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Bronx, N.Y. – The picture perfect afternoon on Thursday at Houlihan Park ended with the picture perfect finish for the Fordham baseball team, as senior outfielder Jason Lundy connected on a walk-off two-run home run to give the Rams a 4-3 victory over the Saint Joseph’s Hawks. The walk-off win was the fourth this season for the Rams.
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Thursday, April 13, 2017
Lundy’s Walk-Off Home Run Gives Baseball a 4-3 Win Over Saint Joseph’s
FOOTBALL CLOSES SPRING BALL WITH FINAL PRACTICE ON FRIDAY NIGHT
Athletics News
Apr 13, 2017
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After 14 practices over five weeks, the Sacramento State football team will wrap up its spring ball on Friday, May 12. The team will hold a controlled scrimmage at Hornet Stadium beginning at 6:30 p.m. and is open to the public.During the night the offense will be placed in various situations on the field which will include hurry-up, backed up on its own half of the filed, third down, and red zone. In an attempt to reduce the risk of injury, all tackling will be thud — meaning the defense will wrap up but not take the player to the ground.On Friday morning, members of the coaching staff will join former players, staff and guests for the annual Bob Mattos Memorial Golf Tournament at Rancho Murrieta Country Club. Football alumni are also invited to the practice and to partake in a reception at the stadium following the action.TEAM HANDS OUT AWARDSLast Saturday, the program honored its seniors and handed out awards at the the annual banquet at the Marriott Rancho Cordova.
Jordan Robinson
Team MVPCoach Bob Mattos Offensive MVPOutstanding Offensive BackRobinson led Sacramento State with 996 rushing yards during the season and averaged a career high 6.1 yards per carry. His total placed him fourth among Big Sky running backs during the regular season and he led the league with 13 rushing touchdowns. The Chino Hills, Calif., native ended the regular season with four consecutive 100-yard games, totaling 659 yards and 10 touchdowns during that stretch. Robinson's yardage total was the most by a Sacramento State running back since 2008 while his 13 rushing touchdowns were the most by a Hornet since 2000. He also secured the ball as he did not fumble once during the year.Robinson concluded his career with 2,826 rushing yards which places him fourth in the Sacramento State record book. He also ranks fourth in career attempts (543), tied for fifth in ...
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Law student picked for ABA’s Judicial Clerkship Program
SIU News
April 12, 2017
Law student picked for ABA’s Judicial Clerkship Program
by Pete Rosenbery
CARBONDALE, Ill. – A law student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale is just one of nine students from law schools across the country selected for the American Bar Association's Judicial Clerkship Program.
Ashley Moya recently learned that she will participate in the eight-week judicial internship with Christine Ward, a civil court judge with the Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh. The internship begins in June.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Moya said. “I am still like, ‘are you sure you picked me?’”
This is the first time a student from the SIU School of Law has been selected for the program.
Moya’s honor is “wonderful and well-deserved,” Dean Cynthia L. Fountaine, said. “She has worked hard and accomplished great things and I am so pleased that she is going to have this opportunity.”
“The selection of Ashley for this program demonstrates what we already know -- that our students are among the best and brightest law students in the country and that they are competitive for the top positions in a nationally competitive legal market,” Fountaine said. “At SIU Law, we strive to enable our students to have opportunities that will enable them to achieve their dreams. This program will help Ashley achieve hers. She has an incredibly bright future ahead of her and I know she will make all of us here at SIU Law very proud.”
Moya is a first-generation U.S. citizen from Honduras; her family, including mother, Ligia, lives in Miami. Moya graduated from Stetson University in DeLand, Fla., with a degree in International Studies. She was persuaded to come to the SIU School of Law by Paula Basler, the law school’s director of alumni affairs, whom Moya met with while Basler was on a recruiting trip.
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No.5 HSU Softball prepares for Four Game Set with Cal State San Marcos
Humboldt State University Athletics
ARCATA, Calif.- No.5 Humboldt State Softball is back in action Thursday afternoon when they take on Cal State San Marcos in the first two games of the scheduled four game series. HSU split with N0.13 Chico State Monday afternoon before day two's doubleheader was canceled due to rain.The Jacks come into the matchup with San Marcos 29-8 overall on the season with a 17-7 record in California Collegiate Athletic Association play. San Marcos enters the contest 8-29 overall and 7-21 in conference play.HSU, saw it bats come alive in game two against the Wildcats on Monday, putting up ten runs in the contest. The Jacks continue to lead the conference in home runs. San Marcos has struggled offensively as they are last in the CCAA in both batting average (.235), home runs (5), runs scored (74) and rbi's (65).HSU pitching continues to be a strong point as their 2.06 era ranks third in the CCAA. San Marcos comes in with a team era of 3.31 and have allowed 116 earned runs compared to just 72 by the Jacks.IMPORTANT NEWS: Tomorrows doubleheader is scheduled for first pitch at 11am at McKinleyville High School. Final decision will be made at 8am Thursday morning (4/13). Please check the Humboldt State Lumberjacks Facebook page for updates on game time and location.Print Friendly Version
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Research awards at IUPUI increased by $40.5 million in 2016: Newscenter: Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEINDIANAPOLIS -- The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis has released funding results for fiscal year 2016 showing research awards campuswide totaled $428.9 million, a $40.5 million increase over 2015.
Counting only non-IU School of Medicine awards, the campus received $67.2 million in research awards in 2016, compared to $58.1 million in 2015, a 16 percent increase.
The increase in research awards reflects, in part, the support of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to advance innovative research and creative activity.
Funding awards for 2016 show an increase in National Science Foundation awards, one of the office's strategic goals. NSF funding rose from $5.2 million in 2015 to $7.9 million in 2016.
NSF awards in 2016 included $200,022 for a research team led by the School of Engineering and Technology to overcome problems with one approach to increasing the capacity of lithium ion batteries.
Another National Science Foundation grant will enable researchers at IUPUI to develop a Breathalyzer-type device to detect the onset of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar episodes, in people with diabetes.
The funding awards underscore efforts by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to develop and expand research programs that address important national and global needs and support economic development of Indiana and the nation.
Other external funding supported research to:
Develop information-based tools to help primary care providers improve care for patients with chronic pain, a condition that affects 100 million Americans at a cost of $630 billion annually in health care costs and lost worker productivity.
Study the use of the electronic dental record to evaluate the outcome of dental treatments.
Study nonmilitary applications of unmanned aerial systems (drone) technology, such as remote imaging for water quality, mosquito habitat mapping, disaster preparation, precision agriculture, and the utilization and analysis of data collected with unmanned aerial systems.
The office helps stimulate faculty research efforts through internal funding programs, events, workshops and proposal ...
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CSUSM Will Become Smoke-Free Campus in Fall
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Get ready for a tobacco-free environment. Cal State San Marcos, which already limits tobacco use to designated smoking areas, will become a completely smoke- and tobacco-free campus beginning in fall 2017.Electronic cigarettes will also be banned.
“Becoming a smoke- and tobacco-free campus protects and promotes the health and well-being of our campus community,” said Dr. Kimberly Pulvers, a CSUSM associate professor of psychology who has researched addiction and tobacco use extensively. “The smoke- and tobacco-free campus initiative supports the mission and values of our university, prepares our students to enter workforces which are increasingly smoke and tobacco-free, and supports environmental sustainability and litter reduction.”
CSU Chancellor Timothy White issued an Executive Order on April 7 implementing a systemwide smoke- and tobacco-free environment for campuses effective Sept. 1.
CSUSM will be aided in its effort through a recently awarded $20,000 grant as part of the American Cancer Society and the CVS Health Foundation’s Tobacco-Free Generation Campus Initiative, a $3.6 million effort to accelerate and expand smoke- and tobacco-free campuses. The funding will be used for educational material, supplies and personnel essential to implement and evaluate the initiative. Monthly educational events promoting the program through a variety of channels already is under way.
A recent survey showed more than three quarters of students support the concept.
Nearly 10 percent of the campus community, including faculty and staff, had used a tobacco product within the past 30 days, according to the survey, including nearly 9 percent who smoked cigarettes. And the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Environmental Protection Agency say there is no safe level for exposure to second-hand smoke.
Pulvers said designated smoking areas – such as the kind now in place on campus – can, in fact, do more harm than good, as they may encourage non-daily smokers to light up. And that can lead to the faulty perception that more people are using tobacco than ...
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Food Truck Bonanza at All Three Campuses!
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The food trucks are coming! Prepare to feast on the flavors coming to your campus. Vendors will be on site 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on each date. Germantown Event Date: April 18 Location: Lot 3 across from BE building Vendors: Danibelles, Spud Nation, Honey's Empanadas, El Pollo Submarine, and Crepe Love Takoma Park/Silver Spring Event date: April 19 Location: In front of ST and CM buildings Vendors: Chix N Stix, Cajun Delhi, Spud Nation, Honey's Empanadas, and El Pollo Submarine Rockville Event Date: April 20 Location: Lot 11 in front of SC buidling Vendors: Jammin Flava, Spud Nation, Honey's Empanadas, El Pollo Submarine and Cajun Delhi
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Kids cook during June and July
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Kids cook during June and JulyPosted 4/11/2017University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s nutrition staff offering classes
Seth is learning kitchen basics in Cooperative Extension’s Nutrition Lab.
Is your child ready for educational fun in the kitchen this summer? University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s nutrition staff is offering free beginners’ cooking classes for kids ages 9-13. The free, 5-day short courses are held from 9-11 a.m. in the Lifelong Learning Center’s Nutrition Lab.
The first session dates are June 15, 16, 22, 23 and 29. In July, there are three sessions, July 10-14; July 17-21; and July 24-28.
During the session, your child will learn cooking basics such as measuring, cutting, reading recipes, choosing foods, and general kitchen safety. Space is limited to 12 students for each session. Parent/guardian is required to sign an assumption of risk form upon arrival to first class.
Cooperative Extension’s Lifelong Learning Center is located at 8050 Paradise Road, Las Vegas, Nev. For more information, email or call Susan Lednicky at 702-257-5548.
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Wisconsin Faculty Brings Horror Design to Life in Halloween-Themed Event
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The Rasmussen College School of Design encouraged students to get in the spooky spirit by hosting a Halloween-themed event. The “Dark Art” event took place on Thursday, Oct. 30, at the Appleton campus and was broadcast live online to allow students from across the country to participate virtually.Russ Merritt is the state program coordinator for Rasmussen College’s Wisconsin and Illinois campuses and the mastermind behind Dark Art. He says he wanted to coordinate an event that was educational, fun and seasonal. He recounts growing up watching Chiller Theater and “has always had a love for all things monster.” It was that special interest that inspired the idea for the Dark Art event. Merritt’s presentation provided a brief history of horror in mass media and the design elements of horror art. Students and faculty dissected examples of horror movie posters, rock band covers, games, books and various websites to discuss color, theme, layout and compensation. “I wanted to show that everything—even monster movies—needs to be designed by someone,” Merritt explained. He stressed to students that design is ubiquitous, joking that “even really bad things need really good design.” The audience learned that typography, color, pacing, angles, lighting, printing and sound all have to have someone behind the scenes to make it happen. Merritt says he hopes his event opened students’ eyes to the wide scope of career opportunities beyond the usual jobs people think of in the design industry. “There are multiple opportunities out there and there is a niche for everyone!” he said. Learn about other graphic design job opportunities you've never heard of!
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Distinguished Scholar and Junior Faculty Scholar awards announced
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Miami University Distinguished Scholar Awards for 2017 have been presented to David Berg, professor of biology; Jonathan Strauss, professor of French and Italian; and Janardin Subedi, professor of sociology and gerontology.
Distinguished Scholar Awards honor faculty whose sustained excellence in research or other creative activity has brought them prominence in their fields.
Miami University Junior Faculty Scholar Awards have been presented to Mahmud Khan, assistant professor of physics; Brian Meyers, assistant professor of music; and April Smith, assistant professor of psychology.
Spring campus (photo by Scott Kissell)
Junior Faculty Scholar Awards honor faculty who have demonstrated great potential in research or artistry and have achieved significant standing in their fields. Candidates for the Junior Faculty Scholar Award must have received their highest degree no more than eight years before the time of nomination.
The scholars, named by the committee on faculty research, each receive a $2,000 grant for the pursuit of further research.
They were honored at the University Awards Reception April 10.
Read more about the three Distinguished Scholars on Campus News.
Applied and Natural Sciences: David Berg.
Business, Education and Social Sciences: Janardin Subedi.
Humanities and Creative Arts: Jonathan Strauss.
Read more about the three Junior Faculty Scholars on Campus News.
Applied and Natural Sciences: Mahmud Khan.
Business, Education and Social Sciences: April Smith.
Humanities and Creative Arts: Brian Meyers.
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Student support program excels
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Junior Dane Hansen can easily recall the mix of excitement and nervousness he felt when he first stepped foot on UNCG’s campus.
Not only was he new to UNCG, but he was new to the college environment. As the first in his family to attend a four-year university, the transition to life as a college student presented a unique set of challenges.
“I got here and I was overwhelmed with everything,” he said. “The course load was really challenging compared to what I was used to.”
Hansen and his family knew that he needed to find a support system on campus in order to be successful. The solution was UNCG’s Special Support Services (SSS), a federal TRIO grant program for first-generation students, as well as those who have a disability or come from modest-income backgrounds.
SSS offers individual tutoring, academic skills instruction and academic/career counseling to approximately 200 UNCG students each year. All services are offered free to students who are accepted into the program.
“During my first year, I logged more than 60 hours in the program,” Hansen said. “The sessions really helped me with time management.”
UNCG has a long tradition of supporting students through SSS. The federal program has been offered on campus for nearly half a century, and the results are impressive.
Last year, SSS students persisted, or returned for a second year, at a rate of 90 percent. Ninety-two percent of students were in good academic standing, and the six-year graduation rate for SSS students is 67 percent – approximately 7 points above the national average (according to 2014 data from the U.S. Dept. of Education).
But it’s not just the data that demonstrate the program’s success. It’s the countless stories from students like Marlina Avery.
As a graduate of an early college high school, Avery was used to a heavy workload. Even still, she ...
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It’s time to mobilize around a new approach to educational assessment
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As the scale of formal education has increased, so too has the scale of testing, to the point where it has become a giant business. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent on traditional testing of core skills such as numeracy and literacy, and just a few industry giants dominate the field. Annual testing expenditure in just some of the more populous US states, in fact, is far more than it is in the largest international testing programs combined (TIMSS/PIRLS and PISA).
That’s OK. This testing, focused as it is on core skills, is important. Failing to test such skills would have higher economic costs and significant detrimental effects because, at an aggregate or systems level (say, across countries or regions), such assessment data have an important role in setting sensible educational policy.
But there is also much room for improvement, because using traditional testing methods (for example, multiple-choice-format standardized tests) to measure the kinds of complex cognitive abilities that students will increasingly need in the work environments of the future is, in effect, like using a bathroom scale to measure cardiovascular health. We lose too much information when our measurement tools cannot capture complex data.
Solutions are available: there are increasingly more effective ways of assessing complex skills. Alternative testing methods, such as authentic assessments, can have substantial benefits through increased student engagement and learning as the environments where learning and assessment take place come into alignment.
However, the pace at which the approach to assessment is shifting is troublingly slow, even within the education sector. And why isn’t the economics sector more interested in the future direction of learning, and even less in the future of educational assessment? In 2015, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released a report proposing a new vision for education as an industry agenda. That is a step toward the right ...
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Illinois Tech Leads $11.8 Million Grant to Test System That Might Lead to Restored Vision for People Who Have Lost Their Sight
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a grant totaling $11.8 million over five years to Illinois Institute of Technology to test a groundbreaking intra-cortical visual prosthesis (ICVP) system.
Under the NIH funding, Illinois Tech is preparing for an early feasibility clinical trial for five human volunteers, who will have the system surgically implanted at the University of Chicago. The outcome of this clinical trial will be the evaluation of the first intra-cortical visual prosthesis using novel implantable wireless stimulator devices.
Philip R. Troyk, associate dean of Armour College of Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering at Illinois Tech, is the principal investigator of the project. Illinois Tech leads on the project, which has been developed with six partner institutions.
The number of Americans with vision loss is rising rapidly. There is currently no cure for blindness, and an artificial vision system may be the best alternative form of treatment. Since many individuals affected by total blindness do not have intact retinas or optic nerves, but retain the visual cortex, the areas of the brain that allow us to see, an intra-cortical visual prosthesis may be the only possible advanced visual sensory aid from which they could benefit.
The ICVP system uses a collection of wireless simulator modules that each contains 16 microelectrodes and associated electronics. These modules bypass the eyes and optic nerves and directly stimulate the visual cortex. Each electrode can be commanded to inject stimulus currents into the cortex over a fully wireless magnetic link to produce visual perception within the brain.
The current ICVP team was started at Illinois Tech in 2000 and has had $6 million in prior funding from the NIH, the United States Army, and private donors. The project is a collaboration between Troyk and Frank J. Lane, associate chair of the Department of Psychology and associate professor of psychology at Lewis College of Human Sciences, ...
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COD Photography Program Hosts 'Exposed' Showcase May 2
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By Mike McKissackThe College of DuPage Photography program will host “Exposed,” its third annual photography
showcase, from 6 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, May 2, in Student Resource Center, Room 2000,
on the College’s Glen Ellyn campus, 425 Fawell Blvd.This event is free and open to the public.Students from the College’s Photography program, along with local high school students taking advanced photography classes, will
present work in fine art, commercial, studio, location, wedding, architecture, nature,
photojournalism, editorial, documentary, event coverage, conceptual, digital compositing
and alternative processes. This event was funded through a Carl D. Perkins grant.
Additional sponsors include Adobe, American Society of Media Photographers, Canon,
Helix Camera, Ilford, Lively!, Midwest Photo Exchange, PJ's Camera, PROCAM, Self-Employment
in the Arts and Sony.Entries are due by Friday, April 14, and awards will be presented for best college
and high school portfolios. In addition, high school students may register to have
their portfolios reviewed by COD faculty.Click here to view a video welcome to the event.For more information, click here or contact Professor of Photography Terry Vitacco at (630) 942-2329.
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From 17th-century Haggadah in a plain brown wrapper, a major collection grew
Brandeis University News
It arrived at Dr. Ierachmiel “Yerach” Daskal's home 40 years ago, wrapped in brown paper and secured with twine — a humble package bearing a 17th-century religious book that eventually would multiply into a prodigious collection.
The old tome was a Haggadah, the guide to the liturgy of the Passover Seder. Published in 1695, it had been found in Israel and sent by a bookseller to Daskal, who at first was less interested in the words inside than in the rare map of the Holy Land attached to the back. But as the physician leafed through the yellowed pages of Hebrew text, with their ancient illustrations of the Exodus story, the roots of an obsession took hold.
“When you open one that is 300 years old and you see the wine stains on the pages, and crumbs of matzoh, it comes to life,” said Daskal, of Elkins Park. “You want to know what is the history. Who was this family?”
A retired chairman of pathology and laboratory medicine at Albert Einstein Medical Center, the 77-year-old Daskal and his wife, Dalia, have since amassed nearly 800 prized Haggadot (the plural in Hebrew) from scores of countries, dating from 1583 to 1969, and discovered in such unlikely places as an outdoor market in Jerusalem, in a pile near a gutter. Some of the couple’s most historic Haggadot are on exhibit through May at Gratz College in Melrose Park.
“We fell in love with the text, and it’s been an amazing journey,” Dalia Daskal said after her husband gave a brief lecture on the collection last week at the college’s Tuttleman Library.
Haggadot serve as step-by-step guides to the Seder dinner, which marks the beginning of Passover. The eight-day festival, which starts Monday evening, commemorates the Israelites' flight from slavery — a story that is the centerpiece of the book, which contains prayers, commentaries, songs, and illustrations.
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Students Share Stories at Dear World
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Consolo was one of six students selected to share his story to an audience during Dear World Live on Nov. 29, an interactive event that gave students the opportunity to take portraits by writing messages on their skin that reflect their core beliefs.
Consolo, who is earning bachelor’s degrees in Commercial Space Operations and Human Factors, said he knew as early as elementary school that he wanted to become an astronaut someday and he worked hard in pursuit of that dream. But right before his freshman year of high school, Consolo was in a car accident that left his single mother with a spinal cord disability and his sister injured. The money that his family set aside for college soon went to cover medical expenses.
Consolo worked several jobs during high school to help offset the medical bills. He continued to pursue his dream of working in the aerospace industry and was accepted to Embry-Riddle. Consolo recently completed an internship at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
“When I got on stage it was amazing to see people’s reactions and how it resonated with them,” Consolo said. “It was very significant to be able to share my story and I felt passionate that I could influence someone else to know that they are not alone and can do anything they set their mind to.”
Dear World began in New Orleans as photographic love notes to the city and has grown into a traveling interactive event with portraits published in over 30 countries, including refugee camps in Jordan. During the two-day event at Embry Riddle, students had the opportunity to take part in a photo shoot that highlighted the identity of the Embry-Riddle campus. During the shoot, Consolo and six other students were chosen to share their stories on stage during an unveiling of nearly 200 student portraits.
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Two UMass Boston Students Earn $5K Krystle Campbell Scholarships
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Chancellor J. Keith Motley presented two UMass Boston students with Krystle Campbell Scholarships at an event Saturday in Medford celebrating Campbell’s legacy and the Boston Marathon team that runs in her name.Eden Blakeley ‘18, of Dorchester, and Leona Smith ‘17, of Revere, each received $5,000 scholarships to pursue their management degrees.
"These are two shining examples of what the impact of Krystle’s life continues to be," Motley said.
Medford Mayor Stephanie Burke, Krystle’s father Bill Campbell, and members of this year’s Run for Krystle Marathon Team were on hand for the celebration, which was held steps away from the Krystle Campbell Peace Garden. Campbell, a victim of the 2013 marathon bombings, attended UMass Boston from 2005 to 2007 and received a degree posthumously.
“This scholarship has brought me one step closer to following my dreams,” Smith said.
Before the event, the marathon team ran through Medford, stopping for a moment outside the Campbell house in tribute. Team members were greeted with hugs by Bill Campbell as they arrived at the event.
“I’m really so proud,” Bill Campbell said. “I miss her so much.”
The marathon team runs the Boston Marathon every year to raise money for the scholarship fund established in Krystle’s memory. Since 2014, UMass Boston has awarded two Krystle Campbell Scholarships every year to female students pursuing business degrees. The scholarship was started by former UMass Trustee Richard Campbell and his wife Barbara. Campbell is not related to Krystle, but like her, grew up in Medford and attended UMass Boston.
"Eighty people competed for those scholarships this year," Richard Campbell said. "And the people who get the awards are incredibly fabulous people. We’re looking at the business leaders of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the nation."
The 2017 Run for Krystle Marathon Team includes UMass Boston graduates, staff and faculty members, and friends of the university. Through the ...
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Phillips and Saucier Stymie Clark in Midweek NEWMAC Pair on Rooftop Field
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Apr 12, 2017
WORCESTER --- Freshman Mackenzie Phillips (Gill, MA) tied her career high of 10 strikeouts in a complete-game shutout while the WPI offense scored 13 runs on 10 hits in game one and then teamed with junior Kelsey Saucier (Worcester, MA) for a combined shutout in game two of a NEWMAC Softball set Wednesday evening on Rooftop Field. The Engineers took the opener 13-0 in five and the nightcap 3-0.
Phillips, who established her personal strikeout standard exactly one week ago versus Fitchburg State, yielded two hits and a walk in the five-inning shutout. Sophomore Renee LeClaire (Merrimack, NH) was the only Engineer to deliver multiple hits as she went 2-for-4 with a double, a stolen base, 2 RBI and a run.
Junior Ama Biney (Worcester, MA) and senior Hope Shevchuk (Burlington, CT) each doubled and drove in two runs while Saucier doubled in a late pinch hitting appearance. Juniors Katie Chagami (Waipahu, HI) and RiAnna May (Westminster, CO) each plated a pair and classmate Julia Veitch (Carlisle, MA) scored twice. Freshman Cassie Graca (Somerset, MA) stole three bases and scored three runs.
Sophomore Jocie Orangio (Maynard, MA) accounted for both of the Cougars hits to go with a walk by junior Sami West (Gonic, NH). junior Brenna Foley (Charlton, MA) and freshman Maddie Letendre (Mansfield, MA) each spent time in the circle for the guests.
Graca poked a single through the right side to score Biney in the first. May then singled in a pair with a hit up the middle for the 3-0 lead after one. WPI continued to pull away with a five-run second. LeClaire began with a productive infield out. Chagami sent one up the middle to push two across and Shevchuk doubled in two more. LeClaire then doubled to allow Graca to cross the dish in the third.
Saucier, pinch hitting for Shevchuk, sent an RBI double to left ...
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Twice as bright: Earth-sized planets with two suns could still be habitable
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Scientists know that two-star systems can support planets, but the question has remained whether an Earth-size terrestrial planet were orbiting two suns could it support life. A study in the journal Nature Communications has now found that an Earth-like planet orbiting two stars could be habitable if it were within a certain range from its two stars.
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IU Jacobs School of Music alumnus Lawrence Brownlee appointed artistic advisor at Opera Philadelphia
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IU Jacobs School of Music alumnus Lawrence Brownlee appointed artistic advisor at Opera PhiladelphiaFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 4, 2017BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University Jacobs School of Music alumnus Lawrence Brownlee has been appointed artistic advisor at Opera Philadelphia.
Brownlee starred in the company’s 2015 world premiere of “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird,” by Daniel Schnyder, along with Jacobs alumna Angela Brown.
Hailed by the Associated Press as one of “the world’s leading bel canto tenors,” Brownlee earned a Master of Music degree from the Jacobs School in 2001, studying primarily with Costanza Cuccaro.
Prior to graduating, he won Grand Prize in the 2001 Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions, preceding this year’s winner, Jacobs master’s student Richard Smagur.
Brownlee’s Grammy-nominated recording, “Virtuoso Rossini Arias,” prompted New Yorker critic Alex Ross to query “Is there a finer Rossini tenor than Lawrence Brownlee?” His latest recording, “Allegro io son,” was released in September.
One of the most in-demand singers around the world, Brownlee was recently nominated for Male Singer of the Year by the 2017 International Opera Awards. Winners will be announced May 7.
He has performed with nearly every leading international opera house and festival, as well as major orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Academia di Santa Cecila, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra.
Alongside his singing career, Brownlee is an avid salsa dancer and an accomplished photographer, specializing in artist portraits of his on-stage colleagues. He has sung the National Anthem at numerous NFL games and will next perform it Oct. 23, for the New York Jets.
He is a champion for autism awareness through the organization Autism Speaks and is a lifetime member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity Inc., a historically black fraternity committed to social action and empowerment.
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New adaptation of ‘Fuente Ovejuna’ will premiere at Wirtz
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[embedded content]EVANSTON, Ill. - A military commander ruthlessly exploits a rural community until the townspeople, led by the mayor’s daughter, rise up against him in Lope de Vega’s nonstop historical drama “Fuente Ovejuna.”The 17th century Spanish text is getting a fresh adaptation by Northwestern University School of Communication students Kori Alston ’18 and Susan E. Bowen MFA ’17.Northwestern’s Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts presents “Fuente Ovejuna” April 21 to 30 in the Ethel M. Barber Theater, located at 10 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston. Lope de Vega’s historical plays drew on popular legend and explored aspects of Spain’s national character and social solidarity on which the country’s greatness rested.Co-adapter Susan E. Bowen, who also directs, said she was attracted to the play’s fast-moving pace and moral complexity of its story. “Love is what moves the community to stand together and defend the values it considers most sacred, but its response to an ongoing abuse of power culminates in violence.“At a time when citizens on both the right and the left are questioning the systems of power at work in our own democracy, the questions the characters in “Fuente Ovejuna” are forced to confront have never felt more timely: ‘Am I going to step out of line and speak up, or am I going to be complicit in the status quo?’"In the midst of a dynastic power struggle for the crown of Castile, military commander Fernán Gómez returns victorious from battle to the small rural town of Fuente Ovejuna, where his acts of violence soon extend beyond the battlefield. The villagers repeatedly endure the commander’s violation of their honor, until one day he goes too far – kidnapping the mayor’s daughter, Laurencia, and her fiancé on their wedding day. After making a daring escape, Laurencia galvanizes the town to extract ...
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Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow to discuss language and gesture in April 18 Ryerson Lecture
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Prof. Susan Goldin-Meadow will deliver this year’s Nora and Edward Ryerson Lecture, in which she will explore the resilience of language and gesture in the way people communicate.The free public lecture will take place at 5 p.m. April 18 at the Max Palevsky Cinema of Ida Noyes Hall. It is the latest honor for the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor, who focuses on the role that hands play in talking, thinking and communicating. Goldin-Meadow’s lecture will delve into her work on the development of sign language by deaf children and the role gestures play in the way hearing people talk.
“These are behaviors that are very much part of being human,” Goldin-Meadow said. “We all gesture when we talk, and those gestures often reveal thoughts that we don’t express through our mouths. And if we’re prevented from talking, our gestures morph to take on the forms and functions of language. Our hands are a unique window onto the mind.”
Goldin-Meadow’s lecture will include her current research on the gestural languages that deaf children in Nicaragua create without the benefit of linguistic input. She also will discuss her research on the gestures hearing people use when talking, and the role these gestures play in how we learn.
Goldin-Meadow, who joined the UChicago faculty in 1976, is author of The Resilience of Language: What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language, and Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Think. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and currently serves as president of the Association for Psychological Science.
At UChicago, Goldin-Meadow serves as co-director of the Center for Gesture, Sign and Language. She has chaired the Department of Comparative Human Behavior and received the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate ...
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Missing Law Student Located
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Found at a local hospital
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Massachusetts State Police found a missing BU School of Law student late Thursday morning at an area hospital, where she was a walk-in.
The Boston Globe reported that authorities had been searching for 26-year-old Tamika Danielle Jeune (SAR’12, LAW’19) since a passerby found her wallet and BU ID, computer, shoes, and other personal items on the banks of the Charles River. The effort to find Jeune included a State Police Marine Unit search of the river.
Jeune is from Dorchester, but had been living in an off-campus apartment on Beacon Street. No further information was available.
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Mānoa: UH Press wins $90,000 grant for open-access publishing of out-of-print books
UH News
University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaContact:Posted: Apr 11, 2017The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of Hawai‘i a $90,000 grant to digitize 100 out-of-print University of Hawai‘i Press books for open access.The project is part of the Humanities Open Book Program, a joint initiative between the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).“We’re grateful to the Mellon Foundation and the NEH for supporting our open-access initiatives,” said Trond Knutsen, UH Press digital publishing manager. “Now, with the advent of digital technology, these works can become available to a new generation of readers around the world.”UH Press selected the 100 titles—representing fields such as Asian studies, Pacific studies, linguistics, anthropology and history—based on their contemporary scholarly relevance, historical significance, and practical value for teaching and research purposes.“This initiative will be an enormous contribution to the advance of scholarship globally, but particularly for colleagues and students in places in Asia and the Pacific where libraries are inadequate and access to printed scholarly sources is difficult,” said Barbara Watson Andaya, chair of the UH Mānoa Asian Studies Program.Beginning in 2018, the digitized titles will be hosted on a custom open-access portal where readers will be able to download them in EPUB and PDF formats. A print-on-demand option will also be offered for select titles.“We hope this project will be only the beginning of a long-term effort to revitalize UH Press’s backlist,” said UH System President David Lassner. “This project will magnify the reach and influence of scholarly work done here at the University of Hawai‘i, and support educational and cultural initiatives in the Asia and Pacific regions.”The Press currently offers more than 800 titles online through library e-book vendors, and more than 350 scholarly monographs through Hawai‘i Scholarship Online, a partnership with Oxford University Press and University ...
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Under 30: Lauren Gist
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Age: 25 //
Occupation: Account Executive, iHeart Media //
Major at GC: Marketing Minor: Management
Tell me a little bit about why you came to Georgia College.
It’s kind of funny, I had already picked another school and I thought I was going somewhere else. When I got my acceptance letter from Georgia College I hadn’t even been to visit yet, but after I got the letter, I came down and visited and fell in love with the campus. I loved the small town feel of it, how intimate it was—everything about the atmosphere was really appealing to me and not as overwhelming as some of the bigger schools. The smaller class sizes were a selling point. Being able to have those relationships with your professors where you’re not in class in an auditorium was great.
Do you have a favorite memory from your time at GC?
The year that my Kappa Delta pledge sister and good friend won Homecoming queen – that was pretty awesome.
The other is actually graduation, which a lot of people might tell you is their worst memory from that year because it was practically monsooning outside. It was the worst weather ever, but I was really happy because my family and my friends stuck it out. People were sitting through pouring down rain for that, so I was pretty proud. That’s something that is going to stay in my mind forever.
What was your journey like post-grad?
Right after college I did a 6-month internship at Northside Hospital in Atlanta and I was in their marketing department doing copywriting and things more on the creative side. I was itching to get out of Atlanta and try something new, change the scenery, get out on my own, so I starting applying to jobs in some places that aren’t too far away, but just ...
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CCMST Weekly News, August 6, 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 10: Coupled-Perturbed Hartree-Fock; Electric and Magnetic Properties (Malagoli).
The complete schedule of the lectures can be found at http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/opp/sched.html.
STATISTICS
FGATE
Uptime: 22 day/home directory usage: 69% (1.8TB available)/backups directory usage: 84%
LSF usage for Week 30 (7/26-8/1) (times are in minutes) Group Jobs Total CPU Avg CPU Avg Wait Avg Trnr. Bredas 128 269088 14% 2102 22 2533
Hernandez 528 250374 13% 474 1 476
Sherrill 61 35123 2% 576 2 390
Other 15 49655 3% 3310 0 2832
Total 732 604240 31% 825 4 877
Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period
Most productive user of the Week: simone 171694
LSF usage for Month of July (times are in minutes) Group Jobs Total CPU Avg CPU Avg Wait Avg Trnr. Bredas 27724 1732599 20% 62 65 133
Hernandez 916 309239 4% 338 17 358
Sherrill 223 227928 3% 1022 479 1478
Other 40 10357 0% 259 0 211
Total 28903 2280125 27% 79 67 151
Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period
EGATE
Uptime: 250 days/theoryfs/common directory usage: 36% (427GB available)/theoryfs/ccmst directory usage: 82% (162 available)
LSF usage for Week 30 (7/26-8/1) (times are in minutes) Group Jobs Total CPU Avg CPU Avg Wait Avg Trnr. Hernandez 156 147763 10% 947 0 958
Sherrill 93 208343 14% 2240 4 2255
Other 227 556437 37% 2451 7 2458
Total 476 912543 60% 1917 4 1927
Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period
Most productive user of the Week: rnear 325294
LSF usage for Month of July (times are in minutes) Group Jobs Total CPU Avg CPU Avg Wait Avg Trnr. Hernandez 349 274701 4% 787 61 856
Sherrill 1361 866876 13% 637 304 954
Other 869 2676184 40% 3080 415 3516
Total 2579 3817758 57% 1480 309 1804
Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period
TIP OF THE WEEK
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Kimbrough Reflects on Six Months in Space
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Kimbrough Reflects on Six Months in Space
Alumnus is back on Earth after mission aboard the International Space Station
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Jason Maderer | April 13, 2017
• Atlanta, GA
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Georgia Tech graduate and astronaut Shane Kimbrough talks about his six-month stay on board the International Space Station. He launched into orbit on October 17, 2016 and returned to Earth on April 10, 2017.
On Wednesday, Shane Kimbrough admitted his body was sore from sitting and his feet ached from walking. It was better than Tuesday, when he felt a little wobbly getting around and didn’t have much of an appetite. Blame it all on Monday, when Kimbrough felt gravity for the first time in nearly six months.
Kimbrough is finally back on Earth. The Georgia Tech graduate landed in Kazakhstan early Monday morning to wrap up a 173-day mission in space. As commander of the International Space Station (ISS), he circled the globe 2,768 times and traveled 73.2 million miles.
On Wednesday, already back at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, he spoke to Georgia Tech about the mission that began on October 17.
“I feel pretty good today, much better than yesterday,” said Kimbrough, who earned his master’s degree in operations research in 1998 from the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. “My balance is a little off because my inner ear doesn’t know where it is. But I’m much more stable than I was on Tuesday.”During his stay on board the station, Kimbrough conducted four spacewalks totaling more than 26 hours. He and the crew also welcomed five visiting spacecrafts — Kimbrough grabbed a few of them with the ISS’s robotic arm.After nearly six months, you would think he would get some days off work. But the next six weeks are important, as NASA conducts experiments on him to learn more about how ...
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Thursday, April 13, 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.
Samples suggest life in the Mariana Trench (Daily Mail)
Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Oregon State University and the US Coast Guard sent a device that spent three weeks eavesdropping at the bottom of the trench. The researchers used a hydrophone that was placed in this trough.
Climate science explains why fishermen on “Deadliest Catch” struggled to find crabs (Forbes)
The honorable Jane Lubchenco is Distinguished University Professor and Adviser in Marine Studies at Oregon State University. She is the U.S. Science Envoy for the Ocean, U.S. Department of State. She is one of the most renowned environmental scientists in the world and the former NOAA Administrator.
Adolescents with frequent PE more informed about physical activity’s role in health (ScienMag)
Frequent, long-term instruction in physical education not only helps adolescents be more fit but also equips them with knowledge about how regular physical activity relates to good health, research at Oregon State University shows.
To see the unseen: ‘Microbiomes’ show explores common ground between arts, science (Gazette-Times)
The artists were enthralled by the scientific workshops, said Jerri Bartholomew, the head of OSU’s Department of Microbiology, an accomplished artist in her own right and a driving force behind “Microbiomes.” (The show includes a pair of Bartholomew’s glass works.)
OSU board resets tuition vote after protest (Democrat-Herald)
An Oregon State University Board of Trustees meeting that was disrupted by protesters has been rescheduled for next week as a conference call, the university announced on Wednesday. The telephonic meeting will be held from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on ...
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Spirit Squad Excels At Nationals
Iowa State University
AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State Spirit Squad competed at the NCA/NDA College Nationals in Daytona Beach, Fla., (April 6-8) and excelled in a number of events.
The Dance Team won the National title in Pom Division 1A for the second year in a row, defeating Penn State, East Carolina and SMU. It also placed third in the Team Dance Division 1A behind Louisville and North Carolina State.
The Cheer Squad placed third in All Girl Division 1A, the highest finish in program history for the All Girl squad. The Co Ed squad placed seventh in Intermediate Co Ed Division 1.
Cy also competed in the mascot competition, finishing third behind Sammy (Sam Houston State) and Cocky (Jacksonville State). It was Cy's highest finish ever at the Nationals.
The Dance Team and Cheer Squad will be hosting tryouts later this month. Information for tryouts can be found here.
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Summer Coding Camp Will Empower Local Students to Learn Computer Science
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Free program will teach students programming skills and how to prepare for a career in the growing technology industry
By Sarah Nightingale on April 12, 2017
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UCR’s CS For All camp will showcase programming and other areas of computer science to local high schoolers. iSTOCK
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — From creating the latest smartphones to making self-driving cars, tech jobs are among the highest paying and fastest growing in the U.S. economy. There are currently 500,000 open jobs in computing, but the number of computer science graduates falls short—just 50,000 each year, and, of those, only one in five are women.
A new program created by the University of California, Riverside and Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) aims to introduce coding and computer science to local high school students and promote diversity, and notably female participation, in these fields. The program is inspired by CS For All, an initiative developed by the National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Education to empower all American students to become active citizens in our technology-driven world. The program will launch this summer, providing free one-week courses to 80 high school students from RUSD. The intensive courses will run twice, from June 19-23 and from June 26-30. Applications are due by April 26 and students can apply online or by calling 951-790-2633 (English speakers) or 951-878-0411 (Spanish speakers).
Angelov Farooq, founding director of the UCR Center for Economic Development and Innovation in the Office of Research and Economic Development and a member of the RUSD Board of Education, is leading the effort. He said similar programs in other parts of the country have been shown to increase the number of students, particularly girls and underrepresented minorities, who study computer science and go on to earn undergraduate degrees in the field.
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GiftAMeal app expanding to Motown
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Student startup, GiftAMeal, the mobile app that allows users to donate to local food pantries when they eat at partnering restaurants has expanded to a third city: Detroit.
“Foodies in Detroit can now get in on the GiftAMeal action at one of our six initial locations there,” said Jacob Mohrmann, BSBA’16, Chief Marketing Officer of GiftAMeal. “Meals will be provided through Forgotten Harvest, an organization in Detroit that rescued, harvested and distributed 48.8 million pounds of food this past year.”
And Jacob shared more good news:
“We are also happy to announce that we have now provided over 50,000 meals (St. Louis, Chicago, and Detroit combined). This is a huge step, but as Andrew [Glantz, BSBA’17] said in his interview with WGN TV, ‘in terms of how big we want this to become, we want it to be, not in the thousands, but in the millions of meals donated.’ “
GiftAMeal is also featured on the cover of StreetWise Magazine in Chicago this month.
According to the article, GiftAMeal has partnered with “20 Chicago-area restaurants and Lakeview Pantry to provide meal donations locally. Now, each time someone in Chicago uses GiftA-Meal, meals are provided to someone in the Chicago area through Lakeview. In less than a year, the app has been downloaded over 3,000 times in Chicago, and these users have been quick to rack up 10,000 meal donations on the app.”
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Campus to Mark Earth Day 2017 with Festival, Lectures, Green Commuting
UMass Amherst: News Archive
Sustainability and the formal launch of the School of Earth and Sustainability (SES) mark campus-related events on and around the celebration of Earth Day 2017.The official date of Earth Day, April 22, falls on a Saturday this year, so the campus’s Earth Day Festival 2017 will be celebrated on Friday, April 21 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on the Student Union North Lawn.
The festival will feature more than 30 student, faculty, staff and community groups showcasing some of the things they are doing to make the community more environmentally, economically, and socially just. In addition, the Farmer’s Market will be under the Earth Day tent.
New this year is the UMass Amherst Green Commute Day. In partnership with the Faculty Senate Health Committee and MassRIDES “Try it Day” campaign, the event is meant to encourage students, faculty and staff to try an alternative to driving alone to campus on April 21 by either biking, walking, carpooling or taking transit.
Commuters will be asked to log their green commute in the free MassRIDES NuRides online tool that helps find carpool matches and provides rewards for greener trips. MassRIDES will be signing UMass Amherst community members up for the green commute for three weeks leading up to Earth Day in the Campus Center Concourse.
Commuters and the entire campus community are invited to come the Earth Day tent on the Student Union North Lawn from 8-10 a.m. before the Earth Day Festival begins to grab their free coffee and donuts and participate in the Green Commute Day Sustainable Transportation Fair which will feature Campus Planning, Transportation and Parking Services, UMass Amherst Transit, ZipCar and Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Sustainable UMass.
Also at the festival in front of the Earth Day tent at 2 p.m., there will be a student performance art piece by “The Mourner.” This cautionary tale presents a dystopian future based ...
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Stuart Study Explores Tie Between Alcohol, Marijuana Use in Teens and Later Use of Synthetic Marijuana
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Gregory StuartTeenagers who have symptoms of depression and who drink alcohol or use marijuana tend to use synthetic marijuana later in life, according to a new study co-authored by UT researcher Gregory Stuart.
The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, is the first of its kind to assess whether marijuana use is predictive over time of the use of synthetic cannabinoids—the group of chemicals that mimic the effects of marijuana.
Stuart, a professor of psychology, and his collaborators hope that better knowledge about the use of marijuana and synthetic cannabinoids could lead to the design of more effective prevention and intervention programs.
“This is a longitudinal study of diverse adolescents,” Stuart said. “The primary objective is to increase the depth and breadth of our understanding of risk and protective factors for teen dating violence and other risky behaviors over time.”
The study was led by Jeff Temple, a clinical psychologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. In addition to Stuart and Temple, collaborators include researchers from the University of Maryland and the University of Missouri. The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Justice.
Synthetic cannabinoids are a large group of chemicals that are similar to THC, the active ingredient in marijuana that produces its hallmark effects. The chemicals may be sprayed on plant-based materials that resemble cannabis. They are sold in forms like potpourri or incense that are not suitable for human consumption. The chemicals can be as much as 40 to 600 times more potent than THC.
Synthetic cannabinoids appeal to adolescents and young adults because they are easy to obtain, affordable, assumed to be legal, and undetectable in urine drug screens.
The study included 964 high school participants. All students completed surveys that gathered information on synthetic cannabinoids and marijuana use, alcohol and other drug use, symptoms of anxiety ...
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Pitt Hires Anthony (Tony) Gibson to Lead Washington, D.C., Office
PITTSBURGH—The University of Pittsburgh Office of Community and Governmental Relations announced that Tony Gibson has been hired as executive director of federal relations and will lead the University’s Washington, D.C., office. Prior to his appointment at Pitt, he held the role of senior adviser for legislative affairs at the National Science Foundation (NSF), where he has worked for nearly 15 years.
“As a proven policy and political adviser with more than 20 years of experience in Washington, Tony is an exceptional fit to lead our D.C. office,” said Chancellor Patrick Gallagher. “He will elevate our University’s presence in D.C. and also create a wealth of opportunities for collaboration at the federal level.”
“Tony will coordinate and leverage Pitt research opportunities, government affairs and collaboration with executive agencies and Congress. Having a dedicated presence in Washington will allow us to bring the University’s expertise and resources to policymakers in D.C. in a much more focused way,” said Paul Supowitz, vice chancellor for community and governmental relations.
“I am extremely excited to be joining the University of Pittsburgh and its strong team in Community and Governmental Relations,” Tony Gibson said. “Pitt’s excellence in research and its ability to provide real answers to the most vexing problems facing the nation are captivating. I greatly look forward to working with policymakers to ensure they understand the tremendous strength that Pitt has in translating excellence into action for the state, the region and the national science and technology enterprise.”
Gibson, who began his career in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1993, moved to the White House Science and Technology Office in 1997 before joining the National Science Foundation in 2002 as a senior legislative policy analyst. During his time at NSF, he worked as a congressional affairs group leader and legislative division director before moving into his role as ...
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Good as Gold
Science and Technology @ UCSB
One aspires to an academic and research career focused on atomic resolution imaging; the other is aiming for a doctorate in materials science. Together, they have made UC Santa Barbara, the only UC campus to have multiple winners of the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship.
Dolev Bluvstein and Shelby Shankel, both undergraduate students in UCSB’s College of Creative Studies have been named 2017 Barry Goldwater Scholars. UCSB engineering student Michael Abramovitch received an honorable mention from the Barry Goldwater Scholarship & Excellence in Education Foundation.
Established by Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Barry Goldwater, the scholarships are designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Bluvstein and Shankel are among 240 sophomores and juniors nationwide to receive scholarships, selected from a field of 1,286. Of the total number of awardees, six hail from the University of California, with UCSB the only campus to have multiple winners.
“I am so happy to congratulate Dolev and Shelby as recipients of the 2017 Goldwater Scholarship,” said Kathy Folz, interim dean of the College of Creative Studies (CCS). “These students have brought distinction to UCSB and to CCS. Their accomplishments are truly amazing and I look forward to their continued success, in and out of the research lab. I also wish to congratulate both students’ research mentors, who provide the opportunities and dedicated professional guidance for these young research-scholars.”
The scholarship is an important first step toward academic and professional success, providing crucial support to ambitious young scholars.
“The scholarship will help me save money for graduate school, where I hope to continue studying condensed matter,” said Bluvstein, a sophomore physics major who works in professor Ania Jayich’s experimental condensed matter group. “The Goldwater scholarship is an important milestone in my young research career and a great honor.”
Criteria for Goldwater Scholarships include a nominated student’s area of ...
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Fina Birulés, distingida amb la Creu de Sant Jordi
Universitat de Barcelona - Notícies
Fina Birulés.
13/04/2017
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La professora de la Facultat de Filosofia Fina Birulés ha estat distingida amb la Creu de Sant Jordi per la seva intensa tasca de traducció, estudi i divulgació de la producció filosòfica femenina, i particularment de l’obra de Hannah Arendt.
En total, 29 personalitats i 24 entitats que han destacat pels serveis prestats a Catalunya en la defensa de la seva identitat o, més generalment, en l'àmbit cívic i cultural, rebran enguany la Creu de Sant Jordi, un dels màxims reconeixements que atorga la Generalitat de Catalunya des del 1981.
Fina Birulés imparteix les matèries de Filosofia Contemporània i Filosofia de la Història a la Universitat de Barcelona i ha estat professora visitant a les universitats de Puerto Rico, Xile, Parma, Florència i Viena. Forma part de diversos comitès en revistes especialitzades com ara Società degli Individui o Crítica Contemporánea. Revista de Teoría Política.
La seva tasca investigadora s’ha articulat al voltant de dos nuclis: la subjectivitat política, història i acció, i qüestions de teoria feminista i estudi de la producció filosòfica femenina —amb una atenció especial a l’obra de Hannah Arendt i d’altres filòsofes del segle XX—, activitat que desenvolupa en el marc del Seminari Filosofia i Gènere des de la seva fundació el 1990.
És traductora de diverses obres de filosofia contemporània, autora de nombrosos assajos i editora de volums col·lectius sobre el pensament de Hannah Arendt i altres pensadores contemporànies. Entre les seves publicacions més recents cal destacar Una herencia sin testamento: Hannah Arendt (2007), Contingencia, historia y narración en Hannah Arendt (2009), Imortalidade e história em Hannah Arendt (2009), La distancia como figura de la comunidad (2011) i Usos del anacronismo (2012).
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Attend a poetry reading by Charlotte Matthews
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Matthews promoting a previous poetry reading.Poet Charlotte Matthews will offer a free reading of selections from her new book Whistle What Can’t Be Said this April on the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus.
The reading will be held 2-4 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, in Room 140 Toomey Hall at Missouri S&T. The event is free and open to the public.
A professor in the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Program at the University of Virginia, Matthews’ works have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Borderlands, Ecotone, Tar River Poetry, storySouth and other poetry publications. In 2007, she received the New Writers Award from the Fellowship for Southern Writers. Matthews has two other collections of poetry, Green Stars and Still Enough to Be Dreaming, which were published by Iris Press in 2006 and 2008, respectively.
“Charlotte Matthews writes intimate poems that refuse to skate over the trials of childhood: she perseveres through absence, illness and loss,” wrote poet and author Ira Sadoff in a review of Matthews’ book. “Thanks to her hard work she — and we — can look out at the world with fierce and loving attention and take in our beautiful, difficult lives.”
Matthews served as a visiting professor at Missouri S&T in 2014, when she was the Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Professor of Humanities. While at S&T, she held numerous poetry readings for the campus and taught courses in poetry writing in the English and technical communication department.
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Alumna looks back on rewarding journey full of long hours, love of color
UMSL Daily
Ann Croghan juggled day jobs, part-time teaching and her own artwork for many years after graduating from UMSL. Her persistence on that path eventually led to her current setup at Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, Missouri, where she teaches painting and drawing full time and also showcases her work. (Photos by Jillian Schoettle)
Two things stand out to Ann Croghan about her time as a student at the University of Missouri–St. Louis in the early 1980s: the Blue Metal Building and the professors.
“I had some fantastic teachers,” says the Missouri native.
While the space where those lessons took place no longer appears on campus maps, the excellent instruction has stayed with her. And over the course of the 35 years since she earned her bachelor’s degree from UMSL, Croghan has become a sought-after teacher in her own right.
Ann Croghan, BGS 1982, works with students at all sorts of levels. Her love of teaching is second only to her love of art itself.
She’s currently a studio artist at Foundry Art Centre, located just 15 minutes west of campus. Students of all ages and abilities benefit from her painting and drawing classes at FAC, and her work is on view at the facility six days a week.
“When this opened up it was such a gift,” Croghan says of her role. She’s been based there since 2011, and in many ways it’s been a welcome change of pace.
An art instructor in the St. Louis region for the past two and a half decades, Croghan juggled various day jobs with teaching and her own artistic pursuits early in her career. Eventually she plunged into teaching full time, but it was still a relentless schedule.
“For 15 years I was teaching at five different locations,” Croghan recalls with a chuckle. “I had my office in the back of my ...
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Asian Pacific Islander Desi American President’s Reception at CSUF celebrates diversity and heritage
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The Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) President’s Reception for APIDA Heritage Month celebrated diversity Thursday.
President Mildred Garcia opened the event by referencing the 75 years that passed since Executive Order 9066 evicted more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans from their homes into internment camps and the 135 years since the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 created a moratorium on Chinese laborer immigration.
“Despite these horrors in our American history, today, we as a university and nation face similar executive orders and exclusion acts that threaten our students, our families, our communities and deepest values,” Garcia said.
Keynote speaker Mamta Accapadi, Vice President of Student Affairs at Rollins College said she valued being a Titan for a day.
“We all have meaningful stories so thank you for indulging me and listening to a few of mine,” Accapadi said.
Accapadi recalled when she worked in multicultural affairs and the leaders of the Filipino Student Association came to her for help after their funding from student government for the first Filipino culture night at her institution was revoked for violating rules.
Accapadi said after looking into the issue, she found they were planning to serve the traditional Filipino dish Dinuguan, chocolate meat, at the event. She said the advisor of student government determined it was “vulgar and inappropriate.”
After researching the food online, Accapadi questioned why it was inappropriate and explained to the advisor it was a cultural pork dish. She said the advisor turned bright red and defended herself by asking why they didn’t say something.
“Asian-American heritage month is for all of us. It is a commitment I hope we make to each other to do our own learning,” Accapadi said. “I didn’t know what chocolate meat was either but remember that I felt that something else was happening. I could have asked the students but guess what, it’s not the job ...
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