Policies & Procedures
Cook, Colleagues at Autism Center of Excellence Receive $9.6 Million NIH Grant
The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times and ABC 7 last week mentioned UIC's $9.6 million grant from the NIH to establish an Autism Center of Excellence to investigate the underlying causes and potential treatment for a common problem related to autism known as insistence on sameness, or repetitive behavior. The stories can be read online at the following links:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/499986,CST-NWS-newrx0807.article
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=health&id=5545476
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0809givingaug09,0,2969946.story
To see the UIC press release on the story, visit: http://tinyurl.com/2yfmge
Undergraduate Walker Receives S. M. Kabbes Research Scholarship
A UIC Sarah Madonna Kabbes Scholarship for Undergraduate Research in the amount of $1,000 was awarded to undergraduate Psychology honors student Corey Walker for the 2007-2008 school year. The award was granted through the Honors College. Mr. Walker received the award for his work in assessing cortical white matter changes following traumatic brain injury. He works in the Traumatic Brain Injury laboratory with Marilyn Kraus, M.D., and Deborah Little, Ph.D.
Mason Hones Skills to Help Tanzanian Kids Orphaned or Impacted by HIV/AIDS
Last week, Sally Mason, Ph.D., LCSW, returned from a month-long trip to Tanzania, where she and about 60 other community-based caregivers who work with children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS in Tanzania’s Iringa Municipality honed their case management and counseling skills at a two-week workshop. Iringa is one of several Tanzanian regions with particularly high HIV/AIDS prevalence rates, and consequently, larger numbers of orphans and vulnerable children.
With funding from the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, an HIV/AIDS Twinning Center partnership linking the Institute of Social Work in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with UIC’s Jane Addams College of Social Work and the Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center, is providing in-service training for social workers and para-social workers. The aim is to improve the knowledge and skills of caregivers aiding nearly 2.5 million Tanzanian children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. These children are more likely to experience isolation, stigma, malnutrition, limited educational opportunities, and a general lack of care and support. Trained government social workers are assigned to only one-third of the country's 126 districts. With training, para-social workers can help fill gaps at the regional and district levels in the country's severely overstretched welfare system.
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:
- Information Security Policy - The University of Illinois
- 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 let me know, thank you.
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