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IOS Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | May 29, 2018 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | April 21, 2022 |
| Award Number: | 1833455 |
| Award Instrument: | Continuing Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Jodie Jawor
jjawor@nsf.gov (703)292-7887 IOS Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems BIO Directorate for Biological Sciences |
| Start Date: | July 1, 2018 |
| End Date: | June 30, 2023 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $158,364.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $188,364.00 |
| Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2019 = $19,072.00 |
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660 S MILL AVENUE STE 204 TEMPE AZ US 85281-3670 (480)965-5479 |
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P.O. Box 876011 Tempe AZ US 85287-6011 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Animal Behavior |
| Primary Program Source: |
01001920DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.074 |
ABSTRACT
The future of Animal Behavior research depends on the next generation of scientists and leaders. This project is to jump-start a new initiative that advances animal behavior science by supporting early-career investigators and promoting their science. At the core of the initiative is a new series of professional-development workshops for early-career scientists to be held annually as part of the Animal Behavior Society (ABS) meetings. In addition, a new committee of established investigators will promote early-career scientists by nominating workshop participants for awards and organizing symposia that highlight their research at international conferences. The committee will also forge stronger connections between the Animal Behavior Society and other professional societies, such as the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, by organizing similar symposia and workshops at their annual meetings.
The project begins with a symposium for 35 early-career scientists in May 2019, followed by the formation of peer-mentoring circles that meet biweekly via conference calls to support these researchers throughout the subsequent year. Professionals who specialize on career development of women and minority scientists will organize this initial symposium, and will simultaneously train the members of the new committee to run similar workshop and peer-mentoring circles at the 2019 and 2020 ABS meetings. The new committee will also propose symposia that highlight the research of workshop participants at the 2020 ABS and 2021 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) conferences.
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
Disclaimer
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This award contributed to jump-starting a new professional development initiative entitled "Weaving the Future of Animal Behavior" (WFAB) linked to the annual meetings of the Animal Behavior Society. We hired a professional coordinator, Dr. Claire Horner-Devine of Counterspace Consulting, to help us to design and to implement our initiative, and hosted activities in support of 5 cohorts of early-career professionals (127 scientists). For each annual cohort, these activities included a series of in-person and online workshops that introduced participants to each other, provided access to mentoring resources, and supported them via biweekly meetings of peer-coaching circles for at least the subsequent year. Several of our Power-of-Peer Circles continue to meet biweekly, several years after they were formed. One of these circles created a new initiative that organizes Power-of-Peer Circles for graduate students that now also meet biweekly. Our WFAB team organized and hosted a symposium at the 2021 ABS meetings that highlighted WFAB participant research, and the WFAB team has sponsored and promoted WFAB participant research by nominating them to give plenary talks at the ABS annual meetings and other venues. The ABS has created a new committee to continue WFAB efforts indefinitely into the future, and to explore possibilities of expanding WFAB efforts to other societies, particularly the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB).
Last Modified: 07/24/2023
Modified by: Emilia P Martins
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