Awards

Jenna Hatcher received a $680,000 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) from the National Cancer Institute. Her research is titled, “Promoting Mammography in African-American Women Visiting the Emergency Department.” The award provides for five years of training and research.

Angela Wu received a two-year $88,000 postdoctoral fellowship award from the American Heart Association. The topic of her research is, “The Effect of a Medication-Taking Behavior Feed­back, Theory-Based Intervention on Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure.”

Research Calendar

June 16: Deadline for online submission of abstracts for the Southern Nursing Research Society 2009 conference in Baltimore.

July 5: Deadline for R01 proposal resubmissions to NIH.

Aug. 8: Deadline for NRSA fellowship applications.

Proposals

Ellen Hahn submitted a proposal to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for $225,000 for the Northern Kentucky Clean Indoor Air Partnership. She also submitted a $100,000 proposal to Robert Wood Johnson for, “Smoke-free Laws and Heart Attack Rates in a Southern State.” Mary Kay Rayens is co-investigator.

Leslie Scott is preparing a proposal to submit to Novo Nordisk titled, “SQ Port Use in Children with DM on MDI Therapy: QOL, Control, Regimen Satisfaction.”

Grant News

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