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CGIA GeoSummit - GIS...integrating your community, world, life

Please join UC Merced's Resource Center for Community Engaged Scholarship for their fourth annual CGIA GeoSummit on Friday, March 14th, 2014 at the UC Merced California Room. 

 

This event brigs together state and regional GIS experts, educators, graduate students, and faculty using GIS in their research, in addition to community members with an interest in GIS. 

 

This year's event features speakers from all walks of GIS to share their work and research using the latest in GIS technology to understand and address local, regional, and statewide concerns.

Professor Studies How Adolescents Interpret Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarette Packaging

New Zealand cigarette pack graphic warning labelGraphic warning labels and plain cigarette packaging are two health initiatives developed to encourage quit behavior among smokers. Little research has been conducted on the interpretation of graphic warning labels and plain cigarette packaging among adolescents, a group vulnerable to smoking experimentation.

 

Professor Studies How Information Consumption Impacts Health Behaviors

From sunrise to sunset, people consume all kinds of information from television, online and from other sources.

 

UC Merced public health Professor A. Susana Ramirez wants to know how that influences people's health decisions and behaviors. Quite often, misconceptions about leading a healthy life can have serious implications on a person’s overall health.

 

Universities Seek Public Input During 'Valley Fever Research Day'

By Rebecca Plevin, Valley Public Radio

 

This Saturday, community members are invited to attend Valley Fever Research Day at the UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research. The event is an opportunity for researchers from UCSF Fresno, UC Merced, and Fresno State to connect with community members who have been impacted by the disease. 

 

Valley Fever Research Day

Please join us for the Health Sciences Research Institute's Research Day on Valley Fever, “Creating an Agenda for Research and Action to Address Valley Fever” at 9:00am on Saturday, November 9th at UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research

 

Parking will be free and available in the lot located to the north of the UCSF Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research building, 155 N Fresno St, Fresno, CA 93701.

 

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