The Weekly SPHere Dec. 10, 2007

The Weekly SPHere is a weekly electronic publication for students in the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. To submit items for the Weekly SPHere, please send an e-mail to sphnews@umn.edu.

Note: The Weekly SPHERE will not be distributed on Dec. 24 or Dec. 31. The next issue of SPH News will go out on Monday, Jan. 7.

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Student News

Dean John Finnegan invites all students to the SPH Winter Reception on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2:15-4:40.
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SPH Student Research Day will be a new feature this year during National Public Health Week, April 7-11, 2008. The event includes a student research poster contest, to be held Friday, April 11. All currently enrolled SPH students are strongly encouraged to submit a poster about your research project. This can be for a MPH Masters' project, MS thesis, or PhD Dissertation. Three dates to mark on your calendars:

• Friday, Feb 1, 9-11 a.m., A-110 Mayo -- Training program: How to design a poster.
• Monday, March 10 -- Submission deadline for posters (one per student)
• Friday, April 11, Mayo Auditorium -- SPH Student Research Day

A research poster gives you the opportunity to show off your work! The research does not have to be completed. There will be blue ribbon awards given by faculty for excellence within each degree program and by students for a Students Choice Award for the best MPH, MS, and PhD posters.

PubH 6120 Injury Prevention in the Workplace, Community, and Home is being offered in the spring. The two-credit class is being taught by Susan Gerberich and guest faculty on Wednesdays from 8 to 9:55 a.m. in WDH 2110. The course will examine injury epidemiology that includes analyses of major injury problems in the public workplace, home and community as well as emphasize strategies for prevention and control. It will also provide a foundation essential to the development of programs for occupational injury prevention and control.

The annual SPH apparel sale is underway and includes a great full-zip fleece, and scrub pants. Samples of this apparel will be available soon in the student service center or the SPHere for students to look at. Orders are due by December 20. Order forms are available in the student services office, Room D-305 Mayo. Please include your order form and cash or checks payable to the SPH Student Senate in an envelope with your name on it to the student services office, or to one of the following members of student senate:
Paul Jansen
Shriram Parashuram
Deja Scott
Ania Urban
Emily Wang
For questions or to get an order form emailed to you contact Paul Jansen at jansenpa@gmail.com.

Students intending to apply for either the Juran Fellowship or the Juran Doctoral Awards must notify the Joseph M. Juran Center by Friday, Dec. 14. The full application for both awards is due on Friday, Jan. 18. Statements of intent must be made through the application Web site to ensure students are notified of current information regarding the awards. Applications accepted online only.
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The NIH/Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Program is accepting applications through Wednesday, Dec. 14. The one-year fellowship begins in July 2008 and provides participants an opportunity to work at one of several NIH-funded research centers in a foreign country. The program is designed for graduate-level U.S. students in the health professions.
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The Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences has announced a funding opportunity for graduate and professional students. This funding initiative aims to encourage work on the broad societal implications of problems in health, environment, or the life sciences. The deadline is Tuesday, Feb. 19 for summer 2008 or the 2008-09 academic year. For more information contact Audrey Boyle at 6-5624.
• View the Request for Proposals

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SPH Events

The SPH All-School Winter Reception will be held Thursday, Dec. 13, from 2:15 to 4:30 p.m. "Be Sweet to Yourself" and attend the reception at the Weisman Art Museum. Register at www.sph.umn.edu/reception/ by Thursday, Dec. 6. Questions? Contact Nichole Marthaler at mart1047@umn.edu or 6-9303.
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Dana Goldman will present "The Cost of Quality Improvement" on Dec. 13, 12:30 to 2 p.m., in A110 Mayo. The relationship between quality and costs in hospitals is important yet not well understood. Goldman, who holds the RAND Chair in Health Economics at UCLA, will shed some light. The seminar is free and open to the public. Questions? Call 4-6151.

Yue Cui, a Ph.D. candidate in Biostatistics, will discuss, "Smoothing Analysis of Variance for General Designs and Partitioning Degrees of Freedom in Hierarchical and Other Richly-parameterized Models," at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 18 in room A434 Mayo. Refreshments will be served prior to the presentation.

Planning is underway at the School to celebrate National Public Health Week (NPHW), April 7-11, in a grand way. Please mark your calendars for two inaugural events. To kickoff NPHW, the SPH will host its first research day event on Monday, April 7. Students will present juried posters, and presentations will feature the work of students, faculty, and our community partners. The first all-school Alumni Reunion will take place Thursday, April 10. Keynoting this evening event will be Richard Carmona, former U.S. Surgeon General. Proceeds from ticket and raffle sales will go directly to funding student scholarships through the SPH alumni scholarship fund.

Save the date for the National Public Health Week Film Festival. This marks the fourth year of this popular series scheduled to be held April 7-11. During that week the NPHW PSA contest, "It's Global," will also be featured for a second year. Stay tuned for details.

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Other Events

A research symposium on Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology will be held Friday, Jan. 18, at the University of Minnesota's Rochester campus. The purpose is to facilitate further collaborations in: (1) Data mining methods for clinical and laboratory data (2) Computational methods for rational drug design. This symposium will bring together teams of scientists and administrators from the Twin Cities and Rochester campuses, the Hormel Institute, the Mayo Clinic, and IBM.
Register online. Deadline is Jan. 9, 2008.

A march and silent vigil to remember those who died while homeless in Minnesota will be held on Thursday, Dec. 20. The march begins at 5 p.m. at the Hennepin County Government Center and is followed by a service of remembrance at 6:30 p.m. at Simpson United Methodist Church. Steve O'Neil, longtime advocate for the homeless community and St. Louis County commissioner is the speaker. A community meal will be served at 7:30 p.m. in the Simpson Shelter--in the basement of Simpson Church.
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