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Genflow Biosciences PLC (LSE:GENF, OTCQB:GENFF) CEO Dr Eric Leire talked with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the company's significant progress toward securing European patents for its SIRT6 variant, marking a major milestone. The patent, which mirrors an earlier US patent, covers the composition of matter for the SIRT6 gene variant, a discovery made alongside the University of Colombia, Rochester University, and the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. Leire explained that the SIRT6 variant was identified through research on a unique population of Jewish Ashkenazi centenarians, showing a mutation that boosts SIRT6 activity. Highlighting the gene's role in managing DNA damage and epigenomic changes, he noted, "We are in a safer position because we secure one of the very important competitive advantages over other longevity companies." Genflow plans to apply this SIRT6 gene variant to age-related conditions such as Non-Alcoholic Steato Hepatitis (NASH), sarcopenia, and glaucoma, utilising gene therapy tools to precisely target affected areas. Beyond human applications, Leire mentioned an upcoming dog study focused on life extension and nerve cell preservation in ageing dogs, with an announcement expected soon. As Genflow enters the national phase of patent preparation, Leire emphasised the process is largely bureaucratic with minimal risk. Stay tuned for updates as the company continues to advance its innovative longevity research. For more insightful interviews and updates, visit Proactive's YouTube channel! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and enable notifications for future content. #GenflowBiosciences #SIRT6 #LongevityResearch #DrEricLeire #BiotechNews #EuropeanPatent #GeneTherapy #Healthspan #AgingResearch #ProactiveInterviews

WE APPRECIATE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU! If you wouldn't mind please go leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Thanks!! Welcome back to Episode 345 of On the Spot Sports and in today's episode we have a very special guest, retired Rochester University hockey goaltender, now coach, Anthony Carlier! Anthony and I talk about growing up outside in Michigan while playing youth hockey in Michigan. We also talk about his post hockey career journey through coaching, developing the next generation of hockey players at Rochester University, then we talk about his playing career through juniors, college hockey at Rochester University, trying to get into the pro hockey ranks before officially retiring and so much more! We hope you guys enjoy this episode!! Thank you Anthony for coming on the show! I had a blast!! Follow us on Instagram @on_the_spot_sports and take a listen on YouTube, Spotify and Apple/Google Podcasts @ On The Spot Sports Get $25 off our guy Jamie Phillips Nutrition book for Hockey Players with the discount code "ONTHESPOT" on victoremnutrition.com Living Sisu link: ⁠⁠https://livingsisu.com/app/devenirmem.... BECOME A MEMBER TODAY

The highly pathogenic strain of bird flu, H5N1, has arrived on the continent. Australian bird specialist Megan Dewar, from the Federation University of Australia, has led a mission aboard the research ship the Australis. Science in Action remembers physicist Peter Higgs 60 years after his Nobel prize winning theory of the Higgs particle. The unfolding scandal of manipulated data behind claims of incredible room-temperature superconductivity. Science writer Dan Garisto has seen the details in a Rochester University internal investigation. And the alga – single-celled seaweed – with superpowers. As well as capturing carbon from CO2 in the atmosphere, like other plants, this one can directly capture nitrogen too, essential for life, but which few organisms can do for themselves. We hear from the marine scientist who has revealed this evolutionary trick. Presenter: Roland Pease Producer: Jonathan Blackwell Production Coordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth (Image: KAPPA-FLU team selecting skua carcasses for post-mortem examination. Credit: Ben Wallis)

Join us in this enlightening episode of Discipleship Conversations as we delve into the realm of vocational formation with Dr. Chris Cobbler, a seasoned missional theologian and the newly appointed executive director of the Center for Vocational Formation at ACU Dallas online. Dr. Cobbler brings a wealth of experience and passion to the table as he shares his vision for helping individuals recognize their vocations as integral parts of God's mission. Drawing from his extensive background in theology and practical ministry, Chris unveils the significance of vocational formation in today's rapidly evolving world. Get ready to be inspired, challenged, and equipped to embrace your unique calling in God's grand narrative of redemption and restoration. Dr. Christopher Cobbler was born in Windsor, Ontario Canada, and currently resides in Michigan with his wife and three children. He and his wife, Kahra, have been immersed in many faith traditions; he values the intersectional aspects of his journey and passionately desires to see communities in the church and academy become a sign, instrument and foretaste of the kingdom of God. Chris graduated from Alberta Bible College, Rochester University and most recently with a Doctoral Degree from Lipscomb University. He is the Dean of Vocational Formation and the Director of the Center for Vocational Formation at Abilene Christian University, Dallas. Thanks for listening. We invite you to subscribe and rate the podcast through your favorite podcast app. We'd love to hear from you. Send your comments and questions to media@missionalive.org. Learn more about the podcast and other Mission Alive media resources at www.missionalive.org/media. Intro and outro music is by audionautix.com. Mission Alive works to bring about the holistic transformation of marginalized communities through starting and renewing innovative churches that address the most challenging issues faced by their neighbors. Learn more about what we do and how to connect at www.missionalive.org.

What are my spiritual gifts and how do I unlock them? What does the Bible say about the various spiritual gifts? How do I partner with the Holy Spirit? How do I bless the church with my gifts? How does trauma interfere with my understanding or use of my gift? In this conversation we bring our series to a close as Tim Sherrill joins to discuss how to use the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Many people do not know what their gifts are or how to use them. One thing is certain, we are made to function using God's Spirit. Tim has conducted Spiritual Gift classes for our local congregation as well as others. His approach to helping people find their spiritual gifts is based in scripture as well as experience. Tim and Wendy Sherrill were high school sweethearts and were married in 1979. Over the last 39 years, the Sherrills have led in varying capacities in churches in Detroit, MI; Phila, PA; Seattle, WA; Fort Wayne, IN; and Omaha, NE. They and their family have helped churches across the Midwest grow and be healthy. Today, Tim and Wendy lead the Omaha Church and live to seek and save the lost. When they are not doing that you will probably find them watching classic movies. They have three disciple kids, two in Texas and one in Minnesota and four grandkids, a daughter-in-law and a son-in-law. Prior to being on staff in churches before 2008, Tim worked for Progressive Insurance for 23 years moving around to various locations and management opportunities, including working with industry associations and political affairs assignments. Wendy has worked professionally in real estate and many volunteer jobs at schools. Tim holds a B.S. degree in Health Administration from Eastern Michigan University (1983) and a Masters in Religious Education in MIssional Leadership from Rochester University in Rochester, Michigan (2019).

Maureen Monte (@maureenemonte) builds winning teams that unite, overcome obstacles, and achieve big goals. She has a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and an M.S. in Leadership and Business Ethics, and is a Gallup-certified StrengthsFinder subject matter expert. She provided leadership development training for executives as an adjunct professor at Cornell and delivers leadership training to the University of Michigan's Center for Entrepreneurship, and Rochester University's MS in Sports Leadership. A former captain and MVP of her high school basketball team, Maureen has 30 years of corporate experience, was Engineer of the Year for IBM, has launched two companies, provided consulting services to 20,000 professionals on global teams, and worked with over 2,000 athletes and coaches, including multiple national and Olympic teams. Maureen brings a “Moneyball” approach to the inside game of high performance. Every person has an internal motor that fuels their external greatness. Using the StrengthsFinder to measure and harness that motor offers a competitive advantage to leaders and teams. Maureen published Destination Unstoppable: The Journey of No Teammate Left Behind in 2016. It describes her process of helping a high school hockey team go from struggling to State Champs – in six weeks. Her second book, Win Like a Girl: Coaching Female Athletes to Become Confident at the Game of Life, featuring her playbook for solving the confidence crisis in women's sports, was published in 2023. Contact: Maureen@MaureenMonte.com Website: MaureenMonte.com Link to purchase book: https://maureenmonte.com/win-like-a-girl/ Social: https://www.facebook.com/WinLikeAGirlBook LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maureenmonte/ PUT IN YOUR BULK BOOK ORDERS SOON TO GET THEM BY THE HOLIDAYS!: Programs such as UNC soccer and lacrosse, Syracuse lacrosse, Stanford Lacrosse, Middlebury College, Colby College, Rutgers University, and many other champions are using THE CHAMPION TEAMMATE book with their athletes. Schools and clubs are using EVERY MOMENT MATTERS for staff development and book clubs. Are you?  We have been fulfilling numerous bulk orders for some of the top high school and collegiate sports programs in the country, will your team be next?  Please click here and grab yourself a copy of The Champion Teammate today.   Please email John@ChangingTheGameProject.com if you want discounted pricing on 10 or more books on any of our books. Thanks everyone. This week's podcast is brought to you by our friends at Sprocket Sports.  Sprocket Sports is a new software platform for youth sports clubs.  There are a lot of these systems out there, but Sprocket provides the full enchilada. They give you all the cool front-end stuff to make your club look good– like websites and marketing tools – AND all the back-end transactions and services to run your business better so you can focus on what really matters – your players and your teams.  Sprocket is built for those clubs looking to thrive, not just survive, in the competitive world of youth sports clubs.  So if you've been looking for a true business partner – not just another app – check them out today at https://sprocketsports.me/CTG. Become a Podcast Champion! This weeks podcast is also sponsored by our Patreon Podcast Champions. Help Support the Podcast and get FREE access to our most popular online courses, a $300 value. If you love the podcast, we would love for you to become a Podcast Champion, (https://www.patreon.com/wayofchampions) for as little as a cup of coffee per month (OK, its a Venti Mocha), to help us up the ante and provide even better interviews, better sound, and an overall enhanced experience. Plus, as a $10 per month Podcast Super-Champion, you will have access to never before released and bonus material, including: Downloadable transcripts of our best podcasts, so you don't have to crash your car trying to take notes! A code to get free access to our online course called “Coaching Mastery,” usually a $97 course, plus four other courses worth over $100, all yours for free for becoming a patron. Other special bonus opportunities that come up time to time Access to an online community of coaches like you who are dedicated listeners of the podcast, and will be able to answer your questions and share their coaching experiences.

Maureen brings a "Moneyball" meets "Ted Lasso" approach to high-performing teams, including 2,000 athletes and coaches. She uses the Clifton StrengthsFinder to measure talent that helps leaders and teams reach their full potential.  Her latest book, "Win Like a Girl: Coaching Female Athletes to Become Confident at the Game of Life" provides sorely needed bravery training that takes women from the locker room to the corporate board room. Maureen has a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and an M.S. in Leadership and Business Ethics, and is a Gallup-certified StrengthsFinder subject matter expert She provided leadership development training for executives as an adjunct professor at Cornell and is part of the University of Michigan's Center for Entrepreneurship and Rochester University's Masters in Sports Leadership. What you'll learn in this episode >>  The importance and significance of:  Understanding your strengths and weaknesses to facilitate meaningful conversations Asking questions and sparking dialogue to encourage learning Focusing on individuals' strengths rather than just statistics and world rankings Choosing conversation and action over silence and inaction Reshaping the concept of winning to prioritize personal and team growth Cultivating a team culture with clear boundaries Being intentional in training, playing hard, and being a great teammate Acknowledging each player's unique strengths and traits, and valuing their contribution to the team Accountability, addressing mistakes, and measuring the ripple effect of positive actions Additional Resources: Maureen's LinkedIn Maureen's  Facebook  Maureen's Twitter  Get the book Win Like a Girl  Maureen's Website: https://maureenmonte.com/  Check out Maureen's interview with Jacey Lees, a high school pitcher about how Win Like a Girl helped her improve her confidence and leadership skills: https://youtu.be/x7jsB6R1QLw

Each day between two and three thousand people arrive in Santiago, Spain as pilgrims. This past summer, Kevin and Shelly Huddleston were two among that number on July 13 as they along with a small group of friends completed a 14-day walk on the Camino de Santiago. In this episode, we talk the two of them about their pilgrimage experience—about how they were formed by daily prayer, an expanding understanding of community, and the expected and surprising presence of God. Kevin & Shelly Huddleston have been in ministry together for over 35 years. They spent 30 years in congregational ministry and now Kevin is the Director of Ministries for Arms of Hope, a Christian care organization that cares for children and single moms with families. He has a Bachelors degree from Abilene Christian University, a Masters degree in Missional Leadership from Rochester University and a Doctorate in Spiritual Formation from Lipscomb University. His doctoral emphasis is on Sabbath and the Mission of God. Shelly is an assistant superintendent with the San Angelo Independent School District where she has worked for the past 28 years and holds a Bachelors in Communication from ACU and a Masters in Education from Angelo State. Both Kevin and Shelly are certified Spiritual Directors. Best of all, they have a few awesome pairs in their lives: 2 daughters, 2 sons-in-law, 2 grandsons and 2 rescue schnauzers that rule the house. They are excited to share their passion for families and the love of Jesus. You can reach them via Facebook or by email: kevinhuddleston@me.com and huddlestonshelly500@gmail.com.

In this week's episode, David is joined by Adam Frank. Adam is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rochester University, author of popular science books such as "The Little Book of Aliens" and "Light of the Stars", as well as a regular CNN contributor. To support this podcast and our research lab, head to www.coolworldslab.com/support You can watch to the video recording of this podcast over at https://youtu.be/VM8n7HANYpM Cool Worlds Podcast Theme by Hill [https://open.spotify.com/artist/1hdkvBtRdOW4SPsnxCXOjK]

“When we say that God is up to something in our neighborhood, that's no just abstract or theoretical. That's a broad way of describing very specific stories that are just waiting to be heard.” Wondering what those stories could be, Wayne Beason decided to ask. What he stumbled on something surprising. While many churches see themselves as God's way of working in the neighborhood, Wayne discovered that God was already at work in their neighborhood sending neighbors to bring his church something they were missing out on. In this episode we talk with Wayne about listening to the stories of the people in the Dearborn Heights neighborhood and how his church is finding their future in those conversation.   Wayne Beason is the preaching minister at Parkside Church of Christ in Dearborn Heights, MI. He recently earned his Doctor of Ministry from Lipscomb University, and is also an alumnus of Rochester University, where he occasionally teaches ministry courses. Wayne lives in Dearborn with his wife Stephanie and their newly 1-year-old son Isaiah, who recently took his first steps. If you want to connect with Wayne, you can find his contact info here. Be sure to check out his Doctor of Ministry project, “God Our Neighbor: Discerning Our Calling By Discovering God's Life In Our Neighborhood.”

So much of our modern life is built upon simplifying the complex. We reduce social interactions to likes and follows on social media and dilute the “news” in our favorite echo chambers. But Azar Nafisi warns that life is not simple, and the complexity found in great literature is ultimately liberating of the mind and essential to the health of our democracy. Nafisi is a best-selling author and professor. She was a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., from 1997 and 2017. She taught as professor of aesthetics, culture and literature there, as well as acting as Director of The Dialogue Project & Cultural Conversations. She released her nationally best-selling book “Reading Lolita in Tehran” in 2003, which went on the spend over 117 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. The book has been translated in 32 languages and won many awards such as the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Frederic W. Ness Book Award, Non-fiction Book of the Year Award by Booksense, the Latifeh Yarsheter Book Award, an achievement award from the American Immigration Law foundation and the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle. It has also been a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Memoir. Nafisi won a Persian Golden Lioness Award for literature in 2005, presented by the World Academy of Arts, Literature and Media. The Times named Reading Lolita in Tehran one of the “100 Best Books of the Decade,” in 2009. She has worked with both policy makers and human rights organizations to improve human rights for the women and girls of Iran. She was awarded the Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation International Thought and Humanities Award in 2011 and was named a Georgetown University/Walsh School of Foreign Service Centennial Fellow in 2018. She has been awarded honorary doctorates from Susquehanna University (2019), Pomona College (2015), Mt. Holyoke College (2012), Seton Hill University (2010), Goucher College (2009), Bard College (2007), Rochester University (2005) and Nazareth College.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gerrit Bruhaug, based out of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics at Rochester University, joins Decouple to talk about the significance of the recent ignition event at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories.

You may or may not know this...I teach as adjunct faculty for Rochester University. I LOVE teaching and sharing my knowledge with students!This week I invited Rebekah Pinchback, the Director of the School of Business at Rochester University, to join me. I loved hearing her perspective on why they rolled out a digital marketing degree program.We also discuss internships and how they can benefit both the student AND your company! You can bring on an intern, no matter the size of your company.I will give you two hints about our discussion:Traditional marketing still plays a significant role in digital marketing.Rebekah can help you create your intern program!Click here to access the transcript and follow alongResources:Looking to get in contact with Rebekah? Click here!Learn more about Rochester UniversityPrioritizing your schedule and other business mistakesAre you a small business owner ready to strengthen your email marketing? Click here to learn your list-building style!Five hacks to make content creation easier Looking to save time or get more information from AI?If you're just starting out with AI or looking to enhance your outputs, my book 'Mastering AI in Communications' is your essential guide. Whether you're a beginner or ready to take your skills to the next level, grab your free electronic copy or purchase it on Amazon right here!Amazon: https://a.co/d/bhblVcGFree e-version: https://courses.kendracorman.com/aibookDon't miss this opportunity to transform your approach and make AI your most powerful tool yet in saving time and improving efficiency!

Dean Gutic, Tobiah Zboray, and Alex Tchiprout breakdown discuss and analyze the Ithaca Bombers' 31-7 Victory over Hobart. They also preview the Bombers' Saturday matchup against Rochester University.

Calvin Moore, Kent Straith, and Steve Phelps continue their conversation with Professor Saeed Khan, discussing the Islamic belief system and worldview. Professor Khan serves in the Department of History and is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near East & Asian Studies at Wayne State University-Detroit, Michigan, where he teaches Islamic and Middle East History, Islamic Civilizations and History of Islamic Political Thought. Professor Khan is also a Research Fellow at Wayne State University's Center for the Study of Citizenship. He is also Adjunct Professor at Rochester University, co-teaching a course on Muslim-Christian Diversity. What is the Islamic view of sociology?  What is Sharia?   What about global Islam?  Is jihad important to Islam and what does it look like?  What continues to draw you to Islam?  Have you ever doubted your faith and what did you do with that doubt?  What is the future of Islam?  Email us at contact@theprogressivechristianreview.com

Calvin Moore, Kent Straith, and Steve Phelps sit down with Professor Saeed Khan to discuss the Islamic belief system and worldview. Professor Khan serves in the Department of History and is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near East & Asian Studies at Wayne State University-Detroit, Michigan, where he teaches Islamic and Middle East History, Islamic Civilizations and History of Islamic Political Thought. Professor Khan is also a Research Fellow at Wayne State University's Center for the Study of Citizenship. He is also Adjunct Professor at Rochester University, co-teaching a course on Muslim-Christian Diversity. Growing up Muslim  What is Islam? How does Islam differ from Christianity?  What is the Islamic view of philosophy & theology?   Email us at contact@theprogressivechristianreview.com

In today's episode, I speak to Brady Kirkpatrick. Brady joined the Florida Atlantic University staff as pitching coach in September of 2021. Brady comes to FAU most recently having coached at Harvard University for the past three years. Prior to Harvard, he coached for two seasons at Monmouth University. Before that, he was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Rochester University, and coached two summers with the Mountain West College Summer League as well. Brady's playing career began at the University of Maryland, for three seasons. He finished his college career at the University of San Diego, and began coaching there as well, in the fall of 2015 as a volunteer assistant.In this episode, he talks about the landscape in the summertime as a Division I baseball coach.He says that players need confidence to improve, and that confidence comes with preparation and organization.He shares what he does every day when it comes to recruiting. He talks about structure and the mechanical side of things.In this episode, we'll take a look at why command is important for younger pitchers.SHOW NOTES:[2:28] What's the landscape in the summertime for a division one college coach?[4:03] How do you identify players you want to look at in the transfer portal?[5:38] Is there a red flag when you see someone in the transfer portal?[7:07] You guys had a prospect camp where you can actually work with the players when is that and I didn't know you're allowed to work with players at your camps?[9:21] What's something that you see as a flaw from a lot of young pitchers that they don't necessarily work on enough for?[11:10] What are some ways that you've been able to help pitchers improve their command?[13:07] How many times when a player comes in as a recruit as a freshman there's mechanical work that you feel needs to be improved?[15:12] Is it too young still at the college level to get kids to focus on meditating and the mental game?[18:13] Do you want all your guys throwing sliders?[20:34] Do you call the pitches during the game?[22:57] Was this the first year that they used the earpiece or did you guys have that last year too?[24:25] Can you review all games now?[26:00] Are you a fan of the automated strike zone?[27:28] What's something that you learned as a pitcher that has helped you as coach coaching pitchers?[28:43] What's a way that you help players kind of understand and grasp what you want them to do on the field?[30:37] Do you have your guys write down so they can remember what it feels like when they do it right and then when they do it wrong?[31:44] Do you utilize personality tests at all when and trying to understand how your players learn and think?[34:05] Jump steal - Are you guys doing that in college?[35:50] Do you think they are going to change the ball next year?[38:56] When you're out watching pitchers, How much of it is them just looking the part of being projectable?[40:47] How important is body type to you when identifying pitchers?[42:52] Is there a certain amount of time on average you watch a kid before you're like okay I'm in let's make him an offer?FOLLOW BRADY:TWITTER:@FAUBaseball@FAUcoachBKhttps://patrickjonesbaseball.com/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If Common Grounds Unity and this podcast is a blessing to you, then please consider donating at www.commongroundsunity.org/donate. You will be helping us train and raise up next-generation peacemakers to lead this ministry. This week Tina and Kevin are back with Rubel Shelly for part two of their conversation about “I just want to be a Christian” which Rubel published in 1984. the book was life and faith changing to so many then, and yet, the book applies today as much as it did then. Rubel has served in vocational ministry, served as a professor and President of Rochester University, and has written extensively. Two recent books are "Divorce & Remarriage: A Redemptive Theology," and "I Knew Jesus before He Was a Christian . . . and I Liked Him Better Then." Please see the "Some Practices to Consider. . . for the sake of “making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” from Rubel Shelly. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VvLfjaTzbBukMWdIor35d0kYzRdfhoyQ/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=114006317763549409001&rtpof=true&sd=true Thank you for listening to "Season Two" of the Common Grounds Unity podcast. This series is titled "A Time to Tear Down and a Time to Build" taken from Ecclesiastes 3:3. Today many are using the word deconstruction. Certainly, Ecclesiastes. 3:3 teaches there is a time to tear down and a time to build. When building there is need to do some demolition, and yet, deconstruction without rebuilding produces nothing of value. It is important to have balance in all things. In this series we will discuss some of the things that need to reconsider within the church, and then envision ways that we can together build a brighter future for the Lord's church in our day and time. Please check out commongroundsunity.org to learn more about who we are. You can find links on the about page where you can subscribe to the essays, join our Facebook group, or find our YouTube Channel. Please consider donating to this ministry of reconciliation - we need your help. Your donation is tax-deductible. Donate on our website at www.commongroundsunity.org/donate . Check out the gatherings page at where you can connect with other unity-minded Christians in your area. If you cannot find a gathering in your area, we can help you start one. It's not difficult or time-consuming and we will help you out along the way. It really does, simply, start with a cup of coffee. If you want to volunteer or ask questions, please email John at john@commongroundsunity.org. Until next time, God bless, and remember “Unity Starts With A Cup of Coffee.” The Common Grounds Unity theme music for our intro and exit is Bobo Renthlei "Needles and Pins."

This week Tina and Kevin host Rubel Shelly and they are discussing concepts pertaining to “I just want to be a Christian” which Rubel published in 1984. the book was life and faith changing to so many then, and yet, the book applies today as much as it did then. Rubel has served in vocational ministry, served as a professor and President of Rochester University, and has written extensively. Two recent books are "Divorce & Remarriage: A Redemptive Theology," and "I Knew Jesus before He Was a Christian . . . and I Liked Him Better Then." Thank you for listening to "Season Two" of the Common Grounds Unity podcast. This series is titled "A Time to Tear Down and a Time to Build" taken from Ecclesiastes 3:3. Today many are using the word deconstruction. Certainly, Ecclesiastes. 3:3 teaches there is a time to tear down and a time to build. When building there is need to do some demolition, and yet, deconstruction without rebuilding produces nothing of value. It is important to have balance in all things. In this series we will discuss some of the things that need to reconsider within the church, and then envision ways that we can together build a brighter future for the Lord's church in our day and time. Please check out commongroundsunity.org to learn more about who we are. You can find links on the about page where you can subscribe to the essays, join our Facebook group, or find our YouTube Channel. Please consider donating to this ministry of reconciliation - we need your help. Your donation is tax-deductible. Donate on our website at www.commongroundsunity.org/donate . Check out the gatherings page at where you can connect with other unity-minded Christians in your area. If you cannot find a gathering in your area, we can help you start one. It's not difficult or time-consuming and we will help you out along the way. It really does, simply, start with a cup of coffee. If you want to volunteer or ask questions, please email John at john@commongroundsunity.org. Until next time, God bless, and remember “Unity Starts With A Cup of Coffee.” The Common Grounds Unity theme music for our intro and exit is Bobo Renthlei "Needles and Pins."

EAB's Madeleine Rhyneer and Rochester University's Dr. Robert Alexander explore the challenges of managing a successful team and department during a tight labor market. The two discuss the importance of building trust and promoting effective collaboration. Robert and Madeleine also reveal strategies for assessing your team's inclination (or resistance) to adapting and embracing change to overcome performance gaps.

When C@vid started many churches were shut down alongside businesses and the majority remained silent. When they re-opened many required or encouraged masks or even remained with online only services out of fear. Now many are encouraging the v@ccine, or in the case of the Mormon and Catholic churches, even calling on everyone to take it. As our society continues to split and the government goes full speed ahead creating a second class citizenry, the  modern day church is mostly silent. Why? The founder and CEO of the Daily Brief   news site and Minister Chris Russell is here to talk liberty and answer this question. The spirit of freedom IS the spirit of God.  DO NOT MISS THIS.Gust Bio:Chris Russell is founder and CEO of The Daily Brief and host of the Chris Russell Show which is heard in more than nine countries. He has over a decade speaking, coaching, and mentoring. He earned two AA's degrees and a Bachelors in Business from Rochester University.Chris has a deep passion for truth in the media, education, faith, and family values. He is passionate about leadership and seeing each person reach their full potential and becoming the best version of themselves.Chris is an avid conservative and family man. He derives great inspiration from his wife Rosa and family. He enjoys speaking to people, helping the less fortunate, and spending time with family and friends.My Patriot Supply The original Patriot survival company. My Patriot Supply was founded by people with a passion for seDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PSTD4CUDH4ENE)

How do we share the gospel in a way that helps people rather than injures them? How will the church need to adapt the way it approaches evangelism? Please consider supporting the ministry https://www.patreon.com/kylespears Daren currently serves as lead evangelist for the Seattle Church of Christ, where he and his wife Karla have served for the last 11 years. Daren has done some post-graduate work at Harding Graduate School of Theology, and will graduate in December with a Master's degree in Missional Leadership from Rochester University. 0:00 Intro 6:07 What do the scriptures teach about evangelism? 13:57 What are unhealthy evangelism practices? 28:28 Individualism and evangelism 34:20 Zeal and immaturity 35:00 Gifts and evangelism 44:56 How will the church have to adapt its methods moving forward? 51:29 Pressurizing people based on a timeline 1:00:00 Identity and unity

Thanks for listening!  Please support the Rob Skinner Podcast on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/robskinner. Ben and Susan Borland led their nearly 30-year-old church to grow again after decades of decline and stagnation.  They started as the campus ministers at the University of Oklahoma and then took over leading the entire church.  In this episode they talk about how they did it.  They talk about: How Susan got into running clubs to make friends and reach out and now she runs 1,000 miles yearly. How Ben and Susan have converted freshmen, football players and national merit scholars on campus What has helped their church grow to over 100 disciples. All this and more on the Rob Skinner Podcast! More about Ben and Susan: Ben and Susan serve as Evangelist and Women's Ministry Leader for the OKC Church. They have served in full-time ministry for over a decade, first in Denton, Texas and then Norman, Oklahoma before making their home in OKC with their three children. Ben and Susan both earned their undergraduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, Ben in creative advertising and Susan in Spanish.  The Borlands love living in Oklahoma and when they aren't working Susan can be found training for her next marathon. Ben just finished his master's degree from Rochester University and is filling up his newfound free time with everything football.    

Sam Pace was baptized May 25, 1981 at 10 years old at the Holmes Rd., Church of Christ in Lansing Michigan. Mr. Pace entered ministry at 20 years old at Ann Arbor Church of Christ in Michigan. Sam has been at Northwest Church of Christ for 10 years. Sam has a bachelors in biblical studies from Rochester University. Mr. Pace works with a Haitian mission the Emmaus house. ‭‭ 2 Timothy‬ ‭2:2‭‭ “The things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.” Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/check-it-out License code: 6JH6HYU4XVLVL25Zvv --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/meettheministerspodcast/support

Our guest today is Shogo Honda. He has an extraordinary story about his journey of putting his faith in Christ during his graduate school days at Rochester University. Today, Shogo talked about becoming a follower of Jesus and spreading His love to all those around him. It is Shogo's dream to become a professor and tell college students about the love and hope in Jesus. The purpose of this podcast is to showcase how much God loves Japan through different stories of people. It is like God sending a care package to the ones He loves in Japan! If you would like to share your experience with us, please email carepackagetojapan@gmail.com, and we would love to have you on the podcast as well! Let's all continue to pray and praise God for the beautiful country of Japan. #prayforjapan

This is Father Jared Cramer from St. John's Episcopal Church in Grand Haven, Michigan, here with today's edition of Christian Mythbusters, a regular segment I offer to counter some common misconceptions about the Christian faith. Like many of you, I'm sure, I was distraught to hear the news of the shooting at Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan. That school is actually not far from Rochester University, where I did my undergraduate studies, and I have several friends who are alumna. My heart goes out to all those who have been impacted, as well as to families in our own area trying to keep their heads above water with our schools now shut down out of an abundance of caution while local threats are being investigated.As seems to happen every time there is a shooting, we've seen the same arguments for and against gun control pop on up social media, everyone rehearsing the same old lines. We send up thoughts and prayers to help our kids, when what they really need are policies and action. So, this week I thought I'd try to break some of the myths that persist in American Christianity about God, Guns, and what it really means to protect others. Our country does have a strange love affair—some might say an addiction—to guns. Americans own half of all guns in the world, even though we are only 5% of the world's population. And at this point, it's pretty clear that both race and religion are factors that influence gun ownership. In 2020, an article was published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion called “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Gun Ownership.” They found that for many white evangelicals, owning a gun stems from their felt need to protect their families from a sense of threat. White evangelicals are not only more likely to own a gun, they are also less likely to support gun control. Some people have been trying to change that though. Activist Shane Claiborne published a book in 2019 called Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence. Since that time, he has gone around the country, organizing events where people turn in their guns which are then melted down and turned into farming implements. He does this drawing from the words of the prophet Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible, who imagines that in the end, when God heals all things, “they shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks.” And it's not only a question of violence against others. Of the nearly 40,000 gun related deaths in America each year, more than half are the result of suicide. Claiborne also points out that the idea of safety is really a myth. For every one gun used in self-defense, six more are used to commit a crime. Keeping a gun in your own home means that you or someone in your family is 12 times more likely to be injured by that gun than you are to use that gun to protect them. Claiborne sees the question as a simple one: guns are violent and we are followers of a prince of peace who urged us to turn the other cheek and engage instead in non-violent resistance against evil and injustice. So, Christians shouldn't have guns. No I should be clear—I'm not anti-gun. I don't go quite as far as Claiborne does. I happen to own two guns myself, both used for hunting. My dad was a member of the National Rifle Association back before that organization got as crazy and aggressive as it has in recent years. But, our love affair with guns needs to end so that we can start coming up with plans and policies to make our country safer. Gun manufacturers have been expert at weaving the myth of the essentiality of the freedom to own any and all guns out there, and they have co-opted the Christian desire to protect others in order to increase their own bottom line.There are steps, clear steps, we can take to make our world safer, to make our kids safer. And many of these steps have strong support in our country. A Fox News poll two years ago found that 90% of respondents favor universal background checks, 81% support taking guns from individuals who are at risk, and 67% favor banning assault weapons.And for the kids who died in Oxford? A law that requires gun owners to store guns in a locked container or disable them with a trigger lock when not in use or being worn on their person… that would have stopped that senseless violence. And since statistics indicate that 46% of gun owners in the US who have children don't secure their weapons, it's only so long before we return to this cycle of violence and grief.Jesus told us that the peacemakers would be blessed by God. We need some peacemakers in the world today, that's for sure, some people that will work together to make our country a safer place for all people, who will reach across the lines and find solutions that can save lives.Thanks for being with me. To find out more about my parish, you can go to sjegh.com. Until next time, remember, protest like Jesus, love recklessly, and live your faith out in a community that accepts you but also challenges you to be better tomorrow than you are today. 

Coach Jeff Tungate, In this episode, you'll hear from Jeff Tungate. Coach Tungate is the Head Women's Basketball Coach at Oakland University. Coach Jeff is currently in year nine as the Head Coach of Oakland. I met Coach Tungate when I was a player in 1994. Jeff was fresh off a successful college baseball career at Oakland. As you soon will hear, Oakland University is truly home for Coach Jeff. And the love that Jeff has for Oakland is truly special. Jeff started his coaching career working for Coach Garth Pleasant at Rochester University. However, Coach Jeff really knew that he wanted to coach when he was in tenth grade playing for Michigan Hall of Fame Coach, Dan Fife. At the age of twenty nine, Jeff accepted the head coaching position for the men's program at Lincoln Memorial University. After a successful tenure, Jeff spent nine years assisting both Dane Fife at IPFW and Greg Kampe at Oakland. It is with Coach Kampe that Jeff played a massive role in helping Coach Kampe and his program reach three NCAA tournaments. And when the Oakland Athletic Director asked Coach Tungate if he would take over the women's program at Oakland, Jeff said yes instantly! Right off the bat, you are going to learn that Coach Jeff coaches to make a difference. And, he does not believe in a four-year plan for the young women that he coaches. On the contrary, he believes in a 40-year plan! This is an action packed podcast geared for young coaches. The amount of advice that Jeff provides for young coaches is truly outstanding. If you are a young assistant coach, this is a MUST LISTEN! Finally, Jeff is as authentic as they come. At the core of his coaching philosophy is being himself. And he says it so perfectly: “Be Yourself Because Everyone Else is Taken.” Coach Tungate is a wonderful coach, leader, husband, and man. It is my honor to share his coaching story!  Follow Coach Jeff Tungate @CoachTungateFollow Tell Me Your Story Coach @CoachKevinDro Moneyball Sportswear Moneyball, The Only Way To Ball! Great Sports Wear and Basketball Uniforms! Michigan Made! Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

Coach Dr. Klint Pleasant, In this episode, you'll hear from Dr. Klint Pleasant, current Head Coach at Rochester University. Klint has been the Head Coach at Rochester for the last 11 seasons. As a matter of fact, Klint took over the program from his father, Garth Pleasant. Coach Garth was the head coach for 38 seasons at Rochester. As you soon will find out, since Klint was a little boy, all he wanted to do was coach. He idolized his dad. And his dad included young Klint in every aspect of the Rochester basketball program. It is no surprise why Coach Klint has done such an amazing job at Rochester. The reigning WHAC Coach of the Year, has created a NAIA powerhouse in the suburbs just north of Detroit. Seven All-Americans later and fresh off a National Tournament appearance, Coach Pleasant has no intentions of stopping. Coach Klint does an incredible job of detailing each aspect of his coaching philosophy: being a teacher, making something complex truly simple by teaching, the importance of listening as a coach, and his thoughts on culture are so well organized and relatable to all coaches and organizations. However, this podcast is truly about a coach who was destined to be a household coaching name but had an unfortunate family tragedy that set his career on a total different trajectory. This is a podcast about a coach who is an ELITE father and husband and who has battled the challenges of life for the last sixteen years. And, as a result, this coach has become a better coach and indeed a better person. Klint Pleasant is a coach, a leader, a doctor, an author and, for sure, an inspiration for so many coaches to learn about this incredible man. We will all be better people today after hearing his coaching story. Follow Coach Klint Pleasant @klint_pleasantFollow Tell Me Your Story Coach @CoachKevinDro Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEMoneyball Sportswear Moneyball, The Only Way To Ball! Great Sports Wear and Basketball Uniforms! Michigan Made! Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

In this episode Bradley sits down with Brian Petty, a Resident Director at Rochester University and leader with Living Army. This conversation showcases what Brian is up to with Living Army and what he is excited for at Rochester University this fall, how to amplify your prayer life, the importance of the rhythm of Sabbath, how to fully forgive, and what revival looks like.Follow on Instagram:@_bpetty@LivingArmy

Today, Maria talks with Kristin Palmer, Director of Online Learning Programs at the University of Virginia, where she manages their online site, which showcases diverse courses, certificates, and degrees across the University of Virginia (UVA).Kristin oversees 52 courses and 7 specializations on Coursera, serving over 4 million students with net revenues of more than 12 million USD. She is also the administrator of LinkedIn Learning and Coursera courses for the professional development of UVA students, faculty and staff at UVA.Kristin has a bachelors in photography from Rochester University, a masters in Learning, Design and Technology from Stanford University and a doctorate in Educational Leadership and Change from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara. She regularly publishes best practices for teaching online and hybrid courses and provides faculty training through various services, from self-serve how-to guides and videos to one-to-one consultations and workshops. She is an International speaker on educational technologies, innovation, massive open online courses, workforce development and open educational resources. Maria and Kristin unpack the design of online learning and distance education programs offered across UVA. They also discuss the community of inquiry framework and share best practices for cognitive, teaching and social presence. They conclude their conversation with a deep dive into the African Scholarship Cohort, the flagship program of the nonprofit organization Distance Education for Africa. Kristin shares her experience running the African Scholarship cohort program that offers monthly entrepreneurship courses available for free through a collaboration between UVA and Coursera.To provide a localized resource for business students and leaders who want to create robust businesses in Africa, Kristin co-published the book “African Business Case Studies Vol 1”, a collection of business case studies written by the participants of the African Scholarship Cohort.Tune in to learn from an inspirational leader in higher education who is making an impact on the world, helping to alleviate poverty, and promoting gender equity through accessible and affordable online education.  Listen to this episode and explore:Introducing Kristin Palmer and sharing highlights from today's episode (1:08)Growing up poor and watching her mother claw her family out of poverty (4:40)How a professor at Stanford University created new learning experiences for Kristin (5:38)Reflecting on her teaching experience as an undergrad student (6:42)Exploring graduate school options and finding the love of her life (8:17)Sharing her experience working at Hewlett-Packard (10:06)Completing her Master's in Learning, Design and Technology at Stanford University (12:52)Getting into K12 education (technology & curriculum) at Children's Health Council (13:40)How Kristin developed learning programs for special-needs students (15:28)Using the Community of Inquiry framework to build a community of lifelong learners (17:26)Unpacking the cognitive, social and teaching presence of the Community of Inquiry framework (18:46)How Kristin found her way to the University of Virginia (UVA) after consulting for The Disney Company (22:21)How Kristin got involved in co-creating the first online learning programs at UVA (24:56)The evolution of online learning programs at UVA over the years (26:30)Discussing on-campus and online degrees and certificates at UVA (29:48)A deeper look at Coursera and LinkedIn Learning for continuous professional development at UVA (32:16)How students' learning preferences have evolved amid the pandemic (35:57)Envisioning the future of teaching and learning at UVA post-pandemic (39:19)Sharing best practices for the design of online learning programs (42:32)Why flexibility and multiple modalities are essential in higher education (45:34)How Kristin's partnership with the Distance Education for Africa started (47:00)The collaboration of UVA with Coursera to support the African Scholarship Cohort (ASC) program (48:54)Offering free educational resources and customized support to the ASC program students (53:00)Publishing a collection of business case studies written by the participants of the ASC program (54:08)The importance of African youth and the role of education in our society (55:56)What Kristin wants to leave her mark on within her lifetime (01:00:12)Maria's request to listeners to recommend future guests and support the podcast (01:02:07) Where to find more about Kristin Palmer:LinkedInOnline Learning at University of Virginia  Mentioned in this episode:Online Learning Programs at University of VirginiaCoursera for University of VirginiaCommunity of Inquiry (CoI)Kristin on SlideShareDistance Education for Africa African Business Case Studies Vol.1 Decker Walker at Stanford UniversityJames Hilton (former VP and CIO at University of Virginia)Jeanne M. Liedtka at Darden School of Business at University of Virginia Prof. Edward Hess at Darden School of Business at University of VirginiaClass CentralLeading with LollipopsImpact Learning episode 94 on Flipped Learning with Robert Talbert  Production team:Host & Producer: Maria XenidouIntroduction Voice: David Bourne  Contact us:impactlearningpodcast(at)gmail.com Music credits:Like Lee performed by The Mini VandalsTransition Sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks

I've got a treat for you today. Today's author's are Gourab Ghoshal and Petter Holme, who are here to talk about a classic paper. A paper they co-authored and published in PRL in 2006. The paper has a fantastic title, which is basically also a mini abstract. It is called “Dynamics of Networking Agents Competing for High Centrality and Low Degree” (1). In the podcast we get into it!Gourab is at at Rochester University, where he is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy with joint appointments at the departments of Computer Science and Mathematics. He works in the field of Complex Systems. His research interests are in the theory and applications of Complex Networks as well as Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics, Game theory, Econophysics, Dynamical Systems and the Origins of Life.Petter is Swedish scientist living and working in Japan, where he is a Specially Appointed Professor at the Institute of Innovative Research at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research focuses on large-scale structures in society, technology and biology; mostly trying to understand them as networks.# Timestamps[0:00:00] Intro and friendly banter[0:04:00] Gourab's dream of becoming Richard Feynman[0:10:10] Petter becomes a network scientist by accident[0:17:45] We dive into the paper! (+ discuss complex systems in general)# References(1) https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.098701

Dr. Hayes interviews Dr. Norton.   TRANSCRIPT SPEAKER 1: The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement.   [MUSIC PLAYING]   DANIEL F. HAYES: Welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories, the Art of Oncology, brought to you by the ASCO Podcast Network, a collection of nine programs covering a range of educational and scientific content, and offering enriching insights into the world of cancer care. You can find all of the shows, including this one, at podcast.asco.org.   [MUSIC PLAYING]   Dr. Norton has stock and other ownership interest in Samus Therapeutics, Codagenix Inc, Martell Diagnostic, and Medaptive Health Inc. He's received honoraria from Context Therapeutics, Prime Oncology, the Sarah Lawrence Lecture, Context Advisory Board, Oncology Pioneer Science Lecture Series, Sermonix Pharmaceuticals, the Cold Spring Harbor advisory board, Codagenix, Agenus, and the Cold Spring Harbor external advisory board.   He has served as a consultant or provided advice to Context Therapeutics, Prime Oncology, the Context Advisory Board, Oncology Pioneer Science Lecture, Martell Diagnostic, Sermonix, Codagenix, Agenus, Medaptive Health, and the Cold Springs Harbor Laboratories. He has received expense reimbursement for travel and accommodations from the Oncology Pioneer Science Lecture Series, the BCRP Programmatic Review Meeting, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, the American Association of Cancer Research, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.   [MUSIC PLAYING]   Today my guest on the podcast is Dr. Larry Norton. Dr. Norton has been instrumental in so many facets of oncology it's hard to go through, but particularly, in breast cancer, and especially related to applying mathematical models of cancer kinetics that he developed with Richard Simon at the National Cancer Institute, and applying them really, to dose density strategies for chemotherapy and breast cancer, which we'll discuss. Dr. Norton was raised in suburban New York.   He received his undergraduate degree at Rochester University, his medical degree at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Scientists. And then he did his residency at Einstein Associated Hospitals in the Bronx. He then went on to complete a medical oncology fellowship at the National Cancer Institute from 1974 to 1976 and stayed there an extra year. And then he returned to New York and joined the faculty at Mount Sinai in 1977, where he stayed for about a decade.   He then moved to Memorial Sloan Kettering, where I think most of us think he was born and raised and lived his whole life. He's held many positions there. And particularly, he was responsible for really building the breast medical oncology service and starting the Evelyn Lauder Breast Center. He now sits in the Norman S Seraphim-- did I pronounce that correctly, Dr. Norton?   LARRY NORTON: Yes, you did.   DANIEL F. HAYES: Chair in Clinical Oncology, he's authored over 450 peer reviewed papers. He's won too many awards for me to list, as have most of my guests on this program. But in particular, he's won the triple crown, in my opinion. And that's the Karnofsky, the McGuire, and the Bonnadonna awards.   At least those of us in breast cancer would strive to win all three of those. And importantly to this series, he served as president of ASCO from 2001 to 2002, has served many roles at ASCO and has had a major footprint in where ASCO is today. Dr. Norton, welcome to our program.   LARRY NORTON: Great pleasure to be here. Thank you, Dan.   DANIEL F. HAYES: So we'll start with some of the origin stories. I know you weren't bit by a radioactive spider and got spidey powers. But I've known you for a long time.   And I know, really, your first love was music and that you started out to be a professional musician. Can you give us some background? What were your instruments? I know you went to Rochester specifically to be in music. And feel more than free to do some name dropping, because I think some of the people in music are people we'd all recognize.   LARRY NORTON: Well, I don't know whether that would be totally right. I've known a lot of people in music. My first love was music.   I grew up in Long Island, was able to commute in with one bus and one subway to Greenwich Village in the '60s, which was, really, the hotbed of much of what was going on in music to this day. I didn't even realize it was a golden age. I remember all the giants, Bob Dylan, when he was a very young kid in town, in small coffee houses.   But it was also in close proximity where a lot of the jazz scene was happening, and just to take the A Train would be very easy to get up into Harlem, where there's a lot of jazz things going on. Like a lot of kids growing up on Long Island, I had some musical education. I started off with the clarinet, went quickly into saxophone in terms of music. But I played a whole variety of instruments.   Like everybody else, I play guitar. I played percussion. I played bongos behind beat poets and was very excited to be really part of that scene.   I think one of the major turning points for me, actually, was the Vietnam War. Because like a lot of people of my generation, it did not seem to be reasonable war. And even McNamara wrote a book later saying, yep, sorry, it was a mistake. We were looking for things that could interest us and also help us serve our country in ways other than sacrificing our lives in Vietnam.   That's how medicine got into my life. It seemed to be the right compromise. Fortunately, starting off in Rochester which had the Eastman School of Music, which was a great influence on me, and a fantastic school, and has evolved continuously to be an even better school now.   It has a very active jazz program now, which didn't exist at that time. We had to do jazz on the sly, which was very easy to do, because there are a lot of jazz clubs in Rochester at that time. And it was really very easy to play jazz all night and then to play classical music all day. And that was totally, totally a great experience.   We were young. We didn't have to sleep at all. But I hankered to get back into New York. When the opportunity arose to go to medical school, I was fortunately chosen to go to Columbia, where I actually was able to play music and at the same time go to the medical school. But after a while, as all of us in medicine know, it becomes all consuming.   And so the medicine part of it just slipped. When it came to a lot of my friends from the old days up until the present day, very little performing, I've done a couple of benefits. I'll do the one namedrop with Elton John, because he's been so terrific at raising money for breast cancer research through the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. I had the great honor of being able to play with him twice--   DANIEL F. HAYES: How did you meet Elton John? I mean, it's not like you walk down the street and say, oh, hi, I'm Dan Hayes.   LARRY NORTON: Mutual friends, mutual friends in the arts, basically, one of our closest friends, close friend of his, close friend of mine, someone named Ingrid Sischy was a fantastic writer and editor, very involved with Andy Warhol in the beginning, and then continued a career in art criticism and art writing. And she was a friend of everybody and a close friend of Elton's and a close friend of mine. And so I think she made the original introduction. And he's really been terrific.   But the music is put aside, although I do play every day. I still keep that as a very important part of my zen escape from other stresses of life. Although, music itself has its own stresses.   The good thing about jazz is improvisation. So it's an immediate feeling, no such thing as a wrong note. You hit a wrong note, and you play around it. And it becomes a right note. And so music is still a very important part of my life.   DANIEL F. HAYES: That's terrific. Actually, I interviewed Hyman Muss a few weeks ago. And he and some others have introduced me to tying flies for fly fishing.   And it's sort of the same thing. I can take 15 minutes and tie a fly. I'm not sure it looks like anything official-like. But it's not medicine for a while, and that's good.   LARRY NORTON: Yeah, but medicine--   DANIEL F. HAYES: The other thing--   LARRY NORTON: I want to get back to this for a second, because I mean,   DANIEL F. HAYES: Yeah.   LARRY NORTON: It's not a separate thing. I mean, music and-- especially my early music education just taught me a lot that's really helped me in my career in medicine. I think it's very important for people to know. The talent for music is a talent to practice.   Essentially, anybody who can speak can-- has enough control of tones that they can actually do something with music. I'm not sure how much is really inborn ability. I'm not sure there is such a thing as a talent in that regard. But some people can practice for long hours successfully. And some people can't.   And I think that that's something that may be inborn. I don't know. I'll leave that to the developmental psychologists. But that is a very important trait, obviously, in medicine.   You have to spend a long time studying. You have to learn a lot. You have to concentrate a lot. You have to be able to concentrate on individual patients, when you're taking care of them. And that's been very important, but it's also empathy.   Music teaches you to feel what other people are feeling. You're not going to be a good musician unless you know how you're affecting your audience in a profound way. And you can sense when you're losing your audience, and you can change the direction you're going in. And when you hit something right, you can play it.   And that ability to feel what other people are feeling, I think, is really essential to be a good clinician. And music teaches you that. I think arts in general teach you that.   DANIEL F. HAYES: Actually, I hadn't thought about it. Do you think that your music and your mathematic leanings are tied together too?   LARRY NORTON: There is a tendency for mathematicians to be musicians, not true quite vice versa. Although they are-- good musicians really are mathematicians. But they don't know it.   A lot of people think math is the written equation, and it's not. It's a certain approach toward nature. Thinking in spatial ways, for me, thinking of shapes, and the way shapes form, the way shapes move over time and space, then you learn the tools for being able to write it down which is the actual mathematical notation.   DANIEL F. HAYES: Yeah.   LARRY NORTON: And the same thing with music, I mean, music isn't the notes on the page. I mean, that's a very poor reflection of what sounds you're making. It's the sounds. It's the sounds, and they go up and then down. That's spatial, and they go forward in time.   And so they're temporal, and they have meaning. It's not just random sounds. They have meaning. They connect to each other, and they tell a story, as we say in the jazz world. And the notes are a poor reflection of that.   Some of the best musicians I know can't read music. And as a matter of fact, it used to be said that if you want to be good jazz musician, you shouldn't learn to read. Because if you learn to read, you'll cheat. And you should be able to play by ear. And that's what's going to make you a better musician.   So I think math and music are very closely aligned. You have a problem to solve, when you think about it, and in novel ways that are not verbal. And the non-verbal way of thinking in music and in math are very similar, I think.   DANIEL F. HAYES: So let me segue onto how you changed paths. I know that it was-- I've heard you talk about it was a discussion with Dr. Ron Bloom, who I think has remained a good friend of yours, and then in association with Dr. Regelson at Roswell Park. Can you tell us about that?   LARRY NORTON: Well, Ron got me-- I mean, Ron, great, great oncologist, retired now, and his wife Diane also very, very important in the cancer world through her leadership of organizations. They both went to University of Rochester same time I did. I was actually perplexed at the end of one semester.   So both Ron and Diane were at the University of Rochester, the same I was. And I was perplexed at the end of one semester, because I had several opportunities to do things in the summer coming forward. One of which was very music oriented, and it was a very exciting possibility. But I was at that time considering a change in direction very strongly.   Math was one of the things that was drawing me. The question, should I become a professional statistician? That was the course that was turning me on mostly at that time. I thought physics was an incredible art form and was intrigued to that.   But I also had music that was drawing me. And also the question, of what could keep me helping people, and helping my nation, and keep me from necessarily bearing arms in Vietnam was a big concern. And I met Ron on the stairs of the Rush Rhees Library at the University of Rochester, a famous library, that by the way, has a famous ghost associated with it. That's a whole different story.   He said that he had this unbelievably wonderful experience the previous summer by working at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, New York State Cancer Research Institute, particularly under a guy named William Regelson who was just totally inspirational to him. And that was one of his major motivations to spend his career in cancer medicine, which I didn't even know it. I had another connection to Bill Regelson is that my father and his father actually knew each other. Because they were in businesses that touched.   His father ran a Catskills resort. And my father was a professional writer and travel editor at The New York Post. And so that there was that connection. So that when I relayed the story to my parents, they said, oh, we know Regelson.   So well, one thing led to another. And on a cold and rainy night, I took a bus into Buffalo, New York. And I met Bill Regelson in the laboratory at Roswell Park Memorial Institute.   It was late at night, and it was freezing rain, kind of miserable night. And he asked me a lot of very tough questions and was not very pleasant toward me. But the end of the interview, he says, I like the way you think. And I'd like to offer you an opportunity to work with me this summer.   And I jumped at that opportunity. And it was really, truly the turning point in my life in many ways. Because I, eventually, many years later ended up marrying Bill Regelson's daughter. My current wife--   DANIEL F. HAYES: I was not aware of that.   LARRY NORTON: Yeah. Rachel, the love of my life, it was an extraordinary experience, because I got very close to family. And she was in New York at Columbia, at Barnard, the same time that I was in medical school. And so that's how it all came about.   But anyway, Bill was really an inspirational character for many people of my generation who were in contact with him. Because he was just filled with enthusiasm, and energy, and optimism. You remember, the early days of oncology were very special. And by the way, if you want to catch a glimpse of that, it tends to be this book, The Death of Cancer. I'm giving it a big plug, fantastic book that captures the whole history of his life and cancer.   But the early days is very important for people to recognize what it was like in those early days. It was just an enormous challenge just to get people to pay attention. The possibility that drugs could actually be useful in the treatment of cancer, and it was often ridiculed. I can tell you a little story later about my early experiences when I came to New York in that regard.   DANIEL F. HAYES: So did you know you were going to be an oncologist when you went to med school? Or did that--   LARRY NORTON: I'll tell you two of the turning points in that regard that I think are particularly interesting. One is, at the very beginning of that summer, Bill Regelson brought me-- in those days, the labs were right next to the clinic, the inpatient service. And he brought me right from the lab a few steps in to see a patient who was admitted to the hospital with a pelvic tumor.   I don't know what type, didn't register in my mind at that time, but a pelvic tumor that had grown very large. And it actually had eroded out into the skin and was large, and infected, and bleeding, and just awful. And the patient was in terrible pain.   And he said, we're going to treat this patient with a new drug that I think is going to help her. And it's called methotrexate. And he treated with methotrexate, and I saw the I saw the medicine go into her arms.   And over the next few weeks, during that summer, I saw this tumor shrink down. I saw the skin heal over. I saw the pain go away. And it was, I'm seeing this monster eating this woman from the inside out. And I'm seeing just this yellow chemical going in there, and the monster being defeated.   It was like magic. It was something just beyond conception that, actually, you could take something that awful and that terrible, and actually give it medicine, and actually make it go away. And I said, this is a world I can't turn my back on. This is a world I have to be in.   This is just a magical, wonderful world, where you can actually heal things that couldn't be healed by other ways, I mean, totally beyond surgery, totally beyond radiation. And here's medicine going in. So that hooked me.   But at the very end of the summer, and toward the very end of my time there, another thing happened which would be a good segue. But also very important is the real person running medicine A at Roswell Park at that time was this person named Jim Holland. And Jim Holland was not there all summer, because he was riding a horse. And he had his daughter, one of his daughters on the horse.   And the horse was acting very, very jittery. And he was a little afraid of what the horse would do. So he went close to a fence, where he could actually unload the daughter, so she can grab on to the fence. And the horse didn't bolt and crushed his hip against the fence.   And so he was out with a fractured hip or pelvis the entire summer. But he was well enough toward the end of the summer to come in and speak to the summer students. And he came in, and he sat in a chair in the middle of the room. And all the summer students who gathered around him-- if I thought Bill Regelson had energy, to see this tornado of a personality in the room, with his loud booming voice and his probing questions, his clear intelligence and enthusiasm for his field and dedication to it was just inspirational.   And so it was a crescendo of a summer for me. And that was it. The experience of Bill Regelson, the experience of Jim Holland, I knew that I was stuck. And even though other things were attracting my attention, nothing was going to capture my life as much as the medical oncology.   DANIEL F. HAYES: You went on then to work with him for 10 years at Mount Sinai.   LARRY NORTON: Right.   DANIEL F. HAYES: In addition to what you've said, his obnoxious ties also always stood out for the rest of us. But those 10 years must have been unbelievable. Because the guy never quit thinking, at least in my experience with him.   LARRY NORTON: I mean, there's so much to say about Jim Holland. I had the honor to speak his funeral, the sadness to speak at his funeral, but it was the honor to speak at his funeral related some of the stories. But there's so much to talk about him that it's actually worth a whole book, even an opera, with the bigger than life personality he was.   But he captured something that I think was very important. And some of the early pioneers that we were talking about before really captured which is, I mean, these were real pioneers. I'll just give you a little side story. I mean, I came into grand rounds once, when I was working with him late, as I usually am to pretty much everything.   But nevertheless, I came in a few minutes late, and everybody was gathered around. And I remember it was a thoracic specialist, a pulmonologist, who was actually conducting grand rounds. And as I walked in the door, he says, how come you're late, Larry? Were you out there saving lives?   And everybody roared into uproarious laughter. Because medical oncology was the last step before the cemetery. Hopeless situations would all come to us. And then we'd give them drugs and not help people whatsoever.   And of course, I felt this deep humiliation. I was a young doctor at the time, and all these great, senior people, great luminaries were arrayed around. But that was the attitude of a lot of people in medicine at that time is that hopeless situations, send it to them, they'll take care of it. They'll hold hands, whatever.   And to see where we are today, and how many cases we cured, and how many patients we've cured, and how well we managed things, certainly, we don't cure enough. And you and I and our whole community is working hard on that. But we do cure a whole lot of people, and we do help their lives.   And we do keep them functioning for a longer period of time with the medicines. So the people that went into the field at that time and actually established the field of oncology, medical oncology, at that time were really had to have a real pioneering spirit. And so Tom Frei obviously pops to mind in that regard, and many others. I could give a long list--   DANIEL F. HAYES: Well, I should say, I had the great privilege of training with Tom Frei and the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Freireich who, sadly, passed away a few weeks ago. I did not get to interview Dr. Holland. But because of his friendship with Dr. Frei, Dr. Holland adopted me as well, even though I was never working with him directly.   And the three of those guys, I think our listeners need to understand, they were really cowboys. And they did things that we would now just, I think, repel, just have you can't do that sort of thing. But they did it, because they had to. As you said, there was nothing else to do. It took a special personality.   LARRY NORTON: Totally-- I mean, everything you're saying is-- I agree with. But also, that's why we are where we are today is because they took chances, because they had a vision, and they attacked that vision very, very aggressively. And I'll do one more namedrop in music that is one of my and still friend is Quincy Jones.   And Quincy Jones had this wonderful phrase in terms of jazz improvisation that was really very important to me. Sometimes, Larry, you have to jump without a parachute. And how do you get into an improvisation? You just start.   And then it has a life of its own. And the better you get, the more experience you get, the better you start it, and the better you're going to develop it. But you just got to start. Hit the first note, doesn't matter what it is.   And that kind of spirit of jumping in into it was really, very important. And I think that's something I really miss from modern oncology. If we're going to talk about where we are now compared to where we are then, a lot of things have changed that are very positive.   Obviously, the amount of science that we have to draw from now is just astronomically greater than what we had in the early days, when we're talking about very primitive things. The whole Norton-Simon thing was all about attacking cell division, the best way of attacking cell division. We're so far beyond that in so many ways. That's one of the bigger changes.   Our access to information, I mean, I had a question. I have to go to the library and got to cart catalogs, and pull books off the shelf, and open them up, and spend hours and spend days finding out one piece of information that now I can find out in about 15 seconds, if my fingers are slow on the keyboard, 15 seconds. And so that's it.   But one of the major things is that it was all about concepts then. It was all about principles. The principle that antimitotics could actually make tumors shrink and could be beneficial. That's a principle.   Combination chemotherapy is a principle. Dose dense sequential therapy, if you take it into further development of my area as a principle. And the overarching concepts on patient centrality of it also is that the early clinical trials were very small trials. Because each and every patient was a valuable piece of information.   They were almost collections of anecdotes. And obviously, we've evolved way past that in very positive ways. But what you learned from the individual patient was extremely important to that generation of pioneers rather than large numbers. And I think we moved away from that.   DANIEL F. HAYES: Actually, I'm going to interrupt you, because I think almost everybody I've interviewed has stories like you started out with. I saw a patient who I couldn't believe responded to X or Y. And I have the same stories.   And I'm hoping our young folks still believe that's as important as filling out the meaningful use things on their documentation. I told my own son, I want him to be a doctor and not a documenter. You need to document, but you need to be a doctor. Can I segue into--   LARRY NORTON: We ought to spend the whole podcast on that topic someday.   DANIEL F. HAYES: No, yeah, let's do that.   LARRY NORTON: Because the thing is-- well, because I think that the thing is, when you're taking care of a patient, and you're thinking, obviously, we're always thinking what's best for the patient, all of us. But you're also thinking of gathering information in a verbal way about the patient. So you can talk about that patient to your colleagues, or write it as case reports, a series of case reports is a different mindset than when you're thinking about how am I going to fill out my electronic health record?   And I think the mindset differences, and I frequently say to the younger people that I teach or that I'm in contact with, that they grew up in a digital world. And I grew up in an analog world. And the way you think in an analog world is very different than the way you think in a digital world. Maybe it's for the better. I mean, only history will tell, but I just miss that kind of analog thinking. Much of what we have today is because of it.   DANIEL F. HAYES: Let me take you into your role in modeling and especially with the so-called Norton-Simon hypothesis. How did you hook up with Richard Simon? And what did he teach you? Because I find him to be a fascinating person.   LARRY NORTON: Oh, a fascinating person, and obviously, one of the really important people in my professional career. The math was in there. Because along with, I mean, I studied math. I had studied math in college, and I was--   DANIEL F. HAYES: I should-- describe it. Just for a minute, describe what it is for our listeners.   LARRY NORTON: Oh, the Norton-Simon hypothesis and the--   DANIEL F. HAYES: Yes.   LARRY NORTON: All right. Oh, yeah, well--   DANIEL F. HAYES: Briefly, briefly.   LARRY NORTON: It's very simple is that way before my time, Skipper Schabel and colleagues at Southern Research Institute had described the way experimental tumors in their laboratory grew which was exponential. And they made the observation called the Log Kill hypothesis, which is the Log Kill rule which is a given dose of given drug kills a percentage of the cells that are present rather than an absolute number of cells, which is actually counterintuitive. It shouldn't be that way if you think about it in terms of biochemistry, but it is that way.   And we were all taught the Skipper Schabel model and Log Kill hypothesis. We were all taught that. And I was in the clinic taking care of a patient with Hodgkin's disease, nodular sclerosis Hodgkin's disease. And this patient had [INAUDIBLE] involvement with Hodgkin's disease.   Remember, I was working with Vincent Davita, a great influence on my life, Bruce Chabner, Bob Young, many people who-- George Canellos, who you know very well, great luminaries doing lymphoma therapy as a clinical associate at the National Cancer Institute. Hampton's patient is they had to Hodgkin's disease, got MOPP chemotherapy, roared into complete remission. Basically, two cycles of MOPP, was in complete remission. I've been involved in oncology since the early days of MOPP to show you how long I've been involved in oncology.   And I got four more cycles, because we give six cycles no matter what. We're two cycles beyond complete remission in that setting. And it was about a year. And the patient came back with mediastinal lymphadenopathy. The biopsy showed that was exactly the same lymphoma. Put him back on MOPP chemotherapy, and he responded again and went back into remission.   I don't recall whether it was complete remission or partial remission. And I said, this is really fascinating, because the math was already in my head at the time. Because I thought I want to graph it out and show how well it fit the Log Kill hypothesis. And it didn't fit at all.   I mean, it just didn't make any kind of sense. From a mathematical point of view, you couldn't make the equations fit. And about that same time, I became aware that others were describing that tumors were not really growing exponentially-- solid tumors were not growing exponentially as Skipper had shown in his laboratory models, a certain leukemia named leukemia 01210.   But rather, by a very strange curve called a Gompertz curve, which was developed in 1825 by Benjamin Gompertz to fit actuarial data, actually, not anything in terms of biology. And that's an S shaped curve. So it looks exponential at the beginning. And then it bends over and eventually seems to try to reach a plateau size.   And so I went back, and I applied the Skipper Schabel model mathematically to the Gompertz curve. And I realized that, for this individual patient, it would make a whole lot of sense if the tumor, when it was growing quickly, regressed more than when it was growing slowly at a very large size. In other words that the hypothesis is that the rate at which it would shrink is proportional to its rate of growth.   And since, in a Gompertz curve, the rate of growth is always changing, the rate of shrinkage changes as a function of time as a tumor shrinking down. And that was of germ the idea. And then the question is how to test it.   Under contract Arthur Bogden in Massachusetts did some animal modeling for us. And we published my first paper actually that showed tumors were growing in a Gompertzian fashion. And in fact, a subsequent paper showed that they regressed also in the Gompertzian fashion which is what the Norman-Simon hypothesis is.   Almost immediately thereafter, a couple of implications, in terms of cancer therapeutics, and I want to get back to that. Remind me to get back to that later on. Because this is around 1977 or so that all this was really becoming clear.   So it was actually one patient that made me think of it. I mean, frankly, it was one patient's experience that made me think of it. And that's what you were saying before, Dan, is the importance of learning from each individual patient.   DANIEL F. HAYES: And actually, it's gone on to be tested in many, many trials. But probably the most definitive was run by Marc Citron and CLGB under your guidance. And I just want to say a few words, because Marc passed away just a few weeks ago. He was really instrumental in ASCO and very, very generous to the foundation. We'll miss him greatly. But that trial of 97--   LARRY NORTON: 41.   DANIEL F. HAYES: 9741, demonstrated that dose density was superior to giving things in big doses for longer periods of time. Let me ask you about--   LARRY NORTON: I just want to second there what you're saying about Marc. I mean, just an incredible human being, an incredible person, incredible clinical scientist, and he was actually the first community clinician to chair a major national trial from a co-operative group which was just an intentional decision. I believe, you were involved in that decision, actually, Dan, Hyman Muss, certainly.   DANIEL F. HAYES: Marc and I started in a group at the same time. And we grew very close. I miss him. Let me ask you to look into your crystal ball for a minute and that is with precision medicine and targeted therapy. Does the Norton-Simon hypothesis still apply to that? Do you think chemotherapy still--   LARRY NORTON: Oh, yes. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, first of all, I mean, I'm not-- now we're getting into sophisticated science topics here. But the thing is that I'm not, to this day, I'm not sure I have chemotherapy works.   I don't think that all of chemotherapy effect is just killing dividing cells. First of all, it's mathematically impossible. Does chemotherapy, does cytotoxic therapy affect the relation cell to its microenvironment? Does it affect its relationship to the immune system? These are all things that are under active investigation and active study at the present time.   There's more to what we do every day in terms of giving chemotherapy than just killing dividing cells. Chemotherapy can be very precise. I mean, methotrexate and dihydrofolate reductase, we talked about it before. It's very, very precise therapy, hormone therapy, tamoxifen and the estrogen receptor.   So we've been talking about precision medicine for a long time. It's just that our level of sophistication in terms of likely targets has changed. But still, it works. It's a law that fast things, things that grow faster regress more quickly than things growing more slowly how you return them. And I think that there are important lessons there that we still have to learn about cancer biology.   And that got me into some very exciting areas with [INAUDIBLE] and colleagues and to cell seeding theory with cancer, for example. And that story is evolving. And more data is becoming available there and much more sophisticated mathematics that will apply to those days that I hope I will have time to work on in the next few years to be able to actually establish those principles.   But I still think that we're doing something wrong if you're talking about a crystal ball which is that-- and it relates to what I just said before. We're so self-hypnotized into thinking that cancer is a disease of cell division. The vast bulk of our targeted therapeutics are oriented toward molecules that are related to mitosis.   You hear talk, that'll be a very specific talk about molecular pathways starting with genomics and [INAUDIBLE] signaling. At the end of the slide, it says, invasion, metastasis, and growth. It's a nice little package. And that's the answer. Well, I mean, that's a big cloudy area.   I mean, those are different things. Those are separate things. Those all have their separate biology. But they're all related. It is totally true.   And how are they related? And why are they related is one of the very important topics that we have to wrestle with, because that's what we really have to perturb. And I think that the, again, crystal ball guessing, or at least where I'm putting my energies now is we have all these incredible tools for developing medicinals that can attack molecules.   Are we attacking the right molecules by focusing in cell division? Should we be looking more toward perturbing tumor microenvironment relationships? Should we look at more sophisticated ways of using the immune system as one element in the tumor microenvironment, one of many in the tumor microenvironment, to accomplish the goals that we have to accomplish?   And are we actually looking at the right things in terms of molecular analysis in cancer by looking at pathways that are concerned with cell division primarily and secondarily with other things? Or should we be looking at molecular networks and molecular pathways in a more sophisticated fashion? Just like the early days of oncology, we have to be willing to take intellectual chances. And that's something I'm seeing much less of now than I did if you go back half a century.   DANIEL F. HAYES: We can go on with this one for a long time too. And we probably will the next time we get to sit and have a drink together when the pandemic goes away. I think it relates to dormancy. And I don't think we understand dormancy or how it is broken and how to treat it.   I have two things, and we're running out of time. One of those is you probably, in my opinion, have been the king of understanding the importance of philanthropy in our field, especially in relationship to what I see directly, which was your relationship with Evelyn Lauder and her husband, Leonard, of course, in the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. But I'd just like you to emphasize to the folks coming in the field how important that philanthropy is.   I think some of them believe it's dirty to get involved with that and ask people to give money. And you and other people I think have taught a lot of us that these folks want to help us. And it's important to address that in a dignified way.   LARRY NORTON: We're all in this together. I mean, I think that's the important thing to recognize as a physician or as a scientist. I said in a paper once that just as all of us are either actual or potential healers, all of us are actual or potential patients.   Cancer is a very important problem that needs to be solved. And people have to solve in every way they can, with our intellectual ability, our hard work in the clinic, our hard work in the laboratory. And people who are working hard in other fields who accumulate some element of wealth, or even people that just in normal life contribute small amounts, a lot of people doing small amounts adds up to a lot of money also. I mean, they're all part of the same process.   I mean, the importance of philanthropy is that-- and it goes back to what Evelyn said which I quote all the time. She was very instrumental in the building of our first breast center at Memorial Sloan Kettering and then our second breast center, which is freestanding building at Memorial Sloan Kettering. She and Leonard involved in every way and not just in terms of philanthropy, but actually thinking through the problems and helping solve them and design in every way.   When we built the first building that we had, we actually raised a little bit more money than we needed for the actual physical structure. So the question is, what to do with it? And obviously, a research fund at Memorial was established.   But then in terms of where else to go with it, she invited me over to her place in New York overlooking Central Park. And we sat in the kitchen, and we drank tea. And I said, what I perceive, and with my colleagues, I'm not the only one, obviously, who's perceiving this, is an explosion of science, basic science in understanding cancer, and an incredible collection of clinical investigators that can do clinical trials, and do large clinical trials as well as pilot clinical trials in our institutions. But I didn't see the connections being very tight. Because we were in different worlds, speaking somewhat different languages.   And we had to tighten those connections somehow and do something translating scientific advances in the laboratory into clinical benefit. It also allowed the scientists to understand what the clinical problems were and how to have the approach, and how we're going to do this. And she said, I've worked around creative people all my life in my professional life. And I know, you've got to identify the right people first of all.   So that's a little bit of a talent. But that the main thing is that when you identify them, you've got to give them freedom to use their imagination and the security to know that if they do something good and it doesn't work out, that they're not going to lose their job. Freedom and security is the secret of making progress in the field.   And I said, that's what we need. We need a foundation that can give the right people the freedom to use their imagination and the security to know that as long as they do good work, they're not going to lose their funding in a more traditional grant mechanism. And that's really where it started. So the whole thing is all based on that, is to get the right people and to give them freedom and security. And another part of it I just want to mention is networking to give people--   DANIEL F. HAYES: So let me focus this.   LARRY NORTON: OK.   DANIEL F. HAYES: Breast Cancer Research Foundation, how many people are you supporting? And how much money did you give this year? Just to give--   LARRY NORTON: Oh, about, oh, I mean, it's about 200 or so or more than that. Investigators, it's international at the present time. This year has been a tough year, and the next few years probably, because of COVID, because of the pandemic.   It's been a tough year. But in general, we've probably given away about a billion dollars. But it's not given away. It's actually an investment, investment in the future.   DANIEL F. HAYES: Yes. I agree.   LARRY NORTON: And it's all about bringing people together. New investigators come in, and they're used to gladiatorial combat when it comes to grant acquisition is that they have to fight against the people to beat them out. And what we reward is people working together and sharing ideas. And phenomenal things have occurred in that direction, phenomenal, huge programs in metastasis and molecular biology, Translational Breast Cancer Research Consortium which has been a fantastic thing that we've helped support. So it's really been a joy.   DANIEL F. HAYES: It's been great. Final 1 minute, the other thing you've done as well or better than most is mentoring. And I personally want to thank you for helping me in my career.   But probably, your greatest success is mentoring Cliff Hudis who's now the CEO of ASCO and is responsible for ASCO continuing to be probably the world's greatest oncology professional society. Actually not probably, in my opinion, for sure. So for that, I thank you.   We've run out of time, unfortunately. I think you and I could go on for another hour or so with this stuff which is what's fun about my getting to do this. But I want to thank you for all you've done for the field, for all you've done for so many of us in the field, and most importantly, for the patients who have benefited from what you've done.   It's pretty remarkable. This has been so much fun for me to get to interview so many of the pioneers. But you certainly rank up there at the top. So thank you very much for your time and look forward to talking to you later.   LARRY NORTON: Thank you so much for the kind words and for inviting me to do this with you, Dan. Thank you.   [MUSIC PLAYING]   DANIEL F. HAYES: Until next time, thank you for listening to this JCO's Cancer Stories, the Art of Oncology podcast. If you enjoyed what you heard today, don't forget to give us a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. While you're there, be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. JCO's Cancer Stories, the Art of Oncology podcast is just one of ASCO's many podcasts. You can find all the shows at podcast.asco.org.   [MUSIC PLAYING]

This week Kevin and Megan sit down with Rafael Lua who serves as Senior Minister for Lifeway Church and as Coordinator for the Leadership Council of the Los Angeles International Church of Christ. Rafael share about his spiritual journey, involvement in the Common Grounds Unity Pasadena group, and his rich experience at Rochester University earning his Master's and the value of building bridges between the ICOC and the Church of Christ. Thank you for listening to the Common Grounds Unity podcast. Please check out commongroundsunity.org to learn more about who we are. You can find links on the about page where you can subscribe to the essays, join our Facebook group, or find our YouTube Channel. Please, check out the gatherings page at www.commongroundsunity.org/gatherings where you can connect with other unity-minded Christians in your area. If you cannot find a gathering in your area, we can help you start one. It's not difficult or time-consuming and we will help you out along the way. It really does, simply, start with a cup of coffee. If you want to volunteer or ask questions, please email John at john@commongroundsunity.org. Please consider donating to this ministry of reconciliation - we need your help. Your donation is tax-deductible. Links for donating are in the show notes or on our website at www.commongroundsunity.org/donate . Until next time, God bless, and remember “Unity Starts With A Cup of Coffee.”

Host of the Leading Questions podcast Calvin Moore joins Josh to discuss his journey away from the Evangelical faith and a traditional, conservative, Republican culture.  Calvin became disillusioned with the Christianity of his upbringing and dissuaded from the politics commonly attached to it over many years of wrestling with hypocrisies and disingenuous arguments.  His story is an excellent example of the dangers in short-sighted political strategies and belief systems that fail to take the experiences of others into account.   Calvin Moore is the host of Leading Questions with Calvin Moore, a weekly moderated roundtable discussion about ongoing issues in our culture.  The podcast brings together disparate voices on a particular issue, discusses disagreements, considers one another's positions and, at the very least, leaves the table with a measure of respect for the person on the other side of the debate as they strive to create a space for passionate, yet healthy dialogue.   Always the inquisitive, skeptical member of his family, Calvin has consistently pushed the boundaries of accepted conventions in his search for truth and understanding.  With the rise of new media, he noticed the degradation of dialogue between disparate viewpoints, which led to the creation of this program.   Calvin earned his Bachelor of Science in History Education at Rochester University in Rochester Hills, Michigan.  His focus is on the African-American experience in the Early American Republic and Presidential History.   Calvin resides in Michigan with his wife, Jennifer.  

Despite decades of progress, diagnosing and treating nerve injuries remains a challenge for many oral and maxillofacial surgeons. Today we take a deep dive into the subject as we speak with experienced nerve microsurgeon, Dr. John Zuniga. After chatting about his professional background, we ask John how he developed his expertise in treating nerve injuries. In answering, he shares a roadmap to success that all upcoming surgeons should follow. While unpacking details about his practice, we touch on the improvements that John has seen in the field, including innovations such as nerve allografts. We then discuss the checklist that John uses when determining if a patient requires surgery. Reflecting on the difficulties surrounding nerve injuries, we talk about treatment and diagnostic limitations. Later, we focus our conversation on how John performs nerve damage surgery, with John providing added details on caring for patients with trigeminal neuralgia. We wrap up our discussion as John shares some final pearls of wisdom related to treating nerve pain, as well as dealing with damage caused by past surgeries. Tune in to benefit from his insights.Key Points From This Episode:Hear about Dr. John Zuniga’s practice and extensive experience in medicine.How John developed his interest in nerve injuries.John shares advice for upcoming oral and maxillofacial surgeons.Exploring the diagnostic improvements that John has seen over the years. Why John is excited about the future of nerve treatment.The game-changing innovations to nerve allografts and neurotrophic factors. We unpack John’s checklist when deciding if a patient needs surgery. The factors that make neuropathic pain surgery so unique and difficult. What nerve surgery looks like for John.The type of information that can inform how well John can do his job.How John treats patients with trigeminal neuralgia.John shares his words of wisdom for treating nerve pain.Tips on being a top researcher. Dealing with medical insurers when treating nerve damage.How to handle nerve damage that has been caused by past surgeons.Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Dr. John ZunigaUT Southwestern Medical Center Parkland Hospital Tufts University School of Dental Medicine University of Rochester University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Ray Dorsey is the lead neurologist at Rochester University and is on of the doctors leading the charge in the fight against Parkinson's Disease help by going to www.endingpd.org

Lucie Skeaping explores the life and works of one of colonial Latin America's greatest composers - Juan Gutierrez de Padilla. Musician, priest and purveyor of fine musical instruments, Padilla was born in 1590 in Malaga, Spain. He took a big step in his church career by emigrating to Mexico in his 30s, and by the mid-1600s, he was Musical Director of Puebla de los Angeles' magnificent cathedral and composer of a substantial collection of glorious works for double choir - firmly establishing the cathedral as the most outstanding musical institution of the Spanish colonies in the process. We also join Andrew Cashner, assistant professor of music at Rochester University, for a closer look at the impact of Padilla's social and cultural world upon one of his most intriguing works, Al establo más dichoso.

In this episode we meet a brand builder - Co-Founder & Executive Director of The VL Studios Valev Laube - who is originally from Estonia, but right now lives in New York. An entrepreneur, creative visionary and producer Valev is also the first Estonian who has been listed in the Forbes list under 30 in America. Valev accelerates not only brands but also talented personalities. He weaves together design and marketing by finding ways how to unite people and be part of co-creation projects also artistically. In the first episode we go along to his journey to figure out his talents and put them to work as a graphic designer and a brand builder. We also look into the life of New Yorkers during the pandemic of 2020 and also how Valev dealed with his anxiety. If you have never heard of Estonia you will also get couple of tips where to start. Enjoy and share! To support this Podcast - please share, like, review and download it. All comments, ideas and support is welcome!----more---- Summary:   01:30 How Crystal Ra and Valev know each other 01:39 Introduction to Valev Laube 05:05 Journey from a little Estonian village to New York  05:44 Sister's surprise gift in New York 07:00 Tartu and music school and trying out different things 08:20 International school in Italy – 90 different countries represented 09:19 Graphic design passion 09:30 Bachelors in Rochester University in USA 10:05 Online learning 11:00 Abundance in action treasure box 11:46 Family's support for my passions 12:38 Crystal's journey to discover herself 13:56 Everything is interconnected – everything you learn will be used later 14:39 Valev's guide through fear 15:25 Look back about the worries of the past 15:46 Trust the factor of time to figure things out 17:08 List of the worries – your past self can not figure out your future problems 17:47 Meeting someone inspiring and your mind can shift 18:00 Crystal's experiences from fear – there is a gift in every fearful moment 18:53 Everything is divine 20:17 Accents in America 20:47 Trust the process of change 21:23 Crystal's 3 hints about Estonia 22:34 Little countries like little treasures to be found 23:24 Visiting Estonia with Michael, (Crystal's husband) for the first time 25:00 NYC during the pandemic of 2020 27:01 New Yorkers responses 27.53 New New York emerging 28:31 Upper West side opening up in a new way 29:07 Personal experiences in these times – losing some close friends 30:21 Personal physical challenges with chest pains 32:03 Anxiety diagnoses 32:25 Depression and antidepressants 34:00 Anxiety incident 34:32 Only sleep and work took away social life 35:00 Was not physical – tried CBD oil, tea 35:42 Mental change and shift 36:36 Responsibility calling 37:22 How Valev came back to normal 38:11 New rules to take care of himself 38:40 Anxiety was connected to mental health 39:30 Redefine yourself now 40:00 Bond with friends 40:20 Do not do Google research your illnesses 40:52 Mental and physical health's interconnectedness 41:48 Get help from doctors and therapists 42:11 Trust your body 42:26 Self-care routines and change in the position of the priority list 43:07 Grateful for clients – being entrepreneur you get to create your job 43:48 Less distractions right now 44:06 Self-reflect and reshape life 44:39 Life your life so you do not regret 44:56 Brand building is like art - building the bridges between the humans and the digital 45:27 Brand is influencing and experience   **  Find out more info about Valev Laube here:  Facebook page for VL studios  Valev Laube web page The VL Studios Check out the amazing gift and the complimentary consultation schedule link what Valev shared with our listeners and viewers here: Check out also this amazing project where Valev is a brand manager:  Singing Revolution Musical   ** To make every Podcast count, please do not only listen or like it, but also download it - this helps to grow our numbers which can soon help to support us also in other ways; share it with many; make it your regular companion wherever you live, are or whatever you are creating in your life! Find our Podcast also at Spotify, I Tunes and Google Play! Check us also out in FB, and You Tube Some days after each audio version of the Podcast we will upload the video version to our new You Tube channel (#abundanceinactionpodcast). So check that out as well and support it the same way. Leave your comments, suggestions and ideas or a wish to contribute to us in comment sections or via email to abundanceinactionpodcast@gmail.com or to FB: www.facebook.com/abundanceinactionpodcast   Thank you in advance! May Aloha be always with you!   Crystal Ra Laksmi-Ditton & Michael Ditton Abundance in Action Podcast co-producers and co-hosts                  

Saving Elephants’ own Josh Lewis hosts an election night panel to discuss the incoming results of the race and what it may mean for the future of the country, Republican and Democratic parties, and conservative movement. Meet the panelists:   Brooke Medina: Brooke Medina is a homeschool mother of four and the Director of Communications at Civitas Institute where she manages Civitas’ outward facing platforms, oversees messaging strategy, and handles all press relationships. The North Carolina based Civitas Instituted is a nonprofit policy organization dedicated to removing barriers to freedom so that all North Carolinians can enjoy a better life. Brooke also co-hosts Civitas’ podcast Civitalk, which focuses on drawing connections between civics and culture.   Brooke is a graduate of Regent University, holding a B.A. in Government and a minor in English. She has also completed several programs with the Charles Koch Institute, including the Koch Leaders Program and Koch Communications Fellowship, focusing on the philosophical underpinnings of market-based management and classical liberalism. She also sits on the board of directors for ReCity Network, a Durham-based non-profit committed to empowering civil society in combating poverty-related problems. Brooke’s writings have been published in outlets such as The Hill, Entrepreneur, Washington Examiner, Daily Signal, FEE, and Intellectual Takeout.   But most importantly, Brooke’s hot takes, insights, and shenanigans on social media are worth following so be sure and check her out on Twitter @Brooke_Medina_   Justin Stapley: A prolific writer and thoughtful tweeter, Justin began working on projects not at all dissimilar to Saving Elephant’s mission to fight for a restoration of political principles in the American political process shortly after the 2016 election. And during the past several years, Justin has launched multiple websites and written for many affiliate groups.   His flagship website is the apply named justinstapley.com which links to his various endeavors, including a contributing advocate and writer for the Federalist Coalition, an advocacy journalist at NOQ Report, an opinion columnist at Porter Medium, the founder and editor of The Liberty Hawk, and the Shooting Editor at Spencer Durrant Outdoors and will be a co-host for the up-and-coming Spencer Durrant Outdoors Podcast. Earlier this year Justin launched his own podcast called The New Centrist which features his original commentary and highlights of worthwhile speeches. In addition to politics, his writings include recreational shooting, hunting, fishing, and self-defense.  His most current work includes the near-weakly newsletter Self-Evident.   Justin described himself as a “liberty-minded conservative and member of the Republican Party” whose “principles and beliefs are grounded in the idea of ordered liberty as expressed in the traditions of classical liberalism, federalism, and modern conservatism.” While much of that remains the same, he no longer feels he can be a card-caring member of the Republican party and hold to those values, as he explains at length in the episode.   You can find Justin on Twitter @JustinWStapley.   JB Shreve: Veteran podcaster JB Shreve conducted a series of interviews of Christians of various political persuasions to ask about their expectations and recommendations in the upcoming 2020 election. JB had invited Josh to join as the “conservative” participant in the interviews. And Josh was happy to return the favor in having JB on the show to share his insights.   JB Shreve is the founder of The End of History, a blog and podcast for Christians dedicated to helping believers make sense of the chaos of the world around them. JB has been producing podcasts and articles since 2012.   After more than 200 podcast episodes, his listeners have come to expect well researched, fact-based backgrounders on a wide variety of topics to help them better understand the world around them. These backgrounders range from the history of the Middle East to the true story of economic inequality. Episodes and posts frequently expose myths and false paradigms we have come to believe. JB is adamant he is not pushing a political agenda. Rather, JB’s mission is to: Help believers in crafting their own response to world affairs and current events Provide a faith-based, values-centered voice in the face of current global issues Ease the tension between a Biblical worldview and the world we live in Provide reasonable, intelligent perspectives empowered with Biblical values and faith Remove the yelling, outrage, and debate from our worldviews to find facts and seek the truth   You can learn more about JB’s work and podcast on his website, The End of History. JB can be found on Twitter @JB_Shreve   Calvin Moore: Calvin Moore is the host of Leading Questions with Calvin Moore, a weekly moderated roundtable discussion about ongoing issues in our culture. The podcast brings together disparate voices on a particular issue, discusses disagreements, considers one another's positions and, at the very least, leaves the table with a measure of respect for the person on the other side of the debate as they strive to create a space for passionate, yet healthy dialogue.   Always the inquisitive, skeptical member of his family, Calvin has consistently pushed the boundaries of accepted conventions in his search for truth and understanding. With the rise of new media, he noticed the degradation of dialogue between disparate viewpoints, which led to the creation of this program.   Calvin earned his Bachelor of Science in History Education at Rochester University in Rochester Hills, Michigan. His focus is on the African-American experience in the Early American Republic and Presidential History.   Calvin resides in Michigan with his wife, Jennifer.  

Quality Sense is back for season 2! Did you miss us? In this episode, I invited Fernanda Sesto, an entrepreneur, Rochester University student, and former Abstracta tester, to share a bit of what it was like for her to start working in testing at the ripe old age of 18! Episode highlights: - What she wished she knew when getting started in software testing - What its like to work from Latin America for clients in the United States - The differences between studying technology and actually working in it on the ground, in the real world - Mistakes to avoid and tips for success in your first year of testing Read the full transcript and more info here: https://abstracta.us/blog/podcast/fernanda-sesto-advice-getting-started-software-testing/ Connect with Fernanda on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernanda-sesto/

BIG TIME guest this week on the Jordan McCabe podcast!! Our guy ROB BOB came through to chop it up!! He just committed to Rochester University in Michigan and he's HYPED to get to campus. My guy is about to take over at the next level. Jordan had to ask him the million dollar question... "WHAT IS YOUR TRUE HEIGHT?" I don't wanna spoil the fun so you'll have to watch and find out what he said For real tho, Rob is one of the best dudes you'll meet and we're so hyped he jumped on with Jordan. Appreciate you Rob and good luck at Rochester!!

In this episode, Ross and Karbo trace the experiences of Karl Muck. A celebrated German conductor who emigrated to Boston struggles against anti-German American elites during the First World War and returns to Germany to support the rise of Adolf Hitler. View Show Notes Find Us Online - website: http://wdav.org/powerplay - support: https://donate.wdav.org/pledge/ (Add “Power Play” to the Comments) Resources - Burrage, Melissa. The Karl Muck Scandal: Classical Music and Xenophobia in World War I America. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2019. - Ross, Alex. “The ‘Star-Spangled Banner' Hysteria of 1917.” The New Yorker. July 2, 2019.

A new Rochester University study raises new grave questions about fossil fuel production and climate change. The author of the first major study on methane and fracking, Cornell University's Bob Howarth, explains its implications.

Dr. Gener Augustin could have chosen to live anywhere. An accomplished vascular surgeon with time at Rochester University and Harvard under her belt, Gener came to Catawba County and realized it was where she needed to be – if she wanted to stay married, that is. While she was interviewing with Catawba Valley Health System, her husband Edward had already decided Catawba County would be their home. Hear more of Gener’s story – including her endless search for the best ice cream, and how she became an algorithm – on this month’s episode of Making. Living. Better.

My former college teammate and newly named Head Coach of Rochester University, Wesley Maskill, joins me for lucky episode #13. Wesley is one of the most positive, uplifting leaders I've ever met and is working to build a new program while raising a son. Learn about Wesley's journey and what he's looking forward to in his first head coaching role. Follow Rochester University on IG @RUWarrior_Wrestling Follow Unsportsmanlike Conduct on Twitter @Unsportconpod4

Many physical features of Neanderthals might not be for cold climate adaptation as previously thought. They may be for types of locomotion. Which, according to paleo-ecologist, John Stewart at Bournemouth University, makes the long thigh to calf ratios more likely that Neanderthals were adapted to fast, powerful sprints, as part of their hunting and survival. The clues to this lie less in the bones and more in the evidence that Neanderthals lived in wooded areas rather than tundra. Earth’s solid iron inner core, liquid outer core and interactions between the two give us our protective magnetic field and are responsible for the ‘geodynamo’ that drives this, as well as volcanism and Earth’s tectonics. But we don’t yet know when the solid core formed. It’s hard to find paleo-magnetic records from early in Earth’s history. But now a group at Rochester University in New York have discovered magnetic particles from 565 million year old Ediacaran Period rocks in Canada and they say that at the time lots of life was evolving on our planet, the geodynamo was low and wobbly. This leads them to believe the solid core formed two to three times later than previously thought. A typical sneeze will throw out 40,000 tiny droplets loaded with viruses or bacteria, which can hang in the air like a cloud until someone else comes along and inhales some. To a scientist, this suspension is an aerosol, and what goes on inside a tiny droplet can be very different from what happens in a beaker of fluid. But studying those conditions, which can alter whether a germ can survive its aerial journey is hard. Which is why at Bristol University they’ve developed an aerosol trap that can hold droplets mid-air, without contact, with an electric field. Rabbits and hares across Europe have been declining rapidly over the past few decades. There are a number of factors involved (Agricultural intensification, climate change, hunting and a whole host of infectious diseases.) Myxomatosis in rabbits, which has now jumped into hares, is fairly well known by the public, but there are other viral and bacterial diseases that are jumping between the species and the most recent one Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 (RHDV2) is of particular concern right now. Very little is known about this disease in wild populations. It was seen in hares in Europe a few years back, but it’s now just been identified in the UKs native brown hare population. Biologist Diana Bell at the University of East Anglia wants the public to contact her if they see any hares that look like they’ve died from the disease. Producer - Fiona Roberts

This week we discuss the Rochester University player that was kidnapped as well as how important is attendance to your offseason workouts to your playing time when the season begins. Also, the wackiness that has been NBA Free agency.

Today, we have figured out a way to talk both about our new book--How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students--and to make good on the title of our current series, Colleges in the Spotlight. As we were writing the book, we realized that we could use a lot of college examples, drawn from our earlier podcast episodes, to illuminate the points we were trying to make. I thought it would be interesting to see just how many colleges were mentioned in the book--and by “mentioned,” I mean that they were used to illustrate the answers to some of the 52 questions that teenagers are asked to find the answers to for each college on their Long List of College Options (LLCO). In a way, these colleges are in our spotlight for things that they are doing right or for characteristics they have that are noteworthy. To find out why we mentioned each college, you are going to have to get the book!  1. Colleges in the Spotlight So, here we go. Here are the colleges that we thought were worth mentioning--for some reason or other (they are listed roughly in the order in which they are mentioned in the book, and I might have missed a few): Fordham University (joint program with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) Richmond, The American International University in London University of Colorado Boulder The University of Rhode Island Tuskegee University University of Iowa University of Vermont University of Delaware University of Wyoming City University of New York (and its Hunter College campus) College of William & Mary University of Pennsylvania Fisk University Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Penn State University of California campuses California State University campuses Cornell University Soka University of America The University of New Mexico Columbia University Brown University Harvard University Barnard College Morehouse College Spelman College Hampden-Sydney College Wabash College Kenyon College Kent State University New York University Carleton College University of Minnesota Milwaukee School of Engineering University of Alaska Fairbanks University of Washington University of New Hampshire Georgia State University Amherst College Vassar College Reed College Hamilton College Colorado College Rice University Duke University California Institute of Technology St. John’s College Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa The Evergreen State College Pitzer College (one of the five undergraduate colleges of The Claremont Colleges) Centre College Goucher College Hampshire College Bennington College Sterling College Drexel University Northeastern University St. Michael’s College University of Rochester University of Massachusetts Boston That’s more than 60 colleges, which is actually quite a few. Of course, you can always refer back to the virtual college tour we did in Episodes 27 through 53 for a discussion of even more colleges, organized by geographic region of the U.S. But the new book doesn’t stop with those 60-plus. We also name some great college towns--“great,” according to one of the lists of great college towns that publications love to compile. Do you know what colleges are located in these towns? College Station, TX Charlottesville, VA Saratoga Springs, NY Asheville, NC Flagstaff, AZ Boulder, CO Santa Cruz, CA St. Augustine, FL Burlington, VT Annapolis, MD Ann Arbor, MI Athens, GA Oxford, MS Iowa City, IA 2. Now, It’s Up to You Now, it’s up to you. At least, that is what we say at the end of the book. We wrote this to each student, assuming that he or she had done the assignments as they were presented:  You have done a lot of work to gather information about the colleges on your LLCO. You have completed a College Profile Worksheet on quite a few colleges by now. You have learned more than many high school students know about a variety of specific colleges and about higher education generally.  So, it’s time to start comparing and contrasting the colleges you have researched. That will be a long process, which will require analysis and evaluation by you and your parents and perhaps other important family members. And it’s okay that it is a long process because this is a big decision for all of you.  Remember that choosing which colleges to apply to can be every bit as important as choosing which college to attend. In an ideal world, you should be happy with every college you apply to because that will take the pressure off as you wait for acceptances to come in.  Of course, you might be more excited about some choices than others, but don’t apply to any college that you would not want to attend. That is a waste of your time and money. We are confident that there is a college that you can be admitted to that will make you happy. Even safety schools don’t have to be disappointing choices. If they are for you now, you just haven’t looked hard enough yet! Get busy.  We mean that last point really sincerely: If your teenager’s safety schools are disappointing choices for him or her, you all just haven’t looked hard enough yet. There are great colleges--especially some public flagship universities and some large private universities--that are very likely to admit good students, especially those who come from other states. Having a safety school that your teenager does not want to go to is really not having any safety school at all. We mean it when we say, “Look harder.” We hope that our new book will help your teenager look harder, think harder, and work harder to expand his or her LLCO, to get exciting colleges onto that LLCO, to learn as much as possible about each one of them (by completing a College Profile Worksheet for each one), and to feel satisfied when all of the applications are submitted--that is, satisfied that all of the colleges he or she applied to are good choices, just for different reasons. And a satisfied teenager is likely to produce a satisfied parent. Or at least it should. Find our books on Amazon! How To Find the Right College: A Workbook for Parents of High School Students (available as a Kindle ebook and in paperback) How To Explore Your College Options: A Workbook for High School Students (available in paperback) Ask your questions or share your feedback by... Leaving a comment on the show notes for this episode at http://usacollegechat.org/episode120 Calling us at (516) 900-6922 to record a question on our USACollegeChat voicemail if you want us to answer your question live on our podcast Connect with us through... Subscribing to our podcast on Google Play Music, iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn Liking us on Facebook or following us on Twitter Reviewing parent materials we have available at www.policystudies.org Inquiring about our consulting services if you need individualized help Reading Regina's blog, Parent Chat with Regina

Traditionally viewed as a poor verbal practise, the ums and ers uttered by parents may in fact play a critical role in helping toddlers to learn new words, as Rochester University researcher Richard Aslin, publishing in the journal Developmental Science, discovered recently... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Traditionally viewed as a poor verbal practise, the ums and ers uttered by parents may in fact play a critical role in helping toddlers to learn new words, as Rochester University researcher Richard Aslin, publishing in the journal Developmental Science, discovered recently... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists