HEC/Announcements

The Higher Education Center is pleased to make the following
announcements:

1) BNL ADDICTION RESEARCH WEBCAST

The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory is
sponsoring a live Addiction Research Webcast from the 2007 annual
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
featuring a panel of world-renowned neuroscientists, who will present
recent advances in brain-imaging that have revolutionized scientists'
understanding of addiction as a chronic disease. The Webcast will be
held Friday, February 16, 2007, 8:30 - 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time.

For more information about the Webcast and the symposium panelists,
please visit http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/addictionSymposium.asp.

2) NCHERM STUDENT SUICIDE WEBINAR

The National Center for Higher Education Risk Management is hosting a
Webinar, "Student Suicide: What College and University Administrators
Need to Know About the Law and Best Practices," Thursday, March 1, 2007,
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time. This Webinar is intended to give campus
AOD staff, health service providers, counselors, and other
administrators creative strategies and best practices for working with
suicidal students.

For more information, including registration instructions and presenter
bios, please visit
http://www.ncherm.org/seminar-judicial-academies.html.

3) JOB OPPORTUNITIES

The following job opportunities were recently posted to the Higher
Education Center Web site. For more information on these and other
recent job postings, please visit http://www.higheredcenter.org/jobs/.

Assistant Director for Health Promotion
University of Maryland, College Park

Director of Student Health Services
Wheaton College

Health Outreach Coordinator (2 positions available)
Queens Library

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