Robert H.N. Ho Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative

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Study the behavioral genetics of anxiety. Explore the nature and history of human consciousness. Learn about non-human artificial and animal intelligence.

The Robert H.N. Ho Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative (MBBI) builds on more than 200 years of excellence in teaching and research in natural and social sciences and the humanities.

Funding Interdisciplinary Research & Activities

The Mind, Brain, Behavior Initiative serves as an intellectual bridge that spans Colgate's liberal arts curriculum and brings outstanding faculty and students together in innovative ways. 

By sparking conversations and fostering collaboration, MBBI grant funding helps create new avenues of research and discovery to address the most urgent and exciting challenges of our time.

Grant Funding

MBBI grants support research and events that enhance scholarship, teaching, and student involvement related to mind, brain, or behavior.

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MBB Scholars

The MBB Scholars Program promotes high-caliber research collaboration that identifies and develops excellent students from diverse backgrounds.

MBB Scholars Program
Funding History

In its first few years, MBBI awarded more than 25 grants. Get a sense of past research and projects facilitated by MBBI grant funding.

Funding History

A Center for Scholarship

Housed in the east wing of Olin Hall, the Robert H.N. Ho Mind, Brain, and Behavior Center enables faculty and staff to cross disciplinary bridges that will help unlock the mysteries of the mind, enliven our intellectual and social community, energize our broader culture of inquiry, and move Colgate to the forefront of discovery for the next century to come.