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>         Society for the Advancement of Chicanos
>            and Native Americans in Science
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> The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans
> in Science (SACNAS) was founded in 1973 by science professors.
> SACNAS is a national organization with most of its members residing
> in the Southwest.  The Society's mission is to encourage Chicano
> and Native American students to pursue graduate education in order
> to obtain the advance degrees necessary for research careers and
> science teaching professions at all levels.
>
> Over the past fey years, SACNAS has concentrated on holding national
> conferences to help carry out its mission.  These conferences have
> been financially supported by the National Institutes of Health
> and are designed to inspire and encourage Chicano and Native
> American undergraduate science and engineering students (included
> also are mathematics, psychology, and grade school/secondary school
> science teacher majors) to pursue graduate education.  SACNAS
> conferences feature exhibitors primarily from graduate schools of
> education and from federal and private agencies that offer research
> careers.
>
> With the national organization's mission in mind, the students at
> the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign founded the first
> SACNAS student chapter in January, 1992.  Since its foundation, we
> have invited two Chicano science professors, Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff,
> neuroscience professor from Harvard Medical School and Dr. William
> Velez, a mathematics professor at the University fo Arizona and who
> is presently at the National Science Foundation in Washington D.C.
> We have also worked in attaining summer internships and research
> positions for Chicano and Native American students.
>
> We are currently holding weekly meetings on Thursdays in Rm 284
> Student Organizations Complex, Illini Union (2nd floor, South Side).
> These meetings begin at 7pm.
>
> All registered students are invited to join.
> Conatact person:
>
> Norma Patino 351-7397, e-mail norma20@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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>                     SACNAS PRESIDENT TO VISIT CHICAGO
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>                                 SACNAS
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> The Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in
> Science, held its annual conference on March 24-28,1994, at the
> Fairmont Hotel in Chicago. SACNAS Conferences are organized to
> encourage undergraduate students to attend graduate school in order to
> obtain the degrees necessary for research careers and science teaching
> careers. The 1993 Conference was held in Albuquerque and had over a
> thousand participants. SACNAS focuses on Mathematics and Computer
> Science, the Physical Sciences, the Biological Sciences, the
> Psychological Sciences, Engineering Research and Math & Science
> Education.  The President, George Castro, will be in Chicago August
> 24-27 and the Vice- President, Cecilio Barrera, and the two SACNAS
> staff members, Judith Scollon and Gini Pineda will join him on late
> Wednesday, August 25. We will be meeting with people from the local
> Chicago area on August 26,27 to help us with the conference. We have
> people setting up meetings at the University of Chicago, University of
> Illinois at Chicago, Chicago State University, Loyola University, De
> Paul University and the City Government of Chicago. We are primarily
> looking for university sponsors who will help recruit and support
> students to attend the conference and to local governmental and civic
> organizations to host certain social events. SACNAS will support a few
> hundred students from the rest of the country to attend the conference,
> but the primary reason for holding the conference in Chicago is to
> reach out to students from the Midwest. This is the first National
> SACNAS Conference that has not been held in the Southwest where most of
> our members reside.  If you or your university are interested in
> meeting with us during this trip, please contact me at the e-mail
> address below. Or if you know of any colleges or universities that we
> should try to include in our conference planning, please send me that
> information as well with the name of a contact person.  SACNAS
> Conferences are exciting affairs containing many scientific symposia,
> student and faculty workshops, panel discussions, and mentoring
> sessions of the undergraduate students by graduate students and
> professionals. Because we have so few members in the Chicago area, we
> will probably not have such a large scale K-12 Science Teacher
> Workshops (450 teachers attended in Albuquerque) and such a large
> participation on the High School Science Day (2000 Chicano and Native
> American high school students attended in Albuquerque), but we will
> have a quality program for local science teachers and high school
> students interested in science.  Dr. George Castro, SACNAS President
> (Tel. 408-927-2400) Bitnet (castro at almaden); Internet (castro @
> almaden.ibm.com)
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