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• The Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute in Bloomington treated its first cancer patient this month, the culmination of seven years of work by IU administrators and faculty, Indiana business leaders and local, state and federal government officials. More than 50 patients are on a waiting list to receive proton therapy. Read more about the facility at this HP archival site:
http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/011802/text/mpri.html
• IU East’s associate and bachelor’s nursing degrees 2003 graduates far surpassed the national pass rate: 96 percent of bachelor’s degree holders at East passed the exam, and 93 percent of the associate degree holders passed, compared to the national overall pass rate of 82 percent.
• The Galena Project is an IU Southeast partnership with a Floyds Knob elementary school formed more than a decade ago that allows elementary education students to explore the opportunities inherent in technology to teach social studies and the language arts.
http://homepages.ius.edu/Special/Galena/
• The IU School of Nursing was founded as a training school for nurses in 1914; this year is its 90th anniversary. Sixty-five percent of the school’s 24,000 living grads remain in the state.
http://nursing.iupui.edu/
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