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SUMMARY
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ASSOCIATION OF NEUROSCIENCE
DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS
FALL MEETING SUMMARY
Wyndham Canal Place Hotel
New Orleans, LA
NOVEMBER 4, 2000
The ANDP held its annual
Fall Meeting and Banquet on Saturday, November 4, 2000, at the Wyndham
Canal Place Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. Each year the membership of
the ANDP honors an individual whose contribution to education has been
exemplary. A highlight of the banquet was the presentation of tenth
annual ANDP Education Award to Neal
E. Miller, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus at Yale University. He was
introduced by Dr. Edward Stricker, the incoming President of ANDP, and
Dr. Ted Coons, both former graduate student trainees of Professor
Miller, who remarked on his very distinguished and much-honored
scientific career. However, it was his outstanding contributions as a
mentor of predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees, during his 45 years at
Yale and Rockefeller Universities, that were honored with this award.
See link for further details.
The ANDP sponsored two other events in New Orleans. On Saturday,
November 4th, the ANDP and the Society for Neuroscience co-sponsored a
workshop on Professional Skills, organized by Michael Zigmond and Beth
Fischer. An enthusiastic audience interacted with the guest speakers in
discussing professional development for emerging neuroscientists. Then,
breakout groups discussed such issues as advancement in industry and in
academia, grant-writing and reviews, and interviewing.
On Monday, November 6th, the third annual ANDP Forum on Graduate
Training in Neuroscience was held. Its first component was organized by
Alison Hall (Case Western Reserve Univ.), director of the ANDP Training
Fellows program. Two of the 1999-2000 ANDP Fellows, Anne Baldwin
(University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Laura Stone (Oregon Health
Sciences University), discussed various issues concerning graduate and
postdoctoral training from the trainee's perspective. (See report
of their more extended presentation of this material at the Spring 2000
ANDP meeting.) During the remainder of the Forum, Edward Stricker
presented and discussed preliminary data from the 2000 ANDP survey of
graduate training and careers in neuroscience. He emphasized the
increasing numbers of students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate
training programs in Neuroscience, the increased diversity in the
populations of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and the
career opportunities and choices of recent trainees. (See the 2000
ANDP Survey Report for a full report).
As in previous years, the ANDP and the Society for Neuroscience
co-sponsored the Student Hospitality Suite as a retreat from the hubbub
of the meeting. Volunteer graduate students from a variety of training
programs manned the site.
New officers of the ANDP
assumed their duties at this meeting: President Edward Stricker
(University of Pittsburgh), President-Elect James King (Ohio State
University), Secretary Michael Friedlander (University of Alabama at
Birmingham), and Councilor Jack Waymire (University of Texas - Houston
Health Science Center). The valuable contributions of outgoing Secretary
Katherine Fite (University of Massachusetts - Amherst), Councilor
Nicholas Brecha (UCLA), and Past President Robert Fellows (University of
Iowa) were acknowledged, as was the remarkable leadership of Barbara
Talamo (Tufts University), who now becomes Past President. In addition,
the three 2000-01 ANDP Fellows were introduced at the meeting: graduate
students Norman Atkins, Jr (University of Illinois), William Hu (Mayo
Clinic), and Rachelle Toman (Georgetown University).
Plans were announced for
the Spring 2001 meeting of the
ANDP (which was held at the Mariott Metro Center in Washington DC, on
May 6th and 7th).
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