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26 | NEWS | Community Impact Newspaper • Round Rock/Pflugerville/Hutto Edition 100+ Arts and Craft booths Fun Amusement Rides Delicious Festival Foods and ice cold drinks! A Petting Zoo and Pony Rides Classic Car Show Mechanical Bull, Live Longhorn Steer and more! Better health begins here. FREE Seminar: Weight Loss Surgery Lose weight and keep it off. Weight loss surgery offers a comprehensive solution that incorporates lifestyle changes with a surgical procedure to improve your overall health and help you live a longer, happier life. Join us for a free seminar to find out if weight loss surgery is right for you. Seminars are held at Seton Medical Center Williamson, 201 Seton Parkway in Round Rock. October 10, 6:00 p.m., Learning Room 1 October 24, 12:00 p.m., Learning Room 3 November 14, 6:00 p.m., Learning Room 1 November 28, 12:00 p.m., Learning Room 2 Jinnie A. Bruce, MD, FACS Patrick C. Dillawn, MD, FACS Mario A. Longoria, MD, FACS Limited Seating. Sign up Today! (512) 324-4818 SetonSurgicalGroup.com Come to HUTTO—Family Fun at the 27th Annual Hutto Olde Tyme Days Festival! Saturday, Oct. 20th 10:00 a.m.—Midnight in Historic Downtown Hutto Festival Parking is only $2 at the CoOp on Hwy 79. All of the parking proceeds go to benefit the Hutto Athletic Booster Club! Brought to you in part by: The Hutto Area Chamber Covert Hutto, Hutto YMCA, Waste Management, Lowe’s, Holiday Inn Express, Hutto Family Eye Care, Community Impact, Bud Light, Miller Lite and the City of Hutto. FREE Live Music & Performances all Day on the Covert Hutto Stage 9:45 Dance n’ Groove 10:00 Ara Chelsea & Legend Lane 11:00 Jeremy Miller’s Bluegrass Band 11:45 Tiger Rock Academy 12:00 The Texas Tango Band 1:00 MoonHowlers Rockabilly Band 2:00 Nick Roger’s Blues Band 3:00 One Resistance Rock Band 4:00 Clutch Kings Rock Band 5:00 Smith Family Robinson Band 6:00 LIXBOX Rock & Roll Band Evening Concert Gates open at 7:00 Johnny Dee’s Rocket 88s!! Classic Sounds $5 cover at the gate (Kids under 12 are FREE!) Dancing in the Street, Craft, Food & Drink Booths, Amusement Rides .
educAtiOn By Korri Kezar Officials with the Texas A&M University system are looking to include the Texas A&M Health Science Center in Round Rock under the administration of the system’s flagship university in College Station. The board of regents met Aug. 3 to authorize university President R. Bowen Loftin and Chancellor John Sharp to investigate the realignment. Details are now being considered by a strategic oversight committee led by Loftin and TAMHSC President Dr. Nancy Dickey. “Leadership from both institutions are working with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the applicable college-specific regulatory and accrediting bodies to ensure the necessary and proper steps are followed,” Dickey said. If approved, the alignment would have no effect on the center’s programs or curriculum, Dickey said. Students would continue attending their first two years at the system’s colleges of medicine in College Station or Temple before finishing their degrees at centers like the one in Round Rock. The only potential change would be the possibility of starting new programs as more funding and faculty become available, Dickey said. impactnews.com • October 2012 | NEWS | 27 Realignment could boost Round Rock’s Texas A&M Health and Science Center “Bringing TAMHSC under the Texas A&M University umbrella will afford students at both institutions the opportunity to seamlessly participate in interdisciplinary programs that intersect human, animal, and plant science to more effectively prepare them for careers in the ever-evolving fields of life science and health care,” Dickey said in an Aug. 4 news release on the alignment considerations. TAMHSC students would also receive Aggie rings when graduating. “Students at the Texas A&M Health Science Center in Bryan/College Station have been attending classes, utilizing our campus services and participating in many campus activities prior to the merger. Now health professions students across all Texas A&M campuses will soon be able to receive an Aggie ring and other benefits afforded to the Texas A&M student body,” Loftin said in the release. The alignment is seen as a move that would be mutually beneficial for the center and university. “Ultimately, joining these two exemplary institutions will allow the state of Texas and its citizens to reap numerous benefits through increased scientific discoveries and an influx of highly trained, innovative professionals entering the state’s workforce,” Sharp said in the release. JP eichmiller The Texas A&M Health and Science Center in Round Rock and Texas A&M University officials are considering realigning the administration to expand services, funding and research. Expanded faculty and research bases are just two of the advantages the merger could bring. “Ultimately, this administrative realignment is being considered as a means of strengthening the teaching, research and service of both entities,” Dickey said. “It is the goal at Texas A&M to find a way forward that takes advantage of the best of Expert Advice–Quick Installation! both the Health Science Center and university worlds—flexibility, resourcefulness, nimbleness as well as collegial, collaborative innovation.” No timeline has been set for a decision on the alignment, and an announcement either way will depend on approval from regulating and accreditation organizations, Dickey said. There’s No Excuse For An Ugly Fireplace–Let Us Help! PURCHASE ANY SET OF LOGS $199 & UP, RECEIVE A NOVELTY BBQ LIGHTER FOR $1! #8 Sierra Way (at IH-35) | Georgetown, Texas 78626 | www.georgetownfire-patio.com | 512.930.5850 RUSTIC TIMBER
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