Most of us have been watching a lot of basketball on TV lately. UConn’s women’s and men’s teams both made it to their NCAA tournaments. Being from the Midwest, I wasn’t used to the fast pace of Big East basketball and sometimes I had trouble following the ball when I watched from my easy chair. Then a friend pointed me to an on-line exercise that really sharpened up my ability to concentrate on ball movement. Now I don’t miss a pass or a block. If your concentration could use a little sharpening, I highly recommend this exercise: Click here.
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Kate Durant, Kara Fair, Amy Murray, Shaunna Fennelly, Caitlyn Hardy, and Rob Puff. And that’s Amanda Lange, in the blue in the back, our C&A’s student server.
I had lunch at Chuck & Augie’s yesterday with the Executive Board of the Club Sports Council and Kate Durant, Club Sports coordinator. We had a true ‘training table’ meal. In case you don’t know about the opportunities in UConn club sports, I suggest you go to their web page, where you’ll find info about everything from Archery to Ultimate Frisbee. UConn has a polo team, equestrian and dressage, cycling, crew, skydiving, skiing, rugby – all under the Club Sports banner. And they get involved in community outreach activities, too.
To give you an idea of how well our teams are doing, here are some recent scores from the Club Sports Scoreboard:
Equestrian Team
UConn 30, Brown 24
UConn 37 Brown 35
Paintball
UConn 7 Penn State 1
UConn 6 Drexel 3
UConn 5 University of Maryland 3
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11 of our Urban Service Track scholars from the schools of medicine, nursing, pharmacy and dental medicine just returned from the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) annual Policy Forum in Washington, DC. In addition to conference sessions, they met with the Connecticut Association of Community Health Centers, our senators and congressmen, learning the basics of advocacy and health policy development on the state and federal level.
The 11 UConn students were:
Cheryl Bilinski, School of Medicine; Nick Calabrese, School of Nursing (MBEIN Program); Lisa DiFedele, School of Medicine; Sarah Hooker, School of Pharmacy; Jennifer Jaskolka, School of Dental Medicine; Jessica Johnson, School of Medicine; Melissa Mangini, School of Nursing (MBEIN Program); Ana Martinez, School of Pharmacy; Dan Morris, School of Medicine; Kara O’Brien, School of Nursing, graduate APRN program; Kevon Rennie, School of Dental Medicine.
These students will share their experience at an Urban Track Scholars retreat on Friday, April 4th, 2:00 to 5:15 p.m. in room 129 of the Pharmacy/Biology Building at the Storrs Campus. The topic for the retreat is population health and quality improvement.
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I was invited to the Graduate Student Senate’s regular meeting last evening and some questions came up about university presses and scholarly publishing in general. I just noticed that the UConn Libraries’ Scholarly Communications Team is sponsoring a public forum on the impact of recent developments in scholarly publishing next Wednesday, March 26, at 3:00 p.m. in the Konover Auditorium at the Dodd Research Center. In December, the NIH instituted its public-access mandate, requiring that all journal articles resulting from NIH-funded research be made available to the public without cost, one year after publication. This new federal requirement is the main focus of Wednesday’s forum.
Rapid advances in electronic publishing and accessibility in the last ten years have made the issue of open access an increasingly urgent one. Traditional university presses and journals face ever-increasing publication costs and an increasing demand from colleagues that this information be made available more rapidly and in digital formats. Many major universities are now involved in projects to digitize parts of their library collections and make them available via the internet. These efforts have raised a number of proprietary questions, including copyright and intellectual property issues. Wednesday’s forum promises to be a good presentation of many of these issues and would be an excellent opportunity to learn more about this rapidly-changing environment. There’s an announcement in the latest Advance.
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On March 18 the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) presented its report at the state capitol on UConn’s Health Center facilities in Farmington. I’m very pleased with the report, and with the opportunities it suggests for collaborations with our Hartford-area health care institutions. As Dr. Myron Genel, Professor Emeritus at the Yale University School of Medicine and the study committee chair, and Paul Umbach, President of consultant Tripp Umbach noted at the briefing to the legislative committee, UConn’s Health Center is in a unique position to revisit its healthcare relationship with the private sector and to develop a new, collaborative structure that could serve as a model to other universities now searching for solutions to integrated healthcare, clinical research, and medical education.
I’m especially pleased that the report recognizes the unique contribution to the State provided by our Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in providing healthcare, but also in training healthcare professionals and pursuing biomedical research that has the potential to not only improve patient care but also to create new private businesses and opportunities.
The report’s recommendations conclude with this statement:
There exists the opportunity to consider the development of a new approach to the clinical education of medical students that focuses on inter-professional education by placing medical students in teams with other healthcare professionals during their clinical rotations. Through the promotion of teamwork and interprofessional training, students will be able to be trained in a clinical environment that is characteristic of the current healthcare delivery system. If this is accomplished, UCHC and the Greater Hartford region would be at the cutting edge of training for the next generation of healthcare professionals.
You can read the report and the press release on the CASE website at:
[Press Release <http://www.ctcase.org/pr/uchc_release_031808.pdf> ]
[Executive Summary in PDF format <http://www.ctcase.org/summaries/uchc_sum.pdf> ]
[Full Report in PDF format <http://www.ctcase.org/reports/uchc.pdf> ]
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