ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --The University of Michigan's Ross School of Business was named the number one graduate entrepreneurship program in the nation, in recognition of the programs, courses, and engagement offered through the school's Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies. The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazines recognized Ross in the joint ranking of its top 25 graduate entrepreneurship programs, which surveyed more than 2,000 schools. This marks the fourth consecutive year Ross has appeared among the top five, advancing from second place in 2012 to the top spot for the first time.

"We have created a culture at Ross where entrepreneurship is a major focus of our curriculum and a core value," said Alison Davis-Blake, dean of the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. "As more and more students look to entrepreneurship as a way to make a positive difference in the world, we are proud to be the leader in entrepreneurial education and will continue to innovate in the field."

"This ranking is a badge of honor and a resounding endorsement of our unique and effective methodology," said Stewart Thornhill, executive director of the Zell Lurie Institute. "As the nation's top program for graduate entrepreneurship, we set the bar for entrepreneurial education across the U.S. and complement the University's flourishing entrepreneurial community. We do it through a matrix of multidisciplinary coursework, action-based learning, staff and faculty seminars and alumni networking."

The University of Michigan has been a driving force in the advancement of entrepreneurial education since 1927, when it offered the nation's first course in entrepreneurship at what is now the Ross School of Business. The launch of various entrepreneurial programs followed and in 1999, the University was among the first to launch a full program dedicated to entrepreneurial education with the creation of the Zell Lurie Institute. This was made possible with a $10 million gift from iconic American businessman Sam Zell and distinguished philanthropist Ann Lurie, the wife of Zell's late business partner, Robert H. Lurie.

Ross' programs and curriculum have set the bar for entrepreneurial education across the U.S. Examples include the Wolverine Venture Fund, which was the first student-led venture fund of its kind in the country and is now complemented by the Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund and the Social Venture Fund. Together these 'evergreen,' student-run funds have $6.5 million under management and deliver returns that are comparable to the top quartile of professionally managed funds. Since its inception, Zell Lurie has provided scholarships, grants, competition awards and internship funding totaling more than $3 million to help advance new venture development and the entrepreneurial skill set of more than 5,000 students. In 2012, U-M Ross launched a new Master of Entrepreneurship degree program, offered jointly with the College of Engineering. The degree leverages the strengths of both schools to teach students how to build successful, new business concepts around advanced technologies.

Ross' entrepreneurship education programs are strengthened through boundaryless collaborations and partnerships across the University. The partnership with the Center for Entrepreneurship at the College of Engineering launched TechArb, a student accelerator that is jointly managed by the Zell Lurie Institute. In addition, the Zell Entrepreneurship & Law program and Medical Innovation Center host programs in which the Institute's graduate students participate.

"To educate and launch entrepreneurs has always been our mission. The only thing that makes us more proud than being recognized as the very best in the nation at doing this is to see our students go out into the world to deploy their entrepreneurship skills, knowledge and experience," said Tom Kinnear, the D. Maynard Phelps Collegiate Professor of Business in marketing at the Ross School of Business and former executive director of the Institute (1999-August 2013). "The Zell Lurie Institute is a linchpin in the University of Michigan's remarkable coursework and active, real-world engagement that is catalyzing and refining student entrepreneurship and inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders."

Visit http://www.bus.umich.edu to learn more about Ross, Zell Lurie and the Master of Entrepreneurship degree.

About the Stephen M. Ross School of Business TheStephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michiganis a vibrant and distinctive learning community grounded in the principle that business can be an extraordinary vehicle for positive change in today's dynamic global economy. The Ross School of Business mission is to develop leaders who make a positive difference in the world. Through thought and action, members of the Ross community drive change and innovation that improves business and society.

Ross is consistently ranked among the world's leading business schools. Academic degree programs include the MBA, Part-time MBA (Evening and Weekend formats), Executive MBA, Global MBA, Master of Accounting, Master of Supply Chain Management, Master of Entrepreneurship, Master of Management, BBA, and PhD. In addition, the school delivers open-enrollment and custom executive education programs targeting general management, leadership development, and strategic human resource management.

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Hometown pride and Model T Fords were on display at a record-breaking alumni event last week that drew nearly 800 Bulls from around Western New York to the Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum in downtown Buffalo.

The gathering, part alumni party and part pep rally, was planned to build excitement for the coming season of academics, sports, and arts and entertainment at UB. It was the largest local alumni event in recent memory and the second event hosted in Buffalo by the UB Alumni Association.

Last years event was part of President Satish K. Tripathis UB 2020 alumni tour to 20 cities in 20 months. Held in Buffalos Hotel Lafayette, it had 600 attendees and was so successful the association decided to throw a local party again this year.

There is no official UB alumni chapter for Western New York, although officials said that might change. Our university has been experiencing an incredible number of successes over the past year or sowith no end in sightand we want to share the excitement with our alumni and thank them for believing in their alma mater, said Jay Friedman, EdM 00 & BA 86, associate vice president for alumni relations.

The sun was setting on a gorgeous September day as crowds entered the museums cavernous atrium entrance. The atrium protects the newly completed Frank Lloyd Wright Filling Station, based on Wrights 1927 gas station design that was earmarked for a nearby spot on Michigan Street but never built.

Alumni mingled with classmates and UB faculty, staff and students, snacked on hors doeuvres and ogled the museums vintage sedans and the filling stations gleaming copper roof.

Special guests included Tripathi; Alumni Association President Carol Gloff, BS 75; Athletics Director Danny White; head football coach Jeff Quinn; baseball coach Ron Torgalski and womens basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack.

Jim Sandoro Jr., BS 71, alumnus and founder of the Pierce-Arrow Museum, welcomed UB to his playground.

Sandoro said the museum represents his legacy and is a manifestation of his lifelong passion for cool cars. Starting with an old Model T Ford, which took him 10 years to restore, he painstakingly built his automobile collection over 40 years with his wife, Mary Ann. Since they dont have children, they plan to donate the facility to the city.

This museum is a Buffalo thing, Sandoro said, adding that the event was the largest weve ever had here, and that UB alumni were the first group to see the completed filling station. Imagine that drawing sitting in a drawer somewhere its the first Frank Lloyd Wright building that doesnt leak, he joked.

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This Friday, eight people nominated by the community, including a 9/11 hero, two beloved history teachers, an Olympic kayaker and well-known actor, will be inducted into the second annual Mira Costa High School Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame.

The Hall of Fame was created last year to honor those graduates who distinguish themselves by contributions to their careers, life endeavors and the country they serve.

The eight graduates, who were chosen from a pool of 28 nominees, will be honored throughout the day Friday, Sept. 28, first at a breakfast reception, then at a school assembly in the auditorium, again at lunch and finally during a halftime ceremony at the football game versus South Torrance.

The inductees will receive resolutions from the city, county and Assemblyman Al Muratsuchis office, along with a swag bag full of a framed certificate, a gold-plated lifetime pass to all Mira Costa High School events, a $50 gift certificate to spend at the kiosk at Fridays game, Mira Costa t-shirts and an aluminum water bottle.

Mira Costa faculty and students believe that positive role models are extremely important in todays world and that these graduates should be held up as models for todays students, said Principal Ben Dale.

The inductees in alphabetical order are

ANTONIO CARBAYO

Antonio Carbayo, a 1978 graduate, embodies the classic Mexican-American immigrant success story. Born in Mexico City, the son of a U.S. citizen father and a Mexican mother, he soon became a naturalized U.S. citizen settling in Southern California. He has always been a hard worker; after receiving the Most Improved Senior Award among other recognition, he went on to El Camino College where he captured his AA degree. He transferred to UCLA where he obtained his bachelors degree in Literature and proceeded to UC Irvine where he obtained his bachelors in Biological Science. As a graduate of the highly acclaimed Post Baccalaureate program at UCI, he was invited to attend UCI Medical School where after completing his Medical Doctor degree went on to specialize in family medicine. As a bilingual doctor, he gives back to his community by providing medical services to an underserved population in Santa Ana. A noted authority in family medicine, he serves as a frequent medical commentator on Spanish Language television stations. He has mentored and inspired many young aspiring doctors to stay in school and pursue their goals.

KENDRA FLEAGLE GORLITSKY

Dr. Kendra Fleagle Gorlitsky, a 1969 graduate, edited La Vista for three years in high school. She now practices Family Medicine with underinsured populations including the homeless, immigrants and others in Central and South LA where she supervises students as Clinical Professor of Medicine at USC and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA. She has served as an expert witness for asylum seekers under the auspices of Program for Torture Victims. She chairs California Hospitals Bioethics Committee Consortium Newsletter, using the skills she learned as a Mustang reporter. Her biggest current challenge is serving as Scout Master for an inner city Boy Scouts troop and is eager for any volunteers. She is the mother of three and her youngest, Garett Gorlitsky, graduated from Costa in 06.

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Newswise For just the seventh time in its 90-year history, Rowan University is welcoming a new president.

Ali A. Houshmand will officially become Rowans seventh president during a formal inauguration ceremony on Friday, Sept. 20, at 10 a.m. in Pfleeger Concert Hall, Wilson Hall, on the University's Glassboro, N.J. campus.

New Jersey Secretary of Higher Education Rochelle Hendricks and State Senate President Steve Sweeney will lead a host of state and local dignitaries to celebrate Houshmands inauguration.

Rowan benefactor Henry Rowan, former University President Mark Chamberlain, and delegates from more than 25 colleges and universities in the regionand from as far away as Tennesseeare expected to join with University trustees, Rowan Foundation board members, faculty, professional staff, students and alumni to honor Houshmand and mark the historic day.

The inauguration ceremony will include faculty in full academic regalia.

Sweeney, Hendricks, Board of Trustees Chairman Linda Rohrer, Alumni Association President David Burgin, Student Government Association President Surbhi Pathak, and University Senate President Bill Friend all will speak before Houshmand accepts the presidency and delivers his inaugural address.

Houshmand, who joined the University in 2006 as its provost, was named interim president in 2011. In June of 2012, he was named president.

He takes the helm at Rowan during an unprecedented period of transformation, much of that growth a direct result of his ambition and vision.

Under Houshmands leadership, Rowan this year became only the second institution in the nation to have both M.D.- and D.O.-granting medical schools. Rowan opened Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU)-the first new medical school in the state in more than 35 years-in Camden in 2012 and integrated the School of Osteopathic Medicine (formerly the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)of Stratford on July 1 to form RowanSOM. Rowan also integrated Stratfords Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Additionally, this summer, Rowan became the second comprehensive research university in the state through the New Jersey Medical and Health Sciences Education Act. Under the act, Rowan also is partnering with Rutgers-Camden to develop a new College of Health Sciences in Camden.

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The chief executive officer of the company that brought touch-based computing to the mainstream, an entrepreneur who appeared on ABCs Shark Tank and sells origami sound systems across the world, and a teen runaway turned philanthropist are among the winners of this years UC Davis Cal Aggie Alumni Association awards. They will be honored, along with other outstanding alumni, at the CAAAs 40thannual Awards Gala on Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, at the Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa.

This years award winners are:

Sandi Redenbach of Davis, Calif. Redenbach 72, Cred. 73, a retired English and theater arts teacher who overcame a tumultuous adolescence, is awarded the Aggie Service Award for her dedication of time, energy, volunteerism and leadership in support of the Cal Aggie Alumni Association and UC Davis. She was a Woodland school teacher for 15 years and in 1988 established an independent learning program, which still operates serving at-risk youth. She authored numerous articles and books and has made a planned gift to the School of Education that created a perpetual scholarship for students committed to improving education for those at risk of not succeeding in school. She is also recognized for exceptional volunteer leadership and support of philanthropy at UC Davis.

Jerry Lohr of Saratoga, Calif. Lohr, an engineer and founder of J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines, is the recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award for exemplary conduct and achievement. Lohr was raised on a South Dakota farm and learned at a young age about the importance of soil quality, the environment and sustainable farming practices. His enterprise now sells a variety of wine and other beverages across the United States and worldwide. Lohr is a strong supporter and friend to the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology, and now serves on its Board of Visitors and Fellows. He has been a key contributor in the design, planning and fundraising efforts for UC Davis winery, brewery and food-processing teaching and research complex in the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science.

Francis Lee of Milpitas, Calif. Lee 74 is the recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award for exemplary conduct and achievement. He was only 16 when his family moved from China to Sacramento and enrolled him into high school without his knowing English. That did not deter him. He was accepted into UC Davis and held three jobs concurrently while earning his degree. He graduated with honors from UC Davis and went to work for Synaptics Inc. a Santa Clara-based company that develops gesture-based computing sensors that are used in such products as laptop touch pads and smartphone touch screens. After two decades, Lee became the companys chief executive officer in 1998 and built the company to be a worldwide leader of touch-screen technology. He returns regularly to the UC Davis campus to mentor students and serves on the College of Engineerings Deans Executive Committee.

Daniel Evans of Queretaro, Mexico Evans, M.S. 84, Ph.D. 88, who began his career as a volunteer for the Peace Corps while earning a masters degree in international agricultural development and Ph.D. in ecology is honored with the Emil M. Mrak International Award for his distinguished career and service outside the United States. For more than 30 years, Evans has worked in the field of ecology, conservation and international development in some of the poorest countries in the world. He strives to protect biodiversity and improve natural resource management while struggling with challenges to alleviate poverty. He and his wife now live in Queretaro, Mexico, where he is Peace Corps director of 85 volunteers working in technology transfer and natural resource management.

John Chuck of Davis, Calif. After completing his residency in 1989 at UC Davis School of Medicine, Chuck became a board certified family practice doctor and is currently a faculty member at the UC Davis School of Medicine. He is presented with the Outstanding Alumnus Award for displaying outstanding achievement, promoting innovative change and making professional contributions to the community and to UC Davis. He was key in developing My Doctor, an online tool that helps physicians stay in touch with their patients and includes online tutorials and health-education programs focused on delivering personalized care. Chuck is the founder and chief executive officer of Serotonin Surge Charities, which has raised $2 million for free medical clinics, breast cancer research and scholarship funds. He serves as a trustee for the UC Davis Foundation.

Jason Lucash of Tustin, Calif. Lucash 06 launched his first business selling candy in front of his parents home when he was in the fifth grade. Now, thanks to his UC Davis education including a degree in managerial economics and internships and his continued entrepreneurial spirit, he is the co-founder of OrigAudio a premium audio products company that offers innovative solutions for music portability. The companys origami-style speaker was named in a 2012 Time Magazine story as one of the Best 50 Inventions. After being featured on ABCs Shark Tank, the companys products are now sold in 5,000 stores worldwide. Lucash lectures to university students around the country and helps support several local charities. His successes garnered him the Young Alumnus Award that honors outstanding professional contributions to the community or to UC Davis within 10 years of graduation.

Pam Fair of San Diego, Calif. Fair, 80, vice president of environmental, safety and support services and chief environmental officer for San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Gas Company will be awarded the Jerry W. Fielder Memorial Award for extraordinary service to CAAA, the UC Davis Foundation and the university. She is a past chair of the UC Davis Foundation Board of Trustees, current chair of the Davis Chancellors Club and a longtime donor to the university. She helped acquire funds for the Sempra Energy Endowed Chair in Energy Efficiency at UC Davis, as well as research and workshop activities related to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. She created the Alan Jackman Scholarship at UC Davis in honor of her former chemical engineering professor and also established an undergraduate scholarship for leadership in engineering.

For a complete list of recipients, please visit http://www.alumni.ucdavis.edu/alumniawards or call the alumni association at (800) 242-4723.

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The first set of six public forums on the search for the next University president convened Tuesday on the Medical Center Campus and at the Universitys Flint Campus.

Regent Katherine White (D) led the discussion Tuesday evening, along with Alison Ranney, a consultant with the firm hired to conduct the seaarch, Russell-Reynolds Associates.

Three faculty members of the Presidential Search Committee and four additional regentsJulia Darlow (D-Ann Arbor), Mark Bernstein (D) and Shauna Ryder Diggs (D) jotted notes and asked follow-up questions to about 25 students, faculty and community members gathered in the Taubman Biomedical Science Research Buildings auditorium.

After briefly explaining the search process, White and Ranney asked the crowd of mostly faculty and medical students to consider the challenges the University will face over the next one, five or twenty years as well as qualities they would want the committee to keep in mind when choosing a candidate.

While a few periods of silence occurred in the mostly unfilled auditorium, a steady flow of comments generally characterized the forum. Comments centered on a wide array of issues and challenges. Some were focused on the University of Michigan Health System, with multiple speakers expressing the importance of a candidate with a background at an institution with a hospital. Two other contributors also expressed the importance of facing the challenges of the changing landscape of healthcare, following passage of the Affordable Care Act.

More generally, multiple medical school students addressed college affordability, touching on topics such as scholarships and tuition costs, as well as the need to attract students from diverse backgrounds in terms of race and socio-economic status. Other comments addressed alumni engagement and building cohesion and partnership between University of Michigan units and campuses, in Flint and Dearborn.

Peter Farrehi, an assistant professor in the department of internal medicine, pointed out that the next University president effect not just the campus in Ann Arbor, but the entire state of Michigan, including cities like Flint and Dearborn.

The state is in dire need of the Universitys leadership, he said.

Farrehi mentioned that many people are interested in becoming more global, but the University and its next president must place greater emphasis on supporting the local community.

Multiple commenters mentioned community-oriented needs as challenges that are just as important as the Universitys global expansion, both in the scope of the hospital and the University at large.

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Newswise Michael A. Weber, MD, professor of medicine and associate dean for research at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, will deliver the New York Academy of Medicine's 2013 Nahum J. Winer Lecture on October 8, 2013, from 6:00 to 7:30 pm, at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029. The Winer lectureship was created by the family of Nahum J. Winer, a respected clinical and research cardiologist who was an officer of the New York Academy of Medicine for many years. Dr. Winer received his medical degree from SUNY Downstate.

Dr. Webers talk is titled, "Unresolved Issues in Diagnosing and Treating Hypertension: Is Renal Sympathectomy an Answer?" He will review what blood pressure levels are appropriate for treatment, currently proposed drug strategies, and the possible role of renal sympathectomy.

Renal sympathectomy is a new but not yet FDA-approved procedure for treatment-resistant hypertension to get blood pressure below a defined goal. This technique destroys the nerves serving the kidneys, important in blood pressure control, by using a catheter to apply an electric current through the arteries that supply the kidneys. This method, although invasive, appears to be effective in many patients whose blood pressures cannot otherwise be controlled. Major clinical trials are now underway to examine this treatment more thoroughly.

Dr. Webers focus as a cardiologist has primarily been on hypertension and preventive cardiology. He has published numerous research articles in the medical literature and has authored or edited 16 books. Together with Suzanne Oparil, MD, he is responsible for the widely used reference volume, Hypertension. He is the editor-in-chief of The Journal of Clinical Hypertension and was one of the founders of The American Society of Hypertension (ASH), for which he has served as president. He also served as chair of the ASH Hypertension Specialists Program. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. He has also served on the Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Board of the Food and Drug Administration, and continues as a consultant to that agency.

His main current research interests are in clinical trials of patients at high risk of cardiovascular events or strokes. He is also participating actively in trials in patients with metabolic disorders such as diabetes and kidney disease. Dr. Weber currently serves on the steering committees of several national and international clinical outcomes trials.

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SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patients bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, Colleges of Nursing and Health Related Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, a School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and an Advanced Biotechnology Park and Biotechnology Incubator.

SUNY Downstate ranks ninth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.

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About three dozen Regional Occupation Program students, together with community members, teachers and school district administrators, witnessed on Sept. 5 the unveiling of a student-designed mural representing the Health Science and Medical Technology Pathway Program at Fontana High School.

The mural, which consists of four separate panels, represents a growing program at Fohi, which includes Certified and Acute Nurse Assistant, Medical Core, Personal Fitness Training, Veterinary Assistant and Sports Medicine, among others.

The unveiling represents the end of a two-year project that began with calling local artists, mainly students, to draw pieces that depicted health and science images, said Therese Kennedy, coordinator of Career Technical Education at the Fontana Unified School District.

The original idea was to award prizes for first and second places, but due to the high amount of great artwork, there were awards given for two first places and two second places, she added.

The mural was painted by artists Molly Griffin and James Griffin, both teachers at Jurupa Hills High School, and it took them about six weeks to finish.

The mural can be seen inside building E at Fohi.

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