For Your Health

Did you miss the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Regional Directors Conference at UND in May? Fear not: each of the NIA presentations are available online. Thank you to everyone who attended the two-day conference!

UND has an institutional subscription to the University of Michgan’s Institute for Social Research ICPSR database, giving affiliates access to a valuable collection of data resources and research support tools at no cost. This may be especially useful for those involved in TRANSCEND or anyone working on projects with federal data-sharing requirements. To get started, […]

For the next Neurology Grand Rounds, to be held from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, June 4, Lisa Schock, M.D., psychiatrist with Sanford Health in Fargo, N.D., will discuss anxiety in neurological practice. The meeting will be held in-person at the Sanford Brain and Spine Center, 2301 25th St. S. in Fargo, Conf. […]

The 4th annual statewide North Dakota Native American Veterans Stand Down event will be held June 10-11 at the Prairie Knights Casino and Resort in Fort Yates, N.D. This free, two-day event is dedicated to bringing programs and resources together in one location and will connect Native Veterans with the support they may need and […]

Talking epigenetics, Dr. Motoki Takaku mused from his office at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences (SMHS) that studying what’s happening inside a cell is a bit like tuning a radio: there’s signal, and there’s noise. Sometimes a lot of noise. And all too often, he said, this noise interferes with researchers’ ability […]

If you are applying for a federal grant, you may need a data management and sharing plan that explains how scientific data will be managed, stored, preserved, and shared throughout the course of a research project. The DMPTool is an online platform that helps researchers create these plans using funder-specific templates and institutional guidance. It […]

In music, we think of dissonance as a lack of harmony. Likewise, the psychological discomfort someone experiences when holding either contradictory beliefs or acting in ways different from one’s values is called “cognitive dissonance.” People often deal with this tension by either: “Digging in,” i.e., rationalizing thoughts/behaviors or rejecting conflicting information (the quick route of […]

Julie Solheim is the administrative assistant for the Departments of Graduate Medical Education and Neurology at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Grand Forks. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from UND in general studies and minors in communications, sociology, women & gender studies and a certificate in professional executive communications. […]

Join the SMHS Wellness Team’s Community Action Advocacy Resources and Empowerment (CAARE) task force for Snip & Swap, a weeklong community plant exchange taking place in June on each SMHS campus (possibly later in June on the Southwest Campus). This welcoming event encourages students, faculty, and staff to bring plant cuttings, divisions, extra plants, or […]

Have you noticed recurring questions or patterns during patient care that deserve a closer look? The Office of Research Affairs & Compliance in the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences is working to strengthen collaboration across all four campuses and with our health system partners, and we’d love to hear from you. We are […]