Ursinus College Alumni Journal, August 1963

The President writes • The uses and limitations of words • Commencement 1963 • 3,032 pledge $509,081; 2,809 contribute$192,568 • Loyalty Fund committee reorganized • Joseph J. Lynch, college steward • A description of the new dining hall • Chemistry changes • NSF grants for bio profs • Teaching awards • Pilot project: Physics chemistry mathematics • The not-so-ugly American • Best track season in Ursinus history • Double your dollars • Things are looking up • Preliminary thoughts on wills • Reading, writing, and Mazurkiewicz • The augmented Roman alphabet • Edwin C. Myers, \u2764 and Frederic W. Yocum, Jr. \u2764 • Eugene J. Bradford, \u2736 • Robert A. Petersen, \u2760 • Sue Harman, \u2765 • Results of the 1963 Loyalty Fund campaign • The leaders • Contributors to the 1963 Loyalty Fund • Ursinus alumni at Methacton High School • Class notes • Weddings • Births • Necrology • Our role as alumnihttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/1077/thumbnail.jp

Ursinus College Alumni Journal, March 1958

What is college for? • Founders\u27 Day ceremonies honor Dean Camilla B. Stahr • Library receives grant • Chemistry Department receives DuPont grant • Women\u27s dormitory group dedicated • Dedication service • Language and the liberal arts • Ursinus Woman\u27s Club • New York area alumni change Spring dinner date • Alumni Day Saturday, June 7, 1958 • Reunion Committee chairmen • Lehigh Valley alumni to meet April 25 • May Day activities • January 1958 report of the Loyalty Fund campaign • Alumni funds in thirteen Pennsylvania colleges • Mid-year Loyalty Fund report • Philadelphia alumni hold fifth annual dinner dance • New Ursinus College alumni directory 1949-1957 • The Ursinus chair • Washington alumni plan banquet Friday, May 23, 1958 • Longacre scholarship • July issue: Alumni Journal • Winterthur Museum included in History Department curriculum • The campus song • Alumni elections • Soccer 1957 • Alumnae hockey team goes undefeated • Aucott, Stadler and Gros secure All American honors • Varsity Belles complete successful season • Football 1957 • Wrestling 1958 • News about ourselves • Weddings • Births • Necrology • Two chemical corporations announce gift matching programs • Collegeville alumni in local politics • 20th anniversary Messiahhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/1061/thumbnail.jp

Ursinus College Alumni Journal, July 1960

President\u27s page • Dr. Paisley completes fifty years as President of the Board of Directors • Dr. McClure salutes Dr. Paisley • Senator Hugh Scott speaks at commencement • Horton preaches Baccalaureate sermon • Mrs. Omwake honored • 1960 Loyalty Fund • Dr. Boswell retires • Four professors given Bear Awards • Memorial minute • Faculty notes • A student reviews the past year at Ursinus • Alumni Day • Alumni elections • Thompson receives award • Admissions\u27 problems • Ursinus experiments in Swedish • Commencement Day • Colonel Campbell, \u2760 • The generous American • 1960 Loyalty Fund breaks all records • Lost alumni • The alumnus / alumna • A defense for the Alumni Association • Edward L. French, \u2738 • Paul E. Elicker, \u2714 • Warren K. Hess, \u2731 • Ursinus sends Morgan to NCAA track trials • Best track season in Ursinus history • Baseball review • Varsity Club news • Ursinus faces rebuilding job • Girls\u27 spring sports • Calling all grumblers • News about ourselves • Necrology • Weddings • Births • Ursinus captain\u27s chairhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/alumnijournal/1065/thumbnail.jp

Protocol for the 'e-Nudge trial' : a randomised controlled trial of electronic feedback to reduce the cardiovascular risk of individuals in general practice [ISRCTN64828380]

Background: Cardiovascular disease (including coronary heart disease and stroke) is a major cause of death and disability in the United Kingdom, and is to a large extent preventable, by lifestyle modification and drug therapy. The recent standardisation of electronic codes for cardiovascular risk variables through the United Kingdom's new General Practice contract provides an opportunity for the application of risk algorithms to identify high risk individuals. This randomised controlled trial will test the benefits of an automated system of alert messages and practice searches to identify those at highest risk of cardiovascular disease in primary care databases. Design: Patients over 50 years old in practice databases will be randomised to the intervention group that will receive the alert messages and searches, and a control group who will continue to receive usual care. In addition to those at high estimated risk, potentially high risk patients will be identified who have insufficient data to allow a risk estimate to be made. Further groups identified will be those with possible undiagnosed diabetes, based either on elevated past recorded blood glucose measurements, or an absence of recent blood glucose measurement in those with established cardiovascular disease. Outcome measures: The intervention will be applied for two years, and outcome data will be collected for a further year. The primary outcome measure will be the annual rate of cardiovascular events in the intervention and control arms of the study. Secondary measures include the proportion of patients at high estimated cardiovascular risk, the proportion of patients with missing data for a risk estimate, and the proportion with undefined diabetes status at the end of the trial

Low potential for mechanical transmission of Ebola virus via house flies (Musca domestica)

Abstract Background Ebola virus (EBOV) infection results in high morbidity and mortality and is primarily transmitted in communities by contact with infectious bodily fluids. While clinical and experimental evidence indicates that EBOV is transmitted via mucosal exposure, the ability of non-biting muscid flies to mechanically transmit EBOV following exposure to the face had not been assessed. Results To investigate this transmission route, house flies (Musca domestica Linnaeus) were used to deliver an EBOV/blood mixture to the ocular/nasal/oral facial mucosa of four cynomolgus macaques (Macaca fascicularis Raffles). Following exposure, macaques were monitored for evidence of infection through the conclusion of the study, days 57 and 58. We found no evidence of systemic infection in any of the exposed macaques. Conclusions The results of this study indicate that there is a low potential for the mechanical transmission of EBOV via house flies - the conditions in this study were not sufficient to initiate infection