Minority Program for Society of Toxicology Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：毒理学学会的少数民族学生本科教育计划将包括30名本科生和5名来自科学界代表性不足的团体的教员顾问。攻读科学研究生的少数民族学生的数量远远低于他们在美国人口中的比例，毒理学学会强烈支持增加科学劳动力多样性的努力。从申请人的国家池中选择，这些学生和顾问将获得旅行支持，并参加2.5天的计划3月9日至11日，2013年，在圣安东尼奥，得克萨斯州，在毒理学（SOT）年会的社会结合。该计划的目的是：1）提高本科院校科学专业的本科生和科学顾问对毒理学职业选择和机会的认识，2）提高本科生对研究生生物医学教育的兴趣，并激励学生获得研究经验，特别是与毒理学相关的研究经验。与会者将听取毒理学家特别挑选的讲座，他们的工作体现了高姿态的不同研究兴趣，参加研究海报会议，并会见学术项目主任和实习赞助商。参与者被分配到小组，由研究生同行导师和毒理学家导师组成，他们在演讲，海报和其他会议期间提供非正式的互动和指导。博士毕业后的潜在职业选择在小组讨论中进行审查，毒理学家分享他们在不同就业部门（学术界，政府和工业）的经验。该计划是基于从经验，评估和完善，在整个本科教育计划的23年历史的活动。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Society of Toxicology's Undergraduate Education Program for Minority Students will include 30 undergraduate students and 5 faculty advisors from groups that are underrepresented in the sciences. The number of minority students pursuing graduate school in the sciences is far from parity with their proportion among the US population, and the Society of Toxicology strongly supports efforts to increase the diversity of the scientific workforce. Selected from a national pool of applicants, these students and advisors will receive travel support and participate in a 2.5-day program March 9-11, 2013, in San Antonio, TX, in conjunction with the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Annual Meeting. The aims of this program are to 1) increase awareness of undergraduate students majoring in science and science advisors at undergraduate institutions about career choices and opportunities in toxicology and 2) increase interest of undergraduate students in graduate biomedical education and motivate students to obtain research experience especially that pertinent to toxicology. Participants will hear specially selected lectures from toxicologists whose work exemplifies high profile diverse research interests, participate in research poster sessions, and meet with academic program directors and internship sponsors. Participants are assigned to small groups, composed of graduate student peer mentors and toxicologist host-mentors who provide informal interaction and mentoring during the presentations, posters, and other sessions. Potential career choices after the Ph.D. are examined in a panel discussion featuring toxicologists who share their experiences in different employment sectors (academia, government, and industry). The program is based on the experience from, and evaluation and refinement of, activities across the 23-year history of the Undergraduate Education Program.