Learning to Thrive: Building Diverse Scientists' Access to Community and Resources through the BRAINS Program.

ABSTRACT: Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience is a National Institutes of Health-funded, national program that addresses challenges to the persistence of diverse early-career neuroscientists. In doing so, BRAINS aims to advance diversity in neuroscience by increasing career advancement and retention of post-PhD, early-career neuroscientists from underrepresented groups (URGs). The comprehensive professional development program is structured to catalyze conversations specific to URGs in neuroscience and explicitly addresses factors known to impact persistence such as a weak sense of belonging to the scientific community, isolation and solo status, inequitable access to resources that impact career success, and marginalization from informal networks and mentoring re

SUBMITTER: Margherio C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5008896 | biostudies-literature | Fall 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature