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The university is hosting several town hall meetings this month to inform students, faculty, and staff about the new parking strategy, including permit pricing and lottery details. Everyone is welcome to attend or watch live streams/recordings of the meetings at parking.wustl.edu.
Meetings will be held:
10-11 a.m. Friday, April 7, in the North Campus Cafeteria
8-9 a.m. Monday, April 10, in the West Campus Conference Center A/B
11 a.m.-12 p.m. Thursday, April 13, in Simon Hall, Room 1 (Danforth Campus)
Washington University in St. Louis will begin implementing its new parking and transportation strategy July 1 to help ensure campus parking resources are aligned with current and future needs.
First parking lot on the Danforth Campus was on the site where Duncker Hall would be built in 1920 to house the business school.
As part of this effort, the Danforth Campus will be broken into five zones: the east end (Zone 1); south core (Zone 2); north core (Zone 3); South 40 (Zone 4); and the North and West campuses (Zone 5). A new low-cost ParkSmart option also will be available at West Campus (Zone 5) for those who cannot park near their primary workplace.
For questions about the new parking strategy, call the staffed hotline at 314-935-3616 or email newparkingplan@wustl.edu. To learn more about alternative commuting options, visit www.parking.wustl.edu/commute-options/.
New lottery system
Starting in April, all permits for the coming academic year will be available for purchase via a lottery. Under the new system, students, faculty and staff will be able to rank their first, second, and third permit preferences, which then will be assigned via the lottery based on availability, an approach that has been successful at other universities. Once a zone reaches its limit, a waitlist will be established that will periodically be reviewed by the Parking & Transportation team, who will release additional permits as ...
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New campus parking lottery begins
Qian Receives NIH Funding to Investigate New Statistical Methods to Study Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Factors
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Biostatistician Jing Qian, biostatistics and epidemiology, has received a two-year, $448,800 exploratory grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate, with collaborators at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard University, new statistical methods for use in regression analysis to explore risk factors in Alzheimer’s disease (AD).In particular, Qian and colleagues will address a statistical problem brought up by incomplete family history. Their new approach is intended to better handle certain variables in AD studies.
The outcome of interest is beta amyloid deposition, which is associated with cognitive decline and is a neuropathological hallmark of AD, as a measure of severity of dementia in cognitively normal older adults who had a parent with Alzheimer’s. “We want to evaluate the contribution of parental history of dementia on this outcome. To do this, we will use regression analysis to assess the relationship between covariates, that is, multiple explanatory variables including the parental history of dementia, and the one outcome variable,” he says.
A major statistical problem encountered in using regression analysis with such a data set is called “randomly censored covariates,” Qian adds. In this case, “censored” means incomplete. For example, for some subjects, their parent has not experienced dementia onset at the time of the child’s interview, so the parent’s age at onset is not known exactly, but the onset age is known to be greater than his or her age at the interview time. Qian and colleagues will explore the proper way to analyze such incomplete data.
In this situation where the precise value of an important explanatory variable is not known but a range can be identified, the researchers propose two “threshold” methods for regression models with covariate subject to random censoring. The first approach is called “deletion threshold regression,” and the second is called “complete threshold regression.” The researchers plan to verify the theoretical properties ...
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‘Ask a Physicist’ Facebook Live Event to Feature Neutron Stars April 12
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The Department of Physics and Astronomy will host an “Ask a Physicist” Facebook Live question and answer session at 11 a.m. Wednesday, April 12, on the department’s Facebook page.Physicists Andrew Steiner, an assistant professor and UT-ORNL joint faculty member, and Jun Han, a postdoctoral researcher, will conduct the live event, titled Ultra-Dense Matter: What Are Neutron Stars Made Of?
Steiner and Han will discuss neutron stars, the second most compact objects in the universe. By observing these stars, scientists can better understand how our universe works. The core of these stars can provide us with clues on the nature of quantum chromodynamics, the nuclear strong force.
Tune in to the session to engage with experts and learn more about these little-researched stars and the implications they hold for our universe.
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Wheelchair Powered by Compressed Air, Designed by University of Pittsburgh, Unveiled at Theme Park for People with Disabilities
PITTSBURGH—A new waterproof motorized wheelchair that runs entirely on compressed air was unveiled today at Morgan’s Wonderland, a 25-acre theme park in San Antonio, Texas. The park was built specifically for individuals with disabilities, and 10 of these chairs will be available to patrons at the venue’s new splash park, Morgan’s Inspiration Island, when it opens later this spring.
Designed, developed and constructed at the University of Pittsburgh Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL), the patent-pending PneuChair™ pneumatic wheelchair uses high-pressured air as an energy source instead of heavy batteries and electronics. The chair weighs about 80 pounds overall and takes just 10 minutes to recharge, compared to eight hours to charge an electric mobility device.
HERL, which is a joint effort between Pitt, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and UPMC, was already working on a prototype of the PneuChair when it heard from representatives from Sports Outdoor and Recreation (SOAR), a nonprofit organization established by The Gordon Hartman Family Foundation of San Antonio to oversee Morgan’s Wonderland. They asked HERL for help in developing powered mobility for the new splash park.
“Their needs and our research were essentially an ideal match,” says Rory Cooper, HERL director and distinguished professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology at Pitt. “The potential to open opportunities for people with disabilities who need powered mobility to access splash parks, water parks, beaches or pools is transformative.”
Brandon Daveler is a Pitt graduate student researcher and the lead mechanical design engineer on the project. “The PneuChair uses a simpler design without a lot of electronics and software,” he says. “If something goes wrong, any of the components can be purchased at your local hardware store.”
The maximum distance on one fully charged tank is around three miles, about a third of the distance an electric chair can travel before it ...
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La Universitat de Barcelona guanya el VI Torneig de Debat Acadèmic de Màlaga
Universitat de Barcelona - Notícies
L’equip de l’Associació de Debat de la Universitat de Barcelona, vencedor de la competició.
05/04/2017
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La Universitat de Barcelona s’ha proclamat guanyadora del VI Torneig de Debat Acadèmic de Màlaga, organitzat per l’associació juvenil Kairós Debate de la Universitat de Màlaga. La competició, que va tenir lloc del 29 de març a l’1 d’abril, va reunir més d'un centenar d'estudiants procedents de les universitats de Barcelona, Santiago de Compostel·la, Valladolid, Màlaga, Almeria, Còrdova, Argentina, Panamà i Mèxic. «L'ONU hauria d’intervenir Corea del Nord per vulneració dels drets humans?» va ser el tema de debat.
L’equip de l’Associació de Debat de la Universitat de Barcelona (ADUB) va disputar la final contra Kairós Debate, després de vèncer en cinc dels sis debats en què va participar. Els primers defensaven la posició a favor, i els segons, en contra. L’equip de la UB estava capitanejat per Jordina Pérez, graduada en Educació Social i màster en Execució Penal a la Comunitat i Justícia Restaurativa. L’acompanyaven Georgina Rodríguez, graduada en Història i estudiant del màster de Gestió del Patrimoni Cultural i Museologia; Joan Torras, estudiant de quart d’Administració i Direcció d’Empreses i de primer de Ciències Polítiques i de l’Administració, i Antonio Torregrosa, estudiant de tercer de Ciències Polítiques i de l’Administració i Dret.
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S&T’s Xiaoping Du receives Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dr. Xiaoping DuDr. Xiaoping Du, Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, has won the 2017 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Each year, the Governor’s Award is presented to one faculty member at each public institution of higher education in Missouri. This year’s recipients were honored during an April 7 luncheon hosted by Gov. Eric Greitens in Jefferson City, Missouri.
The awards, which are not monetary, are based on effective teaching, innovating course design and delivery, effective advising, service to the university community, commitment to high standards of excellence and success in nurturing student achievement.
Du teaches introduction to engineering design, dynamics and probabilistic engineering design at Missouri S&T. He joined the S&T faculty in 2002 as an assistant professor of mechanical engineering. He was promoted to associate professor in 2008 and to full professor in 2014. In 2016, Du was named Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor. During his tenure at Missouri S&T, he has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching.
Du’s research interests include reliability-based design, robust design, multidisciplinary optimization design under uncertainty, and probabilistic and statistical methods.
Before joining the Missouri S&T faculty, Du held positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Iowa and China Southwest Petroleum Institute. He also worked as a senior design engineer at Mechatronics in Michigan.
Du is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization and the American Society of Engineering Education. He serves as associate editor for the Journal of Mechanical Design and for IISE Transactions, as review editor of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, and as a member of the editorial boards of three other professional journals.
Du earned a bachelor of science degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1985, a master of science ...
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4 UMSL singers represent Missouri, lend voices to all-collegiate choir at national conference
UMSL Daily
Last fall, when leaders of the Missouri Choral Directors Association were looking for a single quartet to sing on behalf of the Show-Me State, they chose the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Music majors Emese Mattingly, Jayde Mitchell, Christopher Stanfill and Olivia Vaughn learned in November that they’d been selected for the National Collegiate Unity Honor Choir, which recently performed at the national conference of the American Choral Directors Association held in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Selected to sing at last month’s biennial American Choral Directors Association gathering were Department of Music upperclassmen (from left) Jayde Mitchell, Emese Mattingly, Olivia Vaughn and Christopher Stanfill. (Photo courtesy of Emese Mattingly)
“It was really an experience,” said Vaughn, a soprano, looking back on the performances and the ACDA conference itself. “I never want to miss another one.”
Following many weeks of individual and group preparation earlier this semester, the UMSL quartet enjoyed an all-expenses-paid trip last month to the biennial event alongside Associate Professor of Music Jim Henry and fellow UMSL student Maria Ellis, who also received funding to attend the conference.
“We had a performance that Friday night and a performance on Saturday, but Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were the rehearsals,” said Mattingly, an alto who is double majoring in music and English. “We really only had six hours, with everyone, to get this thing beautified.”
Joining their four voices with other quartets hailing from nearly all 50 states before a packed house at both performances, the UMSL students were amazed and impressed with how it all came together.
A gospel choir and children’s choir were featured during the all-collegiate unity concerts as well, with the overall repertoire taking the singers and audience members on a sweeping musical and historical journey.
“We started off with a Hebrew piece, and by the end we were doing a Harry Belafonte song,” Mattingly said. “ ...
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Center for Entrepreneurship discussed what incoming entrepreneurs should know before pursuing patents
Daily Titan
Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Entrepreneurship hosted a discussion Wednesday at its CSUF Startup Incubator overviewing what up-and-coming entrepreneurs should know before pursuing a patent for their inventions.
The event featured David Jafari, a patent attorney licensed in Orange County who has been involved in intellectual property, business law and employment matters. With 17 years of experience, Jafari offered insight on patents and how to avoid making mistakes with them.
“It’s a property right that the government grants to the inventor of the idea that’s memorialized and claimed in that document. It’s a contract between the state and the inventor,” Jafari said.
Jafari said one of the most important rules in getting an idea patented is first actually understanding what is considered non-patentable subject matter.
“You cannot patent laws of nature. That has to be available to everybody. That’s a discovery, that’s not an invention,” Jafari said. “With an abstract idea, you come up with a formula for example or a way of solving of a mathematical equation. Those kinds of things cannot be monopolized.”
After an entrepreneur files a registration application with the patent office, Jafari said the trademark cannot be confusingly similar to products or businesses that already exist.
“If I come up with a coffee shop and call it Starducks, do you think Starbucks is going to have a problem with that? It’s not Starbucks, it’s Starducks. It’s confusingly similar,” Jafari said. “The law says that ‘Yes, you can own it and all you have to do is choose it, and you will own it but please, make sure it’s arbitrary.’”
Phillip Stinis, who graduated with a master’s degree in business from Cal State Fullerton in 2011, continues to be a key part of the CSUF Startup Incubator and the events they offer business students.
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Patrick Ewing Says Only Georgetown Could Convince Him to Leave NBA
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April 5, 2017 – Patrick Ewing (C’85), formally announced as Georgetown’s head men’s basketball coach at a press conference today, told an audience of reporters that it is “great to be back.”
“I think if it was any other university I wouldn't be doing this,” Ewing explained about leaving the NBA to become head coach at Georgetown. “But it's my alma mater – It's Georgetown. You know, I'm a Hoya. Any other university and the answer would be ‘No, I'm going to stay in the NBA.’ But I just thought it was something that I needed to do.”
Ewing, who helped Georgetown clinch its historic win in the NCAA Division Men’s Basketball Tournament in 1984, is a Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame inductee, a three-time consensus First Team All-American, National Champion and Most Outstanding Player of the 1984 NCAA Tournament.
He also claims a No. 1 overall NBA Draft selection, NBA Rookie of the Year, 11-time NBA All-Star, and is a member of the original Dream Team and the NBA’s 50th Anniversary All-Time Team.
After playing professionally, primarily with the New York Knicks, he went on to a 15-year coaching career as an assistant in the NBA.
Special Moment
During his illustrious career, Ewing had the opportunity to play for and coach alongside some of the greatest coaches in basketball, including Pat Riley (New York Knicks), Jeff Van Gundy (Knicks, Houston Rockets), Stan Van Gundy (Orlando Magic), Tom Thibodeau (Orlando Magic) and Steve Clifford (Charlotte).
“This is a special moment for our university and for our men's basketball program,” Georgetown President John J. DeGioia said. “Thirty-three years after winning the NCAA National Championship, No. 33 is coming home.”
John Thompson Jr. coached Ewing, who is now the 18th head coach of the Hoyas, at the height of the team’s success.
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UCSF Recognized for Patient Safety as Part of the I-PASS Study Group
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UC San Francisco is part of a patient safety research group that received the prestigious 2016 John M. Eisenberg Award for Innovation in Patient Safety and Quality. The award is presented annually by The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum, two leading organizations that set standards in patient care.
UCSF is part of the I-PASS Study Group, which represents more than 50 hospitals from across North America dedicated to improving patient safety by standardizing provider communication during patient handoffs to reduce miscommunication that can lead to harmful medical errors.
Handoffs in hospitals occur when the responsibility for care of patients changes between medical providers, including admission to the hospital, at shift changes, before and after procedures, upon unit changes, and at discharge. Despite the best of intentions by medical providers, medical errors are common and 80 percent of the most serious medical errors can be linked to communication failures, particularly during patient handoffs.
Developed Standardized Method for Handoffs
In 2012, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco joined the I-PASS Study Group, a group of education and patient safety experts from nine pediatric hospitals across North America. They worked together to develop the I-PASS Handoff Method and used it teach pediatrics residents a standardized method to handoff patients at change of shift.
“Putting the I-PASS curriculum into place was a collaboration between health service researchers, medical educators and clinicians,” said Glenn Rosenbluth, MD, the I-PASS site director at UCSF and director of Quality and Safety Programs for the UCSF School of Medicine’s Graduate Medical Education team.
With implementation of I-PASS at multiple centers nationwide, there was a 30 percent reduction in medical errors that harm patients, according to the group’s November 2014 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Disseminating Across Other Medical Specialties
Since that study, investigators at UCSF have been helping the I-PASS Study Group disseminate and adapt the ...
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No. 21 Southern Miss takes series opener from FIU, 15-4
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- No. 21 Southern Miss scored five runs in the bottom of the third inning to take control and defeat FIU, 15-4, Friday night at Pete Taylor Park in the opening game of a three-game series in Hattiesburg.The Panthers (17-13, 5-5 Conference USA) took a 2-1 lead in the top of the third inning when Zack Soria hit a two-run home run off Golden Eagles starter Kirk McCarty (5-2).However, in the bottom half of the inning USM (25-6, 9-1) had five consecutive batters reach base against FIU starter Chris Mourelle (2-2) and scored five runs to go ahead 6-2. The key hit in the inning was a three-run triple by Matt Wallner.Mourelle lasted four innings, allowed five hits and seven runs. McCarty pitched seven innings, allowed six hits and four runs.FIU cut the USM lead to 7-4 in the sixth after Soria doubled and Kenny Meimerstorf singled home the FIU catcher. Meimerstorf later scored in the inning on a wild pitch.But it was as close as the Panthers came. The Golden Eagles added two runs in the sixth and five runs in the eighth.Soria was 3 for 4 with two RBI and for the second time this season fell a hit shy of the cycle. Soria needed a triple in his final at-bat for the cycle but struck out. Back on March 9, Soria needed a home run for the cycle against Stetson but doubled in his final at-bat.The middle game of the three-game set between FIU and USM is Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. EDT.
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Moncrief and Jackson Claim Top LSWA Honors
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Jennifer RodriguesSr. Assoc. Communications Director
BATON ROUGE, La. --- LSU women’s basketball duo Raigyne Moncrief and Chloe Jackson earned two of the state’s four specialty awards presented by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association.
Moncrief, a junior guard from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was named the LSWA Player of the Year, while Jackson, a sophomore guard from Upper Marlboro, Md., earned Newcomer of the Year honors as announced by the organization. Awards are voted on by state media representatives and university sports information directors.
Southeastern Louisiana’s Charliee Dugas was selected as the LSWA Freshman of the Year and Loyola’s Kellie Kennedy was named Louisiana Coach of the Year.
Moncrief was joined on the LSWA first team by UNO guard Randi Brown, Tulane guard Kolby Morgan, Northwestern State guard Beatrice Attura and UL-Lafayette guard Jaylyn Gordon.
Jackson was named to the LSWA second team, along with LSU-Shreveport forward Kourtney Pennywell, Louisiana Tech guard Kierra Anthony, Grambling State guard Shakyla Hill and Southeastern Louisiana guard Taylin Underwood.
The third team consists of Loyola (N.O.) forward Meghan Temple, LSU-Shreveport guard Courtney Randle, Louisiana Tech forward Alexus Malone, UL-Lafayette forward Simone Fields and LSU-Alexandria guard Katie Lemieaux.
Moncrief edged UNO’s Brown for the Player of the Year honors, picking up 10 of the 30 first place votes as seven different players from around the state earned at least one vote for the award. Moncrief was named the 2017 SEC Defensive Player of the Year and second team all-SEC while leading the Lady Tigers to the NCAA Tournament. She set the LSU single season record with 107 steals, including 10 vs. Florida.
Jackson ran away with the Newcomer of the Year voting, picking up 17 of the 30 possible votes. The NC State transfer averaged 13.1 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game for the Tigers. Jackson scored in double figures 22 times, including a career-high 34 vs. Florida.
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Rice’s Cin-Ty Lee wins Guggenheim Fellowship
Earth scientist will study how and when continents emerged from oceans
Rice University Earth scientist Cin-Ty Lee has won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship to investigate how and when continents emerged from the oceans and the effect of their emergence on the evolution of whole-Earth cycling of life-giving nutrients.
Lee is one of 173 scholars, artists and scientists — and the only Earth scientist — chosen as 2017 Guggenheim Fellows. The fellows represent 49 disciplines and 64 academic institutions and were chosen from nearly 3,000 applicants. Funded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the fellowships are awarded on the basis of achievements and exceptional promise to allow scholars to pursue their work with creative freedom.
Cin-Ty Lee
Lee joined Rice in 2002 and is a professor and chair of the Department of Earth Science. He studies the compositions of rocks to reconstruct how Earth’s interior, surface, atmosphere and life have evolved over time. Specifically, his interests lie in understanding how mountains and continents form, how Earth’s deep interior has differentiated and how deep-Earth processes modulate long-term climate and Earth’s habitability.
In addition to researching the emergence and impact of continents, Lee will use the Guggenheim funding to explore crystal growth and kinetics in magmatic and hydrothermal conditions.
Lee has a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has published more than 100 papers on a wide range of topics, including whole-Earth carbon cycling, the rise of atmospheric oxygen, the formation of ore deposits, coupling between magmatism and erosion, the temperature of Earth’s mantle and the origin of granites. He is a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America and the Geological Society of America and has been awarded the Kuno Medal from the American Geophysical Union, the Clarke Medal from the Geochemical Society, the Donath Medal from the Geological Society of America and a Packard Fellowship.
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Un nou sistema estadístic mostra que en només cinc dies es pot recollir gairebé tota la informació obtinguda a l’any sobre l’evolució de pacients amb ictus tractats amb trombectomia
Actualitat UPC
Els hospitals Vall d’Hebron, Clínic, Bellvitge, Germans Trias, Sant Pau i Doctor Trueta han publicat a la revista Lancet Neurology els resultats d’un assaig clínic realitzat a més de 200 pacients que demostra l’eficàcia i els beneficis a llarg termini del tractament dels ictus amb microcatèters, una eina de nova generació que desobstrueix les artèries afectades en els infarts cerebrals més complexos.En aquest projecte de recerca, denominat REVASCAT (per Safety and efficacy of thrombectomy in acute ischaemic stroke), ja es va comprovar, ara fa dos anys, que els pacients amb ictus tractats amb microcatèters augmenten les opcions de recuperació de la capacitat funcional, redueixen a més de la meitat la mida final de l’infart cerebral causat per l’ictus i tenen una millor qualitat de vida.Ara, però, s’ha demostrat que aquest tractament, a més d’oferir beneficis al pacient, també té implicacions importants per la seva avaluació, ja que passat un any de la intervenció el pacient manté la millora experimentada durant els primers dies després d’haver-lo acabat.La contribució de l’equip de la UPC, desenvolupada per investigadors del grup de recerca en Bioestadística i Bioinformàtica (GRBIO), amb Erik Cobo al capdavant del projecte, i del grup d’Optimització Numèrica i Modelització (GNOM), ha consistit a dissenyar un sistema estadístic seqüencial que permet recollir el màxim d’informació de cada pacient i aturar l’estudi sobre l’evolució del tractament quan es té informació suficient per prendre la millor decisió sobre el tractament en estudi. De fet, amb la prova portada a terme als sis hospitals catalans s’ha demostrat que el 80% dels efectes observats després d’un any de seguiment són pràcticament els mateixos que els dels primers cinc dies posteriors a l’inici del tractament. D’aquesta manera, el pacient pot tenir ...
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Join a Deliberative Dialogue on Health Care at LSC-CyFair Feb. 7
Lone Star College CyFair News
Published on: February 01, 2017
Lone Star College-CyFairs next Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) community deliberative dialogue, set Feb. 7, seeks to explore ways to overcome the expense to ensure cost does not impede the access everyone needs.
Health care is a business in the United States and the costs of a doctors visit, medication and hospital treatment continue to rise, said John Duerk, CCE coordinator at LSC-CyFair. The Affordable Care Act attempted to address the problem of access; however, consumers in Texas can expect their premiums to increase up to 60% according to an Associated Press story from June 1, 2016.
Join this Deliberative Dialogue: Health Care: How Can We Reduce Costs and Still Get the Care We Need? from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Conference Center on the LSC-CyFair campus at 9191 Barker Cypress.
One of the CCEs goals is to get people thinking about actions they can take to address challenges in their immediate community and the broader society.
For event information, contact Professor Melanie Steel via phone at 281.290.3906 or email Melanie.Steel@LoneStar.edu.
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Lone Star College-North Harris offers admission and advising services during holiday break
Lone Star College North Harris News
Published on: December 11, 2015
Although most of the Lone Star College-North Harris campus will be closed during the upcoming holiday break, prospective and returning students can beat the registration rush and take advantage of special holiday registration hours.The admissions, advising, testing and financial aid departments will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Student Services Building (SSB) on the following dates:
Monday, Dec. 21
Tuesday, Dec. 22
Wednesday, Dec. 23
Monday, Dec. 28
Tuesday, Dec. 29
Wednesday, Dec. 30
In addition, the campus library will be open on Monday, Dec. 21 through Thursday, Dec. 24 and from Monday, Dec. 28 to Thursday, Dec. 31, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Lone Star College-Greenspoint Center and LSC-Victory Center will remain closed during the winter break, which runs from Dec. 21 through Jan. 4According to Carolyn Wade, dean/interim vice president of student services, These expanded hours over the holiday break allow students to come in, speak with an advisor one-on-one with little or no wait, and enroll before the final rush to register for spring 2016 classes, which begin January 19. Of course, our students can register online at LoneStar.edu/register at any time as well.Students can find additional information regarding the admissions process at www.LoneStar.edu/Apply .Lone Star College-North Harris is located at 2700 W.W. Thorne Drive, one-half mile south of FM 1960 East, between Aldine-Westfield and Hardy Roads. For more information about the college, call 281.618.5400 or visit LoneStar.edu/NorthHarris.Lone Star College has been opening doors to a better community for more than 40 years. Founded in 1973, LSC remains steadfast in its commitment to student success and credential completion. Today, with almost 83,000 students in credit classes, and a total enrollment of more than 95,000, Lone Star College is the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area and one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the nation. Stephen C. Head, Ph.D., is the chancellor of LSC, ...
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Friday, April 7, 2017
The Road to Glory: Hip-Hop Star Common Speaks at AU
American University News
Common spoke, and even did an AU-centric freestyle, in Bender Arena. Photo: Jeffrey Watts.
Among his many accomplishments, Common won an Oscar for “Glory,” a song co-recorded with John Legend for the movie Selma. “Every day women and men become legends/sins that go against our skin become blessings,” Common intoned on “Glory.” That idea—victory in the face of adversity, belief in the face of oppression—was a theme he returned to at American University’s Bender Arena on Wednesday, April 5.
The rapper, actor, and author struck an optimistic tone throughout the night, reflecting on his Chicago upbringing, his hip-hop career, and his dedication to social change. The student-run Kennedy Political Union and the College of Arts and Sciences co-presented the event. Michael Harvey, an AU professorial lecturer in audio technology, and Sean Glover of SoundExchange, moderated the question-and-answer session. Co-sponsors included the AU Alumni Association, the Office of Campus Life, the AU chapter of the NAACP, Black Student Alliance, the Kogod School of Business-Business and Entertainment Program, Men of Empowerment and Excellence, 94 Forever, Second District Records, and WVAU.
On Ali and Greatness
Common—real name, Lonnie Lynn—was here to speak and not perform. Well, almost. To the delight of the AU crowd, he broke into a freestyle with shout-outs to “coffee at the Dav,” “Mass Ave.,” and KPU Deputy Director Aaliyah Lambert.
He opened by talking about attending Muhammad Ali’s memorial service in 2016. “I started to think about, ‘Why did we call Muhammad Ali the greatest?’” he said. Common believes it was Ali’s humanity that drew people to him. He noted how Ali “spoke up against injustices, how he had sacrificed his career, at the height of his career, for something he believed in. How he greeted each and every individual with love, no matter what your background was. Or what you looked like. That’ ...
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Mobile Response
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Study Finds Mobile Technology Can Help Vulnerable Populations with HIV
Mobile health has proved a vital health tool, such as when the Red Cross shared public health information via text messaging following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. (Photo by Russell Watkins, U.K. DFID)
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 7, 2017) -- The use of mobile technology shows great promise for those who are HIV-positive, especially among those who have limited resources and those in poor areas of the world, according to a new paper published by researchers at the University at Albany.
Known as mobile health interventions (mHealth), such tools include dosing reminders, data about medication intake and questions about care communicated electronically, all of which result in better feedback and improved communication between patients and their care providers.
These technologies have already proven to be effective for other patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma, tuberculosis and malaria, according to UAlbany Assistant Professor of Communication Archana Krishnan.
"The near-ubiquitous access to mobile technology has encouraged entrepreneurs, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), researchers and governments to develop secure methods for data collection that include secure servers, data encryption and HIPAA-compliant security protocols," said Krishnan.
The excitement around mHealth initiatives stems from mobile technology’s ability to address perennial barriers to health care access like cost, infrastructure and accessibility. "The global health community has now created and implemented a myriad of mHealth solutions in response to problems that previously seemed intractable," said Krishnan. "But, there is still a good deal of evaluation that needs to be completed."
Researchers Archana Krishnan and Claire Cravero
The paper, "A Multipronged Evidence-Based Approach to Implement mHealth for Underserved HIV-infected Populations," published in Mobile Media & Communication, incorporates real-world projects and previous previously completed research on mobile technologies and healthcare.
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Clemson Rugby celebrates its 50th anniversary on campus
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More than 200 Clemson Rugby alumni, with families in tow, converge on Clemson’s campus April 7-9 for an anniversary celebration. But the occasion does more than mark 50 years that the program has been on campus; it provides current and former players with the opportunity to renew old bonds and, perhaps, form new ones.
It is those bonds that have kept Clemson Rugby afloat for five decades, and it is those bonds that will continue to keep it thriving far into the future.
“I think one of the reasons why the club has lasted so long is that it builds very strong bonds on the field and off the field,” said James Baxter, who co-founded the Clemson Rugby Foundation in 2007 after the team had spent decades on campus largely as a hybrid sports program and social club. “It’s these incredible bonds that have kept alumni of the team in touch after graduation and that have led to strong alumni engagement with the club.”
The Clemson Rugby Team in 2016, traveling to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Image Credit: Provided
It seems rugby has a way of slipping into the bloodstream. It’s hard to pin down precisely what it is that makes the sport so addictive to some, but the camaraderie involved might just have something to do with it.
“I can’t really put my finger on it. Once you get the bug, it kind of stays with you,” said Scott Bridges, who played for the team from 1985 through 1987.
“Going into a rugby match, it’s a little bit of a battle,” Bridges said. “You practice hard against one another all week, and then you have that other team you play against on the weekend. There’s a lot of blood, sweat and tears that go into it. So you become close.”
Andras Bende, who played for Clemson rugby from 1994 through 1998, has experienced ...
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Five on Faculty Recognized for Funded Research
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On April 5, five distinguished faculty members were honored for their achievements in securing externally funded research grants at the inaugural Sponsored Research Day on the Rose Hill campus.
The University Research Council presented the Outstanding Externally Funded Research Awards (OEFRA) to recognize the high quality and impact of sponsored research within the last three years and its enhancement of Fordham’s reputation—both nationally and globally.
Honorees in five separate categories included:
Sciences: Silvia C. Finnemann, Ph.D., professor of biology
Since joining Fordham University in 2008, Finnemann has secured over $3.65 million in grants from the National Institute of Health, the Beckman Initiative for Macular Research and the Retinal Stem Cell Consortium of New York State for her research on healthy eye function and age-related changes to eye cell function. These grants enable her to support a thriving laboratory where she has a team of graduate and undergraduate students and post-doctoral researchers.
Social Sciences: Celia B. Fisher, Ph.D., The Marie Ward Doty University Chair in Ethics and professor of psychology
Fisher has earned 12 major research awards and over $11 million from federal agencies over the past 20 years for her work in HIV and substance abuse prevention and research ethics. Recent awards have come from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
Humanities: Stephen R. Grimm, Ph.D., professor of philosophy
Grimm was awarded $4.5 million by the John Templeton Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation to lead a three-year interdisciplinary initiative called “Varieties of Understanding: New Perspectives from Psychology, Philosophy, and Theology.” His grant is the largest externally funded research award in the humanities in Fordham’s history.
Interdisciplinary Research: Jennifer L. Gordon, professor of law
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Former Sen. Kelly Ayotte to Deliver 2017 Commencement Address at UNH Manchester
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Former U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte will deliver the keynote address at the University of New Hampshire at Manchester’s commencement ceremony Thursday, May 18, 2017.Ayotte served as a senator from New Hampshire from 2011 to 2017, where her committee assignments included homeland security and governmental affairs; armed services; small business and entrepreneurship; budget; and commerce, science, and transportation.
Ayotte received numerous awards for her legislative action. In 2016, the American Kennel Club awarded Ayotte the AKC Legislator of the Year Award for her sponsorship of the Pet and Women Safety Act, established to help victims of domestic violence find safe accommodations for themselves and their pets. Ayotte has also been honored for her work on behalf of veterans by Veterans of Foreign Wars New Hampshire, and for her commitment to education by Save the Children.
Before her election to the U.S. Senate, Ayotte became New Hampshire’s first female attorney general in 2004. She centered her five years as Attorney General on seeking justice for victims of violence, as well as conservation efforts to protect the state’s public lands and waters.
Ayotte earned a B.A. from Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law.
Gen. Lori Robinson will deliver the 2017 commencement address at UNH Durham on May 20. Article
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WOMEN’S TENNIS TAKES DOUBLES POINT IN 4-1 LOSS TO LONG BEACH STATE
Athletics News
Apr 07, 2017
GOLD RIVER, Calif. – On senior day Sacramento State earned the doubles point but Long Beach State came back with four singles wins to complete a 4-1 victory on Friday.
Sacramento State (9-15) played its final home match of the season and honored seniors Andie Mouzes, Alina Soltanici, and Deimante Bulatovaite prior to the match. The Big West Conference leader, Long Beach State improved to 14-4 this year with the win.
The Hornets started the day with an impressive doubles win. The duo of sophomore Sofia Wicker and freshman Carolina Chernyetsky beat Long Beach State's Maren Helgo and Natalia Munoz at No. 3, 6-2, in the first match to finish. At No. 1, Sacramento State junior Ana Loaiza Esquivias and freshman Sofia Gulnova completed a 6-3 win over Laura Eales and Lena Pacholski to give the Hornets the doubles point.
In singles play Wicker won the first set, 6-3, over Helgo at No. 4 but that match went unfinished. Eales had a 6-0, 6-1 win at No. 6 for the first Long Beach State point and Julie Gerard won 6-2, 6-3 at No. 2. Pacholski put the 49ers a point away from victory with a win at No. 3 and the visitors clinched the match when Munoz picked up a 6-1, 6-2 win at No. 5.
Sacramento State completed its home schedule with seven home victories this season. The Hornets have two road matches remaining next week, concluding Big Sky play at Portland State next Saturday and closing the regular season at Portland next Sunday, April 16.
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Political expert to discuss 2016 presidential election
SIU News
April 07, 2017Political expert to discuss 2016 presidential election
by Pete Rosenbery
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Southern Illinois University Carbondale next week will host John Sides, an associate professor of political science, author, and popular blogger, to offer his perspective on the 2016 presidential election.
Sides will present “Donald Trump: How Did He Win and What Does It Mean?” at 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 12, in Student Center Ballroom B. Sides’ presentation is part of The Morton-Kenney Public Affairs Lecture Series presented by the Department of Political Science and the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.
“Anyone who wants to know why Donald Trump won should listen to John Sides,” J. Tobin Grant, a professor in the Department of Political Science, said. “He's not just an expert on political campaigns. He's someone who excels at knowing what the public wants to know and communicating it clearly.”
The event is free and the public is invited.
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Sides is an associate professor of political science at George Washington University. He is co-author of a forthcoming book about the 2016 presidential election. Sides also co-authored “The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election,” a textbook on campaigns, along with scholarly articles on campaign strategies, attitudes toward immigration, and other topics.
“John Sides is amazingly adept at blending academic expertise and practical insights in his writings for the Washington Post and the Monkey Cage political blog,” Jak Tichenor, interim institute director, said. “He’s equally at home dissecting Donald Trump’s complex relationship with the nation’s media during last year’s Presidential contest to predicting the difficulty the new chief executive would have in repealing and replacing the Affordable ...
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No.1 HSU Softball Travels to La Jolla to take on Tritons
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ARCATA, Calif.- No.1 Humboldt State Softball travels south for a four-game series against UC San Diego. First pitch is scheduled for Friday at 1p.m. HSU enters the weekend 26-5 overall and 14-4 in California Collegiate Athletic Association play. Last weekend the Green and Gold went 5-1 at the Tournament of Champions in Turlock, Calif. "We obviously wanted to come out of there with a 6-0 record, but we struggled our first day and it showed a lot of character in the ladies coming back the next 2 days and finishing out the tournament strong," said Head Coach Shelli Sarchett. "We talked it out and realized, you know, it's only the middle of season so we're not peaking. Which is great that we're not peaking now." UC San Diego enters the weekend series 19-17 overall and 10-14 in conference action. "We don't have to worry about weather this weekend in San Diego. Hopefully we get our games in against Chico and we just can continue to roll that way. So it's going to be really important coming into this weekend with San Diego firing, especially because we have Chico on Monday and Tuesday, we want to really set a tone now and continue the rest of the season with Chico and Monterey Bay. We're just excited again to see some sun again and get back on the field." Print Friendly Version
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Research awards at IUPUI increased by $40.5 million in 2016: Newscenter: Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEINDIANAPOLIS -- The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis has released funding results for fiscal year 2016 showing research awards campuswide totaled $428.9 million, a $40.5 million increase over 2015.
Counting only non-IU School of Medicine awards, the campus received $67.2 million in research awards in 2016, compared to $58.1 million in 2015, a 16 percent increase.
The increase in research awards reflects, in part, the support of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to advance innovative research and creative activity.
Funding awards for 2016 show an increase in National Science Foundation awards, one of the office's strategic goals. NSF funding rose from $5.2 million in 2015 to $7.9 million in 2016.
NSF awards in 2016 included $200,022 for a research team led by the School of Engineering and Technology to overcome problems with one approach to increasing the capacity of lithium ion batteries.
Another National Science Foundation grant will enable researchers at IUPUI to develop a Breathalyzer-type device to detect the onset of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar episodes, in people with diabetes.
The funding awards underscore efforts by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to develop and expand research programs that address important national and global needs and support economic development of Indiana and the nation.
Other external funding supported research to:
Develop information-based tools to help primary care providers improve care for patients with chronic pain, a condition that affects 100 million Americans at a cost of $630 billion annually in health care costs and lost worker productivity.
Study the use of the electronic dental record to evaluate the outcome of dental treatments.
Study nonmilitary applications of unmanned aerial systems (drone) technology, such as remote imaging for water quality, mosquito habitat mapping, disaster preparation, precision agriculture, and the utilization and analysis of data collected with unmanned aerial systems.
The office helps stimulate faculty research efforts through internal funding programs, events, workshops and proposal ...
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Dr. Sanjay Rai Selected Outstanding Leader by Leadership Montgomery
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Congratulations to Dr. Sanjay Rai, senior vice president for academic affairs on being selected as Leadership Montgomery's 2017 Outstanding Leader Award recipient. The award "recognizes and rewards an individual whose contributions through exceptional leadership have made a difference in Montgomery County." For nearly 30 years, Leadership Montgomery has built bridges between the private, public, and nonprofit sectors of Montgomery County, Maryland to improve the community -- the neighborhoods people live in and the business they work in by providing curriculum-and service-based programs. To date, Leadership Montgomery has graduated over 2,000 leaders, 955 of whom now hold board seats in County-based businesses, supported 864 local nonprofits with 25,000 hours of volunteer service, and have trained 476 high school and other emerging leaders through their excellent programs. Dr. Rai will receive the award at the annual Leadership Montgomery Celebration of Leadership event on June 6. For more information about Leadership Montgomery, or the awards event honoring Dr. Rai, please visit: https://www.leadershipmontgomerymd.org/outstanding-leader-award
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Panelists Share 6 Tips to Build Your Legacy during 'Leadership Breakfast'
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Rasmussen College focused on legacy leadership—what it means and how you achieve it—during its 4th Annual Leadership Breakfast Oct. 30 at Vadnais Heights Commons in Minnesota.More than 400 community members attended the 3-hour breakfast to visit with 11 nonprofit organizations, hear an inspirational speech from Carla Beaurline, founder and host of “Around Town” T.V., participate in a networking activity and listen to a 4-person panel discussion focused on legacy leadership. Panelists included: Mona Dohman, Minnesota commissioner of public safety Virginia Morris, Hubbard Radio LLC chair and CEO Trudy Rautio, Carlson president and CEO Tom Tefft, Medtronic senior vice president Here are six tips from the panel discussion on how to build and sustain your legacy: 1. Your legacy stems from someone who has influenced or inspired you We all hope to have somebody in our lives that has influenced our lives so much that it has lit a fire within us. Both Rautio and Dohman chose Mother Theresa as the person who most inspired them, due to her ability to fight for people—usually much poorer than her—and single-handedly change the world. “I hope to emulate most of how she lived her life,” Dohman said. However, inspiration doesn’t necessarily come from someone well-known, or of power or fame. Sometimes the people who help us create our legacy are the people who helped shape us since birth. “I was inspired by my late father,” Tefft added. “He had a sense of intellectual curiosity, and embraced getting to know a variety of people. He taught me to see the power of diversity in both personal and professional settings, and showed how it makes you a richer, broader leader and person. Diversity makes life a lot more interesting.” 2. Identify what you value as a leader & assess what it means for your legacy Do you know what you value? Is it honesty, ...
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Opening Minds through Art event showcases artwork, special relationships formed between Miami students and elders with dementia
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By Margo Kissell, university news and communications
Harold, a resident at The Knolls of Oxford, admires his artwork with OMA student volunteers (all photos by Scott Kissell).
Becky Miley never knew how much her elderly mother Marjorie enjoyed painting until she started doing it every week at the Woodland Country Manor in Somerville.
After attending church on Sundays, “she’s in a hurry to get back and do art,” Miley said.
The 82-year-old woman has spent the last three semesters participating in Opening Minds through Art (OMA), Miami University’s award-winning intergenerational art program for people with dementia.
Student volunteers partner with elders in long-term care facilities to create works of abstract art in the program aimed at promoting social engagement, autonomy and dignity through the experience of creative self-expression.
Organizers say the program improves the quality of life for the elders, while providing service learning opportunities for students.
An OMA art show opens at the Oxford Community Arts Center (OCAC) Friday, April 14, with a reception from 6-8 p.m. (part of the Second Friday series). Free and open to the public. Details below.
OMA was founded in 2007 at the Scripps Gerontology Center by Elizabeth “Like” Lokon, who earned from Miami a master of arts degree in teaching, a master’s in gerontological studies and a doctorate in educational leadership.
Lokon, OMA’s director, said she set out to create something to engage elders with different levels of dementia in a way that they would grow and flourish.
Martha delights in her artwork and her student volunteer Margot Duffy.
The program has taken off.
Today, it’s offered at 57 facilities across the United States and around the world. Six nursing homes in Alberta and Ontario, Canada, and one in the Netherlands offer OMA.
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‘Scholarship That Matters’ at UNCG Graduate Research and Creativity Expo
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More than 100 graduate students revealed the breadth and depth of research at UNCG at the 5th annual UNCG Graduate Research and Creativity Expo: “Scholarship That Matters.”
“I truly enjoyed the questions and feedback I received at the expo,” said economics graduate student Justin Larson. “If the goal of my research is to educate and potentially influence decision makers, then those people have to understand what I’m saying. That value has helped me, both as a researcher and a teacher, and will continue to help me moving forward.”
Students from more than 30 departments made 89 presentations, and six were recognized as winners of their categories. Winners of these $1,000 awards were chosen for their clarity of communication to a non-specialized audience, effective presentation skills, content knowledge, creativity, organization, originality and their ability to explain why this research and work matters. Judges included members of the Board of Trustees, local officials, leading executives, alumni and other members of the regional community.
“The response that I was getting from everyone that came by my poster was amazing,” shared Luciana Lilley, a graduate student in English and winner for the Humanities category. “People were intrigued by my research, and wanted to know more about it.”
The six award winners included:
Marya Fancey, in the Arts category, for “Understanding Sacred Organ Music from a Sixteenth-Century Polish Source.” To continue her research, Fancey will travel to Poland in the coming year.
Ho Young Lee, in the Health Sciences category, for the project “Doxorubicin-Induced Cytotoxicity in Rat Myocardial H9c2 Cells: The Roles of Reactive Oxygen Species and Redox Balance.” Doxorubicin is an extremely effective anticancer drug, but can cause irreversible damage to the heart. Lee’s research investigated mechanisms behind the Doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity.
Luciana Lilley, in the Humanities category, for “Cannibalism Does What?! in George Thompson’s ‘Venus in Boston’?” Lilley’s research contemplates “medicinal cannibalism,” represented ...
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Leveling the playing field: Policy options to improve postsecondary education and career outcomes
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Providing workers with the right sets of skills is an urgent necessity in the modern labor market. Postsecondary education and K–12 both have important roles to play, and can be improved with the help of ongoing research on what does and does not work in education policy. K-12 schools could be doing more to increase high school student engagement and preparation for college; and the teacher shortages K–12 schools face in specific subject and geographic areas must also be addressed. Furthermore, at postsecondary institutions, federal aid must provide incentives to raise the quality of the college experience, protect the taxpayer investment, and enhance college access for workers who need to reskill.
On April 26, The Hamilton Project will host a policy forum to explore the best ways to address these policy challenges. The forum will begin with introductory remarks by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin, followed by three roundtable discussions featuring panelists including: Andy Smarick (American Enterprise Institute); James Kvaal (University of Michigan); Bridget Terry Long (Harvard University); Sandra Black (University of Texas at Austin); Charlene M. Dukes (Prince Georges Community College); Michael Dakduk (Career Education Colleges and Universities); Sarita E. Brown (Excelencia in Education); Belle Wheelan (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges); and Heather Wathington (The Maya Angelou Schools and See Forever Foundation).
Agenda
12:30 PM Registration Opens
1:00 PM Welcome and Introductions
Robert E. RubinCo-Chair, Council on Foreign Relations;Former U.S. Treasury Secretary
1:05 PM Roundtable: Policy Options to Better Finance Higher Education
Author: David Deming Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard University Author: Sarah Turner University Professor of Economics and Education and Sounder Family Professor, University of Virginia
Discussant: Bridget Terry LongSaris Professor of Education and Economics, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
Discussant: Charlene M. Dukes President, Prince George’s Community College
Discussant: Sarita E. Brown President, Excelencia in Education
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Coleman Foundation Illinois Tech Pitch Competition 2017
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Applications for the Coleman Foundation Illinois Tech Pitch Competition must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, April 11. Apply here. Applicants must prepare a two-to-three-minute video answering the question “How has participating in business plan competitions benefited your entrepreneurial learning process?” and upload it to YouTube. Competitions such as startup weekends, Campus 1871, pitch competitions, some hackathons, many class projects, and several IPROs also qualify.View a flyer here: Coleman Foundation Pitch Competition.
Prizes:
1st Prize: $75 + 100% discount on SNT membership. The first-place team will also have the opportunity to represent Illinois Tech in the SNT National Pitch Competition
2nd Prize: $50 + 100% discount on SNT membership
3rd Prize: $25 + 100% discount on SNT membership
4th Prize: 100% discount on SNT membership
5th Prize: 75% discount on SNT membership
6th Prize: 75% discount on SNT membership
7th Prize: 50% discount on SNT membership
8th Prize: 50% discount on SNT membership
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'See Writing Differently' at College of DuPage May 1
News at College of DuPage
By Jennifer DudaStudents from College of DuPage composition courses will showcase their work at the
second annual “See Writing Differently,” a celebration of writing, Monday, May 1,
in the Jack H. Turner Conference Center, Student Resource Center Room 2000, on the
Glen Ellyn Campus, 425 Fawell Blvd.The event includes a morning session from 10:30 a.m. to noon and an afternoon session
from noon to 1:30 p.m. and features the capstone research projects of more than 500
English 1102 students. This free event is open to the public and provides students
with an audience and feedback on their original projects created during the spring
semester. Presentations include aspects of multimodal rhetoric, such as websites,
podcasts, PowerPoint presentations, posters, brochures, videos and art.For more information, contact Assistant English Professor Brian Brems at bremsb@cod.edu.
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Intercultural Center celebrates past, present and future
Brandeis University News
Intercultural Center celebrates past, present and futurePhoto/Madeleine LopezThe Intercultural Center PUSH CommitteeBy Julian Cardillo ’14April 4, 2017For years, no one at Brandeis had the complete picture of how the Intercultural Center (ICC) came to be.But that changed last fall when ICC director Madeleine Lopez discovered that the center, an on-campus space where students of diverse cultures and backgrounds connect and learn from one another, is actually celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
“It’s been an interesting journey,” said Lopez. “I am trained as a historian and when I first stumbled across documents about how students created the ICC, I learned that we were supposed to be celebrating a 25-year anniversary this year.
“But I also found out the students’ original vision for the ICC,” Lopez added. “An array of culturally and ethnically diverse students finally saw the dream of an Intercultural Center realized. Their aim was to educate the Brandeis community about the cultures of people of color and to establish a central place on campus for all people to explore, share, and honor each others' cultural heritages."
In 1992, 31 students officially secured a space for the ICC in Swig Hall with support from faculty and the university administration, although efforts to build an intercultural center date farther back in Brandeis history. At the time of its founding, 11 clubs and organizations fit beneath the ICC umbrella, but five more have been added since that represent various cultures and traditions from around the globe.
The center officially opened its doors on March 4, 1992. A celebration took place that day themed, “A Vision Realized,” in recognition of the hard work done by the founding leaders, also known as the Push Committee, to secure a space for the ICC. Janice Johnson Dias ’94, now a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a community organizer, served as Brandeis Student Union President and ...
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Stay Calm and Ace that Final: Stress Hacks for Students
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Identify Stress Triggers
If you can identify what is causing your stress, then you can develop a plan for avoiding stress triggers or minimizing their impact. For example, students who are feeling overwhelmed with coursework or finals may need help with time management or to speak with their instructors about their concerns, Bloom said. Creating a plan for dealing with stress is one way to make it more manageable.
Seek Academic Support
If you’re stressed over exams and need additional help, campus departments like the Academic Advancement Center offer student services to address a variety of issues. Meeting with a residence advisor or counselor can also help. “Talk to your residence adviser about how they prepare for final exams and manage the end of semester stress,” said John Barnousky, Embry-Riddle Associate Director of Housing and Residential Life. “RAs balance many academic and work commitments and can be a great resource to provide tips for stress and time management.”
Maximize Campus Resources
Most schools provide a range of services to meet student mental health needs. The Embry-Riddle Counseling Center offers free counseling services, resources and support. The counseling center also is home to a certified facility dog named Peppino. Look for his picture on the center’s front door to see if he’s “in.” Peppino is available for brief walk-in office visits and can join students in counseling sessions by request. “It has been clinically proven that petting, touching and talking to animals lowers a person’s blood pressure, relieves stress and eases depression,” Bloom said. The counseling center also offers anonymous online assessments and resources through ERNIE.
Take Care of Your Body
Exercise may be the hardest thing to make time for when your to-do list is a mile high, but 30 minutes of activity a day can reduce stress hormones, flood the body with endorphins and boost energy. ...
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UMass Boston and Harvard Pilgrim Host Pharmacy Cost Panel
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Panelists Talk Value, Need to Hold Businesses Accountable as Cost and Number of Medications IncreaseWhat constitutes value when it comes to prescription drugs was a recurring theme at a panel Tuesday morning sponsored by UMass Boston’s Set Sail for Success Program and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
“When people ask me, ‘Why, Eric, are drug prices going up so much?’ I usually say, ‘Because they can,’” Eric H. Schultz, president and CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, told a crowd of more than 100 students and health care industry leaders at the UMass Club. “Let’s hold businesses accountable. Tell me why you just increased your price 22 percent in one year when you’ve been producing this drug for well over eight years and the cost of producing the drug and what goes into it did not go up 22 percent.”
Schultz says he’d like to see the process for approving new drugs to be sped up, the process for approving generics to be changed, and a panel of leading experts, including researchers and clinicians, to develop a cost-effectiveness score for new drugs.
“It is not easy, because somebody has to say who is getting value, and how much value is. It’s much harder to do politically than one might suspect,” Schultz said.
Panelist Dr. Steven D. Pearson, founder and president of the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review talked about a proposal in New York State, where if a drug company’s price goes above a value-based price ceiling, it will trigger a rebate back to the state.
Associate Professor of Nursing Janice Foust told moderator Shirley Leung of The Boston Globe that it’s not just the cost of a single drug that’s the issue; Foust has worked with some people who have up to 29 medications.
“I’ve made home visits where the medications are in the ...
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Friday and Saturday’s Softball Games Postponed; Rooftop Slated to Open Sunday
WPI News Archive
Apr 07, 2017
WORCESTER – Softball's home games slated for Friday and Saturday have been rescheduled.
Today's set with Clark has been postponed to Wednesday, April 12th at 5pm and Saturday's pair with Emerson has been postponed to Sunday, April 9th at noon.
Additionally, Softball's road doubleheader at Westfield from Friday, March 31st has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 18th at 3:30pm.
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Luijendijk, Rowley appointed college heads
Princeton University Top Stories
AnneMarie Luijendijk, professor of religion, has been named head of Wilson College, and Clancy Rowley, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been named head of Rockefeller College. Both will begin their four-year terms as heads of two of Princeton University's six residential colleges on July 1.
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Indiana University to host young African leaders through Mandela Washington Fellowship program
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IU Newsroom »Indiana University to host young African leaders through Mandela Washington Fellowship programIndiana University to host young African leaders through Mandela Washington Fellowship programFeb. 14, 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEBLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University will host 25 of Africa’s brightest emerging leaders for six-week academic and leadership institute this summer sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
The Mandela Washington Fellowship, the flagship program of the Young African Leaders Initiative, empowers young African leaders through academic coursework, leadership training, mentoring, networking, professional opportunities and support for activities in their communities.
Fellows are young leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa who have established records of accomplishment in promoting innovation and positive change in their organizations, institutions, communities and countries.
IU successfully hosted the civic leadership track in 2016, led by the Office of International Development. The 2017 cohort will come to Indiana in mid-June as part of a larger group of 1,000 Mandela Washington fellows hosted at institutions across the United States this summer. The highly competitive program attracted more than 64,000 applications this year.
“The visit of the first cohort of Mandela scholars in Bloomington last year generated a six-week-long series of powerful, engaged discussions with community and business leaders, with educators and students, and with other members of the community,” said David Zaret, IU vice president for international affairs. “We found that we had much to learn from each other. I look forward to another opportunity to get to know the bright, young African leaders of tomorrow.”
Working closely with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational Affairs and its implementing partner, IREX, host institutions have designed academic programs that will challenge and empower these inspiring young leaders from Africa.
“Hosting these young Africans has been inspiring and is an investment in a new generation of young leaders who shape the continent’s future, and it reinforces IU’s global engagement toward increased ...
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Scholars win Global Humanities Initiative translation prize
Northwestern Now: Summaries
This is one of a number of famous depictions of the execution of Mansur al-Hallaj, the celebrated 9th-/10th-century mystic whose poetry will be translated and annotated by Global Humanities Translation Prize winner, Professor Carl Ernst. Courtesy Brooklyn Museum.Northwestern University Press and the University’s Global Humanities Initiative have selected two inaugural winners of the $5,000 Global Humanities Translation Prize for an in-progress translation of a non-Western or otherwise marginal literary or scholarly text.Jason Grunebaum and Ulrike Stark are in the process of translating Manzoor Ahtesham’s “The Tale of the Missing Man”from modern Hindi. Carl Ernst is translating and annotating the classical Arabic poems of the mystic Mansur al-Hallaj.Northwestern University Press will publish both titles in trade editions during their spring 2018 season after completion of the works. Both books embody the goal of the prize, which is to promote translations that make the greatest contribution to literature and the humanities.Ahtesham’s novel is a milestone of modern Indo-Muslim literature. It is a deeply meditative exploration of the fracturing of the Indo-Muslim psyche in the wake of the 1947 partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan.Al-Hallaj, executed for heresy in 922 CE, is a pivotal figure in the literary and mystical cultures of the Islamic world, and yet this will be the first comprehensive English edition of the poems attributed to al-Hallaj. Of the 118 poems translated by Ernst, half have never appeared in English before.The Global Humanities Initiative is supported jointly by the University’s Buffett Institute for Global Studies and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and was cofounded in 2015 by Laura Brueck, an associate professor in the department of Asian languages and cultures, and Rajeev Kinra, an associate professor in the department of history at Northwestern.Brueck described the goal of the prize as “bringing much-needed attention not only to the rich ...
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