University of Toledo

The University of Toledo Medical Center is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toledo, a public university located in Toledo,... Ohio, United States. Its three hospitals, all located on the University of Toledo Health Science Campus in south Toledo, have a combined capacity of 320 beds. Founded in 1964 as the Medical College of Ohio , its first class of medical students began their studies in 1969. On March 31, 2006, Ohio Governor Bob Taft signed House Bill 478, which merged the University of Toledo with what was then known as the Medical University of Ohio , effective July 1, 2006.. Upon completion of the merger, the University of Toledo became the third largest member of the University System of Ohio in terms of operating budget, as well as one of only 17 public universities in the United States having colleges of business administration, education, engineering, law, medicine and pharmacy. Each year, The University of Toledo Health Science Campus enrolls approximately 2,000 students across all its academic divisions.
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Michael D. Sallah is a Pulitzer Prize- winning American investigative journalist from Toledo, Ohio. He graduated from St. John's Jesuit High School... and the University of Toledo, where he obtained his undergraduate degree in journalism. While working for The Toledo Blade, he received numerous state and national awards for his investigative stories into organized crime, clerical sexual abuse and white-collar fraud. He was named Best Reporter in Ohio in 2002 by the Society of Professional Journalists. Two years later, Sallah was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting along with Mitch Weiss and Joe Mahr for a series on the atrocites by Tiger Force, a U.S. Army platoon during the Vietnam War. The trio also received The Medal by Investigative Reporters & Editors; a first-place Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting; a first-place Nieman Award presented by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, and a first-place award for investigative reporting by Associated Press Society of Ohio.
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