Minority Program for Society of Toxicology Meeting

毒理学会会议少数派计划

• 批准号: 8257403
• 负责人: Jose E Manautou
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: SOCIETY OF TOXICOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-03-05 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8257403
• 关键词: Academia; Access to Information; Adverse effects; Area; Awareness; Biological Products; Career Choice; Case Study; Chemicals; Discipline; Ecosystem; Education; Employment; Environment; Environmental Health; Evaluation; Exercise; Exposure to; Faculty; Future; Government; Health; Hearing; Industry; Institution; Internships; Laboratory Research; Learning; Life; Mentors; Methods; Minority; Organism; Participant; Population; Problem-Based Learning; Public Health; Recording of previous events; Research; Resources; Risk; San Francisco; Schools; Science; Societies; Students; Talents; Toxicology; Training; Travel; Work; base; career; experience; follow-up; graduate student; interest; lectures; meetings; parity; peer; posters; prevent; programs; science education; undergraduate education; undergraduate student; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Society of Toxicology's Undergraduate Education Program for Minority Students will include 30 undergraduate students and 5 faculty advisors from groups that are underrepresented in the sciences. The number of minority students pursuing graduate school in the sciences is far from parity with their proportion among the US population, and the Society of Toxicology strongly supports efforts to increase the diversity of the scientific workforce. Selected from a national pool of applicants, these students and advisors will receive travel support and participate in a 2.5-day program March 10-12, 2012, in San Francisco, CA, in conjunction with the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Annual Meeting. The aims of this program are to 1) increase awareness of undergraduate students majoring in science and science advisors at undergraduate institutions about career choices and opportunities in toxicology and 2) increase interest of undergraduate students in graduate biomedical education and motivate students to obtain research experience especially that pertinent to toxicology. Participants will hear specially selected lectures from toxicologists whose work exemplifies high profile diverse research interests, participate in research poster sessions, and meet with academic program directors and internship sponsors. Participants are assigned to small groups, composed of graduate student peer mentors and toxicologist host-mentors who provide informal interaction and mentoring. Potential career choices are examined in a panel discussion will featuring toxicologists who share experiences in different employment sectors (academia, government, and industry). The program is based on the experience from, and evaluation and refinement of, activities across the 22-year history of the Undergraduate Education Program. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Toxicology is a discipline and profession that is dedicated to identifying the adverse effects of chemical, physical and biological agents on living organisms and the ecosystem, and to prevent and ameliorate such adverse effects. The SOT Undergraduate Education Program for Minority Students supports a critical need during the undergraduate years to encourage students to apply to graduate school in the biomedical sciences and strengthen the pipeline of future toxicologists. Apart from further developing the talent pool, this program benefits public and environmental health by advancing research to protect society and the environment from adverse health risks resulting from exposures to hazardous agents.

描述（由申请人提供）：毒理学学会的少数民族学生本科教育计划将包括30名本科生和5名来自科学界代表性不足的团体的教员顾问。攻读科学研究生的少数民族学生的数量远远低于他们在美国人口中的比例，毒理学学会强烈支持增加科学劳动力多样性的努力。从申请人的国家池中选择，这些学生和顾问将获得旅行支持，并参加2.5天的计划3月10日至12日，2012年，在旧金山弗朗西斯科，加利福尼亚州，在毒理学（SOT）年会的社会结合。该计划的目的是：1）提高本科院校科学专业的本科生和科学顾问对毒理学职业选择和机会的认识，2）提高本科生对研究生生物医学教育的兴趣，并激励学生获得研究经验，特别是与毒理学相关的研究经验。与会者将听取毒理学家特别挑选的讲座，他们的工作体现了高姿态的不同研究兴趣，参加研究海报会议，并会见学术项目主任和实习赞助商。参与者被分配到小组，由研究生同伴导师和毒理学家导师组成，他们提供非正式的互动和指导。潜在的职业选择将在小组讨论中进行审查，毒理学家将在不同的就业部门（学术界，政府和工业）分享经验。该计划是基于从经验，评估和完善，在整个本科教育计划的22年历史的活动。 公共卫生关系：毒理学是一门学科和专业，致力于确定化学，物理和生物制剂对生物有机体和生态系统的不利影响，并预防和改善这种不利影响。SOT少数民族学生本科教育计划支持本科期间的迫切需要，鼓励学生申请生物医学科学研究生院，并加强未来毒理学家的管道。除了进一步发展人才库外，该计划还通过推进研究来保护社会和环境免受因接触有害物质而造成的不良健康风险，从而使公众和环境健康受益。