Optometry Career Conferences Set for Five N.C. Campuses in March

RALEIGH, N.C., March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- North Carolina students interested in earning the doctor of optometry degree are encouraged to attend the 2009 Optometry Career Conferences sponsored by College Foundation of North Carolina and the N.C. State Education Assistance Authority. Confe...

National Depression on College Campuses Conference to Be Held at U-M on March 18-19

Focus of this year's conference is 'Changing Perspectives' ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Does a crisis have to occur in order for colleges and universities to allocate funding for detecting and treating students' depression? That's one of the fundamental question...

CVCTA Education Expands to Six New Campuses and Finalizes Acquisition Of CVI Training

CVCTA Education helps physicians keep up to date with the latest in Cardiac and Peripheral CT Angiography, particularly in the detection of cardiovascular disease. CVCTA offers a variety of certification courses pertaining to cardiovascular imaging. Led by Medical Director Dr. Tony DeFrance, thes...

Waterpipe smoking on college campuses may contribute to growing public health problem

RICHMOND, Va. (May 6, 2008) More and more U.S. college students are smoking tobacco using waterpipes or hookahs and its becoming a growing public health issue, according to a new study led by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher. The findings offer important insight into the prevale...

Sodexo Challenges Diners on College Campuses to Go Trayless and Go Green

Not using a tray saves water and energy; reduces food waste GAITHERSBURG, Md., April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- On Earth Day, students on 300 college campuses served by Sodexo will line up to get their meals in a new way -- without using a plastic tray. The move was introduced by Sodexo as part ...

Optometry Career Conferences Set for Five N.C. Campuses in October

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- North Carolina students interested in earning the doctor of optometry degree are encouraged to attend the 2007 Contract Programs Career Conferences on Optometry sponsored by the N.C. State Education Assistance Authority. Conferences are sc...

MU researcher calls for increase in sexual assault awareness programs on college campuses

COLUMBIA, Mo. The statistics for sexual assault are unsettling; the Department of Justice reports that one in five college women will be the victim of attempted or actual sexual assault during their college years. In a new study, researchers from two universities, including the University of Mis...

Big Tobacco's Grip on Colleges and Students Loosens, But Still Holding Strong: New Report Examines Trends on Campuses

American Lung Association Calls Upon Students and University Leaders to Join the Smokefree Air 2010 Challenge and End the Addiction to Big Tobacco WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- College students are falling victim to aggressive tobacco industry marketing tactics as one in five...

VA Retains Facilities at Four Boston Campuses

Peake: VA Prepared for Future Needs of Veterans WASHINGTON, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After a detailed three-year study, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has decided it will continue to provide services at its four Boston-area campuses -- Bedford, Brockton, Jamaica Plain, and...

Harm of Abstinence-Only Programs in U.S. and Abroad Subject of Panel Discussion at Two Maine College Campuses

Leading Advocates for Women's Health and Rights call for an End to Government Funding for Failed Abstinence-Only Programs NEW YORK, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Legal Momentum, in partnership with the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and the Cente...

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Mayo Clinic Study Finds Earliest Evidence of Memory Decline in Middle-Aged People at Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease

...nUniversity is a single, unified institution comprising four differentiated campuses positively impacting the economic, social, cultural and environmental healt...ures last year of $530 million. With more than 38,000 students across three campuses representing 50 states and 124 nations, the UA is on the forefront of disco...

St. Francis Surgeon Uses Tissue Regeneration Technology to Rebuild Patients' Heart Structures

...is, Beech Grove and Mooresville and operates a medical office building in Plainfield. St. Francis Hospital is part of a network of 13 growing hospital campuses in Indiana and Illinois owned and operated by the Mishawaka-based Sisters of St. Francis Health Services Inc., one of the largest health care systems ...

News Media Advisory: World's Leading Surgical Oncologists to Gather at McLaren Regional Medical Center to Present Latest Work on Breast, Gastrointestinal Cancer Treatments

...ty (MSU) and the strength of the McLaren Health Care facilities and physicians to provide state-of-the-art cancer treatment at six McLaren Health Care campuses in Lansing, Flint, Lapeer, Mount Clemens, Pontiac and Bay City, Michigan. The result is the timely delivery of newly discovered treatment options to p...

Resurgent Health and Medical Announces That Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota has Ordered 25 CleanTech Automated Handwashing Systems

...Hospital(SM) since 1924, we are the eighth-largest children's health care organization in the United States, with 332 staffed beds at our two hospital campuses in St. Paul and Minneapolis. An independent, not-for-profit health care system, Children's provides care through over 14,000 inpatient visits and more...

Swedish in Seattle to Study Connections Between Preeclampsia and Migraine

... About Swedish Swedish is the largest, most comprehensive nonprofit health provider in the Greater Seattle area. It is comprised of three hospital campuses - First Hill, Cherry Hill and Ballard - a freestanding emergency department and specialty center in Issaquah, Home Care Services, and the Swedish Phys...

Major State Grant Accelerates Research and Development of Novel Cancer Therapy

...ts doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University serves more than 26,000 undergraduate and graduate students on seven campuses strategically located along 150 miles of Florida's southeastern coastline. Building on its rich tradition as a teaching university, with a world-class...

Mayo Clinic Finds Capsule Endoscopy Can Detect Intestinal Damage Caused by Celiac Disease

...rogan, Mary Knipschield, Brian Lahr, Ashwin Rumalla, Alan Zinsmeister, Ph.D., and Christopher Gostout, M.D. Each year, physicians at Mayo Clinic's campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota treat hundreds of patients who have celiac disease. For more information on celiac disease treatment at Mayo Clinic,...

UM Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program Approves 18 Collaborative Research Projects, Worth $4.4 Million, Between University Faculty, State Technology Companies

... the University of Maryland contribute funding for each project. All funding goes to the participating faculty. Four University System of Maryland campuses have approved projects. Three participating companies are based in Baltimore, two are on the Eastern Shore, one is in Southern Maryland, and one is ne...

Nobel Laureate Dr. Gunter Blobel to Speak at Florida Atlantic University

...ts doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University serves more than 26,000 undergraduate and graduate students on seven campuses strategically located along 150 miles of Florida's southeastern coastline. Building on its rich tradition as a teaching university, with a world-class...

Novel Mechanism for Long-Term Learning Identified by Carnegie Mellon Researchers

... distinctive among leading research universities for the world-renowned programs in its College of Fine Arts. A global university, Carnegie Mellon has campuses in Silicon Valley, Calif., and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia and Europe. For more, see http://www.cmu.edu . ...

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Physical Therapy

...ysical Therapy Education ... The Transition Doctor of Physical Therapy Program(T-DPT) is a post-graduate ... Texas Woman's University, with campuses in Denton, Dallas, and Houston, Texas, offers bachelor's, master's, and ... of Physical Therapy (tDPT) Certificate ... Professional membership...

Occupational therapy

...tional Therapy graduate school & program listings including masters, PhD and other Allied Health programs. Texas Woman's University, with campuses in Denton, Dallas, and Houston, Texas, offers bachelor's, master's, and ... of Occupational Therapy in December ... occupational therapy n...

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BIO-key(R) Announces Emergency Alert and Management Solutions for Schools and Campuses

MobileSRO(TM) and MobileCampus(TM) Wireless Data Communications Link School Security, Administration and Faculty WALL, N.J., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BIO-key International Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BKYI), a leader in finger-based biometric identification and wireless pu...

$20 million NIH grant to transform clinical research at UIC

... community engagement, bringing in virtually all the colleges at UIC as well as great collaborations with the Urbana-Champaign campus, and the medical campuses at Peoria and Rockford," said Dr. Joseph Flaherty, dean of the UIC College of Medicine. The scope of the collaborations make the UIC center "unique...

LSUHSC research helps link schizophrenia to specific DNA region

... Professor of Psychiatry, as well as Sherri Chalona, completed the work while evacuated from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to LSUHSC's temporary campuses in Baton Rouge. The research was supported by funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Alliance for Research on Schizoph...

Genetic adaptations key to microbe's survival in challenging environment

...s Thomas Hanson, and Julie Smith, marine biosciences doctoral student. Also collaborating on the project were researchers from the Davis and Riverside campuses of the University of California; the University of Louisville; the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand; and the J. Craig Venter Institute i...

Texas College Police Unit Deploys BIO-key(R) Mobile Data System

... Michael Gromatzky. "With more than 44,000 students spread across five open campuses with day, night and weekend classes, we're like a small city." With ...hat risk." MobileCop is used by campus police on some of the largest campuses in the country, including the University of Kentucky , the University of ...

Collegiate Inventors Competition recognizes top student inventors

...ional careers." The process for this year's Competition began when the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation solicited entries from over 2,000 campuses to identify top collegiate inventors. Each entry was judged on the originality of the idea, process, or technology, as well as its potential value an...

San Diego Supercomputer Center and UCSD announce 'Triton Resource'

...emic data centers in the world, incorporates innovative engineering approaches aimed at increasing the overall efficiency levels of data centers on UC campuses and elsewhere. ...

Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital expand national children's study to Bristol County

...edical Center in Taunton and Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro. Researchers are hoping to establish satellite offices at Bristol Community College campuses to make it more convenient to meet with study participants. "We are most appreciative and proud of this NIH award, especially given the increasingl...

A 'field guide' to the landscape of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

...s along the western shore of Cold Spring Harbor in the Incorporated Village of Laurel Hollow, New York. Three additional chapters cover the nearby Lab campuses in Woodbury, Lloyd Harbor, and Cold Spring Harbor village. The book includes a brief history of each building, the common and scientific names of woo...

Missouri board grants Washington University Sustainability Center $3 million

...nearly $3 million for biofuels research. Researchers at I-CARES will collaborate with others at Saint Louis University, the University of Missouri campuses in Columbia and St. Louis and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. The emphasis of the research will be on establishing alternative sources o...

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UWM chancellor wants two new research campuses

Milwaukee, Wis. - Long overdue facility improvements are viewed as an enabler of increased research output at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee , and Chancellor Carlos Santiago says he is making a pitch to investors to help finance two new research campuses away from the university's east si...

NCIIA Honors Top Collegiate Biomedical Engineering Teams

...leges and universities from all over the United States, the NCIIA engages more than 5,000 student entrepreneurs each year, leveraging their respective campuses as working laboratories and incubators for businesses and ultimately helping them to bring their concepts to commercialization. For more information, ...

The Fitzsimons Redevelopment Authority Selects Pharmatech Oncology as Preferred Vendor

...rch park located in the Life Science District, which is being developed by Forest City Science + Technology Group, a leading developer of life science campuses across the country. Companies that locate in the park will benefit from close proximity to the talent and core laboratory facilities of the Universi...

Cumberland Emerging Technologies and UT Research Foundation Sign License Agreement for New Technology

...ting inventions, UTRF champions entrepreneurship and drives state and regional technology-based economic development. UTRF serves all seven of the UT campuses and institutes across the state. For more information, visit http://utrf.tennessee.edu . Cumberland Emerging Technologies, Inc. is a joint in...

West Penn Allegheny Health System Announces Recruitment of Leading Burn Specialists

...nter is a dream come true for all of us at the Burn Center." The Western Pennsylvania Hospital is an academic medical center with two hospital campuses that serve Pittsburgh and the surrounding five-state area: The Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh and The Western Pennsylvania Hospital -- Fo...

Gift Aids Professor's Research into Vein Treatment

...ges - liberal arts, law, pharmacy, medicine, business, engineering, education, theology, music, nursing and continuing and professional studies; major campuses in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah; three regional academic centers across the state; a university press; two teaching hospitals -- Memorial University Me...

Campus Celebrates Historic Milestone

...es within the UNC System were in attendance. President Erskine Bowles said, "I'm immensely proud that researchers and graduate students from seven UNC campuses are actively involved at the NC Research Campus, but what really energizes and excites me is all the cutting-edge research and life-altering discoveri...

Swedish Neuroscience Institute and Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle Form Alliance to Learn More about Brain Diseases

...edish Medical Center is the largest, most comprehensive, nonprofit health-care provider in the Greater Seattle area. It is comprised of three hospital campuses (First Hill, Cherry Hill and Ballard), a freestanding emergency room and specialty center in Issaquah, Swedish Home Care Services and Swedish Physicia...

Zeus Webinar: Bioabsorbable Polymers as Biomaterials

...eus is a world leader in the design and production of high-performance polymer tubing used in demanding applications, operating 10 facilities on seven campuses in North America, Europe, and Asia. Zeus products and services are preferred by companies in medial, automotive, electrical fluid handling and mechani...

Isabel Healthcare Adds Hospitals in Wisconsin & Minnesota

...hildren's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota is the seventh-largest children's health care organization in the U.S., with 332 beds at its two hospital campuses in St. Paul and Minneapolis. The system was named one of "America's Best Children's Hospitals" in 2008 by U.S.News & World Report. To view the list, s...