[Neuropostdocs] Student Speaker's Bureau

[Gene Robinson]

Dear Faculty and Students,

We are starting a new program, the Student Speaker's Bureau.  The main 
purpose of this program is to give our senior students a chance to get some 
speaking experience and feel the thrill of presenting their work to an 
interested audience.  We also intend to structure the program so that NSP 
can reap some recruiting benefits.  For that reason, we'll initiate the 
program with students, rather than also including our NSP postdocs.

We are making arrangements with institutions within driving distance of 
campus who have primarily or exclusively an undergraduate mission.  We will 
ask the institutions that want one of our speakers to also schedule time 
(separate from the talk) for students interested in neuroscience graduate 
school to hear from our "ambassadors" about neuroscience at Illinois.  We 
expect that the host institutions will compensate our students for mileage 
and other expenses.

The Executive Committee decided that a good way to ensure that we are best 
represented is to have faculty nominate students for this.  Please email a 
brief nomination to Sam by 15 November.  Your nomination can be 
short--we're basically going to take you at your word that the student you 
nominate is ready to represent us at another institution.  If we have many 
more nominations than speaking venues we will: 1) immediately try to 
increase the number of venues and 2) select the students with the strongest 
nominations.

Looking forward to launching this program!

Thanks for your cooperation,
Gene









Gene E. Robinson
G. William Arends Professor of Integrative Biology
Director, Neuroscience Program
Chair, Genomics of Neural and Behavioral Plasticity Theme,
Institute for Genomic Biology
Department of Entomology
University of Illinois
505 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL  61801
Tel. 217-265-0309   Fax 217-244-3499
Website: http://www.life.uiuc.edu/robinson/  
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