Chapters Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Awards
Support Contributed by the SfN Memorial Fund
Learn more about the Chapters Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Awards:
Background
SfN's Chapters Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Award honors outstanding postdoctoral trainees nominated by local SfN chapters. The award helps defray travel expenses and provides complimentary meeting registration fees.
Awardees are chosen based on the scientific merit of the abstract, evidence of outreach activities, and letters of nomination from the principal investigator or mentor and the local nominating chapter. A total of 25 awadees are chosen.
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Eligibility
Each chapter may submit a single nomination to the SfN Membership & Chapters Committee. The nominee must meet the following criteria:
- The nominee must be the first author of an abstract to be presented at the annual meeting.
- The abstract must be of the highest scientific merit.
- The nominee and his or her advisor must be members of SfN; their membership ID numbers must be provided.
- The nominee must have a PhD.
- Only one applicant from a given laboratory may be considered by a chapter in any given calendar year.
- A nominee may not be nominated for an award two years in a row.
- The nominee may not be a recipient of another SfN travel award in the same year.
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Application Information
The application/nomination packet must contain the following items:
- Completed application form (Word .doc)
- Copy of the abstract submitted for the SfN annual meeting
- A one-page leter of recommendation from the nominee's mentor/advisor commenting on the nominee's contributions to neuroscience research
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A one-page curriculum vitae from the nominee, including the following information:
- Education (including the date on which the nominee advanced to PhD candidacy)
- Honors/Awards
- Publications (abstracts and manuscripts)
- The chapter representative must submit a one-page letter of nomination describing the selection process employed by the chapter (e.g. number of applicants, number of committee members making the selection, and voting process for the selection); further, should describe the nominee's involvement in and contributions to their chapter
All materials must be submitted through the SfN awards submission site by a chapter representative. For questions, contact chapterawards@sfn.org
Award deadline: June 15, 2010.
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Conditions and Responsibilities
Review the following conditions and responsibilities:
- Letters will be sent to award winners and their chapter representatives to inform them of the award winners.
- Recipients will attend a special reception held in their honor; this reception will be hosted at the annual meeting.
- Award checks will be given to recipients at the annual meeting. To receive the award, the recipient must attend a reception and awards presentation for all winners at the annual meeting. The award will be presented in the form of an honorarium check made out to the recipient.
- Recipients will receive a special ribbon to attach to their annual meeting badge, designating them as recipients of the SfN Chapters Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Award.
Please note: Postdoctoral trainees who plan to attend the SfN Annual Meeting and are nominated for this award should refrain from registering for the conference until notification is received regarding the status of the nomination. Notification will be given prior to the deadline for early conference registration.
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