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4 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2005 A VINTAGE SOUND DTH/STEVE ANDRAWES Grammy award winning band Los Lobos performs at Memorial Hall on Sunday. With David Hidalgo on vocals, the Latino sensation has already won three Grammys in the past two decades. The band has been together since 1974. Visit dailytarheel.com for the Ml story. Free Admissions and Test Strategy Seminar . Attend this FREE seminar and learn: 1 ■ how to successfully navigate the admissions process ■ how to craft an application that gets you noticed v: score-raising strategies critical to acing your admissions test J Medical School: Tuesday, Sept 27th 6:3OPM Law School: Wednesday, Sept 28th 6:3OPM Graduate School: Thursday, Sept 29th 6:OOPM Business School: Thursday, Sept 29th 7:3OPM On campus at UNC! Space is limited. Call or visit us online today to register. 1 -800-KAP-TEST kaptest.com Test Prep and Admissions 3 ;o ©'o' Q b;® o' Q'o'Q o, © o' ©'o' See a company like no other. See where risk-taking is applauded. 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During Wednesday’s meeting of the board’s University Affairs Committee, Faculty Chairwoman Judith Wegner underscored the importance of improving gradu ate students’ benefits to attract the best students. When assisting in the classrooms and the labs, graduate students are an integral part of the University’s educational fabric, Wegner said. Trustee Rusty Carter, chair man of the committee, requested a report on graduate student tuition be prepared to bring trustees up to speed. He said the committee will take this year to look into graduate stu dents’ concerns. “You will hear a lot more about the grad school and our thoughts and feelings on that as the year moves on,” Carter told the rest of the trustees during their full meet ing Thursday. Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu. IN DUKE UNIVERSITY W* MEDICAL CENTER Data Manager Position available in the laboratory of Dr. David Madden at the Duke University Medical Center http://www.geri.duke.edu/cogpsych/main.htm. The lab is located in the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, and the research focuses on age related changes in cognitive function. Duties for this position involve processing different forms of imaging data (e.g., fMRI, diffusion tensor), using SPM and locally developed software, as well as programming stimulus presentation for behavioral studies, and network administration. Minimum educational qualification for the position is 8.5./ B.A. Background in computer science and/or biomedical engineering, familiarity with MATLAB, helpful; two-year commitment preferred. Duke University is an equal opportunity employer. Submit resume to harri@duke.edu News NIH: no gender bias in funding BY KRISTIN PRATT STAFF WRITER Data from a RAND Corp. report released last Monday suggests the National Institute of Health awards more grants to men than to women, but the NIH says the finding is not completely accurate. Following a Congressional direc tive to investigate gender gaps in research funding, the RAND study looked at three years of data from 2001 to 2003. Researchers found that women received only about 63 percent of the amount men received from the NIH during that time —a gap of 37 percent for all awards. No such gender differences were found in grants awarded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as analyzed by the RAND group. For NSF from 2001 to 2003, the mean funding awarded to men was $84,200, and for women it was $85,100. The agricultural depart ment from 2000 to 2002 gave men $28,300 and women $27,600. RAND Corp. notes in its report that the data from the NIH did not include the amount of funding requested, so it is hard to determine if the gender gap reflects a differ ence in the number of applications for funding or the institution’s deci sion of how much money to award. Norka Ruiz Bravo, NIH deputy director of extramural research said that was a key piece of miss ing information. “The simple conclusion is to leap to discrimination,” she said. “You need to look at all of it.” She said analyzing the success rate of getting grants depends on looking both at the number of awards given and the number of applicants. “(Women) have in fact been, for research project grants, as success ful as men,” Ruiz Bravo said. A report compiled in 2004 by Dr. Peter Preusch, an NIH health science administrator, found that grant applications from women were accepted at nearly the same rate as those from men. For fiscal year 2003, the NIH reviewed 8,681 applications for research project grants from women and awarded 2,617 grants, an acceptance rate of 30.1 percent. For men, 23,868 applications were reviewed and 7,296 awarded, an acceptance rate of 30.5 percent. The RAND report concedes that more data is needed. “Our understanding of gender differences in federal research is incomplete,” the RAND report states. “Those interested in how women are represented in the fed erally funded research community may want to focus first on how they are represented in the appli cant pool and on their decisions to apply for grants.” SIGN UP TODAY TAX SCHOOL! Take the Jackson Learn a skill that never goes out of style in the Jackson Hewitt® Income Tax Course. Our trained instructors will teach you how to prepare tax returns so you’ll be able to do you own taxes! And once your friends discover your talent, you could earn extra money preparing their taxes, too! 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For fiscal year 2004, UNC ranked 16th out of 3,181 schools in the top awards given to institu tions, receiving 777 awards for a total of more than S2BO million. “NIH is the most important of the three (grant-awarding federal agencies),” said UNC Provost Robert Shelton. “They hand out far and away the most dollars combined.” University officials said UNC does not have any major problems with a gender gap in federal funding. “I am not aware of any grant issues,” said Silvia Tomaskova, director of the women and science program at the University. Federal funding differs based on profession, Tomaskova said. For example, most of the biology pro fessors receive NIH grants, where as some other fields might receive money from the NSF. She said the school treats both genders equally in terms of funding and that the broader issue is the rel atively low number of women in sci ence professions at the University. Contact the State & National Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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