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2003 Student Research Conference Exhibitors

http://career.faseb.org/marc
Telephone: 301-530-7020

FASEB MARC Program provides travel award opportunities for a variety of activities to support the training of faculty, students, and scientists in the biomedical and behavioral sciences.

Available travel awards for:
FASEB Societies Scientific Meetings: Allows for faculty members/mentors, undergraduate students, and postdoctoral fellows from minority institutions to attend and participate in one of several eligible annual scientific meetings/conferences.

Summer Research Opportunity Programs: Travel support for students to visit, learn, and participate in new research techniques at prominent research laboratories and institutions.

Career Development Seminars: Training seminars are designed to provide mentorship consulting services, and career developing training to both students and faculty.

Grantsmanship Training Programs: A successful 2 ½ day training program consisting of Write Winning Grants' Seminars, "Understanding the NIH Peer Review Process", and NIH Mock Study Section. Two sessions a year, convened in quite and remote locations.

Summer Conferences: Emphasis is on the cutting edge of research, with prominent scientists in the biomedical research field making presentations to attendees who themselves are heavily engaged in research or ancillary fields where accurate understanding of allied scientific advances is important. MARC Travel awards available for the minority faculty, and senior postdoctoral fellows to attend.

Visiting Scientist Program: FASEB member scientists visit minority institutions for periods of one or more days to present lectures and seminars of general and practical interest; provide advice on research, curriculum, and graduate opportunities. On-line application: http://ns2.faseb.org/vsp/vspapp.asp

Grant Writing Seminars at Minority Institutions: A two day seminar designed to help investigators achieve their full potential in research by providing them with grant writing skills to maximize their ability to communicate ideas effectively.

http://www.training.nih.gov

The Office of Education supports the training mission of the intramural program of the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We are located on a 300-acre campus in Bethesda, Maryland. As the point of contact for students at the undergraduate, postbaccalaureate, medical, and postdoctoral levels, the Office of Education contributes to the recruitment, placement, retention, support, and tracking of trainees. In addition, the Office of Education provides oversight of Continuing Medical Education and Graduate Medical Education programs. It also administers the NIH Clinical Research Training Program, the NIH Academy (a postbaccalaureate program with an emphasis on health disparities), the NIH Clinical Electives Program, the Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research, and the Summer Research Fellowship Program. A wide range of educational and career development activities are supported by the office, including poster days, lecture series, and workshops on grant-writing, speaking, and writing.

http://www.ars.usda.gov

The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal in-house research arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) responsible for solving agricultural problems of national importance. ARS research develops solutions to a wide range of problems related to food and agriculture—problems requiring long-term commitment of resources and problems unlikely to have solutions with the quick commercial payoff that would convince private industry to do the research. These problems range from protecting crops and livestock from costly pests and diseases to improving quality and safety of agricultural commodities and products, determining the best nutrition for humans from infancy to old age, sustaining natural resources, and ensuring profitability for producers and processors while keeping costs down for consumers. In addition to serving this broad range of customers, ARS provides research to support Federal action and regulatory agencies.

ARS employs about 8,000 people; 2,000 of them are scientists. The agency's national programs are divided among three major areas:

Animal Production, Product Value, and Safety—improving productivity, value, and safety of meat and dairy products and improving human lives through nutrition.
Natural Resources and Sustainable Agricultural Systems—developing new practices and technologies that conserve natural resources and balance agricultural production with environmental quality.
Crop Production, Product Value, and Safety—improving productivity, value, and safety of crops that are the economic backbone of U.S. agriculture.

ARS has over 100 research facilities strategically located in major farm and rangeland ecosystems throughout the United States and in several foreign countries.

http://gradadmissions.rpi.edu