Richard Romanowski (rmr at acsu.buffalo.edu) writes,
> Hello.
> I am an undergrad in Linguistics and Computer Science, intending
> graduate study in Cognitive Science, particularly including neuroscience.
>> Could anyone recommend schools which have *interdisciplinary* access
> to neuroscience? Most of the grad programs I have information on are nice,
> but require a degree in biology.
>> Also, if in your opinion(s) neuroscience is too difficult for anyone
> who does not have a bachelor's degree in biology, please advise.
>> Thank you.
> Richard Romanowski
Richard,
I am finishing my undergrad degree in CS this semester, and plan
to go on to a joint program in Computational Bio this fall. I've been
asking around on the network (mostly on computational-biology at net.bio.net)
for the last couple of months, and have gotten a lot of helpful info. If
you are specifically looking for Cognitive Science, then you may want to
look at some of the programs in PA, either UPA or U. Philadelphia - I seem
to remember that one of those schools has a good (interdisciplinary ?)
program in neuroscience. Also, you might want to consider the Center for
Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University -
according to one Tom Holroyd who works there, they endeavor to be highly
interdisciplinary. I've got a general description of their program
(from Tom) that I can forward to you if you're interested...
I'll include some of what I've found so far. I may have e-mail addresses
for some of the places listed below, but I may have to go digging for them.
Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with...
DAVE.
My own detective work (notes from Peterson's Guide to Graduate Programs)
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school phone
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Virginia Commonwealth University, BioMedical Engr. Program 804-786-2403
Univ of PA (Philadelphia), Dept of BioEngineering 215-898-8501
Boston Univ, BioMedical Engr. Dept 617-353-2805
Stanford Univ, Section on Medical Informatics 415-725-3388
Univ of Washington (Seattle), Center for BioEngineering
Univ of Virginia (Charlottesville), Dept of BioMed. Engr.
Washington State University at Pullman.
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Cal Tech/UCLA
U. of Philadelphia Med School
Washington University (St. Louis)
* Baylor College of Medicine / Rice / U. Houston - a joint program that is
expected to begin this fall. Contact georgep at rice.edu or davison at uh.edu
excerpt from a note by Lawrence Hunter
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* University of Pittsburgh (in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon). A new
program in computational biology, funded by the Keck Foundation. For
information on that program, contact Bruce Buchanan
(buchanan at cs.pitt.edu).
* George Mason University. A new program in Computational Science and
Informatics. [I am currently teaching the bioinformatics course there.]
For more information, contact Harold Morowitz (hmorowitz at gmuvax.gmu.edu)
or John Evans (jevans at gmuvax2.gmu.edu).
* Washington State University, Pullman. A program in computational science
including biology that has been going for at least three years. For more
information, contact Keith Dunker (dunker at bobcat.csc.wsu.edu).
* Washington University, St. Louis. They have just instituted a new
Institute for Biological Computing, which will begin admitting students
next fall. For more information contact David States
(states at wucs1.wustl.edu).
* Stanford Medical School. One of the nation's best medical informatics
programs, recently hired Russ Altman to teach computational biology. For
information, contact Ted Shortliffe (shortliffe at sumex-aim.stanford.edu)
* Yale Medical School. Also has expanded its informatics program to include
computational biology. For information, contact Perry Miller
(pmiller at biomed.med.yale.edu)
Well, hope this helps.
DAVE
