Jennifer Ross-Wolff, professor of biology and director of neuroscience, and Andrea Kalis, senior lecturer and lab coordinator in biology, have received a National Science Foundation Research in Undergraduate Institutions grant (#2345646). Their three-year research project, “Integration of temporal, positional, and sex-specifying cues in neuronal development,” seeks to understand how sex-determining signals are integrated with sex-shared programs of neural development, using the well-understood neuronal development of the worm C. elegans as a model. Together with student researchers, Ross-Wolff and Kalis have developed reagents to study how regulatory components interact with each other and with unidentified factors to promote sex-specific nervous system organization. Through this study, they aim to identify early events in this organization. This research project is fully integrated in curricular courses, where undergraduates will investigate how neurons develop and make connections that allow them to regulate reproduction. Summer research opportunities will further engage students in answering significant questions in developmental neurobiology.