Relay for Life raises more than $76,000

From left, Quinnipiac University students Caitlin Ziegler, Christine Porzio, Katie Winkle, Becky Kleiman and Keith Yatauro, were all co-chairs of this year’s Relay for Life at Quinnipiac.

Quinnipiac University raised more than $76,000 during its Relay for Life, an organized community fundraising walk to raise money for the American Cancer Society, on April 19-20 at the TD Bank Sports Center.

The top three fundraising teams from Quinnipiac each raised more than $1,000 each; the first place team, Kate’s Krew, raised $3,233. More than 120 teams and 936 participants attended the event. Kate’s Krew was formed in support of Orange resident and Quinnipiac student Katie Winkle, a leukemia survivor. Winkle, a sophomore in the School of Nursing, was diagnosed with cancer in 2006 and was treated with six rounds of chemotherapy. Now in remission, Winkle served as event co-chair and has participated in multiple relay events.

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Founding Dean Dr. Bruce M. Koeppen testifies before U.S. Senate subcommittee

Dr. Bruce M. Koeppen, founding dean of the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, will testify before a subcommittee hearing on Successful Primary Care Programs: Creating the Workforce We Need on Tuesday, April 23 at 10 a.m. in Room SD-430 at the Dirksen Building, Constitution Avenue and 1st Street, NE, Washington, DC.

Dr. Koeppen was invited by Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders and Ranking Member Richard Burr to testify about the new medical school, which admits its first class this fall and was created with the mission to train primary care physicians, foster collaborative, team-based care and serve as a national model of interprofessional health professions education.  Dr. Koeppen will discuss the growing shortage of primary care physicians and efforts to restructure the health care system to provide high quality, cost-effective and patient-centered care to successfully create the primary care workforce this country so desperately needs.

Dr. Koeppen’s testimony will address reasons for the primary care physician shortage and its extent; his efforts to change the traditional care model where physicians are viewed as the captain of the ship to something akin to a NASCAR pit crew, where highly efficient and effective teams, comprised of individuals with unique knowledge and expertise are all focused on a single goal-the patient; changes in the new medical school’s curriculum; programs such as the Teaching Health Center program in the Affordable Care Act, which allows Community Health Centers to establish residency programs to train physicians; and how an expansion of federally funded residence positions could encourage more people to enter primary care.

View a full copy of Dr. Koeppen’ s testimony.

View a live stream of the senate subcommittee hearing.

To interview Dr. Koeppen, email John Morgan at john.morgan@quinnipiac.edu or call 203-206-4449.

Navy petty officer uses graduate program to help serve America

Xander Gamble’s work space is an old Soviet-era building with exposed wiring, a very slow Internet connection, tiny AC units and a hodge-podge of wood and metal desks – all of which is covered in a stubborn layer of thick dust. From this modest office, Gamble creates sophisticated communication pieces for military members. He’s also a part-time graduate student in Quinnipiac University‘s master of science in interactive media program.

As the news director for the American Forces Network (AFN), Afghanistan’s Bagram media station, Navy Petty Officer Gamble needed a program that was flexible as well as offered the latest in cutting-edge information, research and industry best practices to advance his career, which led him to Quinnipiac University Online. Shortly after beginning the program, Gamble was promoted to Mass Communication Specialist First Class Petty Officer.

“I feel that the Quinnipiac staff and faculty are some of the best that I have worked with,” said Gamble. “The professors have been understanding [during my deployment] without degrading the integrity of the program.”

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Garvey Young’s sports site takes first prize in business plan competition

 

 

Dean O’Connor, right, presents Garvey Young with first place for “Draftspot,” a web-based business for high school athletes and college recruiters.

Garvey Young will graduate this spring with a MBA from Quinnipiac University, and among the things he’ll be taking with him when he moves back to Washington, D.C. is a very promising business.

Young, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in marketing in 2012, won the $5,000 first prize in the Quinnipiac University School of Business‘ Business Plan Competition on April 12. He has been working since last spring on Draftspot, which he describes as “a social branding platform that introduces athletes and coaches through digital media.”

Young plans to start Draftspot, now in a pre-launch phase, next year, but before that happens he’s got a busy summer ahead, including volunteering as a teacher in Ghana and playing in Europe for the FIBA International Basketball Federation. Young played basketball for two years at the University of Vermont, and then became a big scorer the last two seasons with the Quinnipiac Bobcats.

Young, who plans to raise $100,000 to start the business, believes he will benefit from the first-mover advantage and make Draftspot profitable within three years. He credits Quinnipiac with getting him ready to switch from scholar-athlete to entrepreneur. “It’s great preparation and an intense curriculum,” he said. “I’m definitely prepared.”

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Symposium on ‘A Resurgent China in the 21st Century’ on April 18

Jonathan Spence, a renowned scholar on China and the Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University, will deliver the keynote address at “A Resurgent China in the 21st Century,” a daylong symposium that will take place on Thursday, April 18, in the Mancheski Executive Seminar Room at Quinnipiac University.

The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will run from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The International Business Department in the School of Business and the Albert Schweitzer Institute, are co-sponsors of the event. Registration is required. Please contact Professor Mohammad Elahee at mohammad.elahee@quinnipiac.edu.

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