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SfN Professional Development and Higher Education: Evolving to Meet Changing Member Needs
In response to expressed member needs, SfN professional development programming and governance structures are evolving to better serve a growing and increasingly diverse membership. The SfN Council established new and revised strategies and committees to strengthen, enhance, and better coordinate professional development and higher education activities. These areas of activity fall under the umbrella of the renamed Higher Education and Professional Development Cluster, which is comprised of two new committees, Professional Development Committee and Committee on Neuroscience Departments and Programs, and a repurposed International Affairs Committee.
These changes expand SfN’s mission and are designed to strengthen existing programs, while building on their successes to achieve a broader set of priority goals that address member needs. Among other things, they reflect an increasingly international and younger SfN membership that has been asking for more professional development opportunities. Overall, SfN is committed to supporting the neuroscience community through all career stages, connecting people across specialties and around the globe.
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SfN Announces Election 2009 Results
The SfN membership has elected Susan Amara, University of Pittsburgh, as the incoming president-elect, and Donald Faber, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as the incoming treasurer-elect. The Society congratulates its newly elected officers. Chosen by members using an independently run online election, the incoming officers begin their terms at Neuroscience 2009 in Chicago.
Susan Amara is the Thomas Detre Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, as well as the Co-Director of the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. Her involvement at the Society spans more than 20 years and includes serving as a councilor, treasurer, and member of many SfN committees and working groups. Her research primarily focuses on the molecular and cellular biology of membrane transporters.
Donald Faber is the Florence and Irving Rubinstein Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as well as the Director of the Rose F. Kennedy Center for Research in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. At SfN, he is currently serving on the Audit Committee and has previously been a member of the Finance and Membership Committees. His research focuses on the regulation and plasticity of synaptic transmission and the functional organization of microcircuits in the vertebrate brain, in the context of the behaviors they mediate.
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