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P-CCS creates art for charityP-CCS holds art event for charity.

Representatives from P-CCSa Student Leadership Council show their art.(Photo: Submitted by Taryn Reid)

Plymouth-Canton Community Schoolsa student leadership council partnered with Abrakadoodle of Wayne County on March 18 to prepare artwork with the intention of raising money for local homeless families.

When the student leadership council learned of the homelessness issue affecting students and families in their community, they chose to partner with Abrakadoodle, an education company whose programs inspire childrenas imaginations by immersing them in art to setup a creative service project for the school year to help bring attention and hope to these families.

Together, they planned a creative art experience that yielded finished canvases, which will be auctioned in May and donated to benefit St.

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By Hassan Khalifeh | Thursday, 03.24.2016, 11:08 PM

One hundred Arab American women fundraised $8,000 for cancer research.

TROY The Foundation for Women’s Cancer was awarded $8,000 to fund cancer research by The Center for Arab American Philanthropy (CAAP).

CAAP founder Maha Freij said the 100 Arab American Women Who Care’s third annual event provides an opportunity for a group to combine funds to support a cause and is a part of a larger goal to better communities through Arab American giving.

“When you deal with the Center for Arab American philanthropy, it provides Arab Americans, no matter who they are, with the tools that allow them to be strategic in their giving,” Freij said.

Most noteworthy, Freij said, is the diversity of the Arab American women who donated to the award.

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But researchers at the University of South Carolina want to reverse the long-term effects the disease has on some patients who have trouble communicating with others.

USC Professor Julius Fridriksson is taking on the challenge with the aid of an $11 million, five-year grant for stroke recovery research awarded by the National Institute of Health.

USC Professor Julius Fridriksson was awarded an $11 million grant to study aphasia and stroke recovery. Blood flow and brain activity related to stroke can be seen in the scans.

Stroke patients also will be able to undergo various speech, writing and behavioral therapies at the university’s rehabilitation centers to discover the best course of treatment for their aphasia.

The NIH grant will focus on four areas:

Measure the effects of treatment on chronic patients to see who responds well or poorly to therapy.
Assess those who have just had a stroke and use aphasia therapy and electrical brain stimulation to find the best ways to enhance patient outcomes in the days and weeks immediately following a stroke.
Study the brain and nervous system, as well as their effects on a person’s cognition and behavior, to build a statistical model of who is most likely to recover from aphasia and who is not.
Compare the influence of the brain and the nervous system on speech and language in normal people versus those recovering from stroke.

Undergraduate and graduate students from USC’s public health, psychology and exercise science departments will be able to participate in the study, Fridriksson said. Souvik Sen, professor and chairman of the Department of Neurology at USC’s medical school and medical director for the Palmetto Health Stroke Center.

“Palmetto Health is crucial because they get so many stroke patients,” Fridriksson said. That year, stroke caused more than 14,500 hospitalizations and more than 2,300 deaths sin the state, according to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.

Fridriksson said poor diets, smoking and other bad habits could be some of the causes of the increasing number of younger stroke patients he sees, identifying most of those as being in their 30s and 40s.

“Stroke rate has actually gone down a little bit amongst the older population,” he said, “but we have a very distinct moniker in South Carolina that half of all stroke patients here are under 60.”

Fridriksson’s study on stroke and aphasia will begin April 1. Souvik Sen, Johns Hopkins University, Julius Fridrikkson, McCausland Center for Brain Imaging, Medical University of South Carolina, National Institutes of Health, Palmetto Health Hospital, Palmetto Health Stroke Center, stroke, stroke recovery, the University of California Irvine, University of South Carolina

health board cuts 4 more positions – Toledo Blade health board cuts 4 more positions Department of Health and Human Services and was awarded health center status.

The board also eliminated three positions last month a physician and that individual’s team that will save about $200,000, and more job losses are likely in the months ahead, Mr. With the cuts so far, the health department should end the year with a zero balance.

The problem, however, is the department needs to end the year with a carry-over balance of $1.2 million, to meet expenses in the first quarter of 2017, he said.

The health board also hired Hans Schmalzried, a former board member, to lead the restructuring effort as a special assistant to health commissioner Dr.

He’ll work at the health department two afternoons a week, while continuing to teach part-time at BGSU and serving as the interim coordinator of the Allied Health program, a new online campus program.

The health department has received five applications for Mr. Schmalzried’s role will be to determine if the department should keep the deputy director position, Mr. health board cuts 4 more positions “; var description = “The Toledo-Lucas County Health Department is preparing to make deep cuts in personnel and operating expenses.

On Thursday, March 17, The Woman’s Club of Greenwich held their Annual Philanthropies Tea to distribute awards to local Greenwich organizations and local scholarships.

Every year, the members of The Woman’s Club of Greenwich volunteer much time and effort to fundraising in order to reach out and help our community.

The recipients of this year’s awards from The Woman’s Club of Greenwich are:

Greenwich Scholarship Association
River House Adult Day Center
Call-A-Ride
Greenwich Campership Program
Greenwich Symphony Young Peoples Concerts
Lions Low Vision Centers
Kids in Crisis
Neighbor to Neighbor

The recipients of this year’s awards from The Woman’s Club Gardeners’ are:

Greenwich Community Gardens (Armstrong Ct. and Bible St.)
Audubon Summer Campership Program
Greenwich Youth Conservation Project
Federated Garden Clubs of Connecticut Scholarship Program
The Putnam Cottage Herb Garden Maintenance

We are thankful for the hard work, support and contributions that enable the The Woman’s Club of Greenwich to give these generous gifts to our community.

Department of Education on Thursday released a report showing how colleges compare based on cost, graduation rate and post-graduation salary potential, among other data sets.

Along with the report, “Fulfilling the Promise, Serving the Need: Advancing College Opportunity for Low-Income Students,” is a website, collegescorecard.ed.gov, where information on colleges can be accessed.

The College Scorecard, presenting data for 4,193 schools, mainly focuses on four-year colleges and the number of low-income students using Pell Grant assistance to attend those schools. Johns County.

Flagler exceeded the national average for the three main criteria with an average annual cost of $21,011, a graduation rate of 64 percent and an average salary after attending of $37,200.

Sixty-seven percent of students return to Flagler after their freshman year, on par with the national average.

College Scorecard indicated 61 percent of Flagler students receive federal loans to help pay for college. The average monthly student loan payment for borrowers completing college, if the loans were repaid over 10 years at a 6 percent interest rate, is $262.

Eighty-eight percent of Flagler students have repaid at least $1 of the principal balance on their federal loans within three years of leaving school, well above the national average of 66 percent.

Just above 60 percent of students attending Flagler earn, on average, more than those with only a high school diploma.

College Scoreboard defines threshold earnings as the share of former students earning more than $25,000, or about the average earnings of a high school graduate aged 25-34, six years after first enrolling.

According to Flagler’s website, 90 percent of its students receive financial aid of some kind.

Flagler ranked sixth in U.S. The average monthly student payment for borrowers completing college, if the loans were repaid over 10 years at a 6 percent interest rate, is $144.

Sixty percent of SJR State students have repaid at least $1 of the principal balance on their federal loans within three years of leaving school.

Just under 50 percent of students attending SJR State earn, on average, more than those with only a high school diploma.

The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program recently named St. Counting them as a successful repayment can make the student loan situation seem better than it is in reality.”

The center’s report, “Scoring the College Scoreboard: What’s Good and What Needs Improvement,” acknowledged the new tool’s merit as “almost certainly the largest release ever of higher education data.”

The Education Department defended its calculations in a data documentation report accompanying the College Scoreboard.

“The College Scorecard project is designed to increase transparency, putting the power in the hands of students and families to compare colleges and see how well schools are preparing their students to be successful,” the department said.

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The grants highlight PPG’s commitment to supporting its local communities and the foundation’s top priority of increasing educational opportunities for youth, particularly in the areas of math and technology.

The recent grants included:

Carnegie Science Center $221,800 in total for educational outreach, support of the STEM center, SciTech Days programming and field trips for underrepresented minority students;Carnegie Mellon University $88,000 in total for a chemical engineering graduate student fellowship, an American Chemical Society Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, and the Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Association;Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh $32,000 in support of color programming;The Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences (PGSS) $15,000 to support science-focused summer opportunity at Carnegie Mellon University for Pennsylvania high school students;Reading Is FUNdamental Pittsburgh $10,000 for the Books for Keeps Math Program;Extra Mile Education Foundation $8,000 in educational support;Pirates Charities $5,000 for Pittsburgh Pirates Education Days;National Museum of Education in Partnership for America’s Future $3,850 to give 42 schools districts in Allegheny County access to the latest SCIENCE SCREEN REPORT (SSR) educational video series; andAmerican Chemical Society $1,500 to support National Chemistry Week.

“PPG and its foundation remain committed to giving back to the communities in which we operate,” said Sue Sloan, executive director of the PPG Foundation. These initiatives encourage students to explore the world around them particularly in the areas of technology, engineering and math and provide engaging learning experiences that will influence the future success of the participants and of advanced manufacturing.”

The Foundation also donated a combined $10,600 to the Oak Creek Franklin Joint School District in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to support a robotics competition team and the purchase of 3D printing equipment. The two grants were made on behalf of PPG’s local industrial coatings facility.

A PPG Foundation grant for $8,500 is supporting a new FIRST Robotics Competition team at the high school.