Minority Program for Society of Toxicology Meeting

毒理学会会议少数派计划

• 批准号: 8529963
• 负责人: Jose E Manautou
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: SOCIETY OF TOXICOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-05 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8529963
• 关键词: Academia; Access to Information; Adverse effects; Area; Awareness; Biological Products; Career Choice; Case Study; Chemicals; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Ecosystem; Education; Employment; Environment; Environmental Health; Evaluation; Exercise; Exposure to; Faculty; Future; Government; Health; Hearing; Industry; Institution; Internships; Laboratory Research; Learning; Life; Mentors; Methods; Minority; Organism; Participant; Population; Problem-Based Learning; Public Health; Recording of previous events; Research; Resources; Risk; Schools; Science; Societies; Students; Talents; Toxicology; Training; Travel; Work; base; career; experience; follow-up; graduate student; interest; lectures; meetings; parity; peer; posters; prevent; programs; public health relevance; science education; undergraduate education; undergraduate student; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Society of Toxicology's Undergraduate Education Program for Minority Students will include 30 undergraduate students and 5 faculty advisors from groups that are underrepresented in the sciences. The number of minority students pursuing graduate school in the sciences is far from parity with their proportion among the US population, and the Society of Toxicology strongly supports efforts to increase the diversity of the scientific workforce. Selected from a national pool of applicants, these students and advisors will receive travel support and participate in a 2.5-day program March 9-11, 2013, in San Antonio, TX, in conjunction with the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Annual Meeting. The aims of this program are to 1) increase awareness of undergraduate students majoring in science and science advisors at undergraduate institutions about career choices and opportunities in toxicology and 2) increase interest of undergraduate students in graduate biomedical education and motivate students to obtain research experience especially that pertinent to toxicology. Participants will hear specially selected lectures from toxicologists whose work exemplifies high profile diverse research interests, participate in research poster sessions, and meet with academic program directors and internship sponsors. Participants are assigned to small groups, composed of graduate student peer mentors and toxicologist host-mentors who provide informal interaction and mentoring during the presentations, posters, and other sessions. Potential career choices after the Ph.D. are examined in a panel discussion featuring toxicologists who share their experiences in different employment sectors (academia, government, and industry). The program is based on the experience from, and evaluation and refinement of, activities across the 23-year history of the Undergraduate Education Program.

描述（由申请人提供）：毒理学协会针对少数族裔学生的本科教育计划将包括30名本科生和5位科学中代表性不足的团体的教师顾问。在科学中攻读研究生院的少数族裔学生的人数与美国人口中的比例差异很大，毒理学协会强烈支持努力增加科学劳动力的多样性。这些学生和顾问从全国申请人池中选出，将获得旅行支持，并参加2013年3月9日至11日在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥市的2.5天计划，并与毒理学协会（SOT）年度会议一起参加。该计划的目的是1）提高对本科机构科学和科学顾问专业的本科生的认识，并在毒理学中对职业选择和机会以及2）增加本科生在研究生生物医学教育中的兴趣，并激励学生获得与毒理学有关的研究经验。参与者将听取毒理学家的特殊讲座，这些讲座的工作体现了备受瞩目的多样化研究兴趣，参加研究海报会议，并与学术计划主管和实习赞助商会面。参与者被分配到由研究生的同伴导师和毒理学家主持人组成的小组，他们在演讲，海报和其他会议期间提供非正式的互动和指导。博士学位后的潜在职业选择在小组讨论中进行了研究，其中包括在不同的就业领域（学术界，政府和工业）分享经验的毒理学家。该计划基于本科教育计划23年历史的活动的经验，评估和完善。