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ToxScholar and Guest Lecturer Programs Support Campus Career Visits
Two programs provide travel support for toxicologists who make career presentations to undergraduate audiences. Knowing that many undergraduate students do not have the opportunity to learn about toxicology during their undergraduate years, the Education Committee and Committee on Diversity Initiatives (CDI) provide up to $500 reimbursement for expenses related to travel and arranging sessions on campus attended by undergraduates. The application for funding and more information is found at Toxicology Scholar Campus Visits and Guest Lecturer in Toxicology Program.
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Sitting Bull College Presentation |
Those funded may be an individual toxicologist, a graduate student, or a team including both. Some ToxScholar presenters have organized teams for panel discussions or a special event. Reports of activities funded in the past serve as a source of ideas for a successful visit.
Pictured above are Amber Finley (left) and Christine Marie George, from Columbia University, who visited four tribal colleges in April 2009 to encourage students to pursue graduate school and studies in environmental health. Funding for this presentation was provided by the CDI Guest Lecture Program and the Ecological Society of America SEEDS programs. In the picture on the right, they are shown addressing students at Sitting Bull College, Fort Yates, North Dakota, located on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
The ToxScholar Program is coordinated by the Education Committee and is targeted to toxicologists who recognize and organize an opportunity to make career presentations at a campus. Through the Guest Lecturer Program, the CDI matches toxicologists with opportunities to make career visits to historically minority institutions and other campuses with high proportions of students from groups that are underrepresented in the sciences. For more information contact Betty Eidemiller.
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