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In this issue... |
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ACT NOW – Show Your Support for Increased NIH
Funding! |
In early July, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on
Labor/Health & Human Services/Education (LHHS) will consider and vote on the
preliminary version of the bill that will determine the fiscal year 2010 (Oct.
1, 2009 - Sept. 20, 2010) budget for medical research at the National Institutes
of Health (NIH). Please use this link to urge your
Representative to support a 7% increase in the NIH budget next year.
http://capwiz.com/faseb/issues/alert/?alertid=13607061
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Orr E Reynolds Award – Best History
of Physiology Article – Deadline December 1 |
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The Orr E.
Reynolds Award (http://www.the-aps.org/awards/society.htm#reynolds),
named for the second Executive Secretary-Treasurer, is presented
for the best historical article submitted by a member of the
Society. Articles may deal with any aspect of the history of
physiology, including the development of physiological ideas and
their application, instrumentation, individual and collective
biography, departmental and institutional history, history of
societies including APS, and physiology in its public context.
Manuscripts should represent original research and be adequately
documented. Articles published in journals or books of the
Society during the prior calendar year are also eligible for the
award upon request by the author. The recipient receives $500
and reimbursement of expenses, up to $1,500, incurred while
attending the Experimental Biology meeting. The article may be
published in one of the Society journals after appropriate peer
review. Members may receive the award only once, and those
members who have advanced degrees in the history of science or
medicine are not eligible.
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APS Promotion and Tenure Audio/PowerPoints
Now Available |
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Audio and
associated PowerPoint slides from the Careers Symposium on “Rising
and Surviving: Elucidating Tenure and Promotion in Multiple
Career Paths” presented at EB 2009 are now available online
at
http://www.the-aps.org/careers/careers1/EBSymposia/EB2009symposium.htm
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Experimental Biology 2010 Program Available Online |
Mark your calendars: EB
2010 will be held in Anaheim, April 24-28. The abstract
deadline is November 4, 2009. The
APS portion of the program is now online — you will be
able to see the schedule by track and date! More info will
follow over the summer including the complete session agenda
for each symposium and the invited presenters in each
featured topic. Bookmark the
APS Awards application site which will offer over
60 awards to all levels of investigators from
undergraduate through senior investigator. We look forward
to seeing you in the
NEW Anaheim in April!
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Help Support Pro-Research Advocacy |
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Americans for Medical Progress
needs your help to fund the next
Michael D. Hayre Fellowship in Public Outreach.
The Hayre Fellowship supports innovative projects in peer
outreach and education about the necessity for animal
research. The inaugural Hayre Fellow, Tom Holder, founded
Speaking of Research,
spoke at universities across the country, and helped to
found UCLA Pro-Test. In April, UCLA Pro-Test held a march
supporting of animal research that attracted over 700
supports. AMP is hoping to raise $15,000 by July 15th
to fund more grassroots initiatives. Please consider
making a contribution.
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2008 ISI Impact Factors for APS Journals |
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Thomson Reuters/ISI has released its 2008 Science Edition of
the Journal Citation Reports, which gives journal Impact
Factors and rankings of approximately 8,000 science
journals. The 2008 Impact Factors of the journals of the APS,
along with a comparison of the past 3 years, are given in
the table below. The table also shows the rank of APS
journals in the physiology category, as well as each
journal's cited half-life.
The 2008 Journal Citation Reports includes an update to the
Five-Year Impact Factor and Eigenfactor™ Metrics in
JCR Web. Eigenfactor™ Metrics use citing journal data
from the entire JCR file. The Eigenfactor™ score and
the Article Influence™ score are calculated based on
the citations received over a five-year period.
http://www.the-aps.org/publications/journals/info/impact_factors.htm
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2009 APS Conference: Sex Steroids and
Gender in CV-Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology |
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Advance registration is now closed! Spaces still available!
REGISTER ON-SITE beginning at 3:00 PM on July 15.
When:
July 15 -18, 2009
Where:
Omni Interlocken Resort, Broomfield, Colorado
See you at the conference!
For more information on this exciting
meeting, please click
here to view the entire Call for
Abstracts. If you have any
questions regarding this meeting, please do not hesitate to
contact the APS meeting department at:
meetings@the-aps.org
or 301-634-7967.
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APS Videos Now Available on YouTube |
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Have you visited our channel
“APSINFO” on YouTube? If not, please visit to view the
following APS videos:
Male/Female Muscle Strength
Differences After Cast Removal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_xhPsD99Xs
Cholesterol Drugs and Muscle Regeneration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP0QO3enP30
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Members of Congress Call for National
Academies Report on Research Universities |
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A bipartisan group of Members of Congress is calling on the
National Academies to generate a report on research
universities, specifically addressing “What are the top ten
actions that Congress, state governments, research
universities, and others could take to assure the ability of
the American research university to maintain the excellence
in research and doctoral education needed to help the United
States compete, prosper, and achieve national goals for
health, energy, the environment, and security in the global
community of the 21st century?”
http://mikulski.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=314864&
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Tracking Stimulus Spending at NSF, NIH |
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The
NSF website
now features weekly data updates on spending under the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA):
http://www.nsf.gov/recovery/
The
NIH
website
also features listings of awards made with ARRA funds. To
search for projects funded with stimulus dollars, go to
http://projectreporter.nih.gov/reporter.cfm
and select the check box for NIH Recovery Projects. To see a
list of projects funded in each state or Congressional
district, visit
http://report.nih.gov/recovery/index.aspx.
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ET-11: APS International Conference on
Endothelin |
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REGISTER NOW!!!
Deadline to Register: August 7, 2009.
Get a great deal and save money by registering early for the
meeting!
Click
here
to register now!
When:
September 9 -12, 2009
Where:
Montreal Chateau Champlain, Montreal, Canada
Housing Deadline:
August 9, 2009. Click
here to reserve your room now!
For more information on this exciting meeting, please
click
here to view the entire Call for Abstracts. If
you have any questions regarding this meeting, please do not
hesitate to contact the APS meeting department at:
meetings@the-aps.org or 301-634-7967.
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NAS Asks APS to Announce the 2010 NAS
Award in the Neurosciences |
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National Academy of Sciences
requests that the American Physiological Society help to
encourage nominations for the 2010 NAS Award in the
Neurosciences.
The
NAS Award in the Neurosciences
is given in recognition of extraordinary contributions to
progress in the fields of neuroscience, including
neurochemistry, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology,
developmental neuroscience, neuroanatomy, and behavioral and
clinical neuroscience. This award is presented with a prize
of $25,000.
Nominations for
awards to be presented in the year 2010
will be accepted through
September 15, 2009. Additional information can be
found at
http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_neurosciences.
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Save the Dates! 2010 APS Meeting and
Conference Schedule |
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Experimental Biology 2010
When: April
24-28, 2010
Where: Anaheim
convention Center, California
APS Headquarters
Hotel: Anaheim Marriott Hotel
2010 APS Intersociety
Meeting: Global Change and Global Science: Comparative
Physiology in a Changing World
When: August 4 – 7, 2010
Where: The Westin
Westminster, Westminster, Colorado
2010 APS Conference:
Inflammation, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease
When: August 25 – 28, 2010
Where: The Westin
Westminster, Westminster, Colorado
Want to organize an APS
Conference? Submitting a proposal is quick and easy.
Click here
for details.
Stay posted for future
updates regarding these exciting programs for 2010 or visit
the APS Meetings Department website for more information at:
http://www.the-aps.org/meetings/aps/index.htm
. If you have any questions regarding this meeting, please
do not hesitate to contact the APS meetings department at:
meetings@the-aps.org
or 301-634-7967.
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Did You Receive a Teaching Award During the 2008-2009
Academic Year |
If you
received a teaching award during the 2008-2009 Academic
Year, please share the information with Charles M. Tipton (tipton@email.arizona.edu).
He plans to provide information about awards received in a
future issue of Advances in Physiology Education.
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Featured APS Books |
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As part of my Featured APS Books section, I would like to
recognize the following book from our
Handbook of Physiology, Section 10:
Our
books are currently discounted at 50%, with an additional
35% to APS Members.
Skeletal
Muscle:
Edited by Lee D. Peachey, Associate Editor: Richard H.
Adrian
The
following link will take you to a description of this book:
http://www.the-aps.org/publications/books/handbooks.htm#section10
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Thank you for your continued support of the Society and its mission. |
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Martin Frank, Ph.D.
Executive Director, American Physiological Society
9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814-3991 USA
Tel: 301.634.7118
Fax: 301.634.7241
E-mail: mfrank@the-aps.org
APS Home Page: www.the-aps.org |
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2009 All Rights Reserved. The American Physiological Society
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