Announcements
Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program is recuiting graduate students
The LEND Program at the WVU Center for Excellence in Disabilities is recruiting graduate students from health and related disciplines for graduate assistantships starting in Fall, 2016. The mission of the LEND Program is to prepare health professionals to serve children and youth with disabilities and the families that care for them. The focus is to train students by using mentors from their fields of study and focusing on family-centered care, teamwork and cultural sensitivity. Selected students may be awarded a tuition waiver and stipend. The program is also looking for family members of a person with a disability and disability self-advocates. Applications are due by March 11, 2016. To be eligible, applicants must be U.S. Citizens. For more information, visit http://lend.cedwvu.org/trainee-application.php or contact Diane Williams at awilliams@hsc.wvu.edu or by calling 304-293-4692.
WVU Science Policy Organization, "Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) Workshop
Are you a graduate or undergraduate student interested in the intersection of science and politics?
Nominations accepted for Women in Science and Health Awards
The Women In Science & Health Committee is sponsoring an advanced career and mid-career award to recognize outstanding achievements by women at the Health Sciences Center. Recommendations from trainees or students from all health sciences schools are encouraged.
How Agricultural Policies Affect Nutrition
The Public Health Dialogues Speaker Series will host John Courtney, PhD, Executive Officer of the American Society for Nutrition (ASN). Dr. Courtney will discuss how the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) has become the central resource where policymakers, government funders, and thought leaders go to get the latest information on nutrition research and practice.
WVU’s Bob Huggins seeks Round 4 in Infiniti Coaches’ Charity Challenge
WVU Men’s Basketball Coach Bob Huggins is looking to Mountaineer fans for their support to help him win $100,000 for the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Endowment at the WVU Cancer Institute.
Rigor in NIH Applications: a training module
The National Institutes of Health recently released a new training module to help describe the issues of rigor and transparency, the driving forces that lead to policy, summarizing updates to grant applications including language, and also help to identify resources available to meet the needs of researchers.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announces grant opportunities
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its funding partners in the Grand Challenges family of grant programs are inviting innovators to apply for two grant opportunities: 1) Grand Challenges China: New Interventions for Global Health. This challenge focuses on calls for innovative concepts for safe, effective, affordable and widely utilized interventions, such as vaccines and therapeutics, with the potential to protect against the acquisition, progression or transmission of infectious diseases that disproportionately affect the world’s poorest. This call is in partnership with the National Natural Science Foundation of China and requires substantive collaborations between China-based investigators and those based outside of China. Application deadline is March 15, 2016, 8:00 am Beijing time (March 14, 2016, 5pm Seattle time). For a detailed description of this challenge, please visit the Grand Challenges site. 2) Grand Challenges for Development: Saving Lives at Birth. USAID, the Government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, the U.K.'s Department for International Development (DFID), and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) have joined together to launch Saving Lives at Birth. The goal of this program is to find the tools and approaches to help mothers and newborns during their most vulnerable hours. Application deadline is February 29, 2016. If you have a great idea, please apply.
School of Medicine presents series on Humanism in Medicine
The Gold Humanism Honor Society has organized an outstanding group of speakers for the annual Gold Humanism Week lecture series beginning Monday, Feb. 15. Topics include hospitality, empathy and gratitude in medicine, creative writing and pain addiction.
American Nurses Foundation announces Nursing Research Grants
The American Nurses Foundation would like to announce the opening of the 2016 Nursing Research Grant cycle.
State Health Commissioner to Speak at WVU
The Health Disparities Working Group at West Virginia University is pleased to announce the start of their spring seminar series. The seminar series kickoff event will take place on Tuesday, February 2 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Barnett Board Room of the Erickson Alumni Center. We are pleased to welcome Rahul Gupta, MD, MPH, FACP, commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services Bureau for Public Health, who will speak about health disparities in West Virginia and how the WVU community and WV Bureau for Public Health can positively impact the situation. This event is open to all those interested in health disparities research. Light hors d’oeuvres will be served. Please RSVP for this event here. Future seminar dates include March 1, April 5, and May 3. Additional information will be provided closer to those dates. For additional information or if you have any questions, please contact Brandi Talkington at bnsnyder@hsc.wvu.edu or 304-581-1959.