Last spring Toxicology and Environmental Science double major Luke Knight received a travel award from the Society of Toxicology to attend the Undergraduate Diversity program at the annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. Luke was invited to attend this year's meeting in San Antonio and serve as peer-mentor for that same program. Our local industry partner, Charles River Laboratories, supported Luke's travel and he sent in this report and some photos.I got the opportunity to serve as a peer mentor for the 2018 Society of Toxicology annual meeting that was being held in San Antonio, Texas thanks to the travel grant offered by Charles River Laboratories. I was offered the position for the peer mentorship because I have a major in toxicology and I was an Undergraduate Diversity Program Awards recipient for the 2017 meeting in Baltimore. My role as a mentor was to offer guidance and to answer any particular questions regarding the profession, speaking from personal experiences in my collegiate career thus far. I also helped engage the students in discussion about particular prompts and encouraged them to participate in the presentations that were being held. Aside from the peer mentorship, I got the chance to experience the ToxExpo and to speak to prospective employers about future careers. Overall, I was very excited to have the chance to go to the conference again and meet up with some people that I befriended from the previous year. Also, I cannot thank Charles River Laboratories enough for giving me another chance to experience the SOT meeting.
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