Muara Teweh!

By Arthur E. Foulkes
The Tribune-Star

U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar was in Terre Haute on Friday to meet with students training to become doctors serving rural areas.

“So many people want to do rural medicine,” Lugar said before meeting with dozens of medical students at the Richard G. Lugar Center for Rural Health. “People are being served in the western part of Indiana in a much better way” than before, he said.

As many as 80 medical students have started training at the Lugar Center, said Dr. Jim Turner, director of the center. The students will fill a big need for medical doctors in rural communities, he said.

“Only 4 percent of students graduating from medical school now want to work in a town of less than 25,000,” Turner said. About 20 percent of Americans live in rural areas, but only about 9 percent of the nation’s physicians live in those same areas, he added. “So it’s a challenge right there.” » Read more after the jump →

A new program that will attract new nursing students from a DeKalb County school to the University of Alabama-Birmingham is one step away from reality.

UAB’s Beth Stullenbarger received a three-year, $867,000 grant to get more minorities, rural students and first-generation college students into nursing.

She said minority nurses are needed in part because they’re more likely to return to underserved communities, but also because it’s important for health care providers to be able to relate to their patients.

“We know there is a tremendous shortage of nurses in this state and is about to get worse,” Stullenbarger said. “Our goal is to make sure the students who want to be nurses can get the academic background needed to become nurses.
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Career and college-exploration workshops, college tours, financial-aid and scholarship workshops. Located at Chief Sealth, West Seattle and Cleveland high schools. Also at Denny Middle School, Career Link Academy and Middle College High School.

Eligibility: Middle- and high-school students who attend the designated schools and who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, low-income and first-generation college students. Six hundred students served each year. 2007’s graduating class of 175 earned more than $2 million in scholarships. Applications open year-round through high schools’ career centers, or by calling TRiO.

Other Talent Search programs: University of Washington serves north Snohomish and south Skagit counties, including Mount Baker and Cascade middle schools and Sedro-Woolley, Marysville and Mt. Vernon high schools. Call 206-616-1948 or visit http://depts.washington.edu/talent.

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NEW YORK — /PRNewswire/ — To address construction concerns in today’s economic landscape, McGraw-Hill Construction’s Engineering News-Record (ENR) and the Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) are bringing the second annual ENR/CURT Construction Business Forum to St. Charles, Missouri (St. Louis metro area) at the Ameristar Hotel & Casino on June 10-11, 2008.

Robert Murray, vice president of economic affairs for McGraw-Hill Construction, will share facts and figures for planning in this year’s bumpy market with the Forum’s 300 attendees. His update to the 2008 projections for U.S. construction start activity will offer insights on changing prospects for nonresidential building and public works. This will be the first presentation of 2008 where the Economic Outlook Midyear Report will be distributed.

Participants will also meet and network with major owners to learn about construction trends and to discuss timely industry issues, such as the business case for sustainability, workforce case studies, and successful collaboration in a technology-driven age. Presenters will examine changing industry dynamics and exchange ideas for adapting in a global environment where construction costs are rapidly rising and contractor resources shrinking. The Forum audience is made up of owners, contractors, facility
managers, construction managers, engineers, architects, equipment and building product manufacturers. » Read more after the jump →

Think of an Indian Institute of Management (IIM) or Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) graduate, and the first thing to come to mind is a plush job either in investment banking, consultancy or IT. However, the likes of Vardan Kabra and Ankita Diwekar-Kabra — students of IIM-Ahmedabad 2004 batch — are changing this thinking.

This duo conceptualised the Fountainhead Education Foundation — a custom-designed pre-school and childcare centre in Surat for children between the age of one and five adapted from internationally renowned methods.

“I got a Rs 7 lakh pre-placement offer from Procter and Gamble (P & G). But neither did I take it up nor sit for the placements. I believe that quality education should be a big business. There are not enough choices for students when it comes to schools and colleges today. And most want to get into whatever the limited options are available. The problem is that there is not enough competition.

The moment there is competition in this sector, it will undergo significant changes, like the telecom industry,” Vardan says.
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