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Vol. #7; Issue 7
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July 19, 2017 |
Welcome to Dr. Greta Cummings
Dean, Faculty of Nursing
The University of Alberta Board of Governors has appointed Dr. Greta Cummings as dean of the Faculty of Nursing, effective July 1, 2017. Dr. Cummings joined the Faculty of Nursing 13 years ago, becoming a full professor in 2010. She currently holds a Centennial Professorship (2013-2020), one of our university's highest honours.
Read more here...
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How do I?
Want to rearrange your office? Have a new staff member who needs prox card access? Are there issues with the AV or IT in your shared meeting room? Unlike other buildings on campus, ECHA has its own processes for many of these requests. This is to make your life easier, and to ensure we are adhering to warranties on furniture and equipment in our spaces. Please contact your ECHA APO or designated contact first. You can find the full list in the menu to the right, and on the ECHA web page
here. You can also find information in the
ECHA Welcome Guide.
If you can't find the information you need, please contact the ECHA Administration Office, by calling 248-1122, or emailing
[email protected].
Bicycles
(tricycles,
and
unicycles)
Bicycles are not permitted in buildings on the University of Alberta campus. This is not specific to ECHA. Bicycle parking is strategically located across the campus and monthly or yearly permits can be purchased for bicycle cages located in the Education and Stadium car parks. Please contact Parking Services for more information (780-492-3811). For more information about bikes on campus, please see the Facilities and Operations FAQ found here.
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Venture Healthcare's 2017 internship
Do you know an undergrad who's interested in pursuing a health sciences program? Venture Healthcare is an immersive health internship for enthusiastic and inspired undergraduate students with preference for students from Indigenous backgrounds or who demonstrate financial need.
Students from any undergraduate background are eligible as long as they express interest in working in healthcare and
are not already enrolled in a health sciences program.
A Venture Healthcare Internship provides an opportunity to experience and observe many different aspects of healthcare. The internship is comprised of shadowing rotations, community health initiatives, lectures and seminars focused on contemporary healthcare issues.
Venture Healthcare's 2017 internship will take place for two weeks from August 21st to September 1st. Interns will receive an award worth $750.
The deadline to apply for Venture Healthcare is July 31.
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TD Bank Interprofessional Health Education Award Student Competition
Applications due: Friday, August 11, 2017 (11:59 PM MNT)
The TD Bank Interprofessional Health Education Award is awarded annually to a student currently enrolled in the final year of their pre-licensure or degree-granting program of study from each University of Alberta Health Science Faculty. The successful award recipient must demonstrate commitment to interprofessional health education. For more information visit bit.ly/TDAward.
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WCHRI Lunch and Learn: "How to prepare your abstract"
Learn how to prepare your research abstract with Dr. Todd Alexander, associate professor in the department of pediatrics.
Date: July 28
Time: noon - 1 p.m.
Location: ECHA 1-498
Please feel free to distribute the
poster to your networks.
Check out WCHRI's annual report!
We are pleased to unveil our WCHRI 2016/2017 annual report. This year we are sharing stories that embody our values of
Collaboration,
Integrity,
Accountability,
Teamwork,
Excellence and
Community Focus.
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Symposium launches new Biomedical Oral and Craniofacial Research Centre
The School of Dentistry officially opened and celebrated its new Biomedical Oral and Craniofacial Research Centre and kicked-off its inaugural Geoffrey H. Sperber Lecture during the Craniofacial Biology Research Symposium held May 25 to 26.
With just over 135 researchers, professors, dentists and students in attendance, the symposium brought together international researchers interested in the development and function of the craniofacial complex tissues.
Read the full article here...
Roots - Extracted tales from a century of dentistry at the University of Alberta
 Ever since ancient peoples used bow drills to relieve their tooth pain, dentistry has been a universal human endeavour. Practised as haphazard butchery for millennia, some of its brutal elements were still the norm when the first Canadian dental school west of Toronto - the only one for more than a thousand kilometres in any direction - was founded in a remote community on the northern prairie where the railway ended.
From a former fruit farmer creating instructional dental models by hand, to a determined woman battling institutional sexism to create the country's second school of dental hygiene, to a desperate political fight against closure in the Ralph Klein era, the unlikely century-long story of the University of Alberta's School of Dentistry is vividly brought to life here, alongside a history of dentistry from toothworms to virtual reality.
Award-winning journalist
Taylor Lambert is your historical tour guide for a witty narrative journey with surprising tales that even the most fervent dentophobe can sink their teeth into.
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17th annual Thinking Qualitatively (TQ) Workshop Series
The International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (IIQM) recently hosted our 17th annual Thinking Qualitatively (TQ) Workshop Series here in ECHA. It was a great success! As always, we had a diverse group of subject matter experts facilitate a variety of workshops for our attendees, who came from 9 countries around the world. Renowned scholar Dr. Sally Thorne from UBC taught workshops on Interpretive Description and Data Analysis; amongst our other notable instructors and topics, Dr. Maria Mayan provided sessions on Rigour and Community Based Participatory Research, and Dr. Alex Clark hosted workshops on Critical Realism, Publishing, and Grant Writing. TQ also featured a full introductory day focusing on the Foundations of Qualitative Inquiry for those new to qualitative methods. This workshop series is a great way for researchers, students, and research assistants to interact with qualitative methodology and research through the IIQM, based here at the U of A.
For more about IIQM:
www.iiqm.ualberta.ca
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Salad Parties! Table Cloths! Sunscreen! Vine-ripened tomatoes!
It's all here for you, courtesy of the ECHA Terrace Garden Committee.
Look for the bins next to the terrace doors for items to borrow.
Please email Gabrielle at [email protected] to join our mailing list and learn more about upcoming community garden events!
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See me, Hear me, Heal me
June 22 - August 3, 2017
The MacMullen Gallery in the University of Alberta Hospital
Since 2015, artists, researchers and health care providers have been listening to, learning from, and collaborating with people whose lives have been impacted by head and neck cancer. Our collective journey through a series of workshops, interviews, personal meetings, and group studio visits built the social and intellectual foundations for our ambitious project called 'see me, hear me, heal me' ... Exploring patients' experiences of head and neck cancer, developed by an interdisciplinary group of scholars, led by Minn Yoon (Dentistry), with Pamela Brett-MacLean (Arts & Humanities in Health & Medicine; Psychiatry), Sean Caulfied (Art & Design), Lianne McTavish (Art & Design), Helen Vallianatos (Anthropology), Suresh Nayar (Surgery), Jana Rieger (Rehabilitation Medicine), and Brad Necyk (Psychiatry), all at the University of Alberta. more....
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