Summer program

STEM Summer Bridge Program Symposium

Thank you for supporting the STEM Summer Bridge Program Fellows presenting here today. We especially thank the faculty mentors who have devoted their time and effort to mentoring these students. We look forward to following up with the continued achievement of these outstanding individuals as they move further in their education and onto their future careers. Each presentation (15 minutes for i...

SHBT End - of - Summer Talks 2013 Program

5:00 pm Name Jonathon Whitton Lab Lab Eaton Peabody Lab, Neural Plasticity Unit Advisor Daniel Polley, Ph.D. Title Immersive audiomotor game play enhances neural and perceptual salience of weak signals in noise Abstract All sensory systems face the fundamental challenge of encoding weak signals in noisy backgrounds. Though perceptual abilities can improve with practice, these benefits rarely ge...

DHS Summer Team Program Research Report

NNC Student Summer Research Support Program Report

This report presents the studies carried out on two modifications suggested in the literature for Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. The modifications are applicable to feed-forward neural networks. One modification [18], made on performance index, reduces computational complexity of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm, while the other one [17], made on calculation of the gradient information, improv...

The medical student summer research program in family medicine.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A variety of clinical research training programs exist throughout the United States, although little is known about their methods, content, and outcomes. This report describes a model of clinical research training designed to teach medical students research processes in family medicine, while yielding data for research studies. Authors present a description and evaluat...