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This is World Homeopathy Awareness Week.

It honors Samuel Hahnemann M.D.’s contributions to medicine. Hahnemann conceived and developed the homeopathic branch of medical science.

The week also seeks to raise public awareness of homoeopathy and improve access to it.

View the trailer for the new film “Introducing Homeopathy”
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All of us at Westbrook University are proud to renew our commitment to developing advanced healthcare and well-being leaders through inspirational teaching, training and research.

Today is One Health Day, a global annual call to recognize that the health of people, animals and the environment is inextricably linked.

This year’s theme is Act Together for One Health.

Higher education linked to greater well-being, job fit, civic engagement, Lumina-Gallup study finds

The results are in: post-secondary study is worth it A recent survey in the United States by Gallup published against the backdrop of growing doubts about the worth of higher education revealed a range o...

A holistic nurse “focuses on treating the patient as a whole as opposed to merely treating the symptoms of their present condition.”
—RegisteredNursing.org

Westbrook offers holistic nursing graduate education to registered nurses.

To see the curriculum and courses in the program leading to a master’s-prepared holistic nurse degree, click https://bit.ly/3qnVm59

To see the doctoral-prepared curriculum and courses, click https://bit.ly/3KtkUEX

The massive magnitude 7.8 earthquake and its aftershocks in Turkey and Syria Feb. 6 unleashed a humanitarian disaster.

You can help.

Among the organizations aiding people in both countries:

CARE (shorturl.at/rOT39) is accepting donations to provide food, shelter and hygiene kits, among other items.

Doctors Without Borders (https://tinyurl.com/4unc5z2u) and Homeopaths Without Borders (https://tinyurl.com/3d7a75hc) are collecting donations.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (https://tinyurl.com/3t7edbf9) seeks donations so it can send immediate cash assistance to both countries.

Save the Children (https://tinyurl.com/47vwwu8d) is accepting donations to provide children with food, shelter and warm clothing.

Syrian American Medical Society (https://tinyurl.com/38zembts), a U.S.-based humanitarian group, is collecting donations to deliver emergency aid.

UNICEF (https://tinyurl.com/yc6z4uv4) is working to ensure people in Syria have clean water, sanitary conditions and nutritious food. It is also helping unaccompanied children locate their families.

Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (https://tinyurl.com/mr24v9ph) is providing medical relief and healthcare services inside Syria and to Syrian refugees in Turkey.

Charity Navigator (https://tinyurl.com/yc8c7xzd) and Charity Watch (https://tinyurl.com/5aub8wth), charity assessment organizations, have their own list of organizations aiding in Syria and Turkey.

Celebrating the multiculturalism of international students at Westbrook and around the world

Democracy’s “hope is vested in institutions,” write Sjur Bergan and other participants in the 2022 Global Forum on Higher Education Leadership for , and .

Higher education institutions are anchors for democracy The recent Global Forum on Higher Education Leadership for Democracy, Sustainability and Social Justice endorsed the idea that helping to build democr...