The Center for Nursing Research (CNR) is excited to announce the 2020-21 Research Development Workshop Series. Nine all-new sessions have been created to cover a wide variety of topics. DUSON faculty, PhD students, and post-docs conducting research are invited to attend. Please note the dates and times on your calendar. An invitation with Zoom link will be sent two weeks prior to each workshop session; all sessions will be recorded if you are unable to attend.

Allen Cadavero, assistant professor, and Bradi B.

Mariam Kayle, assistant professor, has completed the Duke LEADER program, which Dean Marion E. Broome sponsors. This interactive three-part workshop is designed for junior faculty who are leading a research group.

Congratulations to Ryan Shaw, associate professor, Jane Pendergast, of the Duke Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, and their entire team who have received an award for their NIH U24 proposal entitled: "Log2Lose: Incenting Weight Loss and Dietary Self-Monitoring in Real Time to Improve Weight Management." This award is for a five-year period, awarded September 15, 2020, to August 31

Kudos to Isaac Lipkus, professor, and his entire team for the submission of their subcontract proposal on Virginia Commonwealth University’s NIH R01 application entitled: "Characterizing Toxicant Exposure/Yield, Behavior, and Abuse Liability of the Electronic Waterpipe." This proposal requests funding for a four-year period with a start date of July 1, 2021.

Mariam Kayle, assistant professor, and Wei Pan, associate professor, contributed to "

Tech Tips

Understanding network bandwidth

Visit the Speedtest website to check your network bandwidth. (Go ahead, it’s quick.) Do you have at least three Megabits per second (Mbps) speed? Great. Right? That’s what we’ve been saying.

Well, not exactly. Like most things, it’s not that simple.

Antonia M. Villarruel, Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing for the University of Pennsylvania, and Dean Marion E.