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Please consider volunteering for an upcoming Poverty Simulation scheduled for Friday, February 23rd . Poverty Simulations are an educational experience for both volunteers and participants, and they truly take a village to accomplish. Help students learn about the challenges people in poverty face in their daily lives. No experience is required, and multiple roles are needed. Learn more and sign up to volunteer here https://uthsc.givepulse.com/event/432703 (Log in with your UTHSC credentials.)

Interested in having your class participate in a poverty simulation? Email Jess Guthrie to learn more about upcoming opportunities!

Join Dr. Alvin Crawford for a reception and book signing of his autobiography on Monday, February 26! Registration Deadline extended to February 20.

Kimberly Williams MS, PhD(C) is enrolling African American and non-African American students for a research study “Exploring the Matriculation and Resource Utilization of African Americans with Hidden Disabilities in the Health Sciences” to understand your experiences of having as disability and being a student in the Health Sciences. Subjects must be 18 or older, enrolled in any of the colleges of UTHSC, and be of any race. Subjects will be asked to complete a brief demographic survey and do a 60-90 minute interview via Zoom or in person. At the completion of the interview, students will be compensated with a $25 Amazon e-gift card. Please contact Kimberly Williams at kwilli72@uthsc.edu or 901-448-1343.

Physiology Seminar Series Continues This Thursday, Feb. 8th from 3:30-5:00pm in Cancer Research Bldg. Auditorium.

Join the Office of Access and Compliance for a discussion of The Water Dancer, a New York Times bestselling novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Drs. Theodore Cory and Camaron Hole are enrolling healthy subjects for a research trial
“Isolation of blood from healthy donors for in vitro infection and analysis”, to find out how the
immune system responds to infection with fungal pathogens.
Subjects must be between the ages of 18-40, and generally healthy. Subjects must not be
heavy alcohol users, use illicit substances, have liver damage, or be pregnant.
Subjects will be asked to provide up to 4 tablespoons of blood per visit, for a maximum of 10
visits, and will be compensated $25 for each blood draw.
Please contact Dr. Theodore Cory at tcory1@uthsc.edu, or 901-448-7216.

Please join Chancellor Buckley on Wednesday, February 21, at 11:00 am CST (12:00 pm EST) for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s State of the University presentation, “Tennessee is Our Campus.”   This presentation will be held on the Memphis campus in the Mooney Library, Room 201, and will also be live streamed. Register to… Read More