CONFERENCE PROGRAM FOR YOUNG MINORITY SCIENTISTS

该协会设立了一项旅行奖学金计划， 神经科学，以帮助和鼓励年轻的少数民族学生和 神经科学家将出席该学会的年会。本节目 旨在吸引来自传统大学的学生和博士后 代表不足的少数群体进入神经科学领域 扩大他们在该领域的机会。 神经科学是生物医学较新的专业领域之一。 研究和教学。自成立以来，该协会已发展到 达到超过13,000名会员。成员来自众多 包括生物化学、神经学、生理学、解剖学、 病理学、心理学、精神病学、工程学和其他相关学科 菲尔兹。对神经系统的综合研究已经演变成 在理论和实验生物学最具挑战性的领域中， 医学和工程学。对该领域未来的预测是 神经科学学会的光明和持续发展是可望的。 然而，面对如此光明的前景，也有令人沮丧的 少数民族在全国的代表性严重不足的状况 神经科学。事实上，这种情况存在于科学的所有领域。 而且并不是神经科学独有的。许多少数群体成员 在小型学院或大学学习理科。如果有的话，很少有 这些机构有神经科学课程，因此也有少数族裔 参加这些机构不会接触到神经科学。这个 因此，神经科学学会试图纠正这个问题。一个 正在努力增加农村地区少数民族的数量 神经科学既是活跃的研究人员，也是教师。个人 与能力很强的老牌科学家的互动是一项重要的 青年科学家成功职业发展的因素。这个 拟议的旅行奖学金计划将使选定的少数族裔 学生和博士后向神经科学界，并揭露 旅行伙伴，了解神经科学的最新发展。导师制 为旅行研究员提供的计划刺激了个人互动 神经学家的广泛领域。这种“主流化” 该方法旨在促进非正式互动和访问 给科学机构。 旅行研究员将收到一份问卷，以评估该计划。 此外，还将向以往的院士发出问卷进行询问 关于他们的职业健康状况。

A Travel Fellowship program has been established by the Society for Neuroscience to assist and encourage young minority students and neuroscientists to attend annual meetings of the society. This program is intended to attract students and post-docs from traditionally underrepresented minority groups to the field of Neuroscience and to expand their opportunities within the field. Neuroscience is one of the more recent specialty areas in bio-medical research and teaching. Since its, inception the Society has grown to reach a membership of over 13,000. Members come from numerous disciplines that include biochemistry, neurology, physiology, anatomy, pathology, psychology, 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 of the Neuroscience Society is expected. In the face of such bright prospects, there is, however, the depressing condition of a gross underrepresentation of ethnic minorities in the neurosciences. This condition, in fact, exists in all areas of science and is not unique to the neurosciences. Many members of minority groups study the sciences at small colleges or universities. Few, if any, of these institutions have neuroscience programs and therefore minorities attending these institutions are not exposed to the neurosciences. The Society for Neurosciences, therefore, seeks to rectify this problem. An attempt is being made to increase the number of minorities in the neurosciences both as active researchers land as teachers. Personal interaction with highly competent, established scientists is a major factor in successful career development of young scientists. The proposed Travel Fellowship program would expose selected minority students and post-docs to the neuroscience community, and expose the Travel Fellow to recent developments in Neurosciences. The mentorship program provided to the Travel fellows stimulates personal interaction with a wide cross section of neuroscientists. This "mainstreaming" approach is designed to facilitate both informal interaction and access to science institutions. Travel Fellows will be given a questionnaire to elvaluate the program. In addition, a questionnaire will be sent to past Fellows to inquire about their professional well being.