[Faculty] Prize Challenge, CDC Fellowship, Free Image Data Repository and IACUC Trainings

[Craig, Zelieann R - (zelieann)]

Dear Colleagues:

I am writing to highlight a few opportunities that I have become aware of recently. I hope that you can take advantage of at least one of them.

Exciting new NIJ prize challenge - due July 31st, 2023
The National Institute of Justice has released a prize challenge entitled Innovations in Measuring Community Perceptions. The motivation for offering the challenge begins with the core belief that consistent, rigorous measurement of community perceptions can provide critical feedback to police, city managers, and community members. Such feedback can support the development of new policies and programs as well as the evaluation of current practices. However, conducting rigorous surveys that represent the entire community is becoming increasingly difficult. The challenge includes $175,000 in prizes.
More information: https://nij.ojp.gov/funding/innovations-measuring-community-perceptions-challenge
ORISE Fellowship with CDC's Climate and Health Program - due July 31st, 2023

An ORISE Fellowship opportunity is currently available with CDC’s Climate and Health Program<https://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth> (CHP), located in the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice in the National Center for Environmental Health. The position is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Under the guidance of a mentor, the Fellow will work with a team of evaluators to promote and strengthen evaluation practice in the field of climate and health.  Specifically, the fellow will help support state and local health department grantees funded through the Climate Ready States and Cities Initiative<https://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/climate_ready.htm> (CRSCI) by providing evaluation technical assistance, capacity building, and guidance for reporting. The fellow will also provide support related to sound, evidence-based interventions, and program development. The ideal candidate will be organized, able to collaborate, and have strong interpersonal communication and facilitation skills. Masters-level graduates or graduate students are encouraged to apply. The announcement closes 7/31/23, however applicants will be assessed on a rolling basis.

More Information:  For questions or to submit, please contact Kat Sisler at qln2 at cdc.gov

Free OMERO (image data management server software) hands-on workshop - Aug 3-4, 2023

If your research uses imaging data, you may be interested in an important up-coming workshop. As of January 2023, the NIH has instituted a required Data Management and Sharing plans for all new applications. The NIH requirement expects PIs to carefully curate their data such that it will have all the useful information needed for future users to either interpret or replicate the data. One of the stumbling blocks to effective image data management & sharing has been the fact the microscopy and other image data frequently comes in a large number of vendor-specific file formats that may require specialty software to open. Add to that the size (GBs) and complexity of the data that can be produced from high-end microscopes and working with/sharing image data can become a problem. Using internal UA funding, the Data Science Institute has recently set up an Open Microscopy Environment file server (OMERO) to help faculty and their labs with image data management. The OMERO server uses the BioFormats plugin found in many open-source software packages to open proprietary files and convert them internally to OME-TIF so that (just about) any uploaded data can be viewed either through a web or desktop client. More information on OMERO. We are offering a free two-day, hands-on workshop August 3-4, 2023, to introduce the UA community to OMERO. The full workshop announcement and registration details. We encourage you to send someone from your lab to learn more about this software.
Questions? Please reach out to me.
More Information: contact Doug Cromey at dcromey at arizona.edu
IACUC Principal Investigator Orientation - coming soon!

The Animal Welfare Program (AWP) offers PI orientation to new PIs, existing PIs, and their research staff on working with the IACUC, AWP, and protocols. PI orientation includes in-depth information on working with the protocol platform, Cayuse Animal Oversight, tips for writing protocols to match the requirements of the University of Arizona IACUC, information on how to get a non-centralized lab approved, and the opportunity to ask questions about the program and processes. In the past, new PI orientation was voluntary, however we have found that labs that start with orientation have an easier time of writing their protocols, getting them approved, and getting their labs started. Going forward, AWP staff will reach out to new PIs to set up orientation for them and/or their staff. Please plan on having at least one from your lab attend the orientation prior to starting an IACUC protocol.


Cheers,

Zelieann


[The University of Arizona block 'A' logo.]     Zelieann R Craig, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Research, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Associate Professor, School of Animal & Comparative Biomedical Sciences
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