Minority Affairs Health Disparities Symposium, Forum, and Luncheon. Speaker: James R. Gavin III, M.D., Ph.D. (Emory University School of Medicine, Fairburn, Georgia), “Minority Populations, Health Disparities, and Research Opportunities.” Generously funded by FASEB MARC through a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health T36-GM0863.
2008 SSR 41st Annual Meeting
Kailua-Kona, HI
Minority Affairs Symposium. Speaker: Patricia Martin-DeLeon, Ph.D. (University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware), “Securing Our Place on the Map: Reprogramming the GPS in an Evolving Scientific Landscape.” Supported by a career development grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
Minority Affairs Symposium. Speaker: Trevor K. Archer, Ph.D. (NIH/NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina), “None But Ourselves Can Free Our Minds—Science in a Majority World”. Supported by a career development grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
2006 SSR 39th 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.
2005 SSR 38th Annual Meeting
Quebec City, Canada
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.
2004 SSR 37th Annual Meeting
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
Minority Affairs Committee booth with information and handouts about funding opportunities for minority trainees and faculty.
2003 SSR 37th Annual Meeting
Cincinnati, OH
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.
2002 SSR 35th Annual Meeting
Baltimore, Maryland
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.
2001 SSR 34th Annual Meeting
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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.
2000 SSR 33rd Annual Meeting
Madison, Wisconsin
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.
