{"id":6452,"date":"2014-11-10T12:21:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/?p=6452"},"modified":"2014-11-10T12:21:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:21:53","slug":"sacnas-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/2014\/11\/10\/sacnas-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"SACNAS |URI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Who we are<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sacnas.org\">Society for Advancing Chicanos, Latinos and Native Americas in Science<\/a> (SACNAS) is a national organization of scientists dedicated to fostering the success of\u00a0 Hispanic\/Chicano and Native American scientists \u2014 from college students to professionals \u2014 to attain advanced degrees, careers, and positions of leadership in science.\u00a0SACNAS goals are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>To increase the number of Hispanics\/Chicanos and Native Americans with advanced degrees in science and the motivation to be leaders.<\/li>\n<li>To increase the number of Hispanics\/Chicanos and Native Americans in science research, leadership, and teaching careers at all levels.<\/li>\n<li>To increase governmental commitment to advancing Hispanics\/Chicanos and Native Americans in science resulting in increased resources, elimination of barriers, and greater equity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The SACNAS chapter at the University of Rhode Island aligns its efforts with the national group, focusing on strengthening the science disciplines through diversity and leadership.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What we offer<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>K-12 student outreach, in classroom and partnership with other programs such as SMILE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshops<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is graduate school right for you?<\/li>\n<li>Internship applications<\/li>\n<li>Scientific writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Social gatherings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Movie night<\/li>\n<li>Salsa dancing night<\/li>\n<li>Pizza lunches\/dinners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Key needs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>SACNAS would like to participate more in the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Outreach in key latino\/minority schools in the Providence area (inner-city)<\/li>\n<li>Broaden audience for workshops\/meetings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Melanie G\u00e1rate, President, Ph.D. student in Biological Sciences |<a href=\"mailto:melanie_garate@my.uri.edu\"> email<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Aviles, Vice-president, M.S. student in Biological Sciences | <a href=\"mailto:kev.aviles.rodz@gmail.com\">email<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Trueman, Secretary, M.S. student, Natural Resources Science|\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:kev.aviles.rodz@gmail.com\">email<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth McLean, Treasurer, Ph.D. student, Natural Resources Science | <a href=\"mailto:elmclean@my.uri.edu\">email<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who we are The Society for Advancing Chicanos, Latinos and Native Americas in Science (SACNAS) is a national organization of scientists dedicated to fostering the success of\u00a0 Hispanic\/Chicano and Native American scientists \u2014 from college students to professionals \u2014 to attain advanced degrees, careers, and positions of leadership in science.\u00a0SACNAS goals are: To increase the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}