Dear All,

The Society for Neuroscience is offering its Chapters opportunities to complete for travel awards to attend the2014 annual meeting in Washington. Awards are offered to students and postdoctoral fellows. Please submit the materials they ask for below to wcsn@sbrc.ca by June 17 if you are interested. We will forward the top application in each category to the SFN. Thanks!

Nomination Materials:

* Completed Graduate Student http://www.sfn.org/%7E/media/SfN/Documents/Member%20Resources/Chapter%2 0Travel%20Awards/Chapter%20Graduate%20Student%20Travel%20Award%20Applica tion%202014.ashx or Postdoctoral Trainee http://www.sfn.org/%7E/media/SfN/Documents/Member%20Resources/Chapter%2 0Travel%20Awards/Chapter%20Postdoctoral%20Trainee%20Travel%20Award%20App lication%202014.ashx application; * Copy of the abstract submitted for the SfN annual meeting; * A one-page letter of recommendation from the nominee's mentor/advisor commenting on the nominee's contributions to neuroscience research; * Applicant's biosketch http://www.sfn.org/%7E/media/SfN/Documents/Member%20Resources/Chapter%2 0Travel%20Awards/Biosketch_Sample.ashx (no more than two pages; visit http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/biosketchsample.pdf for further guidelines).

Chris Anderson

Chapter President

Kelly Jorundson Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience R4046 - 351 Tache Avenue Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6

Tel: 204.235.3939 Fax: 204.237.4092 Email: kjorund@sbrc.ca OR kjorund@yahoo.ca

Website: www.sfn-manitoba.ca