Accomplishments - July, 2016
Mark Dolan, School of Journalism, was an editor/coach for the 24th annual U.S. Department of Defense Worldwide Visual Storytelling Workshop, June 26-July 2, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. This is the third year Dolan has participated in the workshop, where the defense department brings in a group of visual journalism professionals to work with military visual storytellers during the weeklong workshop.
Andrey Soares, Information Systems Technologies, is the recipient of a one year postdoctoral fellowship from U.S. National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. The fellowship began July 1. Soares will work for the Computational Bioscience (CompBio) Program in the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado. He will work on clinical informatics by predicting various actionable outcomes in order to better inform or influence clinical care. This includes developing, implementing, and applying machine-learning algorithms to analyses of structured and unstructured data from electronic health records and clinical records.
Elaine T. Jurkowski, School of Social Work, spoke to the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group in Chicago in June on “Meeting the Training Needs of Older Adults and their Caregivers through ‘CATCH-0N,’ (GWEP),” the Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program. The focus of the session was providing a rural perspective to the caregiving and workforce issue and needs.
Andrew Pardieck and Lucian Dervan, School of Law, recently received a grant from the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership to study plea bargains. The research will include conducting a psychological plea bargaining study in the United States, Japan and Korea to better understand the decision-making process of defendants. By conducting the study in various countries, the research will also allow for comparative analysis that will significantly impact criminal justice reform globally. It is anticipated that the total grant award will exceed $126,000
