From: Durham, Erika
Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2005 4:31 PM
Subject: UTDB eflash (weekly edition) -- Wednesday, August 3, 2005

Wednesday, August 3, 2005

Centennial Round-Up Celebration

Yee-haw to oral health! This year’s Centennial Round-Up Celebration, hosted by the UTDB Alumni Association Friday, Aug. 12-Saturday, Aug. 13, promises to be an event like none other. For details visit http://www.db.uth.tmc.edu and check out the Events section.

Faculty and staff should check their e-mail inboxes for their chance to win a free ticket to the Centennial Tribute Dinner, valued at $125!

Develop competitive grant applications

Attention: Dental Branch junior faculty members wishing to develop competitive grant applications — register today for the New Investigator Development Program, offering the following courses:

• Grants 101 – A seminar, 8 a.m.-noon, Thursday, Sept. 8, and Friday, Sept. 9, Medical School Building B.100. The course provides participants an overview of policies and procedures for submitting and managing research grants.
• Grants 102 – An eight-month workshop where participants develop a grant application that is peer reviewed and ready to submit for external funding at the close of the workshop.

Rena D’Souza, D.D.S., Ph.D., professor of orthodontics at the UT Dental Branch, said the program augments the campus-wide infrastructure for biomedical research at a time when the recruitment of outstanding faculty researchers is under way. “The two-course program will provide a useful roadmap for research faculty as they develop into independently funded investigators and future mentors,” D’Souza said.

Friday, Sept. 2 is the deadline to register online for this program, led by a Faculty Steering Team and conducted by the Office of Research. See http://research.uth.tmc.edu/nidp/ for an overview of the program, schedule of topics and speakers, and application guidelines for Grants 102.

Contact: Rena.N.DSouza@uth.tmc.edu, (713) 500-4218, or Sara.C.Farese@uth.tmc.edu, (713) 500-3076.

Save the date: The Dental Branch and NASA — A Team

How has the Dental Branch helped in the missions of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and, vice versa? Find out on Wednesday, Sept. 14, as Pauline Jackie Duke, Ph.D., professor of Orthodontics at the Dental Branch, presents The Dental Branch and NASA: From Skylab to Station … and On to Mars. Watch the UT Dental Branch Web site for more information as the date approaches.

Clean teeth, healthy gums … strong hearts

As oral health is increasingly linked to one’s overall health, including heart conditions, it is important that the Dental Branch continue to do its part with supporting the American Heart Association.

And the AHA Heart Walk has arrived again. Help the UT Health Science Center create a team of 500 walkers, raising $75,000 to benefit research for heart disease and stroke. Over the past 10 years the AHA has funded over $25 million in research at the UT Health Science Center at Houston.

Here’s how to get involved:

• Join a university team or become a team captain at http://www.uthouston.edu/community/heartwalk/.
  
• Begin by making a personal donation to the UT Health Science Center campaign.
  
• Get friends, family, business partners and vendors to contribute to your effort.
  
• Join us for the walk 8 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 5, at Sam Houston Park as we help Houstonians fight their number one killer and number one disabler, heart disease and stroke.

For more information contact Dustin Childers at (713) 500-3258 or visit http://www.uthouston.edu/community/heartwalk/.

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