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This workshop will be highly interactive and designed by the participants!
Once you have registered, we will e-mail you a link to a short, online survey that will give you the opportunity to identify the issues that you would like to explore at this workshop. We will use this information to finalize the agenda, which we will e-mail to all of the participants by October 22.

Registration is by invitation only and closes October 15, 2010.

Invited participants include:
Recent Recipients of the SBE Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MPRF)
SBE-MPRF Sponsoring Scientists
NPA Member SBE Postdocs
NSF Staff
Representatives of DC-Area Associations/Societies.

This workshop is free of charge to invited participants and is supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. SMA-1049638. The grant funding will provide lodging and reimbursement of allowable and reasonable travel expenses for invited participants. We request that participants keep transportation expenses to no more than $500.

Please note: There is a limit to our funding, and we anticipate being able to provide lodging and to reimburse travel expenses for up to 36 participants. Please plan to arrive at the hotel on Oct. 28 and to check out on Oct. 29. We will not provide reimbursement for first class or business travel, rental cars, or alcholic beverages. We will reimburse mileage at the standard Federal rate. We will provide an expense form in the packet that you will receive on the day of the workshop. Be sure to keep your receipts!

Also note: When you arrive at NSF, you will need to pick up your NSF visitor badge at the Stafford I building (4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA) and then proceed to the event at Stafford II.

Meeting hotel: Holiday Inn Arlington, 4610 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA. (Follow this link for directions.) Please do not make your own reservations; we have made arrangements with the hotel to do this for you. The hotel is only a three-block walk to the NSF building, and there is also a free shuttle service.

The objectives of this workshop are:

1. That the participants will meet others who are seeking to broaden participation of underrepresented groups and establish connections that will provide them support when they return to their institutions.

2. To increase awareness of the challenges faced by researchers from underrepresented groups at the postdoctoral level in the SBE sciences and to idenfity promising or potential practices that answer these challenges.

3. That the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) and other parties will learn more about the participants’ activities and research towards broadening participation of underrepresented groups and enhancing diversity in their own fields, which could be anywhere within the social, behavioral and economic sciences, including cross-disciplinary ones.

The expected outcomes of this workshop are:

1. A written report of the proceedings of the workshop that will be widely disseminated to the postdoctoral community and other relevant parties through the NPA.

2. That participants will leave with new information and knowledge that will further their own efforts to broaden participation of underrepresented groups in the SBE sciences at the postdoctoral level.

3. That lessons learned from this workshop will have a broader impact and provide insights for retaining scientists from underrepresented groups in other fields of research.

This workshop is supported by theNational Science Foundation under Award No. SMA-1049638. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.