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12
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On December 3-4, 2020, the National Institutes of Health hosted the Workshop on Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19. The goal was to summarize existing knowledge and to identify key knowledge gaps. On Day One, Dr. Anthony Fauci welcomed over twenty biomedical researchers to give quick summaries. Dr. John Brooks (CDC) lay the groundwork with the epidemiological… Read More »
Posted in: NIH
Dec
04
0 comments Tags: Charlie Cart, food and nutrition, Food education, food literacy, food programming, healthy eating, nutrition programming
The following post was written by Margaret Woodruff, Director of the Charlotte, Vermont Public Library and Cheryl Sloan, the Youth Services Librarian and Assistant Director. The Charlotte Public Library received NNLM NER grant funding to purchase a Charlie Cart, a portable kitchen that enabled them to implement a food literacy project for their community. Greetings… Read More »
Posted in: Funded Project
Dec
02
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We inherit many things from the people who went before us – our physical characteristics, aspects of our personality and, sometimes, our health. December’s Reading Club selections discuss inherited diseases, focusing specifically on cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell disease, and cancer caused by the BRCA mutation. In Resurrection Lily, Amy Byer Shainman discusses her experiences after learning… Read More »
Posted in: Blog
Nov
30
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In, its quest to continue providing adaptive recreation programs in the Blackstone River Valley, the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor (BRVNHC) has acquired a state-of-the-art, electric-assist wheelchair bicycle. A grant received from the Network of the National Library of Medicine, New England Region (NNLM,) provided the funds to purchase a Van Raam OPair bicycle… Read More »
Posted in: Blog
Nov
30
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Now that we’ve gone over the basics of research data management, here is a roundup of tools you can use for working with data, or tools you can teach to researchers to help them better manage their data. Some of these might be familiar to you, but we hope this will be helpful to have… Read More »