# Howard Schneiderman Training Program in Learning and Memory

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · 2024 · $197,372

## Abstract

Project Summary
The Howard Schneiderman Interdisciplinary Training Program in Learning and Memory is based at the University
of California - Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM), a top-ranked and highly
visible organized research unit established in 1983 by the UC Regents with James L. McGaugh as its Founding
Director. The Center’s interdisciplinary faculty are working to achieve a complete and integrated understanding
of how the brain stores and remembers information across all levels from molecules to mind. Of the Center’s
more than 90 active research faculty, 21 are the core training faculty for this program, representing strengths in
molecular, cellular, circuit, systems, cognitive and computational neuroscience of learning and memory. The
program’s goal continues to be to train the next generation of innovative leaders in neuroscience by empowering
them with the skills, knowledge, and team science core values necessary to comprehensively understand the
neural basis of learning and memory. The program is aimed at predoctoral trainees with five slots offered every
year and an average duration of appointment of less than 2 years. It features 10 key components that provide
unique education training in the range of skills required for a successful research career in learning and memory:
(1) a problem-focused seminar course that promotes transdisciplinary and divergent thinking in learning and
memory; (2) a course on neural dynamics and computation; (3) a workshop on transdisciplinary team science;
(4) workshops on research-intensive academic careers (Life Skills for the Academic); (5) a series of workshops
on quantitative approaches to scientific inquiry; (6) a workshop on cultivating inclusion in the academy; (7)
participating in journal clubs; (8) participating in professional development, networking, and conference travel
activities; (9) participating in T32 program retreats; and (10) participating in mentoring meetings. The activities
fulfill many of the advanced requirements for coursework and do not increase time to degree completion. The
program also provides ample opportunities for leadership and service, as well as value added beyond the T32
trainees to extend to other students in the same laboratories. We focus on empowering mentors with training
and skills through Culturally Aware Mentor (CAM) Training and continue to use our joint preceptorship program
to train junior mentors. The overall training program leverages the existing resources and activities in UCI’s
graduate training, adds new training components that are unique to trainees of this program, and provides a host
of optional activities for professional development. Desired outcomes include successful completion of PhD,
published manuscripts, quantified improvement in transdisciplinary thinking and behavior, individual fellowships
(e.g. NRSA), successful placement in postdoctoral training, and subsequent career in research-intensive or
research-rela...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10848078
- **Project number:** 2T32MH119049-06
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE
- **Principal Investigator:** BRUCE L MCNAUGHTON
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $197,372
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2019-07-01 → 2029-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10848078

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10848078, Howard Schneiderman Training Program in Learning and Memory (2T32MH119049-06). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-29 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10848078. Licensed CC0.

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