FROM THE MFP NEUROSCIENCE DIRECTOR
Dr. Joe Martinez, Jr
The Minority Fellowship Program in Neuroscience is entering
its tenth year. During these years many interesting events have
happened. First, we have 43 new doctorates and expect that this
number will rise to 71 when those currently in the program
graduate. After the fifth year of its existence the MFP added a
postdoctoral component and 8 students have rotated through and 2 of
these have obtained faculty positions. The Summer Workshop in
Neuroscience held at the Marine Biological Laboratory evolved into
the Summer Program in Neuroscience, Ethics and Survival (SPINES)
and now each summer recruits 20 students nationwide to participate
in this enrichment experience. Dr. Ivy Dunn, a former fellow,
developed the Neuroscientists of Color Directory. One of our first
fellows, Dr. Domingo Rivera, passed away last December. I expect
that soon our first grandfellow, a Fellow trained by a Fellow, will
appear. What we have collectively accomplished will affect the
discipline and the Society for Neuroscience for all time. Most
importantly, we will create new knowledge. Someday perhaps,
someone will collect all of this new knowledge into a compendium of
research of former MFP Fellows. How large this book will be and
how much impact it will have on neuroscience is up to you. I urge
you to make it a very important book.
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