In This Edition
June 27, 2017
Volume 2 Issue 3
Madison, Wisconsin is a beautiful place in the summer and a great place for NRMN to hold its semi-annual Key Personnel Meeting (KPM). Prof. Steven Wallace and Dr. Lourdes Guerrero, two CEC faculty members from UCLA, joined about 40 other NRMN personnel at their June 14-16 meeting. An additional 20 members of the NRMN family (including two more CEC members) joined by phone.
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Five CEC senior faculty presented at the NIGMS Training, Workforce Development, & Diversity 2017 Program Directors' Meeting (TWD 2017) on June 18-21, 2017. BUILD and NRMN were well represented at the TWD 2017 meeting. A careful participant-observation study concluded that all attendees had a good time.
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Developed by Understanding Interventions (UI), these Evaluation Measures database is a searchable catalog containing an ever expanding set of articles on which specific theory driven scales and instruments (such as self-efficacy, academic identity, and resilience) are based. Users with access to academic databases are also able to directly access the abstracts of these articles.
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Read about Farimang, a recent UAF BLaST graduate who has studied the effects of Alaskan botanicals on the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
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SF BUILD Scholar and recent SF State graduate, Juan Castillo, shares his personal journey and discusses how the SF BUILD program has prepared him for a career in science, as he leaves for the UC Davis graduate program in the Fall semester.
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ReBUILDetroit scholars from Detroit Mercy enjoyed the Michigan Science Center’s annual gala, thanks to the support of the College of Engineering & Science on May 12.
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ReBUILDetroit funded five pilot, collaborative and course development projects submitted by investigators across partner institutions as part of a competitive granting process this month. Pilot awards totaled nearly $125,000, and are part of the five-year, $21MM ReBUILDetroit grant funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Alex Jones, a ReBUILDetroit scholar, and Griffin Craig, both from University of Detroit Mercy, presented their freshman-year SEA-PHAGE research project at the 9th Annual SEA-PHAGE Symposium held on the Janelia Research Campus of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Ashburn, VA on June 10.
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SF BUILD PI and Program Director, Dr. Márquez-Magaña, discusses her experience as a keynote speaker for the San Francisco March for Science Event.
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Thirteen ASCEND Scholars engaged with 27 Baltimore City youth involved in the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (CURE) Scholars Program. UMB CURE is a community-outreach effort to strengthen the pipeline that leads Baltimore City’s youth to health care and health research careers.
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ReBUILDetroit scholars in the 2016 cohort received their lab coats from the faculty-mentors and peer-to-peer mentors during a ceremony at Marygrove on May 19.
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The Wayne State University Graduate School is proud to announce that Dean Ambika Mathur, Ph.D., is the 2017 recipient of the Wayne Women LEAD Woman of Distinction Award. Dean Mathur was honored in a public awards reception on Thursday, April 20, 2017. This event was hosted by the Wayne State University President’s Commission on the Status of Women (COSW) and Wayne Women LEAD, and also honored students and an alumna who have made significant contributions to women.
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A study, which was conducted by UCLA researcher and reported in the journal Child Development, demonstrates the importance of diversity to middle school students. Stuart Wolpert noted findings of the study in his article Students of All Races Feel Safer in Ethnically Diverse Middle Schools, UCLA Researchers Report.
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Event Date: Tue, Oct 10, 2017 to Wed, Oct 11, 2017 Location: Bethesda, Maryland |
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Event Date: Wed, Oct 18, 2017 to Sat, Oct 21, 2017 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah |
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Event Date: Wed, Nov 01, 2017 to Sat, Nov 04, 2017 Location: Phoenix, Arizona |
The NIH Diversity Program Consortium (DPC) Newsletter provides updates on activities at DPC sites, shares progress on collaborative efforts within the consortium, and highlights news and recent publications related to diversity and mentoring in the biomedical sciences.
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