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Carle Illinois Health Innovation Professor named Grad College Faculty Fellow, Focusing on Student Resilience
Carle Illinois College of Medicine Health Innovation Professor Zeynep Madak-Erdogan is taking on a new role to strengthen resiliency, mental health, and satisfaction among the 20,000 graduate students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Madak-Erdogan has been appointed as a faculty fellow at the Graduate College, where she will focus on improving the experience of …
Health Policy and Administration grad fights health care fraud
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Patrick Spurlock, a 2019 health policy and administration graduate from the College of Health and Human Development, took a unique path during his undergraduate career. “When I started my undergraduate degree, I was enrolled as a criminology major. My heart was set on pursuing a degree that would lead me to an …
Back on the mound: Peters grad overcomes health issues to return to baseball | News
Garrett Miller drove his car to the side of the road, parked and called his parents. If what he told them and the tone of his voice was not the last thing they wanted to hear, it was frighteningly close enough. The youngest of Carrie and David Miller’s three children informed his parents that he …
New Century Technology High School grad, Air Force Academy commit gets haircut for good cause
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Freshmen at U.S. military colleges must often cut their hair upon the start of their education. For one recent graduate of New Century Technology High School, this college-prep-step was about more than just a trip to the barber. Kieran Moise has only gotten a handful of haircuts in his entire life, but …
MCC spotlights broadcast technology grad Virgil Reed | Lifestyles
Virgil K. Reed has been a part of Meridian’s media world for more than two decades thanks, in part, to a fascination with the critically acclaimed and commercially successful 1994 crime film “Pulp Fiction.” It was after seeing the odd, but highly popular Quentin Tarantino blockbuster all those years ago that Reed decided he wanted …
Parents Say Son’s Death Inside Unlicensed Residential Mental Health Home Could Have Been Prevented – NBC Los Angeles
Brandon Nelson was a straight-A student in high school, a UCLA grad and worked as an aerospace engineer. But shortly after college, he experienced a mental breakdown. The 26-year-old was hospitalized and released to a residential mental health home in Southern California. He took his own life 24 hours after being admitted. His parents say …
BREAKING: More Than 90 Percent of Harvard Grad Student Union Voters Approve Strike Authorization | News
The Harvard Graduate Student Union began a strike authorization vote last Tuesday. UPDATED: October 25, 2019, at 11:39 p.m. Harvard’s graduate student union passed its strike authorization vote Friday by an overwhelming majority — with more than 90 percent of voters in support — granting its bargaining committee the power to call a strike when …
Princeton grad found guilty of murdering his father after his allowance was cut
Thomas Gilbert Sr., a founding managing partner of the hedge fund Wainscott Capital, was found dead in his apartment in January 2015 with a gunshot wound to the head. Gilbert’s attorneys did not dispute that he killed his father but said he was not guilty by reason of insanity. Jurors dismissed the insanity defense; they …
UBC engineering grad bridges worlds of cutting-edge technology, Indigenous roots
Growing up with three younger brothers, Shay Dekock-Kruger always felt like one of them. No one told her there were things she couldn’t do because she was a girl. Fascinated by math and physics, today she’s an engineer-in-training with B.C. Hydro. Being dismissed because of her gender, the 24-year-old UBC grad said, “was never an …
Illini land Michigan grad transfer QB Brandon Peters
Illinois is adding another former top-200 prospect to its roster — this time at the most important position on the team. Michigan graduate transfer quarterback Brandon Peters will transfer to Illinois, he announced Tuesday on Instagram. He is the sixth former top-200 prospect to transfer to Illinois this offseason, joining Georgia tight end Luke …
