Congratulations to the following faculty for receiving research awards:
Congratulations to our recepients!
Proposals are now being accepted for the Dr. Ben F. Bryer Foundation Medical Research Fund.
The 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. Special gratitude is extended to Dr. Bryer’s sister and foundation trustee, Bess Hurand, and her husband Arthur for making this fund possible.
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. At this time, it is anticipated that one award in the amount of $5000-$7000 will be available.
Proposals are due in the Office of Research by Friday, October 30th at 5:00 pm.
Proposals will be reviewed by the Research and Creative Activities Committee with funding decisions announced in late November. All proposals must be submitted in hard copy and electronically. Please follow the guidelines located at http://www.umflint.edu/research/faculty_funding/bryer.htm.
If you have any questions or need assistance please feel free to contact the Office of Research, 810-762-3383.
Congratulations to Shan Parker, Associate Professor of Health Care, Health Sciences and Administration, who is a co-investigator with colleagues in Ann Arbor on the following award: “Prevention Research Center of Michigan,” Department of Health and Human Services/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. $4,799,984 was awarded for the project!
From the desk of Sue Koehler, Senior Secretary:
To support faculty efforts to secure external funding for research and creative activities, the Office of Research has created a database of faculty interests. This information is only used internally, to help us know what to keep watch for, and to forward funding opportunities as we become aware of them. We invite you to add your interests to the database.
We currently have nearly 100 faculty members’ keywords in our database. To add you keywords, or update them, just reply to this e-mail with the five keywords appropriate to your research interests. We take care of the rest.
Be sure to watch for our Weekly Funding Opportunities Announcement, usually appearing in your in-box on Monday. The previous editions are also archived on our Blackboard organization site: Office of Research External Funding Resources.
We hope this will be of service to you, and look forward to working with you in your research endeavors.
From the desk of Chris Waters, Acting Associate Provost:
It is with great regret that I share with the university community the intention of Sponsored Research and Programs Director, John Callewaert to leave us for an opportunity to which he could not say no. He will be assuming the title of Integrated Assessment Director (research lead) with the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute in Ann Arbor (http://www.graham.umich.edu/). He will be coordinating research projects focused on local, regional and international issues such as campus sustainability and sustainable development in Detroit. The Graham Institute reports to the Provost’s office in Ann Arbor. It offers him a once in a lifetime career opportunity to combine his professional training and experience.
In the all too brief time John was with us he has done much to broaden the scope of and develop our Office of Research both physically and operationally. Since joining us in January 2008, he has become well known and respected across campus. He improved communication about research opportunities with weekly funding opportunity announcements that always also included warm congratulations to those successful in obtaining funding. He has done much to strengthen our ties with OVPR in Ann Arbor and has gone a long way toward creating a sense of a culture of research on our campus. In doing this, John has instituted incentives for faculty and developed workshops as well, both demystifying and rewarding faculty participation in grant writing.
John also presided over the recent renovations in the Office of Research and a couple of successful Office of Research staff hires. He has created an atmosphere that is physically, visually and psychologically harmonious in the process. I am sure his staff will dearly miss him.
John’s last day in his position at the University of Michigan-Flint will be October 9th. I am grateful to him for staying with us as long as he has and as long as he could.
On behalf of the Office of Research staff and the University of Michigan-Flint community, thanks John for the time you spent with us! Good luck during the next phase of your career!
From Mlive:
FLINT, Michigan — University of Michigan-Flint student Miyako Jones is among 18 students in the country and two from Michigan to receive a $10,000 academic scholarship through Google and the United Negro College Fund.
As a Google-United Negro College Fund scholar, Jones will also receive an all-expenses paid trip to the Google Headquarters in California in 2010.
The annual Google-UNCF scholarship is awarded to a group of African-American students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science or computer engineering with a minimum 3.5 GPA.
The program offers “last dollar” scholarships based on unmet financial need for students majoring in computer science or computer engineering.
On the trip to the Googleplex, Jones will have the opportunity to meet other scholars and attend technical talks and professional development workshops while exploring the San Francisco Bay area.
Miyako is also an active participant in our Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Congratulations on this accomplishment Miyako!
Congratulations to Quamrul Mazumder, Assistant Professor of Engineering Science, Computer Science, Engineering and Physics. As a co-investigator – Mazumder and his colleague received an award from the National Science Foundation for their project “Evaluating Online Metacognition Tools for Use in Large Classrooms.” They were awarded $149,857.
Congratualations, Dr. Mazumder!
From MLive:
After four years as a U.S. Army medic, University of Michigan-Flint senior Cameron Waites was selected for several prestigious scholarship and research opportunities that include work for Stanford University.
Waites has been named one of 15 recipients of the highly competitive National Institute of Health undergraduate scholarship program, a 10- week long summer laboratory experience with a researcher and a postdoctoral fellow.
The Army sergeant has also been selected for the Stanford Summer Research Program/Amgen Scholars Program. Each participant is matched with a member of the school’s faculty to work in one of Stanford’s state-of-the-art research facilities.
Waites, of Mount Morris, spent more than 4,000 hours in patient care with the Army.
“It was during my time in the army, and subsequent time in the Iraqi desert, that I discovered my true calling to become an M.D., Ph.D. and advance the understanding of science and medicine,” Waites said in a UM-Flint news release.
He said he decided to attend UM-Flint after learning about the honors program and health sciences degree.
“These two facets of my education would allow me to be with my family and also have an opportunity to truly stand out and make a difference in the Flint community,” he said.
The medical school hopeful will have the opportunity to advance his education at some of the most prestigious institutions in the country through the programs he has been selected for.
Washington D.C. is also on his itinerary. He is among only 25 undergraduates in the “Michigan in Washington” program, which will allow him to combine coursework with an internship that reflects his particular area of interest during the program.
Classes are taught by UM faculty but students gain access to local Washington experts in their research area.
There’s more good news for Waites.
He recently learned that the Scholarship Program Board of Directors selected him to be one of five scholars for the 2009-2010 Gallagher Koster Scholarship Program. The scholarship is awarded to outstanding, undergraduate students who need financial assistance to pursue their health-related career.
In late September, Waites will be honored among other recipients at a scholar’s dinner in Boston.
Congratulations, Cameron!
Please join us in welcoming Mary Mandeville, UM-Flint’s new Research Compliance Specialist. Mary is responsible for assisting the campus community with issues regarding Human Subjects protection. Mary also serves as the campus contact for training and administration of the eResearch Regulatory Management system and will work closely with Marianne McGrath, Ph.D., chair of the Institutional Review Board.
Mary holds an MBA from Eastern Michigan University, a Masters degree from Kansas State University, with undergraduate work at Michigan State and additional certification from The University of Michigan.
Most recently Mary served as Project Director/Program Manager for a federally funded, multi-site nursing research project for the University of Illinois at Chicago & The University of Michigan. Previous to this assignment she was affiliated with the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Welcome to the team Mary!
A Mobile Device Security seminar will be presented by Laurel Marotta at two brown-bag lunches in July. The first presentation on Thursday, July 23, 2009, 12:00-1:00 pm, will be an overview on what mobile device security is, why it is important, and how to protect mobile devices. The second presentation on Thursday, July 30, 2009, 12:00-1:00 pm, will be demonstrations on when and how to use tools–such as Vista BitLocker, Encrypted File System, File Vault, and True Crypt–to protect mobile devices. Both presentations will be held in the University Center Happenings room.
Contact Laurel Marotta with any questions, [email protected].
