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Burgettstown School Board won't move forward with a request from Cornerstone Care seeking to temporarily relocate its Smith Township medical offices to the high school nurse's suite for the summer.

Robert MtJoy, chief executive officer of Cornerstone Care, approached the board Monday during its nonvoting meeting and offered to cover all expenses involved with using the nursing suite while school is out of session, including utilities, legal fees, extra custodial work and the cost of building temporary partitions.

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MtJoy said the arrangement would have allowed the medical center to maintain its mission of increasing access to health care by continuing to serve the Bugettstown area while the odor problem was being addressed.

After a lengthy discussion, the board reached a consensus that the district was not equipped to handle a medical facility at this time, Superintendent Deborah Jackson said. The matter will not appear on the agenda for next week's regular meeting.

Board President Thomas Repole said the nurse's suite is not designed to take on the volume of medical treatment handled by Cornerstone Care.

He also said questions arose regarding a number of issues including legal fees, parking and custodial costs. Repole and Jackson both said the notion that the school shuts down completely in the summer is a misconception as student athletes continue to access the gymnasium and weight room, the band and football team hold camps and maintenance work takes place.

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School rocks!

Three recent events made school the rule, thanks to the City Year Gala, Tulane University's alumni awards, and Lutheran High School's Gryphon Gala. Learning and largesse underscored levity.

On a recent Thursday at Rosy's Jazz Hall, City Year New Orleans (aka CYNO) presented "School House Rock." An education-focused, national nonprofit organization that partners with public schools to keep students in school and to help them graduate, City Year brings together teams of young AmeriCorps members, who commit to a year of full-time service in schools.

The inaugural gala was quintessentially New Orleans, starting with the venue and its atrium, music hall and gardenia-filled patio, and moving on to decor, menu and music. In keeping with the "School House Rock" theme, the rooms were filled with school text books, red apples and chalkboards on which guests wrote "love" notes to and about their favorite teachers and subjects, as well as words of inspiration. Gourmet cafeteria favorites had folks queued up for fish sticks, miniature corndogs, mac 'n' cheese, and caramel and chocolate apples. As for libations, host committee member Tommy Lewis had a hit with his creation of "High School Crush, " the signature cocktail. For the scintillating sounds, the Big Jazz Band from the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) entertained throughout the evening.

Honorary chaircouple Mayor Mitch and Cheryl Landrieu kicked off the program by welcoming guests and sharing their personal involvement in bringing City Year to the Crescent City in 2006. To express gratitude, CYNO board Chairwoman Diana M. Lewis presented them with personalized City Year red jackets, a gift that also befell Patty Riddlebarger, the gala's School House Rock Star and the director of Corporate Social Responsibility for Entergy Corporation.

More within the City Year constellation were Executive Director Peggy Mendoza, Gary Solomon pere et fils, Jay Altman, Carol and Harold Asher, Robbie and Tricia Vitrano, Mark Romig, Ben and Barbara Johnson, Preston and Karen Favorite, Brad and Laura Goodson, Rod Miller, Vera Triplett, Ana and Dr. Juan Gershanik, Councilwoman Susan Guidry and husband Hervin, and CYNO board members Virginia Barkley with dad Buckner, Norma Jane Sabiston, and Tim Williamson with wife Jenny. About 190 others, too, who packed the premises to mark CYNO's debut.

Not far from Rosy's Jazz Hall is the Audubon Tea Room, which was the site on a recent Sunday for the 2012 Awards Celebration given by Tulane University and the Tulane Alumni Association. A reception commenced at 11 a.m., followed by the luncheon and program at noon. Spring varieties of white flowers provided by Walden Designs centered the tables, where guests sat to enjoy a lunch of pre-set salad, red fish with lemon-butter sauce, and, as the sweet, the Audubon chocolate tea cup.

Then came the university's deserts. Tapped for the Distinguished Alumna recognition was Dr. Regina A. Benjamin, U.S. surgeon general; Dr. Julius L. Levy and Helen L. Schneidau for the Volunteer awards; and Lisa M. Laws, Young Alumna Volunteer Award. From the Levy family came the honoree's wife, Donna, and their daughter, Laurie Ann Goldman, while Susan Laws accompanied her honored daughter.

Further notables were Tulane Alumni Association (TAA) Board of Directors President Michelle Rinehart, Tulane University board Chairman James M. "Jay" Lapeyre Jr. and Sally, university Senior Vice President and School of Medicine Dean Dr. Benjamin Sachs with Tina, Freeman School of Business Dean Ira Solomon, and, with Catherine, David F. Edwards, who chairs the medical school's board.

Also, Rabbi Yonah Schiller for the invocation, TAA President-elect Sharon Bourgeois and husband St. Paul, association executive Director Charlotte Travieso, and City of New Orleans Health Commissioner Dr. Karen DeSalvo.

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It is the final chapter and long goodbye to St. Joseph's high school along State Road 933.

Sunday, alumni and their families toured the beloved school for the last time before the new facility opens this fall.

Sunday afternoon, the now former institution held a final open house for people to walk the halls one last time, take photos, and purchase memorabilia.

The school, which opened back in 1953, was the first consolidated catholic high school in the South Bend area.

The new location sits on the near northeast side at the site of the former St. Joseph Regional Medical Center.

Sunday marked a bittersweet moment for both faculty and students.

They're sad about this building closing because there are so many memories here, said Henry Chandler, a social studies teacher. But they certainly understand that we're going to take those memories and make some more and make some good ones at 453 Notre Dame Avenue as well.

The new school will now be called St. Joseph high school.

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CARBONDALE - Family members and friends formed a line outside of Carbondale Area High School's auditorium Friday night, anxiously waiting to be ushered inside where 97 students would soon become alumni.

Meanwhile, the soon-to-be graduates prepared themselves for one of the biggest nights of their lives. As soon as gowns were on and caps were secure, students congregated in small circles to chat.

One circle included Gerald Bannon and Joseph Cassaro, both of whom plan to attend Penn State.

"I'll miss my close friends and the small-town feeling," said Joseph. Gerald, who will study biochemistry and molecular biology, looks forward to meeting new people and having new experiences at Penn State.

After the students took their seats on the auditorium stage, salutatorian Brittany Barney, who plans to attend Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, addressed her fellow classmates and the audience. She delivered a comical introduction, joking about her public speaking nerves and picturing the audience naked as a possible tactic. Then, she appealed to the small-town side of her peers.

"It does not matter how far you stray, as long as you know where your home is," she said.

Valedictorian Madison Caudullo, who plans to study English at Arcadia University, captured the audience with artistic imagery. She said that school supplies are like an artist's palate and that students are their very own works of art. "Aspire to inspire," she said.

Before the students received their diplomas, a scholarship was awarded to 12 students. The Ruth Giles Schroeder Scholarship was distributed in increments from $1,000 to $4,000. Principal Joseph W. Farrell proudly announced 85 percent of graduates will attend college or trade school, 8 percent will join the military and 7 percent will join the workforce.

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Dr. James E. K. Hildreth

BALTIMORE Internationally known AIDS researcher James E.K. Hildreth, M.D., Ph.D., will receive a 2012 Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Knowledge for the World Award,

an honor given to alumni who have brought credit to the university and their profession in the international arena through their professional achievements or humanitarian service.

Hildreth, a 1987 graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was recently named dean of the University of California, Davis, College of Biological Sciences. He was previously director of the Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research, a National Institutes of Health-funded center at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. Hildreth will receive his award, along with another distinguished recipient, Richard S. Bransford, M.D. (Class of '67), at the Johns Hopkins Medical & Surgical Association's next biennial meeting in June 2013.

"James Hildreth is truly making a difference in efforts to eliminate AIDS across the world," says Edward D. Miller, M.D., dean of the medical faculty at Johns Hopkins and chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine. "His headline-making discoveries and continuing research strongly influence HIV treatment and prevention. His mother once told her son: 'Your circumstance does not limit your possibilities.' James has lived by that motto to become one of the most influential HIV doctors in the world. He is a model alumnus."

Hildreth graduated magna cum laude in chemistry in 1979 from Harvard University and then went to Oxford University in England as a Rhodes scholar (the first African-American Rhodes Scholar from Arkansas). He graduated with a Ph.D. in immunology in 1982.

Hildreth returned to the United States to attend the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, obtaining his medical degree in 1987 and joining the faculty. In 2002, he became the first African-American in the 125 year of history of Johns Hopkins to earn full professorship with tenure in the basic sciences. Hildreth served as the first associate dean for graduate studies for several years, where he created a summer research program for underrepresented minorities and was active in recruiting undergraduate students for graduate programs. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, of the National Academy of Sciences.

At first, Hildreth wanted to become a transplant surgeon, but turned his attention to HIV after witnessing the disproportional impact of AIDS on "the poor, the disadvantaged and people of color." His research on HIV and AIDS, which he began in 1986, focuses on blocking HIV infection by learning how it gets into cells. He has published more than 80 scientific articles and hold seven patents based on his research. One protein discovered by Hildreth while at Oxford is the basis for an FDA-approved drug, Raptiva, used to treat psoriasis.

Hildreth is known internationally for his work on the role of lipids in HIV infection. In 2001, while serving as chief of the Division of Research for the NIH's National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Hildreth and his research team made an important discovery related to HIV, which causes AIDS. The team found that cholesterol is active in HIV's ability to penetrate cells and that removing the fatty material from a cell's membrane can block infection. Hildreth's team has used this discovery as the basis for developing an odorless, undetectable contraceptive cream that destroys the AIDS virus and holds promise for stopping the transmission of the disease. The vaginal cream, he says, was designed to support women, especially those in Africa who "have no way of protecting themselves from HIV transmission, as well as black women in the United States who are disproportionately affected by the disease."

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FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

The GE Foundation announced today a $2.3 million grant to National Medical Fellowships (NMF) for the creation of the GE-NMF Primary Care Leadership Program (PCLP), providing future healthcare professionals the opportunity to experience primary care practice in community health centers across the US. NMF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing minority representation in medicine and the health professions.

The two-year grant from the GE Foundation aims to draw future health professionals into primary care while building the capacity of community health centers. The partnership with NMF builds on GEs $50 million commitment to increase access to healthcare through its Developing HealthTM initiative -- currently in 74 community health centers in 20 US cities.

With an alarming shortage of primary care professionals anticipated in the years to come, PCLP enlists talented and motivated students to be part of the solution. We hope to ignite these students passion for a future career in medically underserved communities, said Bob Corcoran, Vice President, GE Corporate Citizenship, and President and Chair, GE Foundation.

This week 38 PCLP scholars currently enrolled in medical, nursing and physician assistant programs across the country are being assigned to community health centers located in primary care shortage areas in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Nashville and Jackson, MS. Participants will complete 200 service learning hours that includes a leadership development component, mentorship from academic institutions and program advisors, and networking opportunities with NMF alumni.

These selective scholars will undergo intense exposure to the challenges facing community health centers: newly eligible populations, transitioning to electronic medical records, and a shortage of primary healthcare providers. At this early stage of their careers, this hands-on experience will provide them with clinical skills and help them recognize their potential to make a significant and positive impact on hundreds, if not thousands of lives, said Esther R. Dyer, President & CEO, NMF.

Scholars were accepted into the PCLP program after being ranked by a faculty and regional advisory board and NMFs National Advisory Committee based on their personal statements, academic achievements, leadership potential, and recommendations.

Dr. H. Jack Geiger, a NMF Board member and a leader of the community health movement of more than 50 years said, Community health centers serve populations that are forgotten and left behind by other healthcare providers. These students will receive a unique experience not afforded to their peers. They will have the chance to dramatically change the lives of those in the local community by changing the way care is organized and delivered to patients.

While this is the GE Foundations first US-focused grant to NMF, there is an established relationship between the two. Since 2005, the GE Foundation has collaborated with NMF on the GE-NMF International Medical Scholars Program that enables 4th year minority medical students to experience practicing medicine in Africa with a focus on critical regional health care needs.

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The University of Houston Law Center is a tier one law school, meaning it is one of the top in the United States. There are a number of renowned specialty LL.M. programs here, with two (Health Law and Intellectual Property & Information Law) ranked in the Top Ten according to U.S. News & World Report. There are more than 200 courses offered at the school. Students will also find that they are at a great advantage by studying in Houston, which is the fourth largest city in the United States and is a a global leader in healthcare, energy, international business and other disciplines.

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University of Houston law students can choose from six specialty areas in which to focus their studies.

The Intellectual Property and Information Law concentration are of prime importance in the global economy. The UH Law Center in the Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law has been recognized as one of the Top 10 programs in the United States for its superior research and scholarship traditions. Topics covered under this discipline include traditional and contemporary intellectual property issues. In addition to patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secrets, students will also learn about information law as it applies to internet, software, electronic commerce, and databases.

The Master of Laws program in Intellectual Property & Information Law is offered on both a full-time and part-time basis, and applicants are expected to have reputable research and/or practice credentials. Most students in this program also have some background in this branch of the legal field.

The University of Houston Law Center is also home to one of the Top 10 health law programs in the United States. The universitys Health Law & Policy Institute was founded in 1998 with the mission of advancing the understanding of health law issues and providing guidance for significant policy decisions affecting all aspects of health care.

The LL.M. in Health Law program emphasizes student participation in campus events and activities and affords them excellent professional opportunities through the schools partnerships, including one with the Texas Medical Center. Prior to completing the program, all Health Law masters candidates must write a 50-page thesis that is considered of publishable quality.

The Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Lawprogram includes eleven energy courses and is one of the most extensive energy curriculums in the world. Degree candidates are trained to understand and address the legal and policy issues that arise in the following areas: energy production, transportation, and use; pollution prevention and biodiversity protection; and natural resources exploitation and conservation.

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There is a good deal of flexibility in this program, as students can choose to focus on one particular area of energy law study, or they can take a broader look at how different policies fit together. Faculty members who teach this program have international reputations in energy law and domestic and international environmental policy. A team of adjuncts also teaches in the energy discipline. The UH Law Center students produce the Environmental & Energy Law & Policy Journal and coordinate a symposium each year.

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At a spot where a medical student was killed by a car four years ago, volunteers gathered Sunday to spread a traffic-calming message.

Abigail Roth, one of the event organizers, sent in the following report:

The citys Street Smarts campaign became more visible at the busy intersections around Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Smilow Cancer Center on June 3, thanks to the work of volunteers partnering with the City of New Haven, Yale University, and Yale-New Haven Hospital.

This is the fourth year volunteers have used art to spread the message of traffic safety. When this project first took place in 2009, a large, colorful elm leaf mural was painted directly on the street at the intersection of Cedar and York Streets. The idea came from a graduate of Yale Medical School, Erica Mintzer 09. She was one of many medical students who dedicated themselves to improving traffic safety in New Haven after their fellow student, Mila Rainof MED 08, died after being hit by a car near the Medical School. The mural was intended to slow motorists down, beautify the public space, and make people feel more connected to the space. Yale-New Haven Hospital and the City of New Haven were great supporters of the project.

The elm leaf mural unfortunately lasted only for a few days because of its location on a heavily-trafficked road. Therefore in 2010, it was decided to instead paint smaller stencil designs directly on the sidewalk on York Street. This was a great success: having the Citys bright Orange Street Smarts logo at curb cuts leading to intersections reminds pedestrians to use care crossing the street.

Last year the project expanded beyond York Street. Volunteers joined with students from Solar Youth to paint logos near Katherine Brennan and Clarence Rogers schools. This year the project expanded in a different direction, to celebrate the City and Yale-New Haven hospital finishing a project to upgrade 12 intersections around the Smilow Cancer Center. Along with repainting crosswalks and installing material on the curb cuts to assist people with disabilities, new traffic signals at the intersections are equipped with fully coordinated, demand-responsive controller systems, including countdown screens. To recognize this important project, and enhance its safety message, the logos were painted at several intersections with the new signals, including where South Frontage intersects with York, Park, and Howe Streets.

Besides improving traffic safety, this project importantly brings together the New Haven community. The City and YNHH provided wonderful support for the project with Jim Travers, Director, Transportation, Traffic, and Parking, volunteering his time early on a Sunday morning to paint logos and Nick Proto, Director, Protective Services and Parking at YNHH and Steve Merz, VP, Administration, YNHH providing invaluable logistical support. New Haven residents, including Esther Rose-Wilen from Wilbur Cross High School and Lindsey Ruminski of JCBA; Yale employee Kim Heard of Environmental Health and Safety; and Yale alumni-employees Abby Roth and Beth Miller, participating in a belated Yale Day of Service event, all joined together for this fun but important project. The participants look forward to continuing making New Havens streets safer.

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Dr. Noel W. Lawson, M. D., a native of Conway, was one of four alumni recently inducted into the College of Medicine Hall of Fame during the Deans Honor Day ceremony on the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences campus April 17.

Lawson is a 1957 graduate of Conway High School, a 1961 graduate of Hendrix College and 1965 graduate of UAMS.

The Hall of Fame, established in 2004, recognizes graduates and faculty members from throughout the colleges

history who have achieved special distinction as physicians, scientists and leaders.

Inductees have all made a significant impact on the College of Medicine or the health of Arkansans and patients from around the world.

Dr. Lawson began his career at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, where he directed cardiac anesthesia and the Surgical Intensive Care Unit from 1972 to 1974.

He returned to Arkansas to direct the Intensive Care Unit and work with some of UAMS most renowned surgical leaders from 1974 to 1981.

His innovations at UAMS included development of deep hypothermia in pediatric heart surgery and controlled hypotension in total joint replacement.

He also was medical director of UAMS emergency medical technicians program.

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