FSU Young Scholars Program

Telemedicine Reports: Virtual Clinical Shadowing for Pre-Clinical Medical Students in an Emergency Medicine-Based Leadership Course

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Monday, December 20, 2021

NEW YORK, Dec. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Summus Global, the leading virtual specialist platform, announces Mary Mulcare, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Weill Cornell, and Chief Medical Officer, Summus Global, is leading a new pathway in teaching pre-clinical medical students about telemedicine through virtual platforms. To overcome pandemic-based in-person learning, medical students successfully shadowed Dr. Mulcare and leading emergency medicine (EM) physicians at Weill Cornell Medicine's Healthcare Leadership and Management (HLM) Scholars Program. Students gained enhanced experience through a virtual shadowing model of emergency department (ED) patient care and telemedicine patient visits.

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  • NEW YORK, Dec. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Summus Global, the leading virtual specialist platform, announces Mary Mulcare, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Weill Cornell, and Chief Medical Officer, Summus Global, is leading a new pathway in teaching pre-clinical medical students about telemedicine through virtual platforms.
  • To overcome pandemic-based in-person learning,medical students successfully shadowed Dr. Mulcare and leading emergency medicine (EM) physicians at Weill Cornell Medicine's Healthcare Leadership and Management (HLM) Scholars Program.
  • Students gained enhanced experience through a virtual shadowing model of emergency department (ED) patient care and telemedicine patient visits.
  • Mary Mulcare, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Weill Cornell; Chief Medical Officer, Summus Global

SEEDS - Access Changes Everything Celebrates 30 Years of Changing Lives through Education

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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

NEWARK, N.J., Nov. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SEEDS Access Changes Everything, a nonprofit access organization dedicated to providing transformative educational opportunities to high-achieving students from low-income households proudly marked its 30th anniversary today.

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  • NEWARK, N.J., Nov. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SEEDS Access Changes Everything, a nonprofit access organization dedicated to providing transformative educational opportunities to high-achieving students from low-income households proudly marked its 30th anniversary today.
  • To date, 3,038 students have graduated from SEEDS programs, with 559 of those students currently receiving transitional support through SEEDS' Guidance Program.
  • Ninety-nine percent of SEEDS graduates have matriculated into college compared to just 29% of low-income students, nationwide.
  • Founded in 1992, SEEDS Access Changes Everything, formerly New Jersey SEEDS, is a nonprofit organization that provides motivated, high-achieving students from low-income households with access to top-tier education that would have otherwise been unattainable due to socioeconomic status.

As Digital Inclusion Programming Grows, Marconi Society Announces Three New Board Members, Major Gift from Irwin and Joan Jacobs

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Monday, October 18, 2021

NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio, Oct. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Marconi Society , a nonprofit dedicated to digital inclusion, today announced three new Board members and a major gift from Marconi Fellow and Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs and his wife Joan Jacobs.

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  • NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio, Oct. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Marconi Society , a nonprofit dedicated to digital inclusion, today announced three new Board members and a major gift from Marconi Fellow and Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs and his wife Joan Jacobs.
  • "With this generous gift from Irwin and Joan Jacobs and the deep expertise of our new Board members, the Marconi Society will continue accelerating our work and our impact," said Vint Cerf, Chair of the Marconi Society and 1998 Marconi Fellow .
  • Through programming like The Decade of Digital Inclusion , a virtual event series with a Symposium scheduled for October 22, the Marconi Society collaborates with changemakers from technology, policy, and digital inclusion to address digital inequity.
  • "We are grateful to welcome our new Board members and for this significant contribution," said Samantha Schartman-Cycyk, Executive Director of the Marconi Society.

SEEDS - Access Changes Everything Celebrates the Graduation of 92 Scholars and Young Scholars

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Thursday, August 5, 2021

NEWARK, N.J., Aug. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SEEDS Access Changes Everything , a nonprofit that provides educational access to students from low-income households, proudly celebrated the graduation of 92 rising sixth-, seventh-, and ninth-graders part of its Scholars and Young Scholars programs.

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  • NEWARK, N.J., Aug. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SEEDS Access Changes Everything , a nonprofit that provides educational access to students from low-income households, proudly celebrated the graduation of 92 rising sixth-, seventh-, and ninth-graders part of its Scholars and Young Scholars programs.
  • This year, 99 percent of graduating Scholars and Young Scholars were placed into selective schools with enough financial aid to allow them to matriculate.
  • The Scholars and Young Scholars Programs are free 14-month initiatives for high-achieving, low-income students.
  • SEEDS provides its scholars with rigorous academic classes over the course of two summers and the Saturdays in between.