Athletics News
Apr 09, 2017
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Softball, at times, can be a game of inches and breaks, and Sacramento State was on the bad side of both today. In a doubleheader the Hornets could have easily swept, nothing seemed to go the home team's way as Montana won both games by 3-2 scores on Sunday afternoon at Shea Stadium.A ball lost in the sun on a routine infield popup cost the Hornets the win in the first game, and a bang-bang call at first base that would have resulted in a tie game in the bottom of the seventh went against Sacramento State in the nightcap. And what could have been a series sweep by Sacramento State resulted in two of the more gut wrenching losses the Hornets have played at Shea Stadium.The Hornets, who opened the series yesterday by defeating Montana, 5-3, fell to 13-20-1 overall and 3-5 in the Big Sky Conference after today's losses. Meanwhile, Montana improved to 21-19 overall and 6-3 in the conference. The Grizzlies entered the day 0-4 all-time against the Hornets in Sacramento.Despite the losses, the eight-team Big Sky is still up for grabs as only 2.5 games separate the first and last place teams in the league standings. Montana now sits in first place with its 6-3 league record while both North Dakota and Sacramento State are tied for seventh with 3-5 conference marks.Breaks have not gone the Hornets' way this season as the team is now 1-7 in one-run games, and each of the team's last three losses have come by just one run. Sacramento State, which received solid pitching today, did not help itself in clutch at-bats. In the two losses today, the Hornets were a combined 2-for-12 (.167) with runners in scoring position, 3-for-18 (.167) with two outs and 3-for-21 (.143) with runners on base. In addition, the Hornets saw ...
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Sunday, April 9, 2017
SOFTBALL DROPS A PAIR OF NAIL BITERS BY IDENTICAL 3-2 SCORES TO MONTANA
SIU to host Little Grassy Literary Festival
SIU News
April 07, 2017SIU to host Little Grassy Literary Festival
by Andrea Hahn
CARBONDALE, Ill. – The ninth annual Little Grassy Literary Festival takes place April 12-14 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
The Graduate Writers Forum presents the free festival, one of two hosted at the university, as a way of bringing up-and-coming writers to campus for readings, panels and informal discussion.
All events take place in Morris Library’s John C. Guyon Auditorium. Here’s the schedule:
April 12
6 p.m. – Bonnie Jo Campbell and David Winter readings
April 13
11 a.m. – Abby Geni reading
2 p.m. – Allison Joseph reading
3 p.m. -- book signing
4 p.m. – Aja Monet and Carl Phillips readings
April 14
10 a.m. – Brian Barker reading
11:30 a.m. – Discussion panel
Brian Barker won the Crab Orchard Open Competition in 2010 with his poetry collection “The Black Ocean.” He is also the author of “The Animal Gospels” and many poems and reviews that appear in journals including “American Poetry Review,” “Poetry,” “Kenyon Review Online” and “Ploughshares.” He is an Academy of American Poets prize winner among other awards. He is poetry editor of “Copper Nickel,” and teaches at the University of Colorado Denver.
Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of “Woman and Other Animals,” winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs prize for short fiction; “Q Road,” “American Salvage,” “Once Upon a River” and “Mothers, Tell Your Daughters.” An adventure tour organizer and guide, she lives near Kalamazoo, Mich., and teaches at the low residency creative writing program at Pacific University.
Abby Geni is the author of “The Lightkeepers,” winner of the 2016 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction and the inaugural Chicago Review of Books Awards for Best Fiction. Her book “The Last Animal” was an Indies Introduce Debut Writers Selection and a finalist for the Orion Book Award. Her short stories have also garnered awards and ...
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HSU Track and Field Makes a Statement at Chico Distance Carnival and Twilight
Humboldt State University Athletics
CHICO, Calif. - Humboldt States Track and Field team had strong showing at the Chico Distance Carnival and Twilight Invitational on both the Men and Women's side Saturday. Ariel Oliver led HSU's throwers with a strong performance in shot put and discus. HSU swept the shot put as Oliver placed first with a distance of 13.83m and teammates Lily Bankas and Marissa McCay came in second and third with throws of 12.28m and 12.16m. HSU also had four of the top six spots in the discus as Oliver placed first again. Eliana Campos finished second, Ashley Ross fifth and Lily Bankas sixth. Alyssabeth DeJerez, Marissa McCay, and Ellie Earle-Rouse all hit National provisional marks in the 200, long jump, and high jump respectively. On the men's side Tiegan Eilers had a PR in the discus with a throw of 36.89m. Teigan Eilers also ran his first race on the track in 2 years with a 100m finishing in 11.25 seconds. Dustyn Salomon looked strong winning his heat in the 800m, while Daniel Tull placed 3rd in the Invitational Mile. Calvin Herman placed 2nd in the 400m Hurdles, and Mario Kaluhiokalani ran a fast 110m hurdle race earning himself a spot in finals. Track and Field travels to Long Beach, Calif. 4/13-4/15 for its next meet. Print Friendly Version
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Research awards at IUPUI increased by $40.5 million in 2016: Newscenter: Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEINDIANAPOLIS -- The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis has released funding results for fiscal year 2016 showing research awards campuswide totaled $428.9 million, a $40.5 million increase over 2015.
Counting only non-IU School of Medicine awards, the campus received $67.2 million in research awards in 2016, compared to $58.1 million in 2015, a 16 percent increase.
The increase in research awards reflects, in part, the support of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to advance innovative research and creative activity.
Funding awards for 2016 show an increase in National Science Foundation awards, one of the office's strategic goals. NSF funding rose from $5.2 million in 2015 to $7.9 million in 2016.
NSF awards in 2016 included $200,022 for a research team led by the School of Engineering and Technology to overcome problems with one approach to increasing the capacity of lithium ion batteries.
Another National Science Foundation grant will enable researchers at IUPUI to develop a Breathalyzer-type device to detect the onset of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar episodes, in people with diabetes.
The funding awards underscore efforts by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to develop and expand research programs that address important national and global needs and support economic development of Indiana and the nation.
Other external funding supported research to:
Develop information-based tools to help primary care providers improve care for patients with chronic pain, a condition that affects 100 million Americans at a cost of $630 billion annually in health care costs and lost worker productivity.
Study the use of the electronic dental record to evaluate the outcome of dental treatments.
Study nonmilitary applications of unmanned aerial systems (drone) technology, such as remote imaging for water quality, mosquito habitat mapping, disaster preparation, precision agriculture, and the utilization and analysis of data collected with unmanned aerial systems.
The office helps stimulate faculty research efforts through internal funding programs, events, workshops and proposal ...
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Rasmussen College Students Attend National Collegiate DECA Conference in NYC
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Three Rasmussen College students learned how to navigate the streets of New York while attending the DECA Collegiate Leadership Academy Nov. 13-15, 2014. Lee Hoang from the Rockford campus, Cortney Molle from the Romeoville campus and Kristina Belanger from the Ocala campus were each selected to attend the conference.
Each student gained access to jobs and internships while learning various aspects of how businesses worked, as well as the opportunity to network with industry professionals and DECA sponsors during the event. They also participated in a case study competition.
“These three students could not be more deserving of this incredible experience in the nation’s biggest city,” said Venus Fisher, Rasmussen College School of Business state program coordinator for Illinois and Wisconsin. “We chose students who earned merit through representing leadership, serving as student ambassadors, and being consistently active with our DECA chapters. [They] are always willing to help others and are passionate about DECA and growing DECA within Rasmussen College.”
Choosing case study tracks
When the students first arrived in New York City, they were excited to see the executives in Collegiate DECA during a welcome ceremony.
The event allowed everyone to be at the same place at the same time, and members were able to put a face and personality with a name.
“We met people who we might never have been able to meet,” Hoang said.
Attendees were divided into case study teams within each industry track, with Hoang and Molle participating in the “Advertising in the Big Apple” track and Belanger focusing on the “International Business and Finance” track. Through company and institution visits, corporate leader discussions and behind-the-scenes tours, the students learned the latest industry trends and applied them to their case study.
“I chose the advertising track because it’s one of the most important aspects that can really grow a business,” Hoang said. “Also, ...
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Creative study on beetle forewings provides first compelling evidence of centuries-old theory
Miami University - Top Stories
By Susan Meikle, university news and communications
Yoshi Tomoyasu, associate professor of biology, (left) and Alan Hu (Miami '16)
Without using any modern technical laboratory methods, researchers in Yoshinori Tomoyasu’s evolutionary developmental biology lab have produced the first quantitative evidence supporting the importance of beetle forewings (elytra).
“We are very proud of this work, because this is a very simple study without any modern biology techniques, yet provides the first compelling evidence for something that has been regarded as a fact for centuries without any empirical support,” Tomoyasu, associate professor of biology, said.
Their paper, “Functional value of elytra under various stresses in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum” was published in Scientific Reports, an online, open access journal from the publishers of Nature.
The study was conducted by David Linz (Miami ’10), doctoral student in biology, and Alan Hu (Miami ’16). They were supported by funds from Miami’s Doctoral Undergraduate Opportunity Scholarships (DUOS) program.
Their study demonstrates that elytra are indeed critical to beetles in order to withstand four major environmental stresses: physical damage to hindwings, predation, desiccation (drying) and cold shock.
Red flour beetles: control and with elytra removed (ER) (image courtesy of Tomoyasu).
The beetle forewing structure — the elytra — has always been considered to be a shield, protecting beetles from various environmental stresses, said Tomoyasu, whose research focuses on evolutionary developmental biology.
The evolution of the elytra is often presumed to have been the major driving force for the success of beetles, which account for about 20 percent of known eukaryotic species in the world, Tomoyasu said.
“So it is very surprising that few studies have ever been performed to actually demonstrate that elytra help beetles withstand diverse environmental challenges,” he said.
Tomoyasu, Linz and Hu designed a study to empirically test the functional importance of the elytra in several creative ways, such as: drying beetles, icing beetles ...
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Christian Marclay and ensemBle baBel to visit UNCG, perform with students
UNCG Now
UNCG students will perform Christian Marclay’s “Graffiti Composition” alongside Switzerland-based ensemBle baBel on Tuesday, April 11, at the Weatherspoon Art Museum as part of a special guest artist event hosted by UNCG’s College of Visual and Performing Arts and New Music Greensboro.
In addition to the collaborative performance, ensemBle baBel will perform the North American premier of Marclay’s “To Be Continued,” and Marclay will give a brief talk related to his work. The program will begin at 6:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
The performances and artist talk are the culmination of a series of workshops in which students explore the collaboration of Marclay and ensemBle baBel. Marclay, a renowned visual artist and composer, creates graphic scores – visual representations of music that do not include notes in the traditional sense – that are then interpreted by the group.
How do musicians read graphic scores? According to Dr. Mark Engebretson, professor of composition and organizer of the event, interpreting these scores involves understanding the composer’s intent, combined with an improvisational spirit.
Students have been working on honing these skills in workshops with ensemBle baBel saxophonist and Greensboro resident Laurent Estoppey. On April 10, a free, public workshop – led by ensemBle baBel and Marclay – will be held at 5 p.m. at UNCG’s Greensboro Project Space downtown. Students and community members who attend the public workshop will have the opportunity to perform on April 11.
“It’s really special to have a group of European artists of this stature work so closely with our students,” Engebretson said. “We’re excited about the connections our students will make, and we’re thrilled to offer this event to the public.”
A recipient of the Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Biennale for his film “The Clock,” Marclay is one of the leading figures in today’s art world. He is also ...
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Is Hamas re-branding to orient towards Egypt?
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Nearly 30 years after Hamas was founded in the occupied Palestinian territories, it is now revisiting its founding ideals and principles. The move comes at a watershed moment as the senior leadership also undergoes a significant reshuffle, a process that has been long in debate and fruition.
The changes—aimed at appeasing domestic constituencies and establishing some distance between Hamas and the parent movement of the Muslim Brotherhood—are likely to get a mixed reception in the Middle East and Western capitals. While the Hamas leadership hopes their changes may lead to improved relations with regional power brokers such as Egypt, it is unlikely to lead to the kind of moderating shift that Western diplomats have long demanded of the movement.
In the last year, Hamas has worked assiduously to rebuild relations with Egypt. It considers President Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi’s country a key determinant to its future in the Gaza Strip, with nearly two million inhabitants.
Moderating Charter
Hamas, founded in 1987, authored its charter document during the height of the first Palestinian Intifada. These “new kids on the block” emerged with a commanding rhetoric of jihad and enmity against Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands from, in its words, “the Mediterranean Sea to the River Jordan.” Hamas’ descriptions of Israel drew on anti-Semitic tropes crudely taken from from the infamous “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
The charter declared Hamas an Islamic resistance movement to rival the then-dominant Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Hamas’ leaders reviled the PLO for being open to negotiating with Israel.
As Hamas leaders now set about revising the charter, they’ve set aside the exhortation to jihad against Israel. And the new charter emphasizes leaders’ long-held willingness to move from maximalist positions. The revised charter, for example, offers the possibility of Hamas accepting political solutions to achieving Palestinian statehood in the territory of ...
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Like the Student Employment Office on Facebook and Win a Gift Basket
News – Illinois Tech Today
The Student Employment Office has a new Facebook page. To celebrate, like the page from now through Thursday, April 13 for a chance to win a gift basket filled with treats and Illinois Tech swag. Just go to www.facebook.com/iitseo and hit the like button to enter.
Supervisors: Beyond nominating students you feel have gone above and beyond as employees (nominations are due by Friday, April 7), start thinking of things you can do within your office next week to show your student workers that you appreciate them.
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College of DuPage to Host F-1 Immigration Workshop for International Students June 1
News at College of DuPage
By Mike McKissackThe International Student Services office will host an immigration workshop for new students in F-1 non-immigrant status
from 2 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, June 1, in the Berg Instructional Center, Room 2435,
on the College’s Glen Ellyn campus, 425 Fawell Blvd.Attendance at this workshop is required for new students with F-1 non-immigrant status.Participants must bring a valid passport, e-I94 number and an original I-20 document
issued by College of DuPage.For more information on these workshops, please contact the International Student
Services office at (630) 942-3328 or intlstdt@cod.edu.
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Sharon Feiman-Nemser wins Division K Legacy Award from American Educational Research Association
Brandeis University News
Sharon Feiman-Nemser wins Division K Legacy Award from American Educational Research AssociationApril 7, 2017Sharon Feiman-Nemser, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor of Jewish Education, has been named co-winner of the 2017 Division K Legacy Award by the American Educational Research Association.In a letter, the committee for the award recognized Feiman-Nemser for producing ground breaking work on teacher learning, and for her research on mentoring and new teacher induction, which continues to have wide impact both teacher education research and practice.
The teacher and teaching education division the American Educational Research Association, Division K focuses on research on teaching and on teacher development and education from pre-service through professional induction to the in-service stages of teachers' careers.
The Legacy Award recognizes individuals who have made significant and exemplary contributions through their research, teaching and professional service in the field of teaching and teacher education.
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Students Join Project PoSSUM to Test Prototype Spacesuits in Zero-G
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Two Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students joined the Project PoSSUM suborbital research program team to evaluate a prototype commercial spacesuit in microgravity as part of the PoSSUM Bioastronautics Program. The tests were designed to evaluate a prototype seat along with the spacesuit/seat interface through a series of three microgravity flights conducted at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Ontario.
Project PoSSUM (Polar Suborbital Science in the Upper Mesosphere) is the exclusive citizen-science microgravity research partner of spacesuit maker Final Frontier Design of Brooklyn, New York. A specially modified Falcon-20 Zero-G aircraft to was used to simulate the interior cabin and cockpit environments of commercial space vehicles in order to test the prototype spacesuit.
Project PoSSUM is the only suborbital research and education program that teaches people from all walks of life to be scientist-astronauts. PoSSUM candidates are trained at Embry-Riddle’s Daytona Beach Campus to fly PoSSUM suborbital noctilucent cloud tomography missions on commercial suborbital spacecraft. Graduates receive an Embry-Riddle certificate with continuing education credits in Suborbital Mission Operations.
Embry-Riddle Ph.D candidate Heidi Hammerstein and Daytona Beach Campus student Amy Ramos were among a team of 12 Project PoSSUM graduates that participated in the testing and research on the Final Frontier Design (FFD) Intra Vehicular Activity (IVA) spacesuit.
A special spacecraft seat was constructed and integrated into the Falcon-20 aircraft by the PoSSUM Technologies Program. The seat and suit-seat interface were tested in a series of microgravity flights with ongoing phase two testing that monitored in-flight suit pressurization, communications and biometric monitoring systems.
Hammerstein served as the suited test subject for Flight Test Team Two. “Our team was able to supply in-flight experimental data and qualitative feedback to both spacesuit and seat designers. It was an honor to work with such a talented group of pilots, engineers and scientists,” she said. “Working with PoSSUM team members and FFD’s spacesuit ...
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Men's Rowing Knocks Off Reigning New England Champ in Head-to-Head Competition
WPI News Archive
Apr 09, 2017
WORCESTER -- The WPI Men's Rowing Varsity Eight defeated Bates, the reigning New England Champion, in a head-to-head regatta Sunday on Lake Quinsigamond.
The Engineers Varsity Eight clocked a 5:57.84 to edged the team from Bates, who posted a 5:58.30, by less than half a second. The Varsity Four also proved to be a close one with the Bobcats crossing the finish line first with a time of 6:18.58 with the Engineers finishing just over a second later. Bates also had the better time in the Second Varsity Eight with a 6:11.22 compared to WPI's 6:16.29.
The Engineers are back in action Saturday on Lake Quinsigamond, facing off with Williams, Conn College, Rochester and MIT for the Donahue Cup.
Varsity Eight Kelsey Regan (Winchendon, MA) - CoxswainNathan Pietrowicz (Worcester, MA)Jackson Krupnick (Ashville, NC)Michael Beinor (Sutton, MA)Jeremy Hemingway (Westford, MA)Danny Singer (Eldersburg, MD)Frank Campanelli (Avon, CT)Isaac Beeman (Sammamish, WA)Dean Schifilliti (Ossining, NY)
Second Varsity Eight Kenedi Heather (Taunton, MA)Nicholas Carabillo (Simsbury, CT)Keegan Train (Minnetonka, MN)Jack Harding (Lee, MA)Paul Danielson (Niskayuna, NY)Trevor Dowd (Fairfax, VA)Ben Thornton (Merrimac, MA)Scott Cazier (Wheat Ridge, CO)Jack Perry (Londonderry, NH)
Varsity Four ALily Olsen (Princeton, NJ) - CoxswainMark Borghesani (Acton, MA)Griffin Bishop (Carlisle, MA)David Muse (Rye, NH)Tucker Grim (McLean, VA)
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Senior Wenger awarded Keasbey Scholarship for study in Britain
Princeton University Top Stories
Senior Ayelet Wenger has been awarded the Keasbey Scholarship, which provides the opportunity to study at selected British universities. Wenger, of Columbus, Ohio, is a classics major who is also pursuing certificates in Judaic studies and Hellenic studies. She will pursue an M.Phil. in Judaism and Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World at the University of Oxford.
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IU School of Public Health-Bloomington publishes strategic plan
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IU School of Public Health-Bloomington publishes strategic planFeb. 13, 2017Following a process spearheaded by faculty, the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington recently completed and published its Strategic Plan-2021. The plan is now available online.The primary goal of the process, according to Executive Associate Dean Shawn Gibbs, who co-led the process with Associate Professor Jon Macy and Clinical Assistant Professor Jo Anna Shimek, was to establish a central curricular identity and direction for the school in order to align resources for research around curricular strength and help further establish the school’s national reputation. As part of the Strategy Planning Steering Committee, the school’s Academic Council and the chairs of each department drove the process of developing the plan and worked to ensure the voice of the faculty was present throughout the planning and in the final strategy document.
“It’s important to us that faculty, staff, and students in the school had the opportunity to provide input during the process. This isn’t my strategic plan or the Dean’s strategic plan, it’s our plan and it’s about how we’re all going to move our school forward in the future,” Macy says.
Each department, center, and institute worked to complete an assessment of their area and determine their unit’s three to five points of distinctiveness for the next five to 10 years. Included in the discussion among each unit was how their work aligns with the goals of the School of Public Health-Bloomington, the “big bold ideas” outlined by the school’s Vision Committee, and the University’s priorities included in the Bicentennial Strategic Plan.
Following the work done by the individual units, the Strategy Planning Steering Committee, led by Shimek, reviewed and merged all the documents into one draft, which was then sent to an external advisory committee for their comments and recommendations.
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Bienen professor named Guggenheim fellow
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Fellowship will support composer’s work on third opera Prestigious fellowship recognizes exceptional creativity in the arts
Thomalla one of 173 fellowship recipients from nearly 3,000 applicants
Grant will support Thomalla’s work on third opera
“Dark Spring” is reinterpretation of Frank Wedekind’s play “Spring Awakening”
Hans Thomalla, associate professor of composition and music technology at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to support the development of his third opera, “Dark Spring.”
Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. The program’s purpose is to help provide fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible. This year, the Guggenheim Foundation awarded 173 fellowships to a diverse group of scholars, artists, and scientists from a pool of approximately 3,000 applicants.
Thomalla’s opera “Dark Spring” aims for a radical reinterpretation of Frank Wedekind’s 1891 play “Spring Awakening.” While the original plot focuses on the reactions of a group of young teenagers under extreme pressure from inhibitory sexual norms, inhumane school stress, and an authoritarian parent generation who chokes individual development, the opera will look at young adults today from an almost opposite point of view. These characters embody a “cool” generation in a cold society – young adults who seem to have learned not to show their feelings and to hide vulnerabilities in a world of extreme competition.
Commissioned by the National Theatre Mannheim for its 2018-19 season, “Dark Spring” features music, concept, and text arrangement by Thomalla and lyrics by acclaimed poet and UC-Davis Professor Joshua Clover. The Guggenheim Fellowship will allow Thomalla to continue working with Clover on the songs and workshop scenes with the cast in Mannheim.
Thomalla's first opera, "Fremd," based on the Greek myth of Medea, premiered in July 2011 ...
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Nutrition leader and alumnus Sam Kass to speak April 22 during UChicago’s Earth Fest
UChicago News
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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10 Epic Classes at BU
BU Today
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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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.
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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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Chase WalesCommunications Student Assistant
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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