Meeting: Broadening Participation at the Society for Integrative and Organismal Biology in Austin Texas In January 2014

综合与比较生物学学会（SICB）的扩大参与委员会（BPC）的目标是增加来自代表性不足群体（URGs）的个人的参与和成员资格，并扩大他们作为未来研究人员的能力。在过去四年中，政策委员会已成功地显著增加了妇发组织参加社会与经济委员会年度会议的人数。这些努力的目的是促进SICB成员之间就拥有一个多元化社会的好处进行对话，并共同努力建立一个由综合生物学家和比较生物学家组成的包容性社区。这些努力之所以取得成功，部分原因在于BPC认识到需要并开展了一系列专业发展研讨会，而协会则为URG的个人出席年会和参加这些研讨会提供了旅费。该奖项将为40多名URG成员和6名研讨会组织者提供部分旅行支持，以参加将于2014年1月3日至7日在德克萨斯州奥斯汀举行的SICB年度会议。两个专业发展研讨会，“获得多样化和繁荣的实验室和部门的招聘策略”和“及时撰写赠款和手稿”，都在会议议程上，并向社会所有成员开放。这些专业发展的主题是由曾参加科学与技术委员会往届年会的URG成员确定的。获得旅游奖励的URG个人将参加两个研讨会。研讨会组织者的选择代表了大学的学术多样性（包括文科、硕士和博士学位机构，以及助理教授）和大学的多样性。BPC成功地确保了六名妇女和三名来自URG的个人（一名非洲裔美国人、一名西班牙裔美国人和一名阿拉斯加原住民）的参与。BPC活动的这种多样性水平等于或高于典型的科学专业组织。研讨会将讨论最佳做法，以增加URG个人的招聘，并提高URG博士后和初级教员的生产力。第二个关于及时撰写拨款的研讨会，旨在通过投资于博士后研究人员和助理教授作为独立研究人员的成功，来留住他们。BPC认为留住这些来自URG的资历相对较浅的科学家是一个特别的挑战。委员会的这些讲习班和其他活动将在年度会议上以及在小组委员会成员的学术机构中增加征聘和保留URG人员。这些专业发展活动将有助于宣传属于一个多元化和具有文化意识的科学社会的好处，并将使URG将来能够参与领导作用，并在社会中建立社区。SICB BPC过去四年活动的影响将在网上发表，并提交给综合与比较生物学学会的期刊“综合与比较生物学”，从而将这些努力的结果传播给科学界和公众。

The goal of the Broadening Participation Committee (BPC) of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) is to increase participation and membership of individuals from underrepresented groups (URGs), and to expand their capabilities as future researchers. The BPC has succeeded in measurably increasing participation of URG at annual meetings of SICB over the last four years. These efforts are aimed at promoting dialogue among SICB members about the benefits of having a diverse society and working together to build an inclusive community of integrative and comparative biologists. The success of these efforts is due in part by the BPC recognizing a need for, and implementing a series of professional development workshops, and by the society providing travel funds for individuals from URG to attend the annual meetings and participate in these workshops. This award will provide partial travel support for more than 40 members of URG plus six workshop organizers to attend the annual meeting of SICB to be held in Austin, TX, January 3-7, 2014. Two professional development workshops, "Recruitment strategies to obtain a diverse and thriving lab and department," and "Writing grants and manuscripts in a timely manner," are on the meeting agenda and open to all members of the society. These topics for professional development were identified by members from URG who attended previous annual meetings of SICB. Individuals from URG who receive a travel award will attend both workshops. The workshop organizers were selected to represent academic diversity (including liberal arts, MA degree and doctoral degree institutions; and assistant professors) and diversity across URG. The BPC succeeded in securing the participation of six women, and three individuals from URG (an African American, a Hispanic, and an Alaskan Native). This level of diversity for BPC activities is equal to or higher than that of typical scientific professional organizations. The workshops will address best practices to increase recruitment of individuals from URG, and increase the productivity of URG postdoctoral and junior faculty members. The second workshop on timely grant writing is aimed specifically at retention of postdoctoral researchers and assistant professors by investing in their success as independent researchers. The BPC has identified retention of these relatively junior scientists from URG as a particular challenge. These workshops and other activities of the BPC will increase recruitment and retention of URG at annual meetings as well as at the academic institutions of SICB members. These professional development activities will serve to publicize the benefits of belonging to a diverse and culturally aware scientific society, and will enable future participation of URG in leadership roles, and build community within the society. The impact of SICB BPC activities over the past four years will be published online and submitted to "Integrative and Comparative Biology", the journal of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, thereby disseminating results of these efforts to the scientific community and the general public.