The National Academies of Sciences sponsored workshop titled "Understanding Interventions that Encourage Minorities to Pursue Research Careers: Major questions and Appropriate Methods" was held at the AAAS on May 3-4 2007. The report of the workshop is available at The National Academies website. A proposed outcome was the establishment of an Interdisciplinary Community of Scholars focused on the issues of applying hypothesis based inquiry to interventions aimed at increasing diversity in research related fields. One major component of growing and mainting this community is an annual meeting where individuals conducting research in this area can present their work, interact with colleagues including those planning and implementing programs aimed at broadening participation in research careers.

I am very happy to announce that the 2nd Annual Conference will be held at the Atlanta Hilton on May 2-4 2008. Registration for the conference will cover all meals except dinners. This website dedicated to the conference will be valuable in gleaning information on this and other related activities. Please share this information with your colleagues. We look forward to your and contributions to this very valuable activity. See you in Atlanta!.

Anthony DePass
Chairman- Planning Committee for Interventions Conference,
American Society for Cell Biology Minorities Affairs Committee