Campus News

Library Commons Chilly on 1/17

Due to contractor work on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday (Monday, January 17th), the heat will be off in the Resource Center. The Library Commons should be available but chilly. So bundle up to study!

Pay for Print Maintenance

Beginning at 8AM, on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 the Pharos Printing System will be non-operational due to scheduled server maintenance. The outage is expected to end at 1PM. *Edit* Maintenance was complete by 1:30 pm.

During this time, students, faculty and staff will be unable to add money to their Pay Paw cards or print from designated print stations.

Dept. of Psychiatry gets the Gold

Congratulations to LSUHSC’s Department of Psychiatry, who received a Psychiatric Services Achievement Award for their work with the St. Bernard Family Resiliency Project. This is the top Psychiatric Services honor bestowed by the world’s largest psychiatric organization.

The LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Department of Psychiatry was recognized for “successfully integrating mental health services into the school system, youth leadership, and community outreach for children and families recovering from the traumatic effects of Hurricane Katrina,” via the St. Bernard Family Resiliency Project.

Read more about the project in Psychiatric Services 2010 61: 1039-1041

Stinky in the Commons

LSUHSC Facilities is planning to do some drain cleaning in the Library Commons food service area this evening (Thursday, Nov 4th) at about 6:00 pm. As a result, there could be a bad smell in the general area, although they will have deodorizers to dissipate any resulting smells. Thanks for your patience!

$3.12 Million Grant

LSU Health Sciences Center was recently awarded a $3.12 million grant through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in order to train more primary care physicians.

An article on gambit.com states “The five-year grant will be used to double the number of primary care doctors trained through the Rural Family Medicine Residency program at LSU’s Bogalusa Medical Center.”

Louisiana has a vast shortage of primary care physicians and statistics are expected to get worse. Congratulations to LSUHSC for working to help our state in this time of need!

Wired Ports on Campus, pt.2

Wired Ports on the downtown campus will be switched over to using the 802.1x protocol at 9 am on Monday, October 25th. This is the same protocol that has been in use on the wireless network for sometime.

The email from the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Technology (on October 21st at 10:40 am to all LSUHSC New Orleans faculty, staff, and students) states “If you do experience a problem with a wired connection, please make an appointment with your schoolÔÇÖs IT supporters to have the problem addressed. In the interim, please use your wireless connection.”

Flu Shots

Flu shots will be offered to LSUHSC New Orleans faculty, staff and students during the first week of October, brought to you by the School of Nursing. This year the flu shot will be administered in one dose and will help protect you and others against H3N2, influenza B, and the H1N1 viruses.

Those who should avoid vaccinations are:

• Infants under 6 months of age

• People with egg allergies

• People who have had a severe reaction to a flu vaccine in the past

• People with a mild to severe illness

• People who have developed Guillain-Barre Syndrome within 6 weeks of getting the flu vaccine

What: Flu Shots
When: October 6th, 7th & 8th b/w 9am ÔÇô 2:30pm
Where: School of Nursing ÔÇô Room 5B12 (5th floor)
Cost: $15.00 for faculty & staff; payable to LSUHSC-NO by check or money order (Cost is free for students)

Wired Ports on Campus

*Update – 2:15 pm*
The Wired Ports in the Library have reverted to allow “guest” laptops to work.
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Computer Services pushed through a change to all wired (requiring a cord) ports on the downtown campus yesterday, including the ones in the Library and the Library Commons. The ports will now required that any laptop connecting will need to be included in the network. (How to tell if your laptop is “in the network?” Do you use your LSUHSC userid and password to login? Then yes. If not? Then no.) Users who have “guest” computers will notice a message in the tray of their taskbar saying their Local Area Network has Limited Connectivity.

Wireless access is still available for non-network laptops.

Donate to Public Schools

The LSUHSC/New Orleans Recovery School District Science Partnership 2010 Supply Drive is now collecting donations at several locations around campus, including both the Main Campus and Dental Libraries. Any types of school supplies are accepted, but paper, crayons, notebooks, markers and pencils are especially appreciated.

This annual project is sponsored by the School of Graduate Studies. Supplies can be donated today through Friday, September 10th.

Great Forensic CE Opportunity

If you have an interest in Forensic Sciences, don’t miss this opportunity to learn from some of the best in the field. The workshop will include luncheon speakers Orleans Parish Coroner, Dr. Frank Minyard, and crime writer, forensic anthropologist, and academic, Kathy Reichs (of Bones fame.)

The 13th Annual Investigation for Identification: Forensic Sciences Enter a New Decade
Sponsored by LSU Continuing Dental Education.
Friday, August 27 – Saturday, August 28, 2010
14 hrs CDE (non-clinical, lecture) – 14 hrs CME Cat. 2 – 14 hrs CLE
Fee: $545*

Course Directors
Philip J. Levine, DDS, MS, MSM — Robert E. Barsley, DDS, JD — Robert B. Brannon, DDS, MS

Faculty
Michael Baden, MD — Henry C. Lee, PhD — Sam Brothers — Mary Manhein, MA — Tommy Martin — Robert B. J. Dorion, DDS — Christopher G. Fielding, COL, DC, USA — Joe Navarro, BS, MA

Check out the brochure or the schedule.

Fellowships Awarded to SPH students

Four LSUHSC School of Public Health MPH students were recipients of the New Orleans Schweitzer Fellowships for 2010. Reece Alkire and Meagan Relle are working with Volunteers of America to develop and implement a disease prevention program focusing on homeless veterans. Megan Burns is creating a school gardening program at James Weldon Johnson Elementary School to instruct children on growing, preparing, and marketing fresh produce. Emily Mabile is collaborating with art therapists, teaching children in Central City how to create murals. This art form promotes mental health by empowering children to represent themselves and their schools.

The New Orleans Schweitzer Fellowship Foundaton established in 2007 as part of the U.S. Schweitzer Fellows Program?« . Approximately 200 exceptional students from the nation’s top health and human service schools are selected to follow in Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s footsteps.

Epidemiology, PhD

Congratulations to the School of Public Health (only 7 years old!) on getting it’s second doctoral program-in epidemiology-approved. We look forward to new graduates who are just as talented as House, but have much better manners. Check out the Gambit post on the program.

SPH’s first doctoral program is in Biostatistics which was approved in 2007.

THC & HIV

Physiology Department Head, Patricia Molina has been awarded a $4 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health for the study of how cannabinoids produce subtle changes in gene activity that affect how a person responds to HIV infection. The award was announced via EurekaAlert and LSUHSC twitter feed.

As the Times-Picayune reported the grant “will study how marijuana components called cannabinoids produce changes in gene activity that affects the body’s response to the AIDS virus.” The award will be dispersed over five years.

Soccer Tournament Fundraiser

This Saturday (July 3rd) the Murphy Memorial Match will be held at the Lyons Playground at Louisiana and Tchoupitoulas from 3-7 p.m. to raise money for Nicole Murphy’s family. Nicole Murphy was a third year medical student who was killed by a suspected drunk driver while in South Africa at the World Cup. Her brother suffered a head injury in the same accident and money is being raised for an ICU plane to bring him home. Daniel Murphy, Nicole’s father, is a graduate of the School of Medicine in Shreveport. The Times-Picayune has the full story.

Bringing Nicole & her Brother Home

The Murphy family is raising money for an ICU medical jet to bring Nicole Murphy’s injured brother, as well as her body back to Louisiana.