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Early Acceptance Medical Programs vs Early Assurance Programs

July 2nd, 2011

I have had several recent conversations with students about the difference between early acceptance medical programs and early assurance programs.

Part of the problem is that there is no consistent terminology used with these programs. In general terms, however, early acceptance medical programs are what I refer to as BS/MD programs. These are the programs where high school students apply to college and medical school at the same time.

Early assurance medical programs, on the other hand, are those programs where college students, typically during the sophomore year, apply for admission to medical school.

Early assurance programs are generally not much different than applying to medical school through the traditional approach. These programs typically take the full 8 years to complete and virtually all require that students take the MCAT. Moreover, students dont get the advanced contact with the medical school that BS/MD candidates do.

Early assurance programs arent bad.

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Green Religion

July 1st, 2011

Within the past 25 years, a new type of social movement has emerged in American culture: religious environmental groups. Their members apply religious texts and beliefs to environmental causes, raising environmental concern and benefiting sustainable practices. However, despite how diverse and numerous these groups have become, sociologists have yet to study them in detail.

William Rusche ’13, Andrea Wrobel ’13 and Associate Professor of Sociology Stephen Ellingson will pioneer research on this topic for their project, “The Making of Green Religion: Embeddedness, Strategic Choice and the Development of a News Social Movement Field.” The project is funded by a Summer 2011 Levitt Research Group Grant.

Religious environmental groups are a relatively new development in American culture, and these groups are largely unexplored in sociology. Wrobel and Rusche will aim to explain how these groups function and why they emerged at all. They re

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Quinnipiac starts nursing school

July 1st, 2011

Quinnipiac University has appointed a founding dean for the nursing school it will open on July 1.

Jean Lange, of Woodbridge, will help guide the transition of Quinnipiac’s nursing program into a school on the North Haven campus.

For the past 13 years, Lange has been a professor of nursing in Fairfield University’s School of Nursing, where she also served as director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program. Lange has also been a part-time faculty member at Yale University’s School of Nursing and an adjunct professor in Quinnipiac’s nursing program.

Quinnipiac’s two-year nurse practitioner master’s level program will transition to a three-year clinical doctorate program in the fall.

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Coach Interview – Tom Bainter – Bothell High School

July 1st, 2011

High School Cover 2 has been following the accomplishments of the Bothell High School football program and, when head coach Tom Bainter agreed to speak with us, we jumped at the chance to learn why his team has had so much success It didn’t take us long to understand why Coach Bainter spoke about Bothell with passion and, as he described his coaching philosophy to us, we felt the years melt away and were ready to strap on the pads and hit the field to play for him This is a guy who is doing it for all the right reasons As he told us, he likes to think outside the box But, everything he does, he does for his players As Jim says in his article that preceded this one, “He’s a heck of a coach, and an even better man”

In the interview below, we hope that you can feel some of the passion and love for the game that we felt sitting there in his classroom listening to Coach Bainter wax poetically about Bothell and his football program As Coach Bainter riffed on and on about his theories for getting the school and community behind the football team and what he does to get everyone involved, it became abundantly clear why Bothell wins football games and continues to do so year after year

We started off the interview by asking him where he played his collegiate football Coach Bainter: I went to Western I was the first Bainter to graduate from college and I went to college because Western had an interest in me playing football

Where did you play your high school football?

Coach Bainter: I played at Evergreen High School Evergreen closed in 2007

How old were you when you began playing football?

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