What do you want to be when you grow up? A pediatrician? A surgeon ? A geneticist?

Those could be possibilities for the 38 students coming to the 18^th annual CampMed program at The University of Toledo Health Science Campus on Thursday, June 18 and Friday, June 19.

The rising high school freshmen will experience medical school with hands-on lessons making wrist casts, suturing wounds, taking temperatures and using blood pressure cuffs and stethoscopes.

“This is the age where kids start to think that they might want to go to college and what they might want to do with the rest of their lives,” said Kathy Vasquez, director of the UT and Ohio Area Health Education Center (AHEC) programs and UT’s associate vice president for government relations. “CampMed exposes them to the possibilities of the medical and science world because each of these students has shown promise in those academic areas.”

CampMed, sponsored by the UT AHEC program, is a scholarship program at no cost to the students, most of who would be first-generation college students. AHEC, along with other programs in the country, strives to improve the health of individuals and communities by developing the health care workforce.

“We are focused on rural and underserved communities as well as minority groups that might not get this opportunity without CampMed,” Vasquez said. “This opens their eyes to a variety of experiences that are only possible in a hospital setting.”

The students begin Thursday morning with a packed agenda that includes multiple interactions with UT medical students, physicians and professors. They will participate in a medical simulation at the Lloyd A. Jacobs Interprofessional Immersive Simulation Center. They will also tour an anatomy lab and experience life in the ER.

Vasquez said CampMed is a competitive program that requires students to submit a letter of recommendation and a nomination from a science or math teacher or counselor, along with a personal essay. Every year, 100 students vie for a spot at CampMed.

Students come from 19 counties in northwest Ohio. Many are from districts with smaller science departments that have limited resources.

“Going into ninth grade, it is important for these kids to take advantage of every science and math class that is available so they can get into a college program that would make it possible to go to medical school,” Vasquez said. “The long-range goal of CampMed is to make sure students are thinking now about everything that is involved in becoming a physician.”

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The Andrea Taylor Sentencing Advocacy Workshop, presented by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Defender Services Office Training Division, will be held at The University of Toledo College of Law on June 11-13. Sixty court-appointed defense attorneys and federal defenders are expected to attend.

“This is an exciting opportunity for the College of Law to be a part of the significant change in the way criminal defense attorneys are approaching client advocacy,” said Jelani Jefferson Exum, professor of law and a sentencing expert.

Approximately 97% of federal criminal cases involve sentencing, and the workshop aims to prepare defense attorneys to advocate effectively for their clients during the sentencing phase. Participants will be trained to develop persuasive, fact-based, sentencing theories, and to advance those theories both in writing and during sentencing hearings. A draft agenda is available at www.fd.org.

The workshop consists of plenary sessions and small group breakout sessions. Current and admitted UT College of Law students are invited to attend the plenary sessions. Interested students should contact Mary Lynn Valdes-Dapena at 419.530.2882 or Mary.ValdesDapena@utoledo.edu to register.

The College of Adult and Lifelong Learning (CALL) at The University of Toledo is celebrating five years of mentoring nontraditional students.

The fifth anniversary will be commemorated at CALL’s annual scholarship recognition dinner at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, at Inverness Club.

The college provides career and life coaching, degree completion and academic support to new, continuing and reentering adult learners in a respectful and nurturing environment.

Success Coaches help CALL students transition to college life and establish a foundation for educational attainment and career success.

“Each year we honor our scholarship recipients and the generosity of our donors that make it possible. This year is a very special one since we are also celebrating the five year anniversary of the College of Adult and Lifelong Learning,” said Dr. Dennis Lettman, dean of the college. “The success of our college is measured by the success of our students.”

CALL utilizes the Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) which allows students to receive up to 30 credit hours for relevant work, volunteer and life experiences.

The college offers class flexibility to work with a wide range of personal and professional schedules.

As part of CALL, the Military Service Center provides customized support for veterans and assists with the transition from military service to the classroom and beyond.

CALL is an evolution of University College, which served nontraditional students for 40 years, from 1970 to 2010.

Jelani Jefferson Exum, professor of law at The University of Toledo, has been invited to join the editorial board of the Federal Sentencing Reporter. The journal explores in detail sentencing law, practice and theory.

In her new role, Exum will pick a topic for one FSR issue each year and oversee production of that issue.

“Professor Exum has established herself as one of the top researchers and theorists in the highly important field of criminal sentencing,” said Daniel J. Steinbock, dean of the College of Law. “This appointment to the editorial board of a major journal in the field confirms her status as one of the leaders of the next generation of sentencing scholars.”

Two of Exum’s articles have previously been published in the Federal Sentencing Reporter: “Reflections of a First-Time Expert Witness” in December 2013, and “What’s Happening With Child Pornography Sentencing?” in December 2011. Exum also guest-edited the December 2011 issue on child pornography.

Exum mainly writes in the area of sentencing law and policy, but her research interests also include comparative criminal law and procedure and the impact of race on criminal justice. Before joining academia, she served as a law clerk for James L. Dennis, U.S. Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and Eldon E. Fallon, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Exum is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College.

Published five times annually, each issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter features articles, cases and other primary materials written by judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys, probation officers, scholars and members of sentencing commissions. The journal is published for the Vera Institute of Justice by the University of California Press.