The campus community and colleagues are invited to Wayne State University’s CLEAR and CURES Mini Symposium, Reporting Back In Environmental Sciences. The seminar is hosted by the federally funded centers, CURES P30ES036084 and the CLEAR P42 Superfund Research Program.

The symposium is free; registration is required. The agenda is as follows:

9:00- 9:30       Continental Breakfast, Atrium, IBio

9:30- 10:00     Welcome from CLEAR and CURES Leadership Drs. Melissa Runge-Morris and Carol Miller, CLEAR Directors

10:00-10:30    Transforming Data Through Dialogue for a Healthier Detroit: Examples from the CURES, Carrie Leach, PhD, MPA, Community Engagement Core Leader, CURES, & Sandra Turner-Handy, EdD Candidate, CURES Community Advisory Board Co-Chair

10:30-11:15    Healthier Black Elders Center: Vanessa Rorai, MSW, Amanda J. Horn, MA, & Adelia Cooley, BA: “Engaging the Community in Research – Healthier Black Elders Center, Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University” 

11:15-12:00    Advancing the Science of Reporting Back Research Results (RBRR) Diana Rohlman, PhD, College of Health, Oregon State University

12:00-1:00      Lunch in the IBio Atrium and Poster Session

1:00-1:30        Report Back Panel Moderated by Drs. Rahul Mitra and Graham Parker

Panel Members: Drs. Lyke Thompson, Andrea Cassidy-Bushrow, Jennifer Straughen, Tracie Baker

1:30-2:00        Reporting Back in the Media - Bill Roose and Darrel Dawsey, WSU          

2:00-2:30        Health Policy and the Law Dean, University of Detroit School of Law, Professor Nick Schroeck, and Professor Lance Gable, Wayne State University Law School