Join the CBN: Faculty Membership Application

Overview

The Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, through a consortium of institutions in the Atlanta area, promotes the development of interdisciplinary teams of investigators and educators who are working to define the interaction between brain processes and complex behavior. Faculty membership in the Center is open to anyone conducting research related to the mission of the Center’s collaboratories and cores or who is involved in the Center’s educational mission at the postgraduate, graduate, or undergraduate level. All Center faculty will be eligible to apply for venture grants for research and/or educational projects.

Eligibility

To be considered for Center faculty membership, an individual must be conducting research and/or educational activities related to the Center's mission. The collaboratories of the Center, designed to develop and promote innovative interdisciplinary research across diverse model systems, include:

• Affiliation Collaboratory 
• Aggression Collaboratory
• Fear Collaboratory 
• Reproduction Collaboratory
• Memory and Cognition
• Reward and Reinforcement
• Sex Differences

The cores of the Center are designed to develop new technologies to support the activities of the collaboratories and to develop workshops to train scientists in these techniques. They include:

• Gene Microarrays
• Viral Vectors
• Viral Tract Tracers
• Neuroimaging
• Behavioral Technologies 

In order to serve as advisors to graduate students, an individual must be a member of the graduate faculty at one of the participating institutions: the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences or Programs in Psychology or Anthropology at Emory University; Biology Program or Program in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology; Neurobiology and Behavior Program, Department of Biology or the Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology at Georgia State University; Morehouse School of Medicine Neuroscience Institute; or Clark Atlanta Biology Program. Graduate faculty members should have outside funding to supplement Center funds for the support of graduate stipends; however, exceptions can be made.

Faculty appointments to the Center will be reviewed annually.

• Each faculty member must participate in the research and/or educational activities related to the Center’s mission. This includes: participation in interdisciplinary and/or inter-institutional research activity in behavioral neuroscience involving the collaboratories and/or cores and/or participation in developing and implementing educational curriculum in behavioral neuroscience for pre-college, undergraduate, or graduate students;
• Each faculty member must be willing to serve as advisor to Center-supported undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral students.
• Participation will be monitored annually through the annual report process required by the NSF. Center faculty are expected to file annual reports that include a current CV with recent grant applications and awards, publications, and other activities related to the Center.
• Publications and presentations based on work supported by the Center must include the following citation:

“This material is based upon work supported in part by the STC Program of the National Science Foundation under Agreement No. IBN-9876754.”

Application Procedure

First, complete the online CBN Faculty Membership Application form. Then, submit the following materials:

• Curriculum vitae
• List of current federal, state or private funding for any research or educational activity
• A one-page statement of the candidates activities (research and/or educational) related to the mission of the Center and the activities of the collaboratories and/or cores and a description of how the candidate plans to participate in Center activities.

Send application materials to:

Kelly R. Powell, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3966
Atlanta, GA 30302-3966

Review: Applications for Center faculty membership will be reviewed by the Executive Committee at its monthly meeting, approved by majority vote, and acknowledged by a letter to the applicant from the Director.