The University of Toledo’s Spring for CommunityCare 5K Run/3K Walk is Saturday, April 11.

All proceeds benefit UT’s CommunityCare Clinics, which provide free health care to the uninsured and underserved in the greater Toledo area. The clinics, which are run by UT medical, nursing, pharmacy and physical therapy students, deliver care at the Mildred Bayer Clinic for the Homeless, 2101 Jefferson Avenue, and the CommunityCare Free Medical Clinic, which includes the CommunityCare Women’s Health Clinic at 2150 South Byrne Road.

Check-in is 8:30-9:15 a.m. in front of Mulford Library on UT’s Health Science Campus and the race begins at 9:30 a.m.

Free health screenings also will be offered on-site, including blood pressure, glucose, BMI and more. Race participation is not necessary to receive health screenings.

“Over the past two years, the Spring for CommunityCare 5K Run/3K Walk has registered more than 250 participants to support our student-run CommunityCare Clinics. The clinics provide free health care and health education to the greater Toledo area,” said Sudipa Biswas, a first-year medical student and director of this year’s event. “Events like the 5K and the tremendous support from members of the community allow the continued growth of the clinics as well as the medical supplies and tools necessary to provide health care to those in need.”

Register at utcommunitycare.org/race in advance for $23 until Friday, April 10 or day of for $25. Details and a map will be emailed upon registration.

For more information about the CommunityCare Clinics and the race, visit utcommunitycare.org or contact race@utcommunitycare.org.

Media Coverage
The Independent Collegian (April 15, 2015)

The Lucas County Breast Health Coalition, with help from The University of Toledo Center for Health and Successful Living, is hosting a survivorship conference for breast cancer survivors 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 11, at the Lourdes University Franciscan Conference Center.

“Spring into Survivorship” includes a presentation entitled “My Winged Victory,” given by breast cancer survivor Molly McDonald, along with educational sessions about yoga, nutrition, finances and finding your passion for life again after cancer.

The Lucas County Breast Health Coalition is a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals, public health professionals and community members who advocate for breast health education, early detection and continuity of breast health services.

The mission of the Lucas County Breast Health Coalition is to provide an opportunity for all northwest Ohio community-based resources involved in breast care to plan, communicate and coordinate services, along with providing screening, education and prevention initiatives. The Coalition serves as a resource for the community.

UT’s Center for Health and Successful Living is a community hub of resources, education and supportive services for individuals living with chronic disease – including breast cancer. The services and staff at the Center equip and empower breast cancer survivors to live longer, healthier and happier lives while reducing the risk of cancer recurrence. The Center’s ultimate goal is to return and restore all of its members to optimum health and wellness.

To register, contact Dr. Amy Thompson at 419.530.4171. Registration is $10. Check or money order can be sent to LCBH, P.O. Box 351164, Toledo, Ohio 43635.

A team of astronomers based at The University of Toledo has discovered an outburst from a star thought to be in the earliest phase of its development. The eruption reveals a sudden accumulation of gas and dust by an exceptionally young protostar known as HOPS 383.

Led by Dr. Tom Megeath, associate professor of physics and astronomy, the team used data from orbiting observatories, including NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, and ground-based facilities to research the formation of stars similar to the Sun.

HOPS 383 is located about 1,400 light-years away, near the well-known Orion nebula. The region constitutes the most active nearby “star factory” and is home to a multitude of young stellar objects.

Stars form within collapsing fragments of cold gas clouds contracting due to gravity. In the center of the cloud, a small protostar forms surrounded by a dusty orbiting disk. Astronomers call this a Class 0 protostar. The disk grows as gas from the cloud continues to fall, and the disk in turn “feeds” the protostar. Astronomers monitor protostars to see if the disk feeds the protostar in little bites or big gulps, because this can have big consequences for the formation of stars and planets. HOPS 383 appears to have just taken a big gulp.

“HOPS 383 is the first outburst we’ve ever seen from a Class 0 object, and it appears to be the youngest protostellar eruption ever recorded,” said William Fischer, a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Fischer attended UT as an undergraduate from 1997 to 2001 and returned as a postdoctoral fellow from 2008 to 2013.

The Class 0 phase lasts roughly 150,000 years, and means that most of the star-forming material is still in a dusty envelope surrounding the star, and has not yet been consumed by the star.

The eruption was first discovered in 2014 by astronomer Emily Safron, shortly after her graduation from UT. Under the supervision of Megeath and Fischer, she had just completed her senior thesis comparing the decade-old Spitzer Orion survey with 2010 observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite. She had already run through the data several times without finding anything new but with her senior thesis completed, she decided to take the extra time to compare the images by eye.

That’s when she noticed HOPS 383’s dramatic change.

“This beautiful outburst was lurking in our sample the whole time,” Safron said.

Megeath’s team also identified more than 300 protostars in the Orion complex using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. A follow-on project using the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory, called the Herschel Orion Protostar Survey (HOPS), studied many of these objects in greater detail.

Upon Safron’s discovery, the team gathered additional Spitzer data, Herschel observations and images from ground-based infrared telescopes at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment in northern Chile. Their findings were published in the Feb. 10 edition of the Astrophysical Journal.

“The immediate impact for star formation studies is that astronomers are going to have to revisit our theories to explain how such a young object can have this kind of outburst,” Fischer said.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ MEETINGS AND SOCIAL DINNERS

Thursday, April 2, 2015
Radisson Hotel, Faculty Club Room
2:00 p.m. Special Board of Trustees Meeting
The Trustees will enter Executive Session shortly after convening the meeting to receive
legal advice from University’s Special Counsel regarding imminent court action.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Driscoll Alumni Center, Board Room
5:30 p.m. Social Dinner

Monday, April 13, 2015
Driscoll Alumni Center, Schmakel Room
10:30 a.m. Clinical Affairs Committee Meeting
1:00 p.m. Board Meeting
A luncheon will be held for the Trustees in between meetings.

Thursday, April 30, 2015
Driscoll Alumni Center, Board Room
5:30 p.m. Social Dinner

Any questions may be directed to the University Communications Office by calling (419) 530-7832 or via email at jonathan.strunk@utoledo.edu.

The Accounting Department in The University of Toledo College of Business and Innovation has received, in its first attempt, a departmental accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). This is a voluntary accreditation obtained by only 1.3 percent (182 institutions) of accounting programs in the 13,670 business schools around the world.

“It takes a great deal of self-evaluation and determination to earn both accounting and business accreditation, and I commend The University of Toledo for its dedication to management education, as well as its leadership in the community,” said Robert D. Reid, executive vice president and chief accreditation officer of AACSB International.

“The AACSB is recognized around the world as the premier accrediting body for business schools and their accounting programs, and the requirements and documentation that must be met are exceptional,” said Dr. Gary Insch, dean of the College of Business and Innovation. “We take great pride in obtaining a distinction shared by less than 2 percent of all college accounting departments in the world. As such, I want to emphasize to students and parents that The University of Toledo College of Business and Innovation is the place to study accounting, as well as to remind accounting firms and employers of the remarkable talent they know they will find in our accounting graduates.”

“This is both a tremendous achievement and an exceptional recognition for the Department of Accounting in the College of Business and Innovation,” said Dr. Hassan HassabElnaby, chair of the department. “We are proud to pass this rigorous process, which required a significant amount of work from our faculty, staff and students.”

The AASCB is an association of educational institutions, businesses and other organizations devoted to the advancement of higher education, and is the premier accrediting agency of collegiate business schools and accounting programs worldwide.

The accounting department strategic review from the AACSB team focused on the delivery of high-quality education, continuous improvement and market relevance.

“The AACSB accounting accreditation ensures both students and parents that the accounting department is providing a top-quality education. Additionally, it ensures employers across the country that UT COBI accounting department graduates are ready to perform on day one,” HassabElnaby said.

Particular strengths of the UT COBI Accounting Department mentioned in the accreditation’s report include:

•  “The faculty is very committed to being educators and to their students.”
•  “The department chair is a committed dynamic leader.”
•  “The members of the Accounting Advisory Board are truly dedicated and concerned about the Department and are willing to serve on Departmental faculty committees.”
•  “The Alan Berry Accounting Lab, funded last year by a donor, is an excellent resource for accounting students.”
•  “The Department has an environment, including faculty, support staff and facilities that indicate that they have an overall high quality environment. Faculty, staff and administration of the Department of Accounting are committed to continuous improvement and their results clearly show that it has been a success, and their strategic plan and faculty illustrates their commitment to continue to move forward.”

“Dean Insch, Dr. HassabElnaby and the faculty, directors and staff of The University of Toledo are to be commended for their role in earning accreditation in accounting, as well as for maintaining excellence in their overall business programs,” Reid said.

Media Coverage
PR Newswire (April 1, 2015)
The Blade (April 2, 2015)