Society of Toxicology Undergraduate Diversity Program

毒理学会本科多样性计划

• 批准号: 9261270
• 负责人: Jose E Manautou
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: SOCIETY OF TOXICOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-02-01 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9261270
• 关键词: Academia; Access to Information; Adverse effects; Area; Awareness; Baltimore; Biological Products; Career Choice; Case Study; Chemicals; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Ecosystem; Education; Employment; Environment; Environmental Health; Evaluation; Exercise; Exposure to; Faculty; Funding; Future; Government; Graduate Education; Health; Hearing; Industry; Institution; Internships; Laboratory Research; Learning; Mentors; Methods; Organism; Participant; Population; Problem-Based Learning; Public Health; Recording of previous events; Research; Resources; Risk; Schools; Science; Societies; Students; Talents; Toxicology; Training; Travel; Visit; Work; academic program; base; career; experience; follow-up; graduate student; interest; lectures; meetings; parity; peer coaching; posters; prevent; programs; summer research; undergraduate student; web site

Project Summary The Society of Toxicology’s Undergraduate Diversity Program will include about 30 undergraduate students from groups that are under-represented in the sciences and 5 faculty advisors who have strong potential to encourage students from these groups to pursue career paths in the biomedical sciences. The number of students from some demographic groups who are 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 3-day program March 11-13, 2017, in Baltimore, MD, in conjunction with the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Annual Meeting March 12-16. 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 and 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 during the presentations, scientific and poster session exploration, and other sessions. Potential career choices after the PhD are examined in roundtable discussions featuring toxicologists who share their 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 27-year history of the SOT Undergraduate Program.

项目概要 毒理学会的本科生多样性计划将包括约 30 名本科生 来自科学领域代表性不足的群体的学生和 5 名具有 鼓励这些群体的学生追求生物医学职业道路的强大潜力 科学。某些人口群体中正在攻读研究生的学生人数 科学学校在美国人口中所占的比例远未达到同等水平，而且 毒理学会强烈支持增加科学队伍多样性的努力。 这些学生和顾问是从全国申请者中挑选出来的，他们将获得旅行支持 并参加 2017 年 3 月 11 日至 13 日在马里兰州巴尔的摩与 毒理学会 (SOT) 年会 3 月 12 日至 16 日。该计划的目标是 1) 提高科学专业本科生和科学顾问的意识 本科院校关于毒理学职业选择和机会的信息以及 2) 增加 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，尤其是与毒理学相关的研究经验。与会者将特别听到 毒理学家的精选讲座，他们的工作体现了高调和多样化的研究 兴趣，参加研究海报会议，并与学术项目主任和 实习赞助商。参与者被分配到由研究生同伴组成的小组 导师和毒理学家主持导师，在课程期间提供非正式的互动和指导 演示、科学和海报会议探索以及其他会议。潜在的职业选择 博士在圆桌讨论中接受审查后，毒理学家分享了他们的观点 不同就业部门（学术界、政府和工业界）的经验。该计划是 基于 27 年活动的经验、评估和完善 SOT 本科项目的历史。