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SAC Encourages Students to Apply for Awards and Volunteer Positions for the SOT 2010 Annual Meeting
The Student Advisory Council (SAC) is gearing up for another great year of serving the graduate students of the Society of Toxicology. We’d like to encourage all students to submit an abstract for the 2010 Annual Meeting—the deadline is October 3, 2009! When you submit your abstract, don’t forget to apply for SOT awards and for awards in your Specialty Sections, Special Interest Groups, as well as your Regional Chapters. The deadline for applications for Graduate Travel Support for the Salt Lake meeting, the Novartis Graduate Fellowship, and Colgate-Palmolive Awards for Student Research Funding in Alternatives is October 9. Submit your membership application now to be eligible.
There are already many great student opportunities at the Annual Meeting, including Lunch with an Expert and the Student/Postdoc Mixer, but we’re working hard to create new programming for future meetings. We recently completed a survey of the student members in order to determine how we can better serve them. The results indicated that students are interested in career-related programming, such as seminars on grant writing, teaching skills, and oral presentation preparation. Watch for more information when the survey results are released this fall on the SAC Web page. The SAC hopes to address these needs by creating programs that will be available at future Annual Meetings, as well as through web-based seminars throughout the year!
If you are interested in more networking opportunities at the Annual Meeting, there are many volunteer positions available. Students can volunteer to assist with a Continuing Education course, which means they can attend the course for free! Additionally, student volunteers are needed to act as Peer Mentors in the Undergraduate Program beginning Saturday before the meeting starts. These are great opportunities to interact with SOT Leadership and meet your peers. Also, you have to arrive a few days before the meeting officially starts, which will give you ample time to explore all that Salt Lake City has to offer!
As always, if you have any questions about student membership or suggestions for new programming, please contact the SAC President, Erica Sparkenbaugh or Secretary-Treasurer, Sheppard Martin. We are always looking for ways we can serve the students of SOT!
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