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APS Underwrites Seminar Series For New Orleans
Graduate Students
BETHESDA, MD (January 26, 2007) -- The American
Physiological Society has allotted $6,000 to the Louisiana State University
(LSU) Health Sciences Center to underwrite the cost of seminar speakers for
physiology graduate students in New Orleans. The grant is in addition to
$88,000 the Society distributed to physiology graduate and post-doctoral
students after Hurricane Katrina ravaged large parts of the city in 2005.
The latest grant will benefit students at LSU and
Tulane University. Students from both universities will help select the
seminar speakers. Patricia Molina, LSU professor of physiology, will oversee
the program. The Society provided the money at the request of APS member
Johnny Porter, also an LSU physiology professor.
“We are grateful to the Society for its continued
support,” Porter said. “The value of such national support cannot be
overstated as we continue to rebuild.”
Shortly after Katrina hit, the APS awarded grants
totaling $88,000 to help graduate and post-doctoral students get back on
their feet. Society members donated $18,000 of the total distributed. The
APS also served as an online clearing house of information in the weeks
following the devastating storm.
The
American Physiological Society was founded in 1887 to foster basic and
applied bioscience. The Bethesda, Maryland-based society has 10,500 members
and publishes 14 peer-reviewed journals containing almost 4,000 articles
annually.
APS
provides a wide range of research, educational and career support and
programming to further the contributions of physiology to understanding the
mechanisms of diseased and healthy states. In 2004, APS received
the Presidential Award for Excellence in
Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.
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