2014 SfN Chapters Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Award Application
Introduction
The Membership and Chapters Committee of the Society for Neuroscience is pleased to offer a program to support postdoctoral trainee travel to the SfN annual meeting. The Society for Neuroscience Chapters Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Award provides a stipend to help defray travel expenses and provide complimentary meeting registration to honor the outstanding postdoctoral trainees nominated by their local SfN chapter. Awardees will be chosen on the basis of the scientific merit of the abstract submitted, evidence of outreach activities, and a letter of nomination from the Principal Investigator/Mentor.
Program Guidelines
Eligibility Requirements
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 active 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
Required Materials
The application/nomination packet must contain the following items:
- Completed application form;
- Copy of the abstract submitted for the SfN annual meeting;
- A one-page letter of recommendation from the nominee’s mentor/advisor commenting on the significance of the nominee’s research and the extent to which the nominee has assumed a leadership role in the lab (such as mentoring students or lab management);
- Applicant’s biosketch (no more than two pages); see:
Conditions of Award
- 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.
2014 SfN Chapters Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Award Application
Answer all questions in red font below.
Nominee Information
Chapter Representative and/or nominee should complete this form and respond to the question below.
Name: ____________
Institution: ______
Department: ______
Street: ______
City/State/ZIP Code: ______
Telephone: ______Fax: ______
E-mail: ______
Name of Nominating Chapter: ______Pacific Cascade Chapter___________
Name of Chapter Representative: ______Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D.______
Is the nominee’s mentor/advisor an active member of the Society for Neuroscience? ___ yes ___ no
Mentor/advisor membership ID number: ______
Is the nominee an active member of the Society for Neuroscience? ___ yes ___ no
Nominee membership ID number: ______
Number of postdoctoral fellow members in chapter:______
Number of applicants for travel award: ______
Procedure for choosing applicant: ______
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Please attach response to the following question:
Please describe any neuroscience outreach activities that the nominee participated in this year as well as his/her chapter involvement (do not exceed 250 words).
Chapter Representative’s Signature:______Date:______
All materials should be submitted to Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D. (Email: ) by June 20, 2014.