The LEARN summer program provides five neuroscience majors with the opportunity to work with Lafayette alumni on cutting-edge research in the neuroscience field. The students are paid for 8 to 10 weeks of full-time work. Travel to the mentor's institution and room expenses are also covered.

"Lafayette is poised to have one of the pre-eminent neuroscience programs at the undergraduate level in the country," says Julio J. Ramirez, R. Stuart Dickson Professor of Psychology at Davidson College. He conducted a review of Lafayette's program as founding president of Project Kaleidoscope, a National Science Foundation-funded alliance to strengthen undergraduate education in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology.