MInority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2005

这项行动为2005财政年度的NSF少数民族博士后研究奖学金提供资金。该奖学金的目标是增加少数民族科学家在博士后水平的参与，并为他们在美国科学的科学领导地位做好准备。为了实现这一目标，奖学金提供了最高质量的博士后培训和研究的机会，以最近的博士获奖者。 研究和培训计划的题目是“在完全由雄性父母照顾的鸟类中测试性选择和亲子保险的原则”。“为了测试性选择的一般原则，这项研究包括对具有排他性雄性父母照顾和不同鸟类交配和社会制度的tinamous物种的精子竞争进行比较形态学，解剖学和行为学研究：从一夫一妻制到滥交，从独居到群居习惯。 培训目标包括学习进行这项研究的新的实验室和实地技术;这些技术将拓宽研究员的专业视野。 她的目标是成为一名大学教授和代表性不足的少数民族的榜样。

This action funds an NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2005. The goal of the fellowship is to increase the participation of minority scientists at the postdoctoral level and to prepare them for positions of scientific leadership in US science. To attain this goal, the fellowship provides opportunities for postdoctoral training and research of the highest quality to recent doctoral recipients. It is expected that Fellows supported through these fellowships will play important roles in training of the future workforce.The research and training plan is entitled "Testing principles of sexual selection and paternity insurance in birds with exclusive male parental care." To test general principles of sexual selection, this research consists of a comparative morphological, anatomical and behavioral studies of sperm competition in tinamous species with exclusive male parental care and different avian mating and social systems: from monogamy to promiscuity, and solitary to gregarious habits. The training goals include learning new laboratory and field techniques to conduct this study; they will broaden the Fellow's professional horizons. Her goal is to be a university professor and role model for underrepresented minorities.