Visit the New Pages on the Medical School's Web Site
New web pages will keep you up-to-date with the latest happenings in the Medical School community. The Medical School's new Internal Web Page will link you to policies, news and training resources. The U-M Medical School News provides current information and links to communications resources. Both pages are linked in the faculty and staff sections.

Finally, if you would like to see photos from this year's Summer Science Academy, visit http://www.med.umich.edu/medschool/ssaphotos.htm. The page shows Ameed Raoof, M.D., Ph.D., and U-M Medical School students instructing high school students in the Plastination Lab. Continue to check E-News for the latest developments on the Web.

Medicine at Michigan Seeks News of Books Edited or Authored by Faculty
As it does three times a year, Medicine at Michigan seeks news of books edited or authored by Medical School faculty for the 'In Print' section of the Fall 2002 issue, tentatively scheduled for release in late October.

If you have recently edited or written a book, please alert Rick
Krupinski, editor, at rkrup@umich.edu or 998-7523, and forward a copy of the book to him at the Office of Medical Development, 301 E. Liberty, Suite 300, 2251. The book will be photographed for the magazine and returned to you.

Nominate Students for the U-M 2002 Graduate Student Award for Excellence
Deadline: August 12, 2002
Any graduate student who is actively pursuing a degree in one of the graduate programs within the Medical School can be nominated for the Graduate Student Award for Overall Excellence in Research and Service.

The criteria for nomination include:
• Scientific excellence, as judged by publications, academic record, or other forms of recognition of scientific accomplishment. Copies of any publication should be included with the nomination
• Service to the University and/or its community—through various committees, event management, and outreach
activities

Nominations may originate from faculty or peers (students or post-docs). No more than two nominations from any given department or program will be accepted or considered. Up to two awards of $500 each will be made at the annual Fall Gathering on Sept.12, 2002. All application packets must be received no later than Aug. 12, 2002. For more information, please click here.

U-M Led Research Paper Receives National Prize In Health Care Ethics
The Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics at the University of Southern California recently presented Susan Dorr Goold, M.D., M.H.S.A., M.A., director of the Bioethics Program, and associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, with the 2002 Mark S. Ehrenreich Prize in Healthcare Ethics Research.

Goold, the primary author and a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Faculty Scholar, along with four co-authors, received the award for their paper "Will Insured Minnesotans Give Up Benefit Coverage to Include the Uninsured?" The research described individual and group decisions about whether to use a portion of limited healthcare resources to cover the uninsured, and the arguments used during group discussions both for and against doing so.

Both PEW and Searle Scholars Programs Seek Applicants
Internal Deadline: August 15, 2002
The purpose of the PEW Scholars Program is to support young investigators of outstanding promise in basic and clinical sciences relevant to the advancement of human health. The award is intended to provide support for junior members of the faculty as they establish their laboratories. Candidates must hold a doctorate degree in medicine, other health-related professions, or biomedical sciences. The Searle Scholars Program supports the independent research of outstanding individuals who are in the first or second year of their first appointment at the assistant professor level. The current appointment should be a tenure-track position in the areas of biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences.

The University is allowed to submit two nominees for each Program. Nominations of faculty from all units of the University are welcome. The Biomedical Research Council will select the University nominees for these prestigious awards. For more information on the awards and the internal nomination procedures, click here.

CFO Sponsors a Summer Workshop on Mouse Development
The Center for Organogenesis is sponsoring "De-coding the Mouse Embryo: A Guide to Understanding Early Mouse Development and Organogenesis." The week-long workshop will be presented by Dr. Matthew Kaufman, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, on Aug. 19-23, 2002 in the Buhl Building.

The format of the workshop will be lectures and hands-on demonstrations, dissections and work with slides and microscopes each morning and afternoon. Space is very limited, so please limit your registration to one person per lab. Advance registration is required. For more information, or for registration materials, please contact the Center for Organogenesis at 936-2499 or e-mail rpintar@umich.edu.

2001 Anthony V. DeVito II Memorial Award
Recipient Announced
Harry Grow is the recipient of the 2001 Anthony V. DeVito II Memorial Award. Grow has been a volunteer photographer and videographer for the Geriatrics Center for more than 20 years.The U-M Geriatrics Center presents the award annually to recognize outstanding service, dedication and commitment to excellence in the field of geriatrics education in Michigan.

News Releases and Health Minute
For medical press releases and the details behind the headlines, visit http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/relarch.htm
- Friends for 40 years, three Livonia doctors retiring together
- U-M Health System in the black
- Campbell appointed Chief of Staff

Next Week's Health Minute
U-M scientists investigating smoking – depression link

Seminars, lectures, colloquia and events for next week
To access the entire UMHS events database, see:
http://www.academic.med.umich.edu/LassoPages/ProStaffEvents.lasso

Tuesday, July 30, 2002
--1 p.m., Medical Library Classes: UM-MEDSEARCH, MIRLYN Library Catalog, and E-Journals.This workshop teaches basic searching in UM-MEDSEARCH, which includes MEDLINE, CINAHL, CANCERLIT and EMBASE databases. The workshop will be held at the Taubman Medical Library.

--4 p.m., MDRTC Seminar. Derek Le Roith, M.D., Ph.D.,
candidate for Division Chief, Endocrinology & Metabolism and Director, MDRTC; Chief, Clinical Endocrinology Branch, NIH, "Transgenic and Gene-Deletion Models of the IGF System," Room 7745 Med Sci II

Thursday, Aug. 1, 2002
--7:30 a.m., PM&R Seminar. Virginia S. Nelson, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, "Pediatric Rehabilitation in Developing Countries," 1H205 UH

--12 p.m. Gifts of Art: Rock and Roll by Doghouse (80¹s Rock group that includes UM Hospital staff). This event will take place at the University Hospital Courtyard. In case of rain, the performance will be held in University Hospital Lobby, floor 1.

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