Karuna Colleagues
AIDS.gov provides access to Federal HIV/AIDS information through a variety of new media channels, and supports the use of new media tools by Federal and community partners to improve domestic HIV programs serving minority and other communities most at-risk for, or living with, HIV.
CFAR (UNC-CFAR Community Outreach, Dissemination, and Education (CODE) Office)
Educational, outreach and advisory relationships are strong and defining features of the current UNC-CFAR Community Outreach, Dissemination, and Education (CODE) Office.
Primary responsibilities of the CODE:
- Convene and engage the CFAR Community Advisory Board.
- Manage and further develop the CFAR website.
- Provide leadership in CFAR press, community and media relations.
- Help organize the CFAR World AIDS Day activities.
- Develop educational offerings and courses at UNC.
- Conduct outreach to Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
- Help provide linkages to other CFARs around the nation.
- Serve as an initial contact for community questions and interactions.
- Lead in dissemination of research findings to communities.
- Facilitate ethical and health/research policy discourse.
The CODE Office seeks to encourage public and media discussion of educational, ethical, preventive, social and health policy aspects of HIV/AIDS.
The CODE office seeks to partner with students, community members, colleges or universities, faith leaders, HIV/AIDS organizations, and/or others interested in HIV/AIDS outreach efforts. From http://cfar-code.unc.edu/
The World Community Grid project
The opening of Karuna will also see the opening of the first virtual World Community Grid ‘clubhouse’. World Community Grid is a huge and growing network harnessing the idle time of over one million individual computers from volunteers around the world to provide scientists with tremendous computational power to accelerate their research on some of the world’s most critical problems, including human disease, world hunger and climate change. One of these research projects is FightAIDS@Home, a projectthat studies computational ways to design new anti-HIV drugs based on molecular structure. FightAIDS@Home, which has been run by the Olson Laboratory since 2002, joined the World Community Grid on November 21, 2005. Since that date, the researchers have completed 5 years of research in just 6 months. They are now working with chemists to design advanced drugs to treat the devastating disease.
World Community Grid provides people with the opportunity to make a difference to the world without much effort. Come meet people from the World Community Grid team on World AIDS Day at Karuna and find out how easy it is to join and make every idle second of your computer help fight AIDS!. more »
Images of Karuna
Verde Otaared is taking pictures of the build in progress. Take a look! Left click on one of these images to see the entire set.
