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Contents of this Newsletter
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Highlighting Student Achievement
In this week's video, Dean Perry highlights recent student achievements, including student advocacy on the Hill, a doctoral student's recently published paper, and an ASPPH This is Public Health ambassador education campaign. She also shares her gratitude for the productive College meeting that was held last week.
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CPH at APHA 2023
Many College facutly and students will be presenting at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo next week. Learn who is presenting.
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Karen Trister Grace publishes newly updated textbook on prenatal and postnatal care
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From the Associate Dean of Research Alison CuellarAs you may have heard NIH has announced a “Simplified Review Framework for NIH Research Project Grant Applications.” NIH expects that this new framework will have minimal impact on how applications are written. I’m not so sure. It is certainly the case that the proposal sections have not changed, at least not yet, but I urge you to read the new framework to consider how you convey to reviewers the key information that they need to score your proposal well. I have sat on numerous review committees and, ultimately, the scoring framework has a strong influence on the review. That means you as author should keep the scoring framework in mind and make it easy for reviewers to find the key information they need. I encourage you to visit this site, and review the NIH materials and recordings.The new framework goes live for application due dates of January 25, 2025 or later.
Mason Summer Team Impact Project Proposals. Mason is accepting proposals for Summer 2024 Team Impact Projects. These projects support multidisciplinary teams of undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members. They are faculty-led projects that explore a central theme, a research question, or a community identified problem. Mason is particularly seeking proposals with a focus on Anti-Racist Community Engagement as defined by the Office of Community Engagement and Civic Learning, however, all proposals are welcome. The deadline for submissions is November 17, 2023. These projects will proceed in the summer of 2024 pending funding. For more information on this opportunity, go to go.gmu.edu/stip or contact Jesse Guessford jguessfo@gmu.edu.
Seminar on NIH Proposal Basics. CEC is hosting a virtual seminar by Xihong Lin, Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Department of Statistics, Harvard University on NIH Grant applications. Friday, November 10 1:30– 2:30 pm,
NIH grant applications are an important part of conducting academic research in health sciences. Dr. Lin will discuss different types of NIH grants, e.g. K, R, P and U types of grants faculty may consider to apply for. Dr. Lin will provide a few tips on writing such NIH grants and common mistakes, and will discuss how NIH grant review process works, how to select study sections and funding institutes, what reviewers look for, and how to address reviewers’ comments in revision. Contact the hosts David Kepplinger dkepplin@gmu.edu or Nicholas Rios: nrios4@gmu.edu to sign up and receive the Zoom link.
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New Events - first time in newsletter
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CPH Health Equity Journal Club
November 28 | 12:30-1:30 pm
Peterson Hall 2000
The College of Public Health's Collaborative for Health Equity (CHE) invites you to join the Health Equity Journal Club. This interdisciplinary gathering of faculty, students, and staff will be meeting four times during the coming academic year to discuss a journal article on a health equity topic. Articles will be sent out 2 weeks prior to each meeting. The goal is to use this opportunity to enrich each other's scholarly perspectives, explore a variety of domains of health equity, and to build community. RSVP to kgrace@gmu.edu.
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Save the Date: College Retreat
January 9, 2024 | 9 am-1 pm
Location TBD
As we continually strive to refine our focus and strengthen our impact, we invite faculty and staff to be a part of an important retreat that centers on revisiting and rejuvenating our Mission and Core Values. Everyone's insights and perspectives are invaluable as we look to better articulate our College's intentions, ensuring faculty, staff, students, and the broader community remain aligned.
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Event Reminers & Deadlines
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President's Town Hall Meeting for Academic Units
November 6 | 1-3 pm
Dewberry Hall, Johnson Center
This fall, President Gregory Washington is hosting two 90-minute town halls to discuss the state of the university and to engage with faculty and staff.
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Nominations for Stearns Center Digital Learning’s 2024 Online Teaching Excellence Awards
Nominations are now open for 2024 Online Teaching Excellence Awards (OTEA). These awards recognize teaching excellence for all faculty members (adjuncts, term, tenured and tenure-track) who teach online, either synchronously (in Zoom) and/or asynchronously (in Blackboard). Students, faculty members, and administrators can nominate faculty members who show excellence in teaching online courses. Self-nominations are not allowed. For more information about the award and eligibility requirements, see the website.
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CPH Steps Challenge
Nina Kwartin is on the top as individual walker and OSA still leads in the unit competition this past reporting week. Units are walking to win a January pizza lunch! Report your steps no later than 12 pm on Monday. Bookmark this link to report your steps.
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