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Category: Static/study skills
... Visionlearning is a new educational resource for faculty and students. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Visionlearning provides high-quality science learning modules that have been ... Tuesday, 17 August 2010 -
Reading for Class and Research Papers
Category: Static/study skills
... as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences. Check out: Hunter College Libraries Guide to Research Information Resources in Biology Ask your college ... Tuesday, 17 August 2010 -
Study Skills for Budding Scientists
Category: Static/study skills
... The Gene Center Leadership Alliance SPUR National Institutes of Health Hunter ... Tuesday, 17 August 2010 -
Minorities at Higher Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... were diagnosed as cognitively impaired in the national sample. After age 85, these numbers rose to 26.9 percent of whites, 44.8 percent of Hispanics, and 54.6 percent of African Americans. According ... Tuesday, 13 July 2010 -
Speakers
Category: videoslides/africagreen
... of tropical soils and agroforestry. Working in South America in the 1970s and 1980s, Sanchez led an international team that transformed 75 million acres of marginal, acidic soils in Brazil into productive, ... Wednesday, 28 April 2010 -
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Category: videoslides/africagreen
... at Columbia University Includes news and information about issues facing the planet and its inhabitants, with particular focus on sustainable development and the needs of the World's poor. International ... Wednesday, 28 April 2010 -
Meeting Report
Category: videoslides/africagreen
... the UN MDGs could be reached by 2015. The Millennium Project coordinates work at the local, national, and international levels, focusing on science and technology to improve the lives and environment ... Wednesday, 28 April 2010 -
Speakers
Category: videoslides/Hammers
... (1996), where she was an editor for the Georgetown International Environmental Law Review. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Jorge Funes, PhD Pfizer, Inc. email Jorge Funes, a senior principal ... Wednesday, 28 April 2010 -
Resources
Category: videoslides/Hammers
Web Sites WHO | World report on violence and health The World report on violence and health is the first comprehensive review of the problem of violence on a global scale. National Center for Injury ... Wednesday, 28 April 2010 -
Three Perspectives on Managing an Effective Job Search
Category: videoslides/Hammers
... to a fine-grained description of the present. Reassuringly, scientists with advanced degrees average about half the national unemployment rate, so those years spent in graduate school do pay a dividend. ... Wednesday, 28 April 2010 -
Diversity Primer: The Future Workforce and Economy
Category: videoslides/Hammers
... nationality, and age rather than race. The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades The bad news is that in the future, hierarchies will break down, job security will vanish, and we will all ... Wednesday, 28 April 2010 -
Meeting Report
Category: videoslides/Hammers
... primarily by their religion, nationality, and age. In the future, workplace diversity may refocus around these characteristics rather than race or gender. Scientists will already have a head start ... Wednesday, 28 April 2010 -
New Legislation a Promising Start for Tackling Health Care Disparities
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... For example, the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), which is presently a second-tier ‘Center’ of the National Institutes of Health, will now be elevated to full ‘Institute’ ... Tuesday, 27 April 2010 -
Microfinance: In Sickness and In Health
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... in providing benefits such as health services remains unexplored.) Freedom from Hunger, an America-based international non-profit, launched its Microfinance and Health Protection (MAHP) initiative in ... Tuesday, 30 March 2010 -
Preventing Latina Suicides
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... Asian, and African-American peers, according to the National Alliance on Mental Health. Doctors and researchers have been grappling with this troubling statistic since 1998, when the Centers for Disease ... Tuesday, 23 February 2010 -
Help for Haiti
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... accepting donations: American Red Cross - Goes to their International Response Fund You can also donate $10 by texting "HAITI" to "90999." The $10 donation will go automatically to the Red Cross ... Thursday, 14 January 2010 -
Research Funding to Increase in 2010
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... National Institutes of Health, President Obama requested $31 billion for 2010. The omnibus appropriations bill, which passed the House and Senate in mid-December, would provide about 2% above the president’s ... Tuesday, 22 December 2009 -
Clinical Professions Seek Minorities for New Health Care Opportunities
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... than even a year ago. Minorities, in particular, are sought for clinical practice careers, especially if they are willing to work (for salary) for several years for the National Health Service Corps, ... Tuesday, 15 December 2009 -
Garza, Kristine (Tina), Ph.D.
Category: Biographies/Biographies
... of California at Irvine through the auspices of The National Chicano Council for Higher Education (NCCHE). Particularly significant that year, she became a member of SACNAS and attended her first SACNAS ... Friday, 13 November 2009 -
Scholarships for Keystone Symposia
Category: Static/Announcements
... for more information on scholarships and how to apply. Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology is an educational nonprofit organization that convenes open, international meetings ... Monday, 09 November 2009 -
Stimulus Funds Aid Minority Serving Institutions
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... and programs assisting minority students interested in biomedical careers. The National Institutes of Health received $10 billion under the act. As of early October, over $5 billion had been awarded ... Friday, 09 October 2009 -
Puerto Rican Neurobiologist Strives for MORE
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... They may not get national recognition, but the work they do impacts the lives of millions around the world. Consider neurobiologist Alberto Rivera-Rentas. He spent years in Puerto Rico teaching and ... Monday, 28 September 2009 -
Big Ten+ Graduate School Expo
Category: Static/Announcements
... advice about funding opportunities from National Science Foundation representatives and other experts · Network with representatives from more than 50 of the nation’s top graduate institutions · Attend ... Thursday, 27 August 2009 -
Health Care Reform Provides an Opportunity to Target Disparities
Category: Progress Magazine/Spring 2009
... non-minority patients; for example, the AHRQ 2008 National Health Disparities Report indicates that minority patients are consistently less likely to receive screening for colorectal cancer, and that Hispanic ... Wednesday, 26 August 2009 -
Earth's Tribes Unite Against Climate Threats
Category: Progress Magazine/October2002 Vol. 1 No. 1
... position on climate change. They want an official voice alongside national governments in upcoming negotiations to agree a successor to the Kyoto protocol. The meeting is emphasizing indigenous peoples' ... Wednesday, 03 June 2009