Graduate Student Association
 

Graduate Research Conference 2009

Organizers:  GRC is hosted by the Graduate Student Association at the University of Maryland Baltimore.

Location: Westminster Hall at the UMB campus.

Date:  Friday, April 3, 2009 (7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.)

Abstract Deadline: Extended to Monday, March 23, 2009, midnight

Registration:  Click for student/postdocs or judge information and application forms

Purpose of the GRC:

The GRC provides trainees, both graduate students and postdocs from the University of Maryland Baltimore with the opportunity to present results of their ongoing research in an interdisciplinary setting to peers, faculty members, the University of Maryland community at large and other interested parties.  The GRC creates a unique and dynamic setting that facilitates the efficient exchange of information and ideas across a wide variety of scientific disciplines.

Participants in GRC 2009 have the opportunity to be considered for three special awards.  Students presenting posters can choose to be considered for awards in Geriatrics and Gerontology, and Technology Commercialization.  The Geriatrics and Gerontology Education and Research Program, University of Maryland Baltimore will be sponsoring awards in aging research at this year’s Graduate Research Conference Day. First place and honorable mention awards will be presented to graduate students who have either completed research or have research in progress in one of the following two categories: Social science/behavioral/clinical research in the field of aging; or Bio-medical/basic science research in the field of aging.

The Office of Commercial Ventures & Intellectual Property (CVIP) in association with the Graduate Research Conference will once again offer the CVIP Translational Graduate Research Award.  The award is made in recognition of important translational research performed by a UMB graduate student and encompasses a wide array of disciplines with biomedical or other practical applications.  

Agenda:

Keynote Speaker

Merrill Goozner
Director, Integrity in Science Project

MERRILL GOOZNER spent more than 25 years in the news business as a foreign correspondent, economics writer and investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune and other publications. He reported from over a dozen countries while posted in Chicago, Tokyo, New York and Washington. His jobs included Chief Asia Correspondent (1991-95), New York Financial Correspondent (1996-1998) and Chief Economics Correspondent (1998-2000). Like Benjamin Franklin, he spent his early years in the printing trade.

His freelance writing in recent years has appeared in numerous national publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, The Scientist, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, The American Prospect and the Washington Monthly. He’s won six Peter Lisagor awards; a Michigan Journalism Fellowship (1995-96); and a Kaiser Media Fellowship (2001-02), and in 2008 was named a Distinguished Alumni of the University of Cincinnati College of Arts and Sciences. In April 2004, the University of California Press published his first book, “The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs,” an exposé of the pharmaceutical industry’s research and development practices.

Goozner left daily journalism in June 2000 to teach journalism at New York University. In December 2003, he joined the Center for Science in the Public Interest as director of the Integrity in Science project, where he continues his research and writing.

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