Bangalore, April 28:

Indian Institute of Management Bangalores (IIM-B) alumni meet Anusmaran will be held on May 4 at the IIM-B campus in Bangalore. This years meet, spread across 15 cities around the world, is likely to see the participation of over 8,000 IIM-B alumni.

The Bangalore Chapter will host three panel discussions on Entrepreneurship and Disruptive Thinking on the IIM-B campus as part of the event.

The other IIM-B chapters where panel discussions and entrepreneurship is the theme are: Chennai Chapter (May 3); USA East Coast Chapter (May 17), where Ashish Pandey (PGP02), CEO, Altisource Residential Corporation, will address the alumni; Kolkata Chapter (May 10), where C S Ghosh, Chairman & MD, Bandhan Group, will speak.

Rakesh Godhwani, Head Alumni and Development IIM-B, said Anusmaran is a perfect example of how we can leverage the gold mine of knowledge that the alumni of IIMB possess. Learning from each other is undoubtedly our way forward.

Harish Mittal, President of IIMBAA Bangalore Chapter, Founder and Managing Director at Camellia Clothing Ltd, said Bangalore is the new haven for entrepreneurs and we have seen tremendous energy among IIMB alumni in the city to learn from one anothers entrepreneurial experience.

For the Bangalore Chapter event panellists on the Start Up Track include Saumil Majumdar (PGP95), Co-Founder & Managing Director of EduSports; Manu Indrayan (PGP94), Founder of 612 Ivy League; Sanjay Anandaram, (PGP91), Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor and Mentor, Ojas Venture and Founding Partner of JumpStart; K Ganesh (IIMC),Chairman and Co-Founder Portea Medical; Meena Ganesh (IIMC), CEO & Managing Director, Portea Medical; and P C Musthafa (IIMB PGSEM07) Co-Founder, ID Fresh Food.

Panelists on Join the Entrepreneur include Subhash Dhar (PGP92), CEO, Enterprise Nube Services; Atul Shinghal (PGP93), CEO Probe Equity Research; Sudhakar Varanasi (IIT KGP and PhD IISc), Chief Mentor, Emergent Institute; Anju Maudgal Kadam (IIMB MPWE 2010), Founder and Director Web TV.in; and Professor Ramya Ranganathan (IITM & IIMA and PhD London School Of Business), IIMB faculty.

Panelists on Social Change Agents include A Vaidyanathan (PGP83), Founder & Managing Director, Cleantech Consultants and HMX Systems; Mainak Chakraborty (PGP10), Co-CEO, Green Power Systems; Poonam Bir Kasturi (NID Ahmedabad 86), Industrial Designer, Facilitator, Entrepreneur and Mentor at Founder Industree Crafts and Playnspeak and Pioneer of the Daily Dump Project; Shridhar Venkat (NMIMS), Executive Director, Akshaya Patra Foundation; Ramesh Swamy (REC Bhopal), CEO, Swamy Group of Companies; and Suresh Bhagavatula (PhD Netherlands), Assistant Professor, NSRCEL at IIMB.

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HUNTINGTON Sixteen Marshall alumni and one club were honored at the Marshall University Alumni Associations 77th annual Alumni Awards Banquet on Saturday in the Memorial Student Centers Don Morris Room on Marshall Universitys Huntington campus.

The banquet capped Marshalls 2014 Alumni Weekend, scheduled to coincide with the annual Green and White Game.

Following is a list of the award winners honored at this years banquet:

National awards

Distinguished Alumnus Award: Dr. Eric R. George

George is a hand surgeon practicing medicine in Louisiana. A native of Huntington and a graduate of Huntington East High School, he received his medical degree from Marshall. His practice, the Hand Center of Louisiana, treats NFL players and key players in the oil and gas industries, among other businesses, and is the largest in the Gulf South region. He owns a luxury hospital, the Omega Hospital, and several ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care clinics and assisted living centers.

Alumnus Community Achievement Award: Karen Williams

Williams is a native of Charlestons west side. She attended Glenwood Elementary, Woodrow Wilson Junior High and Stonewall Jackson High School. She has been the national and state chairwoman of the Association for Developmental Education, on the board and an active member of Kanawha County International Reading Association, on the Board of Directors and a clinician of the Literacy Volunteers of Kanawha County, charter member of the Charleston District Outreach Ministries Tutor Training, a member of the National Dropout Prevention Network and the Kanawha County Literacy Coalition.

Distinguished Service Award: Charles C. Lanham

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Quick links to other pages on this site | Still can't find it? see Site Index Brad Nettles/StaffAn 1880 photograph shows students at Porter Military Academy. The school is holding their 50th reunion of the last class to graduate. Buy this photo

The third weekend of every April, alumni of Porter Military Academy gather at St. Luke's Chapel for a service to celebrate the heritage and history of their school.

This year that annual tradition will take on a deeper meaning as members of the class of 1964 - the last graduating class of the academy - will gather for their first reunion in 50 years.

"We had some good times," said Mike Ratcliffe, a 1964 graduate of the academy who has helped organize the reunion.

Despite the academy's name, Ratcliffe said it was military only in appearance but not in curriculum. The boys wore military-style uniforms and marched each morning to St. Luke's Chapel for service, but there were no military classes.

The academy has a complex history that dates to 1867 when the Rev. Anthony Toomer Porter, an Episcopal priest, formed the Holy Communion Church Institute as a school and orphanage for children orphaned during the Civil War. In 1880, the school located at an old military arsenal near the present day intersection of Ashley Avenue and Bee Street.

The school was eventually renamed Porter Military Academy and functioned as an all boys boarding school until 1954. It continued to operate as a private school for grades 1-12 until 1964 when the campus was sold to the Medical University of South Carolina.

That same year school officials decided to merge Porter Military Academy with the Gaud School for Boys, founded in 1908, and the Watt School, founded in 1931. The new school, called Porter-Gaud School, opened in the fall of 1964. The school moved a year later to its current location on Albemarle Road following a donation of 70 acres from Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.

Today all but three of the buildings on the academy's campus have been demolished. Only St. Luke's Chapel, Colcock Hall and the Waring Historical Library remain.

The history of the school was palpable to the students who went there. Ratcliffe recalled discovering old tunnels under the arsenal.

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ColumbiaDoctors, the multi-specialty medical practice comprised of more than 1,200 faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, College of Dental Medicine and School of Nursing, recently became one of the largest medical practices in Westchester with its acquisition of North Star Medical Group.

Many of the top doctors in Westchester are P&S alumni and already have strong relationships with us. Integrating these practices with ColumbiaDoctors improves the experience for patients, especially when they need care by multiple specialists, said Dr. Lee Goldman,dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine at CUMC.

Nine offices specializing in family medicine, internal medicine, gastroenterology and pulmonary medicine join Columbias existing network throughout the New York metropolitan area.

The northward expansion represents the latest phase in the growth of the faculty practice. New offices on West 51st Street near Rockefeller Center in Manhattan opened in 2013, adding about 25 percent greater capacity than the former location on Manhattans East Side. ColumbiaDoctors Midtown now sees more than 1,000 patients a day, offering X-rays and other imaging, laboratory services, primary care and several other specialties.

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The late Ralph Wilson Jr., founder and 54-year owner of the Buffalo Bills, will be honored with the Chancellor Charles P. Norton Medal, UBs highest award, during the universitys168th general commencement on May 18.

Nancy H. Nielsen, senior associate dean for health policy, UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and Robert Gioia, president of The John R. Oishei Foundation and chair of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation, will receive the UB Presidents Medal in recognition of extraordinary service to the university.

Also during the ceremony, SUNY honorary doctorates will be presented to UB alumnus Ira Flatow, host of Public Radio Internationals Science Friday; Jack Lightstone, president and vice chancellor of Brock University in St. Catharines; and UB alumnus Norman McCombs, recipient of the 2013 National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

The Chancellor Charles P. Norton Medal is presented annually in public recognition of a person who has, in Nortons words, performed some great thing which is identified with Buffalo a great civic or political act, a great book, a great work of art, a great scientific achievement or any other thing which, in itself, is truly great and ennobling, and which dignifies the performer and Buffalo in the eyes of the world.

Throughout his distinguished career, Ralph Wilson Jr. had a profound impact regionally and nationally. A founding member of the American Football League, he established the Buffalo Bills franchise in 1959, the only team to remain in its originating city. Recognized by The Buffalo News as the regions top sports figure of the 20th century, Wilson was inducted in 2009 into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the highest honor in the NFL.

A pioneering proponent of youth football nationally, he was a vital supporter of numerous community organizations, including the food banks of Buffalo and Rochester, the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County, Sheas Performing Arts Center, and the Buffalo Zoo. With his wife, Mary, he was a leading supporter of many regional health institutions, including the Hospice Foundation of Western New York, the Cancer Wellness Center, Hunters Hope and the Kaleida Health Foundation.

Through the Ralph Wilson Medical Research Foundation and the Ralph C. Wilson Foundation, he provided significant support to Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic, and established the Buffalo Bills Team Physicians Fund to support UBs Department of Sports Medicine. Wilson also established major scholarship programs at Canisius College, SUNY Fredonia, St. John Fisher College and the University of Virginia.

A World War II Navy veteran who served in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters, Wilson has been awarded numerous national and regional honors for his philanthropy, patriotism, and civic and sports leadership, including the NFL Alumni Order of the Leather Helmet, the National World War II Museums American Spirit Award and the Sovereign Grand Commanders Medal of Honor by the Masons. Wilson passed away in March at the age of 95.

The UB Presidents Medal, first presented in 1990, recognizes outstanding scholarly or artistic achievements, humanitarian acts, contributions of time or treasure, exemplary leadership or any other major contribution to the development of the University at Buffalo and the quality of life in the UB community.

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The late Ralph Wilson Jr., founder and 54-year owner of the Buffalo Bills, will be honored with the Chancellor Charles P. Norton Medal, UBs highest award, during the universitys168th general commencement on May 18.

Nancy H. Nielsen, senior associate dean for health policy, UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and Robert Gioia, president of The John R. Oishei Foundation and chair of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation, will receive the UB Presidents Medal in recognition of extraordinary service to the university.

Also during the ceremony, SUNY honorary doctorates will be presented to UB alumnus Ira Flatow, host of Public Radio Internationals Science Friday; Jack Lightstone, president and vice chancellor of Brock University in St. Catharines; and UB alumnus Norman McCombs, recipient of the 2013 National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

The Chancellor Charles P. Norton Medal is presented annually in public recognition of a person who has, in Nortons words, performed some great thing which is identified with Buffalo a great civic or political act, a great book, a great work of art, a great scientific achievement or any other thing which, in itself, is truly great and ennobling, and which dignifies the performer and Buffalo in the eyes of the world.

Throughout his distinguished career, Ralph Wilson Jr. had a profound impact regionally and nationally. A founding member of the American Football League, he established the Buffalo Bills franchise in 1959, the only team to remain in its originating city. Recognized by The Buffalo News as the regions top sports figure of the 20th century, Wilson was inducted in 2009 into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the highest honor in the NFL.

A pioneering proponent of youth football nationally, he was a vital supporter of numerous community organizations, including the food banks of Buffalo and Rochester, the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County, Sheas Performing Arts Center, and the Buffalo Zoo. With his wife, Mary, he was a leading supporter of many regional health institutions, including the Hospice Foundation of Western New York, the Cancer Wellness Center, Hunters Hope and the Kaleida Health Foundation.

Through the Ralph Wilson Medical Research Foundation and the Ralph C. Wilson Foundation, he provided significant support to Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic, and established the Buffalo Bills Team Physicians Fund to support UBs Department of Sports Medicine. Wilson also established major scholarship programs at Canisius College, SUNY Fredonia, St. John Fisher College and the University of Virginia.

A World War II Navy veteran who served in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters, Wilson has been awarded numerous national and regional honors for his philanthropy, patriotism, and civic and sports leadership, including the NFL Alumni Order of the Leather Helmet, the National World War II Museums American Spirit Award and the Sovereign Grand Commanders Medal of Honor by the Masons. Wilson passed away in March at the age of 95.

The UB Presidents Medal, first presented in 1990, recognizes outstanding scholarly or artistic achievements, humanitarian acts, contributions of time or treasure, exemplary leadership or any other major contribution to the development of the University at Buffalo and the quality of life in the UB community.

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As a graduate student at Harvard Medical School in the 1990s, Robert Means had his name on 18 publications. Currently, Means is a professor of pathology at the Yale School of Medicine, as well as director of graduate admissions for the microbiology program.

He has spent two decades in science. Now, Means said, he is leaving not only Yale, but science altogether.

At the end of June, Means contract with Yale will be up, largely because he was unable to bring in additional sources of funding to run his lab.

Ive still got projects going on that every day get me excited about science, but the rest of it the managerial side of applying for grants that basically means life or death for your career I have become so sullied by, he said. Im going in a different direction because it doesnt feel like, in this climate, that I can be intellectually free and still make a viable career out of it.

What happened to Means at Yale is symptomatic of a national crisis in science funding, he said, particularly in biomedical research.

The National Institute of Health doubled its budget between 1998 and 2003, wrote graduate school dean Thomas Pollard in an article for Cell, leaving funding for biomedical research seeming relatively secure. But a combination of inflation since 2003 and a 5 percent cut in all NIH grant funding during the budget sequester of 2013 has left the current outlook for funding in the United States grim.

Yale has mechanisms in place to help support faculty struggling to secure research, but the Universitys funds alone cannot insulate its researchers from the present climate. Government funding remains science researchers primary source of support, and those who lack it may find their labs in jeopardy.

Increasingly, researchers are looking for supplementary financial support from private foundations and corporate sponsors, many of which will underwrite research that investigates a specific disease or drug. Yet some worry this shift will leave basic science research, traditionally underwritten by public sources, by the wayside.

For all its impact on researchers, the greatest casualty of the funding climate may be the next generation of scientists.

I feel that if we really want to keep an edge on creativity, we need to make it easier for people to enter the system and fund it at a greater level than we are right now, said genetics professor Arthur Horwich. Were scaring people away.

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GAINESVILLE - The Brenau University School of Nursing has been educating new nurses for a half century, and the school wraps up its 50th anniversary celebration at a special event on Thursday, April 24.

Originally known as the Hall County School of Nursing, the school graduated its first class in 1963.

The celebration of the 50th anniversary is set for 5 p.m. on Thursday, at Brenau Universitys East Campus at the Featherbone Communiversity. At 5:45 p.m. alumni of the school of nursing will be recognized, as will be the schools first five doctoral students. There will also be a special presentation honoring one of the schools key benefactors, Anne Thomas of Gainesville. Tours of the school of nursing will follow the presentations.

At first, the School of Nursing offered a non-collegiate diploma of nursing, said Dr. Sandra Greniewicki, interim director of the School of Nursing. Although Brenau did not officially take over the school until 1978, Brenau partnered with the school to offer some of the academic courses required for the diploma.

Ten students were part of that first class of nurses. About 80 undergraduate nurses are expected to graduate this year.

Today the Brenau School of Nursing is a diverse, state-of-the-art program designed to prepare students to provide health care that is "sensitive to the unique health needs of individuals, families and communities."

The program, which comprises both online and classroom instruction, includes an undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Nursing and graduate programs for Family Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Educator and Nurse Leader Manager. The school also has a popular RN-to-BSN program for nurses with two-year degrees to earn a four-year undergraduate diploma. Since 2010, the university has offered a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree.

Todays modern program is a far cry from what the students in the first class in 1963 experienced.

From 1960 to 1978 the Hall School of Nursing was completely owned and operated as a part of Hall County Hospital (now Northeast Georgia Medical Center), which had total control over the nursing program, including its rules and regulations on student behavior and expectations.

It was believed that nursing was a full-time endeavor and a dedicated calling that occupied all of the students time and effort, said Greniewicki. During this period, the rules were modified, but nursing education continued to expect full dedication from its students.

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U.S. Medical Soccer Team Itinerary for Washington, D.C.

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WHAT: The U.S. Medical Soccer Team (USMST) is an organization of physicians from around the country who share a passion for soccer, medical education and community outreach. They represent the United States at the World Medical Football Championships ("Physicians' World Cup"), which is an annual tournament of similar physician teams from around the world. The USMST also participates in the Global Congress on Medicine and Health in Sport, which is a medical conference bringing together an international cohort of physician soccer players and occurs in parallel with the Championships. This year's tournament and Congress will be held in Natal, Brazil, from July 5-12, 2014.

In preparation for the tournament, the coach and players of the USMST get together three times annually for weekend training sessions at locations around the country. This April 25-27, they will be in Washington, D.C.

During their weekend, they will be doing a community outreach event at the Washington, D.C. Boys and Girls Club on Friday, April 25th from 4 6 p.m. These are fun events tailored towards children age 6-12 years of age that focus on fitness, nutrition and education. USMST has developed a formal program entitled "Healthy, Fit and Smart" that they use to educate and motivate youth towards active lifestyles, a healthy diet and careers in the health profession.

Coach and team bios, schedules, competitors, etc. are detailed at: http://www.usmedicalsoccerteam.org/

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