Injury Prevention Seminar, 2/26

Title

Motor Vehicle Injury in the United States: Prevention and Data

Description

Motor vehicle crashes cause over 30,000 deaths and an estimated 2.5 million emergency department visits a year in the United States. This seminar will describe the burden of motor vehicle crash injury in the United States, highlight strategies that can be used to reduce motor vehicle crash injury, and discuss data sets that can be used to answer motor vehicle crash-related questions.   

Presenter

Vaughn Barry, PhD MPH

Presenter background

Dr. Barry has an MPH in biostatistics from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in epidemiology from Emory University. She is currently an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer at the CDC in the Division of Injury Prevention.

Second Annual Data Science Workshop, 3/26-3/27

Second Annual Data Science Workshop: Emerging Data Science Methods for Complex Biomedical and Cyber Data

Date and Location:
March 26 – 27, 2020
Georgia Cyber Center Hull McKnight Building, 100 Grace Hopper Lane, Augusta, GA

Description:

The Division of Biostatistics and Data Science in the Department of Population Health Sciences in the Medical College of Georgia and the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences at Augusta University are organizing the second annual workshop on “Emerging Data Science Methods for Complex Biomedical and Cyber Data”. The goal of this two-day workshop is to educate and empower graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career researchers and faculty members with emerging statistical methods to address the complex data arising from various fields, in particular, from biomedical and cyber sciences.

The workshop will be in the form of specific research overviews and lectures provided by leading experts in the respective topic areas. A poster session and a five-minute oral presentation session will be held respectively during the first and second day of the workshop. A limited number of posters and 5-minute presentations will be selected for poster awards by a panel of judges. 

Travel Awards:

With NSF support, we are able to provide travel awards to approximately 15 undergraduate and graduate students to attend the workshop and to either present posters or to give five-minute oral presentations on their respective research closely related to the theme of this workshop. Travel Award application deadline is March 2, 2020.

To register:

For more information and to register, please click here. Early registration (by March 16, 2020) is strongly encouraged because of space limits. Registration fee will be higher if paid on or after March 17, 2020.

ILE: Thesis and Capstone Meeting, 2/19

Join the Epi Department this Wednesday, Feb. 19 in CNR Auditorium to hear more about the thesis and capstone process and ask any questions you may have!

Behind the Manuscript, 2/18

Please join us on Tuesday, February 18th for a discussion with Dr. Michael Kramer.  Dr. Kramer will provide insight on the research process behind the manuscript, “The legacy of slavery and contemporary declines in heart disease mortality in the U.S. South.” 

 Click here to read the article. 

Click here to RSVP. 

Chair’s Chat, 2/12

Click here to RSVP for the February Chair’s Chat or RSVP on Canvas. 

Epi Bagel Breakfast, 2/11

Join the Epidemiology Department for the first bagel breakfast of the semester on Tuesday Feb. 11 from 9-11AM!

Green Networking Night, 2/13

Click here to RSVP for this event on Handshake! 

Seminar Series: Copyrighting Your Thesis & Dissertation, February

Will your thesis or dissertation raise copyright issues?  Learn about navigating copyright and author rights in a digital environment!

The workshops will answer questions like …

• Everyone quotes the work of other scholars in their dissertation. As long as the quotes are acknowledged, does this ever raise copyright issues?
• I found a photo online on a website. Can I include it in my dissertation since everything’s free on the internet?
• Should I pay to register copyright for my dissertation?
• I have this great film clip from the 1940s with images and music that I’d like to include with my dissertation. Are there different copyright rules for audio-visual formats?
• Chapter 1 of my dissertation has been published in a journal. Is this a problem?

Seminar Date/Times and Locations

• Tuesday, February 4, 2020, 12–12:50pm, Woodruff Library, Room 312 
• Thursday, February 6, 2020, 5–5:50pm, Woodruff Library, Room 314 
• Thursday, February 13, 2020, 12–12:50pm, Woodruff Library, Room 314 
• Tuesday, February 18, 2020, 5–5:50pm, Woodruff Library, Room 314 
• Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 12–12:50pm, Woodruff Library, Room 314 
• Monday, February 24, 2020 , 12–12:50pm, Woodruff Library, Room 314 

Click here to register for one of the sessions!

If you cannot attend any session but still think you may have a question, please contact the Scholarly Communications Office at scholcomm [at] listserv [dot] cc [dot] emory [dot] edu for help.