WORKSHOP: Increasing Minority Involvement In Integrative and Comparative Biology, to be held at the annual meeting of SICB, Atlanta, Georgia, January 4-8, 2000

如果我们要解决21世纪社会面临的问题，将纯粹研究的范围扩大到学术范围之外是至关重要的。纯粹的研究需要允许创造性的方法来解决社会面临的问题，并扩大知识的范围。然而，为了最大限度地发挥科学探究的影响和有用性，重要的是，科学的参与者代表了社会中人们的多样性。本次研讨会的目标是将致力于扩大少数民族在综合生物学领域的参与以及增加少数民族社区对综合与比较生物学学会（SICB）资源的访问的个人聚集在一起。SICB是一个全国性的学会，其成员是生物生物学许多领域的科学家，包括生物化学、生理学、内分泌学、发育生物学、神经生物学、比较形态学、生态学、进化、行为学和分类学。SICB的正式名称是美国动物学家协会。最近的名称更改为在SICB的目标和方向上进行一些其他重要更改提供了动力。其中一个重要的变化是认识到SICB应该在整合科学思想和方法以及扩大美国社会结构中所有成员获得科学的机会方面发挥重要作用。为此，学会希望启动一项计划，鼓励少数族裔参与综合生物学和比较生物学领域，并增加少数族裔和少数族裔机构在我们的年度科学会议中的作用，这是学会的主要职能。将采用研讨会的形式来组织和启动这个新项目。该研讨会将包括科学家、学生、来自潜在资金来源的代表以及来自传统少数族裔机构的科学界成员。这个小组将代表广泛的观点和广泛的地理范围。本次研讨会的目标是制定一项计划，以制定项目，提高少数民族学生对综合和比较生物学职业的认识，并为学生参加未来的SICB会议提供经济援助。此外，该研讨会将成为制定计划的论坛，以获得资金和实施旨在在SICB内建立长期计划的方案，以增加少数民族在社会各级和综合与比较生物学领域的参与。该讲习班将于2000年1月在亚特兰大举行的SICB年会上举行。与会者将包括SICB、国家科学基金会、梅隆基金会、黑人联合学院基金的代表。来自具有广泛地理范围的传统黑人和少数族裔学院或大学的管理人员和学者，以及参加少数族裔项目的本科生和研究生。

Expanding the reach of pure research beyond the confines of the academy is essential if we are to address problems facing society into the 21st century. Pure research is required to allow creative approaches to problems facing society and to expand the scope of knowledge. However, to maximize the impact and usefulness of scientific inquiry, it is important that participants in science represent the diversity of people within the society. The goal of the proposed workshop is to bring together individuals who are committed to expanding minority participation in the field of integrative biology and in increasing access by the minority community to the resources of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB). SICB is a national society whose members are scientists in many areas of organismal biology, including biochemistry, physiology, endocrinology, developmental biology, neural biology, comparative morphology, ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. SICB was formally known as the American Society of Zoologists. The recent name change has provided the impetus to make a number of other important changes in the goals and directions of SICB. One of these important changes is the recognition that SICB should play significant roles both in the integration of ideas and approaches in science and in expanding access to science to all members of the American social structure. To this end, the society would like to initiate a program that will encourage minority participation in areas of Integrative and Comparative Biology and increase the role of minorities and minority institutions in our annual scientific meeting, which is the major function of the society. A workshop format will be used to organize and initiate this new program. This workshop will include scientists, students, representatives from potential sources of funding, and members of the scientific community from traditionally minority institutions. This group will represent a broad range of perspectives and a broad geographic range. The goal of this workshop will be to produce a plan to develop programs that will increase awareness of careers in Integrative and Comparative Biology among minority students and provide financial assistance for students to participate in future meetings of SICB. Further, the workshop will be the forum for the development of plans for obtaining funding and implementing programs designed to build a long-term program within SICB to increase minority participation at all levels of the society and in the field of Integrative and Comparative Biology. The workshop will take place at the annual meeting if SICB in Atlanta during January 2000. The participants will include representatives from SICB, the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). Administrators and Academics from Historically Black and Minority Colleges or Universities that represent a broad geographic range, and an undergraduate and a graduate student who has participated in a minority oriented program.