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CLEMSON — The second annual Give Day at Clemson University was more than twice as successful as the first one.
Donors gave $2,062,864 to support scholarships, teaching and facilities during the 24-hour Give Day 2017 that began Thursday morning. Last year, 3,082 donors gave $907,603 on the first Give Day.
“We are overwhelmed by the generosity of the Clemson family in support of our second Give Day initiative,” said Brian O’Rourke, vice president for Development and Alumni Relations.
“Our students, faculty and staff will benefit now and for years to come from the more than 3,000 individuals and corporations who united to move Clemson forward in a spectacular way.“
Gifts came from 3,142 donors. Fifty-one percent gave online; others donated at campus locations and by phone. Volunteers thanked many on social media who used the hashtag #ClemsonGiveDay.
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The average online gift was $134.97, but several alumni donors pledged large “challenge gifts” that could be collected only when milestones were reached during the day:
Vic and Susie Parker of Brookhaven, Georgia, gave a $25,000 gift and designated it for the Samuel J. Cadden Chapel when the number of donations reached 500;
Ed and Kelly Rose of Daniel Island gave $50,000 for the Dean’s Excellence Fund of the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences when the number of donations topped 1,000;
the Fort Hill Clemson Club gave $60,000 for the Fort Hill Clemson Club Endowment for scholarships when donations totaled 1,500; and
Pat Harman of Burlington, North Carolina, gave $400,000 to The J. Pat Harman and Phoebe Harman Unrestricted Endowment for Excellence when the number of donations reached 2,000.
Clemson alumni employees of GE pledged a gift of $100,000 to the Watt Family Innovation Center and corporate partner DRÄXLMAIER gave $50,000 to support graduate fellowships in automotive engineering.
“We are so grateful to everyone who demonstrated their Clemson spirit by participating in Give Day,” O’Rourke said. “Their gifts will make a difference for ...
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Donations on Clemson Give Day 2017 top $2 million
Softball Sweeps George Mason on Saturday
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SOFTBALL BEATS MONTANA, 5-3; JOANNE ENGLISH'S #21 JERSEY RETIRED
Athletics News
Apr 08, 2017
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Jessica Ravetti (3-for-3) and Suzy Brookshire (2-for-4) combined for five hits to help lead Sacramento State to a 5-3 victory over Montana in the first of a three-game Big Sky Conference softball series on Saturday afternoon. The two teams will finish the series with a doubleheader tomorrow at noon.The Hornets and Grizzlies were supposed to play a doubleheader today, but rain forced a late start and just one game. Sacramento State moved its record to 13-18-1 overall and 3-3 in the Big Sky while Montana dropped to 19-10 and 4-3 in the league.At the conclusion of today's game, former Hornet pitcher Joanne English (1978-81) had her #21 jersey retired. The 1981 National Player of the Year, English was a two-time first team All-American, three-time Golden State Conference Pitcher of the Year and four-time first team all-league selection. She led the Hornets to the 1981 national championship after posting a 7-0 record with a 0.43 ERA during the postseason tournament. She joins Susie Bugliarello (#17) and Lindy Winkler (#3) as the three Hornets to have their number retired.In the third week of Big Sky play, only two games separate all eight teams in the league standings. Weber State sits in first with a 5-3 conference record and North Dakota is last with a 3-5 record. Every other team, including the Hornets, fall somewhere in between Weber State and North Dakota.This afternoon, the Hornets erased an early 1-0 deficit by scoring four times in the fourth inning and once more in the sixth to take a 5-1 lead. Sacramento State then had to withstand a furious Montana rally in the seventh that saw the Grizzlies plate two runs and load the bases with two outs before reliever Danielle Sperry finally ended things by striking out Alex Wardlow.After Montana opened the scoring with a run in the third inning, ...
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Bone marrow registry drive set for next week
SIU News
April 07, 2017Bone marrow registry drive set for next week
by Pete Rosenbery
CARBONDALE, Ill. – Robert Broomfield knows first-hand the importance of bone marrow registry drives. If it weren’t for a bone marrow donation, Broomfield, an academic adviser in Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s College of Applied Sciences and Arts' School of Allied Health, would not be alive.
A bone marrow registry drive will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, April 11-12, at the north end of the Student Center. The drive is from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days. Participants must be between 18 and 44 years old. Registration takes about 15 minutes and involves a cheek swab. Matches are based on race and DNA, not blood type.
The event is sponsored by the Alpha chapter of Sigma Phi Sigma, a fraternity within the Mortuary Science and Funeral Service program, SIU Athletics, and “Be The Match.org.”
Broomfield, of Marion, was diagnosed in 2012 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He spent nine days on a ventilator after developing a staph infection and pneumonia and spent two months in rehabilitation. In March 2013, Broomfield received a stem cell transplant from an anonymous male donor in Germany. He was able to return to work in August 2013, and is now cancer free.
Broomfield noted that a person’s life can hinge on a simple test that can provide a powerful result.
“It becomes a scary thing while you are getting the transplant realizing that this may not possibly work,” he said.
He said researchers work hard to match the bone marrow to the right person, and he was told by hospital officials that each time his oncologist would do a test for a match, it cost $7,000. Broomfield added that relatives are not automatic donors, noting that neither of his two brothers were matches.
“So if it was not for this gentleman in Germany … my daughter would not have ...
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HSU Track and Field participates in Chico State Distance Carnival
Humboldt State University Athletics
CHICO, Calif.- Humboldt States Track and field team participated in Chico States Distance Carnival at University Stadium Friday evening. Day one saw an abbreviated event schedule but Saturday has a full schedule with field events starting at 11 a.m. and running events kicking off at 2:30 p.m.
CM April placed first in the 3000m Steeplechase finishing in a time of 10:02.60 scoring ten points for the Lumberjacks. Tatianna Gillick placed third in the Women's 5000m finishing in 17:40.34, bringing home 6 points for HSU.After Day one, The Lumberjack men are tied for third in team scoring while the women are tied for fifth.
You can keep up with the results Saturday via our Live Stats link:
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African-American veterans in mental health care are not as activated as White veterans : Newscenter : School of Medicine
INDIANAPOLIS – Patients who are activated--meaning they have the knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their health and health care--have better health outcomes. A new study provides evidence that male and female African-American veterans receiving outpatient mental health services are not as activated as White veterans.In addition to demonstrating an association between race and lower patient activation, the study shows that the relationship between African-American veterans and their mental health providers is not as strong as the relationship between White veterans and their providers. This difference persisted after adjusting for socio-demographic factors and the study participants’ length of time with their providers. Stronger patient-provider relationships--known as working alliances--have been linked to higher treatment adherence. The study also reported that the African-American veterans had significantly lower medication adherence rates than White veterans."A clear implication from this study is that one size does not fit all. We need to tailor our efforts to meet the needs of African-American veterans--and meet them where they are," said VA Center for Health Information and Communication, Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research investigator Johanne Eliacin, PhD, the health services researcher who led the new study. "When it comes to being activated and engaged in their own health care, African-American veterans have more specific challenges that need to be better understood and addressed."There needs to be more research to develop strategies to motivate patients to be involved in their care and to work more effectively with their providers. And we need to learn how to help them sustain engagement over time." Dr. Eliacin is a clinical psychologist and psychological anthropologist. She also has an appointment as an assistant research professor in the Department of Psychology in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Her research focuses on sociocultural determinants of mental health and on reducing health disparities. ...
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Takoma Park Silver Spring Campus Health Sciences Department to Host Mass Casualty Drill, April 22
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On Saturday, April 22 from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. the Takoma Park/ Silver Spring health sciences department will be conducting a Mass Casualty Drill/Simulation. This is an interdisciplinary training exercise for several of the health science programs. The simulation involves volunteers consisting of faculty, current students (both first and second year students and interested graduates). Many other faculty, staff and students from the MC community also participate. This will be the third year that our vice president and provost, Dr. Brad Stewart and dean, Mrs. Angie Pickwick have provided their support in both funds and spirit. The disciplines involved in this event are diagnostic medical sonography, emergency management, nursing, radiologic technology, and surgical technology with equipment and supplies from the physical therapy assistant program. Participants in this unique learning experience have the opportunity to interact with each other in an effort to practice excellent, therapeutic patient communication and quality health care skills in a controlled but chaotic "disaster". This year the disaster will be a tornado; the past two drills have involved an earthquake and a commuter train derailment, respectively. These drills have provided beneficial feedback from the students and we feel that they have been a good method of informing the community of our dedication to providing quality education and training to our future health care providers!
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Tampa/Brandon Campus Feeds Children During Thanksgiving Break
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Rasmussen College Tampa/Brandon campus teamed up with Portamento of Hope for the third year to provide lunches for approximately 100 children during Thanksgiving Break. The children were chosen as the focus because the majority of them would not typically have a lunch during vacation since they depend on the free lunch that is served to them at school. Faculty, staff and students donated money for two weeks in November, and two of the campus’ instructors, Ronni and Carla Points, were able to purchase all the food with the donations for just under $200.
Faculty, staff and students helped pack more than 200 lunches Nov. 21 during the campus’ Feed Our Families Event. Each lunch bag had two snacks, a sandwich and a juice box inside. The food provided each child with two lunches.
“It’s just so simple and easy,” said Lauren Ramirez, Tampa/Brandon medical assisting program coordinator. “It’s great knowing we’re feeding children lunch on their days off from school when they’re not expecting to be fed.”
The same day as the meals were packed, the food was picked up and brought to the Portamento of Hope facility, who then distributed the lunches to the children. Portamento of Hope is a nonprofit soup kitchen in Brandon.
Do you want to find out ways your campus is involved with volunteering in the community or donating to a good cause? Talk to your student advisor to find out, or suggest places for the campus to volunteer.
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Miami hosts top marketing professionals at "Cradle of Marketers"
Miami University - Top Stories
Cradle of Marketers panel, 2015 (photo by Jeff Sabo).
Miami University’s Farmer School of Business hosts top marketing executives – all alumni — from internationally known companies for its annual “Cradle of Marketers.” The two-day event is Thursday-Friday, April 6-7.
This year’s “View from the Top” and “Marketing Skills for the Future” panels are open to the public and feature 17 marketing executives with Jenny Rooney, (’92) editor of Forbes’ CMO Network, serving again as moderator. Miami, long known for its trademarked “Cradle of Coaches,” boasts an impressive alumni roster who are high-level marketing executives at Forbes Global 2000 companies.
“Beyond Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, Ara Parseghian or Paul Brown, and that’s only naming a few, Miami has a ‘Cradle of Marketers’ too,” said Rooney.
Rooney, along with fellow alumnus Dave Knox (’03), presented the idea to Miami’s marketing department in the fall of 2012. The first cradle was held the following spring.
“I interviewed so many CMOs and other advertising executives, and a lot of them were Miami alumni, and I thought, ‘there’s a critical mass of amazing marketing leaders coming out of Miami. They need to get together,’” said Rooney.
Designed to give students access to high-level executives, the model has been implemented at other universities, including Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
“View from the Top,” a career-oriented discussion, is from 5:30-6:45 p.m. Thursday in Taylor Auditorium at FSB, and “Marketing Skills for the Future,” a discussion of the future of the industry, is from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Friday in 0025 FSB.
This year’s panelists, in addition to Rooney and Knox, managing director (WPP Ventures) and CMO (Rockfish Interactive), include:
John Birmingham, EVP (Mediavest Spark)
Jim Ensign, chief digital officer (Republic Bank & Trust)
Erin Fagan, director (Teradata)
Julie Felss Masino, SVP and president (Fisher-Price)
Kevin George, CMO and president (Mosaic)
Dave Hutchison, SVP of marketing (SAP)
Mark Irace, ...
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Dr. Patricia Reggio receives Academic Development Excellence Award
UNCG Now
Dr. Patricia H. Reggio was recently honored with a 2017 Excellence Award at Triad BioNight, a biennial celebration of the region’s life science sector organized by the Piedmont Triad Office of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
She received the Academic Development Excellence Award, given to those who make exceptional contributions to educational program development or enhancement of workforce skill development.
Reggio, who has headed UNCG’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for 11 years, established a new PhD program in medicinal biochemistry, established industry fellowships for students, recruited and retained top faculty, and attracted top students who have gone on to scientific careers with prominent universities, companies and government agencies, the organizers noted in award materials.
To learn more about UNCG’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, click here.
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A practical guide for avoiding fallacies on Syria
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It’s remarkable just how little the basic contours of the Syria debate have changed, despite more than five years of brutal civil war. The same perceptions and misperceptions about intervention dominate today. In some ways, they are even worse now because of the distorting figure of President Donald Trump. Is it possible to separate one’s feelings about the man from the recognition that he is, whether we like it or not, our commander-in-chief?
With this dilemma in mind, here’s a practical guide for navigating the key sticking points in this latest iteration of the Syria debate, from the perspective of someone who has called for direct intervention against Bashar Assad since early on the conflict.
Military action does not equal regime change. The two, understandably, have become conflated because of the Iraq war. But military action can help, rather than undermine, diplomatic efforts. It is abundantly clear that the Assad regime will not negotiate in good faith or make any significant concessions on its own. We’ve hoped for that since the earliest Arab League efforts in 2011. The credible threat of force (or its use) is the only thing that is likely to change Assad’s calculus. If his survival isn’t at stake, he has little reason to negotiate much of anything.
Not everything is Iraq. There is the danger of seeing airstrikes as a low-risk catch-all solution, a kind of military pixie-dust. At the same time, though, not everything is an Iraq-style invasion. America has any number of choices in between these two models of engagement. In Bosnia, air power forced the Serbs to the negotiating table, eventually leading to the Dayton Accords (a key example of military action in the service of diplomacy). Similarly, Moammar Gadhafi’s regime showed an openness to talks only after the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya, with Qaddafi envoys engaging ...
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Adrian R. Nemcek (EE ’70) is the 2017 Alumni Medal Recipient
News – Illinois Tech Today
Meet Adrian R. Nemcek (EE ’70), this year’s Alumni Medal recipient. He joined Motorola and held a wide variety of engineering and business management positions in the company after graduating from Illinois Tech. For more than three decades, his career spanned domestic and international responsibilities in product design, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and overall business management. Additionally Nemcek is a member of the Illinois Tech Board of Trustees Executive Committee and makes an impact through his philanthropy, particularly his focus on scholarships and helping the next generation of students.
The 2017 Alumni Awards luncheon and ceremony will recognize 12 alumni and one civic leader. Help us celebrate these extraordinary winners on Friday, April 21 at noon in Hermann Hall. Registration is required, and tickets are $50 each. Come early and check out the Spring 2017 IPRO Day exhibits.
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COD Places Fifth Among Community Colleges in Prestigious National Landscaping Competition
News at College of DuPage
By Mike McKissackA team of nineteen College of DuPage horticulture students recently placed fifth overall among community colleges in the 2017 National Collegiate Landscaping Competition held at Brigham Young University
in Provo, Utah. The students placed 22nd overall out of 672 students representing 61 four-year universities and community
colleges.COD students Saul Garcia (Winfield) and Christian Garcia (Winfield) placed 2nd overall in the Hardscape competition. In recognition of their
win, the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute (ICPI) and the Green Industry &
Equipment Expo (GIE+EXPO) 1st and 2nd place hardscape teams will participate in the
Hardscape North America (HNA) Installer Championship in Louisville, KY, in October.During the competition, COD students Jorge Castillo (Wheaton) and Rafael Zavala (Aurora) placed 15th overall in Landscape Maintenance Operations; Castillo, Zavala
and Danielle Freeman (Chicago) placed 13th overall in Landscape Plant Installation; Freeman placed 23rd
overall in Interior Plant Identification; Zavala placed 8th overall in the Tractor
Backhoe Operation; Zachary Michnick (West Chicago) placed 13th overall in Computer Aided Landscape Design, 16th overall
in 3D Exterior Landscape Design, and 24th overall in Construction Cost Estimating;
Eric Groh (Oak Brook) placed 24th overall in Exterior Landscape Design; Groh and Gannon Siran (Westmont) placed 25th overall in Wood Construction; Joseph Christian (Hinsdale)
placed 28th overall in Interior Landscape Design; Christian and Daniel Stantz (Northwoods) placed 25th overall in Irrigation Assembly; Sara VanMeter (Carol Stream) placed 29th overall in Woody Ornamental Plant Identification.The National Collegiate Landscape Competition is an annual three-day competition and
networking event for students enrolled in interior and exterior horticulture programs
at two-and four-year colleges and universities from across the country. Landscape
industry students demonstrate their skills in real-world, competitive events coupled
with a Career Fair.Click here for more information on the College of DuPage Horticulture program or contact Judy Burgholzer at (630) 942-3095, burghoj@cod.edu, or Brian Clement at (630) 942-2526, clement@cod.edu for more ...
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Marcelo Brociner '18 found his flow at Brandeis
Brandeis University News
Marcelo Brociner '18 found his flow at BrandeisThe anthropology and international and global studies major is also a budding hip-hop artistPhoto/Mike LovettMarcelo Brociner '18By Jarret BencksApril 7, 2017During the second semester of his freshman year, Marcelo Brociner was captivated by a large blank wall in a bathroom located near his favorite study spot in Farber Library. He was always tempted to draw on it, and one day he finally caved in and began to fill the wall with a mural. It took a total of 20 hours over the span of two weeks to fill the entire wall.
Soon after the mural was complete, the library staff left a note on the wall, asking to speak with him.
"I thought they might be mad, so I contacted them from a fake email address. To my pleasant surprise, they told me was they wanted to find a space where all students could do it, so we spent nine months working on just that," Brociner said.
Now there's an entire corridor called "Express Yo Self" around the corner from the circulation desk of the library where students can take a break from their work and draw or write messages.
Brociner, a Somerville, Mass. native, is an anthropology and international and global studies double major who is minoring in creativity, the arts and social transformation. He's also a budding hip-hop mogul.
He took some time to talk about his Brandeis experience with BrandeisNOW:
Why does Brandeis fit you?
From the beginning I felt very comfortable being on campus. Whatever I wanted to pursue I knew Brandeis would support me. I think Brandeis largely lets its students run the school. I'm not talking like mayhem or anything like that – I mean that students’ ideas are heard and their ideas are implemented.
The library's response to the mural I made told me that Brandeis was ...
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Space Craft: Meet a Professor Whose Research is Helping Write the Space Policies and Laws of the Future
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“You would go outside and look up at the sky,” says the assistant professor of commercial space operations at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Campus, “and the launches just seemed so much more positive to me and so full of promise.”
Those experiences fueled Howard’s desire to help craft space policies and laws encouraging global cooperation and innovation. Her research focuses on sustainability of space activities, the dynamics of interagency interaction and issues pertaining to all aspects of space traffic management and coordination.
Making Space a Safer Place
Much of Howard’s work is directed at making space activities safer, including getting space vehicles into and out of controlled airspace without disrupting general and commercial flight operations. To that end, Howard is currently principal investigator on a set of projects for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that deals with integrating commercial space activities into the National Airspace System (NAS).
“I think the work that we have been doing with the FAA is pretty groundbreaking,” Howard says, “because the United States has the most developed body of space regulations, and the FAA is the largest aviation navigation space provider globally. Aligning the regulations relevant to all stakeholders is complex.”
Her research aims to provide technical expertise to FAA officials as they plan for an increase in space vehicle operations. Howard’s work includes performing research and analysis of FAA Air Traffic Organization regulations, policies, procedures and orders pertinent to space vehicle operations, as well as international coordination issues for integration of space activities into NAS operations.
She is also working with the FAA to get safety approval for a space flight simulator at the university. Embry-Riddle has the only spaceflight simulator connected to an undergraduate university program, Howard says, and this student-focused, student-driven research offers a unique opportunity for undergraduates to interface with the FAA’s Office of Commercial ...
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Howard, Gallagher Homer as Baseball Claims Doubleheader Split Versus Clark
WPI News Archive
Apr 08, 2017
Northboro, MA --- WPI baseball exploded at the plate, getting home runs from Matt Howard (Worcester, MA) and Steven Gallagher (Coventry, RI) on Saturday afternoon at New England Baseball Complex as the Engineers salvaged the final game of a weekend series against Clark with a 15-5 victory.
WPI matched its second-highest scoring output of the season. Howard (2 for 5, 5 RBIs) set the tone with a first-inning grand slam as five hitters had multi-hit games, led by a 4-for-5 day by sophomore Ryan Tropeano (Pembroke, MA).
The Engineers (15-8, 4-3 NEWMAC) broke out of a season-high, three-game losing streak, previously falling to the Cougars (19-7, 4-5) by an 8-5 score on Friday and losing, 3-0, in the opening game of Saturday's doubleheader. Clark's victory was its 19th of the season, setting a new school standard for victories in season.
WPI squandered a quality start by senior Mike Vaitkunas (Auburn, MA) in the first game on Saturday, as he allowed three runs over seven innings, followed by a scoreless final two innings in relief by CJ Doskocil (Sterling, MA).
On the other side, Clark ace Cal Slepkow (Rehobeth, MA) held the Engineers offense quiet, scattering four hits for his first shutout of the year to improve to 5-0.
Nick Comei (Haverhill, MA) collected three of those hits for the crimson and white, also going 2 for 5 in the second game for a team-best five hits on the day.
Adam Chochrek (Foxboro, MA) brought around Kyle Bonicki (Waterbury, CT) on a fielder's choice in the first inning to put the Cougars ahead for good.
Nick Jordan (Seaford, NY) added to the lead with an RBI single in the second inning and then later scored on a base hit by Bonicki to make it 3-0.
Comei doubled in the fourth and sixth innings, also singling and stealing a base in the bottom of the ninth, ...
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From elegy to lyric, poet Stewart explores nature, love and memory in 'Cinder'
Princeton University Top Stories
Susan Stewart is the Avalon Foundation University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English. Her newest book, "Cinder" (Graywolf Press, 2017) is her first retrospective of new and selected poems.
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Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to Obama, to speak at IU Bloomington
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IUB Newsroom »Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to Obama, to speak at IU BloomingtonBen Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to Obama, to speak at IU BloomingtonFeb. 13, 2017EDITOR'S NOTE: This release was updated on Feb. 16, 2017, to correct the time and title of Ben Rhodes' talk.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Hutton Honors College at Indiana University Bloomington will host Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor to President Barack Obama, as part of its “Many Worlds, One Globe” multiyear series.
Rhodes’ talk, “America’s Role in the World,” will take place at 3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, at the Solarium in the Indiana Memorial Union.
Serving as deputy national security advisor from 2009 to 2017, Rhodes oversaw the president’s national security communications, speechwriting, public diplomacy and global engagement programming. He played a key role in advancing engagement with Burma, Laos and Vietnam, as well as leading negotiations with the Cuban government to normalize relations between the U.S. and Cuba. He previously served former Congressman Lee Hamilton, supporting his work on the 9/11 Commission and the Iraq Study Group. Rhodes currently serves as senior advisor to Obama.
"If anyone is interested in working in the White House, they would benefit from listening to Ben Rhodes; he worked there for eight years," said Hamilton, a faculty member in the IU School of Global and International Studies. "He was a major advisor to the president and wrote many of his speeches. Ben listens carefully, distills the essence of what he hears and writes it down clearly. If called for, he provides his own perspective."
Rhodes’ talk joins a 2017 "Many Worlds, One Globe" schedule that will also feature Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder, co-creators of the award-winning podcast Serial, on March 31; and Irshad Manji, founder of Moral Courage TV, on Oct. 2 and 3.
During the next four years, the series will offer lectures ...
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Obama speechwriter to visit Northwestern
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Northwestern alumnus Cody Keenan (Weinberg '02), who served as former president Barack Obama's chief speechwriter, will visit Evanston April 11. Cody Keenan, Weinberg ’02, former President Barack Obama’s chief speechwriter, and Peter Slevin, a Medill professor and journalist, will participate in a conversation on the legacy of the Obamas and the future of American politics, hosted by the student-run Contemporary Thought Speaker Series (CTSS).The event will be held in Harris Hall 107 at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 11. Tickets are not required for the event, and seating will be first-come, first-served. Doors to the event will open at 6 p.m.“With so much recent interest in politics, we are excited to welcome Cody back to campus,” said Ben Zimmermann, co-chair of CTSS. “Cody and Professor Slevin should inspire a really interesting, impactful and relevant dialogue on politics of the past, present and future.”A 2002 graduate of the University’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Keenan was promoted to director of speechwriting for the Obama administration in 2013 and continued in that role through Obama’s second term. He worked on speeches, including the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” in Selma, Alabama, multiple State of the Union addresses and the President’s farewell speech in Chicago. Keenan continues to work for former President Obama today.In 2007, Keenan joined the Obama campaign as an intern before joining the White House as deputy director of speechwriting. In that role, he led the crafting of many renowned speeches, including President Obama’s address after the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords in 2011.Keenan moved to Washington after graduation to work for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.Slevin is an associate professor at Medill, where he teaches classes on world affairs, politics and the media. He previously spent 12 years as a staff writer for the Washington Post, and is the author of “Michelle Obama: A Life,” an ...
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Artists, scientists discover new perspectives through collaboration
UChicago News
When UChicago’s Arts, Science & Culture Initiative began in 2010, program director and curator Julie Marie Lemon had a vision of artists and scientists working together, sharing approaches and deep knowledge of individual disciplines to unearth new findings. The results have ranged from using birds to track the history of industrial pollution to visualizing the structure of the universe through textiles.“The thinking was to provide a platform of exchange between students who don’t usually have contact with each other,” Lemon said. “There is a wide variety of results, but there are real discoveries that happen.”
This year’s collection of projects is no less ambitious, with students researching topics from neurobiology to the supernatural. They will present their findings at a public display on May 10 at 5 p.m. in the Logan Center’s Performance Penthouse.
The projects include “Dissecting Enchantment: Between Gods and Ghosts” by anthropology PhD students Hilary Leathem and Agnes Mondragón Celis-Ochoa and visual arts MFA candidate Adrienne Elyse Meyers. Their research focuses on the boundaries between the sacred and the haunted.
The team visited sites throughout Chicago, including Graceland Cemetery and spiritual shops in the Pilsen neighborhood, in an effort to understand how certain locations take on the characteristics of the sacred, the supernatural or elements of both.
Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral provided a particularly unique blend. It is one of the most important Catholic spaces in the city, serving as the seat of the archdiocese. But a criminal history gives the cathedral’s exterior an entirely different feel.
“It’s considered haunted because a rival of Al Capone’s was shot in front of it,” Meyers said. “The bullet mark is still there. Inside it is an incredibly holy space. It just depends on how you look, but the term haunted and sacred describes the same place.”
The team compiled footage from the various ...
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Softball Team Plays Patriot League Home Opener Tomorrow
BU Today
The BU softball team, which captured the Patriot League title last year, is off to a rocky start this season. To date, they’ve gone just 8-20, battling bad weather that’s led to delays and cancellations.
The Terriers are determined to get back on track this weekend when they host Holy Cross in their Patriot League home opener, a three-game set with the Crusaders that begins tomorrow, Saturday, April 8, at noon.
After an opening stretch that saw the team turn in a 5-4 record, BU has dropped 13 of 16 and 8 in a row. It has also seen 12 other games canceled or postponed, with torrential rain and late snowstorms keeping the Terriers off their own field for all but one of their 8 scheduled home contests to date.
“We haven’t even practiced on our field yet,” head coach Ashley Waters says. “We’re in April, and we’ve hardly even stepped foot on the dirt, aside from one game against Bryant.”
That doesn’t mean the Terriers, who started 0-3 in Patriot League play for the second consecutive season after a conference-opening sweep at the hands of Lehigh, have abandoned hopes of winning another Patriot League title.
“Despite everything in the preseason, who we’ve been playing, whatever, we’re 0-3 right now,” says Alex Heinen (CGS’17), who has hit five home runs for the Terriers this season. “We were 0-3 with Army last season. We have a lot of games left. Not that we have a whole lot of time, but it starts this weekend. I have all the confidence in the world in our team. We want it for each other.”
Part of that confidence comes from the purposefully rigorous preconference slate the team has played. Gabi Martinez (SAR’17) says that facing tough competitors early in the season helps her and her teammates understand their strengths and shortcomings heading ...
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Mānoa: UH Law School garden planting ceremony will honor memory of Judge James S. Burns
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University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaContact:Posted: Apr 7, 2017A 2014 photo of James S. BurnsTo honor the late Judge James S. Burns, the UH Law School will dedicate a garden he tended lovingly in the Law School courtyard in his memory at an 11 a.m. ceremony on Thursday, April 13. The public is welcome to attend the event that will include a planting, live music and light refreshments.Judge Burns was a significant presence at the William S. Richardson School of Law for many years following his retirement as Chief Judge of the Intermediate Court of Appeals in 2007, a position he held from the creation of that court in 1982.A leader in the community, Judge Burns mentored law students, faculty and staff members, as well as pitched in as an enthusiastic gardener who created an impressive garden of ti varieties as part of the Law School’s leafy courtyard.Of particular pride are plants that he grew from ti leaves used during the ceremony memorializing the Law School’s namesake, after Chief Justice William S. Richardson lay in state at the Law School in 2010.The Law School is located at 2515 Dole Street. Parking is available for $5 in the Parking Structure.For more information, visit: https://www.law.hawaii.edu/
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Nonhuman Animal Rights Advocates plant trees for Arbor Day
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On Friday, March 31, Nonhuman Animal Rights Advocates members Sarah Browning, Mark Causey and Megan Goetz planted two dogwood trees for GC's Arbor Day tree planting celebration. If you or your group are interested in planting a tree for Arbor Day, please contact grounds supervisor Aaron Seay at rexford.seay@gcsu.edu.
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CCMST Weekly News, September 3 2010
Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology
1. Announcements2. Statistics3. Tip of the Week
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Summer Lecture Series in Electronic Structure Theory
The Summer Theory program will continue through September with a series of advanced lectures. Lectures will be on Thursdays in MSE 4202A from 2-3pm. The new theory/computational graduate students, and anyone else who is interested are cordially invited to attend.
The series will continue next week with the following schedule:
Sept 9: Advanced SAPT (Hohenstein).
The complete schedule of the lectures can be found at http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/opp/sched.html.
AACP Seminar Series
September 7, 2010 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Emory University 316 Atwood Hall
Prof. Scott Kable, University of Sydney, Australia
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STATISTICS
FGATE
Uptime: 23 days/home directory usage: 70% (1.8 TB available)/backups directory usage: 79%
LSF usage for Week 34 (8/23-8/29) (times are in minutes)
GroupJobsTotal CPUAvg CPUAvg WaitAvg Trnr.
Bredas
8605
180739
9%
21
4
23
Hernandez
1015
109449
6%
108
5
118
Sherrill
239
51838
3%
217
139
918
Other
24
39008
2%
1625
0
1571
Total
9883
381033
20%
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7
58
Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period.
Most productive user of the Week: pwinget 85102.
EGATE
Uptime: 278 days/theoryfs/common directory usage: 36% (429GB available)/theoryfs/ccmst directory usage: 85% (138 GB available)
LSF usage for Week 34 (8/23-8/29) (times are in minutes)
GroupJobsTotal CPUAvg CPUAvg Wait Avg Trnr.
Hernandez
146
157803
10%
1081
0
1119
Sherrill
269
96242
6%
358
3
372
Other
109
202004
13%
1853
6
2263
Total
524
456049
30%
870
3
973
Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period.
Most productive user of the Week: rnear 202004.
TIP OF THE WEEK
By Massimo
Grep
Grep is an utility to do basic searches. When alpplied to a file it returns all the lines of the files matching a certain expression. The most simple form of expression is a string, thus:
grep foo file returns all the lines of file matching the string foo.
Instead of operating to a file, grep can search the standard input. This is usually accomplished throug a pipe. For example:
ls | grep erorr lists all files containing the string error (kind of silly example, as the same result ...
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Excerpt: ‘Multiple Autisms’
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Excerpt: ‘Multiple Autisms’
April 6, 2017
• Atlanta, GA
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Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science by Jennifer S. Singh(University of Minnesota Press, 2016)
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Excerpt from Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science
Jennifer S. Singh
Multiple Ways of Viewing Autism
I think in the end, at the end of the day . . . genetic factors will probably account for most of autism. So the working model that we have now is that there are multiple genetic variants involved in autism. . . . Some cases there might be an environmental component to it, too. . . . I’m sticking with genetics right now. But it’s going to be in the majority cases complex combinations of genes that are contributing to it, and there seems to be a lot of genes involved.■ Molecular geneticist
My biggest motivation for participating in a genetic research study was just the idea of being part of something that could ultimately help us better understand this disorder, for us and for everybody else. You know, this is a great mystery. . . . I mean we’re getting little signs but we still don’t know.■ Parent of a child diagnosed with autism
People are improperly addressing autism by thinking of whether it is a question of genetics or not. I don’t see why it would really make a practical difference. In terms of what actually happens if it is genetic or something else, you know, some people have it, some people don’t. Some people are in between. You deal with them based on who they are, not how they got to be that way.■ Adult with autism
This book investigates the social, cultural, and political factors contributing to the production, meanings, and use of genetic and genomic knowledges of autism since the late twentieth century.
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Auditions for OSU’s one-act festival to be held April 16-17
About the OSU College of Liberal Arts: The College of Liberal Arts includes the fine and performing arts, humanities and social sciences, making it one of the largest and most diverse colleges at OSU. The college's research and instructional faculty members contribute to the education of all university students and provide national and international leadership, creativity and scholarship in their academic disciplines.
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New campus parking lottery begins
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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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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
Headlines – Tennessee Today
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
Fotonotícies
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.
Stinis said he ...
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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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