DATE: Application deadline is 5 p.m. March 31, 2010.

PROGRAM: The University of Michigan’s Visiting Partners Program provides mid-career professionals with an opportunity to collaborate with U-M faculty on projects addressing occupational and environment health and safety issues relevant to their work.

A free, part-time, nonresidential program, Visiting Partners provides $2,000 in project support in the first year, dependent on satisfactory progress. The year-long program is designed for continued professional employment while participants acquire new information and skills to enhance their work.

Who can apply?

• Educators at university, college and high school levels wishing to enhance their curricula through the integration of occupational and environmental health and safety topics and case studies into their teaching.

• Practitioners of occupational and environmental health and safety in businesses, labor unions and governmental agencies who want to enhance their knowledge and skills while addressing issues of direct relevance to their work.

• Writers, photographers, musicians and artists who want to integrate occupational and environmental health and safety topics into their work.

PLACE: Visiting Partners Program, U-M School of Public Health, 1420 Washington Heights, Room 6168, Ann Arbor.

SPONSOR: U-M Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering, which is based in the School of Public Health, School of Nursing and College of Engineering.

INFORMATION: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/cohse/visiting_scholars