International Conference on Infant Studies - 2008

描述（由申请人提供）：本次会议旅费补助申请的目的是确保资金，以继续促进本科生参与国际婴儿研究学会（ISIS）的两年一度的会议，该会议将在下一次在温哥华，不列颠哥伦比亚省， 加拿大2008年3月在延续前两个R13本科生旅费资助从NICHD获得2004年和2006年的会议，拟议的赠款将配合前所未有的努力正在进行的ISIS的目标，发展和国际化的婴儿科学研究人员在他们的职业生涯早期。我们正在请求资金来帮助抵消参加2008年温哥华会议的15-20名本科生演讲者的差旅费。正如该协会的执行委员会所确定的那样，本科生的研究经验构成了下一代婴儿研究人员将得到滋养的基础，对于婴儿研究领域的福祉和未来的成功至关重要，以增加可用机制的多样性，以便将最优秀和最聪明的本科生纳入婴儿研究的国际领域。事实上，ISIS内部许多最成功的学者最初都是在本科阶段参与婴儿研究的。为了支持婴儿科学研究人员在其职业生涯的早期，并加强和全球化的本科生参与ISIS的各个方面的目标，该协会已经建立了一个多管齐下的倡议，在2008年会议上国际化的本科生参与婴儿研究：所有学生将获得会议注册的50%折扣，ISIS的本科生研究委员会将再次举办“与学者共进午餐”计划，提交的最佳本科生论文将获得ISIS资助的200美元现金奖和牌匾。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this conference travel grant application is to secure funds to continue to facilitate undergraduate student involvement in the Biennial Meetings of the International Society on Infant Studies (ISIS), which will be held next in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada during March of 2008. In continuance with two previous R13 undergraduate travel support grants obtained from NICHD for the 2004 and 2006 meetings, the proposed grant would dovetail with unprecedented efforts being undertaken by the ISIS to target, develop, and internationalize infancy science researchers early in their careers. We are requesting monies to help offset the travel expenses of 15-20 undergraduate student presenters in attendance at the 2008 Vancouver meetings. As determined by the Executive Committee of the Society, undergraduate research experiences form the substrate out of which the next generation of infancy researchers will be nourished, and it is essential for the well-being and future successes of the field of infancy research to increase the diversity of available mechanisms for funneling the best and brightest undergraduate students into the international field of infancy research. Indeed, many of the most successful scholars within ISIS first became involved with infancy research at the undergraduate level. With the goal of supporting infancy science researchers early in their careers, and of enhancing and globalizing undergraduate participation in all aspects of ISIS, the Society has established a multi-pronged initiative to internationalize undergraduate participation in infancy research at the 2008 meetings: all students will receive a 50% reduced rate for conference registration, the Undergraduate Research Committee at ISIS will once again host a "Luncheon with the Scholars" program, and the best overall submitted undergraduate paper will receive an ISIS-funded $200 cash prize and a plaque.