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August 15, 2017
Volume 2 Issue 4
This year's DPC Annual Conference is just 2 months away! The CEC looks forward to working with you towards this exciting annual event and to seeing you in Bethesda, Maryland. Continue reading for additional details.
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Join us in congratulating Dr. Akom! Effective fall 2017 Antwi Akom, PhD, will be promoted to Professor of Africana Studies, and will become affiliate faculty in the Health Equity Institute at San Francisco State University (SF State), while retaining his affiliate faculty status in the Center for Vulnerable Populations at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). In addition to Dr. Akom's dual appointment at SF State and UCSF, he will be working with SF BUILD program's principal investigator, Dr. Leticia Márquez-Magaña, in an exciting new grant funded by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities. Keep reading for additional details on the new "HEART and SOUL..." grant!
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Sonny Tang, ReBUILDetroit scholar from Wayne State University, spent his summer counting a lot of flies while investigating the genetic and biochemical interactions between two genes.
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Dr. Otis W. Brawley, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer at the American Cancer Society, spoke to more than 120 ReBUILDetroit scholars, interested students and faculty at University of Detroit Mercy on August 4.
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Can honeybees determine a rule from a pattern? This was the summer research project that ReBUILDetroit scholars Alex Rogers from University of Detroit Mercy and Shyra Northington from Marygrove College investigated with their Marygrove mentor, Dr. Karen Doyle.
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Da’Jonae Foster, ReBUILDetroit scholar from University of Detroit Mercy, spent her summer research experience correlating social behaviors with cognitive abilities from childhood to early adulthood.
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Yuyi Li, ReBUILDetroit scholar from University of Detroit Mercy, and his Wayne State University mentor, Dr. Chaoyang Chen, developed an exoskeleton to help people with lower limb weakness or paralysis.
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Rising sophomore and ReBUILDetroit scholar from Wayne State University Xavier Walker is spending his summer digging through pond muck and dissecting water mites.
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Pictured here are recent graduates from BUILD programs across the United States. Congratulations to all the recent graduates! You have already accomplished so much, and it's going to be great seeing what comes next.
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BUILD PODER at California State University, Northridge celebrated its first graduating cohort of nine seniors this May. Calvin Apodaca, Roxxette Zepeda, Ashley Ward, Adriana Mendez, Richard Gonsalez, Jose Estrada, Julie Hong, Garry Leonard and Umu Rogers reflect on their experiences as BUILD PODER Scholars, and share how the program has made a lasting impact on their lives.
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Please help us welcome the new additions and thank those who are leaving the Diversity Program Consortium.
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NRMN, CEC and NIH personnel gathered in Madison, Wisconsin for the NRMN semi-annual Key Personnel Meeting, June 14-16, 2017. Attending in person were 41 key personnel with 20 attending virtually including NRMN NIH Project Scientist Darren Sledjeski and Program Officer Mercedes Rubio.
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The first cohort of ASCEND Scholars successfully completed their two-year program and were celebrated by their peers, family, and Morgan State University staff and faculty on Thursday evening, May 11, 2017. The six teams of Scholars showcased the findings from the research projects they initiated during the 2015 Summer Research Institute (SRI). Six Scholars graduated from Morgan State in May and shared their post-graduation plans.
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It has been a busy summer at the BUILDing SCHOLARS Center and at the University. We’ve welcomed new students, wished our graduates good luck, and said “see you in August” to our fellows who traveled to other institutions. The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) also ranked No. 1 in the Brookings Institution Study of U.S. Public Universities out of 342 public universities for “performing well in both research and social mobility.”
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As part of their Summer Enrichment Program, cohort 2017 ReBUILDetroit scholars spent a day working at D-Town Farm, the largest urban farm in the United States.
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BUILD EXITO just wrapped up the academic year by celebrating the work our first round of Pilot Projects recipients. The ten researchers awarded this funding went through a competitive process and were awarded up to 50K to work on a new research project over the past year.
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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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