Month: November 2010

11/29/10

Bryer Award Recipient

The Office of Development and Alumni Relations, the Office of Research and the Research & Creative Activities Committee congratulates Dr. Huey-Ming Tzeng, Associate Director of Nursing, SHPS for being this year’s Bryer Award recpient for the following project: “Exploring meaningful individual patient and hospital structural characteristics in predicting injurious fall occurrences among cancer patients and the differences between cancer and non-cancer patients”

The Bryer Fund was established by the family of Ben F. Bryer to encourage and support the medical research endeavors of University of Michigan-Flint faculty.  This research fund honors the accomplishments of Ben Bryer, surgeon, scientist, educator, author, and humanist, in his pursuit of medical knowledge.  Funding is available, on an application basis, to full-time faculty of the University of Michigan-Flint to provide support for medical and biomedical research, with a priority given to research related to cancer.

11/23/10

Research & Creative Activity Fund Recipients- Fall, 2010

 The Research & Creative Activity Committee and the Office of Research are pleased to announce the results of the fall 2010 Request for Proposals.  Nine proposals were received, requesting more than $122,000 in funding.   In total, 4 awards were made for the following proposals:

– Min-Hui Huang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy, SHPS:   A Task-Specific Rehabilitation Program to Improve Limb-Posture Control in Older Adults

– Nicholas Kingsley, Ph.D., Chemistry & BioChemistry Department, CAS:  New Ligand Design for the Development of Hydroamination Catalysts

– Murali Mani, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Engineering & Physics, CAS:  Enabling On-Time Response through Efficient Event Stream Processing

– Greg Rybarczyk, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Earth & Resource Science, CAS:   An Areal Analysis of Crime Risk in Flint, Michigan

Congratulations to all of our recipients!

11/19/10

US House of Representatives Declare Undergraduate Research Week April 11, 2011

From the desk of Nancy Hensel, Executive Office of the Council on Undergraduate Research:

On November 16, 2010 the United States House of Representatives voted to declare the week of April 11, 2011 as Undergraduate Research Week. We and Washington Partners drafted a resolution and it was carried forward by Representative Rush Holt of New Jersey. Representatives Glen Thompson of Pennsylvania and Representative Mazie Hirono of Hawaii spoke in favor of the bill. Below are links to the C-Span recordings of their remarks and I have attached a copy of the resolution that was passed and the press release we have sent out.

We are hoping to schedule Posters on the Hill on April 12th or 13th and are waiting for confirmation of space from our contact in Congress. Because of Congressional transition, it is taking a little longer than it normally does. Regardless of when we are able to schedule Posters on the Hill, we would like to have many events across the country to celebrate the week. Some members have asked their mayor and their state legislature to declare a particular day or week as Undergraduate Day. It would be exciting if we had college towns all across the country celebrating undergraduate research by recognizing the week, having students speak at local service organizations, and local newspapers do feature articles on undergraduate research at your institution. It would also be very exciting if we had 50 governors declare April 11th as undergraduate research week. Would you work with your president, vice president for academic affairs and public relations office to see how your campus might celebrate this special week?

We are also very pleased to note that we had nearly 700 abstracts submitted for Posters on the Hill this year. This is a record number and about a 75% increase over last year. Undergraduate research is becoming a major learning strategy on campuses across the United States and CUR is truly becoming the national voice and resource for undergraduate research.

So see some of the videos from the event, please visit the following links:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=599158917  – Rep. Mazie Hirono
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=599158921  – Rep. Glenn Thompson
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/clip.php?appid=599158925  – Rep. Rush Holt

11/15/10

Research Spotlight: Sharman Siebenthal-Adams, School of Education and Human Services

adams.jpgJoin us next Wednesday, November 17 at 10:30 am for our third Research Spotlight! For this month’s spotlight, we focus on School of Education ad Human Services professor Sharman Siebenthal-Adams and her research focusing on using educational technology to raise global awareness. Specifically, Dr. Siebenthal-Adams’ work focuses on the sustainability of the ecological habitat of the Punta Sur preserve and National marine and wildlife parks.

The talk will take place in the Office of Research Seminar Room, Room 530 French Hall. Come hear about is research endeavors, network with other researchers on campus.  This event is free and open to all interested faculty, staff and students, and refreshments will be served.