Keeping you up-to-date with the latest in nursing research at UMass
Date: Monday, April 23
Time: 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Location: Shriners Hospitals for Children, 516 Carew Street, Springfield, MA 01104
The Maternal Child Health Commission is proud to announce this year’s community program in conjunction with Public Health Month to focus on Cultural Humility in Public Health.
More details, including registration, can be found here.
Presenter: Dr. David A. Sela
Date: April 17, 2018
Time: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Location: Skinner Hall, Room 101
The next talk in the College of Nursing Spring Seminar Series will be presented by Dr. David A. Sela, Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science. Dr. Sela research focuses on breast milk and infant nutrition, genomics of beneficial microbes, and dietary influences on the human microbiome. His presentation will look at the genomics and molecular microbiology underlying reciprocal interactions between beneficial bifidobacterial populations and bioactive milk molecules.
Abstract: Human milk delivers bioactive molecules critical to infant development, homeostasis, and health. A fraction of these molecules are partially or fully indigestible and thus delivered to the infant gut. This includes human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) that provide functions beyond their potential nutritive value. Accordingly, microbes interact with human milk molecules to modulate the emergent physiology of microbiomes established along the infant gastrointestinal tract.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
UMass Amherst Design Building 170 & Atrium
Food and coffee provided
This summit is aimed at graduate students interested in extending their scholarly work beyond UMass, improving their communication skills, and/or pursuing a career in Outreach & Public Engagement (OPE). It is an opportunity to learn about resources & opportunities on campus and beyond. The day will consist of:
Professional Panel 1:30-2:30pm
Professionals working in outreach and public engagement (OPE) will talk about their careers and answer audience questions. Come ask questions that are relevant to you.
OPE Idea and Resource Exhibition 2:30-4:30pm
Come for as long or short as you want to learn from, talk to, and collaborate with UMass graduate students and organizations about their OPE initiatives.
Registration is preferred, but not required:
https://tinyurl.com/OPESummit
Date: Saturday, April 7, 2018
Time: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location: Davis Center, University of Vermont
Objectives
Additional information is available here.
Stress Biomarkers: Why, What, Where and How
Dates: June 7-8, 2018
Instructor: Jerrold Meyer, PhD, UMass Amherst
Register here
Continue reading “Center for Research on Families: Summer Methodology Workshop Series”
Deadline: April 17, 2018
Budget: Up to $15,000
Eligibility: All full-time faculty and staff
Notification of award: Week of May 28, 2018
The Public Service Endowment Grants (PSEG) are intended to enhance the mission of UMass Amherst as a Carnegie-classified “Engaged Research University.” It is an internal University source of funds set aside to deliver public services through research and special projects. For the purposes of this program, public service will be defined as “having to do with the outreach of the University to society at large, extending the research and engagement resources of the campus to individuals and groups who are not part of the academic community while bringing an academic institution’s special competence to bear on the solution of society’s problems. It can take place on or off campus and can be related to either the governmental or private sectors of our national life. The emphasis on public service is in converting knowledge into readily usable forms for immediate applications.”
Proposals should focus on collaborative partnerships and interactions with the off-campus community (or communities) and related scholarship for the mutual benefit, exchange, exploration, and application of knowledge and resources. Projects that will lead to competitive proposals for extramural support will be given the highest priority. The use of this non-renewable “seed” money award should leverage campus and community resources to solve a problem or build capacity at the university and/or in the community. Projects should create opportunity for sustained engagement after PSEG funding is expended.
You can view more information, including the Request for Proposals, here.
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) will host the Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI) from July 23-27, 2018. The HDRI aims to support the research career development of promising minority health and health disparities research scientists early in their careers, stimulating research in the disciplines supported by health disparities science.
The program will feature lectures, mock grant review, seminars, small group discussions on research relevant to minority health and health disparities. It will also include sessions with NIH scientific staff engaged in related health disparities research across the various institutes and centers.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This program is intended for early stage research investigators. Applications will only be accepted from post-doctoral fellows, assistant professors, or individuals in similar early stage research career positions who are engaged in minority health and health disparities research. Early career researchers from diverse backgrounds interested in the conduct of health research, within academic, community-based, non-profit, and other non-academic settings, are encouraged to apply.
HOW TO APPLY
The online application is now open on the NIMHD website: https://nimhd.nih.gov/programs/edu-training/hd-research-institute/hdri_logon.asp.
The due date for submitting an application is April 27th, 2018, (5:00 PM EST).
Presenter: Dr. Portia Singh
Title: “From Academia, to Government, to Industry: Aging Research across Sectors”
Date: Tuesday, March 27
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: LSL S330 (via Zoom)
The UManage Center for the Science of Symptom Self- Management pre sents the above talk by Dr. Portia Singh, Senior Research Scientist at Philips Research North America. Dr. Singh will share her experiences using technology in the aging domain in three different sectors -academia, government, and industry.She will then focus in on industry researchand the work being done by her team on the topic of understanding technology needs for informal caregiversproviding assistance to chronically ill or frail elder loved ones.
Dr. Singh holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Computer Science from Grambling State University. Prior to joining Philips, she served as a Hardy-Apfel IT Fellow with the Social Security Administration under President Obama’s Administration. She is an active member of the National Society of Black Engineers National and local chapters, contributing to the Society’s mission to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in STEM fields.
The talk will be conducted via Zoom.
Date: Thursday, April 26
Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm
Location: 10th Floor, Amherst Room, Campus Center
The School of Public Health and Health Sciences is excited to announce the launch of the Center for Community Health Equity Research. This promotes multidisciplinary research investigating the social production of health disparities and the relationships among individual, social, and environmental structures that impact quality of life and population health. It seeks to address the gap between academic research and practice by leveraging rigorous studies to drive public health policies. The Center will build collective resilience by forging partnerships both locally and globally through participatory research with clinical and community-based organizations.
The keynote address will be give by Dr. David Williams, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who will present his research on “Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Health: Present realities and future directions.”
The talk will be followed by brief remarks from a panel of faculty in Health Promotion and Policy and Political Science.
Light refreshments will be served.
Please register for this event here.
Strengthening Your NSF Proposal with Effective Broader Impacts: A Campus-Wide Workshop for Faculty
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
3:00 – 4:30 PM
Life Sciences Laboratories South 330-340
A strong statement of the broader impacts (BI) of your research in an NSF proposal can elevate your proposal above the competition, as well as help you communicate the importance of your science to any audience. Well-executed BI activities can also help you realize greater influence with your research. This workshop will help you develop ideas for BI projects and evaluation, and identify partners.
You can find more information and register here.