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Clear the Air Challenge
Excellence in Global Engagement Awards
UMC wins big at UCDA
HCI selected as a national cancer center for patient-derived model development
Sidewalk safety reminder
Nominate an outstanding academic advisor
Global Learning Across the Disciplines grant pre-proposals requested
Beehive Honor Society now accepting applications
Mobile sources, including our personal cars, contribute significantly to fine particulate matter that dirties our winter air. Ride transit, walk, bike, carpool or even skip the trip. Then, log it into the online tracker. The top five individuals from the University of Utah team win dinner with Ruth Watkins, senior vice president and incoming president, and Amy Wildermuth, chief sustainability officer.
Help the U take first place overall, and remember, with cleaner air, we all win.
Find more information at cleartheairchallenge.org.
EXCELLENCE IN GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT AWARDS
One faculty member and one staff member will be awarded (two awards). This is an annual award for which OGE seeks nominations each spring semester.
The award selection and ceremony is held in early April each year.
Click here for submission information.
The UCDA Design Competition recognizes the best of the exceptional design work done by communication professionals to promote educational institutions (secondary, vocational or higher education) and supports the exchange of ideas and information relating to the unique role of these designers.
UMC has grown an internal agency at the U, which rivals any advertising agency. All of UMC’s work, including the award-winning videos, were produced in-house. UMC thanks all their clients for collaborating with them on these excellent projects. To see UMC’s UCDA and other awards, click here.
HCI selected as a national cancer center for patient-derived model development
The Breast Cancer PDTC is based on cutting-edge research conducted over the past 10 years at HCI. The Welms and their colleagues established methods that allow samples of tumors from breast cancer patients taken during biopsies or surgeries to be grown in the laboratory in ways closely resemble tumor growth in humans. Not only can the models of patient-derived tumors represent a diverse array of human breast cancers, the models can also be used to test new drugs and drug combinations to identify treatments that will best target the tumor.
The goal of the new center is to provide data that can be used to help prioritize breast cancer clinical trials at HCI and NCI. Toward this goal, the center will focus on testing new drugs that are already available through NCI’s Experimental Therapeutics Clinical Trials Network (ETCTN).
“This new grant will be used to test many different experimental cancer drugs available,” said Alana Welm. “This funding is critical to help us determine why certain drugs work for some people and why others do not. We then hope to turn these findings into new clinical trials as quickly as possible.”
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women in the United States, with one in eight women diagnosed in their lifetime. HCI provides comprehensive services for individuals throughout the Mountain West who are diagnosed with breast cancer.
The grant is supported by the NCI of the National Institutes of Health U54 CA224076 and can be extended up to five years.
RESEARCH REPRODUCIBIITY 2018 CONFERENCE: CALL FOR POSTERS
Presenting a poster is a great opportunity, especially for students and new researchers, to obtain interesting and valuable feedback on ongoing research for conference attendees.
The conference will be held June 15, 2018. Click here for more information.
Contact: UtahRR@lists.utah.edu.
The policy applies to non-motorized riding devices, such as bicycles, skateboards, roller skates, rollerblades and scooters, but does not include wheelchairs or strollers.
The policy enforces a 10-mph speed limit for all motorized and non-motorized vehicles, prohibits skateboarders from riding in parking lots or roadways, requires riders to yield to pedestrians, bans non-motorized vehicles from stairways, grass, benches, etc., among other precautionary measures.
The university’s policy for non-motorized riding devices is available here.
NOMINATE AN OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC ADVISOR
The awards recognize U academic advisors who have demonstrated qualities associated with outstanding advising of students such as:
- Approaches advising as teaching
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Available to advisees
- Reaches out and supports underserved populations
- Makes appropriate referrals
- Uses and disseminates appropriate information sources
- Caring, helpful attitude toward advisees, faculty and staff
- Works with students outside of office in formal university-related activities
- Monitors advisee progress toward academic and career goals
- Mastery of institutional regulations, policies, and procedures
- Participates in and supports advisor development programs
- Proactive; builds relationships with advisees and follows up
- Practices developmental advising
It only takes a few moments to complete the nomination process. Click here to nominate your favorite advisor.
Additional questions can be addressed to Nicole O’Shea (nicole.oshea@utah.edu) or Michelle Brooks (michelle.brooks@utah.edu). Consider recognizing an outstanding advisor at the U by submitting a nomination today.
GLOBAL LEARNING ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES GRANT PRE-PROPOSALS REQUESTED
Instructions and background information for the pre-proposals can be found here. Please carefully review the purpose of the GLAD Grants and the instructions. If you have any questions or would like to receive feedback on your proposal idea, please contact Sabine Klahr, acting chief global officer, at 7-8888 or s.klahr@utah.edu.
DEADLINE: Feb. 9.
BEEHIVE HONOR SOCIETY NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
The application is due Feb. 12 and can be found here.