Emory & Henry College announced today that it has taken possession of the former Smyth County Community Hospital with the intention of developing a school of health sciences at the E&H campus in Marion.

David Shelledy, Ph.D., who served as founding dean of the Department of Respiratory Care from 1994 to 2004, will rejoin the UT Health Science Center San Antonio as dean of the School of Health Professions. The appointment was announced March 3 by President William L. Henrich, M.D., MACP.

Kelly K. Nichols, O.D., MPH, Ph.D., FAAO, one of the world's leading vision scientists in the area of dry eye disease, has been named dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry.

University of New Haven Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics Deborah Chin introduced Chris Pincince as the University's new head football coach at a press conference today in UNH's Charger Gymnasium.

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For Parker Executive Search's industry-leading sports practice, 2013 was a year of familiarity and change. Hosting the 2013 Final Four in Atlanta gave firm leaders the opportunity to reconnect with many friends and clients as the sports world focused on Georgia in early April.

Dr. Carole Kenner, a scholar and educator with an international reputation as the "mother of neonatology nursing," has been appointed The College of New Jersey's Carol Kuser Loser Dean of the School of Nursing, Health and Exercise Science.

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Derek Mason, regarded as one of the nation's top coordinators, is the new head football coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores.