Speakers: Dr. Maxine Harper and Mr. Joey Rutherford
Date: Monday, November 5 Time: Noon – 1:00 PM Place:Butler Auditorium, in the Triplett Alumni Center, University of Mississippi, Oxford Campus For: UM Faculty and Researchers proposing or conducting projects with educational components
Speaker: Dr. Jack Wells Date: Thursday, October 25 Time: Noon – 1:00 PM Place:Butler Auditorium, in the Triplett Alumni Center, University of Mississippi, Oxford Campus For: UM Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students, Honors College Students, Provost Scholars, and STEM Living Learning Community Residents*
As a first step to creating an interest group/community of UM scholarship and service pertaining to the Mississippi Delta, all UM employees with active projects, ideas, or capabilities of relevance to the Mississippi Delta are invited to share these via this linked survey: http://uofmississippi.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bgzIz1qFsg6NMJ7.
Call for UM Pre-proposals & Reviewers NIH Academic-Community Partnership Conference Series (R13)
Applications sought to conduct meetings, workshops, and symposia to bring together academic institutions/organizations and community organizations to identify opportunities for addressing health disparities through the use of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR).
Up to $4,000 can be requested by UM from ORAU to support events involving more than one ORAU institution. Typical events might involve visits to an ORAU institution by a renowned speaker, conferences or workshops with a focused theme, or a technology transfer/business plan competition. Those interested in learning more about, or being considered for, this opportunity should notify Jason Hale NLT 5PM Thursday, July 12.
The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to support the independent research of outstanding young scientists who have recently been appointed as assistant professors on a tenure-track appointment. Grants are $300,000 for a three-year term with $100,000 payable each year of the grant, for research projects in the biomedical sciences and chemistry.
The Mississippi Biotechnology Association, an affiliate of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (http://www.bio.org/articles/about-bio), has contracted with Battelle to do a study of the ag/life science/biotechnology capabilities of Mississippi. Battelle is visiting each of the research universities gathering information on projects underway related to biotechnology, biosciences and health-related research. Representatives from Battelle and the MS Technology Alliance will be on our campus all day May 24 and the morning of Ma
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) is soliciting applications for projects to plan the development of effective interventions using community based participatory research (CBPR) approaches. Grants will be awarded to help develop and strengthen partnerships between researchers and health disparity communities to plan and pilot interventions for a disease or condition to reduce health disparities.
