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Amicus: Communication Across Languages, Brian Cipperly (Industrial Design), Rosario Herrera (Graphic Design), Mike Savarie (Sustainable Design)

Nexus Maximus

MOST INNOVATIVE SOLUTION AWARD

Our project is designed to serve as a means for speakers of different languages to communicate using pictorial icons, particularly to serve basic needs such as food and water. At a refugee camp or other first point of contact, a volunteer or aid worker can be wearing a t-shirt, giving away blankets, or using flash cards with the symbols printed on them and the refugee can communicate their needs.

Nexus Maximus IV

The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, …

The Children's Community Center, Noelle Howard (Economics), Silvia Martin Aldana (Graphic Design Certificate), Cristina Pareja (Disaster And Medicine And Management), Albaraa Jebreel (Disaster And Medicine And Management)

Nexus Maximus

We are the Children’s Community Center, a NGO thats wants to provide an emergency response to the new surge of Rohingya refugee children. We want to relieve the daily mental traumas of the refugee camps through the collaborative interaction of the different children within the camps. This center will also give parents the space to focus on their own healing without the preoccupation of childcare.

Nexus Maximus IV

The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the …

Combating The Problem Of Smuggling Via Legal Refugee Transport Agencies, Mitchell Maurer (Engineering), Ala Saleh, Alex Marino, Adam Hoover, Imani Pajibo, Gabriel De Toro Cruzat

Nexus Maximus

Our final project is the idea of an organization that works to legally transport refugees into the EU where they can safely become members of the local economy. Legal and social loopholes prevent refugees from entering easily, while refugees are actually seen to aid in temporary working economies.

Nexus Maximus IV

The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 …

Unite App: Connecting Refugees And Locals, Aubrey Coughlin (Interior Design), Anna Loimusalo (Information And Service Management), Anthony Difranco (Industrial Design), Bennett Purdy (Textile), Mismilad Alhashim (Pre-Med), Winston Folkes (Occupational Therapy)

Nexus Maximus

Unite is a social media platform which connects refugees with local organizations and anyone who wants to lend a hand, when they arrive in a new country. To make our concept more specific, we focused on the city of Berlin, the organizations which exist there and the people who are migrating there.

Nexus Maximus IV

The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee …

Refugee.Jobs, Laura Dunne (Pa Studies), Jonathan Looi (Computer Science), Jose Tomas Marchant (Industrial Design), Devin Morrison (Industrial Design)

Nexus Maximus

Refugee.jobs connects prospective refugee workers with both American employers and English language education resources. Employers who participate in Refugee.jobs are educated about the benefits of hiring refugees and are provided with answers to their concerns by Refugee.jobs liasons. Key players in the success of Refugee.jobs are local refugee resettlement agencies and cultural communities.

Nexus Maximus IV

The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to …

Category 5, Michael A. Gregori (Landscape Architecture), Kelly Dutertre (Accounting), Catalina Arce Elton (Marketing), Griffin Voight (Landscape Architecture)

Nexus Maximus

Follow Elizabeth and her family through this family oriented video series which highlights topics such as preparing for a hurricane, how to help those affected by a storm and raises awareness for mental health after a natural disaster.

Nexus Maximus IV

The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope …

Hope Box, Ted Thresh (Industrial Design), Erica Lomando, Monica Tabet, Delara Kiani (Industrial Design), Iiro Nurmi

Nexus Maximus

The Hope Box is a purse sized container with the main purpose of giving people hope that not all is lost. This container locks and can hold your personal valuables safely from theft or water or abrasion damage.

Nexus Maximus IV

The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope …

Refugee Connects, Chintha Snow Vongsakulvong (Interior Design), John Murphy, Maria Latorre, Alejandra Hernandez

Nexus Maximus

Refuge Connects

An opportunity for Refugees Syrian refugees are in a vulnerable state while in their camps, mentally, physically, and economically. They miss their homes, jobs, and their old community. While waiting to hear about their asylum status, they want to have a sense of normality. Refugees have limited access to job opportunities, which delays productivity for families. When trying to strive for normality in their current state, having a steady source of income will stabilize their lives.

Nexus Maximus IV

The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to …

Life, Kendall Hancock (Fashion Design), Damien Vela, Fancy Castillo, Monica Barrera (Interior Design), Terry Rim

Nexus Maximus

This project is about offering a solution to nationally displaced populations. Our group has created a system that will not only provide people with housing but a piece of mind.

Nexus Maximus IV

The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. That’s 34,000 people a day who leave everything behind in the hope of finding safety and a better tomorrow. The …

Bookbox, Suraksha Chandrasekhar (Dmm), Anna Marinina (Computer Science), Gabrielle Schwartz (Mba, Marketing/Business Analytics), Erica Lomando (Interior Design), Sarah Von Lange (Health Sciences)

Nexus Maximus

Bookbox is an app that unites the world through books. With a motto of "Donate a book, start a new chapter" Bookbox aims to facilitate the flow of donated books to refugees in Syrian refugee camps, with a goal of promoting education, self-learning and the will to build a future.

Nexus Maximus IV

The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our time is how to help refugees and displaced populations, and how to prevent the causes in the first place. Every minute, 24 people around the world are forced to flee their homes. …

Mobile Health One Kiosk, Nathoue Noel (Public Administration), Giana Castelli (Interior Design), Nazanin Salehima (Interior Design), Queen Mgbechinyere (Nursing), Yasir Almukhifi (Disaster Management And Medicine), Salwa Rasheed (Textile Design)

Nexus Maximus

The goal of this machine is to decrease the wait time to see a physician or doctor when a refugee goes to a clinic. The machine will perform the first tests that a nurse would have to do before the patient meet the doctor. The machine allows this process to be quicker by doing tests, set up appointments for refugees to see a doctor,give the estimated wait time at clinics and also to direct people to the right section of the clinic once they get there.

Nexus Maximus IV

The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the …

Half Full: A Personal Water Collection System, Matthew Cuccurese (Industrial Design), Andres Valbuena, Pooja Joshi (Occupational Therapy), Sophia Warne Rowe (Interior Design), Samantha Ringer (Interior Design)

Nexus Maximus

Our project focuses on the issue of water within refugee camps. We have proposed a system that can allow for individuals to be able to have their own source of drinking water with a device that can condensate water from the air, even in an aired region. This would allow them to use less water from the community's supply overall, and allow more water to be able to be rationed for uses like washing and cleaning than is currently rationed per person.

Nexus Maximus IV

The Challenge: Innovation for Refugees and Displaced Populations

One of the great challenges of our …

Finding The Right Fit To Improve Colorectal Cancer Screening, Joseph Spataro, Richard Denicola, Drew Kotler, Md, Albert Lee, Md

Department of Medicine Posters

Background

• An estimated 28% of eligible US adults have never been screened for colorectal cancer (CRC) 2
• Fecal Immunochemical Testing (FIT) offers an acceptable non-invasive screening option
• An estimated 56% of patients at our internal medicine clinic have not had colorectal cancer screening and alternatives to colonoscopy were seldom promoted

Poster presented at: Pennsylvania Society of Gastroenterology (PSG) Annual Scientific Meeting 2017 at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Farmington, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

The Musicality Of The Water Lilies/La Musicalité Des Nymphéas (Library Resources), Holy Cross Libraries

Library Resources for Campus Events

A bibliography of resources available through the Holy Cross Libraries which provide additional information related to the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery exhibition “Gabrielle Thierry: The Musicality of the Water Lilies/La Musicalité des Nymphéas” from Aug. 30 through Oct. 7.

Thierry’s series of eight large-scale paintings were inspired by her rediscovery of the “Water Lilies” landscapes by Claude Monet on view at the the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris. With special permission from the museum, Thierry painted in front of Monet’s originals over a period of 18 months from 2010 to 2012, where she explored the inner musical …

Culture Of Mobility, Beth Colborn, Dpt, Helene Daly, Msn, Rn, Kathleen Hilbert, Rn, Msn, Cm, Gordon R. Reeves, Md, Jessica Shank, Pt, Mpt, Elizabeth Singh, Dpt, Lisa Wus, Dnp, Rn, Crnp, Pccn-Cmc

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Posters

Objectives

•Create an interdisciplinary approach to patient mobility and functional independence

•Provide education and support to lead a culture of mobility

•Develop a system that reduces immobility related adverse outcomes and promotes overall patient well-being

•Utilize evidence based practice to create a program that will decrease variation in patient care in order to optimize hospital based outcomes

Prisons As Learning Environments For Nursing And Public Health Practice, Mary Bouchaud, Phd, Rn, Madeline Brooks

College of Nursing Posters

Background:

Challenges in Securing Community Nursing Rotation Sites Eighteen years of providing clinical placement for Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students has demonstrated that community-based educational opportunities are shrinking due to:

•Increased regulatory requirements

•Competing numbers of nursing schools

•Increasing student enrollment

•Decreasing availability of community resources capable and willing to precept students

These issues present challenges to preparing students for nursing practice. A college of nursing at an urban, academic health center found a solution by working with unexpected partners – maximum security prisons and juvenile detention centers.

A Novel Solution: Partnerships with Prisons

Several factors make prisons …

What's Happening: September 4, 2017, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Department Of Surgery Update, September 2017, Wright State University Department Of Surgery

Department of Surgery Updates

A three page newsletter created by the Department of Surgery documenting changes to the department. This issue contains a message from the chair, a list of important dates, committee meetings, and more.

Comparison Of Agricultural Injury And Fatality Characteristics Obtained From Media Monitoring Versus Official Statistics, Moses New-Aaron, Jessica Semin, Risto Rautiainen, Murray Madsen

Posters and Presentations: College of Public Health

Objective of project:

1. Compare the characteristics of fatal injuries reported by CFOI and CS-CASH media monitoring

2. Analyze the agreement between CFOI reported injuries and CS-CASH media monitoring fatal injuries

Planning/Research Method:

Background:

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) provides statistics on occupational fatalities, but information on individual cases is not reported. The Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health (CS-CASH) tracks media reports of agricultural injury and fatality cases to augment CFOI data.

Methods:

Data was obtained from variety of sources. The primary data source was "Google Alerts" and other sources includes …

One Jefferson News September 2017, Performance Excellence

One Jefferson News

Over the past three years, we have embarked on an exciting journey of reimagining a new model for health and education to create One Jefferson. Our first step was to bring together Thomas Jefferson University and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. We continued along this journey by welcoming Abington Health and Aria Health, and combining Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University. Recently, we also welcomed Kennedy Health to the Jefferson Health family.

As the process of coming together – becoming one – continues to produce a growing number of integration successes for the organization, we are expanding communication efforts with this …

Contact Point, Arthur A. Dugoni School Of Dentistry

Contact Point

No abstract provided.

Cime Newsletter : September 2017, Cime

Centre for Innovation in Medical Education (CIME) Archives

- The Team at CIME Successfully Launch First Clinical Simulation Workshop

- Raising the Standards of Health for Mothers and Children in Central and South Asia

- Successful Opthalmology Sessions

- Scientific Events

- Heart Attack on a Plate

- Blog

Pharmacy Newsletter : September 2017, Pharmacy Department

Department of Pharmacy Archives

Content:

• Drug - Drug Interaction-A case Report
• Survey on Knowledge and Awareness of Pharmacists about Venous
• Pregnancy Risk & Lactation Safety of Antiretroviral (HIV)
• Dengue Vaccine - Hope for Future

Oncolog, Volume 62, Number 09, September 2017, Joe Munch, Bryan Tutt

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy for Spinal Metastases: Laser technique may be alternative to open surgery prior to stereotactic radiation therapy for metastases adjacent to the spinal cord.
• Immunotherapy Plus Targeted Therapy for Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer: Trial combines atezolizumab with targeted or cytotoxic agents for patients with anaplastic or poorly differentiated thyroid cancer.
• A New era in Follicular Lymphoma: Newly approved drugs, clinical trials represent shift from cytotoxic to targeted and immunotherapeutic agents.
• HOUSE CALL: Understanding Clinical Trials- Trials provide access to new cancer treatments
• INBRIEF: Repeat Surgery for Close Margins May Be Unnecessary for DCIS Patients Receiving Radiation Therapy

The Scoop, Vol. 4 Issue 6, September 2017, Health Sciences Library

Volume 4

Latest news and events from the Health Sciences Library in our monthly newsletter for September 2017.

September 2017, Swosu Bulldog Wellness Committee

SWOSU BULLDOG WELLNESS

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: August 28, 2017, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: August 21, 2017, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Week Of August 21, 2017, New York Medical College

InTouch

• Eduardo Lopez, M.D., is the Inaugural the Catherine and Ladislav P. Hinterbuchner Endowed Chair in Rehabilitation Medicine
• Sixth Annual STAR Student Research Forum Showcases Impressive Summer Investigative Works
• SHSP Students Join LEND at WIHD
• SHSP Hosts Special Public Health Practice Council Meeting

What's Happening: August 14, 2017, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.