Past Activities

2006 SSR 38th Annual Meeting
Omaha, NE

Minority Affairs Committee booth with information and handouts about funding opportunities for minority trainees and faculty.
Minority Affairs Networking dinner.
Minority Affairs Symposium.

Minority Affairs Committee booth with information and handouts about funding opportunities for minority trainees and faculty.
Minority Affairs networking dinner for travel award winners, travel award applicants, members of the Minority Affairs Committee, Dr. Dennis Leszczynski from NIH, and Rolly L. Simpson, Jr., from Burroughs Wellcome.
Minority Affairs Symposium. Speaker: Winston Anderson, Ph.D. (Howard University, Washington, DC), “Mentee to Colleague: Paths to a Research Career.” Supported by a career development grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

Minority Affairs Committee booth with information and handouts about funding opportunities for minority trainees and faculty.

Minority Affairs Forum in conjunction with Trainee Affairs Committee, “Career Development and Networking: An open discussion with professionals from a variety of scientific careers.” Panel discussion: Drs. Yolanda P. Cruz, George Daston, Virendra B. Mahesh, and Adolphus Toliver.
Minority Mentoring Session, Undergraduate minority students from the Cincinnati area will meet with volunteer SSR members who will guide them through the poster session.

Minority Affairs Breakfast, “Training and Research Initiatives in Reproductive Science,” Estella C. Parrott, M.D., M.P.H., Reproductive Sciences Branch, NICHD, National Institutes of Health.
Minority Affairs Forum in conjunction with Trainee Affairs Committee, “SSR: Voices of Experience.” Panel discussion: Drs. Philip Dziuk, Neena Schwartz, Fredrick Stormshak, Frank Talamantes, Jr., and Koji Yoshinaga.
Three scholarships to the Techniques Workshop were offered to a minority scientist in each of the following three categories: a) junior faculty, b) postdoctoral fellow, and c) predoctoral student.

Minority Affairs Forum in conjunction with Trainee Affairs Committee, “Job Hunting Skills for Scientists,” Dr. Chandra Louise.
Three scholarships to the Techniques Workshop were offered to a minority scientist in each of the following three categories: a) junior faculty, b) postdoctoral fellow, and c) predoctoral student.

Minority Affairs Forum, “Finding the Yellow Brick Road to the Research Doctorate and Research Careers,” Dr. Adolphus Toliver, Chief, MARC Program, NIGMS, National Institutes of Health.