Anne Etgen, PhD, a leading researcher in hormone-brain-behavior relationships, has made a gift to APF's Fund for Ethnic and Racial Diversity to support the APA Minority Fellowship Program. Specifically, Etgen's gift will support neuroscience through SEED, the Scholarships to Enhance and Empower Diversity.
Etgen, professor emerita at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, is dedicated to fostering diversity in the next generation of neuroscientists. "Working toward the goal of increasing the number of women and underrepresented minorities who undertake and succeed in scientific careers became my second passion," she says.
Etgen is a member of a group of neuroscientists who have established the fund to address the critical need to foster diversity in neuroscience through APA's Minority Fellowship Program. Their donations are supporting stipends, mentoring, networking, professional development, dissertation funding, tuition, and health insurance to fellows.
"This gift symbolizes my personal commitment to the goals of SEED," she says. "In the long term, I hope that SEED will make a substantive contribution to making neuroscience a more diverse and inclusive enterprise."
To learn more about the APA Minority Fellowship program, visit their website.
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