The Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine seeks an intern to assist with the administrative and scientific components of four clinical trials examining psychological and physical function outcomes following severe burn injury.

The internship provides an opportunity to gain exposure to and an understanding of clinical trial coordination and management. Specifically, the student will learn the structure and organization of prospective, longitudinal research. The internship provides valuable experience working as part of a research team and an opportunity to become familiar with the research priorities surrounding burn and trauma rehabilitation. The intern will work closely with the research study coordinator and also function independently.

Qualifications include:

Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, attention to detail

Interest in program management, clinical research and/or psychology

Basic understanding of quantitative research methodology

Intermediate proficiency using Microsoft Excel, Word and Access

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

 Data entry

Database management

Creation of data summary reports

Participant recruitment and retention

Office organization (file sorting, photocopying)

Opportunities are available to attend lectures and grand rounds

 The intern must be able to devote 10 to 20 hours per week to the position throughout the fall semester.

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Mobile Touch and Gesture Interaction for Children

This study seeks to determine what differences lie in adults and children’s touch interactions with mobile devices. The overall goal is to provide research findings that will help application developers create better touch user interfaces for children.

• Hourly paid position
• Begins fairly soon (this Fall) with potential to be extended for the Spring semester
• Time commitments would vary, but an average of 10 hours a week is expected

Mobile Touch and Gesture Interaction for Children

This study seeks to determine what differences lie in adults and children’s touch interactions with mobile devices. The overall goal is to provide research findings that will help application developers create better touch user interfaces for children.

• Hourly paid position
• Begins fairly soon (this Fall) with potential to be extended for the Spring semester
• Time commitments would vary, but an average of 10 hours a week is expected

Dr. LaTese Briggs invites all to a special opportunity to meet world-renowned scientists on Sept. 9, 2012. Dr. Briggs is a former PROMISE Peer Mentor (Biochemistry/Structural Biology, UMBC), Meyerhoff Biomedical Graduate Fellow, and Gates Fellow. After she finished the PhD at UMBC, Dr. Briggs was a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute for Genomics which is a collaborative between MIT and Harvard, followed by a stint as an Analyst at Decision Solutions in the Boston area. Dr. Briggs is now a Program Analyst with Faster Cures, a Washington DC Think Tank that serves as the Milken Institute’s “Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions.”

A Message from Dr. Briggs: 

You are invited to join more than 1,000 leaders on Sunday, September 9 from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. for a series of compelling short panels and talks at the George Washington University Marvin Center. Topics of these panels will include: Basic, translational and clinical research Maximizing the economic and societal return on investments in bioscience The fate of American research universities Bolstering our science and technology education programs Addressing major diseases like cancer, AIDS and Alzheimer’s Drug development The contributions of life science to areas like energy, clean water, agriculture, and protection from pandemics and bioterrorism Experts in health, science, education, the economy; policy makers; business leaders; Presidential advisors, and Nobel Laureates are among the panelists participating in a dynamic discussion about ensuring science remain a top national priority.   To register, please email smayberry@fastercures.org with your name, affiliation, and email address. Speakers include: ·         Deborah Brooks, Co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research ·         Jean-Lou Chameau, President, California Institute of Technology ·         Peter Chiarelli, CEO, One Mind for Research; General (ret.), U.S. Army ·         Steven Chu, Nobel Laureate; United States Secretary of Energy ·         Alan Krueger, Chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisers ·         Eric Lander, President, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT ·         Subra Suresh, Director, National Science Foundation ·         James Watson, Nobel Laureate; Chancellor Emeritus, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory For more information about the Celebration of Science program, please visit www.celebrationofscience.org.

Dr. LaTese Briggs invites all to a special opportunity to meet world-renowned scientists on Sept. 9, 2012. Dr. Briggs is a former PROMISE Peer Mentor (Biochemistry/Structural Biology, UMBC), Meyerhoff Biomedical Graduate Fellow, and Gates Fellow. After she finished the PhD at UMBC, Dr. Briggs was a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute for Genomics which is a collaborative between MIT and Harvard, followed by a stint as an Analyst at Decision Solutions in the Boston area. Dr. Briggs is now a Program Analyst with Faster Cures, a Washington DC Think Tank that serves as the Milken Institute’s “Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions.”

A Message from Dr. Briggs: 

You are invited to join more than 1,000 leaders on Sunday, September 9 from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. for a series of compelling short panels and talks at the George Washington University Marvin Center. Topics of these panels will include: Basic, translational and clinical research Maximizing the economic and societal return on investments in bioscience The fate of American research universities Bolstering our science and technology education programs Addressing major diseases like cancer, AIDS and Alzheimer’s Drug development The contributions of life science to areas like energy, clean water, agriculture, and protection from pandemics and bioterrorism Experts in health, science, education, the economy; policy makers; business leaders; Presidential advisors, and Nobel Laureates are among the panelists participating in a dynamic discussion about ensuring science remain a top national priority.   To register, please email smayberry@fastercures.org with your name, affiliation, and email address. Speakers include: ·         Deborah Brooks, Co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research ·         Jean-Lou Chameau, President, California Institute of Technology ·         Peter Chiarelli, CEO, One Mind for Research; General (ret.), U.S. Army ·         Steven Chu, Nobel Laureate; United States Secretary of Energy ·         Alan Krueger, Chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisers ·         Eric Lander, President, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT ·         Subra Suresh, Director, National Science Foundation ·         James Watson, Nobel Laureate; Chancellor Emeritus, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory For more information about the Celebration of Science program, please visit www.celebrationofscience.org.

Messner ’01, right, in production of Time Stands Still. Click photo to enlarge. Photo courtesy of Everyman Theatre.

When war strikes in a distant nation, the only way that many Americans experience it is through the lens of the journalists and photographers who risk life and limb to get the shots that capture war’s horrors and tragedies. But what is the personal cost for those who show such courage?

Assessing that human cost to the chroniclers of war is the essence of Donald Maguiles’ play Time Stands Still, which opened last week at Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre with UMBC alumni Eric Messner ’01, acting,  and Mandy Moore ’07, acting, among its ensemble.

“When I was at UMBC I used to go and see shows at Everyman Theatre,” Messner recalls, “then for a time after graduating, I lived five blocks away from the theatre. It’s a place where I’ve always wanted to work, and now I’m getting that chance….  I’m so proud that I get to open the final season in their Charles Street space, the same space that I would go to see their plays when I was at school.”

Moore observes that “there are some very big fascinating questions being asked in our production.  I feel lucky to play such fun, joyful role in the discussion.  It’s that sharp kind of theatre where you are asked questions and not told what to think.”

“It’s a really great play,” Messner concurs. “There’s just so much going on emotionally and Donald Margulies has such a wonderful gift for writing dialogue.”

Time Stands Still runs at Everyman Theatre through Sunday, October 7. For more information and tickets, go to  http://everymantheatre.org/.

Moore 07, far right, in production of Time Stands Still. Photo courtesy of Everyman Theatre.