Saturday, May 6, 2006 

1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Welcome and Introduction
      Cheryl Sisk (Michigan State University), President, ANDP
 

1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Session I – Predictors of Success in Graduate School
      Chair:  Ed Stricker  (University of Pittsburgh), Past-President, ANDP
      Richard Wagner (Florida State University), Professor, Department of Psychology
      Daniel Denecke (Council of Graduate Schools), Project Director, PhD Completion Project
     

2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Break
 

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Session II – The Neuroscience Textbook of the Future
      Chair:  Rae Nishi  (University of Vermont), Councilor, ANDP
      Graig Donini  (Sinauer Press), Editor
      Janet Foltin (Garland Press), Senior Editor
      George Pollack  (University of Texas at Austin), Professor, Division of Neurobiology
      Richard Lewis  (Pomona College), Associate Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience

4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.

Session III – ANDP Business Meeting, Introduction of New Members, and Open Forum
      Cheryl Sisk (Michigan State University), President, ANDP
      Regina Armstrong  (Uniformed Services University), Treasurer, ANDP
      Jack Waymire (University of Texas Medical School at Houston), Secretary, ANDP
      Tom Fox  (Harvard University), Past-President, ANDP
      

6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Reception
 

6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

Dinner – Old Georgetown
 

7:30 p.m.

After-Dinner Talk:  "ANDP and SfN: Partners in Public Education”
      William Cameron  (Oregon Health & Science University), Co-Chair, Society for
                     Neuroscience Public Education and Communications Committee
                        

 
Sunday, May 7, 2006  

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast
 

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Session IV – Non-US Trainees in US Labs 
      Chair:  Alison Hall  (Case Western Reserve University), President-Elect, ANDP
      Ed Stricker  (University of Pittsburgh), Past-President, ANDP
      Bai Lu (NINDS, NIH), Chief, Neural Development and Plasticity Section
 

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Break
 

10:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Session V – Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate
      George Walker  (Carnegie Foundation), Project Director, Carnegie Initiative on the
                    Doctorate 
     

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
(Light lunch at 12:15)

Session VI –  2006 ANDP Survey
      Ed Stricker  (University of Pittsburgh), Past-President, ANDP