The NBH Spire will be developed around well-established, existing strengths in this multidisciplinary field. NBH already has numerous faculty members active across the university — from the College of Medicine to the College of Arts & Sciences — as well as established senior faculty leadership, extensive competitive grants, and growing, nationally recognized graduate programs in Psychology and Neuroscience. The NBH Spire will facilitate collaboration among students and faculty in complementary research areas of neural development, structure and function, behavioral and cognitive processes, and diseases, disorders and disabilities.

With the recent approval by the Faculty Senate and the Board of Trustees of a new B.S. in Neuroscience, our undergraduates will without question benefit from this area of strength, and indeed this Spire exemplifies, in the just-approved undergraduate curriculum, how centrally TRI initiatives may support new opportunities for interdisciplinary undergraduate education and research.