The NCKU Professor Ker-Chung Shaing of Institute of Plasma and Space Science Center and Department of Physics was presented with the 2008 Outstanding Scholar Award by the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship along with a 5-year grant of $1.2 million NT per year and $6 million NT in total, approximately 182 thousand US [...]
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Sometime between Christmas and New Year’s, the Nathan Hale Schoolhouse owned and managed by The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution will move — again. The tiny 1,200-s.f. two-story schoolhouse in which Connecticut’s State Hero Nathan Hale taught New London’s youth for 16 months has been moved five previous times since the [...]
The Northern California Cancer Center, the Stanford Cancer Center and the American Cancer Society are co-sponsoring Nov. 8 the second annual Cancer Survivorship Conference “Now what? The new normal of cancer survivorship after treatment.”
The conference is intended to help cancer survivors and their families, support networks and health care professionals understand and navigate questions and [...]
The American Legion Child Welfare Foundation, in its 54th year, has awarded $639,875 to 18 non-profit organizations. These grants, determined during the annual meeting of the Board of Directors, held at the Sheraton Hotel City Centre in Indianapolis, Indiana on Sunday, October 12, 2008, have been awarded to support worthwhile projects through the dissemination of [...]
C-level executives will learn how to improve the quality of hospital care and how the physical environment of care impacts quality during a conference at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo., on Oct. 10.
Trane and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) have partnered to offer this professional learning opportunity for ACHE [...]
In conjunction with its 50th anniversary, the American Society of Hematology (ASH), the world’s largest professional society of blood specialists, today launched a new public education campaign, Blood: The Vital Connection, with the goal of helping health-care consumers understand the important role of blood in overall health. As part of this effort, ASH has developed [...]
Just try to imagine it: George W. Bush loses re-election by a landslide and, undeterred by the humiliation of it all, sets off on a journey of unspeakable danger and hardship into the darkest depths of the Amazon jungle. There would be a media circus the likes of which the world has never seen. Picture [...]