Would you love to bring your research to a wider audience? Please join the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health and the Neag School of Education as we talk to professors about their experience writing for and being published in The Conversation, one of the many resources used by UConn Communications to help disseminate faculty research to the general public.
Featuring UConn faculty and contributing writers to The Conversation, including Joseph Cooper, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership in the Neag School of Education; C. Michael White, Professor of Pharmacy Practice in the School of Pharmacy; Erin Young, Assistant Professor in Nursing and Assistant Director, Center for Advancement in Managing Pain; and others. The discussion will be moderated by Kristen Cole, Director of News & Editorial Communications at UConn.

This event is open to all faculty.

Lisa B. Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH,
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Thursday, November 29, 2018
12:30 – 1:30pm

"Innovations in Mobile Technology for Engaging Youth in Treatment and Prevention"

**About the Speaker**

Lisa B. Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Departments of Infectious Diseases and Health Behavior, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Hightow-Weidman completed her medical school training at the University of Virginia and became board certified in Internal Medicine in 2001 after completing residency training at Stanford University. She completed fellowship training in Infectious Diseases and earned a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Hightow-Weidman is an expert on mhealth, social media and utilization and evaluation of technology-based interventions to address the HIV Care Continuum for youth and young adults, particularly among young men who have sex with men (YMSM). She has published >90 peer-reviewed articles on these topics. She has developed technology-based interventions to address uptake and adherence to biomedical HIV prevention technologies, as well as intervening to increase HIV diagnosis, linkage and retention in care for YMSM. She is the PI of iTech, The UNC/Emory Center for Innovative Technology Across the Prevention and Care Continuum. This grant, part of the Adolescent Trials Network for HIV Interventions (ATN), seeks to develop a technology center to address the domestic epidemic of HIV among at risk and HIV-infected youth.

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The Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Awards program provides thousands of dollars in support of undergraduate students' summer research and creative projects. Do you have questions about the SURF program? Would you like someone to review your proposal, budget, and timeline?

Come to SURF Office Hours sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research. More information: http://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/surf/.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Jodi Eskin at jodi.eskin@uconn.edu or 860-486-7939 by November 27, 2018.

The Center for Behavioral and Education Research (CBER)

Breakfast Brown Bag

with

Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE)


"Vision of Education in CT: Opportunities, Challenges, and Advice for Future Leaders"

For more information, and to RSVP visit
http://s.uconn.edu/CBERBBB

The Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Awards program provides thousands of dollars in support of undergraduate students' summer research and creative projects. Do you have a question about the SURF program? Would you like someone to review your proposal, budget, and timeline?

Come to SURF Office Hours sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research. More information: http://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/surf/.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Jodi Eskin at jodi.eskin@uconn.edu or 860-486-7939 by January 17, 2019.