Applications for the 2018 summer lab internships at Simmons Cancer Institute (SCI) at Southern Illinois University Medicine are now being accepted through March 15. The cancer institute will award four positions to qualified undergraduate college students who plan a career in medicine or biomedical research with a focus on cancer. The paid summer internship provides hands-on experience for college undergraduates and are awarded on a competitive basis. Past recipients of the internship program, established 2009, say being touched by cancer, the love of science, and wanting to give back are

External Funding Opportunitites Search for Opportunities: https://www.siumed.edu/adr/grants/search-grants-grantforward.html

Caryl Towsley Moy, PhD Endowed Fund for Collaborative Research The Caryl Towsley Moy, PhD Endowed Fund for Collaborative Research is a funding mechanism specifically for University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS) and SIU School of Medicine faculty to foster new collaborations and generate pilot projects or preliminary data for future funding opportunities or projects. The Request for Proposal, Application Template, and Approval Routing Form are located on the UIS website: http://www.uis.edu/research/faculty-research-and-scholarship-support/fa… The ADR Grants Office Submission

Dr. Amber Fifer has been appointed associate director of the Center for Clinical Research. Amber joined the school in 2014 as a research assistant professor in the Department of Neurology and has served as their director of clinical research. Amber earned her doctor of pharmacy degree at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy in 1997. In addition to her involvement on multiple CCR teams, Amber has been an Institutional Review Board (IRB) member at SIU since 2009 and was recently appointed to the SIU Conflict of Interest Committee. Before joining SIU, Amber worked at St. John's Hospital for 12 years

The following journal articles, book chapters, and conference presentations have resulted from research in the Play Lab. For those interested in obtaining additional information regarding any of the projects listed below, please correspond with ldilalla@siu.edu. Published Research DiLalla, L.F. , Jamnik, M.R., Marshall, R.L., Pali, E., & DiLalla, D.L. (forthcoming). Twin research in psychopathology. In A.D. Tarnoki, D.L. Tarnoki, J.R. Harris, N. Segal, L. Littvay (Eds.), Twin research. DiLalla, L.F., Diaz, E., & Jamnik, M.R., (forthcoming). Toward the dark side: Temperament, personality, and

Here you will find a description of research projects currently ongoing at the Play Lab, as well as projects that were previously completed. For presentations and publications from these studies, see Publications .​ Ongoing: ​ Genetic Influences on Early Cognitive Development: Early cognitive development, such as ability to conserve, engage in fantasy, and group similar objects, is studied in 1- to 4-year-old twins. Twins are tested within a month of their birthdays in the play lab. This is a longitudinal study, with twins being tested every year from age 1 (or as early as we can recruit them)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS February 18, 2025 Our submission form and judging criteria follow the Revised Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE) guidelines. For additional information on SQUIRE guidelines, visit http://www.squire-statement.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.ViewPage&Page… .

Next time you’re in the library be sure to greet Sam Skeleton, the library’s newest staff member. You’re most likely to find him skulking around the front desk during library open hours, but he’s available as a study buddy by request at the front desk. Sam comes to us from 3B Scientific. Bones. The booklet he carries with him includes the Latin and English names for each point. Study aid features include: flexible spine and ligaments spinal nerves and vertebral arteries fully flexible limbs on his right side. muscle origins and insertions, and other features are numbered. If you’d like to chat

View a collection of origami donated to the Library by Nancy Graves MD, who finished her residency in psychiatry at SIU in 2009. She used beautifully patterned papers to create the intricately folded shapes. The collection is currently in the Library's display wall exhibit cases. Selections from the origami collection

Dale "Buck" Hales, PhD Dale "Buck" Hales, PhD, was in the grocery store and noticed "omega eggs." He wondered how farmers were able to get the chickens to lay omega-rich eggs. The answer? Flaxseed, which is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, an antioxidant with anti-inflammatory properties Flaxseed may hold the key to reducing the prevalence and severity of ovarian cancer, according to Dr. Hales, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. He also is professor of gynecology/obstetrics and a member of Simmons Cancer Institute at SIU