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APS Bylaw Change |
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The APS Council has voted to approve a
recommendation to eliminate the at-large members of the Joint Program
Committee. This will require a change to the bylaws as stated below: ARTICLE V. Standing Committees. SECTION 5. Joint Program Committee. A Joint Program Committee composed of six regular members of the Society appointed by Council and elected representatives of the sections and groups shall be responsible for scientific programs of the Society. The term of each member shall be for three years; a member may not serve more than two consecutive terms. The Council shall designate the Chairperson of the Committee, who shall be an ex officio member of the Council, without vote. The President Elect and Executive Director shall be ex officio members, without vote. |
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APS Launches Stop-Gap Fellowship Program |
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Earlier this year, the APS Council launched a
stopgap initiative in response to the diminishing success rate of candidates
competing for NIH F32 Fellowship support. In order to assist our members
contending with the reduction in available resources from NIH in support of
postdoctoral fellowships, the Initiative targeted individuals who had
narrowly missed NIH funding. This interim initiative was designed to provide
our members with the ability to continue the training of future independent
physiologists. The goal was to support postdoctoral fellowship candidates
who were scheduled to work in the laboratories of members of the American
Physiological Society. The Council committed funds to support up to 10
postdoctoral fellowships as part of this short-term initiative. The Program’s first deadline of August 1st resulted in the award of three Postdoctoral Fellowships. All of the applicants were APS members at the time of application and their postdoctoral mentors had been members in good standing for at least three years immediately prior to application. Each of the fellowship recipients had a non-funded NIH postdoctoral fellowship application with a priority score of 200 or better on which the applicant was the principal investigator. The successful applicants received an award totaling $42,000 consisting of a stipend of $37,000 and $5,000 provided as the Fellow’s institutional allowance for his/her use for health insurance, books, travel, etc. No indirect costs were allowed. The successful applicants were: Chad C. Carroll, Ball State University: “Analgesics, Exercise & Tendon Adaptations in the Elderly;” Sonnet Jonker, University of Iowa: “Regulation of Fetal Cardiac Growth After Correction of Increased Hemodynamic Load;” Jonathan Wingo, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas: “Spinal Cord Injury and Heat Acclimation.” The next deadline for the APS Stop-Gap Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is January 2, 2008. Information about the Program can be found at http://www.the-aps.org/awards/student/postdocinitiative.htm. |
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