CDC offers student publishing opportunity
The Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) journal of the National Center for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion is offering a new student paper-publishing opportunity as a special feature of its 2025 Student Paper Contest. This opportunity will allow high school, undergraduate, graduate and recent postgraduate students, as well as medical students and residents, to improve their scientific writing skills by serving as lead (first) authors, becoming familiar with a journal’s peer-review process, and receiving feedback from the journal on how to strengthen their submission, regardless of whether it is accepted. Students are invited to submit only one type of article: an essay. The topic will be how to address persistent or emerging public health challenges with new approaches and solutions. For this call for papers, the journal will consider manuscripts from students only. The essay may be written and submitted to the journal by one or multiple students. Manuscripts must not have been published previously or submitted elsewhere for publication. Students must adhere to the journal’s submission requirements for essays and follow the required format. All published essays will be included as a special section of the 2025 Student Paper Contest collection, which is scheduled for release in November 2025. See the CDC’s Announcements page for more information on eligibility and requirements. The deadline to submit a final manuscript is 5 p.m. EDT on Monday, March 24, 2025.
Physical activity research volunteer opportunity
Northwestern University is looking for the opinions of physical activity researchers on which components of resistance training (e.g., repetitions, specific movements, muscles targeted) would be beneficial to measure in resistance training research. The purpose of the study is to use these opinions to characterize the type of researchers who are interested in or conduct resistance training research to gain a better understanding of the field. Responses will be confidential, and the survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. There is no compensation for participating in this survey. All data collected within the survey are returned directly to the research team at Northwestern University, not ACSM, via the survey platform REDCap. Data collection and sharing of results are not connected with ACSM. If you would like to participate, please follow this survey link HERE. The study has been approved by the Northwestern University IRB (STU00221453). Please direct any questions to the principal investigator, Robert Booker, Ph.D., M.S., ACSM-EP, via email at robert.booker@northwestern.edu.
Stories of successful K awards webinar available
The Research Centers Collaborative Network of the National Institute of Aging and National Institutes of Health hosted current and previous K awardees to share their experiences of applying and being funded for K awards. This webinar aims to be a useful resource for prospective applicants and their mentors to gain insight into the process, and to ask questions of awardees about their journey to receiving a K award. View the webinar recording here or visit the RCCN website for access to career and center-related resources, funding and meetings opportunities, and webinars for the seven National Institute on Aging Center programs.
Registration for PCORI Annual Meeting opens
Registration is open for the 2024 Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Annual Meeting scheduled for Oct. 22–23, 2024, in Washington, D.C. The two-day event is intended for patients, caregivers, researchers and the broader health care community to hear the latest findings from PCORI-funded comparative clinical effectiveness research. Registration for the meeting is free (Register here). View the full agenda and learn more about hotel travel, accessibility and additional PCORI funding opportunities on the PCORI website.