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2003-2004 Porter Physiology Fellows Announced

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2003-2004 Porter Physiology Fellows Announced

   The APS and Porter Physiology Development Committee congratulate the 2003-2004 APS Porter Physiology Fellows:
Rashad Belin
  Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
Adrienne Bratcher
  Univ. of Louisville School of Medicine
Gary Morris
  Eastern Virginia Medical School
Myla Patterson
  Meharry Medical College
Vanessa Toney
  Brown Univ.
Johanna Vallejo
  Univ. of Missouri, Columbia
Claudio Villanueva
  J. David Gladstone Institutes, CA
Elethia Woolfolk
  Meharry Medical College
    The Porter Physiology Fellowships for minorities are 1-year fellowships that provide a stipend of $18,000. The fellowships are open to underrepresented ethnic minority applicants (African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Native Alaskans, or Pacific Islanders) who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its territories. Applicants must have been accepted into or currently be enrolled in a graduate program pursuing an advanced degree in the physiological sciences. For more information, see the APS website at http://www.the-aps.org/education/minority_prog/porterfell.htm or contact Melinda Lowy in the APS Education Office at education@the-aps.org or 301-634-7132. The deadline for 2004-2005 applications will be January 15, 2004 and June 15, 2004. 

APS Archive of Teaching Resources

   The APS Archive of Teaching Resources (http://www.apsarchive.org) continues to grow with the recruitment of a variety of new learning objects from educators all over the country. To date, there are over 250 items catalogued in the Archive from various sources.
However, more material is still needed. Please consider submitting material that you have developed to use to make your teaching more effective. These can be:

• lecture or course outlines or PowerPoint slides from a lecture that is particularly effective with your students;

• problems or cases you’ve written for your classes;

• diagram(s) that you’ve created to illustrate a specific pathway or process that seems to clarify it for your students;

• simulations or videos you have developed;

• web sites you have discovered that have valuable information for your teaching;
  teaching tools/materials that you are developing that would benefit from feedback from your colleagues;

• anything educational related to physiology, pathophysiology, or clinical physiology.

    By submitting learning objects that you have developed, you can help your colleagues in their efforts to find the best tools for introducing their students to the exciting discipline of physiology.
Here are some new items in the Archive. Take a moment and check out those that are most relevant to your teaching. Don’t forget that you can comment on any of these items through the comment section attached to each item, which can be found on its Fact Sheet.

• Human Physiology 801 - Endocrine Section (Web site)
  Robert W. Gore

• Milk Secretion—A Transport Question (exercise)
  Dee U. Silverthorn

• Double-Pulse Voltage-Clamp Experiments (simulation)
  Michael Davis

• Biomedical Discovery Using Microarrays (PowerPoint)
  David Murphy

• Glial/Neuronal Interactions in the Mammalian Brain (PowerPoint)
  Glenn I. Hatton

• Smooth Muscle Physiology (PowerPoint)
  R. Clinton Webb

• Regulation of Cardiac Performance (PowerPoint)
  Donna H. Korzick

• Skeletal Muscle Physiology (PowerPoint)
  Susan V. Brooks Herzog

• Exercise and the Integration of Muscle Systems (PowerPoint)
  Russell S. Richardson

• Transforming a Cookbook Lab (exercise)
  Marsha Lakes Matyas

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