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| October
2006 CHAPTER
NEWS: Zambian Retreat and Workshop information: The MTNCSfN chapter is planning an international Retreat and Workshop to be held in Lusaka, ZAMBIA (tentatively planned for 11-17 June 2007; check out http://www.zambiatourism.com). This event is exclusively open to MTNCSfN members. MTNCSfN has embarked on a fund-raising campaign to raise funds to provide full travel and meeting support to several graduate students and postdocs, as well as cover the airfare portion for interested faculty to the upcoming Zambian Retreat and Workshop. Thus we submitted applications to the (a) Society for Neuroscience for $2000 – this has been funded, (b) International Brain Research Organization for $6000 – application is in currently in review and the outcome will be announced in November 2006, and (c) Gates Foundation for $75,000 – decision on Letter of Intent is due in November 2006. An NIH R13 Workshop grant application is in preparation for submission on the next deadline in December 2006. Other funding sources will be targeted in the coming months. The Chapter award from SfN in the amount of $2000 will be used as Prize Money to be awarded to four graduate students and/or postdoc scholars (at $500 per scholar) who submit the best researched papers (i.e. along Nature Neuroscience Reviews format) on the key topics listed above. In each case, the prize money of $500 will be applied towards the travel and meeting expenses for the student/postdoc to attend and participate in the retreat and workshop. We will soon announce an invitation to graduate students and postdocs who are members of MTNCSfN to participate in this competition; please keep checking our web site, http://www.mtncsfn.org/, for related guidelines for this competition (as well as information on other activities of the MTNCSfN). Sincerely, Sanika Chirwa,
Ph.D. To join the Middle Tennessee Chapter Society for Neuroscience (MTNCSfN), click HERE. |