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1. Labor Day holiday schedule in place for UTMB clinics
2. Salute to Nursing Golf Tournament set for Oct. 1
   The Salute to Nursing Golf Tournament to benefit UTMB School of Nursing student scholarships will be held Friday, Oct.1, at the Galveston Country Club.
3. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute sets fall class schedule
   The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UTMB offers college-level courses to anyone 55 and older, regardless of previous education, in Galveston, League City and Houston.
4. Experiments show blood pressure drugs could help fight frailty
   UTMB researchers believe they’ve found a way to use widely available blood pressure drugs to fight the muscular weakness that normally accompanies aging.
5. Cullen Trust for Higher Education commits $334,000 to UTMB surgical simulation center
   A $334,000 pledge will help surgical residents and medical students advance their clinical skills in realistic, but low risk, learning environments.
6. Research reveals new, more detailed picture of asthma
7. UTMB Victory Lakes performs Texas’ first high-definition CT scan
   UTMB's Specialty Care Center at Victory Lake has performed the first high-definition coronary angiogram in Texas.
8. $4.4 million grant for Hispanic Center of Excellence
   A three-year grant from the Health Research Services Administration will enable UTMB to continue to develop a larger pool of competitive applicants for medical careers.
9. UTMB helps cancer patients ‘look good … feel better’
   The Look Good … Feel Better program is a free workshop that helps women to cope with the side effects of cancer treatment.
10. $4.7 million grant targets nursing shortage
    A grant of $4.7 million from the U.S. Department of Labor will fund a new program, coordinated by UTMB, to help address nursing shortage.
11. $4.8 million grant funds quest for improved cancer data systems
    UTMB was awarded a $4.8 million grant to improve cancer data systems to meet one of five fundamental goals set by the Texas Cancer Plan.
12. Conquering Cancer: A Community Awareness Experience
    A free summer lecture series offered through the UTMB Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
13. Scientists grow new lungs using ‘skeletons’ of old ones
    UTMB researchers have demonstrated a potentially revolutionary solution to the problem of getting stem cells to develop into the specific cell types that populate locations in the lung
14. Jazz group featured at Senior Seaside Club dinner
    Sparky Koerner, professor of music and chairman of the fine arts department at the College of the Mainland, will lead Sparky’s Jazz Express during the Senior Seaside Club’s dinner Tuesday, July 6.
15. $5.8 million grant renews UTMB’s Pepper Center
    The Pepper Older Americans Independence Center at UTMB has received a $5.8 million renewal of its grant from the National Institute on Aging