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I’m pleased to announce starting this week, the College of Medicine will hold weekly administrators meetings with rotating topics, such as: accounting, finance, HR/payroll, research administration, and reporting. We will communicate the agenda for the weekly meeting in advance, when possible. While this meeting is geared toward Business Administrators, depending on the subject matter others may wish to attend. Please check with your supervisor in advance regarding attendance to ensure coverage
REMINDER: For any chair/director and department/center administrator that received an email from Susan Stark on August 9 regarding RA Tuition for the Fall 2016 semester, or if you have hired a Graduate Student Research Assistant to work in your lab since that date and they’re being paid from grant funds, please be sure to contact your
$Would you like to win a 50,000 prize to fund research that impacts active health of North Americans?
The Bloomberg Manulife Prize for the Promotion of Active Health, valued at $50,000 CAD,
is offered each year by McGill University to an academic whose research has
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and whose work could have a positive impact on behavior and lifestyle choices.
Certificate signatures known as electronic signatures are increasingly becoming an accepted method of signing documents. An official certificate signature provides a name, an email address and a date/time stamp along with many other features. Setting up for official certificate signature for an adobe document is easy. The document below provides in-depth instructions using the COM Procurement Form as an example.
Join UK’s Office of Research Integrity (ORI) and the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) for an informational overview of the Final NIH Policy on the Use of a Single Institutional Review Board for Multi-Site Research on August 25, 2016 from 1 PM to 2 PM in Pavilion A, Albert B. Chandler Hospital. Please RSVP to Jen Hill at jen.hill@uky.edu or 859-257-2978.
On the first of May, 2015, Angelique Bell waited in a hair salon, reading the weekend section of the newspaper. She noticed an ad for a health research study that needed participants who had risk factors for diabetes. Since she met the criteria and had some time to pass, she decided to call about the study right then, from the salon chair. It was her 45th birthday.
"I don't have diabetes, but I have a strong family history of diabetes and some of the risk factors, and I thought that the information from this study could be something that could benefit me in the future," said Bell.
Attention Investigators
College of Medicine, Office of Vice President for Research,
NIH announced on August 1 that they are lengthening the window of time during which peer reviewers can submit their applications under the NIH Continuous Submission Policy. Reviewers must have served six times in 18 months to be eligible. Eligibility now begins on August 1 following the 18 months of service and continues through September 30 of the next year.
Read the full announcement here.
The MOU for departing investigators has been changed slightly per a request from UKs Purchasing office. The correct form can be found on the UK website by clicking here. Please delete any old copies you may have filed away and ensure that you are using the new form.
For questions, contact your GPS.
Even with the assistance of detoxification and rehabilitation programs, 80 percent of people attempting recovery from opioid addiction will relapse.
The firm grip of opioid addiction on a person’s life necessitates sustainable therapeutic approaches proven effective through scientific trials and evidence.
