September 24, 2007
Congratulations to Dr. Bonnie Callen! Dr. Callen will receive fund from The American Nurses' Foundation (ANF) for her research project entitled, "Nutritional Risk Factors as Predictors of Unintentional Weight Loss in Community Dwelling Elders." ANF grants are very competitive, but Dr. Callen has demonstrated that they are not impossible to get! In addition, Dr. Callen is on the Advisory Board of a grant that has been recently funded by Robert Woods Johnson Foundation for $1,020,404.00. The title is: One Call Club for Seniors. Barbara Monty is the principal investigator.
Congratulations to Dr. Jan Brown! Dr. Brown has been selected to participate in the Geriatric Nursing Education consortium (GNEC) training Institute scheduled for October 3-5, 2007 at the Renaissance Hotel Downtown, Atlanta. GNEC is a national initiative to enhance geriatric content in senior-level baccalaureate courses.
May 02, 2007
Dr. Becky Fields has been selected as a Hartford Institute Geriatric Nursing Research Scholar. Selection is very competitive. She will have the opportunity to work with nationally prominent geriatric nursing researchers who serve as faculty to the program. In July she will participate in the Geriatric Nursing Research Seminar held in NYC. Congratulations to Becky on this prestigious appointment.
2006 Annual Research Showcase
You are invited to the COGS annual research showcase. Please attend if you are interested in the physical, mental, social, economic, policy, and/or spiritual factors related to aging and the health of the elderly. Present and future research endeavors will be presented.
The event will be held on Tuesday, November 7, from 4:00 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the College of Nursing in Room 138. Refreshments will be served. Please e-mail Dr. Shu-li Chen at schen4@utk.edu if you plan to come.
Feel free to forward this site to anyone you think might be interested. Thank you and hope to see you there!!
Shu-li Chen, PhD, RN
Convener, UT COGS
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