南部地区教育委员会
博士学者计划
的 Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) works with states to improve public education at every level, from early childhood through doctoral education by:
- helping policymakers make informed decisions by providing independent, accurate data 和建议;
- helping educators strengthen student learning with professional development, proven practices and curricula; and
- help policymakers, institutions and educators share scarce resources to accomplish 比起单独行动，他们更愿意在一起.
SREB is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization headquartered in Atlanta serving 16
states; A实验室ama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, 田纳西州, Texas, Virginia
和西弗吉尼亚州. 的ir work is funded by member appropriations, as well as by contracts
and grants from foundations and from local, state and federal agencies. 这个国家的
first regional interstate compact for education, SREB was created in 1948 by Southern
governors and legislators who recognized the link between education and economic vitality.
的 博士学者计划 provides multiple layers of support to students — not only in financial assistance
and research funding, but also career counseling, job postings and a scholar directory
建立人际关系和招聘. Mentoring and advocacy for scholars is crucial, and
support continues into early careers as graduates become faculty members.
Deepshila Gautam, a doctoral student in the Bill Gatton College of 药店, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences is enrolled in the SREB 博士学者计划 and a current scholar at 十大博彩公司. Deepshila completed her master’s program in 差生物学. During this period, Deepshila received a highly competitive Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid Research Award, 差 研究生 School Research Award, and Slemp Memorial Research Award, Department of Biological Sciences, 差 under the advisership of Dr. Aruna Kilaru, Department of Biological Sciences. 她的研究报告在 Plant Biology 2021 Worldwide Summit was supported by the American Society of Plant Biologists Travel Award and was also a winner at the 差 Appalachian Student Research 论坛. 她继续攻读博士学位。.D. degree in Biomedical Sciences in fall 2021, driven by 她对研究的极大兴趣.
Her doctoral work is focused on the development of translational biomarkers to enable drug development for schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric illnesses. 它涉及到 the development and validation of electroencephalogram (EEG)-based neural oscillations as biomarkers for schizophrenia to facilitate drug development and improve clinical 试验结果. Such biomarkers are critical for novel drug evaluation, effective dose-selection, proof-of-concept studies, as well as patient selection in clinical 试用. Deepshila is not only skilled in conducting research experiments and complex data analysis but also in research presentations and training other students in the 实验室. During her PhD program under the supervision of Dr. Siva Digavalli，她介绍了 her work at Society of Neuroscience conference and at Appalachian Student Research 论坛. She has also trained several PharmD and undergraduate students in the 实验室 to 进行研究和数据分析. She has earned a co-authorship on a manuscript that was recently published in Oxford University Press’s journal, the Schizophrenia Bulletin, one of the highly cited journals in the field with a high impact factor. Deepshila is also a joint first author on a second paper and a co-author in a third paper that has been submitted for peer review with the journal Neuropharmacology, 这是该领域的另一本权威杂志. She built her confidence from these well-rounded academic experiences and is inspired to realize her goal to become a successful researcher in neuroscience and support and guide young researchers.
Her long-term goal is to contribute to the drug development research, with a particular focus on schizophrenia and other mental disorders. 迪普希拉来自尼泊尔，一个发展中的国家 country with limited opportunities for research and graduate education. 因此,她 is also motivated to provide research opportunities and exposure to women in developing countries and students from diverse ethnicity, and economic backgrounds.