CONFERENCE PROGRAM FOR YOUNG MINORITY SCIENTISTS

协会设立了一个旅行奖学金计划， 神经科学，以协助和鼓励年轻的少数民族学生和 神经科学家参加该协会的年度会议。这个程序 旨在吸引学生和博士后从传统的 代表性不足的少数群体的神经科学领域， 扩大他们在这个领域的机会。 神经科学是生物医学中较新的专业领域之一 研究和教学。 自成立以来，该协会已发展成为 会员人数超过13000人。 成员来自众多 包括生物化学，神经学，生理学，解剖学， 病理学、心理学、精神病学、工程学和其他相关 领域的 神经系统的综合研究已经发展成为一个 理论和实验生物学中最具挑战性的领域， 医学和工程学 对该领域未来的预测是 神经科学学会的光明和持续增长是预期的。 然而，面对如此光明的前景， 少数民族在联合国系统中代表性严重不足的状况 神经科学 事实上，这个条件存在于所有的科学领域 这并不是神经科学所独有的 许多少数群体成员 在小型学院或大学学习科学。 如果有的话， 这些机构有神经科学项目，因此少数民族 参加这些机构没有接触到神经科学。 的 因此，神经科学学会试图纠正这个问题。 一个 正在努力增加少数民族的人数， 神经科学既是积极的研究人员，又是教师。 个人 与高度胜任的，建立科学家的互动是一个主要的 青年科学家成功职业发展的重要因素。 的 拟议的旅行奖学金计划将暴露选定的少数民族 学生和博士后到神经科学界，并揭露 旅行研究员在神经科学的最新发展。 营商友导 提供给旅游研究员的计划刺激了个人互动 神经科学家的广泛参与。 这种“主流化” 这种方法旨在促进非正式的互动和访问 to science科学institutions机构. 旅行研究员将得到一份问卷调查，以评估该计划。 此外，还将向过去的研究员发送一份问卷， 他们的职业健康

A Travel Fellowship program has been established by the Society for Neuroscience to assist and encourage young minority students and neuroscientists to attend annual meetings of the society. This program is intended to attract students and post-docs from traditionally underrepresented minority groups to the field of Neuroscience and to expand their opportunities within the field. Neuroscience is one of the more recent specialty areas in bio-medical research and teaching. Since its, inception the Society has grown to reach a membership of over 13,000. Members come from numerous disciplines that include biochemistry, neurology, physiology, anatomy, pathology, psychology, psychiatry, engineering, and other related fields. The integrated study of the nervous system has evolved into one of the most challenging areas of theoretical and experimental biology, medicine and engineering. Projections for the future of the field are bright and continued growth of the Neuroscience Society is expected. In the face of such bright prospects, there is, however, the depressing condition of a gross underrepresentation of ethnic minorities in the neurosciences. This condition, in fact, exists in all areas of science and is not unique to the neurosciences. Many members of minority groups study the sciences at small colleges or universities. Few, if any, of these institutions have neuroscience programs and therefore minorities attending these institutions are not exposed to the neurosciences. The Society for Neurosciences, therefore, seeks to rectify this problem. An attempt is being made to increase the number of minorities in the neurosciences both as active researchers land as teachers. Personal interaction with highly competent, established scientists is a major factor in successful career development of young scientists. The proposed Travel Fellowship program would expose selected minority students and post-docs to the neuroscience community, and expose the Travel Fellow to recent developments in Neurosciences. The mentorship program provided to the Travel fellows stimulates personal interaction with a wide cross section of neuroscientists. This "mainstreaming" approach is designed to facilitate both informal interaction and access to science institutions. Travel Fellows will be given a questionnaire to elvaluate the program. In addition, a questionnaire will be sent to past Fellows to inquire about their professional well being.