Monthly Archives: February 2014

Calendar: Feb. 20 to 23

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Thursday

Energy:Bob Inglis will discuss market solutions to climate change and answer questions with a Law Center faculty member from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Hilton UHs Waldorf-Astoria Ballroom.

Auditions: Student Video Network will host an open casting call for students interested in acting in future commercials, shows, movies, short films and other productions from 6 to 8 p.m. in the New UC North, Room N221.

Lecture: A law faculty member will discuss energy production and development in the talk Allocating Energy Governance from noon to 1 p.m. in the UH Law Center, Room 240 BLB.

Music: A faculty flute recital for Peggy Russel featuring works by Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Toru Takemitsu and other composers will be held from 4:30 to 5 p.m. in the Moores School of Music Choral Recital Hall, Room 160.

Art: An art film by filmmaker Vincent Grenier will be screened from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Blaffer Art Museum. Grenier experiments with perception, natural world and film as poetry.

Friday

Seminar: Gender-based violence in South Asian communities and the structures that support such violence will be discussed from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Rockwell Pavilion located on the second floor of the M. D. Anderson Memorial Library.

Theater: Our Countrys Good, which is set in 18th-century Sydney, will have its season debut from 8 to 10 p.m. in the School of Theatre and Dances Jose Quintero Theater. Student tickets are $10.

Saturday

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Duke Health System CEO appointed to head Institute of Medicine

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Duke University Health SystemDr. Victor J. Dzau, the current president and CEO of Duke University Health System

Dr. Victor J. Dzau, the current president and CEO of Duke University Health System and chancellor for health affairs at Duke University, has been appointed to a six-year term as the next president of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), effective July 1, 2014. Dr. Dzau will take over the lead role from Dr. Harvey Fineberg, who served in the position for twelve years.

Dr. Dzau began his career in medicine as a cardiologist, having previously taught at Harvard Medical School and served as chair of the department of medicine. He also worked at Brigham and Womens Hospital as the director of research. His ongoing award-winning research has been key in the development of cardiovascular drugs, as well as techniques to repair tissue damage from heart attacks and heart disease using stem cell therapies.

Dr. Eugene Braunwald, often called the father of modern cardiology and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, has known Dr. Dzau for more than 40 years and worked with him at many different stages of his career at Brigham and Womens Hospital and Partners Healthcare. In an interview Wednesday he called the upcoming IOM president a force of nature.

He is what I would call a talented, quadruple threat. A great physician, inspiring teacher, and a very creative scientist, said Dr. Braunwald, who trained Dzau when he was a resident at Brigham and Womens and continued to work with him on cardiovascular research when Dr. Dzau became chief resident, and then faculty at Harvard Medical School. The quadruple threat is that he also sees the larger picture. Hes interested in areas of medicine that most academic physicians have stayed away from. His work and ideas in global and community-based medicine have left an important heritage at each institution where hes worked.

After nearly a decade at Duke, Dr. Dzaus leadership has been credited with the launch of a number of innovative and global-focused medical institutions, including the Duke-National University of Signapore Graduate Medical School, Duke Global Health Institute, Duke Institute for Health Innovation, Duke Cancer Institute, as well as the Duke Translational Medicine Institute.

Im deeply honored to become the next president of the IOM and recognize the critically important role that the IOM will have in improving the health of the nation at a time of extraordinary evolution in biomedical research and health care delivery, Dzau said in a press release from Duke University Health System. The explosion of new data resources, novel technologies and breathtaking research advances make this the most promising time in history for driving innovations that will improve health care delivery, outcomes and quality.

As the health sciences extension of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine is known for its leadership in advancing health sciences and objective medical research nationally as a nonprofit academic research organization. The outgoing IOM president, Dr. Harvey Fineberg (previously Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health) has lead the nonprofit for twelve years. His focus and research have centered around public health policy and an improvement in informed medical decision making.

This leaves the medical community wondering what Dr. Dzau will bring to the Institute.

As a former chairman of the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC), Dr. Dzau advocated for the innovative transition of academic medical and health centers into institutions that can survive the rapid transitions in the health care industry. In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Dzau discusses the uncertain future of academic medical centers. He argues that industry pressures and cost restraints from the Affordable Care Act limit the research and education-based missions of teaching hospitals.

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Fort Chaffee Donates Land to Osteopathic Medical School in Fort Smith

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The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority on Tuesday donated 200 acres to a project that aims to open an osteopathic medical school there by fall 2017.

The Fort Smith Regional Healthcare Foundation said its board of trustees had voted to move ahead with plans for the school at the Chaffee Crossing development in southeast Fort Smith. The proposed name of the school is theArkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine.

The foundation board approved more than $58 million to the project. It also voted tocreate positions for a college CEO and dean.

"Our mission clearly states that we have a responsibility to fill gaps in health care and provide care for the medically underserved," said Kyle parker, board chairman, in a news release. "We've been working on the feasibility and relationships necessary to make this health care solution a reality for more than a year. It's not about building a school, it's about recognizing needs in our area, in Arkansas and Oklahoma, and across the U.S., and using our resources to fulfill that need."

Arkansas is ranked 48th among states in physicians per capita based on a 2010 study by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' Center for Rural Health.There are 30 osteopathic medical colleges in the country.

The Arkansas Osteopathic Medical Association is supporting the project. Osteopathic medicine encompasses the entire scope of modern medicine, according to the AOMA, and focuses on a holistic, hands-on approach to providing health care.

"The AOMA is extremely excited about the development of the proposed Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine to be located in Fort Smith," said AOMA president James Baker. "We will continue to develop, partner with and support those providing state-wide resources to help advance the Fort Smith Regional Healthcare Foundation's mission of establishing the school."

Partnerships for clinical rotations and residency education have been made between the foundation and local health-care providers Mercy Health System, Sparks Regional Medical Center,Cooper Clinic, the Choctaw Nation Health Services Authority and Community Health Centers of Arkansas.

Arkansas State University is alsoconsidering creating its own osteopathic medical schoolin Jonesboro. Earlier this month, the school releaseda study it commissioned that found that an osteopathic medical school in Jonesboro would help meet a demand for primary-care physicians in the Delta and inject $70 million into the region.

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Liberty rolls past Whitehall 58-38 in the District 11 4A tournament

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Perhaps no one has experienced more success in local basketball in recent years than Liberty High's boys program.

Not only have the Hurricanes won three Lehigh Valley Conference titles in the past six seasons, but they've also qualified for the state tournament seven times in the last eight years.

But this year has been different for Liberty, which had to scramble to schedule and then win a makeup game last week just to qualify for the District 11 Class 4A tournament.

Once in, however, it seems like old times for Liberty, which scored 19 unanswered points in the second half Wednesday night to turn a three-point game into a 58-38 rout of host Whitehall in a 4A preliminary-round game.

The Hurricanes (12-11) earned a Saturday night date with No. 1 seed and Mountain Valley Conference champ Pocono Mountain West at Pleasant Valley in the second game of a 4A quarterfinal. Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg North will meet in the 6 p.m. opener.

Jaevan Dobbins and Ludwin Gonzalez scored 17 points apiece and Deshawn Oyeniyi added 12 points and 12 rebounds as Liberty ended Whitehall's season at 13-10.

"It's a good time of year to be playing arguably our best basketball," Hurricanes coach Chad Landis said. "It's a credit to the guys and their determination to not have the season end. We've been pretty close a couple of times to not making it through."

But there was nothing close about this one, at least in the fourth quarter.

Whitehall led 5-2 and 7-4 early, but spent most of the night playing from behind. The Zephs trailed 28-17 at halftime, but rode the hot hand of senior Aaron Keglovits to get within 39-36 after a Keglovits trey with 1:20 left in the third quarter.

The Zephyrs wouldn't score again, however, until 2:45 was left and Liberty had used the aforementioned 19-0 run to go up 58-36.

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Liberty teen sacks her way to a $1,000 prize!

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LIBERTY, MO (KCTV) -

Jennifer Malicoat likes to go by the name MacKinzie. But, whether it's Jennifer or MacKinzie, you should know this about the 18-year old from Liberty - she can really sack groceries.

In fact, she's one of the best sackers in the country, bringing homethird prize in a recent national grocery sacking contest sponsored by the National Grocers' Association.

Malicoat bested 24 other sackers in the contest, which took place at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas during the association's national convention. She sacked a first time to reach the finals pitting the top five sack specialists against one another, then again in the final "sack off." For her efforts, Malicoat, a Liberty High School senior who sacks groceries at the Liberty Price Chopper on 291 Highway, won $1,000 and a lot of respect.

"She's just a natural," said Debbie Reek, officer manager at the Liberty Chopper. "MacKenzie had to win our store competition with 27 Price Choppers competing, then the Missouri contest down in Branson with even more sackers to stack up against, before she even got to Vegas. When she started competing, she had only worked here about three months," Reek continued.

Now, abouta year into her tenure at Price Chopper, Malicoat has defeated nearly 100 of the bestgrocery sackers in the country. What's it like to compete on the big stage in Sin City?

"I was more excited than nervous," Malicoat said. "There were a lot of people there, folks attending the convention, and families of the people competing, but I just focused on the items."

Malicoat and the others competed in three categories: timing, technique and weight. The timing is obvious. Malicoat's time was :58.I'm not sure what the Russian and French judges (just kidding) were looking for with technique, but with regards to weight, the key was evenly distributing the items among the threebags competitors were given.

Malicoat said it was no big deal.

"The hardest part was all the small items: tiny cans, soap and other things that were tough to handle. I just tried to keep everything in the right categories anddistribute them evenly among thebags," she said.

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Recruiting the next generation of political leaders

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This Wednesday I stumbled upon an article in Richmonds Style Weekly magazine covering the Feb. 8 convention of the Libertarian Party of Virginia. According to the articles author Tom Nash, this convention was the biggest and most important for Virginia Libertarians for quite some while. Given the recent relative success of the partys gubernatorial candidate Robert Sarvis (who made his mark by running a seemingly honest, intellectual campaign and winning 6.5 percent of the vote), Nash contends that the party hopes to maintain this momentum by having as many Libertarians as possible on the upcoming ballots.

Apparently, the tactic to achieve this involves inviting everyone on the partys email list to run for office, even if they have no chance of winning. One person who received this invitation was a high school student from the Maggie L. Walker Governors School for Government and International Studies. The student told Nash that he would consider running for office after finishing college.

Anyone who knows me also knows that my politics tend to fall so far left that they occasionally slip off the scale into an alternate universe where the gender binary has been all but eradicated, socialism reigns and everyone is free to sip tea and play with their cats in a borderless world of total equality.

Needless to say, libertarianism is not always consistent with these ideals. I do, however, hold a soft spot in my heart for the well-intentioned rationality of the party, so Nashs article made me wonder how many capable, up-and-coming young people might be drawn into politics by what is essentially a power vacuum in the Libertarian party.

One member of the University of Richmonds chapter of Young Americans for Liberty, Kelly Farley, WC17, said she planned on pursuing business as a career, but could easily see herself in politics: Libertarians are the party of the individual, liberty and, in my opinion, self-responsibility. I would be honored and proud to represent the libertarian opinion some day.

Another UR student, Martha Ashe, WC15, said that although she identified with the Libertarian party philosophically, she chooses to vote Republican because she is fiscally conservative and the party has more traction. She said, While I dont think I would ever run for politics, if I did, it would be hard for me to run as a Libertarian because I dont think the party has as much traction at this time. Ashe added, however, that she is confident we are trending toward a greater support of libertarianism: I do believe that most young people in my generation are Libertarian, whether they realize it or not, and that as my generation matures, the libertarian party will start to gain popularity.

While the upper levels of the two dominant parties in this country can seem like private clubs that require 80 percent networking and 20 percent underhanded dealing to gain entry, it might be that all it takes in Virginias Libertarian party right now is to show up.

Since the platform tends to attract a mixture of young people who are intelligent, ambitious or radical (and occasionally all three), I can happily picture a future where the party is dominated not by gun- and flag-toting old men, but by recent college graduates with clear plans for a more free country. Whether or not I support the whole ideology, I would rather have a relevant faction of young, educated people than not.

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