 The group supports the growth and improvement of neuroscience programs at four-year colleges and universities.Working with grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and FUN, Ramirez also started Support of Mentors and Their Students from Underrepresented Minorities, a program that pairs junior faculty at four-year institutions with undergraduate students and gives them $9,000 to support 10 weeks of research.More recently, in 2011, Ramirez received the Award for Education in Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience.