Tied for second place last year were Columbia University, Stanford University, Texas Tech University and University of North Carolina. Each school produced three CEOs who took their companies public.

The seven newly publicly traded companies led by Harvard alumni range from online bank Ally Financial to pharmaceutical company Kite Pharma. The group notched an average gain of 74 percent from the date of their market debut to the end of the year. By comparison, the FTSE Renaissance US IPO index, which tracks the performance of U.S. initial public offerings, gained 9.6 percent last year.

The average gain of the companies led by Harvard-schooled CEOs was also better than that of other schools. The IPOs led by former University of North Carolina students rose an average of 39 percent. Stanford graduates posted an average gain of 37 percent. Texas Tech University graduates saw an average increase of nearly 7 percent, while IPOs led by Columbia alumni had an average loss of almost 3 percent.

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The Harvard executives are following one of the school's most famous students. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, studied computer science at the school from September 2002 to May 2004 before leaving to focus on the social networking company. Facebook raised about $16 billion in its market debut in 2012.

Among the Harvard graduates who oversaw IPOs in 2014, two earned undergraduate degrees, one completed a residency at Harvard Medical School, while four earned graduate degrees, including two who studied at Harvard Business School.

Thomas Eisenmann, a professor at the business school, says that the program has been placing an emphasis on entrepreneurship for at least a decade. "It's a very strong focus for us," he said, noting that almost half of the school's alumni have started at least one company.

Kent Bennett, a partner at venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, started at Harvard Business School in 2006 and says the school had not yet launched a lot of the formal entrepreneurship programs that now exist.

Still, he said, a lot of students wanted to start their own companies, and stories about others who attended Harvard and made names for themselves were motivating.

"It really helps when they're exposed to great role models," he said. "Maybe it's just the vision of Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg late at night ...That inspired them to think (they) could start a business."

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Karen Hong, a third-year medical student at Stanford Medical School, and Geo Saba, a senior majoring in political science, have been awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships.

Two Stanford students have been awarded 2015 Gates Cambridge Scholarships for graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in England.

Geo Saba, a senior majoring in political science with honors in international security studies, and Karen Hong, a third-year student at Stanford Medical School, are among the 40 American students awarded scholarships, the Gates Cambridge Trust announced Wednesday.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation established the Gates Cambridge Scholarships in 2000 with a $210 million endowment to enable outstanding graduate students from outside the United Kingdom to pursue full-time graduate studies in any subject at Cambridge University. The scholarships cover the full cost of studying at the storied university.

Geo Saba, 22, of San Mateo, Calif., is a senior majoring in political science with honors in international security studies.

At Cambridge, he plans to pursue a master's degree in international relations and politics.

"Receiving the Gates Cambridge scholarship could not have occurred without the many faculty and fellow students who have shaped my interests, challenged my thinking, opened doors of opportunity and supported me as I embark on a career in public service," Saba said.

Saba is a member of the Class of 2015 Interschool Honors Program in International Security Studies at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford. His honors thesis is entitled, The Power of the National Security Advisor in Presidential Decision-Making.

Currently, Saba is serving as a research assistant to former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is a professor of political economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a professor of political science and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

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WACO - Despite past efforts to stay out of the courtroom, Baylor University and the Baylor Alumni Association were in one for another hearing Friday.

Baylor University filed a lawsuit to stop the alumni association from using its name, trademarks, and performing alumni services.

Baylor rejected the BAA's final settlement offer last fall and the two sides are on track for a trial next year, but Friday was just one of many hearings until then.

The university filed a motion for a protective order to keep certain documents and information confidential. While both sides do agree some details should be kept private.

Lawyer for the BAA, Shannon Ratcliff, says the alumni association is hoping to strike down that part of the agreement because they say it gives the school the potential to abuse its power.

"We believe that it creates too large an area for not withholding documents from the lawyers but preventing us from sharing those documents or the content of those documents with our board and with our 17,000 members, says Ratcliff.

The BAA also asked the judge to order Baylor to respond to their requests and to hand over other license agreements. The alumni association says the agreements the university has with Baylor Medical and Scott & White prove they have other licensing agreements without termination dates making Baylor's argument against the association invalid.

The BAA says they will continue to pursue their goal.

The overall goal of the alumni association is to be recognized as the official alumni association to not have Baylor University throwing up roadblocks to their being able to perform that function, says Ratliff.

The university says they stand by its decision. Spokeswoman Lori Fogleman sent this statement after Friday's hearing:

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HAMDEN It was a telling moment in the hot and cold relationship between Quinnipiac University and the town strained by a zoning dispute arising, as they usually do, from the school's unbridled growth over the years.

There was university President John Lahey, who is called a visionary even by critics, delivering the school's first annual $750,000 voluntary payment for town services to Mayor Scott Jackson on Thursday morning.

"Quinnipiac University is proud to call Hamden home," Lahey said after the check presentation. "Providing this voluntary payment is an affirmation of the university's ongoing support and appreciation of all that Hamden does for Quinnipiac."

At the same time, the university was spending another day in violation at least according to the town of a 2006 agreement to house all of its students on campus. The university, subject to a fine of $150 per day since being cited last month, is appealing.

The two poles in the marriage were neatly represented here: tremendous economic and social benefits to the town, but difficulty in getting along day to day.

The complicated coupling has earned Quinnipiac and Hamden a place in the lexicon of town-gown relations in Connecticut, not as fiery as the struggle between New Haven and Yale University before Mayor John DeStefano and Yale President Rick Levin turned things around in the 1990s, but simmering, to the point where Jackson said something has to be done.

"We agree on 90 percent plus of the points that come up, but the less than 10 percent is important to resolve. We have to communicate better," said Jackson, after accepting the $1.23 million check from Lahey. The amount included the $750,000 payment and about $400,000 that the school already pays annually for extra-duty police, fire and emergency medical services.

Jackson said any unease flowing between the town and the university "always, always" comes back to the party houses the homes in single-family neighborhoods that are owned by absentee landlords and rented to up to four students. Sometimes, though, a fifth or sixth student slides in, even a seventh or an eighth, Divided so many ways, the rent is cheaper than living on campus and makes it an attractive arrangement for the kids.

Residents in Middletown, Hartford, West Hartford, New London, New Haven, West Haven, Fairfield, Bridgeport, Storrs, New Britain, Willimantic, and Danbury may recognize this. It doesn't take too many 2 a.m. keg parties, which often bring the police and sometimes ambulances, for the students to make a deep and indelibly negative mark on the neighborhood.

Hamden town planner Leslie Creane calls it the "disassembling" of single-family routines and rhythms. She doesn't begrudge the students their good times, only the relatively few rowdy ones.

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Responding to an ever-growing need, we are proud of the more than 3,200 graduates who serve their communities. Our program admits the majority of its almost 700 students into the combined baccalaureate-MD program. Hallmarks of our program are in-depth peer and physician mentoring in docent teams, application of state-of-the-art technology, and team-based care. In fact, our program offers more patient contact than most other medical programs in the nation.

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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Published: Thursday, March 5, 2015, 1:51 PM

Updated: Friday, March 6, 2015, 12:39 AM

Bring out your dead.

A Manhattan mortuary school short on bodies sued the city health department Thursday to demand more cadavers for its students.

The American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service said in papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court that the city Office of Chief Medical Examiner stopped providing stiffs to the school last summer sending students scrambling to find the recently deceased.

The school is asking the court to order the city to resume its 50-year practice of providing cadavers. Without them, the school could lose its accreditation, it said in court papers.

An indispensable part of the curriculum leading to the AOS (Associate in Occupational Studies) degree is embalming. All students, including those enrolled online, must actively participate in at least 10 clinical embalmings to earn their degree, the schools lawyer, Brian Sokoloff, said in court papers.

As a result of the policy change, theyre going around scrounging for bodies at funeral homes owned by alumni of the school. Its haphazard, Sokoloff said.

School officials have had to improvise and race to bodies available at funeral homes often at night or on weekends. They then have as little as two hours to rush a student and a faculty member to the home so the student can get the practical experience required.

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East Providence, RI (PRWEB) March 05, 2015

Rhode Island Medical Imaging (RIMI) was pleased to donate $2,500 for a third year in a row to support the Providence College (PC) womens basketball programs fight to end breast cancer. The donation covered the purchase of the Think Pink uniforms, which were worn during the February 22nd Pink Out game against Big East Conference opponent DePaul University at Alumni Hall/Mullaney Gymnasium in Providence, R.I.

RIMI is pleased to continue our support of the PC womens basketballs Pink Out event, said Dr. Scott Levine of RIMI. It was an honor to participate in this meaningful event in the past, and we are happy to continue this new tradition by assisting in the purchase of the Think Pink uniforms. Just as in basketball, the fight to end breast cancer comes from a team effort, and we are happy to join together to support such a worthy cause.

Spectators provided voluntary donations at the Think Pink game against DePaul, and many wore pink to show their support. Additionally, the Think Pink uniforms worn by the players will be dry-cleaned and auctioned off, with all proceeds to support breast cancer awareness.

PC womens basketball coach Susan Robinson Fruchtl accepted the donation on behalf of the organization: We are grateful that RIMI has decided to continue their support for this wonderful program. Each year we look forward to the uplifting atmosphere during the Think Pink game, and the opportunity it allows to show our unwavering support for this cause.

RIMI also sponsored PCs Think Pink Club Room, where daughters of office staff and employees were able to meet and greet players and staff prior to attending the game.

For more information, call Rhode Island Medical Imaging at (401) 432-2400.

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Established in 1943, Rhode Island Medical Imaging (RIMI) maintains the highest standards of practice in medical diagnostic imaging. Their network of private facilities is staffed by board certified radiologists, registered technologists, and dedicated office personnel, offers physicians and patients prompt and professional service using state-of-the-art technology. The team of radiologists has broad based experience and subspecialty training in all areas of diagnostic imaging, providing patients with immediate access to consultations in any medical imaging subspecialty. RIMI radiologists also perform and interpret the full spectrum of imaging examinations at Rhode Island Hospital, Women & Infants Hospital, and the Miriam Hospital. Those activities are complemented by their academic commitment to The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. RIMIs goal is to provide every physician and patient with the highest quality in contemporary diagnostic imaging. For more information about Rhode Island Medical Imaging, visit http://www.rimirad.com.

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To Dr. Hank Frissora, the greatest opportunities to learn always happened outside the classroom.

When Frissora was an undergraduate studying biomedical engineering at Purdue in the late 70s, he spent his free time sitting in on Exponent editorial board meetings to flesh out his daily comic strip, Red Bricks, even if that meant continuing conversations into Harrys Chocolate Shop.

That passion to expand beyond the classroom never left him.

Having accepted his Outstanding Alumni Award from the College of Engineering on Wednesday for his work as a surgeon on the East Coast, Frissora recalled his comic strip work as defining to his undergrad experience.

Even with the pages of his comics now bound into the Red Brick Manifesto in the Purdue Libraries, Frissora spoke with the Exponent about the impact comic drawing had on the rest of his career.

Tell me about your time at Purdue and how that led you to medical school.

I had intended to go to medical school from the start. I knew engineering would be a great discipline to learn because if I wanted to divert from medical school, it would be another whole career. It also was good preparation for studying medicine. There is an incredible influx of technology in medicine. It was a good choice.

How did you begin your comic strip career?

I got a little bit diverted while I was here and the cartoon became an all-encompassing daily thing. I would sit in on the editorial board at The Exponent and hear what was going on and then join them over at Harrys so that we could continue there. Most of it was done the night before, just barely making the 11 p.m. deadline so it could be made on a plate to run on the press.

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Recognition.Dr. Noe Quianola (left), SWU president, hands over the award to Dr. Venil Lovely Bolambao (second from left) in recognition of her achievement as first placer in the recent Physician Licensure Examinations. Also in photo are Maris Johanna A. Holopainen (second from right), SWU board of trustees chairperson, and Dr. Peter S. Aznar (right), College of Medicine dean.(Sun.Star Foto/Allan Defensor)

UNDERDOG no more.

This was how Dr. Ramon Aballe, president emeritus of the Medical Alumni Association of Southwestern University (SWU), described the university in his message during the recognition rites for student achievers recently.

He was referring to the feat of Dr. Venil Lovely Bolambao, an alumna of the institution, who topped the February 2015 Physician Licensure Examinations.

Aballe said that SWU was considered the least among other rival medical schools in Cebu City because of its traditional way of teaching and the low percentage of board passers in the College of Medicine for the past few years.

But Dr. Peter Aznar, dean of the College of Medicine of SWU, said that now with its 100 percent passing percentage for first takers and a topnotcher of the board exam, they are proud to announce the rise of a more improved and developed Southwestern University.

Dr. Bolambao, 27, youngest in the family and a resident of Barangay Bulacao, Talisay City, Cebu, is the second graduate of SWU to rank first in a licensure exam since 1986.

She received cash incentives of P210,000 and US$800 courtesy of the university, the SWU United States Medical Alumni Association and the No Scalpel Vasectomy International Inc., a US-based charitable organization headed by Dr. Ramon Suarez, who is also a graduate of the school.

Bolambao, in her speech, said she is as grateful as the school for marking her achievement in a milestone that signifies change.

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