Links for science geeks & other academics

You can also find out more about my research.

Here's the KU Medical Center's Calendar of Events.

Research-related sites:

• The homepage of the Society for Neuroscience.
• The NCBI's PubMed database & search engine for citations

• The NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts.
• Locate funding options for the biological or medical sciences.

  Deadlines for Non-Federal funding agencies:

• Listed by agency
• Listed by date

Links to sources for medical information:

• National Library of Medicine's homepage.

Teaching-related sites:

===> Neuroscience Analysis of Occupational Performance (OCTH 455), taught at KUMC each fall for students in the MOT program. This course for the MOT students is co-taught with the Physical Therapy Education Department's Neuroscience (PTRS 850).

===> Contexts of Occupations (OCTH 445), taught at KUMC each Spring for 1st year students in the MOT program.

===> The Research Process (OCTH 725), taught each Spring for 2nd year students in the MOT program.

===> Applied Neuroscience graduate seminar (OTMS 801), taught in the Fall term of alternate years ('04, '06, '08 etc.) for students enrolled in advanced study graduate programs.

===> The Brain and the Big Screen series of workshops.

===> Effective Presentations in Scientific Settings (PHSL 896), for graduate students in the basic sciences. This is a list of previous topics that prior students have explored as part of this seminar. I've prepared a series of Guides for facilitating scholarly communication as part of this seminar; feel free to browse and to pass the address for these materials onto others who might be interested:

• These are a few suggestions on how to Prepare an Effective Oral Presentation
• Here's a guide to creating Effective Visuals for use in scientific presentations.
• This guide will aid in preparing Poster Presentations for scientific meetings.

Links to various resources:

• The Alta Vista search engine.
• The Google search engine.
• Dictionary.com - on-line dictionary & thesarus
• Time and Date.com - look-ups for local & world time, dates, calendars, etc.

Directories:

• KU Medical Center
• KU-Lawrence (main campus)
• University of Missouri at Kansas City
• University phonebooks - links to on-line phonebooks at many universities university
• Addresses.com - a world-wide e-mail directory
• WhoWhere? - a world-wide person locator (lycos)
• Infobel.com - a world-wide person locator

All work and no play . . .

• Visit the Epicurious pages - food, drink, cooking & recipes!
• Explore the wonderful world of Zymurgy - Watch your head!
• Another link to the world of beer
• Are you a public radio fan? Here are a few links:
  
  • National Public Radio's homepage, with links to other NPR and media.
  • Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Radio homepage.
  • Quirks & Quarks, the latest in science, technology, medicine, and the environment (heard on Saturdays on CBC Radio).
  • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) homepage.

Kansas City & its environs

A site offering quite an extensive listing of events, activities, and services available in the Kansas City area (sorry - it is a rather slow link).

Stop by the headquarters of Hallmark, the greeting card company! You should visit their museum in person (it's nearby the Crown Center shopping district), but you also can send an electronic greeting from your computer!

Have a kid or two hanging around the house? Worse yet, are you visiting the city and those kids are hanging around the hotel room? You have my sympathy! Here are a few thoughts:

• The Children's Museum of Kansas City
• The Moon Marble Company of Bonner Springs - watch marbles be made by hand (call first - they don't do it every day), find that perfect marble you've always wanted (they have millions!), or shop for traditional and vintage toys.
• Science City is located in the newly-restored Union Station building, along with a variety of resturants and shops.
• One cool museum! Visit the Treasures of the Steamboat Arabia. A great place to take yor kids ... and your parents!
• The Kansas City Zoo rates high on our list! Accessible, lots to do, an IMAX theater, and some really unusual activities (overnight camping at the zoo!) for everyone to enjoy.
• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - The Rozzelle Court Restaurant serves a nice lunch Tuesdays - Sunday's, and dinner on Fridays - often with live jazz!
• The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art -and then perhaps the Cafe' Sebastienne for lunch?
• The Airline History Museum - Save a Connie!
• The Toy and Miniature Museum - antique dolls, doll houses, cast iron toys, and scale miniatures.
• The Kansas City Jewish museum.
• The
• The the Liberty Memorial Muesum of World War One
• The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
• The American Jazz Museum - at 18th & Vine
• The Kansas Historical markers - Too cool! Anyone who has attempted to follow a series of historial plaques knows the frustration of finding most, but not all, of the markers. Here is their text, so you can fill in those missing pieces!
• The Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library

  This is just a brief summary of those near to Kansas City. Many other Kansas museums can be found at the Kansas Museums webpage.

Personal stuff . . .

• Check out possible destinations through listings in the City.net.
• Members can order Triptiks, find travel information, and other neat things at the Missouri AAA homepage.

I did my graduate work in one of the more beautiful places in North America. See if you agree - check out the official tourism website for Nova Scotia, the City of Halifax web pages (also with links to the many scenic and cultural sites surrounding the city) and the Dalhousie University home page. There also are quite a few webcams with views of Halifax.

A particularly cool site, especially for those in the north, is the Aurora borealis forecast page.