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Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Awards
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Application Deadline: June 15, 2010
Applications are now closed. Please check back next year for 2011 application information.
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2009 Recipients of the Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Awards were honored at Mentoring: A Networking Event in Chicago.
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Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Awards
Supported by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Background
The Society for Neuroscience offers Graduate Student Travel Awards, administered by the Professional Development Committee (PDC), to honor outstanding female and male graduate researchers.
The award includes complimentary registration and a stipend to offset travel expenses for the SfN annual meeting.
Eligibility
Awardees are chosen on the basis of the scientific merit of their abstracts, a letter of nomination from a principal investigator or advisor, research and career goals, and essay. The award is open to both women and men.
Applications must meet the following criteria:
- Applicant must be the first author of an abstract to be presented at the annual meeting
- Applicant's abstract must be of the highest scientific merit
- Applicant and his or her advisor must be members of SfN
- Applicant must be a postdoctoral fellow
- Laboratory from which the awardee is chosen should not have been the recipient of a travel award the previous year
Application Information
Application packages are reviewed by the PDC's Women in Neuroscience Subcommittee (WINS). Incomplete packages are not considered.
Please upload the following application materials to the new SfN awards submission site:
- Completed application form (Word 97-2003 document, .doc)
- Copy of the applicant's abstract submission confirmation form for the 2010 SfN annual meeting
- One-page letter of recommendation from the applicant's advisor
- Curriculum vitae (including education, date at which nominee received PhD, honors/awards, and publications (abstracts and manuscripts) in the format provided: Curriculum Vitae Template (Word 97-2003 document, .doc)
- Essay by the applicant about a woman scientist who has inspired him/her (no more than 500 words). All essays must be the applicant's own words and ideas. Using someone else's work without citing the source is not permissible - this includes copying, rephrasing, and borrowing facts, statistics, or other material.
- Description of the applicant's research and career goals (no more than 250 words)
Deadline for receipt of application materials is Tuesday, June 15, 2010.
All applicants will be notified of the selection results in August. Award checks will be presented at the Society's 40th annual meeting in San Diego, CA.
Please e-mail awardsandprizes@sfn.org with any questions.
Past Recipients
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2008 |
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Jennifer A. Cummings, PhD
Jennifer A. Evans, PhD
Mai Marie Holm, PhD
Wenlong Huang, PhD
Kathryn Ann Jennings, PhD
Jocelyn J. Lippman Bell, PhD
Florian Ostendorf, MD
Famendra N. Saha, PhD
Else A. Tolner, PhD
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Sarah Clinton, PhD
Robert Cudmore, PhD
Caroline Larsen, PhD
Radhika Madhavan, PhD
Shreesh Mysore, PhD
Ilona Obara, PhD
Otilia Obreja, MD
Catherine Stoodley, PhD
Erzsebet Szatmari, PhD
Jenny Tam, PhD
Natalie Zahr, PhD
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| 2007 |
2006 |
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Jessica Brann, PhD
Meghan Campbell, PhD
Helene Girourard, PhD
Ilana Hairston, PhD
Georgia Hodes, PhD
Elizabeth Hur, PhD
Christine McGiffert, PhD
Anne-Noel Samaha, PhD
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Corey Acker, PhD
Georgia Alexander, PhD
Heather Bradshaw, PhD
Rebecca Campbell, PhD
Latha Devi, PhD
Julie Miller, PhD
Kranthi Kumari Naga, PhD
Lisa Thomson, PhD
Thirumalini Vaithianathan, PhD
Dana Wise, PhD
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Olena Bukalo, PhD
Rita Cowell, PhD
Paula Desplats, PhD
Jason Glanzer, PhD
Leslie Morse, PhD
Sujatha Narayan, PhD
Fereshteh Nugent, PhD
Meredith Shafto, PhD
Sabrina Spano, PhD
Yi Zuo, PhD |
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