Healthcare-Related Events Around Campus in December

This is taken from the Today@UCI Events Calendar.

-- 3 Monday --

UC Irvine Healthcare Community Education. Newborn Care. For expectant mothers in the last trimester of pregnancy and their birth partners. 6-8:30 p.m., UCI Manchester Pavilion, 200 S. Manchester Ave., Suite 840, Orange. $20. Free to patients, UCI employees and volunteers. Registration required. More: 877.824.3627. Web link...

UC Irvine Healthcare Community Education. Diabetic Diet. Discusses nutrition as a major factor of diabetes management. 4-6 p.m., UCI Manchester Pavilion Orange, 200 S. Manchester Ave., Suite 840, Orange. $20. Free to patients, UCI employees and volunteers. Registration required. More: 877.824.3627. Web link...

Medical Scientist Lecture Series. Barriers to the Translation of Scientific Discoveries into Medical Practice: The NIH Roadmap and You. With Dr. Sheldon Greenfield, Donald Bren Professor of Medicine. 4 p.m., Tamkin Building, Room F-114. Free. More: 949.824.5264. Web link...

-- 4 Tuesday --

UC Irvine Healthcare Community Education. Heart-Healthy Diet (Cholesterol Awareness). 4-6 p.m., UCI Manchester Pavilion, 200 S. Manchester Ave., Suite 840, Orange. $20. Free to patients, UCI employees and volunteers. Registration required. More: 877.824.3627. Web link...

Human Resources. Core Safety. 8:45-10:30 a.m., Environmental Health & Safety, Room 122B. UCI staff only. Free, registration required. More: 949.824.6283 or nclane@uci.edu. Web link...

-- 5 Wednesday --

Alcohol Education, Student Health. Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings. Noon, Monday through Friday, Student Center, Health Education Room G319. Meetings are open to faculty, staff and students.

-- 6 Thursday --

UC Irvine Healthcare Education. Stop Smoking Series (4 classes). Topics include nicotine replacement, available medications, stress management, exercise and nutrition. 4:30-6:30 p.m., UCI Manchester Pavilion, 200 S. Manchester Ave., Suite 840, Orange. $80. Free to patients, UCI employees and volunteers. Registration required. More: 877.824.3627. Web link...

-- 7 Friday --

Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality. Toward a Neurophilosophy of Virtue: An Exemplar-Based Approach. With Michael Spezio, Caltech Emotion and Social Cognition Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. 12:15-1:30 p.m., Social Sciences Plaza B, Room 5250 (Eckstein Room). R.S.V.P. by Dec. 4. More: Sandy Cushman, 949.824.3344 or scushman@uci.edu. Web link...

UC Irvine Healthcare Community Education. Asthma and Adults. 5-7 p.m., UCI Manchester Pavilion Orange, 200 S. Manchester Ave., Suite 840, Orange. $20. Free to patients, UCI employees and volunteers. Registration required. More: 877.824.3627. Web link...

-- 10 Monday --

UC Irvine Healthcare Community Education. Diabetes Management Overview. Topics include defining diabetes and methods to control blood sugar levels through diet, exercise, medication and lifestyle changes in order to prevent long-term complications. 4-6 p.m., UCI Manchester Pavilion Orange, 200 S. Manchester Ave., Suite 840, Orange. $20. Free to patients, UCI employees and volunteers. Registration required. More: 877.824.3627. Web link...

UC Irvine Healthcare Community Education. Living Well With Heart Failure. Overview of heart failure, symptoms, basic lifestyle changes to manage the condition. 1:30-3:30 p.m., UCI Manchester Pavilion, 200 S. Manchester Ave., Suite 840, Orange. $20. Free to patients, UCI employees and volunteers. Registration required. More: 877.824.3627. Web link...

Physiology & Biophysics. Irwin A. Rose Lectureship: Cell Signaling, and the Interplay Between Phosphorylation and Ubiquitination. With Tony Hunter, Salk Institute for Biological Science. 4 p.m., Tamkin Student Lecture Building, Room F110. Reception immediately following lecture in Tamkin Student Lecture Building, Room F108. Free. More: 949.824.5863. Web link...

-- 13 Thursday --

Alcohol Education, Student Health. Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting. Noon, Monday through Friday, Student Center, Health Education Room G319. Meetings are open to faculty, staff and students.

-- 14 Friday --

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. Pathology Research Seminar Series: Structural and Proteomic Approaches in Discovering Molecular Assemblies to Aid Anti-Drug Discovery. With Celia W. Goulding, molecular biology & biochemistry assistant professor. 9-10 a.m., Hitachi Chemical Research Center Lecture Hall. Free. More: 949.824.5534. Web link...

-- 21 Friday –

Alcohol Education, Student Health. Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting. Noon, Monday through Friday, Student Center, Health Education Room G319. Meetings are open to faculty, staff and students.

NLM California Wildfires Resources

From a National Library of Medicine press release, 10/26/07

"The National Library of Medicine has released a new resource focused on the health effects from wildfires http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/californiafires.html . The California Wildfires web page includes information on the health effects from fires and exposure to smoke; links to air quality resources, environmental clean-up following fires, and animals in disasters.

In addition, resources for emergency responders and information in Spanish are also included. Searches of NLM databases, such as MedlinePlus, PubMed,TOXLINE, Tox Town, and Haz-Map (occupational health) are provided for additional health information. It also provides the locations of facilities reporting to the EPA Toxics Release Inventory and Superfund sites in and around San Diego (TOXMAP).

This web page is designed to help emergency responders, health care providers, public health workers, and the general public find authoritative and timely information about key health concerns from wildfires. Links to other federal government web sites, including USA.gov, FEMA, and the Department of Health and Human Services are included."

UCI Nursing Resource: StatRef Nursing

StatRef Nursing has full-text of more than 30 books, including Kozier & Erb’s Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process, and Practice, Sparks’ and Ralph’s Nursing Diagnosis Reference Manual, and Old’s Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women’s Health Across the Lifespan. You can go to specific sections of any of the books (tables of contents are available from the front page), or you can search for topics across all the titles. You can also set up your own profile in StatRef Nursing to perform customized searches. Click on the link at the beginning of this post and check this great resource out!

Healthcare-Related Events Around Campus in Late November

These events are all in late November, and have been pulled from the "Today@UCI: Calendar." I hope you find something you'll enjoy!

-- 19 Monday --

Medical Scientist Lecture Series. Chemical Approaches to Sorting out Histone Modifications. With Dr. Philip Cole, pharmacology professor, Johns Hopkins University. 4 p.m., Tamkin Building, Room F-114. Free. More: 949.824.5264. Web link...

UC Irvine Healthcare Community Education. Diabetes Management Overview. Topics include defining diabetes and methods to control blood sugar levels through diet, exercise, medication and lifestyle changes in order to prevent long-term complications. 4-6 p.m., UCI Manchester Pavilion Orange, 200 S. Manchester Ave., Suite 840, Orange. $20. Free to patients, UCI employees and volunteers. Registration required. More: 877.824.3627. Web link...

UC Irvine Healthcare Community Education. Meditation Special Topic: Body Scan. 6-7:30 p.m., UCI Manchester Pavilion Orange, 200 S. Manchester Ave., Suite 840, Orange. $30. Free to patients, UCI employees and volunteers. Registration required. More: 877.824.3627. Web link...

-- 21 Wednesday --

UC Irvine Healthcare Community Education. Early Pregnancy. For expectant mothers and their birth partners in the first three to four months of pregnancy, but can be attended later in the pregnancy if necessary. 6-8 p.m., UCI Manchester Pavilion Orange, 200 S. Manchester Ave., Suite 840, Orange. $20. Free to patients, UCI employees and volunteers. Registration required. More: 877.824.3627. Web link...


-- 27 Tuesday --

Biological Sciences. Cancer and Aging: How Our Bodies Are Designed to Be Reliable and Why They Fail. With Steven A. Frank, ecology & evolutionary biology professor. Part of the Allergan Foundation Lecture Series in Modern Biology. 7-8 p.m., Beckman Center. R.S.V.P. by Nov. 21. More: 949.824.2500 or biosci-events@uci.edu. Web link...

-- 28 Wednesday --

ARCS Foundation. Chemoprevention of Colon Cancer: How Close Are We? 6-9 p.m., University Club. With Dr. Frank L. Meyskens, associate vice chancellor of health sciences and Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center director. Wine reception, dinner and lecture. $40. More: merylsawyer@sbcglobal.net or francecampbell@zotnet.net. Web link...

-- 29 Thursday --

UC Irvine Healthcare Community Education. Breastfeeding. Discussion includes process of milk production, how to breastfeed, avoiding potential problems and returning to work. 6-8:30 p.m., UCI Manchester Pavilion Orange, 200 S. Manchester Ave., Suite 840, Orange. $20. Free to patients, UCI employees & volunteers. Registration required. More: 877.824.3627. Web link...

-- 30 Friday --

UC Irvine Brain Imaging Center. Robert and Margaret Sprague Symposium. With Dr. William Jagust, public health & neuroscience professor, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, U.C. Berkeley, and faculty senior scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Dr. Steven G. Potkin, Robert R. Sprague Director, UC Irvine Brain Imaging Center. Noon-6 p.m., Eric L. Nelson Auditorium and Brain Imaging Center, Irvine Hall. Free, reservations are required. More: 949.824.1914 or erin.fitzgerald@uci.edu. Web link...

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. Antimicrobial Peptides: Redefining the Skin's Barrier Against Infection. With Richard L. Gallo, dermatology chief and medicine & pediatrics professor, UC San Diego. 9-10 a.m., Hitachi Chemical Research Center Lecture Hall. Free. More: 949.824.5534. Web link...

Public Health and Food & Drug Administration. Nutritional Sciences Symposium. 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Beckman Center, 100 Academy. Free to all UC Irvine faculty, staff and students. More: 949.824.0589 or newmanj@uci.edu.

Connect from Off Campus

One of the questions I am asked most often is, "How can I access this material from my office/home/laptop?" At UCI, we allow you access through something called a VPN. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network, and the Wikipedia entry can describe what that is better than I can! But it allows you to access almost all of our online resources from off campus.

There are several ways to use a VPN, but what seems to be the most stable is using the Software VPN. This requires a little extra effort on the front end, but then affords you stability, so it is worth the effort. To download this, follow these instructions (this is for Windows) :

1. Make sure you're not blocking pop-ups
   
2. Go to the UCI Libraries' "Connect from Off-Campus" link
3. Scroll to "Software VPN" (or click the link in this post!)
4. Log in with your UCInetID username and password (If you haven't activated this or have forgotten your password, click here and activate it)
5. Once you've logged in, scroll to the line that says, "UCI only information: There is additional information available only to authenticated UCI users. Please login..." and click "Please login..."
6. Select your Operating System from the list and click "Download My Choice"
7. A) An icon will appear on your computer, open it and follow the installation instructions. The installation instructions can also be found here.
   B) Once the software is installed, you'll have to choose a "tunnel" to use. ALWAYS use the "UCI FULL" tunnel.
8. You'll be prompted for your UCInetID/Password
9. Click "Continue" in the next pop-up, and you're ready to go!
   

Once you've installed the software, just remember to connect to the VPN whenever you want to connect to UCI Libraries' resources from off campus! Also, below are installation guides from NACS:

Here is an installation guide for Windows
Here is an installation guide for Mac OS X
Here is an installation guide for Linux

I hope this helps with connecting from off campus!