Training Grants

One of the major components of C-CEBH is our training program in Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing (CEBH). This program takes advantage of the unique breadth and depth of our C-CEBH faculty and provides for unique and exciting opportunities for predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars to study the hearing sciences. Students and postdocs have the opportunity to work with any of the members of the Center, as well with our colleagues in the intramural program at NIDCD. The training program is supported by a training grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

Students interested in working with UM or NIDCD intramural investigators are strongly encouraged to contact those investigators who share their research interests (see attached list). Students are able to work with investigators on the UM campus and/or at NIDCD. Individuals who are interested in collaborative research that involves investigators from both programs are strongly encouraged to explore such possibilities. Depending upon the research interests of the students, support is provided through a variety of UM and NIDCD mechanisms and these are outlined in letters of offer to enter the graduate program.

Graduate education itself is through UM, and students receive the doctoral degree from Maryland, generally through the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) doctoral program. Once a student has identified a mentor (or mentors), he/she should apply to the NACS graduate program at UM for admissions to the doctoral program. Students in NACS are trained in broad areas of cell/molecular/systems, cognitive, and computational neuroscience.