(10/15/07) Health Funding Opportunity

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From: Juliana Hoetjes <juliana.hoetjes@tufts.edu>

Date: October 16, 2007 1:48:48 PM EDT

To: fundingopportunities@elist.tufts.edu, medfordcampusfundingopportunities@elist.tufts.edu

Subject: Funding Opportunity

Good Afternoon,

The Office of the Vice Provost has been notified of a funding opportunity that may be of interest to some of our investigators. Please find more information about the opportunity below.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows program provides the nation's most comprehensive experience at the nexus of health science, policy and politics in Washington, D.C. The fellowship is an outstanding opportunity for exceptional midcareer health professionals and behavioral and social scientists with an interest in health care policy to experience and participate in the policy process at the federal level and to use that leadership experience to improve health, health care and health policy.

Exceptional candidates from academic faculties and nonprofit health care organizations are encouraged to apply. Applicants may have backgrounds in the following disciplines: allied health professions; biomedical sciences; dentistry; economics or other social sciences; health services organization and administration; medicine; nursing; public health; or social and behavioral health. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its territories at the time of application.

Fellows will be selected based on the following criteria:

*Professional achievements.
*Potential for leadership in health policy.
*Potential for future growth and career advancement.
*Interpersonal and communication skills.
*Individual plans for incorporating the fellowship experience into specific career goals.
 
Key Dates:
November 16, 2007—Deadline for receipt of applications.
January 17, 2008—Selection of semifinalists.
February 6, 2008—Board interviews of semifinalists and announcement of selections.

Please refer to the following website for more information:

http://www.rwjf.org/applications/solicited/cfp.jsp?ID=20041

--  Juliana Hoetjes Staff Assistant Office of the Vice Provost Tufts University 136 Harrison Avenue Boston, MA 02111 Phone: 617-636-6550 Fax: 617-636-2917 Email: juliana.hoetjes@tufts.edu http://www.tufts.edu/central/research/home.htm

(10/12/07) Graduate Student Departmental Forms

Hi everyone,

Thanks to Sarah Jung, all grad student departmental forms have been
uploaded to our EP website along with a link to the form. Just go to

http://ase.tufts.edu/epcd/ and click on Resources, then click on
Forms, and look under Graduate Student Forms. Just click on the one
you need, print it out and fill it in. Most forms come back to
either myself or your advisor (make sure you read the instructions on
the bottom of each form). If you don't find the form you need,
please let me know. Have a great weekend!

Justina

(10/12/07) Tamara Vesel colloquium

EP Child Development invites you to a pediatric psychology seminar,
Meaningful experiences in pediatric palliative care: Parent and
physician perspectives by Tamara Vesel on Tuesday, October 30 from
10:30-11:45am in the Stevens Library in the Eliot-Pearson Building
105 College Avenue.

for more information: Donald.Wertlieb@tufts.edu

(10/11/07) Reminder Sheela Gade colloquium today!

EP Child Development invites you to a developmental psychopathology
colloquium, "So you think it's just bad parenting?" Mood Disorders in
Children and Adolescents by Sheela Gade on Thursday, October 11 from
1:30 to 2:45 pm in the Stevens Library in the Eliot-Pearson Building
105 College Avenue.

for more information: Donald.Wertlieb@tufts.edu

(10/11/07) EP Eye Contact Study and Research Group

Dear Graduate Students: I am leading a new inquiry group to examine
the role of eye contact in human (and possibly, non-human primate)
communication systems, from infancy through adolescence. This project
is an off-shoot of the prosocial/antisocial project I have been
involved in for several years. This project will study the role of
eye contact in a variety of settings and across the developmental age
span. Remarkably, although we all use eye contact, it has been
studied very little relative to other behavioral constructs. This
study may have special relevance to our work with children labeled
shy, with autism or Asperger's disorder, although we will explore the
topic very broadly at first. There is opportunity to explore one's
own interest area.

This semester we will meet 4 times on Friday afternoons. There will
be approximately 5-6 hours of work required in between meetings.
Tasks include researching, reading, and discussing relevant
literature; observing children and adults in classrooms; using and
developing measures to assess eye contact in naturalistic settings;
as well as other tasks as the arise. The project will continue into
next semester and there is the option of taking it for a directed
research credit. If you are interested, please email me, tell me a
bit about yourself and why you'd like to join this project. The
meeting times this semester are the following Fridays: October 19,
1:00-3:00; November 2, 1:00 - 3:00; November 16, 1:00-3:00; November
30, 1:00 - 3:00. I will email you the location of the meetings.

Additionally, I think this will be a lot of fun.
Best wishes,
Martha Pott
P.S. If you want more information, please email or come by and talk
to me: Office # 160.

(10/9/07) Tisch info to share with your dept. grad students

Get a FREE $10 copy card, lunch, and help improve Tisch Library!

Tisch Library is writing its 3-year strategic plan. It's important
to Tisch Library to address the concerns of graduate students, so we
would like your input in this process. Come have lunch and talk to
us about what we're doing well; what we could improve; and what we're
not doing that we should be doing. You'll also receive a $10 copy card!

Dates and places are:

Oct. 10, 12-1:20, Austin Room, Tisch Library Oct. 15, 12-1:20, Austin
Room, Tisch Library Oct. 24, 12-1:20, Room 204, Tisch Library

Rsvp to laura.walters@tufts.edu by one week before the chosen date.

(10/3/07) TA Office Keys

If you are no longer a TA and have keys to the TA office, please let
Justina know as soon as possible. I'd like to recycle the keys.
Thanks.

Justina