SOT Council directs resources to important strategic activities, and a high priority for the SOT and the Education Committee is to encourage research experiences for undergraduate students. Research experiences are excellent motivators for graduate school and careers in toxicology. Five institutions hosting interns this summer will receive funding from SOT to match half of the cost for SOT-supported interns. Three intern hosts also received SOT funding last year, including William Atchison at Michigan State University, Craig Marcus at Oregon State University, and Lauren Aleksunes at Rutgers University (see previous blog to read about these students). Additional research organizers receiving funding for summer 2014 include Ken McMartin at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport and Nysia George at the National Center for Toxicology Research.
Research experiences for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students are listed at Student Research Internships in Toxicology. Please send information about your internship program to Betty Eidemiller so that it may be included. We also would appreciate contact information for interns so that we can connect them to other opportunities through SOT.