UMass Sidekicks Program Matches Medical Students With Sick Children

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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.

Christian Campero, 6, of Northborough and second-year medical student Walter Palmer are among those who were paired.

Christian has leukemia, and the road hasnt been an easy one.

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UPDATE: IU trustees pick Downtown Evansville site for new med school | VIDEO

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Shoulders: This is the greatest chance for Downtown to be successful Bloomington

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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Downtown Evansville picked for new IU med school

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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 district names principal for Dozier-Libbey Medical High School Dependent Charter

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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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Is gender stifling our scientific imaginations?: Liberty Barnes at TEDxCambridgeUniversity – Video

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New Concerns Arise Over Liberty Universitys Gay Choreographer as Play Opens on Campus

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LYNCHBURG, Va. New concerns have arisen over Liberty Universitys use of a choreographer who has advocated for homosexual causesas its Department of Theater Arts opens its production of Mary Poppins this weekend.

Information provided to Christian News Network reveals that the choreographer is also a photographer whose homosexual advocacy extends into his photo shoots, which include that of a drag superstar. Students at Liberty took part in free photography sessions during his recent visit to the campus.

As previously reported, the university recently published an article regarding the production, which it celebrates as being the schools largest to date, presented by Alluvion Stage Company, an arm of the universitys Department of Theater Arts. It outlined that Alluvion has hired a guest music director, a flight director, and a Broadway choreographer to assist with the presentation.

The article then focused on selectedselected choreographer Geoffrey Goldberg, a New York City-based artist who has been involved with professional theater for over a decade, and traveled the country for five years assisting with the production of Mary Poppins, among others. It included a brief interview with Goldberg, as well as quotes from Alluvions artistic director Linda Nell Cooper. The article also featured a video from Liberty News Service, which likewise contained a brief interview with Goldberg and provided video footage of him working with students.

Goldbergs bio on his website outlines that herecently directed and choreographed the new musical Bradley Cole. An online review of the musical explains that Bradley Cole is enriched with contemporary issues such as shame and confusion over same-sex attraction. It outlines the plot, where Ian is secretly, repressively, in love with Ben, although one of his female friends expresses interest in him.

Goldbergs social media pages also indicate his support and advocacy for the homosexual agenda, posting Happy pride, everyone on Twitter last June in recognition of Homosexual Pride Month. Goldberg is also a member of the Facebook group Marriage Equality New York, and hisPinterest page likewise features a board that includes homosexual wedding ideas.

However, it has now come to light that Goldberg also runs Geoffrey Goldberg Photography, which similarly showcases his advocacy for the homosexual lifestyle. His website features two homosexual men under his weddings and couples section, with one photo capturing the couple embracing.Goldbergs website and Facebook page also highlight a photo shoot with self-proclaimed drag superstar, Schwa de Vivre,a male drag star donned in makeup and feminine apparel.

This winter has been a DRAG!!! But sometimes DRAG can be a blast! he wrote as his status for the album.

Goldberg additionally shares photographs on his Facebook page of Liberty University students that participated in free photo shoots during his visit to Lynchburg, just days after posting photographs of his drag superstar photo shoot.

As previously reported, director Linda Nell Cooper told Christian News Network that Alluvian/Liberty University was not aware of Goldbergs homosexual advocacy, but stated that ones personal life is not a factor in the hiring process for stage productions.

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Trifecta Goes to the Movies: Libertarian Themes Hit the Screen in Captain America & Divergent – Video

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