Chapters Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Awards

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Learn more about the Chapters Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Awards:

• Background
• Eligibility
• Application Information
• Conditions and Responsibilites

Background
SfN's Chapters Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Award honors outstanding postdoctoral trainees nominated by local SfN chapters. The award helps defray travel expenses and provides complimentary meeting registration fees.

Awardees are chosen based on the scientific merit of the abstract, evidence of outreach activities, and letters of nomination from the principal investigator or mentor and the local nominating chapter. A total of 25 awadees are chosen. 

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Eligibility
Each chapter submits a single nomination to the SfN Membership & Chapters Committee (MCC). Nominees should meet the following criteria:

• The nominee must be the first author of an abstract presented at the annual meeting.
• The abstract must be of the highest scientific merit.
• The nominee's advisor must  be a member of SfN.
• The nominee must have a PhD.
• Only one applicant from a given laboratory is considered by a chapter in any given calendar year.
• No member of the laboratory from which the nominee is chosen can receive a SfN travel award the previous year.
• The nominee cannot receive another SfN travel award in the same year.

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Application Information
The following materials are required for nominations:

• Completed nomination form (Word 97-2003 document, .doc)
• Copy of abstract submitted for the annual meeting
• A one-page curriculum vitae from the nominee, including the following information:
  • Education (including the date the nominee advanced to a Ph.D candidacy)
  • Honors/Awards
  • Publications (abstracts/manuscripts)
• A one-page letter of recommendation from the advisor
• The chapter representative must submit a one-page letter of nomination describing the following:
  • Selection process
  • Criterion for judging the abstract's scientific merit
  • Reason the candidate is eligible for the award

Submit all required materials as attachments (PDFs preferred) in a single e-mail to chapterawards@sfn.org. Subject line should read "Postdoctoral Trainee Travel Award." Also direct questions to this e-mail.

Award deadline: June 1, 2009.

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Conditions and Responsibilities
Review the following conditions and responsibilities:

• Award letters are sent to award winners and their chapter representatives.
• To receive checks, recipients must attend the award reception at the annual meeting.
• At the meeting, recipients receive a ribbon designating award status
• Note: Postdoctoral trainees who want to attend the meeting should not register until nomination status notification is received - notification is given prior to the deadline for advance registration.

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