During the Student/Postdoctoral Scholar Mixer on Sunday, March 10 at the 2013 SOT Annual Meeting, the Graduate Student Leadership Committee (GSLC) announced that the first place in the Tox Video Contest was awarded to the students in the Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester.
The contest was launched this past fall for graduate and postdoctoral students around the country to produce a video that answered the question, "Why be a Toxicologist." Video entries were judged on the basis of their creativity and how effectively they described what a toxicologist does. In addition, the GSLC also considered whether the video was original, convincing, memorable, and fun. The students from Rochester received a cash prize at the Student/Postdoctoral Scholar Mixer and everyone who attended enjoyed watching the video.
According to Josh Allen, a participant in the filming of the video, eleven people participated including a few off screen. With the prize money the participants planned to treat themselves and their colleagues to a catered lunch.