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The Wake County Board of Education, in a meeting Tuesday, decided to allow Mills Park Elementary and Middle School to remain on a traditional calendar.

The decision was a big win for parents at those two schools, who rose up in frustration when the board raised other options. Last Thursday, parents and students rallied at the schools and neighbors honked horns in a show of support.

There were three options for Mills Park Elementary School and Middle School, where parents have been particularly vocal.

Tuesday evening, the board voted to keep the Mills Park schools on traditional calendars and add mobile classrooms. Mills Park Elementary will add one mobile classroom and Mills Park Middle School will add four.

"They came up with new ideas that will not dismantle our community and support families being together, that will create equitable education in our area," parent Susan Stines said.

The board also looked at options for other schools. The board looked at options for other schools as well.

Wakefield Elementary School would convert to a traditional calendar. That would put all three schools on the Wakefield campus on the same calendar.

Alston Ridge Elementary School would convert to multi-track and delay adding temporary classrooms. Alston Ridge is now on a single-track year-round calendar.

At Ballentine Elementary School, the system would mothball temporary classrooms and keep the multi-track but drop one of four tracks.

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Aspiring veterinarians have a new option to earn a degree that could allow them to finish their education faster and more cheaply.

Gloucester County's community college, Rowan College at Gloucester County, signed an agreement last week with the for-profit Ross University's School of Veterinary Medicine in the West Indies. Under the deal, Ross will reserve three seats each semester for graduates of the community college, enrolling those students in the graduate professional school immediately after they receive their associate's degree.

"The students aren't required to complete their baccalaureate degrees, so there's a dramatic cost savings for students in the South Jersey region," said Brenden Rickards, dean of the division of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at Rowan College at Gloucester County.

"It now provides an option most students don't even consider if they want to go into a career in veterinary medicine," he said.

The American Veterinary Medical Association lists 28 accredited schools in the United States. The only one in the region is at the University of Pennsylvania; New Jersey has none. The closest veterinary schools after that: Virginia Tech, Cornell University in New York, and Tufts University in Massachusetts.

"In this state, we don't have any vet schools, and we don't have any seats in any vet schools, so if a student really wants to go on this track . . . it's going to be a very difficult path," said Emily Allen, who runs the community college's equine science program.

Traditionally, students at the college who wished to become veterinarians have pursued an associate's degree through that program, which covers a range of animal husbandry. They would then transfer to a partner university - Rutgers-New Brunswick, Cornell, or Delaware Valley College - to finish a bachelor's degree before going on to veterinary school.

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Dartmouth Faculty, Alumni Discuss Advances in Disease Treatments

Hanover Faculty and alumni of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth will discuss recent advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of chronic and life-threatening diseases in a free medical education session on Sept. 19, from 2-4 p.m.

The event, part of Geisels alumni reunion, is open to the public. It will highlight current contributions by faculty and alumni to research on cancer, diabetes and tuberculosis, some of the leading causes of death in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It will take place in Auditorium G at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

A recent study led by Dr. Christopher Amos, a genetics professor at Geisel, has discovered a variant of the BRCA2 gene, commonly associated with breast cancer, that confers a 2.5-fold greater risk for development of squamous lung cancer. Amos will discuss the research and earlier findings of another gene variant that influences risk for lung cancer and smoking behavior and medicine applications for smoking cessation that can be tailored to a patients genetic profile.

Dr. C. Ford Von Reyn, professor of medicine at Geisel School of Medicine, will discuss development of the first new tuberculosis vaccine in 90 years to demonstrate a protective effect in humans. The DAR-901 vaccine was developed, and is now in clinical trial, at Dartmouth.

Brian Pogue, an engineering science professor at Thayer School of Engineering, will discuss new tools to detect and treat cancer. Created through medical and engineering collaborations at Dartmouth, they include visual examples of light imaging used in radiation therapy; molecular imaging of metastatic tumor cells in lymph nodes; and molecular-fluorescence contrast agents used in surgical resections.

Dr. Edward Horton, a Dartmouth College and Geisel alumnus, will talk about the underlying causes of type 2 diabetes and lifestyle choices that can help prevent the chronic disease. Horton is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and senior investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.

For more information, call 603-653-0726 or email Geisel.Alumni.Relations@Dartmouth.edu.

Alice Peck Day Names Infection Prevention Specialist

Lebanon Andrea Harper has joined Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital as its new infection prevention specialist.

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LAS CRUCES >> The old school structure in Quertaro, Mxico, was a tarpaper and pallet shack with a dirt floor. It served as both an overflow school building for a school too small to hold all of its students and a community medical clinic for the doctor who visits each week.

Over the summer, 14 students in New Mexico State University's Engineering without Boundaries helped replace the shack with a proper schoolhouse.

Two NMSU alumni, two faculty members and one staff member joined the students in the project. Kenny Stevens, NMSU associate professor of engineering technology, serves as adviser to the Engineering Without Boundaries group, formerly known as Engineers Without Borders.

NMSU's Engineering Without Boundaries built this two-room school in Queretaro, Mexico, as the group's summer 2014 service project. (Courtesy photo)

"We sent a team of two students down over spring break and surveyed the spot and said they thought it would work," Stevens said. "The students spent the rest of the semester designing a two-room schoolhouse one big room, and a small room on the side that might act as the doctor's area. We put in plumbing, so it will have water, too."

Engineering Without Boundaries' mission is to bring students, faculty and community members together to improve the daily lives of developing communities through sustainable infrastructure.

The students designed the school building from scratch and put in green features such as clerestory windows, which face south and are placed high on the walls to allow in light.

"The school is up at 9,000 feet, so it's cold, even though it's down at about 20 degrees latitude," Stevens said. "It's pretty chilly. It gets down into the low 30s in the winter. The advance team texted back and said to tell everybody to bring jackets because it's getting down into the 40s at night. We oriented the building so they could make use of the south-facing wall and get some thermal mass heating in the winter."

The building was constructed from locally sourced supplies and made mostly of cinderblocks. The team hired a local mason to help with the project.

"The students are great, but they're what you call 'unskilled laborers,' so we hired somebody local to help with the ins and outs," Stevens said. "We also had sweat equity opportunities, so the community also put in five or six people per day to join with the students on the project. It gets to be a pretty tight group."

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Newswise ANN ARBOR, Mich. Doctors nationwide rate the University of Michigan Health System as one of the best places for young doctors to train in their chosen field, across 20 medical specialties, according to a new ranking released today.

U-M residency programs earned a top spot in the country in all ranked specialties, from anesthesiology and dermatology to surgery and urology. The first-ever ranking was compiled by the physician network Doximity and U.S. News & World Report.

In 12 of those specialties, U-M ranked in the top 10 in the country. And for new doctors seeking to train at large public hospitals, U-M ranked even higher. Three specialties otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat), pathology and surgery -- ranked at number one in the country among programs at such hospitals.

The new rankings derive from board-certified physicians answers to a survey about the best residency programs in their specialty. Each could name up to five. Nearly 3,700 residency programs were mentioned in more than 50,000 physician nominations, and U-Ms consistently rose to the top.

For details on U-Ms performance in each specialty, see http://umhealth.me/resrankspec

The release of the rankings comes just as this years class of graduating medical students prepares to apply for their residency spots, through a national system that allows them to rank their preferred training sites, and interview at those that select them for consideration.

Next spring, most of these students will open an envelope and learn where they will go, in a simultaneous national event called Match Day.

In addition to the rankings, Doximity is offering medical students and physicians access to additional data on each residency program in the 20 ranked specialties, such as the percentage of residency alumni who went on to sub-specialize, and the rank of past trainees in publication of research findings.

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Loma Linda, Calif. (PRWEB) September 09, 2014

More than a quarter of the physicians listed on Inland Empire magazines Top Doctors edition took their medical school and/or specialty training at Loma Linda University School of Medicine or are currently on the faculty.

In its latest issue, Inland Empire magazine listed the regions top doctors, based on a peer review survey conducted by an independent group.

Among the top doctors at Loma Linda University Health, their specialty, and if they are alumni of Loma Linda University School of Medicine, are:

Anesthesiology: Dr. Richard Applegate II, alumnus. Cardiac Surgery: Dr. Leonard Bailey, alumnus; Dr. Anees Razzouk, alumnus. Cardiology: Dr. Kenneth Jutzy, alumnus. Dermatology: Dr. Abel Torres. Emergency Medicine: Dr. Richard Guth, alumnus. Endocrinology: Dr. John Lamont Murdoch, alumnus. Family Practice: Dr. Gina Jervey-Mohr, alumna. Gastroenterology: Dr. Michael Walter, alumnus.

General Surgery: Dr. Richard Catalano, alumnus. Geriatrics: Dr. James Larson, alumnus. Hematology/Oncology: Dr. Chien-Shing S. Chen. Infectious Disease: Dr. Ingrid Blomquist, alumna. Infertility: Dr. John Jacobson, alumnus. Otorhinolaryngology: Dr. Christopher Church, alumnus.

Pediatrics: Dr. Michelle Loh, alumna; Dr. Ravindra Rao. Psychiatry: Dr. Cameron Johnson, alumnus. Pulmonary Disease: Phillip Gold. Radiology-Diagnostic: Dr. Kendra Fisher; Dr. Shannon Kirk, alumnus. Rehabilitation: Dr. Scott Strum, alumnus.

Graduates of Loma Linda University School of Medicine who are on the list include:

Dr. James Munson; Dr. Lawrence Robinson; Dr. Larry Potts; Dr. Lawrence Harms; Dr. Janet Ihde; Dr. Wallace Gosney; Dr. Dennis Hilliard; Dr. Douglas Hay; Dr. Shelley Thio; Dr. Lawrence Clark; Dr. Berneva Adams; Dr. Alonso Ojeda; Dr. Ray Glendrange; Dr. Richmond Roeske; Dr. Robert Rosenquist Jr.; Dr. William Smith; Dr. George Gustafson; Dr. Allen Hwang; Dr. Timothy Jung; Dr. Robert Hardesty; Dr. Robert Summerour; Dr. Theodore Shankel; Dr. Mel Cherne; Dr. Cherry Brandstater; Dr. Vance Johnson; Dr. Victor Ching; Dr. Christopher Tsai.

Inland Empire magazines Top Doctor issue highlights the regions leading physicians based on a nationwide survey of about 340,000 physicians conducted by The Center for the Study of Services, an independent, non-profit consumer organization, asking physicians who they would want to care for their loved one. The Top Doctor database contains the names of more then 23,000 doctors who were mentioned most often.

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New York Times Syndicate

September 8, 2014 10:19 AM

Harvard University on Monday will announce the largest gift in its history, $350 million to the School of Public Health, from a group controlled by a wealthy Hong Kong family, one member of which earned graduate degrees at the university.

Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvards president, said the gift by the Morningside Foundation, directed to a relatively small part of the university, would have a profound effect on the School of Public Health in Boston, giving it a stable financial base and the ability to give students more financial aid while expanding programs in several fields.

Its always been, as the whole field always is, under-resourced, Faust said. Its overwhelmingly dependent on money from federal grants that are under threat.

The foundation is led by two brothers, Ronnie and Gerald Chan, whose businesses include the Hang Lung Group, a major developer of real estate in Hong Kong and elsewhere in China, and the Morningside Group, a private equity and venture capital firm. The School of Public Health will be renamed for their father, T.H. Chan, who founded Hang Lung.

Only six larger donations have been made to an American institution of higher education, according to a list by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Those include a $400 million gift by Eli and Edythe Broad to the Broad Institute, a joint arm of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Chans gift is the largest to Harvard alone.

In keeping with university practice, Harvard did not disclose the timing or form of the gift. Large donations are often spread over several years, and can consist of securities or real estate, in addition to cash.

Harvard officials said the gift would be used to address four broad areas: pandemics, which they define to include threats like obesity and cancer; harmful environments, ranging from pollution to violence; poverty and humanitarian crises; and failing health systems. Faust cited the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as an example of the need for such resources, hitting on three of those four areas a rapidly spreading disease, abetted by poverty, that existing health systems cannot handle.

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For the 16th consecutive year, faithful and dedicated John Cooper School students are helping a family build a new home from foundation to roof shingles over the next 10 months and are learning much more than construction work.

The Habitat for Humanity house is a project that encompasses the whole school. Students from every grade level help in different ways, all of which are crucial to the success and completion of the home, said Maci Billiot, construction co-lead chair of the project.

The Lower School helps through the Quarters for Quarters campaign to raise money and participates in the landscaping workday at the end of the year to help put the finishing touches on the house. The Middle School contributes snacks for our workdays to help feed our hungry workers and joins us on-site to help paint. Upper School students have the opportunity to go on-site and help with the construction of the house, from small walls to roofing, and everything in-between, Billiot said.

Select Upper School students who have demonstrated a true passion and dedication for this endeavor make up the Habitat Steering Committee. They lead the construction on-site and behind the scenes, and hope to raise a minimum of $27,500 this school year through fundraisers, such as T-shirt and sweatshirt sales, a car wash, babysitting nights, and a barbecue during Spirit Week, according to Christopher Zupan, co-lead chair.

Zupan has participated in the Habitat project since he was in kindergarten, helping to plant flowers in one familys yard.

I really enjoy giving back to the community, Zupan said. Seeing them smile makes it all worth it.

When I first began helping, I started because I needed the community service hours, Billiot said. But then, I got to know the family we were building the house for and it became a more personal experience for me.

The 16th house built by John Cooper students is for a woman named Rosa Cardenas and her two children, Carlos and Sarai, who said, I am happy to finally start building on the house.

Families who receive homes from Habitat for Humanity do not receive free houses, they have a house payment each month and pay it down until the loan is paid off.

Kevin Dural said he really enjoys the unity of his classmates getting together to help others.

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9/4/2014 - West Side Leader

CUYAHOGA FALLS Walsh Jesuit High School, located at 4550 Wyoga Lake Road, will host a celebration of its 50th anniversary Sept. 27.

Walsh Jesuit was funded by a gift from Cornelius Walsh, a prominent businessman in Cuyahoga Falls in the early 1900s, according to school officials. The gift, along with funding from the Cleveland Catholic Diocese and the purchase of 50 acres of Conway Farm, established the location and concept of Walsh Jesuit High School. On Sept. 27, 1964, the Rev. Francis Dietz, SJ, Walsh Jesuits first president, held a blessing of grounds ceremony, and on Sept. 7, 1965, Walsh Jesuit opened its doors to 153 freshmen.

The 50th anniversary celebrations to mark that occasion will begin with a Mass in the Chapel at 5 p.m. and continue with a party in the dome from 6 to 11 p.m. The party will include more than 20 local food vendors, live music and dancing beginning at 8 p.m.

The live music will include country music artist Mark Leach, a 2008 alumnus of Walsh Jesuit, and 2001 alumni Kira Leyden Andrea and Jeff Andrea, of The Strange Familiar. In addition, the Dave Banks Big Band, a 17-piece swinging big band with Walsh Jesuit Theater Director Dave Banks as lead trumpet, will perform.

We are excited to celebrate all that Walsh Jesuit has accomplished in just 50 short years, said Karl Ertle, Walsh Jesuits president. This is a great time for all in our Walsh Jesuit community to come together and honor each other, our alumni, our faculty and staff all the people that truly make Walsh Jesuit an extraordinary place.

Anyone interested in attending the event is asked to register by Sept. 12 at http://www.walshjesuit.org.

BATH Old Trail School is presenting Story-Time for Toddlers as part of its Little Readers @ Your Library program. Story-Time for Toddlers will take place on Thursdays from 8:45 to 9:15 a.m., with sessions starting in September. This program is free and open to the public.

Story-Time for Toddlers provides toddlers ages 18 months to 3 years with an interactive storytelling format to help them develop language skills. Parents and children attend together. Sessions include stories, songs, finger play and more. The program is designed to instill a lifelong love of reading as early as possible.

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