Faculty members based at HSPH are invited to apply for equipment grants through a generous gift from John and Virginia Taplin. The established program will offer awards up to a total of $46,000 toward the purchase of equipment and related implementation expenses, such as cost of technical training, equipment maintenance, and technical consulting fees. For example, last year the Kresge Center Proteomics Facility received funding for a Linux computer clus+ter.

Applications are due on September 16 and should be sent to the attention of James Ware, Dean for Academic Affairs, in the Dean's Office (Kresge 1005). Submissions should be no more than two pages and should include the rationale for the proposal and its expected benefit, a description of the equipment and any implementing expenditures, the proposed provider of the equipment, its anticipated cost, the estimated date of purchase, and the total amount being requested from the fund.

Evaluation will be based on the ability of the award to 1) leverage existing strengths of the School, 2) open promising new avenues of investigation, or 3) advance the School's public health mission. Also to be considered is the breadth of faculty participation in the activities enabled by the equipment.

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	Stanley Ewing

Hemenway Named Visiting Professor at University of VT

David Hemenway, professor of health policy in the Department of Health Policy and Management, will also be a visiting professor at the University of Vermont. He has been named one of the inaugural James Marsh Professors-at-Large, a position intended to invigorate the intellectual and cultural life of the University of Vermont.

The professors-at-large are considered honorary members of the faculty. They commit to spending one to two weeks at the university three to four times over six years and conduct public lectures, meet with students, collaborate with faculty, conduct seminars, and consult on student projects, theses, and dissertations.

James Marsh was the fifth president of the University of Vermont.