Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all Trainees from The American
Physiological Society and your Trainee Advisory Committee!
In this issue...
*Mentoring Discussion Board on Teaching Your First
Class
*Making Scientific Presentations: Critical First Skills Workshop
March Course Deadline Extended
*Awards Deadlines Coming Soon
Undergraduate Students
Graduate Students
Postdoctoral Fellows
*Section Listservs and Trainee Listserv
*Volunteer for APS Committee service
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Trainee Issues
Let your section�s trainee representative on the Trainee Advisory
Committee know if you have any issues you�d like
raised that pertain to trainees (see committee member page at
http://www.the-aps.org/committees/trainee/members.htm.
Mentoring Discussion Board on Teaching Your First Class
If you are going to be teaching now or any time in the future, be sure to
check out the Women in Physiology Discussion Board on �Teaching Your First
Class� at
http://www.the-aps.org/careers/careers1/mentor/info.htm. There is lots
of good advice there.
Watch for a new topic in January on �Finding Teaching Experiences During
Your Postdoc.�
You will still be able to read and comment on former topics.
Making Scientific Presentations: Critical First Skills
Workshop
March Course Deadline Extended
NEW - Short Course on Basic Presentation Skills
Date: March 8-11, 2007 � Bethesda, MD
Application Deadline � EXTENDED to Friday, January 26, 2007
Do you want to...?
� Improve your skills at introducing yourself to colleagues, faculty
members, chairs?
� Learn how to write a better meeting abstract?
� Know how to write a great poster?
� Learn what constitutes an effective poster design?
� Learn how to present your poster to different types of audiences?
� Discover how diversity issues may influence your presentation skills?
� Learn about resources that can further develop your presentation skills?
Who can apply?
� Lower level graduate students (within first 1-3 years of graduate
training)
� Applicants must be US citizens or permanent US residents
� Minority students active in APS, ASM, or SDB will be given priority.
What is the cost?
Thanks to support from NIGMS/NIH, accepted students will receive FREE:
� Registration and materials
� Travel support (roundtrip budget airfare or mileage)
� Subsistence (hotel-double occupancy, food per diem, and ground
transportation)
For more information, FAQs about the course, and how to apply, please visit
http://www.the-aps.org/education/professionalSkills/index.htm or
apply online at
http://www.the-aps.org/awardapps.
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Award
Deadlines
Coming Soon
Undergraduate students:
1) David S. Bruce Excellence in Undergraduate Research Awards
$500 award
1st-author abstract and 1-page letter
No citizenship requirements
For more information:
http://www.the-aps.org/awards/student/bruce.htm
Deadlines: Nov. 8 for abstract submission; Jan. 12 for
application submission
2) Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships
Program expanded to 24 fellowships in 2007
$3,000 stipend for student, $300 for faculty, $1000 for student travel to
Experimental Biology meeting in 2008
For more information:
http://www.the-aps.org/education/ugsrf/index.htm
Deadline: Feb. 2
Graduate students:
1) Porter Physiology Fellowships for Minority Graduate Students
$20,772 stipend
For more information:
http://www.the-aps.org/education/minority_prog/stu_fellows/porter_phy/apInfo_pp.htm
Deadline: Jan. 15
2) AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow
For more information:
http://www.the-aps.org/awards/student/aaas.htm
Deadline: Jan. 15
Postdoctoral Fellows:
1) AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow
Travel plus weekly stipend depending on location
For more information:
http://www.the-aps.org/awards/student/aaas.htm
Deadline: Jan. 15
2) APS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physiological Genomics
1st year: $36,000 stipend and $3,500 trainee allowance
2nd year: $38,000 stipend and $3,500 trainee allowance
For more information:
http://www.the-aps.org/awards/student.htm
Deadline: Jan. 15
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Section Listservs and
Trainee Listserv
Learn about the activities of your section, job postings, and award
opportunities. Be sure to sign up for the listserv for your section or any
of the other sections you are interested in as well. Go to
http://www.the-aps.org/ and
click on the �Members only� button on the black bar at the top of the page.
While you are at it, be sure to tell all your friends and colleagues to sign
up for the Trainee Listserv. You can do it either from the �Members only�
page or from the Trainee web page (http://www.the-aps.org/trainees).
Membership in APS is not required.
Volunteer for APS
Committee service
Deadline: January 15
It is time to consider serving on a committee for the APS. There are
many committees with trainee slots for graduate students, but postdocs can
serve as well as regular members. Service on an APS committee has many
rewards. Not only do you get credit for national service, but you also get
to meet a lot of interesting people and work on various projects that have a
real impact on the scientific community.
The nomination process is quite simple. Just go to the APS committees�
website (http://www.the-aps.org/committees) and click on Nomination Form.
You will then need to download two simple forms, one for you and one for
someone to endorse your nomination. The forms can then be emailed to the APS
office (nominations@the-aps.org).
Brought to you by
Sean Stocker, Milton Hamblin, and Erica Wehrwein
APS Trainee Advisory Committee
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