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Join us on April 12 for a talk titled "The War in Syria Cannot Be Won. But it Can Be Ended" by Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies on April 12 from 2 to 3:15 p.m. in TC 136 on the Rockville Campus. The event is free and open to the public. It satisfies the multicultural and diversity training requirement. Please share with friends. About the Speaker: Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and is a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She has been a writer, analyst, and activist on Middle East and UN issues for many years. In 2001, she helped found and remains on the advisory board of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. She writes and speaks widely across the U.S. and around the world as part of the global peace movement. She is the author of numerous books, including Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terror. She plays a leading role in US and global movements against wars and occupation. Her newest book is entitled Understanding ISIS & the New Global War on Terror: A Primer. The event is sponsored by Montgomery College's Peace and Justice Studies Community Global Nexus Program, Humanities Area, and Department of World Languages and Philosophy. Questions about this event contact Patricia Ruppert at Patricia.Ruppert@montgomerycollege.edu Questions about the Global Nexus Program, contact Enas Elhanafi at Enas.Elhanafi@montgomerycollege.edu Follow US on Social Media: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/1087372644668719 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcglobalnexu Website: http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/GlobalNexus Engage with Us: #CultureofRespect @MCGlobalNexus
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
"The War in Syria Cannot Be Won. But It Can Be Ended," Today at 2 p.m. in Rockville, TC 136
Solving garden problems workshop
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Solving garden problems workshopPosted 4/11/2017University of Nevada Cooperative Extension gardening monthly workshops continue
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Join University of Nevada Cooperative Extension on Saturday, May 20, for a one-day workshop on Gardening in Small Places: solving garden problems. The class runs from 8 a.m. to noon.
As summer approaches, you may notice holes in leaves, black spots on the bottoms of the tomatoes, spots on the leaves, your squash not developing or a variety of other things. If you’d like to know what the problems are and what to do about them, join Angela O’Callaghan, social horticulturist, as she explains the common problems in the garden, how they happen, how you can avoid them and what to do about them if they occur.
Problems such as nutrient deficiencies, pests and diseases will be covered. Homeowners and other interested parties are welcome to attend.
Class space is limited to 25 and pre-registration is required. There is a $10 fee per class which covers class materials.
To register for this class, held at the Lifelong Learning Center (8050 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nev.), email or call Elaine Fagin at 702-257-5573. Register online via Eventbrite.com
The upcoming Gardening in Small Places workshop dates are June 17, soils; July 15, organic gardening; Aug. 26, tree selection; and Sept. 9, using native plants.
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Locked Down: Ocala Campus Tests Students' Emergency Response Skills
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Thursday, Aug. 28 started off like any other day at Rasmussen College’s Ocala campus, except it wasn’t just any other day. Later that day, an armed robber would flee the scene at a gas station near the campus, causing a deadly car crash. The gunman would make his way into the campus—leading to a lockdown. The SWAT Team and dispatch center would be involved, and there would be casualties and a hostage situation. There would also be students learning more than they ever could’ve imagined.Luckily … this elaborate situation was only a staged scenario that took place on campus that day. How the mock scenario came to be Chris Wichelman, program coordinator at the campus, had been working closely for months with Lonnie Blackburn, Marion County Fire and Rescue captain, to provide a multi-car crash mock scenario for Ocala campus medical assistant and criminal justice students. Never in her wildest dreams did she think they would be able to pull off such an intricate mock scenario. “I originally went to [Lonnie] with a car accident idea and it escalated from there,” Wichelman said. There were seven community agencies involved in the activities from the day: Marion County Fire and Rescue performed extrication, medical treatment and transport. Ocala Fire and Rescue performed medical treatment and triage for all victims involved. Marion County Sheriff’s Office dispatched their SWAT team. Ocala Police Department performed scene control, investigation and perimeter control. Marion County Communications Center dispatched all units. Marion County Emergency Management provided the command trailer and signs. ShandsCair provided the air flight for the trauma alert patient. “The goal of the training was to provide progressive training for all fire/EMS and police departments in Marion County, as well as peak interest in students attending Rasmussen College criminal justice and medical programs,” Wichelman said. Ocala medical assistant student Christina ...
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FanQuakes: Miami and OSU geologists collaborate to measure fan celebrations at Ohio stadium on a seismic scale
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By Susan Meikle, university news and communications
[embedded content]Sports fan and Miami University seismologist Mike Brudzinski is part of a team that is measuring fan-made seismic activity during football games at Ohio Stadium, the third largest football stadium in the United States.
The FanQuakes project is a collaborative effort among Ohio State University, Miami University and the Ohio Geological Survey to measure how much Ohio State fans are "Shaking The Shoe."
As fans jump up and down, the vibrations under the stands are measured by seismometers, the instruments used to measure the power of earthquakes.
The strongest FanQuake vibration registered this season was 5.79, after OSU's game-winning touchdown against rival Michigan in the double overtime game Nov. 26. The scale at the top of the screen on the video above (courtesy of Brudzinski) shows the shaking generated by fans jumping up and down.
The measurements will be featured in classes at Ohio State so that undergraduates can engage with real-world data and connect it to an experience many of them have had in person.
“At a more advanced level, we’ll use the data to teach data reduction and collection as well as wave propagation, earthquakes and the local geology," said project leader Derek Sawyer, assistant professor of earth sciences at Ohio State.
Several Miami students have already been involved in the data collection, including Miami doctoral student Shannon Fasola, who directs the field deployment of seismic instruments to study earthquake induced by oil and gas activities in eastern Ohio.
"Scientists like sports, too," said Brudzinski, professor of geology and environmental earth sciences. "It's amazing how much you can learn about how the world works when you're having fun. We were inspired by the dedication of players, coaches and fans that all contribute to making exciting plays and corresponding FanQuakes."
Maria Kozlowska (left), geology researcher, and Sarah Smith (right), geology master's ...
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Wynton Marsalis and orchestra to visit UNCG
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Wynton Marsalis, renowned trumpet player, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading figure in the promotion of jazz music throughout the world, will visit UNCG next week. He will perform with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, in one of the biggest University Performing Arts Series events of the year.
“You are going to hear the most artistically complete large jazz ensemble in the world, led by the 21st century equivalent of Duke Ellington,” said Chad Eby, interim director of UNCG’s Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program.
The concert will be at Lawndale Baptist Church on April 20 at 8 p.m. Earlier in the day, Marsalis will appear in “Wynton Marsalis Speaks,” a public conversation with Eby, at 3 p.m. in Taylor Theatre.
Marsalis grew up in New Orleans, in one of the most recognizable families in recent American music history. His father, Ellis Marsalis, is a famed jazz piano player and piano teacher, who gave his sons excellent training in music and also passed on a deep appreciation for jazz and culture.
After playing in the New Orleans Philharmonic and other New Orleans ensembles, Wynton Marsalis attended Juilliard in New York City. In 1981, he began touring with his own band. In 1983, he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz Grammy awards in the same year. And he did it again the next year, in both categories, and also won Grammy awards in the three subsequent years, becoming the only five-year consecutive Grammy winner.
Marsalis is also the musical and artistic director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, a distinguished American music institution. He founded the orchestra in 1987, and in 1995 it officially joined Lincoln Center, also home to the New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera and New York City Ballet.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra produces a variety of events worldwide, including children’s and educational ...
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WATCH: The role of the private sector in global sustainable development
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“The development activities of civil society and the public sector are critical but not sufficient,” Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, chair of the Business and Sustainable Development Commission, told an audience at Brookings in reference to the need for private sector engagement in global sustainable development. At an event co-hosted by the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings and the United Nations Foundation, the case was made that the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) need the private sector and that business needs the SDGs too.
In her welcoming remarks, Ambassador Elizabeth Cousens, deputy chief executive officer of the U.N. Foundation, introduced the commission’s work as “path-breaking,” based on the geographic and sector-specific underpinnings of its business case. She further described the challenge of sustaining public trust, and the power of aligning the private sector’s core business with the strategic objectives of the international community.
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Malloch-Brown, himself a former U.N. deputy secretary-general, explained that a core theme of the commission’s new Better Business, Better World report is that development should be central to business activity because it eventually leads to sustainable profits. The report draws on insights from over 30 global private sector and civil society leaders who are commission members, including Jack Ma of Alibaba, Laura Alfaro of Harvard Business School, Bob Collymore of Safaricom, and Ho Ching of Temasek Holdings.
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The panel following Malloch-Brown’s opening remarks discussed the report and their views on how business can become a bigger player in lifting country’s out of fragility, tackling climate change, and taking on the challenge of ending extreme poverty.
Barry Parkin, chief sustainability and health and wellbeing officer of Mars Inc., reinforced many of the themes laid out by Malloch-Brown, using the example that it is the food industry’s best interest to help lift farmers out of poverty, because ...
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Award Presentation and Fireside Chat with Microsoft EVP Judson Althoff (ME ’95) and Chris Gladwin
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Register today to hear from one of Microsoft’s top leaders about the future of the tech industry and how he became one of the most powerful sales executives in the world. President Alan W. Cramb will present Judson Althoff (ME ’95) with the Alumni Association’s Professional Achievement Award. Seating is limited—register here.
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College of DuPage Hosts Excellence in History Presentation April 17
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By Mike McKissackCollege of DuPage will host a free presentation, “A Forgotten Hero: American Journalist
Januarius MacGahan and His Crusade for Bulgarian Freedom, 1876 - 1878,” on Monday,
April 17, as part of the 23rd annual Carter D. Carroll Excellence in History Awards
ceremony. The presentation will take place from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Health and Science
Center (HSC), Room 1234, on the College's main campus, 425 Fawell Blvd. in Glen Ellyn.This event is free and open to the public.During the presentation, COD and New Bulgarian School history professor Kamelia Popova
will discuss the history of American journalist Januarius MacGahan and his investigation
into and reporting of the massacre of Bulgarian civilians by Turkish soldiers and
irregular volunteers in 1876, the resulting public outrage in Europe. MacGahan’s reporting
played a major role in preventing Britain from supporting Turkey in the Russo–Turkish
War of 1877–78, which eventually led to Bulgaria gaining independence from the Ottoman
Empire. The presentation will include a special appearance by Frederic Lumas, great-great-grandson
of MacGahan.Prior to the presentation, the College will recognize this year’s winners of the Carter
D. Carroll Excellence in History award. Since its inception in 1994, the award has
honored students for excellence in writing achievement in the field of history. Professor
Carter D. Carroll was a founding faculty member at COD who taught history at the College
for more than two decades.For more information, please contact John Paris at (630) 942-2064 or parisj@cod.edu.
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How much do you really know about Brandeis? Test your knowledge of fantastic facts and amazing arcana about the university.
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Students Win International Design Competition
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Editor's note: This article was updated April 12, 2017.
“DroneShell” by Embry-Riddle software engineering student Jeremiah Lantzer, computer science student Tim Christovich and recent aerospace engineering graduate Kyle Cochran won a competition by Thales Group, a multinational company that designs and builds electrical systems for aerospace, defense, and transportation and security industries.
The Embry-Riddle students represented seven regions participating in the competition, which features students from France, UK, US, Netherlands, Singapore, China and Hong Kong. A video of each project is featured on the competition’s website; after receiving the most online votes from the public, a jury of Thales judges awarded the team a trip to the Thales Research Center in France.[embedded content]
The projects in the competition were all created using Arduino, an open source electronic prototyping platform that enables users to create interactive electronic objects.
The Embry-Riddle team began designing its project during a workshop last year hosted by Thales on campus. Since then, the group of software engineering students has won regional and national contests hosted by Thales.
The “DroneShell” is a self-sustaining wireless charging system that provides a solar-powered landing platform as well as a secure shell that covers the UAS once it lands and protects it from wind and dirt. Once secure, the drone can recharge for future flight. Currently, drones can fly about 20-30 minutes before it's time to recharge. By creating a network of DroneShells, the students envision charging stations that would create more commercialized opportunities for UAS.
"We are excited to gain exposure and experience what Thales means to the rest of the world," Christovich said. "It will be great to get feedback and learn how to take the next steps to form a venture."
The system could help revolutionize drones that are used for online delivery platforms such as Amazon.com.
Lantzer also said that the platform could adapt to any ...
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Lacroix Leads Baseball Past MIT in Tuesday Afternoon NEWMAC Crossover Clash
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Apr 11, 2017
Cambridge, MA --- Junior Evan Lacroix (Methuen, MA) batted 3-for-5 with two doubles, two RBI and two runs scored, including what proved to be the game-winner, as WPI went on the road to defeat industry rival MIT 7-3 Tuesday afternoon in a NEWMAC divisional crossover baseball game at Fran O'Brien Field.
With the win, WPI improves to 16-8 overall and 5-3 in conference contests while MIT sports an 11-6 ledger on the season and a 6-3 mark in the eight-team loop.
Worcester's Engineers won four of the first five innings. Sophomore Ryan Tropeano (Pembroke, MA) swiped third and advanced home on a miscue in the first. With the bases loaded in the second everyone moved up, including Lacroix who scampered home thanks to a two-out wild pitch. The junior went on to double in a run in the third before scoring on another wild pitch in the fifth.
WPI made it a 6-0 ballgame with two more in the seventh as Lacroix and sophomore Austin Lindner (W. Windsor, NJ) each connected on an RBI single. MIT then made the inning even with a sacrifice fly by freshman Matt Johnston (Portola, CA) and an RBI double down the left field line. The eighth was also a wash as sophomore Steven Gallagher (Coventry, RI) and junior Garrett Greenwood (Edmond, OK) traded RBI hits. Senior Mike Duclos (Greenfield, MA) later induced a trio of infield outs in a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth.
Gallagher (3-for-4, RBI, stolen base, 2 runs), Tropeano (2-for-4, double, walk, stolen base, run) and Lindner (2-for-5, RBI) also had a multi-hit game for the Crimson and Gray. Graduate student Anthony Capuano (Stoneham, MA) walked twice and senior Nick Comei (Haverhill, MA) stole a base. Defensively, Comei and junior Matt Howard (Worcester, MA) turned a double play.
Freshman Keith Scales (Upper Marlboro, MD) allowed two runs on five hits ...
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Forty-six people become U.S. citizens at naturalization ceremony on campus
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Forty-six people from 28 countries became citizens of the United States during a naturalization ceremony held Wednesday, April 12, at Princeton University.
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Jazz trumpeter John Raymond appointed to IU Jacobs School of Music faculty
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Jazz trumpeter John Raymond appointed to IU Jacobs School of Music facultyFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 10, 2017BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of jazz trumpeter John Raymond as assistant professor of music (jazz studies–trumpet), effective Aug. 1, pending approval of the Trustees of Indiana University.
Recently voted a Rising Star Trumpeter in DownBeat Magazine’s Critics Poll, Raymond has been making a name for himself as one of the most promising up-and-coming jazz musicians in New York City. Originally from Minneapolis, Minn., he has performed with some of the most well-respected names in jazz, including Billy Hart, Orrin Evans, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ethan Iverson and Linda Oh, among others.
“As a jazz trumpet artist, John has a distinctive sound and will bring a forward-looking sensibility to the Jacobs School,” said Tom Walsh, chair of the Jazz Studies Department. “His music blends the familiar and the unexpected in delightful ways. Just check out his group, Real Feels, and its versions of ‘Amazing Grace’ and ‘Scarborough Fair,’ and you will know what I mean.”
DownBeat proclaimed, “Electrifyingly new and strangely familiar at the same time. With his mix of modern sounds and old-fashioned feeling, Raymond is steering jazz in the right direction.”
Raymond has released four albums since 2012, all of which have garnered critical acclaim from The New York Times, DownBeat magazine, JazzTimes and others. He has been a featured artist at the Festival of New Trumpet Music and New York City’s Winter Jazz Fest, was interviewed by The Gospel Coalition and WBGO’s “The Checkout” program and received a 2015 ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award.
Also an accomplished composer, Raymond has additionally established himself as a sought-after educator in New York and beyond. He currently teaches at the United Nations International School in New York City and is a guest clinician and soloist ...
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Northwestern students win congressional scholarships
Northwestern Now: Summaries
(left to right) Lucia Brunel, Daniel Linzer, Kathleen Nganga. Photo by Michael Goss.EVANSTON - Northwestern University students Kathleen Nganga and Lucia Brunel are winners of two elite congressional scholarships.Nganga, a political science major in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, was awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship; and Brunel, a chemical and biological engineering student in the McCormick School of Engineering, is the recipient of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Though from different ends of the academic spectrum, the scholars have much in common.“Lucia’s and Kathleen’s success underscores Northwestern’s ability to cultivate young leaders across schools and disciplines,” said Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe, director of the Office of Fellowships. Congress created the Goldwater and Truman scholarships to honor and support the nation’s outstanding undergraduate STEM researchers and public servants.Recipients of the Truman Scholarship receive a $30,000 award toward graduate school, and the Goldwater Scholarship awards up to $7,500 to college students who intend to pursue research careers in science, math and engineering.Nganga, a junior from Casper, Wyoming, will use the Truman award to pursue a Ph.D. in political science and public policy. Her work is focused on race and ethnicity in East Africa and America.“I am interested in groups who have had their policy preferences ignored and the mechanisms through which marginalized groups mobilize for political change,” she said. In addition to understanding those mechanisms, Nganga believes in the importance of having critical conversations around these issues. On campus, she serves as the director of education for the Northwestern University Community for Human Rights.Nganga plans to spend the summer in Kenya continuing the research she began as a Posner Fellow in 2015 and interweaving it with her study of American politics. She plans to comparatively analyze issues of marginalization and political mobilization.Brunel, winner of the Goldwater Scholarship,is a junior from ...
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Truman scholar seeks career advocating for criminal justice reform
UChicago News
Third-year Soreti Teshome has been awarded a Harry S. Truman Scholarship, a nationally competitive award that supports exceptional students pursuing careers in public service.Teshome was one of 62 students selected from a pool of 768 undergraduate candidates nationwide to win the prestigious award, which provides up to $30,000 toward graduate education. The news was announced April 12.
A double major in public policy and comparative race and ethnic studies, Teshome plans to pursue a law degree with a focus on public policy that will enable her to provide legal representation to those from marginalized communities.
“From arrest, to court processing, to sentencing, the justice system is primed to dole out the harshest outcomes to low-income minorities,” she said, citing a Sentencing Project statistic stating that 60 percent of the more than 2.2 million incarcerated individuals in the United States are people of color. “Legal advocacy is essential to challenging mass incarceration, but these efforts are limited by aspects of the justice system—such as plea bargaining and racially codified sentencing practices—that predispose people of color to incarceration. This is ultimately why my long-term interest is in policy reform.”
“Soreti’s selection as a Truman Scholar is evidence of her genuine commitment to public service, to the broader Chicago community and as an acknowledgement of her potential for success at the graduate level,” said John W. Boyer, dean of the College. “She exemplifies the best our College students have to offer as scholars and citizens.”
In 2015 Teshome was the recipient of the Pozen New Leaders Scholarship, which enabled her to work with the Illinois Justice Project, advocating for stronger training requirements for Illinois attorneys practicing in juvenile court. That internship led to her joining the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission’s youth advisory board, for which she works to address the underutilization of juvenile record expungement in Illinois.
“Juvenile records are not as confidential as many ...
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Construction to Close Comm Ave Bridge for Two-Plus Weeks
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BU Today will update this story as information becomes available from MassDOT. The University has a website on the Commonwealth Avenue bridge replacement project, including detour routes.
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As part of a $110 million project to replace the half-century-old concrete surface and steel beams that support Commonwealth Avenue as it passes over the Massachusetts Turnpike, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) will close that section of Comm Ave to all but MBTA buses, pedestrians, bicycles, and emergency vehicles from July 27 through August 13. The MBTA Green Line B trolley will be replaced with shuttle buses from Blandford Street to Babcock Street from July 26 through August 13.
The project, scheduled for the time of year when vehicular traffic, pedestrians, and cyclists are significantly reduced, is phase one of a two-phase bridge replacement, to be completed over the next two summers. This July and August, MassDOT will replace the eastbound lanes, sidewalk, bike lane, and MBTA trolley areas, and during summer 2018 it will replace westbound lanes, sidewalk, and bike lanes. Both phases will close to normal vehicular traffic roadways that intersect with the bridge, including University Road, the BU Bridge, the Carlton Street bridge, and Mountfort Street. Pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists will use detours that will be clearly marked by MassDOT. Cyclists and pedestrians will be able to cross the bridge through designated areas monitored by police details. Special routes will be available for BU employees and residents whose offices and neighborhoods are along or abut Comm Ave. All detours will be directed by police details.
“To the degree that people can take vacation time or work from home, we would encourage that during the construction, commensurate with smooth University operations,” says Diane Tucker, BU’s chief human resources officer.
The commonwealth will use Accelerated Bridge Construction, which employs innovative planning, design, materials, and construction techniques to expedite the work during the two intensive ...
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Mānoa: Hawaii-built infrared instrument for world's largest solar telescope catches its first rays
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University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaContact:Posted: Apr 12, 2017The CryoNIRSP instrument exposed in its clean-room environment undergoing tests. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), currently under construction on Haleakala, Maui, is expected to start observing the Sun in 2020. When it does, it will rely on two complex infrared instruments being built by the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA). Their goal is to measure the Sun's weak magnetic field. The first of these to be completed is called the Cryogenic Near-Infrared Spectropolarimeter (CryoNIRSP). In a major milestone, it took its first look at the Sun from the laboratories at the IfA's Advanced Technology Research Center on Maui. The instrument design was lead by Dr. Don Mickey, now retired from the IfA.Said instrument scientist Dr. Andre Fehlmann, "These first trial images from CryoNIRSP in visible light show that the innovative optical design will be sensitive enough to see the Sun's magnetism." Added project manager Dr. Isabelle Scholl, "CryoNIRSP is being completed in the Pukalani, Maui labs and will be delivered to the summit of Haleakala within a year, when the telescope can accept our instrument." CryoNIRSP weighs about two tons, and was constructed on a budget of $6 million provided by the National Science Foundation. Said project leader Dr. Jeff Kuhn, "As soon as DKIST becomes operational, this will become the workhorse that local scientists and visitors from all over the world will use to trace the Sun's coronal magnetism and its influence on the Earth."This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-0415302. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.For more information, visit: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-releases/cryonirsp_firstlight/
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Parking Advisory: GC opens new Perimeter parking lot
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Georgia College is now leasing 25 spaces in the parking lot on the northeast corner of Wayne Street and Thomas Street, across from Wilkinson Used Cars. The 25 spaces are labeled “GC Parking” and designated as “Perimeter”, meaning anyone with an active Perimeter, Employee, Resident or Commuter permit can park in these spaces. GC students and employees are only allowed in the 25 spaces labeled “GC Parking”. Anyone parking in a space not labeled as “GC Parking” is subject to being ticketed. The areas in which the “GC Parking” spaces are located have been highlighted yellow in the attached Google Maps image.
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CCMST Weekly News, August 13, 2010
Center for Computational Molecular Science and Technology
1. Announcements2. Statistics3. Tip of the WeekANNOUNCEMENTS
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 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.
The series will continue next week with the following schedule:
August 19: Diagrammatic techniques (Thanthiriwatte).
The complete schedule of the lectures can be found at http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/opp/sched.html.
STATISTICS
FGATE
Uptime: 2 day/home directory usage: 70% (1.8 TB available)/backups directory usage: 87%
LSF usage for Week 31 (8/2-8/8) (times are in minutes)GroupJobsTotal CPUAvg CPUAvg WaitAvg Trnr.Bredas9623371312%24353792554Hernandez99678617941%78915813Sherrill36624653%173511347Other6228991%3817123566Total1134110525757%9754699Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period
Most productive user of the Week: avpopov 354403
EGATE
Uptime: 257 days/theoryfs/common directory usage: 36% (426GB available)/theoryfs/ccmst directory usage: 84% (147 available)
LSF usage for Week 31 (8/2-8/8) (times are in minutes)GroupJobsTotal CPUAvg CPUAvg WaitAvg Trnr.Hernandez371992097%26767350Sherrill149576174%38713041688Other17338787026%224242257Total69354469636%7863171114Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period
Most productive user of the Week: rnear 387863
TIP OF THE WEEK
By Massimo
Some More Vim Commands
Here is a collection of useful vim commands/shortcuts:guu : lowercase linegUU : uppercase line~ : invert case (upper->lower; lower->upper) of current character
gf : open file name under cursor (SUPER)ga : display hex, ascii value of character under cursorg8 : display hex value of utf-8 character under cursorggg?G : rot13 whole filexp : swap next two characters around
CTRL-A,CTRL-X : increment, decrement next number on same line as the cursorCTRL-R=5*5 : insert 25 into text= : (re)indent the text on the current line or on the area selected (SUPER)'. : jump to last modification line (SUPER)
`. : jump to exact spot in last modification lineCTRL-O : retrace your movements in file (backward)CTRL-I : retrace ...
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Georgia Tech Baseball Hosts Faculty/Staff Night
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Many students will be visiting colleges this spring. Rick Clark, director of Undergraduate Admission at Georgia Tech, shares how students can ask better questions – and better follow-up questions – to gain deeper information about each college.Students often ask: “What is...
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Wednesday, April 12, 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.
Relics of the first Americans? (Science)
While he spoke, two archaeologists in the audience high-fived: Matthew Des Lauriers of California State University in Northridge and Loren Davis of Oregon State University in Corvallis had found a similar collection of discoidal-method artifacts 3000 kilometers away on Isla Cedros, an island off the Pacific coast of Baja California, where radiocarbon dates put human occupation back to almost 13,000 years ago.
OSU study suggests rate of severe forest fires to increase (KLCC)
A new Oregon State University study shows forest fires have increased across the Pacific Northwest, with more severe blazes negatively affecting old growth forests. KLCC’s Brian Bull reports.
Scientists attach cameras to whales (NBC)
Researchers from the Australian Antarctic Division and Oregon State University are attaching electronic tags with cameras and motion sensors on humpback and minke whales. They attach the ‘whale cams’ using suction cups.
Hazelnut farms cropping up all over (KLCC)
OSU developed popular, blight-resistant varieties like Yamhill and Jefferson. Bush says not only are the Jeffersons hearty, they’ve made money quickly.
Spring is the time to turn attention to raspberries and blackberries (Northwest Boomer and Senior News)
These caneberries should be fertilized starting in early spring when new growth begins, said Bernadine Strik, berry crops professor with the Oregon State University Extension Service.
Oregon governor urges higher education panel to scrutinize tuition increases (KLCC)
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is leaning on the state’s public college and universities to curb tuition increases. Brown sent a letter to Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission, which signs off on tuition hikes. The ...
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Oregon State University to observe Holocaust Memorial Week events
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Lucille Eichengreen, a Holocaust survivor who endured the Lodz Ghetto and the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, will speak at Oregon State University April 25 as part of the university’s annual Holocaust Memorial Week.
Eichengreen was born as Cecilia Landau in Hamburg, Germany, in 1925. Her father and sister were murdered in the concentration camps and her mother died of starvation in Lodz. After liberation, Lucille assisted the British in identifying and bringing to justice more than 40 people who had oppressed prisoners in the Nazi camps. Her work drew death threats and she later moved to the U.S.
Eichengreen has spoken widely of what she saw and experienced during the war and has been much honored for this educational work, particularly in Germany. Her memoir, “From Ashes to Life,” tells her story in detail.
The talk begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Austin Auditorium at the The LaSells Stewart Center, 875 S.W. 26th St., Corvallis. The event is free and open to the public but attendees are encouraged to obtain free tickets in advance to ensure a seat. Tickets are available online at: http://bit.ly/2nYJLoz. A book-signing will follow.
Holocaust Memorial Week is presented by the School of History, Philosophy and Religion in OSU’s College of Liberal Arts. All events are free and open to the public. The program will include a theme of genocide and a focus on human rights.
Other Holocaust Memorial Week events are:
Monday, April 24: A public talk by Sarhang Hamasaeed, “The Wars in Iraq and Syria – National, Regional and Global Implications,” 7:30 p.m. in the Construction and Engineering Hall at The LaSells Stewart Center. Hamasaeed, director of Middle East Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace, will examine the complexities of the wars in Iraq and Syria and discuss their implications for the region and the wider world.
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California Treasurer to Speak at UCR April 19
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John Chiang is part of April lineup of policy influencers in School of Public Policy lecture series
By Bettye Miller on April 12, 2017
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RIVERSIDE, California – State Treasurer John Chiang will discuss why California should embrace its role as the nation’s cradle of economic innovation, social progress, and trailblazing ideas in a public lecture at the UC Riverside School of Public Policy on Wednesday, April 19.
Chiang is one of four policy experts who will address issues of significance to California in lectures presented by the School of Public Policy (SPP) and its research centers in April. All of the lectures are free and open to the public.
Speakers include:
April 18 – Susan Mazur-Stommen, a cultural anthropologist who will discuss “Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change: Ethnographies of Energy as Policy Tools” at 12:30 p.m. in Interdisciplinary 1109. Mazur-Stommen will make the case for using ethnographic tools to help policymakers effect behavioral changes that impact energy and environmental policy by better understanding what people are doing at the level of individuals, families, households, and neighborhoods. Mazur-Stommen, who earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from UC Riverside, is the founder of Indicia Consulting LLC, whose primary goal is increasing sustainability and improvement in the natural environment by engaging behavior. RSVP for this SPP Seminar Series event online. Purchase parking permits at Lot 24 via a parking permit dispenser.
April 19 – John Chiang, state treasurer, who will discuss “Why Resist When We Can Lead” at 4:30 p.m. in Interdisciplinary 1128. A reception will follow at 5:30 p.m. Parking will be free for this event in Lot 24. Chiang will discuss why Californians should ignore the impulse to resist the Trump administration agenda and continue to lead the nation instead. “Resistance implies a reactive agenda and the abandonment of progress in order to hold one’s ground. It cedes too much to Washington’s dysfunction ...
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Bank bailouts during crisis worked
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New research from Olin may redeem and restore the word “bailout” that became a dirty word during the 2008 financial crisis, according to Dave Nicklaus, columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
“Jennifer Dlugosz, assistant professor of finance at the Olin Business School, and two co-authors looked at a pair of Federal Reserve programs that were pumping $221 billion a day into banks at the height of the crisis.
What they found should be heartening for the Fed and its defenders: For each dollar in emergency support, large banks lent an additional 60 cents and small banks lent 30 cents.” Link to St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Nicklaus also notes, “The names of banks that took emergency loans used to be secret, but two news organizations sued and forced the Fed to disclose the recipients. Dlugosz believes her study is the first to use the resulting data.”
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UMass Amherst Commonwealth Honors College Dean Gretchen Gerzina Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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AMHERST, Mass. – Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, dean of the Commonwealth Honors College and the Paul Murray Kendall Chair in Biography at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is among 228 accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists and civic, business and philanthropic leaders elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.The incoming class, which was announced today, includes philanthropist and singer-songwriter John Legend, award-winning actress Carol Burnett, Xerox Corporation chairman Ursula Burns, mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, immunologist James P. Allison and writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Founded in 1780, the academy is one of the country’s oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers, convening leaders from the academic, business and government sectors to respond to the challenges facing and opportunities available to the nation and the world. Members contribute to academy publications and science, engineering and technology policy studies, works on global security and international affairs, the humanities, arts, education and American institutions and the public good.
The new class will be inducted at a ceremony on Oct. 7 in Cambridge, Mass.
“I am enormously honored and delighted to have been elected to this august society,” says Gerzina. “Just looking at the list of members past and present has been very humbling.”
“I am thrilled that the AAAS has honored Professor Gerzina,” says UMass Amherst Provost Katherine Newman. “When we recruited her to become the dean of the Commonwealth Honors College, we recognized that we had added an academic star to our faculty. To find such a distinguished biographer was also a daughter of Springfield, an authority on the history of our region, and a well-known public intellectual, truly completed a stellar package.”
“It is an honor to welcome this new class of exceptional women and men as part of our distinguished membership,” says Don Randel, chair of the academy’s board of directors. “Their talents and expertise will enrich the life of the academy ...
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Baker Center to Host US-Turkish Relations Expert April 19
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Bulent Aliriza, founding director of the Turkey Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, will speak at UT’s Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 19.Aliriza’s talk will be held in the center’s Toyota Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.
Aliriza’s lecture, “US-Turkey Relationship: A Troubled Alliance?” will discuss domestic turmoil in the country following recent protests and ongoing corruption scandals. Aliriza will share his analysis of recent developments in Turkey, possible future outcomes, and its relations with the United States and the European Union.
Prior to joining CSIS in 1994, Aliriza was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has previously served as a Turkish Cypriot diplomat in New York and Washington.
Aliriza has lectured widely across the United States, Europe, and Turkey. He is a frequent media commentator on Turkish foreign and domestic policy.
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University of Pittsburgh Announces Speakers, New Commencement Ceremony Format
PITTSBURGH—The top executive of the nation’s largest pharmacy health care company and an award-winning actress will address newly minted graduates at the University of Pittsburgh’s 2017 commencement ceremonies.
Larry J. Merlo, president and chief executive officer of CVS Health, will be the featured speaker for Pitt’s graduate student commencement convocation at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 29. Actress S. Epatha Merkerson, perhaps best known for her work on the television series “Law & Order,” will serve as speaker for the University’s undergraduate commencement convocation at 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 30. Both events will take place in the John M. and Gertrude E. Petersen Events Center.
“The University of Pittsburgh is starting a new tradition — two commencement ceremonies — to give our students and their families a more personal and engaging commencement experience,” said Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher. “Our undergraduate and graduate ceremonies, while occurring on different days, will share one unchanging goal: to celebrate the accomplishments of our graduating students. This is also a special time for our community to stop and thank our newest alumni for choosing to learn, lead and grow at Pitt.”
Biographical information for Saturday’s graduate student ceremony speaker:
A Pitt alumnus and University trustee, Merlo assumed the role of president and CEO of CVS Health in 2011 after joining CVS Pharmacy in 1990. He has played an integral role in CVS’s growth into the largest pharmacy health care provider in the United States. In 2014, CVS became the first national pharmacy chain to ban tobacco sales in its more than 7,600 stores. To reflect this broader health care commitment, the company subsequently changed its corporate name to CVS Health. Under Merlo’s leadership, CVS also has developed apprenticeship programs to train pharmaceutical technicians, provided scholarships to pharmacy students and launched a number of efforts to attract diverse communities to STEM careers.
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Competition Physics
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Physics as a team sport? The idea is not so far fetched.For two days each February, the United States Association of Young Physicists Tournament (USAYPT) pits teams of high school students in fierce but friendly debate, arguing the pros and cons of a set of problems they have examined in the months leading up to the event.
The brainchild of UC Santa Barbara physicist Tengiz Bibilashvili, the American tournament is modeled on the International Young Physicists Tournament (IYPT). Bibilashvili’s Georgian national team in 1993 earned a gold medal in that global competition. Relocating to the U.S. in 2004, Bibilashvili became a coach for the American IYPT team before co-founding the USAYPT in 2007.
Now, the latter organization has paid tribute to its creator by naming an award after him: the Bibilashvili Award for Excellence in Physics.
“This award recognizes teams that perform exceptionally well during the tournament, giving them something to bring back to their schools to help secure financial support for the following years,” explained Bibilashvili, a lecturer in UCSB’s Department of Physics and the campus’s College of Creative Studies.
As USAYPT tournament director, Bibilashvili determines the number of teams that earn the award that bears his name. At this year’s event, seven top teams were given the medal, including an all-female team from Tunisia.
Over the years, the tournament — originally designed for American participants — has grown to include international high school teams hailing from as far away as Australia, China, Singapore and Slovakia.
“The diversity makes the tournament even more valuable to the participants,” Bibilashvili explained. “It is great to see students meet and interact with people from other cultures. The interaction is amazing.”
The structure of the American tournament is similar to its international counterpart; however, it features four debate problems instead of 17. “We want each problem to involve both theory and experiment,” Bibilashvili ...
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Laura Grau supera la primera fase per participar en el Concurs de Tesis en 3 Minuts del Grup Coïmbra
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El Grup de Treball sobre Estudis de Doctorat del Grup Coïmbra escollirà els tres finalistes a escala europea.
12/04/2017
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L’Escola de Doctorat de la UB ha seleccionat la investigadora en formació Laura Grau perquè representi la Universitat de Barcelona en el Concurs de Tesis en 3 Minuts (3MT) del Grup Coïmbra. Properament, el Grup de Treball sobre Estudis de Doctorat del Grup Coïmbra escollirà els tres finalistes a escala europea. En cas que Laura Grau sigui una de les tres seleccionades, participarà en la final del concurs, que tindrà lloc a Edimburg durant el mes de juny del 2017.
Un procés de selecció difícil per la qualitat de les propostes presentades
L’Escola de Doctorat de la Universitat de Barcelona va fer una crida demanant als investigadors en formació que expliquessin la seva recerca en un vídeo de tres minuts a un públic sense formació específica prèvia. De les onze propostes rebudes, en va seleccionar tres: la d’Anna Barbanti i la seva recerca Mediterranean populations of marine turtles, del programa de Genètica; la de Mercè Cisneros Bermejo, que presentava la recerca Climate of the past: history of the sea, stories of the caves, del programa de Ciències del Mar, i la proposta de Laura Grau, New cancer drugs from nature, del programa de Química Orgànica Experimental i Industrial.
Finalment, després d’una difícil deliberació, l’Escola de Doctorat ha decidit per unanimitat que sigui Laura Grau qui representi la Universitat de Barcelona. Els tres finalistes a escala europea defensaran la proposta en directe
Durant l’Assemblea General del Grup Coïmbra, que tindrà lloc a Edimburg (Escòcia) del 7 a el 9 de juny, els tres finalistes a escala europea hauran de competir en una sessió presencial. El Comitè Executiu del Grup Coïmbra premiarà amb 3.000 euros la primera persona classificada; amb 2.000 euros, la ...
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Miner Tank fuels student innovation
Five of the seven proposals to receive innovation funding this academic year were from students.From a proposal to create synthetic amino acids to help meth babies recover from addiction to a design a new type of robotic joint to simplify complex movements, some inventive ideas of several Missouri University of Science and Technology students are a step closer to reality thanks to the university’s Miner Tank project.
Based on the hit TV show “Shark Tank,” Miner Tank is a resource for entrepreneurially minded Missouri S&T students, faculty and staff to pitch their ideas for projects before the Missouri S&T Innovation Team, a panel of students, alumni, faculty and staff. Presenters only have six minutes to explain their ideas to the panel, which then follows up with questions for the individuals. The Innovation Team then determines which ideas merit funding and awards grants to support what they select as the best ideas.
Five student projects were among seven projects funded by Miner Tank this year, its third year of operation. The project is part of a broader effort to integrate a spirit of innovation into the Missouri S&T culture, says Rose Horton, executive director of strategy, planning and assessment and member of the Innovation Team. Horton also coordinates the Miner Tank pitch sessions, which are held once a semester.
Three student projects were funded this semester and two were funded in the fall 2016 semester.
This semester’s funded student projects are:
The Missouri S&T Solar Car Design Team’s proposal to design and build two motors for the team’s newest sun-powered vehicle. The funds will help the team design electric motors to meet needs specific to the 2017 World Solar Challenge across Australia’s rugged Outback in October. “A purchased motor typically costs around $12,000,” says Solar Car Design Team member Will Applegate, a junior mechanical ...
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4 UMSL business alumni receive CFO of the Year awards
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The St. Louis Business Journal will present its 2017 CFO of the Year Awards on May 18 at Windows on Washington. One-third of the honorees are UMSL College of Business Administration alumni. (Image by Wendy Allison)
The St. Louis Business Journal recently announced its list of honorees for the 2017 CFO of the Year Awards – and a full one-third of the recipients are College of Business Administration alumni from the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Delta Dental’s Barbara Bentrup, BSBA 1989; Parkway School District’s Patty Bedborough, BSBA 1988; the Lawrence Group’s Laura Conrad, BSBA 1991; and Midwest BankCentre’s Dale Oberkfell, BSBA 1978, will each take home the honors, which will be officially bestowed during the St. Louis Business Journal’s annual awards dinner on May 18 at Windows on Washington.
The CFO of the Year Awards are presented to St. Louis-area business leaders who hold the title of chief financial officer – or the title’s equivalent. They must exemplify remarkable performance and leadership in their roles, and their companies’ headquarters and home office must both be located in the St. Louis region.
This year’s awards feature 12 honorees from four different categories: Healthcare, Nonprofit, Small Corporation ($100 million and less in annual revenue) and Large Corporation ($101 million and more in annual revenue).
Bentrup is among the Healthcare awardees, Bedborough is in the Nonprofit category, and both Conrad and Oberkfell belong to the Small Corporation group.
Asked for his reaction to the news, UMSL business Dean Charles Hoffman – himself a UMSL alumnus – said he was proud and pleased, if not surprised.
“It’s always gratifying to see our alumni achieving such success,” Hoffman said. “The College of Business is proud to join in recognizing Laura, Dale, Barbara and Patty. Their leadership serves as a shining example of the strength and quality of our programs, but even more than that, their work strengthens the entire St. Louis ...
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Arts and Sciences: The Year in Books
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The wide range of research and scholarship pursued by faculty in the School of Arts and Sciences was on display at the Dean’s Annual Publication Party, hosted on April 11 in the Coolidge Room on the Medford/Somerville campus.The event honors A&S faculty authors who have published in the past two years. This year’s event also featured new musical recordings and video installations.
Jody Azzouni. The Rule-Following Paradox and Its Implications for Metaphysics. Springer, 2017.
Kenneth Janda, Jeffrey Berry, Jerry Goldman, Deborah Schildkraut and Paul Manna. The Challenge of Democracy: American Government in Global Politics, 14th edition. Cengage Learning, 2016.
Daniel C. Dennett. From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds. Norton and Penguin Publishers, 2017.
Thomas W. Zeiler, David K. Ekbladh and Benjamin Montoya, editors. Beyond 1917: The United States and the Global Legacies of the Great War. Oxford University Press, 2017.
Paul Joseph, editor. The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives. SAGE Publications, 2016.
Robert Crosnoe and Tama Leventhal. Debating Early Child Care: The Relationship Between Developmental Science and the Media. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Sara Lewis. Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies. Princeton University Press, 2016.
John Lurz. The Death of the Book: Modernist Novels and the Time of Reading. Fordham University Press, 2016.
Ning Ma. The Age of Silver: The Rise of the Novel East and West. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Mike Mandel. Boardwalk Minus Forty. TBW Books, 2017.
Nimah Mazaheri. Oil Booms and Business Busts: Why Resource Wealth Hurts Entrepreneurs in the Developing World. Oxford University Press, 2016.
José Antonio Mazzotti. Lima fundida: épica y nación criolla en el Perú. Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2016.
José Antonio Mazzotti. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinomericana 84. Department of Romance Languages, Tufts University, 2016.
Heather Nathans. Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage. University of Michigan Press, 2017.
Pedro Ángel Palou. Mestizo Failure(s): Race, Film and Literature in Twentieth-Century Mexico. Boston ...
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CSUF students and campus officials participated in “Walk for Change” against sexual assault and harassment
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Cal State Fullerton students and campus officials came together Tuesday to “Walk for Change” against sexual assault and harassment for Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
The goal of the march was “to send a message of prevention to our community and call on all Titans to step up and keep our campus safe,” said Rebecca Ross, a health science major and intern at the WoMen’s and Adult Reentry Center (WARC).
Before the march began, students and interns came to the front of the group and shared the reasons they decided to participate.
“I saw firsthand how sexual violence and domestic violence affects families and children. As a U-2 intern, I’m here trying to educate high school and college kids about the effects of that and seeing full circle how that affects everybody,” said one demonstrator and intern for WARC.
The march began at the Housing Piazza and continued past the Kinesiology and Health Science building, Titan Shops, Titan Walk, through the Quad and back to the Piazza.
“I walk because like many of you, I know many people who have been impacted by these crimes and in my work, I see the effects of that,” said Alyssa Avila, a CSUF Violence Prevention Educator and Victim Advocate. “Not only do I see the challenges that victims and survivors face in healing, in seeking justice and holding their perpetrators accountable, but I also see the challenges and frustrations that folks who are dedicated to this work, how they face those frustrations every day as well.”
Participants held signs that read “End the Silence” and “Don’t Get Raped” with “get” and the “d” in “raped” crossed out reading “Don’t Rape.”
Participants also chanted “No matter where, no matter when, we will always take a stand!” and “Two, four, six, eight, no more date rape” as they walked through ...
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Bioethics Showcase Features New Play, Undergraduate Scholarship
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April 10, 2017 – A play about a white woman who contemplates donating a liver to a black woman with whom she has a common, slave-owning ancestor, was part of the third-annual Undergraduate Bioethics Research Showcase last week.
Hosted by Georgetown's Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE), the showcase is a juried exhibition of student work focused on ethical issues in health, the environment and emerging technologies.
This year, in addition to showcasing such work, a group of Georgetown students, alumni and local actors performed a stage reading of “A Pound of Flesh,” a new play written by Katie Watson and directed by Anita Maynard-Losh of D.C.’s Arena Stage.
Ongoing Conversation
“The play uses living liver donation as a framework to explore the issues of what we owe to one another and whether reparative justice is possible,” says showcase founder Laura Bishop, associate teaching professor and academic program manager at KIE.
It also mirrors the conversation at Georgetown on slavery, memory and reconciliation.”
Watson is an award-winning teacher of bioethics, law, and medical humanities at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and teaches creative writing and improv at Chicago’s Second City.
She flew in from Chicago for the performance and remained for a panel discussion and Q&A with the audience. Watson was joined by Robert Veatch, a Georgetown professor emeritus of medical ethics and prominent scholar on ethics and policy issues surrounding organ donation and transplantation at KIE, and Samantha Harnack, living donor transplant coordinator at MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute.
"From its inception, the Bioethics Showcase has included an arts event," Bishop says. "We've found that when we use the lens of the arts to approach a complex, real-world problem, we walk away with a more complete understanding of the thorniness of the problem, its profound impact on the people involved and its import for all of us in ...
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Lick Observatory's summer series brings a wide variety of musicians and scientists to Mt. Hamilton
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Lick Observatory’s 2017 summer visitors program will feature live music, evening lectures by world-renowned astronomers, and opportunities for the public to view celestial objects through two historic telescopes: the 36-inch Great Refractor and the Anna L. Nickel 40-inch Reflector. Tickets to the summer series tend to sell out quickly and will be available online at www.ucsctickets.com starting on Wednesday, April 12.The musical line-up includes the White Album Ensemble, a popular Beatles cover band; the Jasmine String Quartet from San Jose; Grammy Award winners Tingstad and Rumbel; baroque music performed by Ars Minerva; the Stanford-based jazz trio Charged Particles; and the celestial music of Kron and Robertson (cello and Celtic harp). The science speakers are experts in their fields and will provide fascinating insights into the universe as we know it and the current state of research in their respective fields of study.
Music of the Spheres
The Music of the Spheres concert series gives the public a rare glimpse of the observatory at night, and all proceeds from the event benefit Lick Observatory. Each event features a musical performance, an astronomy lecture by a scientist, and a history presentation about Lick Observatory’s rich past. Afterward, guests take turns viewing celestial objects through the 36-inch Great Refractor and the 40-inch Nickel Reflector. Guests have additional opportunities to stargaze with small ground telescopes provided by amateur astronomers.
Dates for Music of the Spheres 2017:
June 17, 8:30 p.m. White Album Ensemble (speaker: Natalie Batalha, NASA Ames Research Center)
July 1, 8:30 p.m. Jasmine String Quartet (speaker: Martin Gaskell, UC Santa Cruz)
July 15, 8:30 p.m. Tingstad and Rumbel (speaker: Sandra M. Faber, UC Santa Cruz)
July 29th, 8:30 p.m. Ars Minerva (speaker: Raja GuhaThakurta, UC Santa Cruz)
August 12, 8:00 p.m. Charged Particles (speaker: Katherine de Kleer, UC Berkeley)
August 26, 8:00 p.m. Virginia Kron and Kim Robertson (speaker: Richard Kron, University of Chicago)
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Dean Sheppard, Charles Craik Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Charles Craik, PhDUC San Francisco biochemist Charles Craik, PhD, and pulmonologist Dean Sheppard, MD, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Craik is professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the School of Pharmacy and director of the Quantitative Biosciences Consortium. Sheppard, professor of medicine, is the founding director of the UCSF Lung Biology Center and chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine.
They are among the 228 new members elected to the 2017 class, which includes some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, as well as civic, business and philanthropic leaders. Among this year’s class are the singer-songwriter John Legend; actress Carol Burnett; immunologist James P. Allison, PhD; and writer Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie.
Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the country’s oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers, convening leaders from academic, business, and government sectors to respond to the challenges facing the nation and the world.
Craik’s research focuses on the ubiquitous enzymes known as proteases that are involved in nearly every biological function and their inhibitors. Using a combination of genetic, biochemical and biophysical methods, his lab is identifying and regulating the activity of proteases associated with infectious diseases, cancer and development, leading to new strategies for therapeutic intervention. Craik has been on the UCSF faculty since 1985.
Dean Sheppard, MDSheppard’s clinical and basic science research seek to illuminate the molecular mechanisms underlying common lung diseases and to develop targeted therapies for pulmonary fibrosis, acute lung injury and asthma. He is a leader in the study of integrins, proteins that help cells communicate with the extracellular matrix, and has identified important roles for integrins in common lung diseases. Sheppard joined the UCSF faculty in 1980.
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The Mexi-Kutioner Ks 14 to lead FIU's 3-1 win over Bethune-Cookman
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FIU right-hander Robert Garcia struck out a career-high and season-high 14 batters against Bethune-Cookman to lead the Panthers to a 3-1 victory over the Wildcats Tuesday night at the FIU ballpark.FIU improved to 19-14 while B-CU dropped to 21-15.Garcia, whose nickname is "The Mexicutioner" because of his high strikeout totals, had at least one strikeout in every inning but the sixth. The senior from Mexico City struck out the side in the first and fourth innings and had a one-hitter going into the eighth inning. After allowing a leadoff single to Adonis Lao in the second inning, Garcia retired 18 of the next 19 batters before a one-out double by Michael Deeb in the eighth.Garcia (3-4) allowed four hits and one run to record his third win of the season.Garcia's 14 strikeouts were four shy of the FIU single-game record shared by Evan Thomas (vs. Florida A&M, 2/9/96) and Raul Garcia (vs. Stetson, 3/28/98). Garcia now has a team-leading 59 strikeouts on the season – which is second in Conference USA behind WKU's Ryan Thurston's 63 strikeouts.The 14 strikeouts were the most by an FIU pitcher since Tyler Alexander struck out 13 UALR batters on May 23, 2013.FIU broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the fourth inning. With two outs, Zack Soria singled off Donte Lindsay (1-6) and Kenny Meimerstorf doubled off the left center field wall scoring Soria.Soria made it 2-0 in the sixth with a solo home run to left. It was Soria's fifth homer, which is second on the team to JC Escarra's six round-trippers.FIU added an insurance run in the seventh on an RBI single by Irving Lopez, who along with Soria and Meimerstorf was 2 for 4.FIU next hosts UTSA in a three-game series starting Thursday night at 7 p.m. from the FIU ballpark. The game can be seen on PantherVision and C-USA TV.
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Men's Golf to Host Tiger Classic Thursday
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BATON ROUGE – The No. 4-ranked LSU Tigers will prepare for the SEC Championships next week by playing host to the one-day, 36-hole Tiger Classic on Thursday as they welcome the likes of No. 18 Texas A&M, No. 27 Arkansas, Centenary, McNeese State, New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana to the University Club.
Each of the seven teams will tee off at 8 a.m. CT with a shotgun start as they will play two rounds at The University Club with a second round in the afternoon following the opening round in the morning. The Tigers are set to play alongside Arkansas and Texas A&M as they tee off from holes Nos. 1 and 16-18.
The Tigers are playing host to their second tournament at The University Club this season after they won the team title at the eighth-annual David Toms Intercollegiate during the fall season in October.
Thursday’s event will also give fans a preview of what’s to come at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional next month as the Tigers are also set to play host to regional competition for the first time since the 2013 season. The NCAA Baton Rouge Regional is scheduled to run May 15-17 with the top-five teams in the field earning a trip to the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championships.
LSU in the National Rankings
The Tigers are ranked as high as No. 4 nationally in the latest Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index released Thursday in the wake of their fourth team championship of the season at Texas A&M’s Aggie Invitational held April 1-2 at Traditions Golf Club in Bryan, Texas. LSU has also been crowned champion at the Maui Jim Intercollegiate in the fall and The Prestige at PGA West to open the spring season.
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Head coach Chuck Winstead has chosen the same lineup that brought home ...
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HISD pre-K program participants more prepared for kindergarten
Students who attended one or two years of Houston Independent School District (HISD) pre-K were significantly more likely to be prepared for kindergarten than peers who did not attend HISD pre-K, according to a new research brief from Rice University’s Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC).
Erin Baumgartner, a HERC postdoctoral fellow and the paper’s author, gauged pre-K students’ verbal school readiness by examining 25,417 HISD pre-K students’ English assessment scores and 13,622 HISD pre-K students’ Spanish assessment scores after one and two years of pre-K. The students were enrolled in kindergarten during the 2013-2014 or 2015-2016 school year. These English and Spanish assessments examined students’ reading abilities and measured growth over time in various literacy components.
After taking into consideration other factors that may impact school readiness, such as race, ethnicity, economic advantage or disadvantage, household language and immigrant status, Baumgartner found that English-assessment test takers who attended one year of HISD pre-K had 2.8 times greater odds of being ready for school than a student who attended zero years of HISD pre-K. Students who attended two years of HISD pre-K had 3.8 times greater odds of being school-ready than those who attended zero years of HISD pre-K, and 1.4 greater odds of being school-ready than those who attend one year of HISD pre-K.
For Spanish-assessment test takers, Baumgartner said that students who enrolled in one or two years of HISD pre-K had more than three times greater odds of being ready for school than students who were enrolled in zero years of HISD pre-K. And while there was a difference in odds of readiness between students who attended one and two years of HISD pre-K, it occurred in an unexpected direction. The odds of being ready on the Spanish assessment were 20 percent higher for students who attended one year of HISD pre-K than for students who attended two years.
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