This Week
April 28, 2008

Click Here to View News Archive

• HEALTH STATISTICS STUDENT ARYAL WINS HAENZEL AWARD
• C ROTH BOOK ON HOLOCAUST REAPS FAVORABLE ADVANCE REVIEWS
• Policies & Procedures

  Center for Health Statistics Student Aryal Wins Haenzel Award
  Subhash Aryal, a student in the Center for Health Statistics, last week received the 2008 Haenzel Award from the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in UIC’s School of Public Health. The Haenszel Research Award is presented annually to an outstanding student in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division. The award is acknowledged at a special ceremony, and the winner receives a voucher for $200 to be used for travel, books, software, or equipment relevant to his or her work. The intent of the award is to foster high quality research among Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division students.

  New C Roth Book on Holocaust Memories Reaps Favorable Advance Reviews
  A new book by Chaya Roth, Ph.D., The Fate of Holocaust Memories: Transmission and Family Dialogues, will be published in August by MacMillan Palgrave, Academic Series. Advance reviews of the book have been quite favorable:

  • Holocaust Memories “helps us understand the imperative to tell, re-tell and understand what has happened and what formed the fabric of a family's character and psyche as it extends from generation to generation. Roth helps us appreciate that memories are important in terms of the precise and imprecise recollections of facts and feelings they portray, as well as the meanings these memories carry when they are shared with others. Among the many revealing messages in this work is that the fear of forgetting is just as powerful as the fear of remembering because it is not just retention but also the sharing of memories that binds us together and, to the extent possible, can make us whole again.” Bennett L. Leventhal, MD
  • “One of the most moving and important books on the Holocaust I have read.” Sir Martin Gilbert, historian, author
  • “Chaya Roth has given us a wonderfully evocative and multi-layered book. A labor of love in the truest sense of those words, it port rays and probes the interaction of her family’s past, present, and future over seven decades. I know of no work on the transmission of Holocaust memory to match it.”Peter Hayes, Theodore Z. Weiss Professor of Holocaust Studies,Northwestern University

  Policies & Procedures
  Over the next few months we will be providing and implementing Department Electronic, Network, Computing Policies and Procedures. All Department Policies and Procedures will be reviewed and endorsed by the Information Technology Steering Committee (ITSC) prior to presenting to the Department.
  
  Because of our relationship to UIC and College of Medicine there are some Policies we automatically inherit. Two such policies:

  1. Information Security Policy - The University of Illinois
  2. University Guidelines on the Sale, Donation, or Transfer of Computer Hard Drives and Other Magnetic Media
  
  These policies can be found on our web site using the following link: https://intranet.psych.uic.edu/is/ you will be required to “log-in” to access these policies.
  
  We will make both of these policies (along with others forth coming) a part of new employee orientation, but to those of us already in the system we are asking that each of you please take the time to read these policies.
  
  If you have any questions concerning any policy or procedure please contact Lloyd Keith, thank you.

  http://www.psych.uic.edu/thisweek
  http://www.psych.uic.edu/whatsnew