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President's Corner - Danielle Iuliano

The SER Student Caucus (SER-SC) has planned activities and workshops for the 2008 Annual Meeting (June 24-27, 2008), awarded six travel scholarships to attend the 2008 meeting, solicited nominees for the SER-SC 2008-2009 Executive Board and continued to increase SER membership among students and fellows. SER-SC continues to develop more opportunities for young public health practitioners to grow and develop professionally.
During the 2008 Annual Meeting, SER-SC will sponsor two Meet the Experts sessions which are roundtable discussions focused on specific topics with researchers in the field. We will also sponsor a Noon Time Career Panel Session and a Noon Time Surviving Your Thesis/Dissertation Session. We will also bring back the popular Guided Poster Tours with experts and editors. This year SER-SC will also sponsor two half day workshops. The morning workshop by Dr. Scott Osborne will focus on NIH grant writing and establishing the foundation for your career. The afternoon session by Dr. Steven Hawes will offer information about SAS advanced topics. Additionally, SER-SC will sponsor a Historical Skyscraper Tour of Chicago as well as other social events. We look forward to your participation in our events. Please visit our website for more information about these programs.

For the first time, SER-SC awarded six $500 travel scholarships to assist students, post-docs, fellows or trainees to attend the 2008 Annual SER Meeting in Chicago, IL. We received 47 applications this year and the selection process was difficult with so many qualified applicants. We would like to thank the SER Executive Board for selecting our six travel scholarship recipients. Congratulations to Ying Bao, Yueh-Hsiu Chiu, Elizabeth Mostofsky, Melissa Smiley, Sunil Agarwal and Rachelle Beveridge, our
2008 Travel Scholarship winners. We look forward to meeting you in June.

SER-SC just completed the nomination process for the Executive Board 2008-2009. We received nominations for each position. Please follow this link to learn more about the future SER-SC officers. I would like to take an opportunity to thank the SER-SC Executive Board that has served with me during the 2007-2008 year. Your hard work and dedication throughout this year has created some great programs and opportunities for students. I would like to thank you for your support and friendship this year. Thank you to Sara Simonsen, Vanessa Moore, Lizzi Torrone, Caroline Dilworth, Kristal Chiclowska, Erin Sauber-Schatz and Simone Pinheiro.

Please visit our website at http://www.epiresearch.org/students/index.html to learn more about our organization and our mission. You will also be able to obtain more information about the opportunities and events that I have shared with you on our website. We are also in the process of developing resources for students and fellows including information on writing and reviewing abstracts, putting together a poster presentation, writing a manuscript and other topics. These resources can be viewed in the resources section of our site. Please take a few minutes to review these helpful materials. Additionally, SER-SC maintains a List-serv that is used for general announcements, information about SER and SER-SC events and other epidemiology related issues. If you would like to subscribe to this List-serv, please visit
http://hsphsun3.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/ser_studentcaucus.

Danielle Iuliano
SER—SC President
University of Pittsburgh