Undergraduate Diversity at the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Society of Systematic Biologists

进化研究学会（SSE）和系统生物学家学会（SSB）是美国讨论和传播与进化有关的思想的主要专业学会。该奖项将为大约15名本科生提供旅费、注册费和住宿费，这些本科生来自科学领域代表性不足的群体，他们将参加这些学会2008 - 2011年的年会。这个奖项是一个非常成功的项目的延续，该项目始于2001年的会议，提高了人们对扩大会议本科生基础的认识和热情。在会议期间，本科生将由研究生和教师导师指导，他们将在会议上帮助本科生建立网络，帮助本科生解开谈话的神秘感，并使学生在会议上感到更受欢迎。还将为本科生提供正式的指导课程，包括一个研讨会，以帮助鼓励学生为在进化和环境生物学方面的职业和/或研究生院做准备。这些活动将由本资助未涵盖的社会活动补充，以及两个协会为鼓励本科生参与所做的进一步努力，例如降低注册费，学生在主办地点出席的每日费用，以及本科生海报会议。这些活动将有助于增加未被充分代表的群体在进化会议上的参与，并最终对全国进化生物学的参与产生积极影响。

The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB) are the premier professional societies in the US for discussion and dissemination of ideas relating to evolution. This award will provide travel, registration, and lodging costs for approximately 15 undergraduates from groups underrepresented in science for the annual meetings of these societies for the years 2008 - 2011. This award is a continuation of a very successful program that began with the 2001 meetings and has raised awareness and enthusiasm for the need to broaden the undergraduate base at the meetings. During the meetings the undergraduates will be mentored by graduate student and faculty mentors, who will help the undergraduate network at the meetings, help demystify talks for the undergraduates, and generally make the students feel more welcome at the meetings. There will also be an official mentoring session for undergraduates, consisting of a seminar that will help encourage the students to prepare for careers and/or graduate school in evolutionary and environmental biology. These activities will be supplemented by social activities not covered by this grant, as well as further efforts on the part of both societies for encouraging undergraduate participation, such as reduced registration fees, daily fees for attendance by students at the host site, and an undergraduate poster session. These activities will help increase participation by underrepresented groups at the Evolution meetings, and ultimately should have a positive effect on participation in evolutionary biology nationally.