The Winter Jam Tour Spectacular, Christian music’s largest annual tour and one of the top first quarter tours in the world, made a series of major announcements during festivities held earlier this evening. Streamed around the world via Facebook LIVE, the event—at Nashville’s Hard Rock Café—was attended by artists, industry personnel and national media. Revealing a history- making tour first, Winter Jam will be presented on a 360o “in the round†center stage, showcasing a diverse lineup helmed by supergroup Newsboys United.
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UE men’s golf finishes sixth in Tom Tontimonia Invitational
Dallas Koth ties for 13th place
 Dallas Koth tied for 13th place to lead the University of Evansville men’s golf team to a 6th place finish at the Tom Tontimonia Invitational at Lakewood Country Club.
Koth’s final round tally came in at a 79 as he tied for 13th with a 220. He was seven over par to lead the Purple Aces contingent. Noah Reese tied for 21st as his final round 77 game him a 3-round total of 222 for the tournament.
UE’s low round of the day belonged to Spencer Wagner. His 1-over 72 saw him tie for 30th with 223 strokes. Jessie Brumley was fourth for the Aces, carding a 77 on Tuesday to finish with a 227. He tied for 42nd. Matthew Ladd matches Brumley’s effort of 77 and completed his three rounds with a 235.
Individual Gabe Rohleder matched Wagner’s final round total of 72 shots and finished the tournament with a 236.
Kent State’s Will Kurtz, playing as an individual, was the medalist. He posted the low round of the tournament in the final 18, completing the day with a 6-under 65 to post a 206 in his three rounds of play. He was four strokes in front of the field.
The team championship went to Dayton as the Flyers finished with an 869, two in front of Oakland. Evansville took sixth place with an 890 and were six shots out of the top five.
Next week, the fall season will come to a close for the men as they travel to Dickson, Tenn. where they will take part in the F&M Austin Peay Intercollegiate. It will take place from Oct. 15-16 at Greystone Country Club.
Health informatics conference to address emerging tech trends
A ground-breaking conference covering various aspects of health informatics will be held at the University of Southern Indiana from 8 a.m. until 4:15 p.m. Thursday, October 25 in the University Center. The fifth annual Health Informatics Tri-State Summit (HITS) will address emerging trends in the use of health information technology in direct patient care, consumer and patient engagement and will prepare health professionals to implement effective health informatics strategies in their individual professional practice and their organization.
The one-day event will be particularly relevant, to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, technologists, and others whose scope of practice is related to health informatics, including students, who can attend at a reduced rate.
This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. Josh Luke, is a health care futurist, edutainer and national thought-leader and speaker on care coordination, population health management, readmission prevention and developing integrated post-acute networks. He is regarded as a “futurist†on value-based care and how it will shape the continuum of care. Luke has been described as an innovator, forward-thinking, and a strategist on teaching ACOs, BPCIs, acute hospitals and post-acute leaders how to position themselves for revenue growth in a post-ACA model.
Dr. Joyce Lee, a physician, researcher and designer, will close the conference, describing methods of design thinking, including participatory design with patients and caregivers. She is a Robert P. Kelch, MD research professor of pediatrics at the University of Michigan medical school and professor at the medical school and at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her work focuses on the development of learning health systems using the methods of clinical informatics, quality improvement and patient-centered participatory design.
The Health Informatics Tri-State Summit will feature six other speakers who will cover a variety of topics related to health informatics technology:
- Interoperability and role of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs)
- Cybersecurity and security challenges
- Nursing informatics: beginner, intermediate and advanced
- Telehealth’s role in health informatics
- Patient portals and perceptions
The registration fee is $125, $100 for HIMSS members and $15 for students, if registering by October 12, 2018.
Women’s golf wins team and individual championship
Aces pick up hardware at Chi-Town Fall Invite
  The University of Evansville women’s golf team won the team championship at the Chi-Town/Ted Rhodes Fall Invite while senior Sydney Anderson was the medalist on Tuesday at Harborside International Golf Center.
All five of the Purple Aces team golfers finished in the top 12 as UE won the championship by eight strokes over Green Bay. Evansville tallied a 620 while the Phoenix finished with a 628. CSU Bakersfield finished in third place with a 643.
Sydney Anderson shot an even 72, the lowest round of the tournament, on her way to the individual championship. Following her 79 on Monday, Anderson finished the two rounds with a 151, defeating Green Bay’s Katie Warpinski by one shot.
Madison Chaney came home in fifth place. The senior carded a 79 on Tuesday and finished the event with a 156. Alyssa McMinn tied for 7th place. She posted an 80 on Monday and improved by two shots in the final round, registering a 78.
Sophia Rohleder came home in a tie for 9th place with a 2-round tally of 160 while Lexie Sollman took 12th place with a 162. Sollman made a huge leap for UE; she finished Monday’s play with an 85 before firing off a 77 in the final 18 holes. Caitlin O’Donnell notched a 180 playing as an individual. After shooting a 93 in round one, she lowered her score by six, notching an 87 in the last round.
In two weeks, the Purple Aces will wrap up the fall season as they host the Charles Braun Intercollegiate. Set for October 22-23, the tournament will be held at Oak Meadow Country Club on the north side of Evansville.
International Walk to School Day
International Walk to School Day is a global event that involves communities from more than 40 countries walking and biking to school on the same day. It began in 1997 as a one-day event. Over time, this event has become part of a movement for year-round safe routes to school and a celebration – with record breaking participation – each October. Today, thousands of schools across America – from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico – participate every October.
There are several schools in the Evansville area that are participating in this year’s event, including (but not necessarily limited to) Dexter, Caze, Highland, Fairlawn and Christ the King.  Motorists are asked to be vigilant on the morning of October 10th as there several children walking near the schools.Â
LOCALLY DEVELOPED EVENT APPLICATION PLANS LAUNCH IN EVANSVILLE
Millennial start up Entrepreneur Mobile Technologies, LLC is a team of local professionals working to connect people of all ages with ‘What 2 Do (W2DO)’ in Evansville. The W2DO creators are a cross-functional team of app developers, marketers, and entrepreneurs who have spent more than a year developing an app specific to events in the Evansville market.
 “W2DO app allows any organization to gain exposure in the Evansville community through an innovative platform. For the end user, it offers an easy and free way to discover events that are happening now, in the future, or across various categories. It’s really a one stop shop for finding something to do in Evansville,†noted Co-founder Delisa Payne.
With user friendly and organized navigation, the app offers clear and direct event details without feeding unnecessary advertisements or unwanted information. The app also offers a way to add events to a personal calendar, buy tickets, or grab directions to the event with a single tap. The W2DO App will be available for download on Apple and Android on October 9, 2018.
Join us in launching the W2DO App on Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 10am at the Old National Events Plaza. A press conference will be held in the main lobby located at 715 Locust Street in Evansville. The press conference will be open to the public.
Old National Events Plaza is proud to be a partner of W2DO and the Entrepreneur Mobile Technologies team. As a leading events venue in Evansville, we value the opportunity to directly reach regional patrons with upcoming entertainment events through the W2DO App.
USI returns home for homestand, battle for 1st
The University of Southern Indiana men’s soccer team comes home to the friendly surroundings of Strassweg Field and begins a four-match homestand Friday when they host Maryville University. The Great Lakes Valley Conference first-place Screaming Eagles kickoff Friday versus Maryville at 7:30 p.m. to battle for first in the league and reaches the half-way point of the homestand Sunday at 2 p.m. when they host the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Coverage for USI in GLVC action can be found at GoUSIEagles.com.
During Sunday’s women’s and men’s soccer doubleheader with UMSL, the USI soccer teams will be selling “Hancock Strong” t-shirts to honor USI senior forward Ryley Hancock’s brother, Camden, who lost a battle with cancer last week. Proceeds to help the Hancock family with medical costs.
Week 7 Eagle Notes:Â
USI hold onto first in GLVC:Â The Screaming Eagles (8-2-1, 6-1-1 GLVC) enter this week’s action with a share of first in the GLVC despite splitting conference matches on the road last week. USI defeated Quincy University, 2-0, Friday in Quincy, Illinois, before losing a hard-fought battle at the University of Indianapolis, 1-0, in overtime.
Close at the top:Â USI and Maryville share the top spot in the GLVC with a slim one-game lead over UIndy and the University of Illinois Springfield.
Rickey leading the offense: Junior midfielder Sean Rickey leads the USI offense with 23 points on a team-high nine goals and five assists. Junior forward Eric Ramirez is second with 10 points on four goals and two assist.
Between the posts: Sophomore goalkeeper Justin Faas leads the Eagles between the posts with an 8-2-1 overall record and four shutouts. He also has a 0.80 goals against average in 1011 minutes.
Santoro in his 10th year: USI Head Coach Mat Santoro has an 83-72-18 overall record at the helm. Santoro has guided the Eagles to four GLVC Tournament appearances and the NCAA II Tournament in 2016.
USI versus Maryville:Â USI leads all-time series, 8-2-1, dating back to 2009 when the Saints joined the Eagles in the GLVC. USI, which is 3-1-1 versus the Saints in the last five, split matches with Maryville last year, falling during the regular season, 2-0, and winning, 2-1, in double overtime during the GLVC Tournament.
The Saints in 2018:Â The Saints are 7-2-2 overall, winning their last five matches, and 6-1-1 in the GLVC. Maryville defeated UIndy, 3-2, and UMSL, 2-0, Monday in a match that had to finish on Monday due to weather.
USI versus UMSL:Â UMSL leads the all-time series with USI, 22-6-2, dating back to the beginning of the Eagles’ program in 1979. The Tritons also have the lead in the last five matches, going 3-1-1 versus the Eagles, including last year’s match that ended in a 2-0 UMSL victory in St. Louis.
The Tritons in 2018:Â The Tritons, which hosts Bellarmine University on Friday before visiting the Eagles, is 5-5-0 overall and 4-3-0 in the GLVC. UMSL split last weekend, defeating Missouri University of Science &Technology, 3-2, in overtime, and losing to Maryville on Monday, 2-0.
Investigating the Discovery of Human Remains
The Vanderburgh County Coroner’s Office and the Evansville Police Department are investigating the discovery of human remains. An autopsy has been scheduled for 13:00 hours tomorrow. The investigation is ongoing and no additional information is available at this time. The Evansville Police Department can provide updates ,when available, on their investigation.