 ECHA Terrace Community Garden: HELP WANTED!
No green thumb necessary! We are seeking ECHA occupants who are interested in learning about gardening and contributing to our ECHA community.
We are currently seeking:
- Volunteer(s) to organize information sessions for the summer.
- Volunteer(s) to pick up and deliver bags of soil for the garden boxes
- Volunteer(s) to source umbrellas/sun sail donations for the terraces
Look for further information about a planting bee and watering/maintenance schedules soon! Also, A HUGE THANK YOU to the woodworking students at Clover Bar Junior High who are working hard to help build our beautiful garden boxes. We are very impressed and really appreciate their talent! Please contact Gabrielle Donoff ( donoff@ualberta.ca) for more information or to join the ECHA Terrace Community Garden mailing list. |
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Festival of Health
The Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry cordially invites you to attend our first annual Festival of Health.
Saturday, June 3, 2017
ECHA 2-490
Edmonton Clinic Health Academy, University of Alberta
Free public event - all are welcome!
TODAY'S MOST CRITICAL HEALTH TOPICS 1-2 pm
Delivered in rapid doses by U of A's leading health experts, such as:
- Drop Dead Healthy: How to prevent a trip to the ER
- Spread the Word: New infectious diseases
- Childhood Obesity: From management to prevention
- Gut Health: Is poop the new scoop?
- Curing Cancer: In women and men
- and much more!
HANDS-ON HEALTH 2-3 pm & 3:45-4:45 pm
Interactive displays, such as:
- Virtual reality dentistry
- Type 2 diabetes risk assessment
- 3D imaging and diagnostics
- and much more!
ASK THE DOCTORS 3-3:45 pm
- What have you always wanted to know but never dared to ask?
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WCHRI Lunch and Learn: "Make an impact with your research poster and abstract"
Learn how to design your poster and write an abstract that will engage your public audience. Drs. Oana Caluseriu and Piush Mandhane will demonstrate the most effective ways to design a poster and write an abstract when presenting to the public.
Date: May 30
Time: 11:45 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.
Location: ECHA L1-220
WCHRI Lunch and Learn: " Your research communications toolkit: Free online resources you didn't know you needed"
PowerPoint, Piktochart, Facebook... oh my! Not sure what communications tools to use for your research? Come and learn what resources are available and how to use them.
Hosted by:
- Alexis Millar, WCHRI communications coordinator
- Breanne Fisher, WCHRI senior communications lead
- Jillian Byrne, director of clinical research within the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
- Mary Jo Fell, ADI communications associate
Date: June 6
Time: noon - 1 p.m.
Location: ECHA1-490
WCHRI REDCap training sessions
REDCap training sessions are available free to WCHRI members, University of Alberta REDCap users and external collaborators. The next sessions are below:
Drop-in session
Date: June 6
Time: 10 - 11 a.m.
Location: ECHA 4-099
REDCap training session: Introduction to REDCap
Date: June 6
Time: noon - 1:30 p.m.
Location: ED N1 128 (Education Building)
Register for these workshops.
REDCap is a secure, web-based application for building and managing online surveys and databases. REDCap features include the ability to: export data to common data analysis packages, build in project calendars that can organize your events and appointments, and create a survey link that can be emailed or posted on a website.
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Upcoming Events in ECHA
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Want to know what else is going on in ECHA? Check the ECHA calendar
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