Seminar: Fellowship Opportunities for Post Docs and Grad Students

Description: Considering career opportunities that complement your scientific background?  A fellowship is a chance to enhance your scientific, policy, regulatory, or international perspective. This seminar is for those wishing to explore career opportunities beyond the bench.  A panel will discuss three different fellowships in terms of what they are, what activities they involve, and how to get them.  There will also be informational booths set up outside following the discussion, staffed by representatives from additional fellowships.  Sponsored by the FelCom Career Development Committee.

Speakers:
Kim Durniak PhD, former Hellman fellow (policy); Sagarika Chakrabarty PhD, current ORISE fellow (scientific); Kirk Prutzman PhD, current FDA Commissioner's fellow (regulatory)

Booths:
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship
USDA Fellowships
NCI Cancer Prevention Fellowship
RWJ Health and Society Fellowship
ASHG/NHGRI Genetics and Public Policy Fellowship
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hellman Fellowship
ORISE Fellowships
FDA Commissioner's Fellowship

Date/Time/Location:
October 27 (Tuesday), 1:00 - 2:30 pm (seminar), 2:30 - 4:00 pm (informational booths), Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10.

Note: No videocast of this event is currently planned.  We will do our best to provide the content (after the meeting) under the prior events tab of the OITE Web site.

Please register in advance. http://tinyurl.com/OITE-2009-10-27b