Jerry Crawford Received This Year's General Research Fund (GRF) Award

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Jerry Crawford received this year's General Research Fund (GRF) award.

Jerry Crawford presented his research, “Journalism and mass communications students at HBCUs and PWIs: Saying goodbye to the digital divide” at Clute International Academic Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, on Oct. 17, 2012.

The PBPN Diabetes Management Online Information and Support Center, developed by MugurGeana and supported by CEHCUP is currently online. A digital kiosk to facilitate access to the online resource was delivered and installed in the Senior Center of the PBPN Reservation. Recruitment for the research component of the project is currently ongoing.

MugurGeana's health communication project developed in collaboration with the University of Costa Rica received a second year of funding, including additional funding from KU's International Programs. The project focuses on addressing the dengue epidemic in one of the poorest regions of Costa Rica; Barbara Barnett, as well as researchers from KUMC and JCCC are partners in this research and intervention enterprise.

MugurGeana initiated a collaboration with the KU School of Business to help find a sustainable solution for some of the problems he uncovered while doing research on dengue fever in the Province of Limon, Costa Rica. Two teams of students from the entrepreneurship class under the direction of Wallace W. Meyer, Jr., Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at the School of Business, have taken the community of Luis XV as a client for the spring semester and are developing a market study and a business plan to address the garbage collection problem in this community. Luis XV is one of the villages where the research project conducted by Geana in association with colleagues from the University of Costa Rica is trying to improve knowledge and change attitudes and behaviors on dengue fever prevention. The research is funded by UCR and KU through the Office of International Programs.

The brief research note "Can Facebook Tell Us Something About Regional Health Indicators?" by MugurGeanawas published in the August edition of the Kansas Journal of Medicine.

MugurGeana's grant proposal "A pilot study on the development and implementation of a community-driven, comprehensive online diabetes information and management resource for American Indians from the Great Plains" received a second year of funding from the Center for Diabetes Translation Research from the Washington University in St. Louis.