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Online, Professional Development Courses
Resource Website Created for Medical Physiology Course Directors 2005-2006 Porter Physiology Fellows Announced APS Supports 13 Undergraduate Researchers 2005 Teacher and Research Host Awards Greenleafs’ Gift to Endow an Environmental and Exercise Physiology Award |
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APS Receives Funding to Develop Interactive, |
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| APS is pleased to announce that it has received a three-year grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health to develop professional skills courses for trainees based on the “APS/ACDP List of Professional Skills for Physiologists and Trainees.” The overall goal of the grant is to promote the development of key professional skills, particularly among minority graduate and postdoctoral students in biomedicine by creating effective live, online, and CD-ROM short courses. Specifically, the project will develop and disseminate two proven live, web, and CD-ROM short courses that focus on two critical skills areas. Each course will include a strong focus on the interaction of racial/ethnic background and culture with the development of these skills. Products from the project will include:
An Advisory Board will guide the selection of topics, development of materials, and selection of participants for the workshops. It will also help in the development of the web courses and in coordinating the interactive portions of the web courses. |
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Resource Website Created for Medical Physiology Course Directors |
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| The APS Education Committee in conjunction with Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology (ACDP) has developed a new website to bring together key resources to assist course directors in the development and conduct of medical physiology courses. The website will include resources in 10 major areas:
Before the site can go live, however, additional materials are needed to enrich the pages. For a list of materials that are needed, please contact Melinda Lowy in the APS Education Office
(mlowy@the-aps.org). Anyone with material that they are willing to share can send the actual documents or appropriate link to Rob Carroll
(carrollr@mail.ecu.edu) or Melinda Lowy at APS
(mlowy@the-aps.org). If someone is willing to share but does not want the material freely available to members, contact information can be put up in its place on the web site. |
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The APS and Porter Physiology Development Committee congratulate the 2005-2006 APS Porter Physiology Fellows from the first round of applications:
The Porter Physiology Fellowships for minorities are one-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. There will only be one deadline for 2005-2006 applications, which will be January 15, 2006. |
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| The American Physiological Society’s Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships (UGSRF) program is sponsored by the APS Career Opportunities in Physiology Committee and funded by the APS Council. Up to 12 fellowships are funded each summer. The program was established in 2000, making this the sixth year of the program. In addition, this year there is an additional UGSRF student, sponsored by the “Explorations in Biomedicine” grant for Native American students from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health. These fellowships are to support full-time undergraduate students to work in the laboratory of an established investigator. The intent of this program is to excite and encourage students to pursue a career as a basic or clinical research scientist. Faculty sponsors/advisors must be active members of the APS in good standing but do not have to be US residents. Past awardees include students from Canada and South America. These Fellowships provide a $3,000 summer stipend to the student (10 weeks of support), a $300 grant to the faculty sponsor/advisor, and up to $1,000 to the student so that he/she may attend and present their data at the APS annual meeting (Experimental Biology) or an APS fall Conference. This year 42 applicants vied for the 13 fellowships.
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| APS is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2005 “Frontiers in Physiology” and “Explorations in Biomedi-cine” Professional Development Fellowship awards. These nationwide fellowship programs pair a middle or high school teacher with an APS member to conduct biomedical research during the summer. Other fellowship components include a weeklong teaching forum during which the teachers explore inquiry-based teaching, physiology lessons, effectively using the Internet in the classroom and equity issues in science education. The fellowship continues after the summer as the teachers participate in online professional development units and field-test their own inquiry-based classroom activity and concludes when the teachers attend EB 2006. The “Frontiers in Physiology” grant also provides funding for local sites to select teacher/research host teams. The Local Site Teams, one at Indiana University School of Medicine lead by C. Subah Packer and one at the University of South Dakota lead by Barbara E. Goodman, each selected a teacher/researcher team. In addition to funding from the APS, a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health supports the “Explorations in Biomedicine” program. The “Frontiers in Physiology” program receives funding from the National Center for Research Resources Science Education Partnership Awards (SEPA) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health. In total, the APS will have 20 Professional Development Fellows this year. Please join us in congratulating and welcoming the 2005 teacher and research host teams. More information about these fellowship programs is available at the Frontiers in Physiology (http://www.the-aps.org/education/frontiers/index.htm) and the Explorations in Biomedicine (http://www.the-aps.org/education/expl/index.htm) websites. 2005 Explorations in Biomedicine Professional Development Fellow & Research Host Silas Counts Lodge Grass High School, Lodge Grass, MT Robert W. Grange, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. 2005 Frontiers in Physiology Professional Development Fellows & Research Hosts National Awards Michael Aprill Random Lake High School, Random Lake, WI Michael B. Dwinell, Medical College of Wisconsin Ginna G. Barreda Norwood Junior High School, Sacramento, CA Anne A. Knowlton, Univ. of California, Davis Peggy Dabel Adams Middle School, Richmond, CA John G. Forte, Univ. of California, Berkeley Fanette H. Entzminger Farmville Central High School, Greenville, NC Christopher J. Wingard, Brody School of Medicine, Eastern Carolina Univ. Tara Goetschkes Walter Panas High School, Cortlandt Manor, NY Akos Koller, New York Medical College Katrenia Hosea-Flanigan Frank Cody High School, Detroit, MI Benedict R. Lucchesi, Univ. of Michigan Medical School Elleen Hutcheson Rogers High School, Rogers, AR Charles E. Riggs, Jr., Univ. of Arkansas Toni Lafferty C.H. Yoe High School, Cameron, TX David C. Zawieja, Texas A&M Univ. HSC Brian McClain Amos P. Godby High School, Tallahassee, FL Timothy S. Moerland, Florida State Univ. Yvette McCulley King Science and Technology Magnet School, Omaha, NE David H. Petzel, Creighton Univ. School of Medicine Gregory W. McCurdy Salem High School, Salem, IN Jeff C. Falcone, Univ. of Louisville HSC Rebecca McGehee Harwood Junior High School, Bedford, TX Tony G. Babb, Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas/ UT Southwestern Medical Center Laura Noonan Coronado Middle School, Coronado, CA Jason X.-J. Yuan, Univ. of California, San Diego Kenneth A. O’Konis South Windsor High School, South Windsor, CT Edward Bilsky, Univ. of New England College of Medicine Cecilia Stingley Academy of Learning-West, West Allis, WI Diane H. Munzenmaier, Medical College of Wisconsin Jessica Tiatia Westmoor High School, Daly City, CA Robert S. Turner, Univ. of California, San Francisco Leslie Van Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD Margery Anderson/Rina Das, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research 2005 Frontiers in Physiology Professional Development Fellows & Research Hosts South Dakota Local Site Team Awards Sally Stoll Vermillion Middle School, Vermillion, SD Barbara E. Goodman, Univ. of South Dakota 2005 Frontiers in Physiology Professional Development Fellows & Research Hosts Indianapolis Local Site Team Awards George Potter Seymour High School, Seymour, IN C. Subah Packer, Indiana Univ. School of Medicine |
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 Dr. John and Carol Greenleaf of Saratoga, CA have made a bequest in the amount of $500,000 to the Society. The gift will allow the APS to create the John and Carol Greenleaf Award in Environmental and Exercise Physiology. The Award will recognize an individual who has conducted research designed to solve significant human health and performance problems. The applicant must have at least 50 publications, 25 of which utilized humans as test subjects. Because of the importance of the Journal of Applied Physiology in John Greenleaf’s career, the Greenleaf Award recipient must also be first author on at least 20 research papers published in the Journal of Applied Physiology.John Greenleaf holds three degrees from the University of Illinois. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education in 1955 and earned his master’s and doctoral degrees, both in physiology, in 1962 and 1963, respectively. He also holds a master’s degree from New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas. Immediately upon earning his PhD, he took a position as research physiologist at the NASA Ames Research Center near Stanford University, where he established and directed the Laboratory for Human Environmental Physiology in the Life Sciences Division. He was a prolific contributor to scientific journals, especially in the areas of thirst and drinking, heat acclimatization, bed rest, deconditioning, dehydration and space physiology. He has received awards from the Aerospace Medicine Association, NASA, the American College of Sports Medicine, and in 1998 was honored with the distinguished Alumnus Award by the University of Illinois Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology. Greenleaf retired from NASA in 2002. Greenleaf has been a member of the American Physiological Society since 1970 and has been active participant in the activities and programs of the Environmental and Exercise Physiology Section. He has also been an active contributor to the Society’s journals, both as an author and a member of editorial boards. John met his wife Carol at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. They have been married since 1960. “The APS is extremely pleased and grateful to John and Carol Greenleaf for their generous gift. It will allow the Society to recognize the importance of research in the areas of human health and performance and the role of the Journal of Applied Physiology in the dissemination of this research. The bequest will assist the Society in its efforts to expand the APS Award Program and will serve to encourage the APS membership to consider making their own bequests in order to leave a legacy to physiology,” said Martin Frank, APS Executive Director. |
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