HER parents noble move to sell a family property to put her through medical school was the best gift ever for Dr Siti Fatimah Zahra Razali.

And in return, the 24-year old from Negri Sembilan, toiled hard and burned the midnight oil to pursue her medical degree.

Her hard work and sheer determination eventually paid off when she emerged as the best Malaysian medical student upon completing the twinning programme with Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) and Allianze University College of Medical Sciences (AUCMS).

Dr Siti Fatimah, who was recently honoured at a Doctors Oath-taking ceremony in AUCMSs main campus in Kepala Batas, north Seberang Prai, said she attributed her success to her parents sacrifices.

My parents sold a piece of land belonging to the family to ensure that my dream of becoming a doctor can be fulfilled.

I am extremely grateful for their sacrifices and it is time for me to repay their kind deeds now, she said.

Dr Siti Fatimah was among 57 graduates who recently completed the programme where the students had their pre-clinical studies for two-and-a-half years in USU, Medan, Indonesia and their clinical studies for two years at AUCMS branch campus in Kangar, Perlis.

Her mother, Kholilah Amin, 49, a secondary school counselling teacher, said it had always been her daughters dream to have the title of Dr before her name, be it as a medical doctor or as a doctorate (PhD) certificate holder.

Another top student, Dr Nareshraja Janardanan said he had always fancied a career as a medical practitioner since he was young.

My parents not only inspire me, but they are also the driving force behind my success.

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By MARLA K. KUHLMAN

ThisWeek Community News Wednesday May 9, 2012 2:33 PM

The Gahanna-Jefferson Education Foundation (GJEF) celebrated alumni and district builders of excellence May 4 by introducing and inducting the 2012 Cornerstone and Alumni Hall of Fame awardees.

The Gahanna Lincoln High School (GLHS) Alumni Hall of Fame was created to recognize graduates who, through their performance and achievement, brought credit and honor to themselves and to GLHS, said Dale Foor, GJEF president.

This year's awardees include:

* Brad W. deSilva, M.D., an assistant professor with the OSU Medical Center (GLHS class of 1994).

* Connie DeJong, an Ohio State University arts scholar coordinator and executive director of the Global Gallery (GLHS class of 1990).

* Matthew John Markling, former member of the Lakewood (city) Board of Education and general counsel for the Ohio Educational Service Center Association (GLHS class of 1989).

The Cornerstone Award is an annual recognition of builders of excellence, Foor said. Recipients must have been associated with the school district for a minimum of 10 years as an employee or in other official support roles. People may be nominated or inducted posthumously.

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The 544 Education Foundation Board honored Gary Clambey and Anthony Preus as their 2012 Distinguished Alumni during a ceremony Monday night at Kennedy Secondary School.

Clambeys career in science and education traces its roots to time spent growing up on a family farm, attending a rural elementary school and spending hours in the science alcoves of the Fergus Falls Library.

A 1963 graduate of Fergus Falls High School, he attended Fergus Falls State Junior College, North Dakota State University (BS and MS) and Iowa State University (Ph.D.) He was a preventive medicine specialist with the U.S. Army Medical Department and has spent nearly 40 years teaching more than 11,000 students at NDSU at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Clambey has earned multiple awards for teaching and service contributions, including NDSUs Distinguished Educator Award.

He and wife Susan, a 1965 FFHS graduate, have two sons, Eric and Bryce.

Preus, Class of 1954, was the first Rhodes Scholar from Fergus Falls. He graduated from Luther College and attended Trinity College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship, earning a second BA and an MA.

He continued at The Johns Hopkins University, writing his Ph.D. dissertation on Science and Philosophy in Aristotles Biology. Since 1964, he has taught at Binghamton University in Binghamton, N.Y., where his areas of specialty and research include ancient Greek philosophy, classical languages and medical ethics.

Preus is secretary of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy and has edited and written numerous works, including The A to Z of Ancient Greek Philosophy. He is married to Meredith Pell Preus and has three children, Christian, Alexander and Caroline (Linka).

The two men were inducted into the Fergus Falls High School Hall of Fame Monday night during the Senior Recognition/Hall of Fame Banquet at Kennedy Secondary School.

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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College Present Public Service Award

Newswise NEW YORK (May 8, 2012)- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College presented their annual Public Service Award to Senator Arlen Specter yesterday for his sustained efforts to increase support for biomedical research and enhance mental health care services at their reception during the 2012 American Psychiatric Association Meeting in Philadelphia.

The annual award honors a member of the American community for his or her contributions to psychiatric medicine and mental health. Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, psychiatrist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, and Dr. Jack Barchas, psychiatrist-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, presented Senator Specter with the Public Service Award.

"We recognized Senator Specter with this award because of his longstanding interest and unflagging support for health care and research" says Dr. Lieberman, who is also chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. "He has been a visionary and a champion of the biomedical research community and mental health care services, and led the effort to double the National Institutes of Health budget from 1998 to 2008."

"We are very pleased to honor Senator Specter for his unwavering support to expand mental health care for veterans and for his profound commitment to medical research," added Dr. Barchas, who is also the chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. "His influence in this area has been extraordinary, and we look forward to his continued support for mental health programs."

During his tenure as a senior member of the Appropriations Committee in the United States Senate, Senator Specter led the fight to increase funding for the National Institutes of Health to expand medical research. In addition, he signed a bill to provide autism treatments for military personnel and their families under the TRICARE health program and co-sponsored a bill to improve and enhance mental health care benefits for returning veterans.

In addition to the Public Service Award, the Departments of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College presented three department awards.

Dr. Lieberman honored Dr. Deborah Cabaniss, clinical professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the director of psychotherapy training in the Department of Psychiatry with the Columbia Alumni Award, for her extraordinary commitment to psychiatry residents and to the educational mission of the department.

Dr. Barchas recognized Dr. Gerard Smith, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, with the Weill Cornell Alumni Award for his pioneering work into the neurobiology of appetitive behavior.

Dr. Philip J. Wilner, vice president and medical director for behavioral health at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and executive vice chair of the Department of Psychiatry and an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College also honored Dr. Mary Zanarini with the Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Severe Personality Disorders from the Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Resource Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester Division. Dr. Mary Zanarini is the director of the laboratory for the study of adult development at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., and professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.

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Brookline resident Douglas Hughes, MD, associate dean of Academic Affairs and professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, has been honored with a Distinguished Service Award by the University of Missouri School of Medicine.

Hughes received a plaque at the MUSM alumni reception dinner in recognition of his long and continued service in violence and suicide research and prevention. The university recognized 10 alumni at the annual Medical Alumni Awards ceremony in St. Louis.

A graduate of the Class of 1981, Hughes has dedicated his medical career to emergency psychiatry, with much of his research and published works focusing on violence and suicide. He has consulted with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Defense on establishing national guidelines for suicidal and violent behavior.

In addition to having served as president of both the American Association of General Hospital Psychiatrists and the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry, Hughes has been on the editorial boards of various psychiatric journals. He has received numerous teaching honors including the Preclinical Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching and BUSMs highest teaching award, Stanley L. Robbins Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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Sevanna Power, 12, was the named the overall winner of the Yuma County Science Expo on Thursday for her project called Rhyme Time.

Power, a sixth-grade student from Carpe Diem School, was awarded $200 cash from APS and a $500 scholarship to the University of Arizona on behalf of the UA Alumni Club for winning Best in Show. She also received a $100 cash prize for winning in her category, a $75 cash prize from Yuma Regional Medical Center for winning Best Elementary School Project and a $500 scholarship to Arizona Western College.

She explained that her project focused on the neuropsychological capabilities of the brain. Power said that she gave different types of poems to students and gave them five minutes to try and memorize it. She used a rhythm, rhyme, free verse and visual poems.

At first I was thinking that the rhythm poems would be easiest to memorize because you see kids going around singing songs and not quoting from books. But throughout my research, I found out that the visual was easier for most students because they were able to think of a picture and respond to that by thinking of the words they missed.

She said that her parents as well as her teacher this year, Jayashree Chopra, and her teacher last year, Amanda Stoermer, helped motivate her to do her best.

Power added that she plans to use the funds she received to save up for college.

This year's Yuma County Science Expo consisted of over 470 science projects with 568 students participating in the annual event.

Over $5,200 in cash prizes were distributed to category winners as well as $2,500 in college scholarships to grade level winners. For the elementary school division, first-place winners received $100, second place $50 and third place $35. In the middle school division, first-place winners received $100, second place $75 and third place $50. For the high school division, first-place winners received $150, second place $75 and third place $50.

Fifteen-year-old Pam Pircaro, a ninth-grade student from Harvest Preparatory Academy, was awarded the overall winner in the high school division and said that her project was on the speed of light.

She received a $150 cash prize for winning in her category as well as a $100 cash prize from the YRMC Foundation for winning Best High School Project. She was also awarded with a $500 scholarship to AWC and a $500 scholarship to Northern Arizona University-Yuma.

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Three distinguished alumni were inducted into the Monmouth-Roseville Hall of Achievement and an additional three area citizens received Distinguished Service Awards on Friday in the Monmouth-Roseville High School Auditorium

Mark Algren, David Love and Golda Ewalt have been named to the Hall of Achievement. Leo and Alisa Ramer, along with Mel Lacey, were honored with Distinguished Service Awards.

The induction ceremony is free and open to the public. This recognition program was made possible through a donation to the Monmouth-Roseville Educational Foundation by the Ralph Whiteman family in 1992 and is dedicated to the memory of his mother, Lucille Whiteman, who was once a one-room country school teacher.

In addition to recognizing individuals, the Hall is intended to honor the teachers and administrators whose motivation and inspiration helped make their successes possible.

The Distinguished Service Award honors people who provide exemplary volunteer services to the students of the district.

The Hall of Achievement is part of the Monmouth-Roseville Educational Foundation, which supports and promotes academic achievement.

Following are brief summaries of the careers of the 2012 honorees.

Mark Algren is director of the Applied English Center at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He graduated from Monmouth High School in 1972 and from Wittenburg University in 1976 with a degree in history.

After teaching English as a foreign language at a Lutheran High School in Hong Kong, Algren completed a masters degree in English as a second language at Southern Illinois University. Then followed several years in Saudi Arabia teaching English, where he also helped found the nations first community college.

In 1993 Algren relocated to Lawrence, Kan., to begin teaching English as a second language. He has been with the Applied English Center at Kansas since that time except for a leave of absence in the late 90s to teach again in Saudi Arabia and a second leave of absence spent teaching in the city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emerites.

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RALEIGH --

A school bus from Millers Creek Elementary overturned Tuesday afternoon, and 12 students and the driver were taken to hospitals, according to school officials.

Two students from bus No. 125 were taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, said Associate Superintendent Wanda Hutchinson. One appeared to have an elbow injury and another had a forehead laceration. The injuries did not appear to life-threatening, she said.

Ten students and the driver were treated at Wilkes Regional Medical Center and released.

The accident happened on Green Acres Road shortly after 3:30 p.m., she said. Thunderstorms were moving through the area. She said the bus's right-side rear double-wheel went off the right side of the road where the ground was wet and soft, and the bus came back onto the road, then flipped over on its side.

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UNC health insurance costs going up

Students who buy health insurance offered by University of North Carolina schools are facing sharp cost increases for the coming academic year on top of rising tuition and fees.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reports most students will pay about $500 to $700 per year depending on the campus. The highest cost next year will be $1,470. About 64,000 UNC system students buy the UNC plan.

Notification of the rate increases will go out this week.

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The University of Tulsa has hired Geoffrey Orsak as its 18th president. Orsak, 48, will take office July 1.

Orsak, dean of the Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University, is a visionary administrator and concise communicator, according to a TU press release.

Geoffrey Orsak shares our vision for the next stage in the advancement of The University of Tulsa, said L. Duane Wilson, chairman of the TU presidential search committee in a prepared statement. His strategic insight and proven leadership will be tremendous assets, helping to drive TU to new levels of national distinction.

In a statement issued by the school, Orsak said: TU has an exceptional national reputation that far exceeds its size. And the civic engagement demonstrated by TU students, faculty, staff and alumni is inspiring and unmatched anywhere.

Orsak replaces TU President Steadman Upham, who announced last year that he was planning to retire from the schools top post. Upham plans to stay at the school in a teaching and research position.

Orsak is a graduate of Rice University, where he received his bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering.

In the TU statement, Orsak said he was drawn to the school for many reasons, including high quality of its academics and the schools commitment to the community.

TU has an exceptional national reputation that far exceeds its size, Orsak said. And the civic engagement demonstrated by TU students, faculty, staff and alumni is inspiring and unmatched anywhere.

In 2006, the editors of EE Times magazine called Orsak a true pioneer and visionary and named him their first ever Educator of the Year in engineering and science.

According to his biography on the SMU website, Orsak is an expert in communications, signal processing, and information theory. He has been the lead researcher on approximately 30 projects funded by public and private grants and contracts.

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