AALAS Foundation

The AALAS Foundation is excited to announce the Texas Branch as the winner of the 2022 Branch Public Outreach & Education (POE) Award! Texas Branch was awarded a $100 gift card and certificate during the AALAS Foundation’s Appreciation Reception at the 2022 AALAS National Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Branch POE Award recognizes branches for their members’ public outreach efforts conducted each year during the time frame of September 1 through August 31.

Members of the Texas Branch sent submission forms to the AALAS Foundation Branch Committee representing a total of nine (9) public outreach activities conducted by various members of the Texas Branch in 2022.

Submission forms are currently being accepted for consideration for the 2023 Branch POE Award. Any Branch member conducting a public outreach activity is eligible to submit a POE Award submission form on behalf of their branch – the outreach activity does not have to be organized by the branch.

The AALAS Foundation offers free “What’s Happening in Research?” speaker-ready PowerPoint presentations to help with your public outreach efforts. These presentations are fully scripted with speaker notes and help explain how animals are helping advance medical progress in seven different areas of disease research:

What’s Happening in Breast Cancer Research? What’s Happening in Heart Disease Research? What’s Happening in Alzheimer’s Disease Research? What’s Happening in Diabetes Research? What’s Happening in Arthritis Research? What’s Happening in Transplant Research? What’s Happening in COVID-19 Research? The presentations are suitable for presenting in person or via an online platform, such as Zoom, to adults, college students, and/or high school students.

Additionally, the AALAS Foundation offers its “Celebrate Animal Research & Education” (CARE) YouTube channel to assist with your outreach efforts. The CARE YouTube channel contains a growing collection of short videos highlighting how animals have helped advance medical discoveries. https:// tinyurl.com/CARE-ANIMALS

The AALAS Foundation also continues to offer its free handout materials, such as the highly popular “Animal Roles in Medical Discoveries” poster and the “Careers in Biomedical Research” brochure. These materials, and others, may be ordered directly from the AALAS online Book Store where shipping of these items are free, too!

Email foundation@aalas.org for more details on all the free resources available to you and to learn more about how your public outreach efforts might help your branch be the next winner of our Branch POE Award!