University: We don’t want community service from ex-Ryan adviser

He says he’s an expert in business — and will work for free. But Governors State University is saying no thanks to the help offered by John Glennon, a former adviser to ex-Gov. George Ryan who was involved in a fraud scheme involving convicted political insider Stuart Levine. Levine was an early figure in what eventually became the investigation that ensnarled former Gov. Rod Blagojevich. A ...

California teens eat fewer calories in school

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - High school kids in California, a state that limits the junk food sold in vending machines, eat fewer calories in school than kids in states without such regulations, according to a new study. "We were definitely pleased by the size of the differences, particularly for calories and sugar," said Daniel Taber, the study's lead author and a professor at the University of ...

80 to graduate today from SIU Medical School

Springfield’s Southern Illinois University School of Medicine has no Nobel Prize winners on its faculty, and its research budget is small compared with larger and older medical schools. Those conventional measures of prestige, however, overlook a quality that puts SIU close to the top nationwide in fulfilling the “social mission” of medical education, according to Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan, who will ...

Students Earn Law School Tuition Waivers in Diversity Mock Trial Competition at The John Marshall Law School

Students from 20 colleges and universities competed for law school tuition waivers at the Ninth Annual National Undergraduate Diversity Mock Trial Competition at The John Marshall Law School. The 60 participants who came to the Chicago law school were assigned to teams, and over two days learned to work collaboratively in presenting a mock trial. ...

Provost Appoints New Law School Dean

AUSTIN — Ward Farnsworth, associate dean for academic affairs at Boston University School of Law, has been named dean of the School of Law at The University of Texas at Austin.