Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Caring for roses during the summer

UNCE RSS News and Events

Caring for roses during the summerPosted 4/11/2017Learn how to prepare for the upcoming heat of summer

University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and the South Valley Rose Society are collaborating and offering educational meetings throughout the spring. Free and open to the public, the May 25 meeting will cover how to prepare your roses for the summer heat.

The rising temperatures and dry, hot winds of late May signal a switch from spring to summer rose care. Learn how to manage what may become a third summer of record desert heat; new irrigation, mulching, fertilization and garden hygiene tips.

All educational meetings are held at 7 p.m. at the Lifelong Learning Center located at 8050 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nev. (I-215 and Windmill Lane). For more information, please email or call the Master Gardener Help Desk at 702-257-5555.

« Return to previous page



Read More

Campus Director Brings Her Passion and Dedication to Serve Bilingual Families at the New Rasmussen College Centro de Aprendizaje

News Beat

In early April 2017, the Rasmussen College Centro de Aprendizaje opened—a learning center created to serve Chicago’s southwest communities. The Centro de Aprendizaje, located at 3948 West 55th Street, will afford local high school students and residents access to higher education by providing technology resources and the mentorship needed to successfully transition to college. For Claudia Lule, associate campus director of the Rasmussen College Centro de Aprendizaje, the new center is an initiative close to her heart. As a first-generation student from a low-income family, Lule did not learn English until the first grade, a situation similar to many of the students in the area.
“As a Latina, I look like our students, which I feel helps them relate to me, and it starts to build a trusting relationship,” said Lule.

Lule understands the impact education can have on a person’s life. “Through education, we can make a difference in people’s lives and that hits close to home,” she says.
Managing the new center combines many of Lule’s passions and experiences. Starting in 2006, Lule worked for the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), a national organization that provides scholarships to Latino students. While working for the HSF, she ran different outreach programs throughout the Midwest, teaching students about preparing and paying for college. In 2012, Lule was brought on board with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) as a Family and Community Engagement manager.
The relationships she cultivated during her time with CPS have proved to be valuable in her new role at the Rasmussen College Centro de Aprendizaje. It was here that she was inspired to work within these communities and was driven to make a difference.
When Lule first heard about the plans for the new Rasmussen College Centro de Aprendizaje, she knew she wanted to be a part of the initiative. The position of associate campus director combined all ...

Read More

Lynette Hudiburgh receives Knox Distinguished Teaching Award

Miami University - Top Stories







By Susan Meikle, university news and communications

Lynette Hudiburgh
Lynette Hudiburgh, lecturer of statistics, is the recipient of the 2017 E. Phillip Knox Distinguished Teaching Award.
The award recognizes one faculty member who uses creative, innovative and engaging teaching methods at the undergraduate level.
Established by Miami alumnus E. Phillips Knox, a 1968 graduate, the award is presented to faculty members whose achievements unequivocally merit recognition for excellence in teaching. Award winners receive a professional expense allocation of $3,000.
Hudiburgh was honored at the University Awards Reception held April 10. 
Hudiburgh has led efforts in the department of statistics to develop a hybrid model of STA 261, an introductory level statistics course for non­majors that meets the Miami Plan formal reasoning requirement and serves approximately 600 students each semester.
The student evaluations of her courses are consistently among the highest observed in the department of statistics, according to her nominators. “It is no surprise that her courses are the first to fill during registration,” a nominator said.
The current model of STA 261 is a culmination of many years of research, Hudiburgh said.
Hybrid model offers a common experience for all STA 261 students
She has steered the course from a “hodge podge” of classes taught by many different individuals without a common syllabus or text.
Now, all students who take STA 261 have a common experience and engage with the same content.
“This more consistent approach has led to greater collaboration among faculty and graduate students to create the best learning experience possible for the students and has led to a decrease in the percentage of D’s, F’s and WF’s each semester,” Hudiburgh said.  
STA 261 students have diverse backgrounds, many different majors and are quite varied in their preparation for, and attitudes about, statistics, Hudiburgh said.
Students describe her classroom environment as welcoming, with discussion encouraged and questions always answered. She “expands the context ...

Read More

What’s on the table when it comes to the GOP tax overhaul plan

Latest From Brookings

The following is a transcript of a segment of NPR’s “Morning Edition” from April 10, 2017. David Wessel joined to discuss the GOP’s tax plan and what we know so far. Listen to the interview here.
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It has been coming any day now. For weeks, the Trump administration’s been promising a major overhaul of the federal tax code – the taxes you and I and businesses and maybe even foreign manufacturers pay. And a small detail, the package is supposed to ease the budget deficit, too. But as that list of players and concerns might tell you, a lot of folks want a say in this. So when we want to talk about tax reform, we call one guy. His name is David Wessel, and he’s our regular economics commentator. Hi, David. DAVID WESSEL, BYLINE: Good morning. MARTIN: The tax code is big. It is crazy complicated. So when you say reform the tax code, what does that mean? What are they going to prioritize? WESSEL: Well, right now almost all the focus is on the business side of the tax code – bringing down the corporate tax rate, which is one of the highest in the world, maybe allowing businesses to write off any investments they make immediately instead of depreciating them over time, maybe cutting taxes for partnerships and other businesses that pay at the personal tax rate. As you know, the House has a far-reaching plan that would tax things consumed in the U.S. – whether they were imported or domestically produced – but it would exempt exports. Right now, that seems so politically divisive that the odds of surviving that are low. And you may have noticed, I haven’t said anything about the taxes that ordinary people pay. There’s been very little attention to that lately, even though Donald Trump promised to ...

Read More

Times Higher Education Supplement Chooses Lewis College of Human Sciences Assistant Professor of History Marie Hicks’s Book as Book of the Week

News – Illinois Tech Today


The Times Higher Education Supplement, a leading publication of university rankings and news for higher education professionals, has chosen Assistant Professor of History Marie Hicks’s new book Programmed Inequality, for its prestigious “book of the week” slot. John Gilbey writes in his review that Programmed Inequality is “a sophisticated work of scholarship: detailed, insightful, deeply researched,” and “has a much wider relevance, too, which it would be unwise to understate. Discussing, as it does, the role of profoundly structural gender discrimination in the collapse of technical dominance by a formerly great power, this book makes very uncomfortable reading–on a number of levels.”
Read the full review and the interview with the author here: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-programmed-inequality-marie-hicks-mit-press



Read More

Officials Sign Agreement Transferring Inspections

News at College of DuPage




The DuPage County Board, the College of DuPage (COD) and the Village of Glen Ellyn
signed a new intergovernmental agreement today transferring the authority to perform
building, zoning and liquor inspections at COD back to the Village.This action follows a period of five years in which the County has overseen those
responsibilities. Chairman Dan Cronin and the Board expressed their firm support for
the new leadership at COD and the Village, and the strong desire to support collaboration
among all entities. College of DuPage Chairman Deanne Mazzochi, President Dr. Ann
Rondeau, Village of Glen Ellyn President Alex Demos and Glen Ellyn Village Manager
Mark Franz appeared at the County Board’s regular April 11 meeting to thank the County
for its vote to restore the authority to the Village of Glen Ellyn.The College of DuPage’s Board approved the agreement on March 16, and the Village
Board approved it on March 13. The action by the DuPage County Board was the last
remaining vote needed to finalize the change. In March 2012, the Village and COD agreed to transfer regulatory control to the county
while keeping COD within the corporate limits of Glen Ellyn. That five-year agreement
was forged by the late County Board member JR McBride from Glen Ellyn who sought to
resolve disputes between the two, hoping a short-term agreement would give the entities
time to resolve differences. At the County Board meeting, all three leaders said the
new intergovernmental agreement was a testament to a renewed commitment to collaboration
and putting the needs of residents and students first.County Board Chairman Dan Cronin said, “We are thrilled to usher in a new era of cooperation
among the County, College of DuPage and the Village of Glen Ellyn. As JR McBride knew,
a short-term solution five years ago could pave the way for better, stronger relationships.
And thanks to his ...

Read More

Why is most matzo now square?

Brandeis University News

Why is most matzo now square?Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna weighs on the evolution of matzo.Photo/iStockPhotoBy Julian Cardillo '14April 10, 2017Matzo is a central food in the Passover Seder, its roots derived from Exodus when the Israelites ate unleavened bread in great haste prior to fleeing Egypt. But matzo’s shape, texture and production have evolved significantly over the years, particularly as a result of 19th century immigration and the industrial revolution.Jonathan D. Sarna '75, MA'75, University Professor and  the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of Jewish studies at Brandeis and the world’s foremost expert on American Jewish history, has studied matzo’s evolution. Until the turn of the 20th century, most matzo was handmade and round or irregularly-shaped. The father of today’s highly recognizable square matzo, Sarna says, was a Jewish baker named Behr Manischewitz, who immigrated to Cincinnati from Prussia in 1886. Manischewitz saw an opportunity in the growing numbers of fellow Jewish immigrants to the US and the machines that were changing how food was made, packaged and sold.
BrandeisNOW consulted Sarna to learn more about Manischewitz and the evolution of Matzo:
BrandeisNOW: What were the circumstances that resulted in today’s ubiquitous square matzo?
Sarna: The demand for matzo rose steadily in the United States in the 19th century, keeping pace with America’s growing Jewish population. But the matzo industry itself was under great transformation. By the mid-19th century, most matzo was baked by synagogues which either maintained special ovens of their own or, as was the case in New York, contracted with commercial bakers whom they supervised. Synagogues started spinning off many of their communal functions, and it was at this time that independent matzo bakers developed.
BNOW: What was the origin of the changes in how matzo was made?
Sarna: With the rise of industrialization, processes ...

Read More

Alaska, Delta Finish No. 1, 2 in New Airline Quality Rating While Overall Airline Industry Posts Best-Ever Results

Headlines RSS Feed

A joint research project funded as part of faculty research activities at the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University (Wichita, Kan.) and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott, Ariz., campus, the most recent AQR also showed that industry performance improved in all four core elements tracked by the study: on-time performance, rate of involuntary denied boardings, rate of mishandled bags and the rate of customer complaints.
Nine of the 12 airlines improved in three categories (on-time, baggage handling and customer complaints), and seven of the 12 airlines improved in all four categories. Airlines that performed better in 2016 were Alaska, American, Delta, ExpressJet, Frontier, SkyWest, Southwest, Spirit and United. Those whose scores declined in 2016 were Hawaiian, JetBlue and Virgin America.
“The best-ever overall industry AQR score is largely due to best-ever performance in the rate of involuntary denied boardings and the rate of mishandled bags,” said Dean Headley, associate professor of marketing at the W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University. “Air travel is great again – that statement can be followed with a period, exclamation point or question mark depending on the individual’s perspective.”
In April 2016, Seattle-based Alaska Air Group publicly announced it would be acquiring Virgin America in 2017 to form the nation’s fifth-largest airline. The 2016 Department of Transportation (DOT) data used in the study listed the airlines as separate entities.
“These results provide a rare insight into the airline merger arena. We have a carrier, Alaska, that wanted to improve performance, began improvement plans before any merger announcement, and is currently taking over the top performer, Virgin America. Going from fifth to first is rare, but a devoted corporate resolve can make that happen,” said study co-researcher Brent Bowen, dean of College of Aviation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott, Ariz., campus. “Delta, for example, has been recovering from merger complications for several years ...

Read More

May and LeClaire Perfect at the Plate in Game One of Softball Split With Emerson

WPI News Archive


Apr 09, 2017





Facebook Photo Gallery
WORCESTER – Junior RiAnna May (Westminster, CO) and sophomore Renee LeClaire (Merrimack, NH) went 3-for-3 in game one and sophomore Kallista Leonardos (El Granada, CA) batted 2-for-3 with a home run, a walk, three RBI - including the go-ahead hit by pitch - and three runs scored in game two as WPI and Emerson each earned a win Sunday in the NEWMAC softball doubleheader on Rooftop Field. The Engineers raced out to a 13-1 decision in five innings while the Lions held off the hosts for an 11-9 victory in the nightcap.
The theme of the day was ALS Awareness with the teams combining to raise $2,300 for ALS Therapy Development Institute. They also wore special t-shirts prior to game one, which also featured an honorary first pitch.
Emerson, who snapped a six game skid, defeated the Engineers for the first time since the teams traded 4-2 decisions on April 5, 2014.
Trailing 11-6 heading into the last half inning of game two, WPI made it interesting with a three run frame. With two on and two outs, junior Ama Biney (Worcester, MA) cleared the bases with a triple to right center before coming home on a wild pitch. Two more would reach; however, a fly out to left ended the game.
WPI struck first when Biney scampered home on a miscue put into play by May with two outs in the bottom of the first. Emerson quickly countered with a leadoff homer by Leonardos in the top of the second.
The Lions went ahead for the first time with four in the third. Junior Kodie Cash (Big Bear City, CA) lifted a productive foul fly ball to right and senior Shelby Carney (North Reading, MA) followed with an RBI single. After a pitching change and a stolen base, junior Molly Goldstein (Ridgefield, CT) doubled in a pair for the 5 ...

Read More

Andlinger Center panelists see routes to climate change progress despite political opposition

Princeton University Top Stories

Drastic changes in climate policy under the Trump administration should not cause environmental advocates to lose hope, a panel of experts said at a recent symposium at Princeton University's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.

Read More

College Offers 2017 Summer Science Camps for K-12 Students

Indiana University Opera productions all new in 2017-18 IU Opera and Ballet Theater season

IU

Indiana University Opera productions all new in 2017-18 IU Opera and Ballet Theater seasonFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 10, 2017Mozart's "Don Giovanni" will open Indiana University Opera and Ballet Theater's 2017-18 season in September.Print-Quality Photo
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University Opera Theater, at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, will present an unprecedented six new productions—including five operas and one musical—during its 2017-18 season, in tandem with three productions by IU Ballet Theater.
“Our new opera and ballet season will feature many firsts in a season filled with a variety of traditional and new productions,” said Timothy Stebbins, Ted Jones Executive Director of Production. “For the first time in the 69-year history of IU Opera Theater, each production will be newly built. We will present ‘L’Étoile’ for the first time. And for the first time, IU Opera will present ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ our first co-commission and co-production with Houston Grand Opera and San Francisco Opera.”
The company’s new season will begin in September with Mozart’s masterpiece “Don Giovanni,” featuring Jacobs faculty conductor Arthur Fagen, director David Lefkowich and Jacobs set designer Mark Smith, who designed last fall’s “Florencia en el Amazonas.”
Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier’s French farce “L’Étoile,” will make its IU Opera Theater debut in October with director Alain Gauthier and set designer Tim McMath.
Composer Jake Heggie—of “Dead Man Walking” fame—returns to the Musical Arts Center stage with his latest creation, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” based on the iconic film of the same name, in November. Audiences will be treated to the direction of Leonard Foglia and the set design of Robert Brill, both of whom filled these roles in the work’s recent Houston Grand Opera premiere.
Spring semester will commence with Richard Strauss’ comedic “Ariadne auf Naxos,” with Fagen again at the podium and ...

Read More

New faculty unpack Indigenous issues, both past and present

Northwestern Now: Summaries

From left: Hiʻilei Hobart, Doug Kiel and Beth Redbird“Northwestern has the resources, the cultural structure and the ability to be a leader in the way universities interact with Native Americans and Native issues,” sociology professor Beth Redbird says. “And I’ve been really pleased with the way Northwestern has embraced Native studies.”Redbird, along with history professor Doug Kiel and post-doctoral fellow Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, are the first three faculty hired for the forthcoming Native American and Indigenous Studies Research Center. All three agree that helping Northwestern students understand that Native issues are still relevant is a key component of their work on campus.“I think it’s very easy to think of Native issues solely as issues of the past,” Kiel says. “I try to push against that.” In his research, Kiel explores Indigenous nation rebuilding movements and race relations since the start of the 20th century. And in his courses on Indigenous social movements, representation in film, and Native law and policy, Kiel strives to put the past and present in relation to each other.“One of the hardest things about teaching Indigenous studies is helping students understand that many of them continue to benefit in a material way from the suppression of Indigenous people and from the occupation of Indigenous land,” Kiel says.Hobart, whose research looks at the ways in which the introduction of ice to Hawaiʻi impacted Native people’s relationships to their environment, says people might not believe Native studies pertain to them, even though “a strong argument can be made that Native studies is a bedrock for understanding what America is.”“The entire history of the U.S. is premised on the Native experience,” Hobart says.Keeping that interdependent relationship between Native and non-Native in mind, Redbird says addressing Indigenous suppression can have broader implications.“We have this ...

Read More

Tyehimba Jess, AB’91, wins Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

UChicago News














Tyehimba Jess, AB’91, has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Olio, his collection of original verse.Jess’ poems examine the lives of African-American performers from the Civil War up to World War I, revealing the history of America’s blues, work songs and church hymns. Jess was praised by the Pulitzer committee “for a distinctive work that melds performance art with the deeper art of poetry to explore collective memory and challenge contemporary notions of race and identity.”

A native of Detroit, Jess studied public policy while at UChicago and received his MFA from New York University. Jess is currently the poetry and fiction editor of African American Review and is an associate professor of English at the College of Staten Island.

This is Jess’ second book of poetry. His first, leadbelly, received the 2004 National Poetry Series award. Jess read from Olio this past December at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.


Read More

The Americans Isn’t Really about Spies and Murder

BU Today

Sure, The Americans is about a couple of KGB spies. But executive producer Stephen Schiff told the audience at last Friday night’s BU Cinematheque that the FX series is really about much more: it’s about us.
“There’s a lot of skullduggery and spycraft and people doing nasty, nasty things to one another,” Schiff said. “But it’s really about family, and the complications that come from the sensation that we are all spies in our own lives.”
The Americans follows the overtly normal lives of Philip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys and Kerri Russell), two deep-cover Soviet agents living in the Washington, D.C., suburbs in the early 1980s. Their marriage is real and their two teenaged children, Paige and Henry (Holly Taylor and Keidrich Sellati), are real American schoolkids as well, but at the same time the whole family image is just part of their cover.
“All of our lives have to do with some combination of the deception we bring with us—because we want to be a little secretive at times, we don’t want to tell everyone everything—and at the same time this urge we have to be known, to be seen, to be honest, to be understood, to be loved for who we are,” Schiff told a packed house of about 250 people at the College of Communication.
In a recent episode, Philip and Elizabeth let Paige in on their real identities, which seriously complicates just about everything. As does the spies’ friendship with Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), an FBI counterintelligence agent who happens to live across the street. “If you follow our show a little, that means not following it at all, because it’s really hard to follow,” Schiff said.
Former Boston film critic Stephen Schiff gave BU students a look inside the writers’ room on the FX series The ...

Read More

Mānoa: UH Cancer Center researcher awarded $3M to study cancer treatment potential of ironweed plant

UH News

University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaContact:Posted: Apr 11, 2017James Turkson holds ironweed plant extract.The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded a five-year $3 million grant to a University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center researcher to study how natural compounds in ironweed plant extract can be used to treat breast and brain cancers.“It would be life changing for cancer patients if ironweed extract could help fight aggressive types of breast and brain cancers. Since the compounds are found in the plant, they are less toxic than traditional forms of treatment such as chemotherapy. This gives cancer patients a better quality of life when developed as drugs,“ said James Turkson, awardee and director of the UH Cancer Center’s Cancer Biology Program. “Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain cancer that currently has no cure. In addition, the types of breast cancers we are targeting are some of the most life-threatening breast cancers with few successful treatments.”                                                  “The vast natural resources of Hawai‘i give our researchers a rare opportunity to make scientific discoveries of unique and significant proportions in treating cancer,” said Dr. Randall Holcombe, UH Cancer Center’s director. “This significant NCI award recognizes the breadth and depth of the natural product research focus of the UH Cancer Center, and highlights the national impact our research in Hawai‘i has in the fight against cancer.”Turkson, along with collaborators Leng Chee Chang, Dianqing Sun and Supakit Wongwiwatthananukit at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy, published a study a year and half ago showing that the natural compounds from the ironweed plant were effective in killing breast cancer and brain tumor cells and blocked the development and growth of these cancers in the laboratory. In recognition of these preliminary findings, the funds were granted to continue and expand the study.“Our team of researchers ...

Read More

Celebration of Faculty Scholarship: Friday, April 14

Georgia College FrontPage RSS Feed

The Office of Academic Affairs and the Ina Dillard Russell Library are proud to sponsor the Second Annual Celebration of Faculty Scholarship, which will highlight and celebrate scholarly work, creative endeavors and editorial contributions of GC faculty from calendar year 2016.The event is Friday, April 14 from 3 to 5 p.m. The celebration reception will include light hors d’oeuvres.
Please join us in celebrating all the great work you do at Georgia College.


Read More

CCMST Weekly News, August 20, 2010

Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology


1. Announcements2. Statistics3. Tip of the WeekANNOUNCEMENTS
Summer Lecture Series in Electronic Structure Theory
NOTE: No lecture next week. The series will resume in September

The Summer Theory program will continue through August with a series of advanced lectures.
Lectures will be on Thursdays in MSE 4202A from 2-3pm, starting from Thursday August 3.
The new theory/computational graduate students, and anyone else who is interested are cordially invited to attend.

There will be no lecture next week. 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: 9 day/home directory usage: 70% (1.8 TB available)/backups directory usage: 84%

LSF usage for Week 32 (8/9-8/15) (times are in minutes)GroupJobsTotal CPUAvg CPUAvg WaitAvg Trnr.Bredas108823493312%216155369Hernandez72330747916%4256470Sherrill113349722%30936346Other3258661%8622758441Total192760325131%31392418
Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period.

Most productive user of the Week: atucker 189655.


EGATE

Uptime: 264 days/theoryfs/common directory usage: 36% (426GB available)/theoryfs/ccmst directory usage: 84% (146 available)

LSF usage for Week 32 (8/9-8/15) (times are in minutes)GroupJobsTotal CPUAvg CPUAvg WaitAvg Trnr.Hernandez40225611517%6370648Sherrill21155101%73931373852Other10121356614%21153062410Total52448519132%9261851116
Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period.

Most productive user of the Week: rnear 195306.



TIP OF THE WEEK
From www.vim.org
Converting tabs to spaces in Vim

To insert space characters whenever the tab key is pressed, set the expandtab option:
:set expandtab

With this option set, if you want to enter a real tab character use the Ctrl-V Tab key sequence.

To control the number of space characters that will be inserted when the tab key is pressed, set the tabstop option. For example, to insert 4 spaces for a tab, use:
:set tabstop=4

After the expandtab option is set, all the new tab characters entered will be changed to spaces. This will ...

Read More

Join the Club: Epic Intentions

All GT News

Campus and Community

Join the Club: Epic Intentions






By
Julia Faherty | April 11, 2017
• Atlanta, GA








Click image to enlarge




Epic Intentions serves as an interdisciplinary society of Georgia Tech volunteers whose purpose is to aid local nonprofits, social enterprises, and civic-minded entrepreneurs through service-oriented design projects.

Members of Epic Intentions are assigned to various projects working with Atlanta based nonprofit organizations. Teams of around five to six students, with one team leader, work together throughout the semester to complete their projects while developing technical skills.

Third-year computer science major and Vice President of Campus Relations Anna Herrera joined Epic Intentions during the spring of her second year at Tech. After applying to the organization, she was assigned as a team leader for the H.E.R.O. For Children project. H.E.R.O is a nonprofit organization in Georgia that focuses on quality of life care for children with HIV/AIDS.  

“Team leaders are the liaison between the nonprofit organizations and Epic Intentions," Herrera said. "The other team members work to complete the project using their unique skill sets.”

Each semester, the nonprofit organizations are recruited by the Epic Intentions board. Once a nonprofit agrees to work with the club, they give team leaders an idea of what they need. Then the team is assigned to the project, and it is up to them to decide specific details and goals.

Teams in the past have worked with organizations including Beloved Atlanta, the Center for Working Families, and Enchanted Closet. They have worked to improve marketing strategies, database systems, fundraising efforts, and more. Visit Epic Intentions’ website for a full list of projects.

Epic Intentions Final Presentations

On Wednesday, April 12, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., Epic Intentions will host its semesterly final presentation event. The event will take place in Room 105, D.M. Smith Building, and is free and open to the ...

Read More

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

OSU Today

Today in the News Media is a synopsis of some of the most prominent coverage of OSU people and programs. Inclusion of any item constitutes neither an endorsement nor a critique, but rather is intended only to make the OSU community aware of significant items in the media.
The blue whale is not the only animal with a huge appetite (BBC Earth)
“The amount of nectar consumed can vary quite a bit by hummingbird species,” says Adam Hadley, a leader in the hummingbird research team at Oregon State University. “Particularly since they have a very large range in body size, from the 2.5g bee hummingbird to the 24g giant hummingbird.”
Social media tools can reinforce stigma and stereotypes (Medical Xpress)
Researchers at Oregon State University have developed new software to analyze social media comments, and used this tool in a recent study to better understand attitudes that can cause emotional pain, stigmatize people and reinforce stereotypes.
Life through the eyes of a humpback whale (Yahoo News)
“We have some wonderful data on different feeding strategies from rolling lunges near the surface, to bubble net feeding, to deep foraging dives lunging through dense patches of krill,” Associate Professor from Oregon State University and lead scientist on the whale study, Dr Ari Friedlaender said.
How mangrove forest conversion is killing Earth (Business Standard)
“On a personal scale, this means a typical steak and shrimp cocktail dinner produced through mangrove conversion would burden the atmosphere with 1,795 pounds of carbon dioxide,” said lead study author J. Boone Kauffman from Oregon State University. (see also Science Daily)
On the Menu: Corvallis classic (Cater Source)
Jay Perry’s culinary pursuit has taken him from his hometown of San Diego to the kitchens of France, Italy, Seattle, and Portland. Jay now serves as the Chef de Cuisine at Oregon State University in Corvallis where he has become ...

Read More

Staying informed in a post-truth, fake news era



CORVALLIS, Ore. – Fake news has become a catch-phrase in the modern political arena, but what does it really mean? Is it a label for unethical, biased journalism or a turn-of-phrase for news that doesn’t meet one’s personal agenda? How do you spot fake news, and what do you do about it?
Scholars will explore these ideas and more in a speaker series at Oregon State University this spring.
“As a librarian, I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of fake news and how to be an educated consumer of media,” said Laurie Bridges, associate professor and instruction and outreach librarian at Oregon State. “The aim of this speaker’s series is to make sense of the idea of fake news and see how media has been used to both educate and manipulate the public throughout modern history.”
Speakers will make presentations at OSU during April and May, and all lectures are all free and open to the public. The series is sponsored by OSU Libraries; OSU Press; OSU Ethnic Studies; the OSU Center for Civic Engagement; and the OSU School of History, Philosophy, and Religion.
The topics include:
“Alternative Facts”
Peter Laufer, 3-4 p.m. April 27, Willamette Rooms, The Valley Library
In an age of instant news and “alternative facts,” information consumers need easy-to-follow rules for sorting truth from lies. Award-winning journalist and University of Oregon Professor Peter Laufer will present Slow News: A Manifesto for the Critical News Consumer. Inspired by the Slow Food movement, a timely antidote is offered to “fake news,” with 29 simple rules for avoiding echo chambers and recognizing misinformation.
“Fake News is the New V.D.: Verbal Deception as a Means of Manipulation”
Trischa Goodnow, 3-4 p.m., May 3, Willamette Rooms, The Valley Library
The phrase verbal deception has been coined to better describe what has popularly become known as fake ...

Read More

Jr. Cyclone Club Movie Night at Jack Trice Stadium

Iowa State University

AMES, Iowa – The Jr. Cyclone Club is proud to sponsor its fifth annual Movie Night at Jack Trice Stadium on Saturday, May 13. The movie featured on the north videoboard will be "Trolls". The event is free and open to the public.

Select gates open at 6 p.m. Show time is 7 p.m. In case of inclement weather, the event will move to Hilton Coliseum that same evening.

Families will have the opportunity to either sit on the field (blankets only, no chairs permitted), sit in the bleachers on the east side of the stadium or in the south end zone. Handicap accessible seating is available on the east tarmac.

Limited concessions items will be available for purchase at reduced prices on the east concourse and at field level.

For more important information about movie night, parking and stadium access, visit jrcycloneclub.com.
Print Friendly Version


Read More

Do Other Earths Lurk in Our Galaxy?

UCR Today


Lecture at UC Riverside by senior researcher from Mexico will address this question on April 13
By Iqbal Pittalwala on April 10, 2017
Share this article:

Antígona Segura is a senior researcher at the Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The University of California, Riverside Science Lecture Series continues Thursday, April 13, with a talk that will discuss whether other Earths populate the Milky Way.
Antígona Segura, a senior researcher at the Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, will give the talk titled “Alien Planets: Are Other Earths Lurking in Our Galaxy?” Segura works on planetary habitability, remote detection of life, and the early conditions of our solar system.
The event, which is scheduled from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on campus at the University Theatre (Humanities 400), is free and open to the public. There is free parking in Parking Lot 6. Light refreshments will be served before the lecture, and prizes will be raffled off after the lecture.
“This is the first time in human history where we have tools to search for extraterrestrial life,” Segura said. “We have found planets around other stars – such as those around Trappist-1 and Proxima Centauri – that may be potentially habitable. In the near future we will have instruments to study those planets to search for habitability conditions – water and an atmosphere – and maybe life.”
As a girl, Segura loved stars and was amazed with all living beings; as a result, she says, she became an astrobiologist. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in physics, a master’s in astronomy and a Ph.D. in Earth sciences, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Penn State Astrobiology Research Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Calif., where she worked at the Virtual Planetary Laboratory.
Segura’s talk aims also to inform the public on how science works in general ...

Read More

Meet our 2017 Distinguished Alumni

Olin BlogOlin Blog

This year’s Distinguished Alumni will be honored on April 21 at 6 p.m. Please join us at Celebration Weekend, April 20-23 to celebrate Olin’s Centennial and accomplished alumni.
The Distinguished Alumni Awards will be followed by a very special affair to commemorate our Centennial. Guests are invited inside Knight and Bauer Hall for a once-in-a-century Gala celebration. The Gala reception will include a band, food stations and cocktails, a photo booth, and a digital exhibit showcasing Olin’s rich history. The evening will conclude with a celebratory fireworks display as we embark on Olin’s second century of excellence.
Bill Broderick, MBA ’76
Partner (Retired) / Edward Jones / St. Louis
Chair, Board of Trustees / Bridge Builder Mutual Funds / St. Louis
In a 30-year career at Edward Jones, it is safe to say there is very little that Bill Broderick hasn’t participated in building for the firm. Even after his retirement in 2012, Broderick still has a hand in the business as founder and chairman of a subadvised family of Edward Jones sponsored mutual funds, with assets totaling $32 billion.
And that isn’t the only way in which Broderick has continued to participate. Since 2013, he has served as CEO for Victory Wireline, a Texas-based company offering specialized equipment services to the oil and gas industry. After earning his MBA from Washington University, Broderick launched his career at Centerre Bank, which at that time, was one of the two largest banks in the St. Louis area. He made a name for himself over six years, as a commercial banking officer and leader in the credit department, supervising 25 analysts.
By 1982, he had left Centerre to begin his distinguished career in investment banking at Edward Jones, and within four years, he was invited to be a partner in the firm. And that is where he started putting his fingerprints all over it—from product design ...

Read More

Architecture Faculty Present Papers, More at Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Conference

UMass Amherst: News Archive

Department of architecture faculty were well represented at this year’s Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Conference (ACSA) in Detroit in March.Several faculty presented papers on their research:

Pari Riahi presented “The Improved versus the Planned: In Search of Public Space in Parisian Suburbs”

Naomi Darling presented “Integrating an Ethos of Service into the Beginning Design Studio”

Carey Clouse presented “Addressing Climate Change through Water Landscapes in India”

Caryn Brause presented “Collaboration: Propelling an Expanded Practice”
Joseph Krupczynski curated a panel “Is Another Architecture Possible?"
Faculty also shared work developed through teaching collaborations in the conference’s project sessions: Naomi Darling and Ray Mann presented on “Integrating Cultural Research in the Design Studio,” and Stephen Schreiber, Carey Clouse and Caryn Brause presented on “Housing the Urban Animal.”




Read More

UT to Host Conference on Pressing Race Relations Issues in US

Headlines – Tennessee Today


UT’s Department of Sociology will host a conference April 27­–29 addressing some of the most pressing current issues surrounding racial inequality in the United States.The three-day conference, New Directions in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, will bring nationally and internationally recognized scholars to the UT campus.
The conference is free and open to the public but registration is required. Sessions will be held at the Panhellenic Building and the UT College of Law.
The conference inaugurates the Department of Sociology’s new academic concentration area in critical race and ethnic studies.
Critical race theory has transformed academic, political, and general national discussions about the contentious issues of race and racism. Keynotes for the conference will feature many of the biggest names in the critical race theory movement, including founders Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Duke University Professor and American Sociological Association President Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, nationally recognized immigration expert Tanya Golash-Boza, and renowned intersectionality scholar Mary Romero. 
The conference will highlight topics including race and the 2016 presidential election, trends on immigration and enforcement, the meaning and impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, race, and schooling.
Additional conference sponsors are the College of Arts and Sciences; the Office of the Provost; Ready for the World; the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences; the College of Law; the Africana Studies program; and the Departments of Psychology, Political Science, and Anthropology.
Information about the conference, including registration, is available online. 

CONTACT:
Victor Ray (865-974-7033, vray3@utk.edu)
Michelle Christian (865-974-2078, mchris20@utk.edu)
Lola Alapo (865-974-3993, lalapo@utk.edu)


Read More

‘Babies and Beards:’ Magee Newborns Kick Off Penguins Playoff Celebration



WHAT: The Pittsburgh Penguins’ mascot, Iceburgh, is leading a nursery pep rally at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC as the hockey team enters the first round of the playoffs. Iceburgh will present the babies with special onesies that will allow them to get in on the playoff beard action.

In collaboration with the Pittsburgh Penguins®, Magee is relaunching “A Great Day for a New Baby.” Every baby born at Magee will receive a Penguins onesie, bib and hooded towel and washcloth set.

WHY: As the official women’s health provider of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Magee is proud to collaborate with the Penguins organization to celebrate babies and families in and around Pittsburgh.

WHEN: 10:30 to 11 a.m., Wednesday, April 12

WHERE: Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, 300 Halket St., Pittsburgh, 15213

Note to Media: To cover this event or to request photos, please contact Courtney Caprara at 412-592-8134 or CapraraCL@upmc.edu.

Read More

Presentació de ‘The sound sculptures of Bernard and François Baschet’, un clàssic de la història de l’art

Universitat de Barcelona - Notícies



































En aquest llibre, François Baschet relata l’experiència dels germans Baschet com a pioners en la investigació i la creació d’instruments musicals i escultures sonores.











12/04/2017






Cultura






El dijous 20 d’abril, a les 19 h, al Parc de les Humanitats i les Ciències Socials de la Universitat de Barcelona (Can Jaumandreu, c. Perú, 52) es presentarà The sound sculptures of Bernard and François Baschet, de François Baschet, a cura de Martí Ruiz.
En l’acte intervindran el vicerector d'Arts, Cultura i Patrimoni de la UB, Salvador García Fortes; la degana de la Facultat de Belles Arts, M. Dolors Tapias; el director del Museu de la Música de Barcelona, Jaume Ayats, i l’editor de l’obra i coordinador del Taller d’Escultura Sonora Baschet de la UB, Martí Ruiz. Durant la presentació es farà una visita sonora a les escultures Baschet del Parc. 







En aquest llibre, considerat una obra fonamental en la història de l’art, François Baschet relata l’experiència dels germans Baschet com a pioners en la investigació i la creació d’instruments musicals i escultures sonores combinant art i ciència, escultura i música. L’edició, a cura de Martí Ruiz, especialista en l’obra dels Baschet, dona a conèixer la singular concepció de François Baschet de l’acústica —un mètode per comprendre les relacions funcionals entre forma, matèria, acció i so—, la qual va donar lloc a la invenció de centenars d’instruments i d’escultures sonores de totes les mides i sonoritats, actualment escampades per tot el món.
L’any 2009, François Baschet va fundar un nou espai de treball en col·laboració amb investigadors de la Facultat de Belles Arts de la UB. Com a resultat d’aquesta activitat, han sorgit nombroses iniciatives internacionals, coordinades entre Barcelona i París, com ara la catalogació analítica ...

Read More

Bridge innovation expert to give Stueck Lecture

Missouri S&T News and Events


Dr. Man-Chung Tang has designed over 100 bridges around the world. He will give a talk about innovation on April 21 in Butler-Carlton Hall on the Missouri S&T campus.
Innovation drives humankind forward with new ideas, new ways of doing, new ways of thinking — and Dr. Man-Chung Tang, a world authority on cable-stayed bridges, has brought innovating designs to the structures for over 50 years.
It is often said, “the sun never sets on a Man-Chung Tang bridge.” His designs can be found all around the world and are considered to be a blending of art and premier engineering development.
As the 2017 Stueck Lecture speaker, he will present his views on art and innovation in design at 3 p.m. Friday, April 21 in Room 125 Butler-Carlton Hall. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is presented as part of the Neil and Maurita Stueck Distinguished Lecture Series for civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri S&T. The series is made possible by a fund established by Maurita Stueck to bring additional outside perspectives to Missouri S&T students, and to honor her late husband, Neil Stueck, a 1943 civil engineering graduate of the university.
Tang is known for his immeasurable contributions to the bridge design industry and for the quality and innovation behind his individual designs. His career as a structural engineer has spanned over 50 years and has encompassed designing 100-plus bridges around the globe, including over 32 cable-stayed bridges, four major suspension bridges and numerous segmental bridges.
Tang asks people to consider these questions: What is innovation? How do you become innovative? Who is capable of being innovative?
Tang was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 for his contribution to the advancement of cable-stayed bridges. He also served as chairman of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) committee on cable-suspended bridges and published a definitive guideline for the ...

Read More

UMSL ranked among the top college values

UMSL Daily

UMSL ranked fourth on SmartAsset’s list of Best Value Colleges in Missouri. The rankings were compiled after considering factors such as tuition, living expenses and the average starting salary of graduates.
Providing a quality, affordable education to its students has long been a hallmark of the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
More than 94 percent of respondents to a recent study said that the slogan “Serious Education. Serious Value.” accurately describes UMSL. And alumni consistently cite the quality of UMSL’s educational programs for their individual success in myriad fields, including business, education and nursing.
Now outside organizations are taking note of UMSL living up to that goal. SmartAsset recently released its third annual Best Value Colleges study and ranked UMSL fourth among universities in Missouri. It trailed only Missouri S&T, Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Missouri–Columbia.
The rankings are compiled after looking at such categories as tuition, living expenses, scholarships and grants provided, retention rate and the average starting salary for an institution’s graduates.
UMSL provides great value to its students with in-state tuition of $8,844 while its graduates earn an average starting salary of $44,100, according to SmartAsset.
“UMSL students are well-prepared to enter the workforce and earn well-paying jobs after graduation,” said Alan Byrd, UMSL’s dean of enrollment services. “We are proud that we can help them launch their careers and that they aren’t starting out their professional lives under a mountain of debt.”
Last month, UMSL received a No. 5 ranking nationally on Great Value Colleges’ 2017-18 list of the “50 Best Colleges for Adult Education. The ranking recognized the ways in which the university caters to older, nontraditional students.
Forbes magazine also lists UMSL among  “America’s Best Colleges,” and U.S. News consistently touts the campus and programs such as criminology and international business as particular strong performers.
Media ...

Read More

Advanced Field at the Devil’s Punchbowl, Los Angeles, CA

San Diego State University Department of Geological Sciences

2017 Geol 508 Class on the Devil’s Chair
The Geology 508 class spent Spring Break at the Devil’s Punchbowl, Los Angeles, CA.  The second of three field trips, students used the fundamentals of sedimentology, stratigraphy, structural geology, and superposition to unravel the geologic history of the Punchbowl.  Big thanks to Rob Hawk for documenting the trip!




Crossing the South Fork of Big Rock Creek.




Getting to know the San Francisquito Fm.




Faith Moore and Mia Flores




Wasim Merchant, Tyler Henderson, Steve Mazzone, and Jimmy Pham




Great view of the Punchbowl fault.




Everyone on the Devil’s Chair.




Calib Adkins and Jen Luscombe




Holcomb Creek traverse.




Peter Suazo finding the perfect spot for an attitude.




narrow trail = one at a time




Morning group meeting




Wasim Merchant, Mia Flores, Xiomara Rosenblatt, Keith Kastama, Faith Moore, Luke Johnson, and Steve Mazzone




Where’s Caleb?




Sidian the geology dog, Wasim Merchant, and Tyler Henderson




The Punchbowl Fm.




Punchbowl Canyon




Story telling around the fire.




Sketching in the fault.




the ants go marching one by one….




Punchbowl Syncline and Dave Kimbrough




Yup, it’s all rubbed in Kristan




Matt Skakun and Keith Kastama




Luke Johnson, Mia Flores, Keith Katsmama, and Xiomara Rosenblatt




Do you see Peter Suazo?






Read More

Returning as a Runner

Arts and Sciences

Jaymi Cohen, A16, is running the Boston Marathon on April 17, but it’s not about striving for a personal best time. Four years ago, she stood with friends from the Tufts women’s lacrosse team near the finish line on Boylston Street. The first bomb went off, and then the second. She was thrown to the ground, her legs lacerated by flying shrapnel.“My main motivation for running [this year] is what happened to me and a lot of people in 2013 with the bombings,” Cohen said.
The emotional toll of the bombing was far worse than the physical injuries, she said. “I was very traumatized, and it is interesting because I studied post-traumatic stress disorder as an undergraduate my first semester, so by the time this happened in my second semester, I knew the signs, symptoms and mechanisms of what this would look like. It is really emotionally scarring and taxing.”
Surviving that horrendous day, Cohen said, gave her strength and a new perspective on life, and for that, she credits the support of the entire Tufts community, along with her family, friends and teammates.
“I think the one thing that really helped was time and having a structured schedule: continuing to go to class and continuing to go to [lacrosse] practice every day, even though I did not practice really the rest of that season,” said Cohen, a four-year standout on the team. “Being able to talk with family and friends about it was the most helpful for me.”
The road to recovery was tough, though. “There are some days now when I do not even think about it, which is something that I never thought would happen,” she said. “It was taking over my thought process and mind.”
When she was younger, she was a volunteer coach for Special Olympics, and the marathon bombing made her want to ...

Read More

Titan Toons: How United Airlines trains their TSA agents

Daily Titan

The post Titan Toons: How United Airlines trains their TSA agents appeared first on Daily Titan.

Read More

English Professor Writes Memoir About Researching for Newspaper Legends

News Archive

Barbara Feinman Todd, the director of the Georgetown College journalism program and professor of the practice, published her memoir last month to critical acclaim. (Photo courtesy Ginger Wall)
March 27, 2017 — Many Georgetown professors have old war stories from “the swamp,” “This Town,” or whatever you prefer to call the Washington politics-media complex. Here’s one you might not have heard before.
From a small office in the New North building, jam-packed with books on all kinds of writing, Barbara Feinman Todd has spent a quarter-century building up journalism education at Georgetown. She led the long crusade to develop a lonely English elective into an impressive investigate journalism project, a master’s program, and eventually an undergraduate minor. For a certain, small segment of the student population, she’s as much a Georgetown institution as the John Carroll statue.
Feinman Todd released her memoir, Pretend I’m Not Here, to widespread critical acclaim last month. The 320-page tome begins in her first few days as a 22-year-old in the Washington Post newsroom and tracks her fascinating career as a researcher for newspaper legends Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, and Ben Bradlee, her ghostwriting work for Hillary Rodham Clinton, her path to Georgetown, and the lessons she learned along the way.
*******
Pretend I’m Not Here has generated more media coverage than one might expect for a writer who moved to full-time teaching 15 years ago. That’s because it contains her first public comments in years about a mini-scandal from 1996 that briefly grabbed national headlines.
While shadowing Clinton in order to ghostwrite the 1996 bestseller It Takes A Village, Feinman Todd observed a strange meeting between the First Lady and a “new age healer,” later recounting it to Woodward off-the-record. She traveled to Europe after finishing her work on the Clinton book; upon returning, she discovered that the Clinton team had frozen her out of ...

Read More

Reunions and Events Draw Thousands for 2017 UCSF Alumni Weekend

UCSF - Latest News Feed


Reunions, galas and research talks were just some of this year’s festivities for the annual UC San Francisco Alumni weekend on April 7 and 8.

It was the sixth year that the Alumni Association of UCSF event brought together alumni from all four professional schools – dentistry, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy – and the Graduate Division.

In all, more than 1,650 alumni, family and friends attended the events on Friday and Saturday that included receptions and galas put on by each school and division. The schools also hosted continuing education classes for all professions.

Along with the school- and division-specific events, there were the Discovery Talks during which UCSF faculty convey their transformative research and discoveries through short, “TED”-style presentations.

On Saturday morning, Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, hosted a breakfast event, during which he held a talk with Lucy Kalanithi, a UCSF resident alum and the wife of late surgeon Paul Kalanithi, author of the book “When Breath Becomes Air.” The memoir is about Paul Kalanithi’s life and his battle with stage IV lung cancer.

For more campus news and resources, visit Pulse of UCSF.



Read More

FIU hosts Bethune-Cookman Tuesday night to start 4-game home stand

FIU Athletics

Bethune-Cookman (21-14) at FIU (18-14) Tuesday, April 11: 7 p.m. EDT (PantherVision & C-USA TV LIVE broadcast, CLICK HERE)B-CU LHP Donte Lindsay (1-5, 7.79 ERA) at FIU RHP Robert Garcia (2-4, 4.34 ERA)Series History: FIU leads 51-14
First meeting: FIU won 14-3 in Miami, Fla. (March 8, 1978)
Last meeting: FIU won 4-3 in Miami, Fla. (April 13, 2016)Game Notables 
-- FIU is coming off a 2-3 Mississippi road trip. The Panthers split a two-game series with No. 22 Mississippi State and won one of three games against No. 21 Southern Miss.-- Just past the midway point of the 2017 season, the Panthers have nearly as many home runs (25) and stolen bases (33) as they had in all of 2016 when FIU hit 35 home runs and stole 49 bases.-- FIU head coach Mervyl Melendez coached 12 seasons at Bethune-Cookman. Melendez had a record of 379-320 and won 11 MEAC championships at B-CU.-- Before taking the series against Savannah State last weekend, B-CU had lost six of its last 10 games.-- B-CU right-hander Tyler Norris threw a no-hitter against Savannah State last Saturday.-- B-CU left-hander Donte Lindsay started both games against FIU last season. He pitched a combined six innings, allowed 12 hits and six runs, losing the game in Daytona Beach. FIU right-hander Robert Garcia started the game in Daytona Beach and lasted one inning and allowed two runs. -- The Panthers won the season series with the Wildcats last season. FIU won 21-8 in Daytona Beach and 4-3 at the FIU ballpark.
 2017 Leaders B-CUTeam stats:
Average: .293
ERA: 4.74
Fielding pct.: .956
 Individual leaders:
Average: Adonis Lao .385
Home runs: Danny Rodriguez 4
RBI: Jameel Edney 28
Stolen bases: Kyle Corbin 12
Wins: Anthony Maldonado 5
ERA: Anthony Maldonado 2.89
Strikeouts: Anthony Maldonado, Tyler Norris 34
Saves: Ivan Coutinho 5
 FIUTeam stats:
Average: .278
ERA: 4.55
Fielding pct.: .972
 Individual leaders:
Average: Kenny Meimerstorf .352
Home runs: JC Escarra 6                         
RBI: JC Escarra, Irving Lopez 22
Stolen bases: Jack Schaaf 6
Wins: Nick MacDonald 5
ERA: Nick MacDonald 2.45
...

Read More

Women’s Tennis Re-Enters Top-20, Lewis No. 18

LSUsports.net
Headline News





Chase WalesCommunications Student Assistant



BATON ROUGE --- The LSU women’s tennis team’s huge comeback win over No. 11 Kentucky this weekend propelled the Tigers to No. 19 in the latest Oracle/ITA rankings released Tuesday.
This marks the third time LSU has been ranked 19th this season and is the second-highest ranking for the team since it climbed to No. 16 after the program-best win over No. 5 Auburn in March.
The Tigers also placed three players in the latest singles rankings, with freshman Jade Lewis leading the way with a career-high ranking of 18th in the country.
After defeating No. 17 Aldila Sutjiadi of Kentucky, Lewis jumped 16 spots to No. 18, the highest ranking for an LSU freshman since Megan Falcon was ranked No. 2 in her freshman campaign in 2006.
Lewis has a 13-4 dual record with 12 wins for the Tigers on court one, eight of those wins against ranked opponents.
Joana Valle Costa jumped an incredible 42 spots to No. 60 thanks to her recent stretch of dominant form that has seen the senior win four straight matches, including two over top-100 opponents.
Junior Ryann Foster re-entered the rankings as well, coming in at No. 118 thanks to a crucial 6-3, 6-3 win over All-American Mami Adachi of Kentucky.
Foster leads the team with 23 overall wins dating back to the fall to go along with 10 doubles wins with court one partner Valle Costa. The Valle Costa/Foster pairing is ranked 23rd in the country.
The Tigers end the regular season on the road against No. 2 Georgia on Friday at 4 p.m. CT before heading to Knoxville to face No. 23 Tennessee Sunday at 11 a.m. CT.
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.


Oracle/ITA Division I Collegiate Rankings


Women's National Team


Administered by the ITA


...

Read More

Paper: Regulatory system governing Mexico’s oil and gas industry needs enhancement

Rice University News & Media



One of the goals of Mexico’s energy reform was to create a regulatory system that would foster competition in a very complex political environment. That system is in place but needs enhancement, according to a new paper from the Mexico Center at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Credit: Shutterstock.com/Rice University
“Coordination of the Regulators of the Hydrocarbon Sector: Is It Optimal for the Rule of Law?” was authored by Miriam Grunstein, chief energy counsel at Brilliant Energy Consulting, nonresident scholar at the Mexico Center and professor and researcher at the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon.
The regulatory framework, known as “coordinated regulatory bodies,” was established in Article 28 of the Mexican Constitution and is intended to oversee and regulate the hydrocarbons sector. Grunstein’s paper assesses whether the new coordinating structure helps to build an industry in a country with proper governance and rule of law.
“The institutional arrangement of the hydrocarbons reform in 2013 in Mexico cannot be understood without analyzing the design and the basic position of its industry regulators, in this case the National Hydrocarbons Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,” Grunstein wrote.
“After analyzing the coordinated regulatory bodies, we observe the following: At this very early stage of the implementation of the reform, it cannot yet be stated with any accuracy the direction the industry will take under this new system,” she wrote. “Because it remains very much undefined in the legislation, the Council of Regulatory Agencies of the Energy Sector could have positive effects if it serves as a true channel of communication between the authorities involved in the hydrocarbons sector; it could likewise serve as a means to pressure regulators if inconvenient resolutions are issued. However, it must be emphasized that the law does not authorize this council to instruct the regulators. In any case, if there is any ...

Read More

Grace Project, Depicting Breast Cancer Survivors, in Cincinnati April 21-22

UC Health News

In collaboration with the UC Cancer Institute, Charise Isis is bringing her
internationally known Grace project to Cincinnati to inspire audiences locally.

Read More

Sign up by Aug. 1 for LSC-CyFair’s College Survival Camp

Lone Star College CyFair News

Published on: June 03, 2016

Lone Star College-CyFairs Center for Student Life welcomes new students with a comprehensive and interactive College Survival Camp Aug. 26 28.
This weekend survival camp, available to enrolled Fall 2016 students, will help provide attendees a successful transition into student life as well as an opportunity to learn innovated skills on how to excel in college.
Held at Camp Allen in Navasota, Texas, the LSC-CyFair College Survival Camp includes a weekend stay, meals, transportation, leadership workshops, a team-building rope course, mock classrooms and more. Attendees will also have the opportunity to meet other new students as well as the 2016-2017 student leadership.
A $25 deposit, required to secure a spot at the camp, is due by Aug.1 to the Center for Student Life, located in the Learning Commons building, room 144, at 9191 Barker Cypress.
Sorry! We are at capacity for students attending Camp Allen! We hope to hold this event again in 2017.
For information, call 281.290.3442 or email centerforstudentlife@lonestar.edu.







Read More