UTC NEWS
2009 UTC News
April
Dr. Cynthia Owsley named 2009 ARVO Fellow
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Dr. Owsley received her undergraduate degree from Wheaton College,
Massachusetts in 1975 in psychology. She received a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Cornell University in 1980 specializing in sensation and perception. She did post-doctoral training in vision and aging at Northwestern University and in epidemiology at UAB where she received a M.S.P.H. Owsley is director of the Clinical Research Unit in Ophthalmology and is a Senior Scientific Investigator for Research to Prevent Blindness. Her research focuses on aging, eye disease, and vision impairment. She joined the UAB faculty in 1982. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Inc. (ARVO) was founded in 1928 in Washington, DC by 73 ophthalmologists. Its mission is to encourage and assist research, training, publication, and dissemination of knowledge in vision and ophthalmology. |
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March
UTC Showcases Transportation Research at National Conference
The UAB UTC was able to help promote transportation-related research by providing modest financial support for several participants in the 2009 National Injury and Violence Prevention Research Conference, "From Discovery to Practice: Innovative Translational Approaches to Injury Prevention and Care." The conference, held March 5-6, 2009, in Atlanta, Ga., was sponsored by the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, The Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research, and the Emory University Center for Injury Control. The target audience included injury researchers and those with a close association with injury research, including epidemiologists, biostatisticians, engineers, economists, psychologists, clinicians, other health professionals and students. In its continued efforts to support students in research and to encourage those students to pursue transportation-related careers, the UAB UTC provided support for six students and two faculty/staff researchers to attend the conference. The UTC-sponsored presentations at the conference were (student names in bold): Risky driver/passenger intentions across elementary, middle and high school students. Social norms predict students' intention to drink and drive. The social dynamics of teen driver/passenger interaction. (Podium presentation) Influence of carrying a backpack on pedestrian safety. Visual inattention in ADHD and risky pedestrian behavior. How temperament and ADHD predict child pedestrian injury. Injury behavior checklist validation: Children with ADHD. The role of cell phones in college pedestrian injury risk. Information discovery support for the translation approach. |
February
January
This month in UTC Spotlight the focus is on the work being done by The National Center for Freight & Infrastructure Research and Education (C.F.I.R.E) to solve the the large truck parking shortage problem.
THE UAB INJURY CONTROL RESEACH CENTER
SOUTHERN CONSORTIUM FOR INJURY BIOMECHANICS - UTC News
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- Advisory Board Meetings
- Jefferson County Youth Transportation Program
Calendar
GIS and Google Earth: Socioeconomic Surveillance and Public Policy Making
Akhlaque Haque, PhD
Director, UAB MPA Program