CONFERENCE PROGRAM FOR YOUNG MINORITY SCIENTISTS

神经科学学会建立了一个奖学金项目 帮助年轻的少数民族学生和神经科学家参加 协会的年度会议。 该计划旨在 吸引研究生和博士后， 代表性不足的少数群体到神经科学领域， 以扩大他们在该领域的机会。 神经科学领域是最近的专业领域之一 生物医学研究和教学。 1969年，社会 神经科学的成立是为了协调几项活动， 将有助于促进该领域。 从那时起，协会 从500名会员发展到9,500名会员， 植入 成员来自许多学科，包括 生物化学、神经学、生理学、解剖学、病理学、心理学 以及精神病学、工程学和其他相关领域。 的 神经系统的综合研究已经发展成为 最具挑战性的理论和实验生物学领域 医学和工程学 外地未来的预测 前景光明，预计将继续增长。 然而，面对如此光明的前景， 少数民族代表人数严重不足的令人沮丧的状况 神经科学中的少数民族。 事实上，这种情况是存在的。 在科学的所有领域，并不是神经科学特有的。 许多少数民族成员在小学校学习科学。 学院或大学，专门从事课程， 少数民族的需求在美国很少，如果有的话， 这些机构都有神经科学项目 协会 因此，神经科学试图纠正这个问题， 努力增加少数民族的人数， 神经科学的研究和教学。 个人互动 与高度胜任的既定科学家是一个主要因素， 青年科学家的成功职业发展。 拟议 旅游奖学金计划将揭露选定的少数民族 学生在神经科学的最新发展和刺激 与广泛的神经科学家进行个人互动。 因此，这是一种“主流化”办法， 非正式互动和接触科学机构的机会。

The Society for Neuroscience has established a fellowship program to assist young minority students and neuroscientists to attend annual meetings of the society. This program is intended to attract graduate students, and post-docs from traditionally underrepresented minority groups to the field of Neuroscience and to expand their opportunities within the field. The field of Neuroscience is one of the more recent specialty areas in biomedical research and teaching. In 1969, the Society for Neuroscience was founded to co-ordinate several activities that would serve to promote the field. Since then, the Society has grown to reach a membership of 9,500 from one of 500 at its inception. Members come from numerous disciplines that include biochemistry, neurology, physiology, anatomy, pathology, psychology and psychiatry, engineering and other related fields. The integrated study of the nervous system has evolved into one of the most challenging areas of theoretical and experimental biology medicine and engineering. Projections for the future of the field are bright and continued growth is expected. In the face of such bright prospects, there is, however, the depressing condition of a gross under representation of ethnic minorities in the neurosciences. This condition, in fact, exists in all areas of science and is not endemic to the neurosciences. Many members of minority groups study the sciences at small colleges or universities which specialize in programs geared towards the needs of ethnic minorities in the U.S. Few, if any, of these institutions have neuroscience programs. The society for Neurosciences therefore seeks to rectify this problem and an attempt is made to increase the number of minorities in active research and teaching in the neurosciences. Personal interaction with highly competent established scientists is a major factor in successful career development of young scientists. The proposed program of Travel Fellowship would expose selected minority students to recent developments in Neurosciences and stimulate personal interaction with a wide cross section of neuroscientists. This is thus, a "mainstreaming" approach designed to facilitate both informal interaction and access to science institutions.