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March 1, 2001
Two in policy research
The
Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) has been awarded
$18 million from the U.S. Department of Educations Office of Educational
Research and Improvement for continuation of its research on educational
practice and policy. CPRE, part of the Graduate School of Education, analyzes
the effectiveness of education policy, finance, governance and reform.
Mary D. Naylor, Ph.D., RN,
Ralston House Professor in Gerontologic Nursing, was appointed to the
National Advisory Council for Nursing Research as of Feb. 1. The council,
part of the National Institutes of Healths National Institute for
Nursing Research, sets forth the nursing research agenda that NIH will
fund for the next four or five years.
Genomics grant
Peter Davies, Ph.D., professor
of pathology and director of the Instutite for Medicine and Engineering
(IME) has been awarded a $1.02 million NASA-related genomics grant to
research the role genes play in the inappropriate distribution of blood
that afflicts astronauts when they return from prolonged space flight.
Originally published on March 1, 2001
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