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-- Several east- and north- metro students have been accepted as members of the Minnesota Youth Council, a 32-member group that gives advice and recommendations to the Legislature and governor on youth issues. They are Harrison Redepenning and Kyra Tiffany of Anoka High School; Lupe Thornhill of Central High School, St. Paul; Essence Blakemore and Michelle Onyekaba of Coon Rapids High School; Rogelio Salinas of Highland Park High School, St. Paul; Rowan Hellwich of Great River School, St. Paul; Tateng Yang of North High School, North St. Paul; Aonat Popoola of Stillwater Area High School; Dustyn Montgomery of Tartan High School, Oakdale; and Zachary Correia of Woodbury High School.

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-- Brian Ackland from Oak Ridge Elementary in Eagan was named physical education teacher of the year by the Minnesota Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.

-- Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan district students earned $2.5 million worth of University of Minnesota credits during the 2013-14 school year. The credits were earned through the College in the Schools program.

-- A forum for Burnsville-Eagan-Savage school board candidates will be at 7 p.m. Oct. 2. The seven candidates for four seats on the board have been invited to the event, which will be at Diamondhead Education Center.

-- West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan school leaders will hold an open house to discuss the district's three fall levy requests.

-- Adrian Rocke, a senior at Henry Sibley High School, was appointed to the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan school board as the student representative.

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-- Band students and their parents will serve pancakes and sausages at the "Bandcake Breakfast" fundraiser at Cretin-Derham Hall. The event, which includes live entertainment and a raffle, will be from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oct. 12 in the school cafeteria at 550 S. Albert St., St. Paul. The cost is $6 for adults and $4 for seniors and children younger than 12.

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Hundreds of UB alumni are expected to celebrate their alma mater on Sept. 19 during a function at Larkinville, Buffalo eclectic and historic entertainment district located at 745 Seneca St.

As part of the celebration, President Satish K. Tripathi will deliver remarks and alumni will have an opportunity to visit UB Engagement Stations to learn about a variety of volunteer opportunities. Members of the UB Bulls, cheerleaders and marching band, as well as other UB representatives, also will be on hand.

UBs all-alumni celebrations have become an annual event, not only in Buffalo but also in cities that include Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Our university has so much to celebrate and were holding these events to share the excitement with our alumni and thank them for supporting UB, says Carol Gloff, BS 75, president of the UB Alumni Association.

The iconic Larkinville venue also has become a tradition, says Larry Zielinski, MBA 77 & BA 75, interim executive director of the Office of Alumni Engagement. The choice of venue Larkinville demonstrates UBs support of Buffalos renaissance. With our new medical school so nearby, were thrilled to be part of our regions success.

The event begins at 6:30 p.m., with remarks slated for 7:30 p.m. Cost of the event is $10.

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SALT LAKE CITY Former University of Utah President Chase Nebeker Peterson was remembered Monday as an unselfish man dedicated to his faith, his family and Utah.

"Not only was he smart, he had such a great heart. He cared so much for the university, about his students, and about Utah," his wife, Grethe Peterson, said. "He was just so happy here."

Peterson, a physician who gave his last lecture to medical school students in July, died Sunday of complications from pneumonia. He was 84.

Peterson's sometimes contentious eight years as University of Utah president ended in 1991. He returned to medicine, first seeing patients at the campus' Madsen Medical Center and then teaching as a member of the Family Medicine Department faculty.

Born in Logan, Peterson grew up on the Utah State University campus where his father, E.G. Peterson, served as president for 40 years. "He had a ball. He thought it was his playground," Grethe Peterson said.

At 14, Chase Peterson was awarded a scholarship to attend Middlesex School, a Massachusetts boarding school. He was the school's first Utahn and first Mormon student but never forgot his roots.

"I represented my family, my state and my church as well as myself," Peterson said in his memoir, "The Guardian Poplar," published two years ago by the University of Utah Press.

His wife said he was "thankful for his Mormon roots. That was who he was and he understood it. He felt it made him stronger to go out in the world and do what he had to do."

James Clayton, a former U. provost under Peterson, said his longtime friend stood out in academia for his committment to his faith, earning respect for having taken "a religious road in a highly secular institution and maintained his standards."

Peterson attended Harvard on scholarship, where he went to medical school and met his wife. After an internship at Yale University and serving as a doctor for the U.S. Army in Germany, Peterson returned to Utah and practiced as an endocrinologist.

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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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