Travel to Animal Behavior Society Meetings in Snowbird, UT in the Fall of 2006

该项目延续了由动物行为学会多样性委员会创建的查尔斯·H·特纳计划，以增加未被充分代表的个人参加学会年会。该项目以查尔斯·H·特纳的名字命名，并为他的贡献做广告。特纳是第一位发表动物行为科学研究的非裔美国人。通过这一计划，将为10名本科生提供免费旅行、住房和注册参加2006年8月12日至16日举行的第43届年会。在该计划的过去四年中，40%的奖项颁发给了代表人数不足的群体的学生。有一项战略是通过在少数民族学生比例较高的机构中瞄准不太先进的学生(一年级和二年级学生)来增加这一比例。莫尔豪斯学院的一名合作者将协调第二轮奖项，利用个人关系确保至少60%的特纳奖学生是代表不足的群体的成员。特纳计划的主要影响是通过为本科生提供参加重大全国会议的机会而产生的直接影响。除了参加所有会议活动外，特纳的学生还将参加会议前举行的为期一天的研讨会，其中包括角色扮演和其他旨在帮助学生从经验中获得最大收益的活动。每个特纳学生还将与两名导师(一名教员和一名研究生或博士后助理)配对，他们可以在会议期间与他们互动。在书面调查中，90%参加计划活动的学生同意，由于参加了动物行为学会的会议，他们更有可能进入科学研究生研究。超过80%的人报告说，他们在会议上与科学家进行了非正式互动，这些科学家可能会对他们未来的职业生涯产生影响。特纳计划也是发起动物行为协会成员关于多样性问题讨论的重要工具。特纳计划是最近成立的动物行为学会多样性委员会的第一个主要努力，而NSF的资金是吸引我们同事注意的关键因素。通过让我们的同事也成为特纳计划的导师和我们会前研讨会的演讲者，我们鼓励我们的整个社区参与关于我们学科多样性的更广泛的讨论。

This project continues the Charles H. Turner Program created by the Diversity Committee of the Animal Behavior Society to increase the participation of underrepresented individuals in the Society annual meeting. The program is named after and advertises the contributions of Charles H. Turner, the first African American to publish scientific research on animal behavior. Through this program, ten undergraduate students will be provided with free travel, housing, and registration to attend the 43rd Annual Meeting 12-16 August 2006. In the past four years of this program, 40% of the awards have been made to students who are members of underrepresented groups. There is a strategy to increase this proportion by targeting less advanced students (freshmen and sophomores) at institutions with high proportions of minority students. A Co-PI at Morehouse College will coordinate this second round of awards, using personal connections to ensure that at least 60% of Turner Award students are members of underrepresented groups. The primary impact of the Turner Program is direct through providing an opportunity for undergraduates to participate in a major national meeting. In addition to attending all meeting activities, Turner students will participate in a one-day workshop held immediately before the meetings with role-playing and other activities designed to help the student get the most that they can from the experience. Each Turner student will also be matched with two mentors (a faculty member and a graduate student or postdoctoral associate) with whom they can interact during the meeting itself. In written surveys, 90% of students who participated in program activities agreed that they were more likely to go into graduate research in science as a result of having attended the Animal Behavior Society meetings. More than 80% report having had informal interactions with scientists at the meetings who are likely to have an impact on their future careers. The Turner Program has also been an important tool for initiating discussions about diversity issues by members of the Animal Behavior Society. The Turner program is the first major effort of the recently established Animal Behavior Society Diversity Committee, and NSF funding is a critical element in attracting the attention of our colleagues. By including our colleagues also as mentors for the Turner Program and speakers for our pre-meeting workshop, we encourage our entire community to participate in a broader discussion about the diversity of our discipline.