Neuroscience for Judges – Law and Neuroscience Education and Outreach Program

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gruter Institute Submitters
Author(s):  
Ambra Pozzi ◽  
Raymond C Harris

The Vanderbilt O'Brien Kidney Center (VOKC) is one of the eight NDDK-P30 funded Centers in the United States. The mission of these core-based Centers is to provide technical and conceptual support to enhance and facilitate research in the field of kidney diseases. The goal of the VOKC is to provide support to understand mechanisms and identify potential therapies for acute and chronic kidney disease. The services provided by the VOKC are meant to help the scientific community to have the right support and tools as well as to select the right animal model, statistical analysis, and clinical study design to perform innovative research and translate discoveries into personalized care to prevent, diagnose and cure kidney disease. To achieve these goals, the VCKD has in place a program to foster collaborative investigation into critical questions of kidney disease; to personalize diagnosis and treatment of kidney disease; and to disseminate information about kidney disease and the benefits of the VOKC services and research. The Center is complemented by state-of-the art Cores and an Education and Outreach program whose goals are to provide an educational platform to enhance the study of kidney disease; to publicize information about services available through the VOKC; and to provide information about kidney disease to patients and other interested members of the community. In this review we highlight the major services and contributions of the VOKC.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S367) ◽  
pp. 116-119
Author(s):  
S. Durst ◽  
M. Safonova ◽  
S. Paolantonio ◽  
M. E. Colazo ◽  
G. Li

AbstractGalaxy Forum (GF) South America 2020, was held virtually on December 8, 2020 on the opening eve of IAU 367 by the International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA Hawai’i) with the support of the Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (ITeDA, CNEA-CONICET-UNSAM) and IAU. Galaxy Forum is an education and outreach program sponsored by ILOA, an interglobal enterprise incorporated in Hawaii as a non-profit organization to expand human knowledge of the Cosmos through observation from our Moon and to participate in internationally cooperative lunar base build-out.As a IAU-367 associated event, Galaxy Forum featured comments by Dr. Beatriz Garcia and presentations by ILOA Director Steve Durst (ILOA Hawai’i, USA), Marcelo Colazo (CONAE, Argentina); César Gonzalez García (CSIC, Spain); Li Geng (NAOC, China); Santiago Paolantonio (Córdoba Observatory, Argentina) and Margarita Safonova (IIA, India). In this contribution, the overview of the contributions permits an approach to the GF interests.


2019 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 01008
Author(s):  
Hector Bravo-Alfaro ◽  
Cesar A. Caretta ◽  
Felipe Macias Gloria ◽  
Elcia M. S. Brito ◽  
Patricia Campos Rodríguez ◽  
...  

We present the main results of a multidisciplinary project on education and outreach in Guanajuato (Mexico). This collaboration was initiated in the International Year of Astronomy (IYA09, IAU-UNESCO, 2009) and is led by a team including astronomers, sociologists and environment biologists. The Astronomy activities had their origin at the Public Observatory of Universidad de Guanajuato, where an outreach program was dedicated to young students, teachers and the general public. Thanks to the many activities linked to IYA09, the astronomers joined with a group of sociologists working on the development of rural zones of the Mexican State of Guanajuato. This region undergoes a high rate of migration towards the USA. Working together, our goals were enlarged, having important results on different aspects like social development, environment recovering and education. Astronomy plays a central role within this project, mainly through activities like stargazing, science games for young public, Astronomy courses for teachers, and talks for a wide audience.


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