Undergraduate Program for Diversity in Toxicology

毒理学多样性本科课程

• 批准号: 8837949
• 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: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-10 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8837949
• 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; Graduate Education; Health; Hearing; Industry; Institution; Internships; Laboratory Research; Learning; Life; Mentors; Methods; Minority; Organism; Participant; Population; Problem-Based Learning; Recording of previous events; Research; Resources; Risk; Schools; Science; Societies; Students; Talents; Toxicology; Training; Travel; Underrepresented Minority; Visit; Work; base; career; experience; follow-up; graduate student; interest; lectures; meetings; parity; peer; posters; prevent; programs; public health relevance; undergraduate education; undergraduate student; web site

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Society of Toxicology's Undergraduate Education Program for Minority Students will include 25 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 3-day program March 21-23, 2015, in San Diego, CA, 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, scientific and poster session exploration, and other sessions. Potential career choices after the PhD 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 25-year history of the Undergraduate Education Program.

 描述（由申请人提供）：毒理学会的少数族裔学生本科教育计划将包括 25 名本科生和 5 名来自科学领域代表性不足的群体的教师顾问。 攻读科学研究生的少数族裔学生人数远非均等。鉴于他们在美国人口中所占的比例，毒理学会强烈支持增加科学劳动力多样性的努力，这些学生和顾问将从全国申请者中挑选出来，并获得旅行机会。支持并参加 2015 年 3 月 21 日至 23 日在加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥举行的为期 3 天的计划，该计划与毒理学学会 (SOT) 年会同时举行。该计划的目的是 1) 提高本科生的专业意识。本科院校的科学和科学顾问关于毒理学的职业选择和机会，2) 提高本科生对研究生生物医学教育的兴趣，并激励学生获得研究经验，特别是与毒理学相关的经验。参与者将听到专门精选的讲座。来自毒理学家的工作体现了高调的多样化研究兴趣，参加研究海报会议，并与学术项目主管和实习赞助商会面，参与者被分配到由研究生同伴导师和毒理学家主持导师组成的小组，他们提供非正式的互动和指导。在演讲、科学和海报会议探索以及博士后的潜在职业选择期间，毒理学家分享了他们在不同就业部门（学术界、政府和工业界）的经验。的经验，对本科教育计划 25 年历史中的活动进行评估和完善。