Written by Angelina Weir on January 21, 2012.
Margaret Vosburgh will join Stanford Hospital & Clinics as chief operating officer on Feb. 13. She will be responsible for overall operations at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, reporting directly to president and CEO Amir Dan Rubin.
Vosburgh previously served as executive vice president and COO for Tufts Medical Center in Boston, the primary teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine. Tufts Medical Center is comprised of the adult hospital and the Floating Hospital for Children. Under her leadership, Tufts experienced a 20 percent growth in admissions and improved its ranking in the UHC Academic Medical Centers’ annual quality and accountability study to sixth from 37th.
Before Tufts, Vosburgh served as deputy executive director and COO of Long Island Jewish Hospital, part of the $4 billion Northshore-LIJ Health System, the nation’s third-largest nonprofit secular health system.
“Margaret brings a world of talent and energy, along with an impressive track record in academic medical centers and health systems,” Rubin said. “We are
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Written by Angelina Weir on January 12, 2012.
Just in case you haven’t heard the Festival dates are set for April 28-29th! The doors are open on Saturday from 10am-6pm and on Sunday from 10am- 4pm. This year the Festival will be held in Washington D.C. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
Visit our website for all of the upcoming events leading up to the Festival, to plan your day at the Expo and to browse our exhibits. Best of all- don’t miss out on the chance to pre-register for the Expo for an opportunity to win a cool prize! You will automatically be signed up to win a chance
to meet Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of the Mythbusters OR Mayim Bialik of The Big Bang Theory; an iPad 2; a Cool Video Game; Science Books; or 1 of 50 T-shirts!
Also, be sure to become a fan of our facebook page to receive important information regarding the Festival as well as an opportunity to connect with other fans and to view engaging STEM articles and facts!
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Written by Angelina Weir on January 6, 2012.
The National Space Centre will lead the programme using space as the inspiration for learning
A new academy has been set up to enable teachers to use space as a theme in their core subject lesson plans.
The National Space Centre in Leicester is to lead the programme to promote excellence in science, technology, geography and maths.
Teachers will be able to access training and work alongside scientists to deliver space masterclasses.
The academy is being sponsored by a number of hi-tech firms to promote careers in the aerospace industry.
The National Space Academy will be supported by scientists from the University of Leicester, the University of Nottingham and the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Harwell, Oxfordshire.
They will be responsible for training teachers to use space concepts in their lessons, providing careers events and organising a bespoke space engineering apprenticeship at Loughborough College.
Complex theories
A spokesman for the National Space Centre said the courses were designed to address the shortage of trained people entering the aerospace industry.
He said the feedback from a pilot project in the East Midlands had been very positive and teachers had successfully used space and the planets as a way of teaching complex theories such as the laws of motion.
Teachers can apply to the National Space Centre in Leicester to take part in the programme, which they can use to enhance learning for GCSE and A-level students.
Sir Martin Sweeting, chairman of the National Space Centres board of trustees, said: “Students respond very positively to the subject of space as a context for their learning.
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Written by Angelina Weir on January 4, 2012.
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi professor Evan Ortlieb wants to help students fight cancer and find their educational calling — one college scholarship at a time.
Ortlieb, along with family and friends from Baton Rouge, La., established the nonprofit Ortlieb Foundation in their hometown in 2009.
The organization helps provide funds in 48 states for college students who are cancer patients.
The passion for the foundation, Ortlieb said, stems from his own experience with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which he was diagnosed with at age 16.
Ortlieb, an assistant professor of literacy education, who moved to the city more than a year ago, said his initial cancer treatment in 1999 helped shrink the fist-size growth in his lymphatic system and knock it out.
He spent about three years after that undergoing additional treatments to prevent it from coming back.
Ortlieb, 29, said his cancer has been in remission for 12 years.
The cancer treatments changed him. H
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Written by Angelina Weir on December 5, 2011.
From The Detroit Free Press: Hundreds of administrators in the Detroit school district are moving from expensive leased office space into district-owned property, saving about $1.8 million a year. The move is expected to result in a net reduction of 98,400 square feet. The district will pay onetime relocation costs of $1.3 million but reap the full savings in ensuing years.