Part A: Briefly describe the future you see yourself pursuing, and how this neuroscience fellowship fits into those plans. Note: The research proposal [(1) above] should include similar information, though less space is available—feel free to use some or all of the same material in this statement. This gives you a little more space (depending on how much you used for the project description) and focuses more on your future plans than on your major, but there could be significant overlap between these statements. (1-2 double-spaced pages).
Part B: This component of the Paller application consists of a short, independently written research proposal. It should discuss a significant issue or problem in neuroscience that is of particular interest to you. It may, for example, be a problem or question that has arisen in the course of your classroom or laboratory work. It should, however, be unrelated to your actual research proposal. Your proposal must include a description of the issue or problem, a specific aspect of that problem that could be approached in a research project, and the experiments you would suggest be done to address the question. This should be written as a research proposal, including background, the question you are addressing and the hypothesis you are proposing to test, the experiments (including controls) needed to test the hypothesis, and the ways in which you would interpret the predicted experimental data. References and figures may be included.
Document Guidelines:
The proposal should be no more than two pages, single-spaced, with a minimum font size of 11 (Times) or 10 (Arial), and a minimum line spacing of 12 points. The proposals will be read and evaluated by the neuroscience faculty, so you can assume a reasonably knowledgeable audience.
Please submit these components as a single pdf file, entitled “Lastname_Paller”, to Rachel Reuling r.reuling@bowdoin.edu by 5 p.m. on Monday, March 3, 2025.