Our Pandemic Year: Virtual public events started as a necessity, but they’re here to stay
Orange selectboard member Aaron Allen, left, and Orange resident Scott Lurgio wave to incoming Orange, N.H., residents for their Town Meeting held at Mascoma Valley Regional High School due to the COVID-19 pandemic in West Canaan, N.H., on Wednesday, March, 10, 2021. Allen was directing people on where to go for the meeting. ( Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Led by physical education teacher Kristina Claflin, Westshire Elementary School second-graders trek out on snowshoes at the school on Wednesday, March 3, in West Fairlee, Vt. It was the first time many of the students have been on snowshoes. This year s 24th annual VerShare Snowshoe-a-thon has been virtual. Students at the school are sponsored to do loops for the fundraiser, which supports VerShare s Children s Activity Fu
Three new gifts totaling $3.35 million will go toward cancer immunotherapy research and teaching at a New Hampshire cancer center. The funds will help accelerate the development of multiple, promising, next-generation immunotherapies, which harness a patient’s own immune system, at Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center. Steven Leach, center director, says the drugs take the brakes off the immune system and allows it to recognize and.
By - Associated Press - Sunday, February 7, 2021
LEBANON, N.H. (AP) - Three new gifts totaling $3.35 million will go toward cancer immunotherapy research and teaching at a New Hampshire cancer center.
The funds will help accelerate the development of multiple, promising, next-generation immunotherapies, which harness a patient’s own immune system, at Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
“These drugs take the brakes off the immune system and allow it to recognize, treat and cure a cancer, just as it would an infection,” says Steven Leach, director of the center and the Preston T. and Virginia R. Kelsey Distinguished Chair in Cancer at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Forum, Jan. 7: Explore cancer care careers during upcoming conference
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I am delighted to invite teenagers from 37 communities of the Upper Valley to join in the first-ever Careers in Cancer Conference for Upper Valley high school students on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Jan. 18, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
This is a free, half-day Zoom conference to introduce students to the wide variety of opportunities for work in cancer care and to provide information about how to train for these jobs after high school. We have 27 of Norris Cotton Cancer Center’s most enthusiastic professionals ready to give short presentations about what they do and to talk about their jobs. These include nurses, researchers, lab technicians and physicians working in diverse areas of cancer care and research, including artificial intelligence, immunology, patient support, bioengineering