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SOT Seeks Hosts for the 20th Undergraduate Student Program
Do you want to help recruit excellent students to research careers in toxicology and be part of a special celebration?
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Mentors help build for the
future of toxicology
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If you answer yes, we have opportunities for you at the 2009 Annual Meeting in Baltimore. You can serve as a Host for a group of undergraduate students and their advisors. This is a very extraordinary year! The Committee for Diversity Initiatives (CDI) is planning special activities for the 2009 Undergraduate Program as we celebrate the twenty years of sustained SOT activity to promote training and diversity in toxicology. About 45 undergraduate students will be selected to attend the program, some from groups that are underrepresented in the sciences and others from institutions that receive low levels of federal science funding. The success of this activity depends not only on the excellent speakers, but also the Hosts and graduate student Peer Mentors who participate with the students. The Hosts and Peer Mentors arrive Saturday, March 14, 2009, and meet their groups during the evening reception. Each group includes one or more toxicologist Host(s), a Peer Mentor (who is in graduate school), an advisor from an undergraduate institution, and four or five students. During the two-day program, the groups will investigate the field of toxicology, interact with poster presenters, learn about toxicology as a career, and explore options for graduate school. Hosts meet at various times with students from Saturday evening through 1:00 PM Monday to put the students at ease, discuss what a career as a scientist is like, answer questions, help students find the rooms for their sessions, review posters, and visit the exhibit hall and scientific sessions together. This is a rewarding opportunity to mentor students. To volunteer as a host or peer mentor, please contact CDI member Adrian Nanez or Betty Eidemiller at SOT Headquarters.
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