...management are indicators of a quality hospital. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is amongst the top 100 hospitals in the world. At this medical facility, the staff puts its patients first. Penn Medicine is dedicated to high-quality patient care and service, advancing medical science through research, and educating the next generation of leaders in medicine. It includes three hospitals in Philadelphia and outpatient centers throughout the region (The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, 2012). A leader in medicine for more than 240 years, Penn opened its School of Medicine, the nation's first, in 1765. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania was established in 1874 as the nation's first teaching hospital. Since its founding days, Penn has expanded medical frontiers by creating some of the nation's earliest programs in areas ranging from dermatology, neurosurgery, ophthalmology and radiology, to the Philadelphia region's only program to transplantation of five major organs (The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, 2012). Over the past 30 years, Penn physicians and scientists have participated in many important discoveries, including: the first general vaccine against pneumonia. The introduction of total intravenous feeding. The development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and other imaging technologies. The discovery of the Philadelphia chromosome (The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, 2012), which revolutionized cancer research by...
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...currently prioritized lower than academic success. The strong desire to be the best also often times leads to students relying on unethical methods to achieve their academic goals. During a lecture at Stanford university, Yale professor Denise Clark Pope recalled shadowing “five students at an area high school for a year in order to research the sources of high-achieving students' intellectual engagement, she found instead that students spent most of their time ‘finagling the system’ in pursuit of grades. ‘In every class where a test was administered, there was cheating,’ Pope said. Students feel as if their life success depends on getting the top SAT scores and the highest grades, she added. The students ‘know [cheating] is wrong; they tell me they wish they didn't do it,’ she said. ‘But they feel like the most important thing they do is get the grades, by hook or by crook.’" (Stanford News). When the importance of success is so strongly enforced, an environment is created were failure becomes terrifying and must be avoided at all cost. It is this type of environment where the fear of getting low grade is so great it causes cheating to be seen as justifiable alternative to failing. This fear not only allows for questionable morals, but also inhibits personal growth or discovery. When students let their self-worth be determined by their academic success, they become terrified of not succeeding. Thomas Edison would not of invented the light bulb if he was too afraid of failure. Edison...
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...The nature of discovery entails a journey that is transformative and concerns one’s relationship with one’s self or one’s world. Discoveries can be either sought or serendipitous and can lead to good or bad consequences, but ultimately they are all concerned with the acquisition of greater knowledge and a new perspective. In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero comes to realise not only the limitations of his art, but also the importance of love and redemption in redefining one’s place in the world, as well as one’s view of it. Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society represents the importance of new perspectives on the familiar in order to realise the self, in the face of conflicting and controlling forces. The Tempest, as its title suggests, is partly concerned with the forces of nature, but mostly it is about the need for the liberating and redemptive power of forgiveness in the face of man’s inhumanity towards man. Prospero conjures a storm, with Ariel’s forced assistance, that brings to the island those who have wronged him. The scene seems set for a revenge plot to unfold. However, we soon discover that Prospero has changed in the 12 years that he has been exiled on the island. He realises that he is as much to blame for his exile as his treacherous brother Antonio to whom he relegated his ducal responsibilities in order to pursue his selfish interests: ‘And to my state grew stranger, being transported/And rapt in secret studies.’ Just as Miranda discovers her true identity...
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...UNIT 1: INVESTMENT IN INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL LEAD-IN Discuss the implications of the following statements for academic study. 1. Money spent on the brain, is never spent in vain. 2. An educated workforce is a key driver of national economic growth. 3. The top ten in-demand jobs in 2010 didn’t exist in 2004. Universities are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet. 4. The amount of new technical information is doubling every two years. For students starting a 4-year technical degree this means that half of what they learn in their first year of study will be outdated by their third year of study. VOCABULARY ACTIVATOR Guess, how many English words you already know. You can check it by googling ‘Oxford 3000’. This is the list of 3000 most important and useful English key-words selected for foreign users of the English language by a group of language experts and experienced teachers. The words which one is likely to meet while studying at an English-speaking university are compiled into the Academic Word List (AWL). The third list of words you are expected to know is the terminology of your future area of professional expertise. Now check, how well you know campus vocabulary. In pairs, look at each set of words below and try to decide whether they are the same or different. If different, what is the difference? a) high school / higher education / tertiary education b) department / faculty / school of … c) arts...
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...Gabriel Sulentic Mrs. Walker English 10H 5 February 2024 Lou Gehrig's Research Paper An individual is as good if not better than Babe Ruth. However, people do not know who, because that is just a ludicrous statement to make, that someone is better than the greatest of all time. He is known as Lou Gehrig, also known as the Iron Horse, or Mama's Boy. A great deal of people have not heard of him because he was a quiet legend who had his career cut short. Lou Gehrig had an interesting childhood, high school and college life, but he is most known for his professional career along with his interesting discoveries in the medical world that affect people to this day. Lou Gehrig, an early American baseball player who played in the major leagues, was...
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..."University, Inc." explores the commercial transformation of American higher education over the last 30 years. The opinion pieces noted throughout the book provide the reader with specific cases where this union has had serious ramifications on research, quality education, innovation, and the free flow of public knowledge. More specifically, Jennifer Washburn explains how the union between the two worlds of academia and business puts America's universities at risk, and tells how she feels this union will affect us all. It is noted that since the early 1980’s, Corporate funding of universities has been growing and the money, often times comes with strings attached. In return for this funding, universities and professors are seemingly more like for-profit patent factories: university funds are shifting from the humanities and the less profitable science departments into research labs, and the skill of teaching is often valued less and less. Throughout the book, many individual’s see our universities abandoning their traditional role as disinterested sources of education, alternative perspectives, and wisdom. This growing influence of corporations over universities affects more than just today's college students. It touches, whether good or bad, the future of all those whose careers depend on a university education, and all those who will be employed, governed, or taught by the products of American universities. Over the last several decades Federal and State governments have...
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...Strategic Plan Analysis --- University of Miami I have been to university of Miami visiting my friend at winter last year. When I first arrival there, I was amazed by her beautiful campus view and I felt warm, energetic, friendly come from their students, employees. So when professor talk about analysis a university, I decide to talk about university of Miami. At the time that we need to apply for collage, some of my classmates choose to apply university of Miami, because they learned that this university has really big and beautiful campus, also they want to stay in a city with warm weather, which Florida is definitely fit their condition. Besides university of Miami has a good ranking at USNEWS, and some teacher said this collage is easier for student to get admission comparing with other same level collages. So, this university becomes one of the most popular school students want to attend among our high school. I was to apply it also, however I want to study for finance and I was dream to attend a great business collage, which university of Miami didn’t achieved. Then I change my mind into Penn State University. This is one weakness I learned about university of Miami at the first time. Fortunately, almost my friends who apply this university was admitted by university of Miami, they feedback me some feelings about their university after they really living in. the most thing they mentioned about is the career opportunities and guide the collage supply. Because of...
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...Page 1 Stanley H. King Counseling Recommended Reading A COLLECTION OF TITLES RELATED TO THIS WORK: Many of these titles have been suggested by past Institute participants. Please let us know if there are resources that you have found useful in your life and work, and we will add to the list. Apter, Terri E. MYTH OF MATURITY: WHAT TEENAGERS NEED FROM PARENTS TO BECOME ADULTS. 2002 Brown, Lyn Mikel. GIRLFIGHTING: BETRAYAL AND REJECTION AMONG GIRLS. 2005 Cloke, Kenneth. MEDIATING DANGEROUSLY. 2001 Clydesdale, Tim. THE FIRST YEAR OUT: UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN TEENS AFTER HIGH SCHOOL. 2007 Crawford, Susan H. BEYOND DOLLS & GUNS: 101 WAYS TO HELP CHILDREN AVOID GENDER BIAS. 1995 Deak, JoAnn and Barker, Teresa. GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS: RAISING CONFIDENT AND COURAGEOUS DAUGHTERS. 2003 Deak, JoAnn. HOW GIRLS THRIVE: AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS (AND PARENTS). 2010 Dovidio, John F. and Gaertner, S. PREJUDICE, DISCRIMINATION, AND RACISM. 1986 Dweck, Carol. MINDSET: THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESS. 2007 Elkind, David. ALL GROWN UP AND NO PLACE TO GO: TEENAGERS IN CRISIS. 1998 Elkind, David. HURRIED CHILD: GROWING UP TOO FAST TOO SOON. 2006 Germer, Christopher K. THE MINDFUL PATH TO SELF-COMPASSION: FREEING YOURSELF FROM DESTRUCTIVE THOUGHTS AND EMOTIONS. 2009 Gilligan, Carol. IN A DIFFERENT VOICE: PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY AND WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT. 1993 Gilligan, Carol, Nona P. Lyons, Trudy J. Hanmer (ed). MAKING CONNECTIONS: THE RELATIONAL WORLDS OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS AT...
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...Returning Wrestling to the University Imagine this, you are in the gym waiting for the first practice of the season to start. Your excitement is overwhelming. You have spent your entire life working up to this point; you are a college athlete. You are being paid to attend school and play your favorite sport for it. Your coach walks in with an upset look on his face. You think to yourself that it’s just going to be a difficult practice. Your coach actually tells you that you do not have practice today. You wont have practice ever again. Your entire life work gone, just like that. With your heart crushed, you cannot understand why the sport is just, canceled. You walk up to your coach and ask what the problem is. Your coach, as disappointed as you, tells you that the University board of athletics has decided to drop your “life” from the program to abide by the Title IX requirements and for not being a profitable program. This actually happened here at the University of Utah 50 years ago and it’s because there is a problem going on at Universities like The U and it is that men’s non-revenue sports, like wrestling, are being impacted negatively. Wresting is beginning to fade from colleges that are not in the Big Ten or the Ivy League, and Colleges like the University of Utah are participating in letting the sport diminish. In an article written by Coyte G. Cooper, “Involving the core product” “While there were 363 NCAA wrestling programs in 1981, the number of men’s wrestling...
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...Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Social media had been a massive part in every household. Technology had given us a great deal and helped us with our tasks and made everything easy. We know that social media sites like (Google+, Twitter, Facebook and Yahoo) had introduced us in many methods that can connect people easier. Social media sites had been a popular means to connect with other people over the Internet. During the 1980's home computers were becoming more common in every household and social media sites were becoming more refined. According to Hendricks, (2013) The Internet relay chats, or IRCs, were first used in 1988 and were popularized into the '90s. The first popular social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997. The site enabled its users to upload a profile and make friends with the other users. By 2006, Facebook and Twitter both became available to users throughout the world. These sites still remain as the most popular social network on the Internet. After the success of these social media sites, other sites like Tumbler, Spotify, Foursquare and Pinterest began appearing to fill specific social network niches. Furthermore, Hendricks (2013) emphasized that, "there are a tremendous variety of social networking sites, and many of them can be linked to allow cross posting. This creates an environment where users can reach the maximum number of people without sacrificing the intimacy of person-to-person communication. We can only speculate...
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...DJ Sociology of Family Gay Adoption: Race, Identity and Family Millions of children in this country are eagerly waiting to be adopted by loving parent/parents who will care and provide for them. Studies have shown that the role of race and identity in transracial adoption with the added pressure of being raised by gay parents affects children who are part of it. Some believe that these children are receiving a home that many dream of and others believe that these children are being deprived of their heritage and identity. Should children’s heritage and identities be taking into consideration when they adopted? Studies have proven that adoptive parents should be accepting of their children’s heritage and should alter their lifestyle to accommodate their children’s lives. Many children in the system are looking for a second chance for a better life. Adoption is a second chance at this better life, but with this second opportunity it can pose some challenges. Child adoption is complicated and complex situation in a whole, especially when it comes to race. When you mix a transracial adoption and a gay adoption into one household, you get a family with many questions and concerns. In the documentary, “Off and Running,” we see a coming-of-age story about a young teen named Avery Klein-Cloud who is an African-American girl adopted by white Jewish lesbians. She is one third of an adoptive set of children. Her older brother is a black and Puerto Rican boy and her younger brother...
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...The Decline and Fall of Literature November 4, 1999 ANDREW DELBANCO E-mail Print [pic]Share [pic] [pic]In Plato’s Cave[pic] by Alvin Kernan A couple of years ago, in an article explaining how funds for faculty positions are allocated in American universities, the provost of the University of California at Berkeley offered some frank advice to department chairs, whose job partly consists of lobbying for a share of the budget. “On every campus,” she wrote, “there is one department whose name need only be mentioned to make people laugh; you don’t want that department to be yours.”1 The provost, Carol Christ (who retains her faculty position as a literature professor), does not name the offender—but everyone knows that if you want to locate the laughingstock on your local campus these days, your best bet is to stop by the English department. The laughter, moreover, is not confined to campuses. It has become a holiday ritual for The New York Times to run a derisory article in deadpan Times style about the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, where thousands of English professors assemble just before the new year. Lately it has become impossible to say with confidence whether such topics as “Eat Me; Captain Cook and the Ingestion of the Other” or “The Semiotics of Sinatra” are parodies of what goes on there or serious presentations by credentialed scholars.2 At one recent English lecture, the speaker discussed a pornographic “performance artist”...
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...In his 1932 novel, Brave New World, Aldus Huxley predicts a civilization that strives on the distraction of mindless pleasure. In his future, people are controlled by their desire for happiness, comfort, and satiation. They are taught to live without goals or dreams, without hard work and rewards. Instead, they are constantly rewarded, to the point that it is no longer something to look forward to or earn; it is simply a necessity of daily life. In his world, humans are so distracted by this constant stream of serotonin and dopamine, that they cannot see what is happening right before their eyes: they are being controlled. Sadly, we must admit there is some very eye-opening truth to Huxley’s prediction. Our overwhelming need for technology is becoming a source of mass unconsciousness, which could easily feed into Huxley’s idea of our future. Past generations, such as the Baby Boomers and Generation X, have less understanding and connection to technology than Generation Y. The internet has become an indispensable tool which is often taken for granted. It is so common that it no longer is seen as the vast plane of information and exploration that it is; but, instead is used merely for gaming, TV, and social media. Dr. Sally Nimon describes the difference between generations well when she states that “to Baby Boomers […] and even Generation X‐ers […] phenomena such as mobile phones and the internet represent tools that can aid them in the performance of their daily lives; to Millennials...
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...African-American high school seniors who are excelling in their academics, exhibiting exceptional leadership potential, and actively serving in community service activities. For more details, visit www.ronbrown.org #2 - Gates Millennium Scholars Program For Minority Students: The Gates Millennium Scholars Program (also known as the Bill Gates Scholarship) awards scholarships each year to African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American or Hispanic American students who plan to enroll full-time in a two-year or four-year college or university program. For more details, visit www.gmsp.org Copyright © 2016 All Rights Reserved. This ebook is the personal copy of Corketa Martin (CorkeLou@aol.com) #3 - Tom Joyner Foundation "Full Ride" Scholarship: The Tom Joyner Foundation "Full Ride" Scholarship awards a full scholarship to one student to attend a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). The scholarship is open to graduating high school seniors with high academic records. For more details, visit www.tomjoynerfoundation.org #4 – Microsoft STEM Scholarship Program: Microsoft Scholarship Program is for students who are pursuing studies in Computer Science and related STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Most of the scholarships will be awarded to female students, underrepresented minority students (AfricanAmerican, Hispanic or Native American) or...
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...New Medical Devices in the US August 13 2010 Table of Contents 1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2 2. Background and Framework……………………………………………………………………………………………………………4 2.1 Priority Medical Devices for the Netherlands…..……………………………………………………………………4 2.2 The US Vision: From see and treat to predict and prevent……………………………………………………6 2.3 Conclusions…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..7 3. Medical device sector in the US………………………………………………………………………………………………………8 3.1 Economic Impact…..………………………………………………………………………………………………………………8 3.2 The Sector by State…..…………………………………………………………………………………………………………10 3.3 Key Institutes: Patent Applications in the Cluster Areas…..………………………………………………….13 3.4 Conclusions…..…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….20 4. Turning research into novel medical devices………………………………………………………………………………….22 4.1 The Medical Device Development Process…..……………………………………………………………………..22 4.2 CIMIT: A Structure for Medical Device Innovation…..………………………………………………………….23 4.3 Stanford Biodesign: Innovation as a Discipline…..………………………………………………………………..26 4.4 Conclusions and Recommendations…..……………………………………………………………………………….28 5. Summary and Conclusions…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….30 6. Acknowledgements……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….32 7. References…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….33 Appendices A1 Selection of Key Institutes A2 Results Patent Analysis A3 Research...
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