Resources
CREDIT: E. Kang, Xiamen, 2015
For Students
DePaul University’s Writing Center recently summarized a 2013 study citing the 5 most common mistakes of APA formatting – worth looking over. On the topic of writing, Rachel Torr gives great practical tips to help writers over the hump and highlights habits of productive writers. Steven Pinker’s cult classic Why Academic Writing Stinks provides additional suggestions on how not to write like an academic (a good thing).
To speak up (or not) during classroom discussions – Gerald Graff’s insights are spot on, An Argument Worth Having
HIV/AIDS Resources
- AIDSVu is an interactive online map illustrating the prevalence of HIV in the United States, developed by the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in partnership with Gilead Sciences, Inc.
- GREATER THAN AIDS is a leading public information response to the U.S. domestic HIV/AIDS epidemic with a focus on areas and people most affected, through targeted media messages and community outreach. Very creative and accessible tools.
- UNAIDS Infographics are visual representations of how communities and regions are affected by HIV…and you can download these free printable files.
- Lancet HIV
- DC-Center for AIDS Research seeks to support multi-institutional research aimed at ending the HIV epidemic in Washington, DC and beyond in partnership with local government and community. Great network of researchers from various disciplines.
Graduate Student Funding
- Predoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, SAMHSA). 3-years tuition assistance.
- McNair Graduate Assistantship Program at Howard University. Recipients will receive full remission of tuition (not including student activity fees) and a stipend of $20,000 for the fall and spring semesters for each year of eligibility
- Frederick Douglas Doctoral Scholars Fellowship at Howard University. Full tuition remission and annual $20,000 stipend.
Current Reads
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International agencies unwittingly created a market where stories about being HIV positive could be bartered for access to resources. This disrupted existing moral economies that had linked disclosure, trust, and social belonging. Might practices that sort or triage people in Cote-d’Ivoire’s time of AIDS and the forms of therapeutic citizenship they constituted also bring into being new population and news divisions?” (Nguyen, pp. 33, 126)
