Conference Program for Young Minority Scientists

年轻少数族裔科学家会议计划

• 批准号: 6725924
• 负责人: PETER RAYMOND MACLEISH
• 金额: $ 25.55万
• 依托单位: SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-08-15 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6725924
• 关键词: African American; Alaskan Native American; Asians; Hispanic Americans; Native Americans; health science profession; meeting /conference /symposium; minority health professional; neurosciences; training; travel; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): Long Term Objective: Since 1981, the Society for Neuroscience (S FN) has hosted underrepresented minority (UR M) graduate Students and postdoctoral fellows in neuroscience as Traveling Fellows at the Society's Annual Meeting. This activity has been organized by the Society's Minority Education, Training and Professional Advancement Committee (METPAC). In 1997, the SFN took as its long term goal increasing the probability that the Fellows will be trained in leading labs and ultimately acquire positions i n leading departments and institutions where URM neuroscientists are now especially underrepresented. As the largest organization of neuroscientists with many leading neuroscientists as members, the SfN offers special strengths in this task. In the last three years, about 8 fellows have been chosen per year, from strong labs, and provided with 3 years of support, which covered all the expenses of attending the annual meeting and additional support for attending other professional meetings (e.g. Gordon conferences) and summer courses. Specific Aims: The objectives in the present submission are to a) increase the number of fellows already in strong labs, appointed per year for 3-year terms, from 8 to 10; b) add 5 fellows per year who are performing strongly in labs that are not maximally challenging; c) add 3 advanced undergraduates per year, as a contribution to diminishing the pipeline problem; d) provide additional networking and mentoring activities; e) track the progress of the fellows after their 3-year appointments; and f) evaluate the program since 1997 to determine the most effective strategies and progress toward the goal.

描述（由申请人提供）：长期目标：自1981年以来，神经科学协会（S FN）主持了代表性不足的少数群体（UR M）研究生和神经科学的博士后研究员，因为旅行研究员在协会年度会议上作为旅行研究员。这项活动是由协会的少数群体教育，培训和专业进步委员会（METPAC）组织的。 1997年，SFN以长期目标的增加，增加了研究人员在领先的实验室进行培训的可能性，并最终在领先的部门和机构中获得了URM神经科学家现在特别代表性不足的机构的职位。作为许多主要神经科学家作为成员的最大的神经科学家组织，SFN在这项任务中提供了特殊的优势。在过去的三年中，每年从强大的实验室中选择了大约8个研究员，并提供了3年的支持，这些支持涵盖了参加年度会​​议的所有费用，以及参加其他专业会议（例如戈登会议）和夏季课程的额外支持。具体目的：本提交中的目标是a）增加强大实验室中已经任命的研究员的数量，每年任命3年，从8到10； b）每年增加5名研究员，他们在没有最大挑战的实验室中表现出色； c）每年增加3个高级本科生，是减少管道问题的贡献； d）提供其他网络和指导活动； e）在约会3年后跟踪研究员的进度； f）自1997年以来评估该计划，以确定目标最有效的策略和进步。