GARY | The Lake County Medical Society last week donated $100,000 to Indiana University School of Medicine-Northwest.

The funding will go toward renovation and continued expansion of its teaching labs.

The donation, made in a ceremony Tuesday, will help the school offeradvanced teaching technology and high-tech patient simulation equipment.

Dr. Jay Hess, dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine, said he is thankful for the $100,000.

"We're extremely grateful for this donation that's going to create a state-of-the-art medical school," he said.

He also thanked local physicians who volunteer to teach medical students.

Locally, 270 physicians serve as volunteers for the medical school, said Pat Bankston,associate dean at Indiana University School of Medicine Northwest and dean of the College of Health and Human Services at IUN.

The school, which completed a $1 million renovation and expansion in 2012, offers four years of medical education. More than 650 physicians have been educated through the Gary campus since the start of the medical school in 1972.

Dr. Steve Simpson, president of the Lake County Medical Society, said the donation is an opportunity for the societys member physicians to provide input and direction for the local med school.

In recent years, the society has been assisting the medical school by providing small scholarships to students, but this donation enables the group to make a larger impact, he said.

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BLOOMINGTON, IN (AP) -

The new Indiana University Medical School will be built in downtown Evansville.

The IU Board of Trustees voted unanimously for the location following a recommendation by Indiana University President Michael McRobbie.

The trustees were looking for at least 170,000 square feet for the medical school.

Four proposals were received - downtown Evansville, Warrick County, the Promenade and USI.

At a meeting Friday morning of the IU Board of Trustees Facility and Auxiliaries Committee, McRobbie said the high quality of the proposals made the decision difficult.

He said a detailed and complex evaluation process for the new med school focused first and foremost on academic quality.

"The centrally located downtown site, which is in close proximity to all the city's major medical facilities, was the clear preference of our students and also received strong support from our academic and hospital partners," said McRobbie. "While the academic quality of the programs created by this expansion is our paramount concern, it is our hope that this project also will play an important role in the continued economic development of Evansville's downtown."

Evansville officials have estimated that the new IU School of Medicine facility could have an annual economic impact of as much as $340 million by 2020.

"There are going to be a lot of investors who are going to be very interested in acquiring downtown real estate. I suspect we'll see more restaurants, more bars, more shops, all begin to open in the next two years. This is a historic day for the City of Evansville, said Evansville Mayor Lloyd Winnecke.

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WORCESTER (CBS) A student program at UMass Medical School is helping take the fear out of medical treatments for some children.

Hospitals are frightening to any child, but for children with life-threatening illnesses, who get poked and prodded, sometimes for years, the school offers something like a big brother program that makes going through treatment just a little bit easier.

Dr. Naheed Usmani, a pediatric oncologist, developed the program called Sidekicks that matches medical students with very sick children undergoing treatment at UMass Medical Center in Worcester.

The medical students find it very meaningful. It really anchors them why they went into medicine which you can really lose in the first two years of basic science, he told WBZ-TV.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. An hour into maybe one of the most keenly-watched public meetings in Evansville's history, Indiana University's board of trustees made it official: They want the university to build its new Evansville medical school in Downtown Evansville.

The meeting was held live at IU's Bloomington campus, and broadcast live both at an Evansville gathering and online. It also generated interest from Twitter and Facebook users.

At the meeting, IU President Michael McRobbie said the university's medical school and students, along with other involved parties, expressed a strong preference for Downtown over three other proposed sites.

The Downtown site covers almost six square blocks. The site's boundaries include Locust, Cherry, Southeast Fourth and Southeast Sixth streets.

The chosen site will add to a "quickly developing downtown" Evansville, McRobbie noted, and the Downtown site will be walkable for students and offer easy access to area hospitals where students will do training.

Estimated cost of the Downtown project is $69.5 million. As part of its proposal, the city is offering TIF district incentives of $35 million, said IU Vice President of Capital Planning and Facilities Tom Morrison.

In some ways the afternoon vote was a formality: Trustees heard details of all four proposals in a morning committee meeting, and during that meeting McRobbie recommended that the board select the Downtown Evansville site.

The development team on this project is Skanska/U.S. HealthRealty, and four members of this team traveled to Bloomington for the meeting.

"We're just happy to be a part of this project," said Downtown project team member A.C. Braun, business developer at Industrial Contractors Skanska.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Indiana Universitys new $70 million medical school campus will be built in downtown Evansville, IU trustees decided Friday.

The Board of Trustees voted unanimously for the site during a meeting in Bloomington following a recommendation by IU President Michael McRobbie. He told a trustees committee that the downtown location would be the best of four options around Evansville for the project, which will include a new health science education and research center.

The University of Evansville, the University of Southern Indiana and Ivy Tech Community College also plan to offer programs at the center, which could draw some 2,000 health care students.

Evansville officials had pushed the location, which covers nearly six city blocks, as a key for downtown redevelopment, the Evansville Courier & Press and WFIE-TV reported.

Trustee Pat Shoulders, an Evansville attorney, said he was excited about what the center will do for his hometown.

No great city in the world has been successful without a viable downtown, Shoulders said. In my lifetime, I believe this is the greatest chance that downtown Evansville has to become the successful, vibrant, integral place that it truly deserves to be.

IU School of Medicines dean, Jay Hess, also supported the location, telling trustees: The downtown site works well for the needs of the IU School of Medicine.

The other proposals were sites at the University of Southern Indiana, in Warrick County and at the Promenade development on Evansvilles far east side.

The trustees now have 60 days to open negotiations with the team that developed the downtown Evansville proposal on leases and other agreements.

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ANTIOCH -- School district trustees this week appointed Scott Bergerhouse as principal of Dozier-Libbey Medical High School Dependent Charter, which will open in August.

Bergerhouse, a 30-year employee of the district, is currently principal at Carmen Dragon Elementary.

"This is a mission and a challenge, and I accept it with full confidence," Bergerhouse told the board Wednesday.

The move surprised some Dozier-Libbey students, parents and teachers, who learned about it on Thursday morning after seeing a banner at the school welcoming the new principal. Some students created their own banner later that day and dressed in black Friday in support of current Principal Nancie Castro. They also staged a brief walkout Friday morning.

With just 31 days left until the end of the school year, a dependent charter principal had to be put in place, said Superintendent Donald Gill, explaining the timing of the move.

Dueling petitions are being reviewed for the medical-themed high school: the district's dependent charter and an independent charter submitted by its teachers. The district rejected the teachers' charter submission in late March. Both theirs and the disrict's plans will be considered by the County Board of Education in early May.

In his new role, Bergerhouse will form a community advisory committee to determine what supports and enhancements will be needed and meeting with student and parent focus groups to plan for the opening of the school, Stephanie Anello, associate superintendent of educational services, said in a news release.

Bergerhouse was at the Dozier-Libbey Medical High School campus Thursday to meet students, parents and staff and will remain there for the rest of the school year, according to a district news release.

Castro is still the principal at Dozier-Libbey, district officials said. Bill Bolio is serving as principal of Carmen Dragon in the interim.

"I'm feeling very grateful, Castro said of the support she's received. "It's been a tough, confusing time."

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WORCESTER, Mass. New research from scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School shows that fruit flies are secretly harboring the biochemistry needed to glow in the dark otherwise known as bioluminescence.

The key to activating this latent ability is a novel synthetic analog of D-luciferin developed at UMMS. The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that the inherent biochemistry needed for bioluminescence is more common than previously thought. Synthetic luciferins can unmask latent enzymatic activity capable of producing light in animals not known for their luminescence. This expands the scope of bioluminescence imaging for research, and adds new tools for the noninvasive studying of ongoing biological processes.

Few animals can naturally glow in the dark. The best known example, the firefly, creates bioluminescence when the small molecule D-luciferin is oxidized by the enzyme luciferase, which is only found in beetles.

The luciferase enzyme is believed to have evolved from the fatty acyl-CoA synthetases (ACSLs) found in all insects. Both classes of enzymes are members of the adenylate-forming superfamily and can activate fatty acids. But only luciferase catalyzes light emission from D-luciferin. Stephen C Miller, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at UMass Medical School, had previously found that some mutations in the luciferase enzyme reduce light emission from the natural D-luciferin substrate, but improve light emission when using synthetic luciferins developed in his lab.

"This suggested to us that the failure of insect ACSLs to emit light with the beetle luciferase substrate D-luciferin didn't necessarily mean they weren't capable of the biochemistry needed to glow," said Dr. Miller, senior author of the PNAS study.

He hypothesized that ACSL enzymes in other insects are capable of a bioluminescent reaction similar to the firefly. The key was finding a small molecule to fill the role of D-luciferin, which is not a substrate for ACSLs, to kick start the biochemical reaction.

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SOUTHBRIDGE Sick for several weeks, school Superintendent Basan "Buzz" Nembirkow has formally requested medical leave, School Committee Lauren C. McLoughlin said Tuesday.

The School Committee Tuesday night voted 5-0 to appoint Patricia Gardner, director of teaching and learning since July, the acting superintendent until the April 29 meeting. She is a certified to work as a school chief.

Ms. McLoughlin said Mr. Nembirkow is taking the leave to "provide structure" for the district during his absence, and to focus on his health.

"Buzz is still the superintendent," the chairwoman said, adding that Ms. Gardner would be legally authorized to exercise powers and duties during his absence, but still retains her previous position. She will be tasked with handling day-to-day operations of the district.

Ms. McLoughlin said Mr. Nembirkow will be available from home to deal with budgetary, personnel and other administrative duties as necessary, and will attend as many meetings as his health permits.

He will interview finalists for the four principal positions for next year, Ms. McLoughlin said.

Ms. Gardner has been working in the district as essentially the assistant superintendent since July. Previously she had been Turners Falls High School principal in the Gill-Montague district.

In another matter, Ms. McLoughlin spoke Tuesday night about a prior meeting at which some School Committee members had scolded guidance department staff and accused them of failing to meet students' needs. Ms. McLoughlin said it was not the panel's intent to embarrass anyone.

Ms. McLoughlin acknowledged some staff and community members thought the guidance officials had been treated unfairly during the March 25 meeting.

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