The Rackham Graduate Certificate in Computational Neuroscience is U-M’s response to the increasing prevalence and need for quantitatively trained researchers in neuroscience. The Certificate will be administered jointly by the Neuroscience Graduate Program (NGP) and the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE).

The Certificate provides training in interdisciplinary computational neuroscience to graduate students in experimental neuroscience programs and to graduate students in quantitative science programs, such as physics, biophysics, mathematics and engineering. The curriculum includes required core computational neuroscience courses and coursework outside of the student’s home department research focus, i.e. quantitative coursework for students in experimental programs, and neuroscience coursework for students in quantitative programs. To gain valuable experience in interdisciplinary science and collaboration, students are required to participate in an interdisciplinary journal club and to complete a practicum in interdisciplinary computational neuroscience.

Completion of the certificate will prepare students to participate in modern, team-based neuroscience that applies both experimental and computational methods to unravel the mysteries of the brain.