House panel OKs bonds for medical school expansion

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mississippi House lawmakers say they’re ready to borrow $31 million for a new medical school building, but a top Senate lawmaker remains noncommittal. The House voted 118-1 Wednesday to approve a bill to issue $31 million in bonds for a new five-story building on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus in Jackson. Continue reading

Our Medical School Is Wired for the Future – Video




Our Medical School Is Wired for the Future Dean Jerry Youkey of the USC School of Medicine Greenville believes that technology is a powerful enabler of high quality patient care. For this reason, our medical students are being taught to leverage health information technology. Each medical student receives an iPad and a laptop; tools that are necessary to access textbooks, research topics, and communicate with faculty and classmates. Continue reading

Ohio University to open medical school at Cleveland Clinic's South Pointe Hospital

WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio –A new medical school, an extension of Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, will open at Cleveland Clinic’s South Pointe Hospital. The Clinic and OU, which announced the affiliation today, will invest a combined $49 million to address the growing shortage of primary care doctors in Ohio. The agreement builds on a longstanding relationship between the Clinic and the Athens-based medical school, which have partnered to train physicians for 35 years Continue reading

OU, Cleveland Clinic announce new medical-school campus

By Encarnacion Pyle The Columbus Dispatch Monday June 11, 2012 3:40 PM Ohio University and the Cleveland Clinic announced this afternoon that they have agreed to develop a $49.1 million medical-school campus to help fill a growing need for primary-care doctors in northeast Ohio. Ohio University will contribute $36 million towards the extension campus that will be at the Cleveland Clinics South Pointe Hospital, a 179-bed acute-care community teaching hospital that has served the citys southeast suburbs since 1957, officials said at a news conference. Continue reading

TheSkyNet set to conquer more of our universe

Public release date: 2-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Kirsten Gottschalk kirsten.gottschalk@icrar.org 61-438-361-876 International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research In its ever-expanding quest to process astronomy data and discover much more of our Universe, theSkyNet has joined forces with the Pan-STARRS1 Science Consortium (PS1SC) to probe other galaxies beyond our own Milky Way. The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) home of theSkyNet has signed an agreement with the PS1SC to use donated computing resources to process the new telescope’s images over 500 times faster than possible with an ordinary computer. “This agreement gives theSkyNet’s citizen scientists the opportunity to process data from another flavour of telescope that collects visible light, rather than radio waves,” said ICRAR Director Professor Peter Quinn. Continue reading