Expired (Archived) Announcements - Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience

Voter eligibility: To help us complete the transition to our new database and mailing list, only Regular FUN members who have also completed the on-line FUN information form will be eligible to vote. If you have completed the on-line form (and your e-mail address is correct), you will receive a mailing from us containing a link to the electronic ballot.

So that all members will have the opportunity to vote, we will be sending e-mail to all the various FUN mailing lists (new and old), announcing the election and asking members to complete the FUN Information Form . Election information and a link to the electronic ballot will be provided immediately upon submitting the FUN Info Form. (Please note: submitting the form will not automatically update the information in the on-line directory, however, you will be eligible to vote!)

For your vote to be eligible, your e-mail address must match the e-mail address you submitted on the form. (The content of your ballot does not contain your e-mail address.) Although students will receive information regarding the election, they are not eligible to vote. However, we still want students to complete the FUN information form!Please contact the FUN Webmaster , Dr. Deborah Colbern, if youhave any concerns or questions regarding the FUN Info Forms or election procedures.

(Thank you in advance with your patience with multiple e-mail messages as we try to improve the quality of our database! We're getting there!)

Monday, November 10, 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Morial Convention Center, Rooms 278-279 (There will be food!)

The Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience will be holding its annual poster session on Monday, November 10 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM in conjunction with our Special Interest Social. As has been the tradition, posters with undergraduate co-authors that have been presented at the Society's meeting can be presented again at the social. This permits undergraduate students who have worked on these projects to assume center stage in the role of a conference presenter.

In addition, FUN invites undergraduates to present posters that for a variety of reasons (e.g., work was done during these summer months, abstract deadline for the regular meeting is too early, it's difficult to submit more than one paper from a laboratory, etc.) are not being presented at the primary sessions. Posters submitted in this category will be accepted on a space-available basis and be evaluated on scientific merit prior to acceptance for presentation.

For those of you who have not participated in this event in the past, the social is an excellent opportunity for undergraduates to meet peers, faculty, and to make
contacts that might prove valuable for graduate school. We encourage representatives from graduate programs to attend this event and get to meet some of the participating undergraduates.

For posters that have been presented at the conference, please submit a copy of the abstract that appears in the SFN abstracts with the name(s) of the undergraduate presenters UNDERLINED. For posters that ONLY will be presented at the social, please submit an abstract prepared in the format used for SFN abstracts, with the name(s) of the undergraduate presenters UNDERLINED.

In addition, please send a letter of endorsement from a sponsor who needs to be a member of the Society for Neuroscience. This person can sponsor more than one undergraduate poster.

If such person is not presently a member of FUN they can expect an application for membership in the return mail!! The deadline for all submissions to the FUN poster session is Monday, October 27. Please send the abstract and letter of endorsement as Word attachments to rjbayline@washjeff.edu , OR hard copies to:

Ronald Bayline, PhD
Department of Biology
Washington and Jefferson College
60 South Lincoln Street, Washington, PA 15301

FUN is very pleased to announce that this year (once again), undergraduate students attending the Society for Neuroscience meeting can apply to receive a $50 stipend for staffing our FUN booth for the duration of a morning or afternoon session. Your students can get help paying for the cost of attending the meeting by helping out FUN-- answering questions, distributing our brochures and selling FUN merchandise!

If you have an undergraduate who is attending the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans, PLEASE encourage them to participate in the FUN student stipend program. This opportunity is limited to one stipend per morning or
afternoon session. As with the travel award, only dues-paying members of FUN may sponsor nominees. If you're not a member, become one today! Regular Member Dues are still only $15. . . money well spent!

FROM THE STUDENT: The student's name, email address, and which sessions (a.m. or p.m.) on which days of the meeting that they are available to staff the booth.

FROM THE FUN MEMBER: A statement of sponsorship from a dues-paying member of FUN, stating simply that: 1) the member supports the student's application for the stipend, and 2) that the member has verified that the student will be attending the Neuroscience Meeting (members may support more than one entry, and the sponsor can be the student's advisor).

Students will be selected on a first-come, first-serve basis, so apply early! Students will not be eligible for multiple stipends except in the event that sessions remain unstaffed after all applicants have been assigned to a session. Students can also elect to split a single stipend in order to "share" staffing for a session (allowing one student to attend presentations for part of the session, while their "partner" staffs the booth), or choose to donate their stipend to their school department, neuroscience club, etc.

31-July-2003 EXPIRED

FUN Educator Award - Call for Nominations - Due Sept. 1

The FUN Educator Award, which is awarded annually, recognizes a FUN member (regular or fellow) for an accomplishment that REALLY reflects the mission of FUN— having aided the promotion of neuroscience education and research at the undergraduate level. Examples of such accomplishment might include: efforts in classroom instruction techniques; work at the local level or national level; the development of laboratories; authorship or other activities.

Remember, only dues-paying members of FUN can sponsor nominations for this
award, and self-nominations aren't allowed.

How to nominate: It's simple! Write a short letter of nomination, stating why the individual FUN member should be chosen for the award. Make sure that your letter provides detail on the accomplishment that you feel reflects the mission of FUN.

Send your nominations electronically, postmarked no later than September 1, 2003, to:

Karen Parfitt, Ph.D.
Chair, FUN Faculty Awards Committee
kparfitt@pomona.edu

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31-July-2003 EXPIRED

FUN Lifetime/Career Achievement Award - Nominations Due Sept. 1

The FUN Lifetime/Career Achievement Award, FUN's highest honor, is not an annual award; it is awarded upon appropriate nomination and vote of the Awards committee to those individuals who have either complied a lifetime (Lifetime Achievement Award; 10+ years) record of effort OR A SINGULAR contribution (Career Achievement Award) that substantively aids the greater neuroscience community, in a way (or ways) that reflects the mission of FUN— promoting neuroscience education and research at the undergraduate level.

Remember, as with other FUN awards, only dues-paying members of FUN can sponsor nominations, and self-nominations aren't allowed. Nominees for the Lifetime/Career Achievement Award need not be members of FUN to be eligible.

How to nominate: It's still simple! Write a letter of nomination, stating the reasons why the individual should be considered for the Lifetime/Career Achievement Award. Make sure that your letter provides detail on the accomplishment that you feel reflects the mission of FUN.

Send your nominations electronically, postmarked no later than September 1, 2003, to:

Karen Parfitt
Chair, FUN Faculty Awards Committee
kparfitt@pomona.edu

All awards are presented at the FUN Social during the annual SFN meeting.

Additional questions? Direct them towards Karen Parfitt <kparfitt@pomona.edu> or Eric Wiertelak <wiertelak@macalester.edu>

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16-July-2003 EXPIRED

Call for 2003-2004 Executive Board Nominations - Due Sept. 8, 2003

Do you know someone who would be a great leader for FUN? Are you looking for a way to get more involved in FUN's activities? Now is your opportunity to nominate yourself, or someone else, for a position on FUN's executive committee. We need nominations for the following positions:

President-Elect (1 year term - become President the following year)
Secretary (2 year term)
Councilors (2 year term - 3 positions open)

To be eligible, you need to be full member of FUN (sorry, no student members). For details on the responsibilities associated with these positions, check the FUN Bylaws <http://www.funfaculty.org/mission.html#Bylaws > or send email to current members of the Executive Committee .

Please send your nominations to Jean Hardwick by Monday, September 8, 2003. This is a great opportunity to help determine FUN's future directions!

Jean Hardwick
Secretary, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience
Associate Professor of Biology, Ithaca College
Ithaca, NY 14850
(607) 274-3213
jhardwick@ithaca.edu