 Louise Flick, professor of family health and community health nursing in the School of Nursing received a $4 million grant--- the largest grant ever awarded to an SIUE faculty member--- from the National Institutes of Health to participate in the National Children's Study.The Study will follow a representative sample of American 100,000 children from before birth to age 21, gathering information to prevent and treat some of the nation's most pressing health problems, including autism, birth defects, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.SIUE Regional Nursing Program at Carbondale is a cooperative program with students earning a BSN degree from SIUE while doing their coursework on the SIUC campus.