Travel to Animal Behavior Society Meetings in Snowbird, UT in the Fall of 2006

2006 年秋季前往犹他州斯诺伯德参加动物行为协会会议

• 批准号: 0621383
• 负责人: Emilia Martins
• 金额: $ 1.68万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0621383&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Animal; Behavior; Society; Meetings

This project continues the Charles H. Turner Program created by the Diversity Committee of the Animal Behavior Society to increase the participation of underrepresented individuals in the Society annual meeting. The program is named after and advertises the contributions of Charles H. Turner, the first African American to publish scientific research on animal behavior. Through this program, ten undergraduate students will be provided with free travel, housing, and registration to attend the 43rd Annual Meeting 12-16 August 2006. In the past four years of this program, 40% of the awards have been made to students who are members of underrepresented groups. There is a strategy to increase this proportion by targeting less advanced students (freshmen and sophomores) at institutions with high proportions of minority students. A Co-PI at Morehouse College will coordinate this second round of awards, using personal connections to ensure that at least 60% of Turner Award students are members of underrepresented groups. The primary impact of the Turner Program is direct through providing an opportunity for undergraduates to participate in a major national meeting. In addition to attending all meeting activities, Turner students will participate in a one-day workshop held immediately before the meetings with role-playing and other activities designed to help the student get the most that they can from the experience. Each Turner student will also be matched with two mentors (a faculty member and a graduate student or postdoctoral associate) with whom they can interact during the meeting itself. In written surveys, 90% of students who participated in program activities agreed that they were more likely to go into graduate research in science as a result of having attended the Animal Behavior Society meetings. More than 80% report having had informal interactions with scientists at the meetings who are likely to have an impact on their future careers. The Turner Program has also been an important tool for initiating discussions about diversity issues by members of the Animal Behavior Society. The Turner program is the first major effort of the recently established Animal Behavior Society Diversity Committee, and NSF funding is a critical element in attracting the attention of our colleagues. By including our colleagues also as mentors for the Turner Program and speakers for our pre-meeting workshop, we encourage our entire community to participate in a broader discussion about the diversity of our discipline.

该项目延续了查尔斯·H.特纳计划由动物行为学会多样性委员会创建，旨在增加代表性不足的个人在学会年会上的参与。该计划是命名后，并赞扬了查尔斯H。特纳是第一位发表动物行为科学研究成果的非洲裔美国人。通过这一计划，十名本科生将提供免费旅行，住房和注册参加2006年8月12日至16日的第43届年会。在过去的四年中，该计划的40%的奖项已经取得了谁是代表性不足的群体的成员的学生。有一项提高这一比例的战略，其目标是少数民族学生比例高的院校中成绩较差的学生（大一和大二学生）。莫尔豪斯学院的一名联合PI将协调第二轮奖项，利用个人关系确保至少60%的特纳奖学生是代表性不足的群体的成员。特纳计划的主要影响是直接通过为本科生提供机会参加一个重要的国家会议。除了参加所有的会议活动，特纳学生将参加为期一天的研讨会之前举行的会议与角色扮演和其他活动，旨在帮助学生获得最大的，他们可以从经验。每个特纳学生还将与两名导师（一名教师和一名研究生或博士后）相匹配，他们可以在会议期间与他们互动。在书面调查中，90%参加项目活动的学生认为，由于参加了动物行为学会的会议，他们更有可能进入科学研究生研究。超过80%的受访者表示，他们在会议上与可能对他们未来职业产生影响的科学家进行了非正式的互动。特纳计划也是动物行为学会成员发起关于多样性问题讨论的重要工具。特纳计划是最近成立的动物行为学会多样性委员会的第一个重大努力，NSF的资助是吸引我们同事注意的关键因素。通过包括我们的同事也作为导师为特纳计划和发言人为我们的会前研讨会，我们鼓励我们的整个社区参与对我们的学科的多样性更广泛的讨论。