientific service, with four serving as standing members of grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health. The Department is also a member of the Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs (ANDP) and the Faculty for Undergraduate Research (FUN).
The members of our department are collaborative, collegial, and friendly. It is an excellent, well-rounded environment, regardless of whether your level of participation is graduate training, undergraduate learning, employment, teaching, or research.
