The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Research, Evaluation, and Analysis for Community Health Lab and the Minority Health Disparities Initiative (MHDI) administer the Minority Health Disparities REU, which is an interdisciplinary program aimed at conducting cutting edge social and behavioral research into understanding and reducing health disparities and in diversifying minority health researchers.

This project takes place under support of a Summer REU grant from the National Science Foundation for research in social network analysis (SNA) and minority health. As part of that program, participating students will learn basic approaches to network science/SNA in order to employ these skills where possible in their summer research projects. SNA instruction will take place during a 2-week intensive class led by Kirk Dombrowski (Professor of Sociology, UNL), scheduled for the first two weeks of the program. Training will be used to enrich the students experience in their partner laboratories during the subsequent 8 weeks. The primary student outcome of this part of the summer research experience will be an introductory facility in social network terminology, visualization, and exploration.

Participating students work with mentors in a variety of social and behavioral science disciplines to support health research. All projects are on-going, but the work specific to the summer research program will be completed within the 10-week timeframe. At the conclusion of the program, participants will present their research at the Summer Research Symposium.

Benefits:

Students can apply online and follow the application steps to submit the following materials.

For more information, please contact Kim Gocchi Carrasco at kstarlin2@unl.edu. 

Please note that the Mosaic Center will have adjusted hours for Finals' Week.

Also, please note that the all three of our spaces will be closed for the holiday break from Friday, December 22, 2017 - Monday, January 1, 2018 and will reopen for our Winter Hours Tuesday, January 2, 2018. Our hours for our spaces are as follows:

Sunday: CLOSED

Monday-Thursday: 10AM-2PM

Friday: 10AM-1PM

Saturday: CLOSED

Sunday-Saturday: 11AM-8PM

Sunday-Saturday: CLOSED

Mosaic Staff

Thank you to those who were able to make our last PAWTalk a GREAT success! It was a privilege and an honor to have Amal Kassir share her personal story with our campus. 

For those who missed it, please click here to view the PAWTalk. 

We highly encourage you to check out Amal Kassir's other works and presentations online.

Be sure to join us next semester's PAWTalks! For further questions on next semester's PAWTalks, please stay tuned to our myUMBC page or email Carlos Turcios, Program Associate for Diversity and Inclusion at carlos6@umbc.edu.

Make sure you check out our newsletter below with our events this month, before we close out for the year! Congratulations to Becca Mann for getting Dylan's Stamp of Recognition!

Have any questions about any of the events? Just email us at mosaic@umbc.edu

Here's an extra link to it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a8zTnJ3wElqEIYX6VDZ6gkZS-BsCcBtA/view?usp=sharing 

- Mosiac Staff

For more urgent matters, please visit the Main Student Life office (Commons 336).

Mosaic Staff

We unfortunately do not have enough participants to run the staff and faculty SafeZone and have decided to cancel the session. Please look for our spring calendar to stay updated on our upcoming sessions next semester. For any questions, please feel free to email us at mosaic@umbc.edu.

Thank you for your commitment to the UMBC LGBTQ+ community.

-Mosaic Staff