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Undergraduates are Special Guests at the Seattle Meeting
The Committee on Diversity Initiatives has organized the 19th Undergraduate Education Program for the Seattle SOT Annual Meeting. Forty-six undergraduate students and nine undergraduate faculty advisors will be participating in the special program that begins Saturday, March 15 and concludes on Monday, March 17. Students are organized into small groups hosted by a scientist mentor and a graduate student peer mentor. These groups provide important interaction and the opportunity for the students to get a close look at why toxicologists have chosen this discipline and a chance to ask specific questions. The students visit a special selection of posters on Monday and panelists explain what it is like to work in different employment sectors. Travel and program costs for these students are funded by NIH-MARC T36 GM08397-12, the Society of Toxicology, and corporate sponsors.
The Sunday portion of the event is open to any undergraduate registered for the meeting. The schedule that day includes topical toxicology lectures, discussion of what graduate school is like, and the opportunity to meet with representatives from graduate programs and internship hosts.
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