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It seems like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the world’s first total-body PET scanner is very real and currently running at @ucdavishealth.
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We spoke to co-inventor Simon Cherry, who, with his partner Ramsey Badawi, was named among the recipients for the @UCDavis 2020 Chancellor’s Innovation Awards. Link in bio. (📸: courtesy of @ucdavis)]()
#repost @comstocksmag It seems like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the world’s first total-body PET scanner is very real and currently running at @ucdavishealth. . We spoke to co-inventor Simon Cherry, who, with his partner Ramsey Badawi, was named among the recipients for the @UCDavis 2020 Chancellor’s Innovation Awards. Link in bio. (📸: courtesy of @ucdavis) ![Through its We Honor Veterans program, hospice staff and volunteers hold personalized pinning ceremonies – often the last opportunity for veterans to receive thanks and gratitude, and to share their remarkable life experiences. On Oct. 25, UC Davis Hospice volunteer Randy Kanouse hosted a virtual ceremony for Hildebrand, with 40 family members and loved ones attending via Zoom.
“We use this term ‘hero’ often to describe the lives of many men and women who have done good in their lives,” said Kanouse, who helped establish the We Honor Veterans program at UC Davis Hospice in 2012. “But a few people – very few people – truly ‘touch the sky’ with their bravery, their determination, their sacrifices, their compassion for others, and their incredible fortitude – these are the traits that come to mind when describing Milton Hildebrand.”
During the We Honor Veterans ceremonies, the honoree receives a certificate of appreciation, a service pin and a U.S. flag pin. The presenter, after in-depth interviews with the veteran, also tells the story of their life and service. For many veterans’ families, the ceremony is the first time they hear about these memories. Hildebrand’s son, Ross, said he was deeply appreciative of this chance to honor his father.
“The entire program was very important to [my father], as well as the immediate family, and the many cousins, nieces and nephews, and close friends on the call,” Ross Hildebrand said. “I believe there were a fair number of these folks who really had only a very superficial idea of the depth of Milton’s duty and service.”
In Davis and within the @UCDavis academic community, Hildebrand is best known as a long-tenured professor of zoology at the university, renowned for his work on vertebrate anatomy and morphology, embryology, and human sexuality. But Hildebrand’s achievements during the war – in the years between his undergraduate education at UC Berkeley and his graduate studies there – have been largely unsung, despite his Bronze Star for leadership and bravery.
#VeteransDay #Veterans #UCDavis #Hospice]()
Through its We Honor Veterans program, hospice staff and volunteers hold personalized pinning ceremonies – often the last opportunity for veterans to receive thanks and gratitude, and to share their remarkable life experiences. On Oct. 25, UC Davis Hospice volunteer Randy Kanouse hosted a virtual ceremony for Hildebrand, with 40 family members and loved ones attending via Zoom. “We use this term ‘hero’ often to describe the lives of many men and women who have done good in their lives,” said Kanouse, who helped establish the We Honor Veterans program at UC Davis Hospice in 2012. “But a few people – very few people – truly ‘touch the sky’ with their bravery, their determination, their sacrifices, their compassion for others, and their incredible fortitude – these are the traits that come to mind when describing Milton Hildebrand.” During the We Honor Veterans ceremonies, the honoree receives a certificate of appreciation, a service pin and a U.S. flag pin. The presenter, after in-depth interviews with the veteran, also tells the story of their life and service. For many veterans’ families, the ceremony is the first time they hear about these memories. Hildebrand’s son, Ross, said he was deeply appreciative of this chance to honor his father. “The entire program was very important to [my father], as well as the immediate family, and the many cousins, nieces and nephews, and close friends on the call,” Ross Hildebrand said. “I believe there were a fair number of these folks who really had only a very superficial idea of the depth of Milton’s duty and service.” In Davis and within the @UCDavis academic community, Hildebrand is best known as a long-tenured professor of zoology at the university, renowned for his work on vertebrate anatomy and morphology, embryology, and human sexuality. But Hildebrand’s achievements during the war – in the years between his undergraduate education at UC Berkeley and his graduate studies there – have been largely unsung, despite his Bronze Star for leadership and bravery. #VeteransDay #Veterans #UCDavis #Hospice ![As battalion pack master, Hildebrand supervised the use of 40 mules to deliver ammunition and supplies to troops unreachable by motor vehicles. And although he was formally the number two officer in his company, the company commander was aloof and avoided engaging with the enlisted men. In contrast, Hildebrand enjoyed talking with his men, won their trust and respect, and assumed the role of de facto commander throughout the heaviest fighting.
During five months of intense alpine combat, the 10th Mountain Division destroyed a Nazi force 10 times greater in number, inflicting such damage that the German command was forced to redeploy their troops from other fronts. The end result was one of the Allies’ greatest triumphs in the entire European campaign – and one that hastened the fall of Nazi Germany.
At 6:50 p.m. on May 2, 1945, the crackling radio news and pealing church bells announced that the German army in Italy had surrendered. War-weary and covered in dirt and grime, Hildebrand emerged from the cave where he had been sheltering from enemy fire. He sat on a rock and was overcome by a torrent of emotion.
Perhaps he remembered the sergeant who was killed as he slept by an artillery shell, before he could finish the letter he had been writing the previous evening to his sweetheart. Or perhaps he thought of the American soldier who, pinned down in his foxhole, observed the nodding petals of the springtime bloom and wrote: “God puts flowers among us to shame us for what we are doing.” Or maybe Hildebrand thought of the fallen German soldier he had seen, the man’s fingers reaching – even in death – toward a photo of a woman and two little children.
But surely Hildebrand thought of all the men in his unit – half of whom were killed or injured in the fighting, and half of whom were, at that moment, jubilantly cheering the end of the conflict.
#VeteransDay #veteran #UCDavis #hospice]()
As battalion pack master, Hildebrand supervised the use of 40 mules to deliver ammunition and supplies to troops unreachable by motor vehicles. And although he was formally the number two officer in his company, the company commander was aloof and avoided engaging with the enlisted men. In contrast, Hildebrand enjoyed talking with his men, won their trust and respect, and assumed the role of de facto commander throughout the heaviest fighting. During five months of intense alpine combat, the 10th Mountain Division destroyed a Nazi force 10 times greater in number, inflicting such damage that the German command was forced to redeploy their troops from other fronts. The end result was one of the Allies’ greatest triumphs in the entire European campaign – and one that hastened the fall of Nazi Germany. At 6:50 p.m. on May 2, 1945, the crackling radio news and pealing church bells announced that the German army in Italy had surrendered. War-weary and covered in dirt and grime, Hildebrand emerged from the cave where he had been sheltering from enemy fire. He sat on a rock and was overcome by a torrent of emotion. Perhaps he remembered the sergeant who was killed as he slept by an artillery shell, before he could finish the letter he had been writing the previous evening to his sweetheart. Or perhaps he thought of the American soldier who, pinned down in his foxhole, observed the nodding petals of the springtime bloom and wrote: “God puts flowers among us to shame us for what we are doing.” Or maybe Hildebrand thought of the fallen German soldier he had seen, the man’s fingers reaching – even in death – toward a photo of a woman and two little children. But surely Hildebrand thought of all the men in his unit – half of whom were killed or injured in the fighting, and half of whom were, at that moment, jubilantly cheering the end of the conflict. #VeteransDay #veteran #UCDavis #hospice
![Through its We Honor Veterans program, hospice staff and volunteers hold personalized pinning ceremonies – often the last opportunity for veterans to receive thanks and gratitude, and to share their remarkable life experiences. On Oct. 25, UC Davis Hospice volunteer Randy Kanouse hosted a virtual ceremony for Hildebrand, with 40 family members and loved ones attending via Zoom.
“We use this term ‘hero’ often to describe the lives of many men and women who have done good in their lives,” said Kanouse, who helped establish the We Honor Veterans program at UC Davis Hospice in 2012. “But a few people – very few people – truly ‘touch the sky’ with their bravery, their determination, their sacrifices, their compassion for others, and their incredible fortitude – these are the traits that come to mind when describing Milton Hildebrand.”
During the We Honor Veterans ceremonies, the honoree receives a certificate of appreciation, a service pin and a U.S. flag pin. The presenter, after in-depth interviews with the veteran, also tells the story of their life and service. For many veterans’ families, the ceremony is the first time they hear about these memories. Hildebrand’s son, Ross, said he was deeply appreciative of this chance to honor his father.
“The entire program was very important to [my father], as well as the immediate family, and the many cousins, nieces and nephews, and close friends on the call,” Ross Hildebrand said. “I believe there were a fair number of these folks who really had only a very superficial idea of the depth of Milton’s duty and service.”
In Davis and within the @UCDavis academic community, Hildebrand is best known as a long-tenured professor of zoology at the university, renowned for his work on vertebrate anatomy and morphology, embryology, and human sexuality. But Hildebrand’s achievements during the war – in the years between his undergraduate education at UC Berkeley and his graduate studies there – have been largely unsung, despite his Bronze Star for leadership and bravery.
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