Supercourse Newsletter, July 15 2003
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Dear Friends,
Golden Lecture: The golden lecture is a remarkable success due to
you. Many people distributed the Golden Lecture to their friends in
other countries. Akira, Faina, Mita, Akram, Manal, EunRyoung, Letch-
man, Wendy, Pierpaolo, Rania, Beatriz, Efraim, Orlando, Jardim, Soni,
Sherine, Daniele, Eugene and others did the impossible, they built
the lecture, translated the lecture and distributed it during only a
3 week period of time. The results were staggering in that we taught
educators about prevention/public health in 110 countries. This
represents 57% of the countries of the world. We are pushing to
achieve 144 countries as this would be 75% of the world. If we can
get 144, we can try for 173, which is 90% of the countries of the
world. The Supercourse has achieved something that no other group
has, we have globalized education. But what does this mean? We would
love your input as to the next steps.
Welcome:
We have 3 new members coming to work with us from around the world to
obtain their degrees. Dr. Soni Dodoni is a physician with a master's
degree in epidemiology coming from Pakistan. Dr. Seok-Won Park is a
physician coming from Seoul, Korea, and Dr Tomoko XX is from Tokyo,
Japan. You most certainly will be hearing from them in the next year.
We are pleased that they decided to come to Pittsburgh.
Eun Ryoung Sa will be marrying Gunther Eysenback in April and live in
Toronto. Eun Ryoung was the person to devise the approaches to mir-
roring the Supercourse. She has one of the early members of the Su-
percourse team and has done wonderful work with us.
Sabbatical:
If any of you are interested in coming to lovely Pittsburgh on Sab-
batical and/or obtain a degree in telepreventive medicine, we would
be pleased to talk with you. Sadly we do not have any funding, but we
will be pleased to write letters for you to help you find funding.
You can be at any stage in your development.
Grand Challenge:
We have our fingers crossed for the grant challenge. We submitted our
application in May. They have moved the closing data until July 20.
Even if we do not receive a Grand Challenge for global health, it was
a very important stimulus for us to create the Just-In-Time lecture,
the Golden Lecture, the Agricultural connection and several other
things. Thank you very much Bill Gates. (If any of you know Bill,
then push for the grand challenge). Having this identified as a grand
challenge with all the other molecular, and immunologic challenges,
would carve out telepreventive medicine. It would we wonderful to in-
dicate that the Supercourse team did this.
Green toes, Green Nose, and Noah at the Door:
Rain, rain, go a way, come again another day. There has been no sum-
mer in Pittsburgh, we have run into a tropical rain forest, the
rainiest summer ever. Perhaps you might want to visit next year!
Google Engine:
Arin Basu kindly built a Google engine for inside the Supercourse. We
are working to bring this up. Thanks Arin!
Thanks Arin!! Also from Arin:
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow do-
mestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary
desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and
action --
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Tagore
We are not poets, but reading the poetry of Tagore touches our soul
and gives meaning to who we are. If you have short poems that might
relate to the Supercourse we would love to distribute these world
wide as there is the science of the Supercourse, and there is the
spirit by which we do this, for science for humanity, for our friends
world wide, and for our souls.
Best regards from Pittsburgh, thanks so much for making the Golden
Lecture such a remarkable success
Ron, Faina, Mita, Eugene, Akira, Wendy, Abed, Tagore, Arin, Eun Ry-
oung, Soni, Seok-Won, Rania, Sherine
mailto:super1+@pitt.edu
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