What the Trainee Chapter OffersThe American Aging Association Trainee Chapter offers numerous benefits to learners at all levels. These include the opportunity to win presentation and travel awards, career development, and networking with other trainees and some of the world's top geroscientists and biogerontologists. Trainee Chapter Leadership
GeroScience Peer Review Training Program
The AGE trainee chapter is growing numerous committees to help us promote aging research and outreach, grow and pass on opportunities for AGE Trainee members, and be the best society we can be! We are accepting trainees to join the following committees as members or Chairs: Join a Committee and Get InvolvedDiversity, equity, inclusion, and outreach committee (DEIO)Chair: Cristal Hill Description: The diversity, equity, inclusion, and outreach committee develops best practices for our society regarding how to be maximally inclusive of all and promotes social awareness of issues related to systematic biases. The committee also develops outreach initiatives that seek to grow and broaden understanding of aging and geroscience research, while growing and diversifying the AGE trainee chapter. Grants, opportunities, and meetings committeeChair: Olivia Heath Description: The grants, opportunities, and meetings committee will compile information for AGE trainees about new grants, courses, workshops, and meetings with aging and geroscience focuses. This committee is also working on establishing a mentoring program to connect trainees with mentors in their field. Social media committeeChair: Kenny Wilson Description: The social media committee will create and manage AGE Trainee chapter accounts on social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc…). The committee will be responsible for adding content (new papers, trainee accomplishments, training and funding opportunities, etc…) and live tweeting the annual AGE meeting. The committee will create and maintain a quarterly newsletter that will provide information to trainees and celebrate trainee achievements. Educational Resources CommitteeChair: Amber Mueller Description: The educational resources committee will assist with coordinating the AGE Presents lecture series.
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We’ve recently began enrolling trainees for the GeroScience Peer Review Training Program. This program provides opportunities for AGE Trainee members to conduct rigorous, critical, and ethical peer review with our society journal, GeroScience. As part of the program, you will select a peer review mentor (in most cases, your advisor, but it can be any current AGE Scientific member). You will work with your peer review mentor to produce a professional quality manuscript review. In most cases, reviews will be used for publication decisions. Trainees and mentors must be current AGE members in good standing to participate.
