University of Tennessee Health Science Center officials said they’ll get to work on the school’s multi-disciplinary simulation building “as fast as we can” if the Legislature approves a $24.1 million funding request.

Gov. Bill Haslam requested the funds for the building in his 2013 budget, which he unveiled during his State of the State address Monday in Nashville.

The simulation facility would be similar to Vanderbilt University’s Center for Experiential Learning & Assessment where students and trainees practice medicine on human simulators, smart mannequins that can produce real medical symptoms.

“In the same sense that pilots have to go in a simulator, modern education says we have to simulate all sorts of medical encounters and medical procedures that physicians, dentists, nurses and pharmacists go through,” said Dr. Steve Schwab, UTHSC chancellor.

Educators use these simulators to mimic real-world disasters or emergencies, both in and out of a health care facility.

The facility will not compete, he said, with the nearby Medical Education & Research Institute, which uses real, donated human specimens for advance training and research by physicians and engineers.

Schwab said the university’s new facility will be “multi-disciplinary” as it will bring simulators from all over campus into one building. Multi-disciplinary training in general, however, will begin on the campus in the next six months, he said.

“One of the expectations of modern education is that health care is a team sport, that you can’t educate health care professionals in a vacuum without other professionals,” Schwab said.

The governor’s budget also includes $4 million to tear down three buildings on the university’s Memphis campus: the Feurt Building, which faces Forrest Park from Dunlap; the Beale Building, which is just behind the Scottish Rite building on Union; and Randolph Hall, which is close to the Student Alumni Center on Madison.

Schwab has said the buildings are “not worth investing in” and still need to come down. State funds for the demolition project have been cut for the last three years.

Also, the governor wants to give UTHSC $2 million to renovate the Crowe Laboratory Science Building for faculty offices and support space for the College of Nursing. Some of the money would also be spent to renovate laboratories in the Nash Building and to replace some building systems.

The price of the three projects comes in much lower than a proposed $126.7 million science building at Middle Tennessee State University and a $94 million science lab at University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

Haslam’s budget includes $335.4 million in capital and maintenance projects for colleges and universities across the state.

Should the Legislature approve the funding, it will be the most spent for higher education capital projects for more than six years.

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CAMDEN — The proposal to merge Rutgers University in Camden with Rowan University under Rowan's name has been met with skepticism, bordering on disbelief, by alumni, faculty members and students at the Rutgers campus.

"They have never seen anything like this in the history of the United States," said Rutgers historian Jacob Soll, an award-winning author and MacArthur Fellow who is leaving the college for a professorship at the University of Southern California.

"I don't know one person in the entire system — student or faculty — who thinks this is a good idea," Soll said.

Rutgers School of Law-Camden Dean Rayman Solomon told about 300 concerned law students that he was not interviewed by the Barer Commission of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey as it made its proposals to revamp the higher education system in the state. The commission's plan was endorsed by Gov. Chris Christie last week.

"I was never called to talk to the commission," Solomon said, adding that "the specificity" of the report "comes as a surprise, at least to me."

The report suggests that a combined Rowan-Rutgers University in Camden — with Rowan's medical school and Rutgers' law school — would attract research funds, allow the combined school to offer more graduate degrees, and form better partnerships with businesses, Rowan spokesman Joe Cardona said last week.

Solomon told the law students that upgrading the research stature of the South Jersey institutions has some validity, but that Camden should not sever its ties to the Rutgers system.

The law school dean has received 400 emails regarding the proposed merger.

"This is not a done deal," he said. "People who are making decisions — the (Rutgers) board of governors, board of trustees — need to hear from you."

Rutgers students have collected 3,200 signatures on a website, r2rmerge.com, to be used in a petition drive against the merger. Rutgers' members of the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers have developed an action plan to fight the proposal, also on the r2r website.

Forums about the proposed merger are being held on the Camden campus Thursday and Monday. A meeting with the board of governors is planned for Feb. 15.

Solomon listened as student after student questioned how valuable their law degrees will be if the institution that issues them changes to one that does not now have a law school. They questioned increases in tuition, effects on scholarships, accreditation of a newly named law school, whether students or faculty who may have been attracted to Rutgers because of its prestige would attend a newly established law school, and how they would be perceived when they graduate and want to apply to firms around the country that may not have heard of Rowan University.

Charles Prescott, a first-year law student from Columbia, S.C., said he came to Rutgers for its name recognition.

"Assuming the worst case and this becomes Rowan School of Law, what happens to me? Are we in University of North Dakota land? Where are we?" Prescott asked.

"If this were to happen, if you shop that degree in California or Colorado — I don't know," the dean responded.

He said that people would know the circumstances and that many local firms hire Rutgers law graduates.

Soll said Camden faculty members are devastated by the news. Although he did not want to take away from Rowan, he said the stature of the scholarship of tenured faculty members at the two institutions is not the same. Rutgers' faculty members are required to publish many more works before they get tenure, Soll said.

"They are world-class scholars," he said.

Soll said that it would take years for Rowan to reach the stature to receive federal funding on the level as nearby research institutions such as Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, and that Rowan would need to match many grants it wanted to pursue. Where that money would come from without a strong endowment or adequate state funding was questionable.

A faculty member who asked not to be identified said many nontenured staffers were seeking other positions.

"Almost all our junior faculty have been looking for other jobs," he said.

Alumni also voiced strong opposition to the plan.

Jeffrey Bisk, a commercial Realtor from Moorestown, called it "disastrous."

Internationally recognized artist Hugh Bastidas, who studied at Rutgers in Newark, said he and others who contribute money may be less willing to do so because of the plan.

"As an alumnus, I'm worried about bequeathing anything to my alma mater because any governor in the future could take it away," Bastidas said.

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09-06-2011 09:26 Stephanie Cruz Lee and Matthew Lee are alumni from the Florida State University College of Medicine's Class of 2006. In April 2011, at an alumni reunion, the college asked them out of the blue to speak on camera about their experience at medical school and beyond. At the time, Stephanie had completed her residency in the OB-GYN residency program at the University of Florida Shands-Jacksonville, had been in private practice for a year at St. Luke's Hospital -- and was expecting their fourth child. Matt was in his final year in the Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program at the UF Health Science Center at Shands-Jacksonville and was scheduled to begin a one-year spine fellowship at Johns Hopkins. In this excerpt, they discuss how the preparation that Florida State students receive distinguishes them from alumni of other medical schools. April 2011

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Data, its uses, abuses,
influence, and future possibilities--was the focus of
attention for sold-out TEDx conference attendees who gathered
at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

As Japan shifts from disaster
relief to rebuilding, GSB alumni see opportunities for change
and renewal.

The new home for the Stanford
Graduate School of Business opened its doors April 29 with a
dedication and open house that drew thousands.

The Stanford Graduate School of
Business opens the Knight Management Center, a new facility
of eight buildings around three quads designed to support an
innovative MBA curriculum. The center is expected to achieve
the highest LEED Platinum® rating for environmental
sustainability from the U.S. Green Building Council.

The Stanford Graduate School of
Business opens its new home, the $345 million Knight
Management Center, one of the world’s most innovative and
sustainable business school facilities. The new center is an
inflection point for the school, which will serve as a launch
pad for new courses and programs, as well as cutting edge
research. Nike founder Philip H. Knight, MBA ’62, gave the
$105 million...

Fast fashion-designing products
that capture the latest consumer trends, and then spending
extra money to get them to market quickly, can be well worth
the extra expense, increasing profits exponentially, says
Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Robert
Swinney, coauthor of a recent study.

Stanford Graduate School of
Business alumni based in Japan find unexpected obstacles as
entire industries face disruption and an unknown future since
the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Recognized for "shaping the very
way that organizational behavior scholars and practitioners
look at the impact of social process," Charles O'Reilly
received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of
Management.

Korean entertainment mogul Lee
Soo Man has introduced some of the biggest names in pop music
to the world. His SM Entertainment is helping Korean pop
music make waves internationally.

Calling education "the most
important problem that we have to solve in this country," an
official of the U.S. Department of Education warned that
other nations are doing a better job than the United States
of educating their young people.

In the emerging market for
peer-to-peer loans, the auction method used can make an
important difference to the borrower, says Stanford Graduate
School of Business economist Nicolas Lambert.

The aviation industry has to
navigate through government regulations, natural disasters,
economic storms, and labor negotiations, challenges that Jeff
Smisek, president and CEO of the world's largest carrier,
United Continental Holdings, says he finds
fascinating.

Forget Suze Orman. Time, Not
Money, Is Your Most Precious Resource. Spend It
Wisely.

Streamlining balky government
permit processes or convoluted global supply chains are just
some of the challenges in the "Valley of Death" faced by
fledgling clean energy firms, government officials were told
during a Stanford forum.

Arab nations rocked by popular
uprisings in recent months face complex, precarious, and
often divergent paths toward establishing democracy, says
Stanford democracy expert Larry Diamond.

A program using cell phones to
get anti-malaria drugs to the rural spots that need them most
is one program that has helped lower deaths from malaria in
Africa Silvio Gabriel, an executive with Novartis Pharma,
told a Stanford Graduate School of Business audience.

Public education that prepares a
workforce for tomorrow's needs is the cause that most
challenges her, said Penny Pritzker, JD/MBA '84, the 2011
recipient of the business school's Arbuckle Award.

Don't take too much risk ... or
too little, advises Mike Aviles, the 2011 Porras Latino
Leadership Award winner. "Take what risk you're comfortable
with. The ones who distinguish themselves ... figured out
what to pursue and took appropriate chances".

The Stanford Graduate School of
Business has confirmed finance services industry leader and
public servant Herb Allison as alumni speaker at its 2011
graduation ceremony on June 11. As the U.S. Assistant
Secretary for Financial Stability and Counselor to the
Secretary of the Treasury, Allison supervised the $700
billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) until stepping
down last September. The...

Believers in free market
capitalism were appalled when the U.S. government spent $82
billion to bail out General Motors and Chrysler. But the
money saved an important U.S. industry and averted a national
economic catastrophe Steven Rattner, the man who led the
rescue operation, told a Stanford Graduate School of Business
audience.

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07-04-2011 08:37 Video of student scholarship recipients presented at the inaugural Scholarship Gala on April 2, 2011

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25-09-2011 12:14 University of Alberta professor emeritus in pediatrics, John Godel ('53 BSc, '55 MD) is a physician highly respected for his contributions to pediatric health care in remote Canadian and African communities and for his research on vitamin D as protection from a host of health conditions. A caring and compassionate physician, John Godel has served the medical profession with great distinction, and his impact has been far-reaching.

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