Dougherty County School Board Candidates Make Their Case Ahead of May 21 Primary Election
The race for a school board seat in Georgia's Dougherty County is shaping up to be a close one. The Albany Herald reports that in the May 21 primary, incumbent school board member James Bush is...more

Medusind Showcases Innovative Behavioral Health Billing Services at West Coast ...
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is out with a new report on substance abuse, and it's a doozy. The report, published in the journal Alcoholism and Alcoholism: Clinical,...more

Read the Spring 2024 Issue of Umb'S 'Catalyst' Magazine
Fahren Nipple is an autopsy assistant in Maryland's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and she's also the assistant program director for the Master of Science in Forensic Medicine at the Graduate...more

Medical City Unveils College of Nursing and Texas Health'S Innovation Award
If you've ever wanted to be a nurse, now's your chance. TheGalen College of Nursing has opened a new 40,000-square-foot campus in Richardson, Texas, that's specifically dedicated to nursing...more

The Left'S Nonprofit Journalism Empire: Big Philanthropy'S Play
Foundation: MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation
The MacArthur Foundation, known for its "genius grants" to left-wing activists, has announced a $500 million philanthropic push to boost local journalism. The push, called "Press Forward," aims...more

Fellowships, awards announced during graduate luncheon
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has named its 2016 recipients of the esteemed Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Education, the Omaha World-Herald reports. The award is given to faculty...more

Oxnard Teen Center Named after Nordhoff Graduate Aided by $400K State Grant
When Heidi Allison and her husband, Larry Rhoades, opened Nate's Place a year ago in Oxnard, Calif., they had one goal: to help at-risk teens and young adults stay on the right track with sobriety...more

The Public Servant
Lisette Nieves was the first Puerto Rican woman and the first Brooklyn College grad to be a Rhodes scholar when she graduated from the college in 1992. Now she's the president of the Fund for the...more

Nobel Winners Reflect on Peace, Human Dignity at Vatican Conference
A group of 30 Nobel Peace Prize winners gathered at the Vatican this week to talk about promoting peace, and one of them had a message for today's "profit-centric" society: It's time to create a "...more

Chris Pan Wants to Set the Record Straight about His Ohio State Commencement Speech
Chris Pan's commencement speech at Ohio State has been called "cringe-worthy" and "the worst Ohio State commencement speech ever"but the social entrepreneur and 1999 Ohio State graduate wants to set...more