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The
Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement (CQPI),
directed by Professor
Pascale Carayon, has received approximately $540,000 from the National Institute on Aging for its part of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Survey project, "Work, Health and Well-Being."
Carayon's
research group will investigate the impact of physical and psychosocial characteristics of paid employment on a variety of physical and mental health outcomes.
The group hopes to understand the ways in which these job characteristics mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status and health.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded Assistant Professor Darek Ceglarek $169,787 for his study, "Analysis and Optimization Method for Distributed Sensor Systems in Electronics Assembly Processes." The NSF's Engineering Research Center on Reconfigurable Machining Systems also awarded Ceglarek $43,981 for analysis of reconfigurable assembly systems. He is the PI on both projects.
Ceglarek also will serve a three-year term on the ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division Technical Committee on Manufacturing Processes, Quality and Reliability.
In addition, he was elected to the Scientific Committee of the North American Manufacturing Research Institution (NAMRI/SME).
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Professor David Gustafson is part of a series of online video clips about the goals and progress of the National Cancer Institute's Digital Divide Projects. Hoping to enable more minorities to access cancer information via the Internet, investigators in the projects examine how information about cancer is communicated in underserved communities around the country. The UW-Madison research team is studying whether it is cost-effective to deliver online breast cancer support to urban and rural patients in Wisconsin and Detroit. View the clips at dccps.nci.nih.gov/eocc/ddpp.html#video/.
Research teams at the
Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis,
led by
Gustafson,
have received two grants from the National Institutes of Health.
A five-year, $3.75 million grant will enable the group to develop and test systems to help parents cope with severe pediatric asthma, while $2.45 million over five years will fund testing of systems to support caregivers of patients with advanced breast and prostate cancer.
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) recently designated Professor
Jo Handelsman
a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor.
With the honor, she receives $1 million, which she will use to develop two new programs: The HHMI Undergraduate Scholars, a program designed to give students research experience in UW-Madison labs with trained mentors; and the HHMI Teaching Fellows, composed of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who want to learn effective and innovative teaching and mentoring practices.
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Assistant Professor Ben-Tzion Karsh serves on the Health Care Technology and Decision Sciences study section, a committee of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The study section provides a peer-review mechanism for grant proposals submitted to AHRQ related to health-care technology and decision sciences.
Karsh also is primary investigator on the study, "A Macroergonomic Work System Analysis of Diagnostic Testing for Process Improvement."
His team will use human factors engineering methods to study the processes involved in ordering, processing and disseminating the results of diagnostic tests.
The group will create design recommendations to improve the speed at which test results are delivered to physicians and patients.
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Assistant Professor David Nembhard is principal investigator on a new $350,000 NSF-funded project entitled "Worker Cross-Training and Assignment Considering Learning/Forgetting Effects."
The three-year, multidisciplinary project is funded through NSF's Decision-Risk and Management Science (DRMS), Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC), and Manufacturing Enterprise Systems (MES) programs.
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Associate Professor
Leyuan Shi
and Assistant Professor
Harriet Nembhard
have received a $300,000 NSF grant to support their project, "An Evaluation Approach for Flexibility in Manufacturing Enterprises."
The three-year award will support their continuing collaborative research on using financial engineering and real-options principles to model and value manufacturing decisions related to process or system changes.
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Beginning this fall, Professor Mike Smith will hold the Robert Ratner Undergraduate Chair in Industrial Engineering.
The professorship promotes and recognizes ongoing contributions of an industrial engineering faculty member who is teaching courses in which undergraduate students solve real-world problems Wisconsin employers face.
The professorship also includes stipends for research, teaching and competitive undergraduate project awards.
Smith will hold the title for three years.
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Wisconsin's Joint Legislative Council has invited Professor Raj Veeramani to become a member of its Special Committee on Public and Private Broadband. The committee will study the availability of broadband services and barriers to broadband deployment in the state, and determine policy relating to digital-divide and open-access issues.