SPHHS Event Listings
SPHHS Boston Alumni Networking Night
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Time: 5:30-7:30 pm
Location: UMass Club, Boston
Stay tuned for details!
SPHHS Research Day
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Time: 3-6 pm
Stay tuned for details!
SPHHS Senior Recognition Day
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Time: 9:00-10:30 am
Location: Fine Arts Center
Stay tuned for details!
Community Events
33rd Annual Minority Health Conference:
Translational Research: The Road from Efficacy to Equity
Friday, February 24, 2012
Location: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Featuring keynote speakers Dr. Ana Diez-Roux and Dr. Nina Wallerstein.
If you are unable to attend the conference in person, please note that there will be a free internet broadcasting of the keynote lecture by Dr. Ana Diez-Roux. To learn more about the conference and to register, please visit: http://studentorgs.unc.edu/msc/.
Appalachian Studies Association's 35th Annual Conference
Friday, March 23 - Sunday, March 25, 2012
Location: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
The 35th Annual ASA Conference is shaping up as one of the largest ever
held. Currently over 500 people are scheduled to present on various topics and
subjects - including Marcellus shale, global warming, mountaintop removal,
race, ethnicity, sexual identity, gender, folklore, folkways, foodways,
folkart, ethnomusicology, religion, labor, literature, regional history,
oral history, the environment, globalization, and others. The conference not
only features the celebrated organizer and singer-songwriter Si
Kahn (http://sikahn.com/) as keynote speaker, workshop leader, and concert
performer, but is also highlighted by many other presentations, including
these five:
. John A. Williams-Appalachian State University and author of Appalachia: a History (2002)-on "Pennsylvania as Greater Appalachia: Historical Perspectives."
. Robert F. Cahalan-from NASA, a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with Al Gore - on "Appalachian Impacts of Global Warming: Reasons for Hope."
. Susan M. Taffe Reed-University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, of Delaware Indian ancestry and from the Endless Mountains region of Appalachia - on "The Significance of Powwows to Native Americans in Pennsylvania's Appalachia."
. Chad Montrie-University of Massachusetts-Lowell and author of To Save the Land and People: a History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia (2002) and A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States (2011)-on "Two Countries, One Struggle: Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia and Northern Colombia."
. James Loewen-Catholic University and author of Sundown Towns: a Hidden Dimension of American Racism (2006) and the bestselling Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (1996)-on "Uncovering Racist Sundown Towns in Appalachia and Beyond."
Conference registration is now open online at: http://www.appalachianstudies.org/conference/
Global Health & Innovation Conference 2012
Presented by Unite For Sight, 9th Annual Conference
Saturday, April 21 - Sunday, April 22, 2012
Location: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Final abstract deadline for submissions for presentation is September 30, 2011.
Click here for more information.
12th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change Management
Friday, July 6 - Sunday, July 8, 2012
Location: University Center, Chicago, Illinois
Abstract deadline for submissions for presentation is January 19, 2012. Additional deadlines TBA.
Click here for more information.
Ongoing SPHHS Events & Activities
The Joint BIO/EPI Seminar
Series
For Fall and Spring 2011-2012
All seminars are open to the public. Check the Bio-Epi Seminar Series page for additional details, or contact Brian Whitcomb or Nicholas Reich for more information.
The Department of Kinesiology Graduate Seminar
Series
For Fall and Spring 2011-2012
Check the Kinesiology Department Seminar Series page for a list of upcoming seminars.
Stroke Support Group for Stroke Survivors and Their Significant Others
Dr. Jacquie Kurland and Graduate Students from the Department of Communication Disorders are hosting a monthly Stroke Support Group for stroke survivors and their significant others.
Meetings dates are scheduled at the end of each monthly meeting.
For more information and locations please contact Dr. Jacquie Kurland at:
Telephone: 413-545-4007
Email: jkurland@comdis.umass.edu
Web: http://blogs.umass.edu/jacquie/
Graduate Society of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
SPHHS Running Club
A few students at the Dept of Biostatistics and Epidemiology have formed a running club. We meet at the first floor of Arnold house at 5.30 pm and runs/jog for approximately 30-45 minutes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We would like to have more members in our group and make exercise more fun.
Not everyone in our group is an expert athlete so you can release your stress on these two days of the week by a slow jog or a faster run with members of this group.
Please contact Prasad Gawade for more information at pgawade@schoolph.umass.edu
