Nov 08
Soldiers with traumatic brain injuries, or TBIs, are getting dramatic results from therapy offered by local brain training experts.
“The LearningRx methodology can significantly improve the brain, restore function, and eliminate common symptoms of TBI like lack of focus, memory problems, and struggles with thinking in general,” says LearningRx Vice President of Research and Development, Tanya [...]
Nov 06
The Broadcasting Board of Governors has contracted Alelo TLT LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Alelo Inc., to develop an interactive Web-based learning portal for learners of English as a second language. The learning portal will be part of Voice of America’s international programming. VOA is the largest U.S. international broadcaster, reaching an estimated audience [...]
Nov 06
Online Education, Training Programs No Comments
More than 65,000 military personnel have been wounded by hostile and nonhostile acts in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. In addition to advances in medical care, recreation programming is playing an important role in reintegrating these individuals into military, family and community life. To help these wounded warriors, Penn State has developed a first-of-its-kind training [...]
Nov 03
The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) today approved a $1 million training fund to provide employer-driven skills training for recently separated veterans.
By establishing the training fund, TWC will provide returning veterans skills upgrades that employers identify as necessary for future Texas economic growth.
Private Texas employers can apply to TWC for training grants by partnering with established [...]
Nov 02
Medivac helicopter pilot Jett McNally’s heart belongs to an Army officer she left behind in Afghanistan, and good-time anesthesiologist Tristan Holmes is no substitute, except possibly in bed.
When Jett comes home from the war and destruction in the Middle East, everyone she knows thinks she should be happy. How can she explain she left a [...]
Oct 29
Channel One News, the preeminent news and content provider for teens, declared Senator Barack Obama as the winner of “OneVote 2008,” the network’s nationwide student mock-election held in advance of the Presidential election. Pulling in a significant 58.5% of the vote, Barack Obama wins the election by a 17 point margin, leaving John McCain [...]
Oct 27
Review
“Mr. President if you had let these guys run this war it would have been over by now. Read this book now, all of you. [Kill Bin Laden is] the best book ever written by a special operations insider. This guy Fury’s men are the real-deal Delta Force operators. You need to know what happened [...]
Oct 27
From one of the world’s greatest humanitarian activists comes a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many forms.
Having seen things we hope never to see, confronted suffering and dispassion and evil we hope never to encounter, and faced deep personal torment, James Orbinski still believes in [...]
Oct 22
President Bush, who has made international aid a cornerstone of his foreign policy, warned yesterday against cutting U.S. assistance to impoverished nations in the midst of the financial turmoil sweeping Wall Street and Main Street, arguing that doing so would undermine America’s economy, national security and moral authority.
“During times of economic crisis, some may be [...]
Oct 21
Education, School, University No Comments
Conversations about the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan tend to focus on whether we should be there and how we can bring them to a close. What’s less discussed is how these conflicts will profoundly affect health care and academic medicine in the years to come.
The first event in a new series, the Stanford [...]
RSS