<p>UPenn
Duke
Rice
Georgetown
USC
Stanford</p>
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<p>True, but when I thought of a negative aspect to U-M, that was really the only thing that came to mind (and the horrible sticker price for OOS kids/U-M being stingy with aid). U-M is probably one of my favorite schools, and weather is the only thing I could find wrong with it. </p>
<p>Same can be said for Northwestern I guess too. Notre Dame has bigger problems…like South Bend in general/town gown relations, so weather isn’t the first negative. </p>
<p>For me at least…</p>
<p>UNC, Wisconson, Michigan, Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>OP: “I’m especially looking for colleges with great research opportunities,”</p>
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<p>*UH announces naming of cancer center, $42 million gift</p>
<p>Published: Monday, November 29, 2010, 7:18 PM Updated: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 7:14 AM</p>
<p>Angela Townsend, The Plain Dealer </p>
<p>CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cancer Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center has a new name. </p>
<p>Nearly 1,200 people, including UH employees, benefactors and community leaders, converged on Severance Hall on Monday night at an invitation-only event to hear UH Chief Executive Tom Zenty announce a $42 million gift to the hospital system. </p>
<p>The Jane and Lee Seidman Cancer Center, which will open in May 2011, has been renamed in honor of the Pepper Pike couple. </p>
<p>“It is rare in one’s lifetime to have the opportunity to make an announcement of a gift of this magnitude,” Zenty said, following trumpet fanfare, in a packed Severance Hall lobby. </p>
<p>Even though some guests might not have known the details, they probably would have guessed something big was imminent. The last time UH held such a gala at Severance Hall was four years ago to announce a $30 million gift from Hunting Valley businessman Monte Ahuja, which up until Monday night was the largest single gift to the hospital system. </p>
<p>Both Seidmans addressed the crowd. </p>
<p>“When I look at this building and its state-of-the-art technology and the level of the people who will work there, I think of my dad, who died of cancer at age 56,” said Jane Seidman, 70. "He never got to see his own grandchildren. </p>
<p>“With the staff and technology of this center, many grandparents will live to see their grandchildren grow and prosper.” </p>
<p>Lee Seidman, 78, followed his wife. </p>
<p>“People don’t care how much you know, they want to know how much you care,” he said. "We care a lot, about friends, family, community and health. </p>
<p>“Aren’t you glad you live in Cleveland?” </p>
<p>He then told people that their physical and mental health can improve in tandem with their philanthropy. Holding up a home plate from a baseball diamond, he advised them to “Hit a philanthropy home run.” </p>
<p>The crowd was clearly awed by the size of the Seidmans’ gift. </p>
<p>Marilyn Miller of Lyndhurst said, “It makes me cry. UH saved my husband’s life. It is a very special place for so many of us.” </p>
<p>Zenty offered up even more big news Monday night: the public phase of UH’s $1 billion comprehensive fundraising campaign, “Discover the Difference: The Campaign for University Hospitals.” It’s the largest such fundraising effort in UH history. UH Board President Monte Ahuja and Jack Breen, a lifetime UH board member, are campaign co-chairs. </p>
<p>The Seidmans’ gift kicks off the public phase of the campaign. </p>
<p>As with many institutions, the first phase began quietly in 2003, targeting board members and donors who are able to give significant gifts. To date, it has raised $685 million. </p>
<p>This public phase broadens the scope to a much wider audience and expands the funding base to include employees, patients and the community. </p>
<p>“We have now achieved somewhere in vicinity of 50,000 donors, which is extraordinary recognition of the support we have in the communities that we serve,” Zenty said Nov. 24 in an interview. </p>
<p>Among those donors, 66 gifts of $1 million or more make up part of the total. </p>
<p>Monday’s celebration was designed to celebrate not only the Seidmans, but people who have given at every level, Zenty said. </p>
<p>The Seidmans’ gift is “not only transformational in what we are able to do, but .¤.¤. also inspirational to other donors as well,” he said. </p>
<p>All nine outpatient cancer programs in UH’s regional network, in addition to the newest building at UH’s main campus on Euclid Avenue, will bear the Seidman name. </p>
<p>The naming is a significant, unifying act that underscores cancer care throughout the UH system, Seidman Cancer Center Director Dr. Stanton Gerson said during an interview last week. “What we do across all entities, we do under one umbrella,” he said. </p>
<p>The 120-bed center – with capacity for 30 more – will be 10 stories tall. The $260 million project will cover 375,000 square feet, triple the space for cancer services currently at UH. Nine levels (including the lower level) will be dedicated to patient care. </p>
<p>It will be the region’s only free-standing cancer hospital in Northeast Ohio and only one of two in the state. The other is the James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University in Columbus. Built in 1990, it has 160 patient beds. </p>
<p>A family friend of the Seidmans for more than a decade, UH President Dr. Fred Rothstein said “They value helping people.” </p>
<p>The Seidmans said they want their gift to prompt others they know with similar financial means to contribute as much as they have – or even more. </p>
<p>While the Seidmans could have simply made provisions for such a large gift in their will, they said they didn’t want to be like others who leave a gift as part of an estate and aren’t alive to see its impact. </p>
<p>“They will miss all the fun, all the joy of being philanthropic,” Lee Seidman said last week. </p>
<p>Much of the money already raised by the campaign has gone to pay for parts of UH’s Vision 2010 strategic plan, which began in early 2006. That plan has resulted in the construction of the Seidman Cancer Center, the Ahuja Medical Center and several outpatient centers. </p>
<p>Other money has created 31 new endowed chairs, which are essential in recruiting and retaining physician and scientist talent; and raised the amount of unrestricted giving, which helps pay for, among other things, the implementation of electronic medical records, said Sherri Bishop, UH’s senior vice president of institutional relations and development. </p>
<p>Monetary support from all donors has exceeded expectations, Bishop said last week. </p>
<p>“What it boils down to is more lives saved and [the ability to] bring better quality care to Northeast Ohio and particularly closer to your home,” she said. </p>
<p>The Seidmans, both Cleveland natives, are well-known in Northeast Ohio business and philanthropy circles. Lee Seidman is founder and retired president of Motorcars Group, which he started in 1958. </p>
<p>In recent years, the couple has made other substantial gifts to health care in Northeast Ohio. </p>
<p>In 2006, they gave $17 million to the Cleveland Clinic to create an endowed chair in functional neurosurgery, to pay for medical research and to support construction of the Clinic’s heart center. </p>
<p>In 2008, they gave $1 million to UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital to establish a chair in pediatric cancer innovation. </p>
<p>Last year, the couple donated $6 million to Hillcrest Hospital’s expansion and renovation project; the NICU in the Jane and Lee Seidman Tower opened Monday. </p>
<p>The latest gift, which is about three years in the making, is by far the biggest. </p>
<p>The honor of having the cancer center named after them is a feeling that’s almost impossible to process, Jane Seidman said. </p>
<p>“It’s very hard to grasp it and know that it’s us,” she said. “It’s an honor, more so because Lee is a self-made man.” </p>
<p>As for their new namesake, “It’s phenomenal, beautifully done,” Lee Seidman said. “As long as a person has to be in the hospital [for cancer treatment], it will probably be the choice of anybody within 1,000 miles from here.”</p>
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<p>Ohio state on the rise both academically & athletically!! </p>
<p>Campus Partners Revitalizes University Neighborhoods </p>
<p>Phase I - South Campus Gateway Project (completed)</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Campus Partners Revitalizes University Neighborhoods](<a href=“Campus Partners Revitalizes University Neighborhoods - YouTube”>Campus Partners Revitalizes University Neighborhoods - YouTube)</p>
<p>Phase II: North High Street / Lane Ave Gateway Project (on-going)</p>
<p>Prez Gee is da man!! Go Bowtie!! Go Bucks!!</p>
<p>Hail to the Sweater Vest Tressel (7th 10+ win season)</p>
<p>Last but not least, G’Luck also to Wisky at the Rose Bowl & another Big Ten Champion - Michigan State University and Coach of the Year Mark Dantonio!! Go Big Ten!! lol</p>
<p>Boston College. </p>
<p>It has all the requisite criteria, and research has been growing by leaps and bounds, especially in the hard sciences.</p>
<p>nothing can come close to topping these three: stanford, cal, and michigan.</p>
<p>In terms of football championships, both Stanford & Cal are weak sauce compared to tOSU. I believe Thad Matta is also doing a great job at tOSU in terms of bball as of late. Granted, Standford has been consistently grabbing the top spot in the Director’s Cup, I do not recall the school ever won a national championship in baseball?! On the other hand, Sports Illustrated nicknamed Ohio State’s athletic program (The nation’s largest athletic department) as being “The Program” due to the unsurpassed facilities, unparalleled amount of men’s and women’s sport teams, their success, and the financial support of an impressive fan base in 2007.</p>
<p>Source: [In</a> the new Gilded Age of college sports, no school has - 03.05.07 - SI Vault](<a href=“http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1105239/1/index.htm]In”>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1105239/1/index.htm)</p>
<p>Finally, there is little doubt in my mind that TOSU would soon emerge as one of the Top-10 public academic institutions in the country under the leadership of President E. Gordon Gee. Go Bucks!! :)</p>
<p>Link: <a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/time-presidents/[/url]”>http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/time-presidents/</a></p>
<p>^^Eww, why Cal??</p>
<p>cal: tops in all fields of academics and good in athletics. great all-rounder. (same as Stan and Mich)</p>
<p>You guys are all leaving out some key criteria from the “complete” evaluation: location and post-graduation job opportunities.</p>
<p>These criteria knock places like Ohio State (who the hell wants to live in Columbus?) and Cornell (you enjoy freezing your ass off?) off of the list. I think Austin/UT might be added, but what do you do about USC, located in an absolute s**t-hole of a place yet great for finding a job? Don’t know…</p>
<p>The question is too vague without some additional guidelines.</p>
<p>^^ Columbus is the capital and largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio, center of the state’s third largest metropolitan area behind Cincinnati and Cleveland, and the fourth largest city in the American Midwest. The New York Times in 2007 dubbed Columbus a Midwestern-style capital, Forbes Magazine in 2008 ranked the city as the no. 1 up-and-coming tech city in the nation, and BusinessWeek in 2009 named the city as the best place to raise a family in the country. The city was ranked by Money Magazine as the 8th best big city in the U.S. to live in 2006, and a top ten city by Relocate America in 2010. In 2007, fDi Magazine ranked the city no. 3 in the U.S. for cities of the future, and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium was rated no. 1 in 2009 by USA Travel Guide. In 2008, MarketWatch named Columbus as the 7th best place to do business in the nation. The list goes on and on…</p>
<p>Enjoy the video clips of ‘Experience Columbus’ </p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - ExperienceColumbus’s Channel](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/user/ExperienceColumbus#p/u]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/user/ExperienceColumbus#p/u)</p>
<p>Go Bucks! :)</p>
<p>Duke and Stanford !</p>
<p>^I highly second this.</p>
<p>Stanford, Duke, Georgetown, UCLA, Cal, USC, Vanderbilt, Boston College</p>
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Why not Duke, USC or UCLA?</p>
<p>Vanderbilt is my choice. It is the only school that has top academics, great social life with strong Greek scene, solid athletics (SEC athletics!), beautiful campus, good weather and a great surrounding area (Nashville!). It is the quintessential American university.</p>
<p>Sparkeye, your bow tie wearing chancellor really put his foot in his mouth with his BCS talk…probably made the sweater vest nervous. BTW, tOSU is weak sauce to Cal and Furd in terms of academics. :)</p>
<p>lesdiablesbleus – with a name like that, you’re pushing Vandy? LOL! ;-)</p>
<p>What’s wrong with bowties?</p>
<p>Stanford, Duke, Georgetown, UCLA, Cal, USC, Vanderbilt, Boston College + Michigan.</p>
<p>“Sparkeye, your bow tie wearing chancellor really put his foot in his mouth with his BCS talk…probably made the sweater vest nervous. BTW, tOSU is weak sauce to Cal and Furd in terms of academics.”</p>
<p>Not really if you ask me, especially after Boise State loss to Nevada. And if you listened or believed what Gee had said, then you along with rest of the country had fallen into his trap. For those who know him well, he is, the ultimate lawyer in disguise. Regardless of the outcome, for good or bad, he is a media-hound, just like most of the celebrities these days. Although I DO NOT agree with his statement on this subject, I do however wishing that it would be TOSU instead of Wisky playing TCU in the bowl, thereby settle the argument on the field once and for all.</p>
<p>Unless it’s Pete Carroll’s USC, I doubt HC Tressel would be remotely nervous of playing any team in the nation. And that is the honest truth. Ask any Oregon player who will be in this year’s national championship game, they will agree with me on this one.</p>
<p>Lastly, I do agree that Cal and Stanford are a notch above TOSU in terms of overall academic reputation; however, at the undergrad level, I believe TOSU is catching up to Cal in terms of student body. In a little as 5 years, the average incoming TOSU freshman ACT score will be between 29-30 up from current 28 which is pretty close to Cal’s freshman stat. The endowment at each institution is roughly equal at $2 billion with TOSU kicking-off largest fundraising in school’s history ~$3 billion in a month (minimum goal as Gee had nearly double his campaign amount at Vanderbilt). I reckon the fact that having excellent graduate programs does have significant impact to the undergrad reputation. Therefore, it is my wish as an alum that perhaps in a decade or so, TOSU would rise up academically on par especially at the graduate level to that of Cal or Michigan or institution as a whole for that matter as Gee had outlined upon his arrival. Currently, TOSU offers 190 majors & over 12,000 courses to choose from, it is one of the most complete academic institutions in America alright!! Go Bucks!! lol</p>