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Sam Kass, AB’04, Lab’98—former White House chef, food policy adviser, executive director of Michelle Obama's “Let's Move!” campaign and current food entrepreneur—will speak at Earth Fest on April 22 at 1 p.m. Monica Eng, WBEZ Chicago food, health and culture reporter, will interview Kass at the William Eckhardt Research Center about his time in the Obama administration, his thoughts on food security and his food-related ventures.Kass’ interview will mark the fourth speaker sponsored by the Frizzell Family Speaker and Learning Series. It was established by a donation from the Frizzell family in commemoration of Alexandra Frizzell, a UChicago student with passionate interests in agriculture, health and the environment who died during her last year in the College in 2013. Past Frizzell Series speakers have discussed topics including the environmental origins of diabetes, urban sustainability and the “world’s greenest restaurant.”
The goal of the Frizzell Series is to foster better student interaction with leaders, faculty, alumni and advocates, building skills, knowledge and confidence through problem-solving related to a theme chosen by a student-led steering committee. The 2016-17 theme is food security. The annual series is administered by the Social Sciences Collegiate Division and the Program on Global Environment under the guidance of Sabina Shaikh, director of the Program on Global Environment.
“The Frizzell Series is an exciting opportunity for students in the College to develop intellectual leadership on issues with global impact,” said John W. Boyer, dean of the College. “It is a fitting way to honor the legacy of Alexandra Frizzell, and we are deeply grateful to the Frizzell family for making it possible.”
The talk is part of Earth Fest, which will showcase sustainable organizations, programs and initiatives from around campus and the city. A zero-waste track and field championship also will be happening that day at Stagg Field. Students are encouraged to volunteer for the activities ...
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Sunday, April 9, 2017
Nutrition leader and alumnus Sam Kass to speak April 22 during UChicago’s Earth Fest
10 Epic Classes at BU
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Students will participate in hands-on cooking labs in the College of Arts & Sciences' Physics of Food/Cooking course. And hopefully snack a little, too. Photo by Cydney Scott
Undergrads start registering for fall 2017 classes Sunday morning, and to help them out, we’ve put together a list of some intriguing-looking classes, from across BU’s schools and colleges, found in the course bulletin. We can’t promise that all of the classes will be open (or that you have the necessary prerequisites), but there’s always next semester.
1. CAS PY 107—Physics of Food/Cooking
Who doesn’t want to entertain dinner guests with an explanation of the science of phase transitions: how one thing (say, water) transforms into something else (ice)? This College of Arts & Sciences offering covers the physics of soft materials, the basic principles of thermodynamics, molecular physics, and molecular biology. And best of all, you get to eat your experiments, which include ice cream and cheese.
2. CAS AS 107—Life Beyond Earth
About 10 percent of the planets in the Milky Way galaxy are similar to Earth in size and material composition. If our planet supports life, so might they. Physical laws covered in this course operate everywhere, leading us to wonder if life on other planets is both common and technologically advanced.
3. CAS CI 590 / COM CI 590—Cordless TV
This course, officially called Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies, focuses on how people watch television even when there is no television set. It explores the ways on-demand viewing influences how programming is made and marketed, how audiences are targeted, and how outlets like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon are changing viewing opportunities.
4. ENG ME 408—Aircraft Performance and Design
Students will learn the basics of designing and analyzing fixed-wing aircraft, including general aviation aircraft, commercial transports, and select military planes. Student teams will design an airplane during the semester and ...
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Mānoa: Who lives longer: Hawaii life expectancies examined in research study
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University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaContact:Posted: Apr 5, 2017Yan Yan WuKathryn BraunLynne WilkensThe life expectancy at birth in Hawaiʻi in 2010 was 82.4 years, 3.7 years higher than the national average for the total U.S. population (78.7 years), according to a study by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers Yan Yan Wu, Kathryn Braun and Lynne Wilkens. Hawaiʻi 2010 life expectancy was also higher than for U.S.-dwelling Caucasians (78.9) and African Americans (75.1).The researchers’ article, “Life Expectancies in Hawaiʻi: A Multi-ethnic Analysis of 2010 Life Tables,” was published in the January 2017 issue of the Hawaiʻi Journal of Medicine and Public Health.Life expectancy at birth in Hawaiʻi has increased consistently over the years. It was 69.5 years in 1950, and it was 82.4 years in 2010. However, longevity disparities seen in past decades continue to persist between the longest-living groups—Japanese and Chinese—and the shortest-living group—Native Hawaiians—with a gap of approximately 10 years. Further, females lived 6 years longer than males on average.Racial/ethnic disparities in longevity can be partially explained by differences in socioeconomic status, health behaviors, health-care access, adverse childhood events and racism. Native Hawaiians continue to have the shortest life expectancy of the ethnic groups examined, requiring expanded efforts to address Native Hawaiian health across the life course. The researchers findings also support more ethnic-specific research to understand the health-care needs and utilization patterns of each group.Wu is an assistant professor of biostatistics in the Office of Public Health Studies of the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work, Braun is the director of the Office of Public Health Studies, and Wilkens is the co-director of the Biostatistics and Informatics Shared Resource at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center.Co-authors also include Alvin Onaka, Brian Horiuchi and Karyn Tottori from the Hawaiʻi Department of Health.For more information, visit: http://www.hawaii. ...
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The Mansion Spring Lecture Series: The Cane of his Existence: "Righteous Violence" and the Brooks-Sumner Affair
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Dr. James Welborn presents The Cane of His Existence: "Righteous Violence" and the Brooks -Sumner Affair lecture April 12 at 6 p.m. in the Mansion Education Room. Preston Smith Brooks of Edgefield, South Carolina, very early exhibited a propensity for violence, long before he battered Massachusetts’ famed abolitionist, Senator Charles Sumner, with a gutta-percha cane. The attack on Senator Sumner and divergent reactions to it north and south only fortified the image of Brooks as a Southern Hotspur; the symbol of southern male recklessness as shaped by the barbaric slave regime. But acceptance of this caricatured “Bully Brooks” oversimplified the complex moral purview of Preston Smith Brooks in particular and antebellum southern white men in general. Their plaguing inability to wholly reconcile the tensions between their honor and their piety produced the wrathful ethic of righteous honor that enabled the white South to eventually make war on the North. The Brooks-Sumner caning personified the pervasive violence in this process, and served as an early salvo in the sectional exchange of shots that ultimately erupted into national civil war.
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CCMST Weekly News, August 27 2010
Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology
1. Announcements2. Statistics3. Tip of the Week
ANNOUNCEMENTS
New CCMST Web Site
The new version of the CCMST web site is now on-line. Please check out www.ccmst.gatech.edu and explore it. Now the CCMST weekly news are posted to the web site, and you can subscribe to the RSS feed to make sure you do not miss any CCMST new and announcements. Please contact me (massimo.malagoli@chemistry.gatech.edu) if you have any comments and suggestions about the CCMST web pages.
Summer Lecture Series in Electronic Structure Theory
The Summer Theory program will continue through August with a series of advanced lectures. Lectures will be on Thursday 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 2: Advanced SAPT (Hohenstein)
The complete schedule of the lectures can be found at http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/opp/sched.html.
STATISTICS
FGATE
Uptime: 16 days/home directory usage: 70% (1.8 TB available)/backups directory usage: 82%
LSF usage for Week 33 (8/16-8/22) (times are in minutes)
GroupJobsTotal CPUAvg CPUAvg WaitAvg Trnr.
Bredas
509
170443
9%
335
8
596
Hernandez
753
572929
30%
761
126
910
Sherrill
95
112283
6%
1182
3799
6268
Other
1
0
0%
0
0
0
Total
1358
855656
44%
630
338
1166
Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period.
Most productive user of the Week: atucker 491069.
EGATE
Uptime: 271 days/theoryfs/common directory usage: 36% (429GB available)/theoryfs/ccmst directory usage: 84% (143GB available)
LSF usage for Week 33 (8/16-8/22) (times are in minutes)
GroupJobsTotal CPUAvg CPUAvg WaitAvg Trnr.
Hernandez
278
91952
6%
331
67
409
Sherrill
2
7
0%
4
0
4
Other
112
266436
18%
2379
56
2447
Total
392
358395
24%
914
63
989
Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period.
Most productive user of the Week: rnear 230248.
TIP OF THE WEEK
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Shell History and Command Recall
One of the best features of command shells (both csh and bash) is the possibility of recalling previous commands and re executing them, perhaps slightly modified. Here are some useful tips ...
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Applications Open for Undergraduate SGA Cabinet
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Applications Open for Undergraduate SGA Cabinet
April 5, 2017
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With Student Government Association (SGA) elections over and a new president and vice president preparing to lead next year, the undergraduate SGA is looking for other student leaders to round out its executive branch cabinet.
The president-elect and executive vice president-elect, Sujay Peramanu and Richard Wang, will conduct interviews for cabinet positions in the coming weeks. Interested students can apply via OrgSync. Applications close Monday, April 10, at 9 p.m.
Students who hold executive cabinet positions are expected to attend weekly meetings on Mondays from 7 to 9 p.m. They will also be expected to attend Undergraduate House of Representatives meetings on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. Visit sga.gatech.edu for more information about each position, or contact the student currently holding the position, listed below.
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OSU Music, Corvallis Repertory Singers present David Maslanka’s Mass
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The West Coast premiere of composer David Maslanka’s Mass will be presented at Oregon State University on Thursday, April 20, featuring the OSU Wind Ensemble, the OSU Chamber Choir and the Corvallis Repertory Singers.
The performance will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Auditorium at The LaSells Stewart Center on the OSU campus in Corvallis. Chris Chapman, director of bands at OSU, will conduct.
Tickets are $18 to $25. OSU students with identification and K-12 youth will be admitted free. Corvallis Arts for All discounts apply. Advance tickets are available online at repsing.org or in Corvallis at Grass Roots Books and Music, Troubadour Music or Schmidt’s Garden Center, or in Albany at Sid Stevens Jewelers.
Maslanka is widely regarded as one of the greatest wind band composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. From a catalog of more than 130 major works, more than 40 have been composed specifically for the wind ensemble.
The Mass, based on the transformational aspects of the Latin Mass, shows his distinctive compositional style. Scored for 36 instrumentalists, two vocal soloists, mixed choir and children’s choir, the 1994-95 work is one of only a handful of choral-wind ensemble works written by a major composer.
The Mass premiered in 1996 at the University of Arizona in Tucson and three more performances were given in 1998 by Illinois State University. Maslanka made substantial revisions to the work prior to a 2005 performance at Festival Miami in Miami, Florida.
The Corvallis performance will use the 2005 revision. Only two complete recordings of the work currently exist: one of the original version of the work and another of the 2005 revision. In addition to the performance on April 20the performers will record the work under supervision of the composer for release as part of the “David Maslanka Composer Series” on Mark Records of Clarence, New York.
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UCR Author Wins Guggenheim Fellowship
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Creative writing professor Emily Rapp Black is one of 173 scholars, artists, and scientists honored nationwide
By Bettye Miller on April 7, 2017
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Emily Rapp Black has won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
RIVERSIDE, California – Novelist Emily Rapp Black, an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 173 Guggenheim Fellowships today to a diverse group of scholars, artists, and scientists from a group of nearly 3,000 applicants. The fellowships are awarded “on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise,” the foundation said in announcing the recipients in New York City. This year marks the 93rd year of competition for the awards.
“It’s exciting to name 173 new Guggenheim Fellows,” said Edward Hirsch, president of the foundation. “These artists and writers, scholars and scientists, represent the best of the best. Each year since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has bet everything on the individual, and we’re thrilled to continue to do so with this wonderfully talented and diverse group. It’s an honor to be able to support these individuals to do the work they were meant to do.”
Rapp Black’s award brings to 88 the number of Guggenheim Fellowships presented to UC Riverside scholars since the campus opened in 1954. Guggenheim recipients in 2017 will receive approximately $50,000 each to support their research.
Emily Rapp Black teaches and writes around subjects related to disability studies, feminist theology, medical narratives, medical ethics, and the literature of embodiment, trauma, and recovery. She is active in the cultural dialogue around end of life care, quality of life, and pediatric hospice care. She is the author of “Poster Child: A Memoir” and “The Still Point of the Turning World,” which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the PEN USA Award in Nonfiction. Her book-length lyric essay, “Casa Azul ...
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It’s Arbor Day: hug a tree!
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It’s Arbor Day in Missouri, Friday, April 7. As a nation, the U.S. waits until the last Friday in April to show some collective ardour for our delightful diciduous and evergreen cohabitants of planet Earth. Did you know that Washington University was recently recognized by the Arbor Day Foundation as a Tree Campus USA ?
The campus is home to over 4,000 trees, with 100 plus species that include Shawnee Brave Bald Cypress, Valley Forge, Emerald Sunshine, Lacebark, Frontier, Princeton Elms, Princeton Sentry Gingko, Swamp White, Sawtooth, Willow, Swamp Chestnut, Chinkapin Oaks, Tulip Poplar, Morton Exclamation London Plane, Wildfire Black Gum, and Persian Parrotia.
Link here for ways to celebrate Arbor Day.
Trees in bloom on the walkway south of Crow Hall. Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photos
The Arbor Day Foundation is a nonprofit conservation organization, and it launched the Tree Campus USA program in 2008. Washington University was among the first schools in Missouri to be recognized and has received the award every year since 2010. Recipients must demonstrate a commitment to healthy tree management and to engaging campus and community members on environmental stewardship. Native tree plantings took place in fall 2015 and in spring and fall 2016 to engage students, staff, and faculty in planting native species and creating more sustainable landscapes on the Danforth Campus.
Spring view of Anheuser-Busch Hall. James Byard/WUSTL Photos
Kent Theiling, WashU’s Grounds and Landscape Design Manager, will be applying for Level 1 Arboretum Status through the Morton Arboretum and completing a Sucessional Tree Planting Plan for the Danforth Campus in 2017.
For more information on the Tree Campus USA program, visit the Arbor Day Foundation website.
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Kevrekidis Named Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) recently named mathematics Distinguished Professor Panayotis “Panos” Kevrekidis to its 2017 Class of SIAM Fellows, recognizing him for “fundamental contributions to the existence, stability, and dynamics of nonlinear waves with applications to atomic, optical and materials physics.”Kevrekidis had previously been awarded SIAM’s T. Brooke Benjamin Prize in Nonlinear Waves, the J.D. Crawford Prize in Dynamical Systems and its Outstanding Paper Award.
“This selection constitutes a particular honor for me and for our campus,” Kevrekidis said. “SIAM, together with the American Physical Society, has always been my academic home, as far as professional societies go. From my very first contributed talk at SIAM’s Dynamical Systems almost 20 years ago and to this day, it remains an invaluable resource for my research, collaborations, exchange of information, dissemination of my own work and learning about the current state of the art in my areas of interest. To be selected as one of its fellows, and to be among its distinguished classes of fellows chosen over the years, makes this particularly humbling and a significant additional incentive for my future work.”
The society named the 28 distinguished new fellows for their exemplary research as well as outstanding service to the community. Through their contributions, SIAM Fellows help to advance the fields of applied mathematics and computational science. They will be recognized for their achievements during the society’s annual meeting in July in Pittsburgh.
Among SIAM’s goals are to “ensure the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific and technological communities through membership activities, publication of journals and books and conferences.” It fosters the development of applied mathematical and computational methodologies needed in various application areas to solve many real-world problems.
The society was founded in Philadelphia in 1951 by a small group of professionals inspired by the vision that applied mathematics should play an ...
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Three Undergraduates Win Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
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UT undergraduates Kimberly Bress, Christopher Neal, and Andrew Wintenberg have been named 2017–18 Goldwater Scholars.One of the most prestigious scholarship programs for undergraduates, the Goldwater Scholarship Program was established by Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Barry M. Goldwater. It was designed to encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering.
Since 2006, UT has had 17 students named Goldwater Scholars.
“Kimberly, Andrew, and Christopher are outstanding students, creative thinkers, and future research leaders who have really benefited from close faculty mentoring at UT,” said Andrew Seidler, director of UT’s Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships. “Being named Goldwater Scholars means they have competed successfully with the finest undergraduate STEM students in the country. This is a tremendous accomplishment for each of them and, with three Goldwater Scholars in a single year, a clear indication of the quality of students at UT.”
Here is a look at UT’s three newest Goldwater Scholars:
Kimberly Bress, of Melbourne Beach, Florida, is a junior Haslam Scholar majoring in neuroscience and mental health through the College Scholars program. She received an honorable mention in the Goldwater Scholars program last year.
Bress, who has done research since 2015 with Associate Professor Matthew Cooper in the Department of Psychology, explores the biological, chemical, and neural foundations of brain function, with a specific focus on stress-related mental illness and models of neuropsychiatric disorders. Her goals are to pursue a medical degree and a doctoral degree in behavioral neuroscience while continuing her research on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying susceptibility and resilience to stress. She wants to increase the understanding of the biological foundations of mental illness and apply this knowledge to develop more effective treatments for disorders such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Seemingly Innocuous Virus Can Trigger Celiac Disease
Seemingly Innocuous Virus Can Trigger Celiac Disease
The study, published in the April 7 issue of Science, further implicates viruses in the development of autoimmune disorders such as celiac disease and type 1 diabetes, and raises the possibility that vaccines could one day be used to prevent these diseases.
“This study clearly shows that a virus that is not clinically symptomatic can still do bad things to the immune system and set the stage for an autoimmune disorder, and for celiac disease in particular,” said study senior author Bana Jabri, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the department of medicine and pediatrics, and director of research at the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center. “However, the specific virus and its genes, the interaction between the microbe and the host, and the health status of the host are all going to matter as well.”
Celiac disease affects one in 133 people in the United States, although it is believed that only 17 percent of those have been diagnosed. It is caused by a weak immune response to the protein gluten, found in wheat, rye and barley, which damages the lining of the small intestine. There is no cure for celiac, and the only effective treatment is a gluten-free diet.
Gluten is a dietary protein that is naturally poorly digested, and therefore more likely to engage the immune system than other proteins, even in people without celiac. However, the way inflammatory immune responses to gluten work remains poorly understood. In a 2011 study published in Nature, Jabri’s laboratory reported that IL-15, a cytokine upregulated in the intestinal lining of celiac disease patients, can break oral tolerance to gluten. However, not all celiac disease patients overexpress IL-15.
The current study, a collaboration with Terence Dermody, M.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Pitt School of Medicine and physician-in-chief and scientific director at Children’s ...
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El catedràtic Elías Campo, nou director de l’IDIBAPS
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El catedràtic del Departament de Fonaments Clínics Elías Campo. Foto: IDIBAPS
05/04/2017
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El catedràtic del Departament de Fonaments Clínics de la Facultat de Medicina i Ciències de la Salut Elías Campo va prendre possessió el dimarts 4 d’abril com a nou director de l’Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS). L’elecció es va fer després d’una convocatòria oberta d’àmbit internacional. Campo substitueix en el càrrec el catedràtic del Departament de Medicina Ramon Gomis, que ha estat director de l’IDIBAPS des del 2008.
El professor Elías Campo és director de Recerca i Innovació de l’Hospital Clínic, director de la Fundació Clínic i responsable del Grup de Recerca de Patologia Molecular de Neoplàsies Limfoides de l’IDIBAPS. Actualment, és el president electe de l’Associació Europea d’Hemopatologia i membre del Comitè de Govern del Consorci Internacional del Genoma del Càncer, i pertany al Grup Internacional de l’Estudi del Limfoma. El 2013 va ser distingit amb el Premi Nacional de Recerca, un guardó impulsat per la Generalitat de Catalunya i la Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació, i el 2016 va ser reconegut amb el Premi Rei Jaume I de recerca mèdica.
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Military expert addresses 100th anniversary of U.S. entrance into World War I
Soldiers wait in a trench during World War I. Public DomainIt was the “War to End All Wars,” and America’s entrance into the conflict on April 6, 1917, dramatically shifted World War I in favor of the Allies.
“The U.S. had a major impact on the outcome of World War I,” says military historian Dr. John C. McManus, the author of 12 books on war and military history.
Advances by both the Allies, led by France and Britain, and the opposing Central Powers, led by Germany, essentially stalled along the Western Front between 1915-1917. The reasons for this stalemate were many, including the horrors of trench warfare. Soldiers on both sides were holed up in trenches to avoid the persistent spray of machine gun bullets and shrapnel from artillery shells. Whenever an offensive attack was made, infantry soldiers were met with barbed wire, the hail of bullets, artillery explosions and, eventually, poison gas.
“American soldiers entered combat in large numbers at just the time when German offensive power was beginning to wane,” says McManus, Curators’ Distinguished Professor of history and political science at Missouri S&T. “France and Britain were also nearing exhaustion.”
Soldiers were demoralized and sick, dealing with ailments like trench fever, which caused them to suffer from high fever, headaches, aching muscles and sores on the skin. When the first 14,000 U.S. troops arrived in France on June 26, 1917, more than two months after America joined the Allies, it provided a major boost to not only firepower, but also morale, McManus says. By the summer of 1918, and after the Selective Service Act had drafted 2.8 million men into service, the U.S. was sending some 10,000 fresh soldiers to France every day.
But the U.S. was providing the Allies with more than fresh, healthy soldiers.
“The U.S. government’s Food Administration, headed up by future president
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Crowd of 1,000 anticipated at UMSL first weekend in May as growing print fair enters second decade
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In addition to drawing 35 top-tier dealers from around the country, the 11th annual St. Louis Fine Print, Rare Book and Paper Arts Fair set for May 5 to 7 will feature local artists including R.H. Dick. Several of his sculptures are on display at UMSL’s St. Louis Mercantile Library. (Photos by Evie Hemphill)
While every visit to the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri–St. Louis has a tendency to lead to new discoveries, the possibilities were especially endless one recent morning during a gathering of local artists and dealers.
On the final afternoon of the fair (May 7), St. Charles, Missouri, resident Juliette Travous will give a demonstration of her artistic process when it comes to pastel landscapes – and particularly clouds, which have always fascinated her.
In one corner stood a prized watercolor by Missouri native and major American artist Thomas Hart Benton. Across the way, two striking photographs – one taken in California and another in Iceland – invited closer inspection.
Seated nearby was R.H. Dick, a local painter, author and sculptor who grew up on the very street where Benton lived later in life.
“I’d bump into him on his evening walks,” said Dick, who recalls visiting the late master’s studio as a teenager.
The fascinating assortment of art and people on hand at the library that day offered just a glimpse of a much larger gathering in the works: the 11th annual St. Louis Fine Print, Rare Book and Paper Arts Fair.
Set for May 5 to 7, the campus event is a highlight of the year for those invested in the St. Louis region’s cultural scene, and it draws dealers from as far away as New York, Colorado and Arizona. Last year’s 10th iteration was a record success, and this year organizers expect about 1,000 art and rare book collectors to pack UMSL’ ...
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Recap: Cal State Fullerton softball splits doubleheader against Cal Poly
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In the first day of a pivotal three game series against the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Mustangs, Cal State Fullerton softball split two games of a doubleheader against the Mustangs, losing game one before bouncing back in game two.
Game 1
In game one, starting pitcher Cerissa Rivera was the hard luck loser. She set down 24 of 26 batters faced, pitching a complete game, going eight innings while only giving up one earned run that turned out to be the difference in the game.
“For all the time that I’ve been here at Cal State Fullerton, this is one of the best two weeks that she’s (Rivera) had,” said Associate Head Coach Jorge Araujo. “I think she understands, and she’s finally got it.”
On the other end, Mustang starter Sierra Hyland was able to work out of numerous threats by the Titans, picking up her Big West leading 16th win of the year with a complete game shutout.
Rivera’s perfect game was broken up in the top of the sixth after she walked Hailey Martin, but was able to set down the next three Mustang batters, no-hitting the Mustangs through six before putting up another scoreless inning in seventh.
CSUF put runners on first and second against Hyland in the bottom of the seventh after singles by both Rippy and Samantha Vandiver with one out, but were not able to score after Gonzalez and Francis were retired, sending the game tied 0-0 into extra innings.
The Mustangs were finally able to strike against Rivera in the eighth, breaking up her no-hitter on a solo homerun by Courtney Tyler giving Cal Poly a 1-0 lead.
“I didn’t get the result that I wanted,” Rivera said. “One pitch can define a game and that’s just what happened, but I’m still happy how the game went and ...
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Cognitive Decline After Surgery Tied to Brain's Own Immune Cells
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After undergoing surgery, elderly patients often experience cloudy thinking that can last for weeks or even months. At one time researchers thought this cognitive decline might be caused by anesthesia, but mounting evidence suggests that heightened inflammation in the brain following surgery is the more likely cause.
Now a new study in mice by UC San Francisco researchers suggests that brain inflammation and cognitive decline following surgery are triggered by the brain’s own specialized immune cells, called microglia. Mice given an experimental oral drug that temporarily depletes microglia ahead of an operation were much less likely to fail memory tests several days after surgery, the UCSF team found, suggesting a possible new approach to preventing the condition in humans.
The study, published April 6 in JCI Insight, an online, open-access companion publication to the Journal of Clinical Investigation, was led by collaborators Suneil Koliwad, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, and Mervyn Maze, MD, professor of anesthesia and perioperative care at UCSF. Koliwad has been studying microglia for several years, and Maze developed the mouse model that was used to investigate cognitive effects of surgery. “There is an impact on memory in the mouse model that mirrors what has been observed in studies of post-surgical cognitive impairment in humans, and we can mitigate it with treatment that we think is not harmful to the animal,” said Koliwad, who holds the Gerold Grodsky, PhD/JAB Chair in Diabetes Research at the UCSF Diabetes Center. “When we depleted microglia before surgery, the mice remembered much better after surgery in comparison to mice that did not receive the drug. Furthermore, we found much lower levels of inflammatory molecules in the hippocampus, a brain region that plays a key role in memory.” Excess Inflammation May Trigger Cognitive Decline After Surgery Surgeries in elderly patients are becoming more common, and cognitive impairment is increasingly acknowledged ...
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No. 21 Southern Miss defeats FIU 5-1
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Taylor Braley drove in the decisive run with a two-run single in the bottom of the fifth inning to lift No. 21 Southern Miss to a 5-1 win over FIU Saturday afternoon at Pete Taylor Park in Hattiesburg.The Golden Eagles (26-6, 10-1 Conference USA) have won the first two games of the three-game series against the Panthers (17-14, 5-6).FIU trailed 1-0 in the top of the fifth before tying the score. Kobe Lopez, who reached base on a bunt single, later scored on a wild pitch by USM starter Hayden Roberts.USM answered in the bottom of the fifth against FIU starter Tyler Myrick (3-2). Storme Cooper singled and Myrick hit Mason Irby with a pitch and walked Hunter Slater before Braley delivered the go-ahead hit.In the top of the eighth, trailing 4-1, FIU brought the tying run to the plate after Javier Valdes doubled and JC Escarra was hit by a pitch by USM reliever Colt Smith (1-0). Golden Eagles closer Nick Sandlin came in from the bullpen and struck out Nick Day to end the threat.Myrick went five innings, allowed three hits and two earned runs.Valdes was 2 for 3 for the Panthers.FIU and USM conclude the three-game set Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. EDT before the Panthers begin a four-game home stand Tuesday against Bethune-Cookman at the FIU ballpark.
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Women’s Tennis Drops Home Finale Against Vanderbilt
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BATON ROUGE --- The LSU women’s tennis team suffered just its second home loss of the season at the hands of the No. 7 Vanderbilt Commodores at the LSU Tennis Complex Sunday.
The Tigers fell to 13-7 (6-5 SEC) with the loss while the Commodores improved to to 15-5 (10-1 SEC).
After another slow start in doubles, the Tigers found themselves down 1-0 at the start of singles play as Contreras/Rosca defeated Jessica Golovin and Skylar Holloway on court three before Kurtz/Campbell defeated Jade Lewis and Becca Weissmann on court two.
Vanderbilt gained a second point to begin doubles play with Emma Kurtz’s 6-2, 6-1 win over Golovin on court four.
No. 96 Fernanda Contreras followed right behind with a 6-1, 6-1 win over Holloway on court six, increasing the Commodore lead to 3-0.
The Commodores clinched the match with No. 4 Astra Sharma defeating No. 34 Lewis, 6-1, 6-2.
The Tigers will finish the regular season with one last road trip, heading to Athens to face the Georgia Bulldogs Friday, April 14 before concluding the regular season in Knoxville against Tennessee Sunday, April 16.
For more information on the LSU women’s tennis program follow the Lady Tigers on Twitter @lsuwten and @LSUJuliaSell, on Instagram @LSUWTen and on www.Facebook.com/lsuwten.Tennis Match Results
LSU vs. VanderbiltApril 9, 2017 at LSU Tennis Complex(Baton Rouge, La.)#7 Vanderbilt 4, #21 LSU 0
Singles
1. #4 Astra Sharma (VANDY) def. #34 Jade Lewis (LSU) 6-1, 6-22. #102 Joana Valle Costa (LSU) vs. #15 Sydney Campbell (VANDY) 6-7(5), unfinished3. Ryann Foster (LSU) vs. #72 Christina Rosca (VANDY) 6-4, 0-2, unfinished 4. Emma Kurtz (VANDY) def. Jessica Golovin (LSU) 6-2, 6-15. Becca Weissmann (LSU) vs. Georgina Sellyn (VANDY) 3-6, 1-2 unfinished6. #96 Fernanda Contreras (VANDY) def. Skylar Holloway (LSU) 6-1, 6-1
Doubles
1. #24 Joana Valle Costa/Ryann Foster (LSU) vs. #10 Astra Sharma/Emily Smith (VANDY) 4-3, unfinished2. Emma Kurtz/Sydney Campbell (VANDY) def. Jade ...
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Forest Devices from Carnegie Mellon University wins 2017 Rice Business Plan Competition
Jeff Falk612-964-7236jfalk@rice.eduMary Lynn Fernau713-348-5374mlfernau@rice.edu
Forest Devices from Carnegie Mellon University wins 2017 Rice Business Plan CompetitionMore than $1.3 million awarded at world’s richest, largest student startup competition
HOUSTON – (April 8, 2017) – Forest Devices from Carnegie Mellon University emerged as the top startup company tonight in the 2017 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. The annual event is the world’s richest and largest student startup competition.
Selected by 275 judges from the investment sector as representing the best investment opportunity and taking home nearly $700,000 in cash and prizes, Forest Devices bested 41 other competitors hailing from some of the world’s top universities. Forest Devices is a medical device startup located in Pittsburgh that is developing AlphaStroke, the first stroke screening device that can potentially be used by all medical personnel in any environment.
Significant new prizes this year and the teams that won them include:
* $300,000 GOOSE Investment Grand Prize – Forest Devices, Carnegie Mellon University.
* $200,000 OWL Investment Prize Sponsor – Forest Devices, Carnegie Mellon University.
* $200,000 TiE Houston Angel Group Investment Prize and $500,000 investment from Elevate Capital – Medical Magnesium, RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
* $125,000 Houston Angel Network Investment Prize – Forest Devices, Carnegie Mellon University.
* $100,000 Cisco Innovation Challenge Prize – Luso Labs, Columbia University.
* $50,000 Department of Energy Clean Tech Prize – Swift Coat, Arizona State University.
* $50,000 Finger Interests and Anderson Family Fund Second-Place Investment Prize – MITO Material Solutions, Oklahoma State University.
* $25,000 Rice Brown School of Engineering Tech Innovation Prize – Intelligent Flying Machines, Northwestern University.
* $60,000 Courageous Women Entrepreneurs Prize – MITO Material Solutions, Oklahoma State University ($40,000) and SandBox Semiconductor, University of Texas at Austin ($20,000).
* $25,000 Texas Business Hall of Fame Best of Texas Prize – NovoThelium, University of Texas at San Antonio.
* $20,000 NASA Earth/Space Human Health & Performance Innovation Cash Award Sponsor – Rendever, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
* TMCx Life ...
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LSC-Westway Park Technology Center Opening Spring 2018
Lone Star College CyFair News
Published on: December 12, 2016
Lone Star College-Westway Park Technology Center is a new non-traditional, state-of-the-art, approximately 130,000-square-feet, three-story technology drive satellite campus that will open at 5060 Westway Park Boulevard in Spring 2018.
This new center will support LSC-CyFairs Visual Communications (Vis-Com) department and multiple programs within Computer Information Technology (CIT), such as CISCO Networking Academy, Computer Programming, Cybersercurity + Forensics.
Classrooms and labs are designed to mimic real-world industry environments. Among the facility features are modular computer labs, flexible classrooms, a learning theatre with a large visualization wall that can be used for executive functions as well as program training, faculty offices and dispersed collaboration areas, a program-specific data center and 2 classrooms/labs for corporate college and CTE.
The 1st and 2nd floor have been planned for workforce programs. A workforce assessment center will accommodate testing for all IT and Visual Communication industry certification exams as well as certification exams for corporate college and CTE programs.
Although this satellite center will not provide any traditional student services, students will be able to perform some self-services via kiosks.
Initially there will be 8 full-time faculty and approximately 10 adjunct faculty with plans to expand adding 3 full-time faculty. Consideration is being given for skilled workforce faculty as opposed to traditional full time faculty to accommodate industry trends.
Center Programs:
Information Technology: Cisco, Microsoft, Linux, A+, VMWare, Cyber Security, Computer Forensics, Programming, Mobile Web Application Development, Juniper
Visual Communication:Graphic Design, Multimedia, Web Design, 3D animation, Game Design and Simulation
Corporate College: Oracle, Project Management, Lean Six Sigma, Cisco, Oil & Gas
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Lone Star College Foundation accepts donation to advance diesel technology training
Lone Star College North Harris News
Published on: December 08, 2015
The Lone Star College Foundation received a diesel transmission trainer donated by Allison Transmission and Stewart & Stevenson.The training equipment will be housed at LSC-North Harris and used to enhance the Industrial Diesel Technology program.We are pleased to accept this very generous donation, said Leah Goss, LSC chief advancement officer. We are very grateful to Allison Transmission and Stewart & Stevenson for their support of Lone Star College and are eager to get this highly-sophisticated training equipment into the hands of our students.Diesel transmission trainers enable students to learn how to troubleshoot and diagnose engine problems, disassemble and reassemble engines correctly, repair and overhaul engine components, and perform preventative maintenance and tune-ups.
This brings real world exposure to our students, said Tom Robertson, LSC-North Harris, Industrial Diesel Technology, director. We will use this equipment from front to back to help our students gain confidence when they enter the workforce.The U.S. Department of Energy is working with engine manufacturers and fuel suppliers to develop diesel engine technology to produce very low emissions of reactive nitrogen compounds and particulate matter. As lower emission diesel technology becomes a reality, diesel technologists with training in the new processes are needed.Dont put blinders on, advised Michael Jones, Allison Transmission, central region customer support manager to LSC Industrial Diesel students on hand at the presentation. There are great opportunities available to people interested in working in this very exciting industry.It is estimated there will be a shortage of 370,000 diesel technician workers by 2025, said Roy T. Allice, Stewart & Stevenson, director of training and technical services. Employees trained with these skills will be a valuable asset.The Industrial Diesel Technology program began at LSC-North Harris in March 2014. Since that time, 20 Industrial Diesel Technology certificates have been awarded and four Associate of Applied Science degrees have been earned. The program is ...
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SPA’s Key Executive Leadership Program Publishes New Book
American University News
Federal leaders have a new tool to help them navigate the changing nature of their work, thanks to a new book from AU School of Public Affairs’ Key Executive Leadership Program.David Rosenbloom, Patrick Malone, and Bill Valdez have teamed up to publish a new book, The Handbook of Federal Government Leadership and Administration: Transforming, Performing and Innovating in a Complex World. It was released in November by Routledge academic press.The book includes 13 chapters written by a mix of authors who are currently federal leaders or have had long careers with the government. Topics range from adaptive leadership to organizational change to relationships with political forces.For instance, the chapter on marketing and communication examines particular strategies to get the message out about what the federal government is doing well.“The men and women that work in government service have very exciting jobs,” said Patrick Malone, executive in residence in the Department of Public Administration and Policy and Director of American University’s Key Executive Leadership Programs.Since bureaucrats can’t make autonomous executive decisions, they need to bring coalitions together to be successful and that takes a tremendous amount of skill, says Malone.“The primary reason we created the handbook was because we thought there was a huge gap between actual practice and theory in the administration and leadership of the federal government,” says Valdez, who spent 20 years working in government and now is an adjunct professorial lecturer in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. “It is an attempt to bridge that knowledge divide and begin the process of educating federal leaders and workforce the importance of understanding the larger issues within the context of their daily operating environment.”The book focuses on the need for leaders to adapt to change.“There is a constant state of vulnerability in government and how you get leaders comfortable with ...
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Astronaut at Graduation
University at Albany University at Albany Headlines
Scott Kelly, an engineer, retired American astronaut, and retired U.S. Navy Captain.
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 7, 2017) – Captain Scott Kelly, an engineer, U.S. Navy captain and retired astronaut, will deliver the keynote address at UAlbany’s undergraduate commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 21.
More than 2,000 seniors are expected to receive their degrees at the ceremony, which will be held on the Entry Plaza lawn at 11 a.m.
An astronaut since 1996, Kelly’s achievements over his illustrious 20-year NASA career earned him the coveted position as America’s first year-round astronaut. His missions included a 340-day stay abroad the International Space Station with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko from March 2015-16.
Kelly’s year in space helped pave the way for the future of space travel through an unprecedented NASA study on how space affects the human body. His memoir, “Endurance: My Year in Space and Our Journey to Mars,” is set for release in Fall 2017 and has already been optioned for a film by Sony Pictures. He retired from NASA in April 2016.
Kelly is a SUNY graduate himself (SUNY Maritime College ’87) and grew up in West Orange, New Jersey. His twin brother Mark is also a retired astronaut and served on the ground as a control model during Scott’s historic mission.
For more information on Commencement Weekend, visit the event’s official website.
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Donations on Clemson Give Day 2017 top $2 million
Newsstand | Clemson University News and Stories, South Carolina
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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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
Inside MC Online
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
News Beat
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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