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Warren County Career Center, Miami Regionals Partner to Expand Nursing Opportunities Across Southwest Ohio
OXFORD, Ohio, Nov. 8 -- Miami University issued the following news:
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Warren County Career Center, Miami Regionals partner to expand nursing opportunities across Southwest Ohio
New Early Access BSN 1+3 Model helps high school students begin nursing coursework early through College Credit Plus, addressing regional healthcare needs
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Miami University Regionals and the Warren County Career Center (WCCC) have partnered to create a new opportunity for WCCC students to begin their nursing education early while meeting the healthcare and workforce needs of communities across Southwest Ohio.
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OXFORD, Ohio, Nov. 8 -- Miami University issued the following news:
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Warren County Career Center, Miami Regionals partner to expand nursing opportunities across Southwest Ohio
New Early Access BSN 1+3 Model helps high school students begin nursing coursework early through College Credit Plus, addressing regional healthcare needs
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Miami University Regionals and the Warren County Career Center (WCCC) have partnered to create a new opportunity for WCCC students to begin their nursing education early while meeting the healthcare and workforce needs of communities across Southwest Ohio.
TheEarly Access BSN 1+3 Model enables WCCC students in the Early College Nursing Program to complete their first year of Miami's Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) while still in high school, leveraging Ohio's College Credit Plus (CCP) program.
During their junior and senior years of high school, students will complete many of their science and general education courses through Miami University's Middletown campus, learning alongside college students and taught by Miami faculty. They will also take additional College Credit Plus courses through Hocking College, which will transfer to Miami University.
After graduating from the Warren County Career Center, qualified students will receive direct admission to Miami's BSN program in Hamilton, placing them on an accelerated path to complete their BSN degree within three years.
Ande Durojaiye, Miami's vice president for strategy and partnerships, noted the benefits for the community and for the students.
"For students, the program will reduce the time to completing their degree and reduce the cost of their degree by 25%," he said. "It's another step in our work to remove barriers to students meeting their educational and career goals."
Durojaiye emphasized the advantages for the region's healthcare employers, noting that "this program gets top-caliber healthcare professionals into the local workforce sooner."
A regional collaboration with statewide benefits
Moira Casey, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Applied Science, said the initiative is a shared investment in the region's future workforce.
"By collaborating with partners like Warren County Career Center, we are creating affordable and accessible pathways," Casey said. "This partnership supports students from Warren County while meeting Ohio's growing demand for skilled healthcare professionals."
Building the next generation of nurses
Students will earn college credits through College Credit Plus while completing Miami's first-year Nursing curriculum at WCCC, taught by Miami Nursing faculty. This structure allows students to transition seamlessly into Miami's BSN program in Hamilton after high school.
"This partnership builds directly on the strengths of both institutions," said Stephanie Nicely, chair of Miami's Department of Nursing. "Students gain valuable early experience in college-level coursework, and the healthcare community gains nurses who are prepared, confident, and committed to serving their region."
Supporting affordability and access
Participants in the Early Access BSN 1+3 Model can also apply to Miami's Work+ Program, which offers free tuition to students employed by participating local employers while pursuing their degrees. The program includes scheduled breaks in summer and winter, providing opportunities for students to participate in internships, Microcredentials, or undergraduate research.
Joel King, superintendent of the Warren County Career Center, said the collaboration reinforces the shared goal of helping students thrive while addressing a critical community need.
"We are excited to partner with Miami and provide such a great opportunity to our students. Our current Pre-Nursing program has a waitlist, and nursing is such an in-demand field that this partnership makes a lot of sense for both of us," King said. "I appreciate the efforts of Ande and Stephenie and our team at WCCC who have worked hard to put the pieces in place to begin students in the pathway next school year."
Launching in 2026
The Warren County Career Center/Miami University Early Access BSN 1+3 Model will officially launch for WCCC students who will be juniors in fall 2026.
Applications for the 2026-2027 school year will open on Wednesday, Dec. 3. Interested students can apply at mywccc.org/apply.
"This is about preparing the next generation of nurses and supporting the communities they call home," Casey said. "It's a model that truly works for students, families, and healthcare partners across southwest Ohio."
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Original text here: https://miamioh.edu/news/2025/11/warren-county-career-center-miami-regionals-nursing-partnership.html
University of Nevada: Scientists Capture Elusive Imagery of Volcano's Inner Workings
RENO, Nevada, Nov. 8 (TNSjou) -- The University of Nevada issued the following news:
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Scientists capture elusive imagery of volcano's inner workings
Researchers suggest new volcanic formation processes and publish images of the volcano in Nature
By Michelle Werdann, '21
About 290 miles off the coast of Cannon Beach, Oregon, lies an underwater volcano called Axial Volcano. Axial erupts about once every ten years. Twice in the past year, news outlets have reported that the volcano will erupt "any day now," and that's mostly true, according to Graham Kent, a professor in the Nevada Seismological
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RENO, Nevada, Nov. 8 (TNSjou) -- The University of Nevada issued the following news:
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Scientists capture elusive imagery of volcano's inner workings
Researchers suggest new volcanic formation processes and publish images of the volcano in Nature
By Michelle Werdann, '21
About 290 miles off the coast of Cannon Beach, Oregon, lies an underwater volcano called Axial Volcano. Axial erupts about once every ten years. Twice in the past year, news outlets have reported that the volcano will erupt "any day now," and that's mostly true, according to Graham Kent, a professor in the Nevada SeismologicalLaboratory and Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering. Kent said that the volcano is due to erupt again in the next year or so, as the last eruption was in 2015.
Axial is a shield volcano. Its magmas are made primarily of iron and magnesium, but the chemistry of some lavas are more silica-rich or andesitic, which has puzzled scientists. Research published in Nature in April provides insights into why the silica enrichment may be happening, based on the most accurate 3D seismic imagery ever made of the internal workings of a volcano.
Axial is interesting to researchers because of its location sitting over both a mid-ocean ridge, where two tectonic plates are moving away from each other on the seafloor, and a hotspot where magma rises deep from within the Earth toward the surface. Axial is an analog to the Kilauea or Mauna Loa volcanoes on Hawaii, which are also basaltic (silica-poor). Despite being 1,000 meters below the ocean surface, Axial has been monitored remotely via fiber optic cables since late 2014 as part of the Ocean Observatories Initiative.
Volcanoes are camera-shy
As a child, Kent was infatuated with volcanoes. He would draw the classic cone-shaped volcano, with a large reservoir of red magma beneath the surface. That illustration is close to how geology textbooks represent volcanoes even today, but geologists suspect a more complicated picture should be drawn. It's hard to know what that picture should look like, though. With current technology, scientists can't see the inner workings of volcanoes that exist on land.
"But if it's underwater, then you can employ technologies from the oil industry, and you can make a beautiful high-resolution 3D 'sonogram' of what a volcano actually looks like inside," Kent said.
Those technologies include hydrophones deployed from research vessels like the Marcus Langseth, which were used to take 3D images of the volcano over about 250 square miles of the seafloor.
"This technology is pretty mature, because it's used for a lot of oil and gas exploration around the world," Kent said.
The Columbia University-owned Langseth is equipped with four 6-kilometer-long hydrophone streamers, which are towed behind the boat. The streamers are kept equidistant by paravanes. Pressurized air is shot into the ocean at a 40-foot depth, where the air bubble expands before the pressure forces it to collapse, essentially sending a soundwave that is directed down toward the volcano. The reflections of this sound source from within the volcano are recorded by the hydrophones, allowing the researchers to create an image of the volcano's plumbing based on the waveforms.
"What we're able to do is make this super accurate 3D image, and with that, we're able to address a lot of ideas with respect to, how do volcanoes work? What does the plumbing look like? How does that plumbing affect the chemistry of the rocks? How does it affect how eruptions occur?" Kent said.
Silica enrichment theories in volcanoes may need revision
The 3D images took time to understand. The data were originally recorded on an expedition in 2019. In 2023, Kent took a sabbatical in Paris to work with his colleague Satish Singh on processing and interpreting the data. Kent has collaborated with Singh's research group, which is based in Paris, for nearly thirty years. What Kent and Singh found based on the imagery and strange chemistry was that there were more processes at play in building this volcano than previously thought.
Volcanologists theorized that magma migrates between alternating layers of molten rock and soft crystal, enriching in silica content as it moves through those alternating layers before eruption. Kent believes that's accurate, but it's not the full picture. He and his coauthors suggest assimilation or remelting of the overlying rocks along the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, the upper boundary of the main magma chamber of the volcano, may be important. As these assimilated rocks have small amounts of water, this contamination can also drive silica-enrichment of lavas as seen today in Iceland, where super silica-rich rhyolitic rocks are found.
"In effect, we see two different ways of allowing rock composition to evolve, to be more silica-rich," Kent explained. "This is probably the best place on the planet where both those modes are very nicely expressed. We still don't know which is the most dominant, most important. It may evolve through time."
Kent hopes that in the future the 3D imagery technology will be deployed immediately before and after Axial erupts, so scientists can see how the internal workings of the volcano change with eruptions. This 4D (3D with time) imagery is a key step toward understanding changing volcano chemistry.
"Science is one brick at a time," Kent said. "Sometimes bricks are bigger, and sometimes they're smaller, but at the end of the day, I think this is an important brick in trying to piece everything together."
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Michelle Werdann, Science Communication Reporter and Multimedia Specialist, Phone: (775) 682-8786, Email: mwerdann@unr.edu
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Original text here: https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2025/volcano-inner-workings-revealed
University of Nevada: MolinaCares Strengthens PA Program's Clerkship
RENO, Nevada, Nov. 8 -- The University of Nevada issued the following news:
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MolinaCares strengthens PA program's clerkship
MolinaCares' grant supports PA students during rural clerkship
By Ericka Estacio
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine's (UNR Med) physician assistant (PA) Studies Program is deepening its commitment to rural and underserved communities through a collaboration with MolinaCares, the charitable arm of Molina Healthcare. With aligned missions of strengthening local health systems and serving underserved populations, MolinaCares and UNR Med's PA Program saw
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RENO, Nevada, Nov. 8 -- The University of Nevada issued the following news:
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MolinaCares strengthens PA program's clerkship
MolinaCares' grant supports PA students during rural clerkship
By Ericka Estacio
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine's (UNR Med) physician assistant (PA) Studies Program is deepening its commitment to rural and underserved communities through a collaboration with MolinaCares, the charitable arm of Molina Healthcare. With aligned missions of strengthening local health systems and serving underserved populations, MolinaCares and UNR Med's PA Program sawan opportunity to expand their mission to PA students.
MolinaCares' grant provides funding and support for students to complete clinical rotations across rural Nevada. The support has since grown to include professional development for rural preceptors, faculty site visits and recruitment support to build long-term sustainability for rural training.
"Molina's grant provided the resources to make those placements feasible and sustainable," said Director of Physician Assistant Studies Brian S. Lauf, DMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA. "Which immediately expanded the reach of our rural training."
By requiring every PA student to complete rural or underserved rotations, students experience hands-on training while expanding health care to those in need. In the first two quarters of 2025 alone, students supported by the grant cared for 1,300 patients across Ely, Carson City, Fallon, Minden and Eureka.
A second-year PA student, Jennifer Geddes, reflects on her experience with the clerkship.
"Molina's support has made it possible for students like me to pursue meaningful rural rotations without worrying about financial barriers," Geddes said.
"I've felt supported not only by UNR Med's faculty and staff but also by the community preceptors and partners like Molina who believe in our training and purpose."
Beyond funding, the grant strengthens communities by supporting preceptor training and linking providers to larger health networks, helping rural sites remain a strong training environment. The MolinaCares grant has allowed the expansion of pediatrics, women's health, family medicine and surgery, which have historically been harder to secure in rural areas.
This encourages the growth of the health care work force in Nevada. "For Nevada, it supports a workforce pipeline of providers who are more likely to remain in-state and practice in underserved areas," Lauf said. "This investment ensures that preceptors remain connected, skilled and committed to training future students."
For rural Nevada, the grant means improved access to care and a stronger pipeline of providers for tomorrow. For students, the experience has been both educational and deeply personal. "My rural clerkship showed me how essential adaptability, teamwork and community trust are to patient care," said Geddes. "My rural rotations have shown me how much trust and continuity of care matter, and how a provider's presence can make a lasting difference even with limited resources."
What began as a shared commitment to community health has evolved into a transformative collaboration shaping the future of health care in Nevada. As the program continues to grow, its focus remains clear: to expand rural training opportunities, strengthen preceptor networks, and cultivate a generation of PAs who are ready to serve where they are needed most.
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Original text here: https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2025/molinacares-funds-pa-program
Solomon Center Develops Blueprint to Improve Health Care for Children With Serious Illnesses
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Nov. 8 (TNSrpt) -- Yale Law School issued the following news:
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Solomon Center Develops Blueprint to Improve Health Care for Children with Serious Illnesses
Researchers at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School have published the latest in a series of white papers examining how Connecticut could expand access to pediatric palliative care, a specialized medical intervention that provides children and their families with relief from the symptoms and stress of serious illness. The paper accompanies the researchers' work advising Connecticut's
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Nov. 8 (TNSrpt) -- Yale Law School issued the following news:
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Solomon Center Develops Blueprint to Improve Health Care for Children with Serious Illnesses
Researchers at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School have published the latest in a series of white papers examining how Connecticut could expand access to pediatric palliative care, a specialized medical intervention that provides children and their families with relief from the symptoms and stress of serious illness. The paper accompanies the researchers' work advising Connecticut'spediatric palliative care working group (known as CHAMP), which is preparing to submit reform recommendations to the state legislature next year. The researchers have also authored related commentary.
The new white paper, authored by Solomon Center Deputy Director Elle Rothermich and Senior Academic Fellow Eugene Rusyn '17, focuses on the data collection Connecticut must undertake to accurately capture and improve upon pediatric palliative care services across the state. Studies have repeatedly shown that palliative care positively impacts patients and health systems, such as by significantly reducing patients' symptom burden, hospital admissions and readmissions, and the cost of inpatient services. However, Connecticut lacks a reliable source of data on pediatric palliative care. As a result, the answers to critical questions remain unknown, including how many children in the state may benefit from or are already receiving such care, what illnesses they have, which services are furnished, what forms of health coverage exists for those services, and the extent of cost savings for patients and health providers.
The white paper explains how lawmakers could fill this gap. First, Connecticut would need to define the scope and content of pediatric palliative care for purposes of ongoing data monitoring, building on best practices from other states and expert organizations. Policymakers would need to cast a wide net to avoid excluding services that could improve the wellbeing of children with serious illnesses and that of their families. These services risk going undercounted in future cost-benefit analyses, thereby not receiving the financial and structural support essential to reaching children in need.
Second, the researchers urge Connecticut to pattern pediatric palliative care data review efforts off an existing public health model with a track record of success: maternal mortality review committees. These committees conduct comprehensive reviews of individual pregnancy-associated deaths to determine which ones could have been prevented. Just as many maternal deaths are not timely identified as pregnancy-associated, many children with serious illnesses are not recognized as eligible for palliative care. Remedying this lack of access requires a close investigation of underlying barriers -- a task that a pediatric palliative care review committee would be ideally suited to accomplish.
"Reliable data about which patients need palliative care, which services are most impactful, and where gaps persist is critical to the long-term success of any pediatric palliative care program," said Elle Rothermich, deputy director of the Solomon Center and a co-author of the white paper. "We have shown that Connecticut has several effective models to draw from, and that those models can be tailored to improve health outcomes for children with serious illnesses."
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About the Solomon Center
The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School is the first of its kind to focus on the intersection of law and the governance, practice, and business of health care. The center brings together leading experts and practitioners from the public and private sectors to address cutting-edge questions of health law and policy, and to train the next generation of top health lawyers, industry leaders, policymakers, and academics.
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REPORT: https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/documents/improving-data-collection.pdf
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URL: Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy
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Original text here: https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/solomon-center-develops-blueprint-improve-health-care-children-serious-illnesses
SEMO Receives National Recognition for Achievements in Student Success
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri, Nov. 8 -- Southeast Missouri State University issued the following news:
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SEMO Receives National Recognition for Achievements in Student Success
Southeast Missouri State University has earned national recognition for its leadership in student success, receiving the prestigious EAB Student Success Collaborative Citizen Award. This award honors institutions that selflessly share their strategies and best practices to improve student success across the country.
The award reflects SEMO's long-standing commitment to collaboration, innovation and student-centered support.
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CAPE GIRARDEAU, Missouri, Nov. 8 -- Southeast Missouri State University issued the following news:
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SEMO Receives National Recognition for Achievements in Student Success
Southeast Missouri State University has earned national recognition for its leadership in student success, receiving the prestigious EAB Student Success Collaborative Citizen Award. This award honors institutions that selflessly share their strategies and best practices to improve student success across the country.
The award reflects SEMO's long-standing commitment to collaboration, innovation and student-centered support.SEMO was selected from more than 950 universities worldwide, making this recognition especially significant.
"I'm truly honored to have SEMO recognized with EAB's Collaborative Citizen Award," said Verona Lambert, SEMO's student success manager. "This recognition reflects the shared commitment of our campus community to student success and collaboration across other colleges and universities. Working together to create meaningful change is what makes our work so rewarding."
This year marks the eleventh consecutive year that EAB has recognized outstanding achievements in student success. Awardees are selected from among the colleges, universities and individuals who use one or more of three technologies: the Navigate360 enrollment, retention, and advancement CRM, the Starfish student success management system, and the Edify data management platform.
SEMO's recognition stems from its use of Starfish, known as SupportNET on campus, a student success platform that provides faculty and staff a holistic view of students' academic progress, attendance and support networks. For students, SupportNET is a central platform that links students with faculty, advisors and campus services in a single connected network, making it easier to communicate, schedule appointments and stay on track.
Since implementing in fall 2018, SEMO has leveraged SupportNET to enhance student support programs, offering personalized mentorship and resources that help students navigate college and achieve their goals. These initiatives strengthen retention and foster a collaborative environment where faculty, staff, and students work together to ensure success.
"SEMO's commitment to student success, and in turn, economic and workforce development, is what got us here," said Lambert. "The reason we won this award is because we collaborate with other universities. We do this work for the benefit of students everywhere."
"The Student Success Collaborative Award recognizes universities and personnel committed to sharing ideas among professionals who are working to support students," said Dr. Bruce Skinner, interim vice president of enrollment management and student success at SEMO. "Verona has exemplified this commitment to assisting our peers and her work has been a source of pride for the SEMO campus. Her selection for the award demonstrates that her work is among the very best across the United States, and we are proud to have her working to support our students."
The awards were presented at CONNECTED25, a three-day gathering of thousands of student success leaders from community colleges as well as four-year colleges and universities.
This recognition underscores SEMO's commitment to putting students first, embracing innovative tools, and openly sharing best practices with the higher education community.
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Original text here: https://semo.edu/news/2025/11/semo-receives-national-recognition-for-achievements-in-student-success.html
Penn State Dickinson Law Delegation Strengthens Partnerships During Trip to Asia
CARLISLE, Pennsylvania, Nov. 8 -- Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law issued the following news:
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Penn State Dickinson Law delegation strengthens partnerships during trip to Asia
Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law Danielle M. Conway led a group to Singapore and China
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CARLISLE and UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa--A Penn State Dickinson Law delegation including members of the administration, faculty, and staff as well as alumni and valued Law School partners recently completed a visit to Asia to deepen the Law School's global partnerships in legal education and innovation.
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CARLISLE, Pennsylvania, Nov. 8 -- Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law issued the following news:
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Penn State Dickinson Law delegation strengthens partnerships during trip to Asia
Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law Danielle M. Conway led a group to Singapore and China
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CARLISLE and UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa--A Penn State Dickinson Law delegation including members of the administration, faculty, and staff as well as alumni and valued Law School partners recently completed a visit to Asia to deepen the Law School's global partnerships in legal education and innovation.
Itmarked the second straight year that Penn State Dickinson Law Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law Danielle M. Conway and Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Partnerships Daryl Lim journeyed to Singapore, where they met with legal education leaders and public and private institutions at the intersection of law, innovation, and dispute resolution. Attendees included Noreen Tama '86 and Thomas Pease, a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig.
Conway and Lim then continued to China, where Penn State Dickinson Law Director of Graduate and International Programs Jing Hu met them. They connected with a half-dozen law schools, signing and renewing partnership agreements, exploring dual-degree and exchange programs, and discussing future academic collaborations.
"This year's trip to Asia built on the foundation we established with last year's visit to Singapore. We were energized by the new relationships and initiatives we established, and this year we added more opportunities to ideate with our new partners," said Conway. "We are excited to continue to grow our appreciation for the importance of the rule of law within an international context."
"The most rewarding part was seeing how warmly our international partners value their relationship with Penn State Dickinson Law and how eager they are to collaborate on forward-looking initiatives," said Lim, a Singapore native. "Engaging directly with deans, faculty, alumni, students, and policymakers abroad provided invaluable insight into how different legal systems are responding to challenges posed by artificial intelligence (AI), digital transformation, sustainability, and other areas where Penn State Dickinson Law is helping lead the global conversation."
Both trips also included well-attended Alumni and Friends Receptions for graduates of Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State. Alumni living abroad were pleased to see many familiar faces.
"It was a profoundly meaningful experience to connect with Penn State Dickinson Law administrators in China," said Yinfeng Zhang '22, who attended the reception in Shanghai. "I have engaged in a face-to-face dialogue with Dean Conway and have learned about the school's strategic developments and also received insightful suggestions on my current and future career path from Dean Conway. This opportunity made me feel the strong commitment from the Dean and the school toward Chinese students and the alumni network here. It has reaffirmed my commitment to actively follow and support Penn State Dickinson Law's future development with great anticipation."
An 'intellectually invigorating and personally rewarding' trip
The Singapore portion of the visit featured meetings with public and private sector businesses, government officials, and universities, building on relationships forged during last year's visit. The Penn State Dickinson Law delegation met with four of Singapore's leading institutions in intellectual property and dispute resolution: Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Singapore International Mediation Centre, and WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center.
The delegation connected with the Singapore Academy of Law to learn about its mission and impact. It also visited the Singapore Land Authority, which gave an overview of innovations in property registration and state land management.
Sea Ltd., the country's largest consumer internet company, described its mission to connect local entrepreneurs and consumers in underserved markets. And, for the second straight year, the delegation met with Allen & Gledhill LLP attorneys, who offered a look at the firm's custom AI knowledge management system and new internship opportunities for students.
Another highlight for the group was attending the launch of "Charting New Waters: The Singapore International Commercial Court after Ten Years" at the Asian Civilisations Museum along with Singapore Minister for Law Edwin Tong.
The trip to China included stops at Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing, East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, and Beijing's China University of Political Science and Law and Beijing Foreign Studies University, places where Penn State Dickinson Law already has cooperation agreements in place.
Conway also signed a new agreement with Renmin University of China that establishes a framework for faculty exchanges, joint academic events, and opportunities for students to study and conduct research abroad. "Renmin's standing as one of China's premier law schools makes this a particularly significant partnership," said Lim. "Expanding and deepening these partnerships is a core part of my portfolio as associate dean for research and strategic partnerships, as they open new global learning opportunities for our students and enhance the law school's international reputation in research and legal innovation," said Lim.
While at Renmin, Conway and Lim also participated in the Fourth 21st Century International Forum of Law School Deans and Jurists. Conway served on the "Deans' Forum: Legal Education in the Era of AI" panel with deans from around the world, while Lim contributed to the "International Forum on Emerging IP Issues in the Age of AI."
"The forum offered a unique opportunity to engage with deans and jurists from leading institutions worldwide on the future of legal education in the digital era. I particularly appreciated the discussions on how law schools can nurture ethical leadership and cross-border understanding at a time of rapid technological change. It was both intellectually invigorating and personally rewarding to see Penn State Dickinson Law's voice represented on such a global stage," said Lim.
Alumni were also thrilled with Penn State Dickinson Law's dedication to its global connections. "Events of this caliber are a cornerstone in strengthening the Law School's reputation abroad, and opportunities to meet deans and alumni are a tangible demonstration of Penn State Dickinson Law's commitment to being a globally engaged law school," said Zhang.
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Original text here: https://dickinsonlaw.psu.edu/news/penn-state-dickinson-law-delegation-strengthens-partnerships-during-trip-to-asia
Music Library Exhibition Celebrates Yale's First Professor of Jazz as Oral Historian
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Nov. 8 -- Yale University issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2025:
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Music Library exhibition celebrates Yale's first professor of jazz as oral historian
The multimedia exhibition "Willie Ruff: In Jazz and in the World" is on display in the Gilmore Music Library corridor through March 15. The photographs, video clips, and documents on view celebrate the life and work of the university's first professor of jazz: former Music professor Willie Ruff '53, MFA '54, '18 HON.
Materials in the vitrines show Ruff in the company of his wide circle of collaborators
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Nov. 8 -- Yale University issued the following news release on Nov. 7, 2025:
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Music Library exhibition celebrates Yale's first professor of jazz as oral historian
The multimedia exhibition "Willie Ruff: In Jazz and in the World" is on display in the Gilmore Music Library corridor through March 15. The photographs, video clips, and documents on view celebrate the life and work of the university's first professor of jazz: former Music professor Willie Ruff '53, MFA '54, '18 HON.
Materials in the vitrines show Ruff in the company of his wide circle of collaboratorsand friends: legendary musicians Louis Armstrong, Eubie Blake, Benny Carter, Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Bessie Jones, Ethel Waters, and others. On the three video monitors, excerpts of Ruff's interviews with these renowned musicians alternate with audio and film clips of solo and group performances--including Bessie Smith's rendering of "Sink 'Em Low," a chain-gang work song she had heard prisoners sing in Dawson, Georgia, when she was growing up there.
The interviews
The exhibition also celebrates Willie Ruff as an oral historian. In the early 1970s, Ruff conducted interviews with jazz greats (including 19 interviews with Bessie Smith) as part of a project he was planning to contribute to the Rockefeller Foundation's project to document the musical history of the United States for the American Bicentennial. Ruff's plan was to turn these interviews into a long-playing recording. The recording was never made, but nine of Ruff's interviews from that project are now part of the Oral History of American Music (OHAM) at Yale Library and available on Archives at Yale.
An interview with Ruff himself, conducted by Brian Meacham, managing archivist of the Yale Film Archive, is also on view, along with Ruff's film, "Tony Williams in Africa," and an episode of "What's Happening," a Hartford television station series. The TV segment, also shown in its entirety in the exhibition, features performances by and interviews with Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, and other recipients of Yale's Duke Ellington Fellowship Medal.
The Duke Ellington Fellowship
In 1972, one year after joining Yale's Music faculty, Ruff brought more than 40 musicians to Woolsey Hall to launch a program he named the "Conservatory without Walls." Then fYale President Kingman Brewster and Yale School of Music Dean Philip Nelson supported Ruff in the effort.
Marian Anderson, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, and Mary Lou Williams were among the first artists and mentors in what became the Duke Ellington Fellowship program, named for the jazz legend. Yale University established an endowment fund for the fellowship to expand the study of African American music. In the program's 30 years, Duke Ellington Fellows introduced an estimated 180,000 New Haven public schoolchildren to African American musical traditions.
The lead curator of "Willie Ruff: In Jazz and in the World" is Music librarian Suzanne Eggleston Lovejoy, with assistance from Brendan Galvin, Daniella Posy, Eva Heater, Ruthann McTyre, Rebecca Tinker, and Eric Sonnenberg.
Read more (https://library.yale.edu/news/library-celebrates-willie-ruff-53-and-conservatory-without-walls) about Willie Ruff and the Conservatory without Walls.
Watch a Mondays at Beinecke conversation with curator Suzanne Lovejoy and Libby Van Cleve, director of OHAM.
View (https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/ruff/page/home) the online exhibition "A Riff on Ruff: Yale's Jazz Ambassador to the World."
Listen to audio clips of Bessie Smith telling Ruff about the chain-gang song "Sink 'Em Low" and read (https://onlineexhibits.library.yale.edu/s/ohamstruggles/page/bj1) the transcripts of the conversation.
Search for the two digitized films--"Tony Williams in Africa" and "What's Happening"--in the Yale Film Archive collection and read Meacham's accompanying film notes.
Read more about the Oral History of American Music (https://guides.library.yale.edu/oham/collectionsguide) collection.
Listen to the Willie Ruff interviews with jazz greats and listen to a Q&A with Ruff, Meacham, and Van Cleve at the Whitney Humanities Center in 2020 through the Aviary online streaming platform.
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Original text here: https://library.yale.edu/news/music-library-exhibition-celebrates-yales-first-professor-jazz-oral-historian
