Excellent Prognosis for Texas Nursing Program

This in from the Star-Telegram.com in Texas...

The nursing program at the University of Texas at Arlington has wrapped up a national reputation as a center of educational excellence.  Most recently, the School of Nursing just purchased a new buildidng which will be turned into a "Smart Hospital" where students will be able to use high-tech simulators and gain hands-on experience on mannequin patients with symptoms that mimic a wide range of illnesses.  Because few schools in the nation have access to this technology, the School of Nursing at U of T provides students with invaluable insight that, for many others, only comes after years of on-the-job training.

Offering this program comes with other benefits for the school and the University as well - such as the $745,000 grant to the School of Nursing for a study of acute-care pediatric nursing practices, and a $728,000 grant for emergency nursing. 

Laerdal Medical Corporation provided some of the simulator manniquins for the Smart Hospital, and has designated UTA's nursing school as on of only six Laerdal Centers of Excellence Worldwide.

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Education Initiative Moves forward/Black Community Applauds Master Program and Tuition Help in Canada

This just in:  According to Rick Conrad, the education reporter for the Chronical Herald.ca, located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Africentric Learning Institute is moving forward with their long-awaited plans when they announced a master's degree program.  In addition, young black students will get a little more help paying for rising univiserity tuition costs.

Way back in 1994, in the Black Learner's Advisory Committee Report on Education, recommended the creation of a stand-alone institute to develop curriculum and conduct ongoing research on issues affecting black students.

In an announcement made on Tuesday, the Education Department, Mount Saint Vincent University and the Council on African-Canadian Education unveiled a master of education degree in lifelong learning with a focus on Africentric leadership that will begin in September.

The two-year pilot program will enrol 20 part-time students who will study three core courses in lifelong learning, do a practicum and a project as well as elective courses concentrating on Africentric learning, said Jim Sharpe, the Mount’s dean of the faculty of education.

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Computer learns to play poker - and wins!

I just read an interesting article 9n the Pittsburg PA "Post-gazette.com Business News".  It seems that there is an IBM "super-computer" in the School of Computer Science Data Center that has not only beaten other computer programs playing games of "Texas Hold 'em", but it's also forced some expert human players to fold their hands!

Carnegie Mellon University Professor Tuomas Sandholm and Andrew Gilpin, a CMU doctoral student in computer science have been working on this program for the last 2 1/2 years.  Their latest program called "GS1" plays the more complex game of seven-card Texas Hold 'em, and their paper was published last summer for the National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in Boston.

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