Bettering lives through teamwork

Mentoring through teamwork: lessons learned.

This essay is simply a highly personal account of how one mentor has joined with a team of mentors, combined with special "permanent" employees, lively group interactions and high expectations for trainees to provide a fertile environment for the training of scientists. I also need to acknowledge the deep personal friendships that have developed and intensified with the Rankin Lab trainees and ...

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Saving lives through tax policy.

Increasingly, public policymakers have turned to taxing tobacco products as a method of raising revenue and saving lives. Last year, the American Heart Association (AHA), American Cancer Society, and American Lung Association, united as the Coalition on Smoking OR Health, embarked on what at the time appeared to be a long-shot public policy initiativeseeking to raise the cigarette tax by as muc...

Synergy through Teamwork: Sharing Primary School Leadership

Virtually all British secondary (high) schools and many primary (elementary) schools feature what is called a senior management team (SMT), typically consisting of the headteacher (principal), one or more deputy heads (vice principals), and other teachers. To explore how SMTs are working, a survey questionnaire was mailed to 150 headteachers in randomly selected primary schools with 300 of more...

Providing Experiential Learning Through Transnational Teamwork

The requirement for high standards of professionalism in graduating Computer Science and Information Technology students suggests the applicability of experiential learning. This paper describes a capstone course that includes an assessable project based on the experiential learning framework. The project requires transnational teamwork and community engagement which engages students in a cultu...