Browsing by Subject "Signature Center"

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    The Indiana Diabetes Research Center
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2015-04-17) Indiana Diabetes Research Center (IDRC)
    The mission of the Indiana Diabetes Research Center (IDRC) is to foster knowledge, support training, and promote basic and translational research in diabetes and obesity, related metabolic disorders, and their complications. Three major activities supported by this Signature Center are the: 1) Pilot and Feasibility Program, 2) Diabetes Research Core and 3) Enrichment Program. The goal of the P&F Program is to provide resources that enable new and established investigators to apply their expertise to research relevant to the treatment of diabetes, obesity and complications of the diseases, with the expectation that this support will lead to success in receiving extramural funding. The Diabetes Research Core provides state-of-the-art methodologies, which represent strengths on the campus, but are also difficult to set up in individual labs. The goal of the Enrichment Program is to foster interaction and scientific discussion among faculty, students and postdoctoral fellows on the IUPUI campus to enhance interest in diabetes and diabetes-related research, and catalyze the dissemination of the latest research advances and techniques to the IDRC community. Current and upcoming Center Activities: Two Pilot Funding awards were made to junior faculty for studies to begin in January 2015. These studies will utilize advanced experimental techniques available through the Diabetes Research Core. A second round of Pilot and Feasibility grant applications has been solicited for studies to begin July 2015. The IDRC will sponsor a Diabetes Day Symposium on the IUPUI campus on August 7, 2015. The symposium will include a keynote presentation by an internationally recognized diabetes investigator, as well as poster sessions to highlight diabetes and metabolic research on the campus and breakout groups to discuss techniques available and to be developed by the Research Core.
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    NEWS AND CIVIC LITERACY;WHAT’S THE CONNECTION?
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2015-04-17) Fields, Whitney; Thelin, Rachel; Suess Kennedy, Sheila
    The Center for Civic Literacy (CCL) at IUPUI is a Signature Center Grant recipient. CCL is a multi-disciplinary research center established to examine the causes and dimensions of Americans’ low levels of civic knowledge, and to investigate the consequences of personal, social, and political civic ignorance. CCL takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the causes and effects of deficits in civic literacy, while also examining best practices that combat civic deficits across sectors of society, including public affairs, science, education, business, and healthcare. The latest project from the center investigates how low levels of civic and news literacy intersect; what’s the connection and why does it matter? A study from America University states, “news habits tend to be formed early; if young people turn away from the news, it may lead to a less informed citizenry and make it less likely that there will be a critical mass of news consumers to sustain the high-quality journalism and information production crucial to a healthy democracy” (Hayes, 2014, p.222). The center is currently gathering such research to make the case for an IPS program in high schools which would teach both news and civic literacy.