UMEB: Travel to Animal Behavior Society Annual Meetings

各种各样的项目已经开发出来，目的是增加本科生的数量，从代表性不足的群体进入研究生院，后来从事科学研究事业。虽然少数民族在某些科学领域的参与有所增加，但其他领域几乎没有变化。没有人知道导致动物行为领域代表性不足的群体参与率低的所有因素，但问题包括缺乏对职业机会的了解和该领域的形象。例如，来自传统上代表性不足的群体的聪明学生，如果他们早期对生物学表现出兴趣，往往会被引导到健康科学领域。他们可能从来没有在教科书上看到过，或者在电子媒体上听说过，任何从事动物行为研究的人实际上和他们长得很像。该项目的目标是增加历史上代表性不足的群体的本科生数量，攻读动物行为领域的研究生学位。这一目标将通过鼓励他们积极参与，并在动物行为学会年会上与该领域的多数和少数本科生、研究生和专业人士建立联系来实现。在这项为期四年的资助下，每年约有15名本科生将获得多元化旅游奖。他们将根据财务需求，在ABS会议上增加多样性的潜力，动物行为如何适应他们未来的职业规划，以及他们希望通过参加ABS会议获得什么来选择。旅行奖将只颁发给同意参加整个会议的学生，将优先考虑展示自己研究成果的学生。将制定一个两级指导计划。获得旅行奖的学生将与教师或研究生配对，他们将帮助本科生适应会议，并在会议结束后与他们保持通信。此外，所有参加年会的本科生将有机会在学生和导师的开幕晚宴上选择导师，并为所有参加年会的本科生组织关于准备研究生院等主题的圆桌讨论。ABS将在年会上张贴海报，在少数民族科学家组织的会议计划中做广告，向招收大量少数民族本科生的机构和项目发送印刷邀请函，向所有成员发送电子邮件，并通过其网站宣传这一机会。会议登记表将有一条线，潜在的导师可以在上面表明他们的兴趣。这项资助是在美国国家科学基金会的环境生物学本科生指导计划下授予的，该计划旨在使学术机构及其合作伙伴以及专业协会能够为本科生，特别是那些来自代表性不足群体的学生，增加进入环境生物学（广义定义）职业的机会。

A variety of programs have been developed with the intent of increasing the number of undergraduates from underrepresented groups entering graduate schools and later pursuing research careers in science. While minority participation has increased in some fields of science, other fields have seen little change. No one knows all the factors contributing to the low participation of groups underrepresented in the field of animal behavior, but issues include a lack of knowledge of career opportunities and the image of the field. For example, bright students from traditionally underrepresented groups are often steered towards careers in health sciences if they show an early interest in biology. They may have never seen in textbooks, or heard of through the electronic media, anyone pursuing a career in animal behavior that actually looks like them.The objective of this project is to increase the number of undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups pursuing graduate degrees in the field of animal behavior. This goal will be pursued through encouraging their active participation and networking with majority and minority undergraduates, graduate students and professionals in the field at the Animal Behavior Society's annual meeting.Under this four-year grant, about 15 undergraduate students per year will receive Diversity Travel Awards. They will be selected on the basis of statements indicating financial need, potential to increase diversity at the ABS meeting, how animal behavior fits into their future career plans, and what they hope to gain by attending the ABS meetings. Travel awards will be given only to students who agree to stay for the entire meeting, and priority will be given to students who will present their own research.A two-tiered mentoring program will be developed. Students receiving travel awards will be paired with faculty members or graduate students who will help to orient the undergraduates to the meeting and maintain correspondence with them afterwards. In addition, all undergraduates attending the annual meeting will be given the opportunity to select mentors at an opening dinner for students and mentors, and roundtable discussions on such topics as preparing for graduate school will be organized for all undergraduates attending the annual meeting.The ABS will advertise the opportunity by a poster at the annual meeting, by advertising in the meeting programs of organizations of minority scientists, by sending printed invitations to institutions and programs with large enrollments of minority undergraduates, by sending e-mail to all members, and through its Web site. The meeting registration form will have a line on which potential mentors can indicate their interest.This grant is awarded under the National Science Foundation's program of Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology, which is designed to enable academic institutions and their partners, as well as professional societies, to enhance access to careers in environmental biology (broadly defined) for undergraduate students, particularly those from underrepresented groups.