RWJF Change Leadership Programs: Accepting Applications As you know the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is launching four new programs as part of their Advancing Change Leaders national initiative to achieve a Culture of Health. Each program will have a different focus (post docs, junior faculty, mid-career clinicians, and leaders outside of clinical practice). Selected candidates remain in their current communities and apply as teams. Please click on the links below to view the call for applications for each program. Their hope is to have as diverse an applicant pool as possible and that all potentially eligible candidates know about the new focus of the programs. The Foundation welcomes your support in spreading the word and encouraging individuals to apply. Health Policy Research Leaders http://healthpolicyresearch-scholars.org  Interdisciplinary Research Leaders http://interdisciplinaryresearch-leaders.org Culture of Health Leaders http://cultureofhealth-leaders.org Clinical Scholars http://clinical-scholars.org

Des Runyan

RWJFCSP National Program Office Director

Registration Now Open for 2016 Student Research Conference

This is a great opportunity to polish your message, practice your presentation skills and just plain show off!

Registration Now Open for 2016 Student Research Conference

Grant Writing "Brown Bag" seminar

"Overall Best Practices for Writing Your Proposal"

Tuesday, Feb. 23
12:00 - 1:00 PM
Waterman Memorial Lounge (rm 338)
In this highly competitive funding climate, many meritorious grant proposals are going unfunded. How do you maximize the potential for your grant proposal to "rise to the top"? This seminar will cover a variety of best practices for writing clear and engaging prose, and organizing your proposal to meet the needs of the reviewer. This session is primarily aimed at the needs of faculty, but may be of interest to postdocs or advanced graduate students.

Discussion will be facilitated by Jeralyn Haraldsen, Grant Proposal Manager in the Office of the Vice President for Research.

No RSVP required. Feel free to bring your lunch.

To review the full schedule of topics: http://www.uvm.edu/~ovpr/?Page=gpm_services.php

Jeralyn Haraldsen, PhD
Grant Proposal Manager

University of Vermont
Office of the Vice President for Research

Phone: (802) 656-2982

Congratulations to Shaun Stephens on getting his first published article

Congratulations Shaun Stephens, MS, PhD Candidate in CTS on your inaugural publication!


Prefrontal Cortical Activity During Discourse Processing, An Observational fNIRS Study
Cannizzaro, Michael S.,  Stephens, Shaun R.,  Breidenstein, Max, and Crovo, Cori. Top Language Disorders, Vol.36, No.1, pp.65-70




http://journals.lww.com/topicsinlanguagedisorders/Abstract/2016/01000/Prefrontal_Cortical_Activity_During_Discourse.7.aspx