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Rasmussen College’s Bloomington campus opened up the ears and eyes of those interested in a career in information security on Oct. 30 during an event focused on security breaches and crimes, and how they happen.Marc Peterson, a senior analyst in information protection at Target Corp., and Jake Bernier, a senior information security specialist at U.S. Bank, covered three main topics during the event. They addressed how large breaches can happen, reviewed information on information security jobs focused on defending this type of crime and examined security from the attackers’ perspective.
Security breaches are increasingly becoming more of a problem
Security breaches have become a huge issue, especially in the past five years. You may recognize some of these breaches, including the cyber-attack on J.P. Morgan Chase that compromised information from 76 million households or Home Depot where cyber thieves stole up to 56 million card numbers.
Unfortunately, only reported breaches are known and companies may not be required to report breaches. Additionally, most companies do not know they’ve been breached, and sometimes they don’t find out until six months after it’s happened depending on the industry.
Many breaches often happen at the point-of-sale (POS) devices, which are dependent on the ever-popular nationwide credit card system.
“Current POS malware can easily steal credit card data,” Peterson said. “If you research it, you can buy the malware very inexpensively.”
This elevates the problems for credit card holders, merchants and issuers because they are all affected if credit card fraud were to occur. For example, the credit card holder will need a new card and to be reimbursed for any money that was taken. Cybercrime also poses a problem for the economy. McAfee Intel Security estimates the annual cost to the global economy from cybercrime is more than $400 billion. Some companies have been forced to shift their employment away ...
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Bloomington Students Learn Importance of Combating Cyber Criminals
This is "Reframe": New podcast highlights research in education and health
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William Berg discusses his research and work "Exploring the Mysteries of Movement" in one of several new "Reframe"podcasts produced by the College of Education, Health and Society.
The College of Education, Health and Society introduces a new podcast featuring in-depth stories and insightful interviews with EHS faculty, students and alumni.
“We are calling this audio series “Reframe” because in the ongoing pursuit of collaboration, diversity, wellness and social justice, there will always be a need for fresh perspectives and new ideas,” said James Loy, who is the voice conducting the interviews.
Loy, a member of the EHS communications team, worked in radio prior to joining Miami last year. His on-air and production experience include markets in Colorado, Denver and New York. Currently, he is on air at Mix 94.9 FM in Cincinnati.
Current interviews include:
“Refining and Redefining Literacy” with Paula Saine, associate professor, teacher education.
“Knowledge Consumers to Producers” with Thomas Poetter, professor, curriculum studies.
“Exploring the Mysteries of Movement” with William Berg, associate professor, kinesiology and health.
“Performance Management Parallels Between Teachers and Physicians” with Andrew Saultz, assistant professor, educational policy.
“Fantasy Sport’s Social and Academic Impact” with Brody Ruihley, assistant professor, kinesiology and health.
“Proactive Positivity and School Culture” with Amity Noltemeyer, associate professor, school psychology.
“Managing Evolving Teacher Environments” with Michelle Cosmah, clinical faculty, teacher education.
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Europe today and in the future: A conversation with European Investment Bank President Werner Hoyer
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On April 21, the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings will host EIB President Werner Hoyer for a speech and conversation on Europe’s growth outlook and the future of the European Union. Hoyer will reflect on the institutional turning point that the EU is experiencing at the moment, the theme of the recent European Commission’s White Paper on the Future of the Union. The EIB’s role as the EU Bank, in the Juncker Plan, in boosting investment and productivity in Europe, and in supporting the Sustainable Development Goals and climate financing globally, will also be covered.
After Hoyer’s speech, Homi Kharas, senior fellow and co-director for the Global Economy and Development program, will engage Hoyer in a conversation. The event will conclude with an audience question and answer session.
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Assistant Director of Residence Life Shavonn Nowlin Presents at NASPA
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In March 2017 Shavonn Nowlin, assistant director of residence life, attended the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) in San Antonio, Texas. During her time at NASPA, she had the opportunity to attend some great sessions. One, in particular, was presented by Sodexo CEO Barry Telford, and titled “Recruiting and Retaining Students in a Global Marketplace: A Discussion about Supporting And Enhancing the International Student Journey.” She also had the opportunity to present on “Comradery through Supervision: How to Support & Supervise Women of Color.”
Shavonn is the current co-chair for the NASPA 4East Women In Student Affairs (WISA) Drive-In Conference. The NASPA 4 East WISA Drive-In conference will take place on Friday, June 2 at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan. If you are interested in attending the conference or presenting, please feel free to reach out to her via email at snowlin@iit.edu.
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COD Alumna's Successful Acting Career Leads to 'Riverdale'
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By Brian KleemannHaving built a successful career as an actress, Marisol Nichols still credits College
of DuPage for creating a solid foundation.“I received some of the best training of my life on the Forensics Team,” she said.
“It taught me professionalism and how to put in the work. I go into every audition
knowing what to do and I audition off book, without looking at the script. College
of DuPage also taught me how to be a professional audience member, which means being
supportive of whomever is performing, even if it’s a competitor.”Nichols currently plays Hermione Lodge on the hit CW television series “Riverdale,”
which is based on the Archie comics. She describes Hermione as complex, loving and
yet complicated.“I’m always looking for something in a character that I want to play long-term as
well as someone I would want to watch,” she said. “Before auditioning, I wasn’t sure
where I could take Hermione. When I read for the show’s creator, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa,
he told me what the character was all about and I fell in love with her right there
in the room. It was an ideal audition. I’ve probably been on over 2,000 auditions
and for some roles I’ve gone back five, even six times. They offered me this role
right after I read. I figured I was due for an easy one.” Nichols had never pursued acting before College of DuPage. In fact, she had never
taken a theater class when she saw an audition notice for a COD student production
of “A View From the Bridge.” She dreamed of landing a small part and was surprised
when she was cast in a lead role.That experience fueled her desire to learn more and she joined COD’s Forensics Team.
Under the guidance of Professors Marco Benassi and now-retired ...
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Seeing Boston’s hidden sacred spaces
Brandeis University News
Since 1952, Our Lady of Good Voyage has offered Mass to the workers of Boston’s seaport who couldn’t make it to their home congregation on Sunday. This Easter Sunday, the small, brick Catholic port chapel on Seaport Boulevard will open its doors for the last time, as it will soon be razed as part of the ongoing redevelopment of the seaport.
Along with the historic churches, temples and mosques that dot the Boston skyline, sacred spaces like Our Lady of Good Voyages exist around the edges of the city. Photographer Randy Armor, Wellesley College Professor Alice Friedman and I have been documenting these spaces for a project we call Boston’s Hidden Sacred Spaces.
It is easy to overlook these spaces, and as one of them becomes history now seems an appropriate time to notice and consider the ones that remain.
As part of the Hidden Sacred Spaces Project, we have identified more than 80 chapels, meditation spaces and prayer rooms in greater Boston that are housed by organizations with non-explicitly religious purposes. We found them in hospitals, nursing homes, colleges and universities, the port, the airport, public parks, malls, state prisons, cemeteries, and even a local museum.
Well-known architects designed some, while others were created informally as areas to offer a small retreat. Some of the places stand-alone while others are a part of larger buildings. Some of the spaces we found look much as they did when constructed, while many have evolved over time to accommodate people from a range of religious traditions.
At Brandeis University, the original chapels were built in the early 1950s for Protestants, Catholics and Jews. Today there are spaces for Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and other religions across campus. At Northeastern University, a Sacred Space, a Reflection Room, and an area for ablution, private prayer, and meditation were literally built on the ashes of ...
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Blue Origin President to Speak at Embry-Riddle Daytona Beach Fall Commencement Ceremony
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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach Campus will welcome guest speaker Rob Meyerson, President of Blue Origin, as part of a weekend-long honoring of graduates at its Fall 2016 Commencement, Master’s Hooding and ROTC Commissioning ceremonies to be held Dec. 16-19.
As the university celebrates the culmination of its 90th anniversary, the Dec. 19 Commencement ceremony will also feature another milestone with 10 Ph.D. degrees scheduled to be awarded – the largest number in the school’s history.
Doctoral candidates include Engineering Physics and Aviation, and, for the first time, in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Human Factors.
ROTC Commissioning Ceremonies will be on Friday, Dec. 16, Sunday, Dec. 18 and Monday, Dec. 19 on campus, with the Master’s Hooding Ceremony taking place Sunday at the ICI Center on campus. The commencement ceremony featuring guest speaker Meyerson will be Monday, Dec. 19, at 10 a.m. at the Ocean Center, 101 N. Atlantic Ave., Daytona Beach.
Since 2003, Meyerson has overseen the steady growth of Blue Origin, an American privately-funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Wash. Blue Origin is developing reusable launch systems to enable a future in which millions of people are living and working in space. Vehicles and technologies under development include the New Shepard system for suborbital human and research flights, the BE-3 LOX/LH2 rocket engine, the BE-4 LOX/LNG rocket engine, as well as orbital launch systems.
Prior to joining Blue Origin, Meyerson was a Senior Manager at Kistler Aerospace, responsible for the landing and thermal protection systems of a two-stage reusable launch vehicle, as well as all technical activities related to Kistler’s Space Launch Initiative contract with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
He began his career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) as a cooperative education student and progressed to positions in which he led the aerodynamic design of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Drag Parachute, ...
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UMass Boston One of the Best Values in Massachusetts
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UMass Boston No. 5 in Massachusetts in New StudyA UMass Boston education is among the best values in Massachusetts, according to a new study.
The evaluation by SmartAsset.com weighed scholarships and grant opportunities, average starting salaries for graduates, and student retention rate against tuition and living costs. UMass Boston, with its $11,966 in-state tuition, average of $9,524 in scholarships and grants, and average starting salary of $46,600, came in at No. 5 on the list of Massachusetts schools and No. 63 overall.
This value ranking is the latest in a series of honors recognizing UMass Boston's education excellence and affordability. U.S. News & World Report lists six UMass Boston graduate programs among the top 100 in their respective categories, and SuccessfulStudent.org says UMass Boston has the sixth best online homeland security program in the country.
In 2016, The Princeton Review put UMass Boston on its "Best in the Northeast" list. UMass Boston was one of three institutions in Massachusetts that received INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine's Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award, and one of four institutions nationwide to earn the comprehensive 2016 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization. Also in 2016, the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education designated UMass Boston as an institution of "higher research activity." UMass Boston was one of only 107 U.S. universities to receive this classification.
About UMass BostonThe University of Massachusetts Boston is deeply rooted in the city's history, yet poised to address the challenges of the future. Recognized for innovative research, metropolitan Boston’s public university offers its diverse student population both an intimate learning environment and the rich experience of a great American city. UMass Boston’s 11 colleges and graduate schools serve nearly 17,000 students while engaging local and global constituents through academic programs, research centers, and public service. To learn more, visit www.umb.edu.
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Softball Wins Game One Late, Scores Early and Often in Game Two at Smith
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Apr 14, 2017
Northampton, MA --- Freshman Mackenzie Phillips (Gill, MA) pitched a two-hit shutout and junior Ama Biney (Worcester, MA) broke open a scoreless game with an RBI triple in the opener while sophomore Renee LeClaire (Merrimack, NH) was one of two Engineers to notch a trio of hits in game two as WPI defeated host Smith, 4-0 and 15-4 (5 inn.), Friday afternoon in a NEWMAC Softball doubleheader.
The Engineers (18-10, 9-3 NEWMAC) have now won six consecutive games, including back-to-back conference sweeps, over the span of four days. The Pioneers, meanwhile, move to 6-18 and 3-9.
Phillips and Smith senior Natalie Burchat (Shrewsbury, MA) did not issue a walk and only allowed two hits through the first five innings of the day. Senior Hope Shevchuk (Burlington, CT) began the top of the sixth with a double to third and was promptly plated by Biney. With two on, LeClaire sent a sacrifice fly to left followed by an RBI hit to left by junior RiAnna May (Westminster, CO). Biney later added a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
All seven of the Engineers hits were by different student-athletes, including doubles by sophomore Kylie Juarez (Elk Grove, CA) and Shevchuk, and a triple by Biney. Shevchuk also laid down a sacrifice bunt. Phillips yielded three hits and one walk while fanning six for her third win in four days.
Sophomores Emma Kraus (Wakefield, MA) and Tyler Feeney (Merrimac, MA) had the early hits for the Pioneers while junior Rowan Turner (Kansas City, KS) logged one in the bottom of the seventh. Senior Brittney Blokker (Seattle, WA) drew the lone walk and stole the only two bases of the game. Burchat ended up allowing seven hits and striking out one in the setback.
Biney also factored into the first run of the second game as she came home on a miscue put into play ...
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Four Princeton Nobel laureates share wisdom, parting advice to graduating seniors
Princeton University Top Stories
Four Nobel Prize winners on the Princeton faculty shared anecdotes and stories about their careers on Thursday, April 13, in "A Conversations with Four Nobel Laureates: Reflections on Resilience Through Challenges," part of the "Last Lectures" series organized by the senior class. The laureates included: Duncan Haldane, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics (2016 Nobel laureate in physics); Christopher Sims, the John J.F. Sherrerd '52 Professor of Economics (2011 Nobel laureate in economics); Eric Wieschaus, the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology (1995 Nobel laureate in physiology/medicine); and Angus Deaton, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, and professor of economics and international affairs, emeritus (2015 Nobel laureate in economics).
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IU Jacobs School of Music Jazz Celebration to feature Grammy-winning alumnus John Clayton
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IU Jacobs School of Music Jazz Celebration to feature Grammy-winning alumnus John ClaytonWhat: Jazz Celebration with bassist John ClaytonWhen: 8 p.m., Saturday, April 22Where: Musical Arts Center, 101 N. Jordan Ave., BloomingtonTickets: Reserved seating tickets available from the Musical Arts Center box office, 812-855-7433, 11:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, or online. $10-$15 Non-students, $5 Students with ID.VIDEO STREAMING: This event will be live-streamed via IUMusic Live!FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 14, 2017
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music welcomes Grammy Award-winning arranger, composer, big band leader and jazz bassist John Clayton as the featured artist in its annual Jazz Celebration, at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 22, in Bloomington’s Musical Arts Center.
Clayton, who earned a degree in classical bass performance from the Jacobs School of Music, is known for his soulful and swinging style as both a player and a writer. He will lead the IU Jazz Faculty/Student Jazz Ensemble in performances of his own original compositions and arrangements.
Clayton also will be featured performing in a small group setting with Jazz Studies faculty members Luke Gillespie, piano; Steve Houghton, drums; Walter Smith III, saxophone; and Dave Stryker, guitar. In addition to the small group players, the large jazz ensemble will include faculty members Jeremy Allen, bass; Pat Harbison and Joey Tartell, trumpet; and Tom Walsh, saxophone. Clayton’s arrangements of standards will be sung by student soloists Bailey Grogan, Kathryn Sherman and Kaitlyn Williams.
David Brent Johnson, host of WFIU’s “Just You and Me” and “Night Lights” jazz programs, will emcee Jazz Celebration 2017, which is part of April’s Jazz Appreciation Month.
After stints with the Count Basie Orchestra and the Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (The Netherlands), Clayton formed The Clayton Brothers (which now includes his son Gerald Clayton on piano) with his saxophone-playing brother, Jeff, in 1978. The Claytons formed the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra ...
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Four Northwestern faculty named Guggenheim fellows
Northwestern Now: Summaries
EVANSTON - Four Northwestern University faculty members have earned 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships.The newly announced fellows include Shalini Shankar of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, J.P. Sniadecki of the School of Communication, Hans Thomalla of the Bienen School of Music and Teresa Woodruff of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded the 2017 fellowships to a diverse group of 173 people from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants from the United States and Canada.The prestigious fellowships are granted to scholars, artists and scientists “on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.”Shalini ShankarShankar is a professor of anthropology and the director of the Asian American Studies Program. She is a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist concerned with issues of race and ethnicity, diaspora and migration, language use and media.She has conducted ethnographic research with South Asian American youth and communities in Silicon Valley, with advertising agencies in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles and with spelling bee participants and producers around the U.S.During the Guggenheim Fellowship year, Shankar will be based in Brooklyn, New York. She will research Generation Z, exploring how this demographic category can be defined in ways that more centrally account for the contributions of immigrants and minorities. J.P. SniadeckiSniadecki is an assistant professor of radio, television and film and serves as core faculty for the MFA in Documentary Media program. As a filmmaker and anthropologist active in China and the United States, his work explores collective experience, sensory ethnography and the possibilities of cinema.His films are in the permanent collections of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and they have been exhibited at the 2014 Whitney Biennale, the 2014 Shanghai Biennale, The Guggenheim, the MAK Museum Vienna, Beijing’s UCCA, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Shenzhen ...
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Five UChicago faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Five members of the UChicago faculty are among the 228 members elected to the 2017 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Profs. Lenore Grenoble, Young-Kee Kim, Jonathan Lear, W. J. T. Mitchell and Tara Zahra.Founded in 1780, the American Academy is one of the oldest and most prestigious honorary societies in country. It brings together leaders from academia, business and government to respond to some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and the world.
Lenore Grenoble is the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics. Grenoble specializes in Slavic and Arctic Indigenous languages, and conducts fieldwork in Siberia and Greenland. Her research focuses on contact linguistics, language shift and vitality, and on the study of language in its social and cultural contexts. An area of special focus is the status of minority and indigenous languages. She joined the UChicago faculty in 2007.
Grenoble is currently engaged in the documentation and description of the intersection of spatial orientation systems, landscape linguistics and place names in the Arctic. She is also one of four editors of a new digital series, Minority Languages in Europe, that is forthcoming.
Young-Kee Kim is the Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor in Physics and the College. She is also chair of the Department of Physics. An experimental physicist who focuses on particle physics to understand how the universe works, Kim has studied two of the most massive particles—the W boson and the top quark—at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where she was deputy director. Her current research includes studying the Higgs boson and developing new approaches to future accelerators.
Kim is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and a recipient of the Ho-Am Prize. She is currently a member of the DESY Science Council ...
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What Are You Watching? We Asked, You Answered
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Survey results offer snapshot of what’s hot, what’s not, on TV
We asked, you answered. Two weeks ago we invited you to tell us what shows you’re watching, how you’re watching them, and what devices you’re using to watch them. Below is a graphic with the results. Thanks to all who took part.
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Mānoa: UH School of Social Work assistant professor elected to national society as early career member
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University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaContact:Posted: Apr 13, 2017Dr. Elizabeth AparicioDr. Elizabeth Aparicio, an assistant professor at UH Mānoa’s Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work, was recently elected to the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR) board of directors as its first designated early career member (at large).SSWR is the preeminent social work research organization in the U.S., and Aparicio is honored to be the first scholar to represent UH as part of the board. SSWR hosts an annual research conference, which is an important national dissemination location for social work research. Aparicio’s responsibilities will focus on supporting early career members of the social work research community. Her elected position runs from 2017-2020.Aparicio, who has been on faculty since 2014, is a passionate advocate for community voices and participation in social work research. She is honored to co-lead successful research-practice partnerships with several health centers and state organizations. She is dedicated both to serving as a leader, especially in interprofessional settings, and to leadership development among social work students.The principal investigator of the School’s public child welfare training program directs the Future Leaders Optimizing Well-being (FLOW) Program for MSW students, and chairs the Child and Family specialization. Continually seeking to bridge community and university, Aparicio serves on the board of the Hawaiʻi Association for Infant Mental Health, where she supports infrastructure development and training, and consults on policy relevant to early childhood mental health and well-being.Aparicio’s research is broadly focused on examining health disparities for the purposes of informing and testing intervention programs for children, youth and families. She has a particular interest in informing and testing culturally-attuned, two-generation approaches in three interrelated areas to improve health equity: teenage pregnancy prevention and parenting support, early childhood intervention, and intergenerational child maltreatment prevention.In partnership with the Waikī ...
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Maldonado Environmental Hero Award nominations
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Nominations are now being accepted for the 2017 Maldonado Environmental Hero Award.Colin A. Maldonado was a 2013 graduate of Georgia College, with a major in environmental science and a minor in geology. He was President of the Environmental Science Club, a leader for the GC Wellness and Recreation Center climbing wall and a member of the Bike Polo team. Maldonado was an activist and a visualist; he employed his heart and his education to manifest a better world for all of us. During his senior year, Maldonado developed the GC Bike Plan, including designs for bike paths and a bike share program. Maldonado passed away from a tragic infection while living and learning about sustainability in action at a spiritual center in Costa Rica in 2014.
The Environmental Science Club and the GC Sustainability Council created the Maldonado Environmental Hero Award in 2014 to honor his determination, faith, optimism and kindness. The award is given to recognize a Georgia College student/graduate who best exemplifies Maldonado’s belief that individuals can make a difference and help us attain a sustainable future.
Please email MaldonadoAward@gmail.com to nominate the student or recent graduate you would like to be considered! Please include a brief statement of how your nominee exemplifies sustainability action and advocacy. Nominations are due by midnight on Wednesday, April 19. The award will be presented on April 21 at EarthFest 2017.
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CCMST Weekly News, July 30, 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 3: Many-body Perturbation Theory (Marshall).
The complete schedule of the lectures can be found at http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/opp/sched.html.
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Uptime: 15 day/home directory usage: 69% (1.9TB available)/backups directory usage: 84%
LSF usage for Week 29 (7/19-7/25) (times are in minutes) Group Jobs Total CPU Avg CPU Avg Wait Avg Trnr. Bredas 139 252574 ( 13%) 1817 52 1810
Hernandez 72 22711 ( 1%) 315 21 358
Sherrill 39 114098 ( 6%) 2926 570 3592
Other 16 0 ( 0%) 0 0 0
Total 266 389382 ( 20%) 1464 116 1570
Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period
Most productive user of the Week: lyzhu 129007
EGATE
Uptime: 243 days/theoryfs/common directory usage: 36% (427GB available)/theoryfs/ccmst directory usage: 81% (171GB available)
LSF usage for Week 29 (7/19-7/25) (times are in minutes) Group Jobs Total CPU Avg CPU Avg Wait Avg Trnr. Hernandez 134 86210 ( 6%) 643 111 757
Sherrill 70 61788 ( 4%) 883 39 951
Other 288 693573 ( 46%) 2408 178 2608
Total 492 841571 ( 56%) 1711 140 1868
Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the periodMost productive user of the Week: rnear 683218
TIP OF THE WEEK
By Massimo
Block Editing in Vim
One of the less known capabilities of vim, and a quite useful one, is block editing. In vim it is possible to select an rectangular block of text (with or without including beginning and end of lines) and do editing operation on it. At the end of the editing, the operation will be automatically repeated on each line of the block. This is very useful when operating on formatted files, for instance formatted input files.
To initiate block editing, move the cursor at the beginning of the block of text you want to edit, then type Cntrl-v ...
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Georgia Tech Brings the World to Savannah
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Georgia Tech Brings the World to Savannah
April 14, 2017
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More than 50 professionals from industry, government and academia participated in the first ever Georgia Tech-sponsored ports logistics conference April 10-11 in Savannah.
More than 50 professionals from industry, government and academia participated in the first ever Georgia Tech-sponsored ports logistics conference April 10-11 in Savannah. Participants in the invitation-only event hailed from Singapore, Panama, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and, of course, the United States. Led by Tim Brown, managing director of Georgia Tech’s Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL), and SCL’s research directors Professors Benoit Montreuil and Martin Savelsbergh, the conference focused on the emerging role of ports in global trade. Such topics as port logistics in the physical Internet era, new port roles as industry interconnectors and regional development enablers, automation and robotics, and maritime-intensive supply chains were a part of the robust agenda. The program included a tour of the Port of Savannah provided by the Georgia Ports Authority. “This is just one more way Georgia Tech fosters a global ecosystem of academic, industry, and government partners focused on next generation research and education,” Brown said. “Together, we can continue to build on the port’s successes and continue to bring the world to Savannah.”
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Friday, April 14, 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.
OSU study suggests rate of severe forest fires to increase (Jefferson Public Radio)
A new Oregon State University study shows forest fires have increased across the Pacific Northwest, with more severe blazes negatively affecting old growth forests.
Lawsuit claims border wall would be bad for animals (Newsweek)
The lawsuit claims the 654 miles of existing walls and fences along the U.S.-Mexico border have already destroyed wildlife habitat and altered ecosystems. Clint Epps, a wildlife biologist at Oregon State University, told BBC News manmade barriers have stopped many animals, not just humans, from crossing the border.
Why predators and prey should recover together (Futurity)
“You might think the loss of income associated with reducing harvest on both species at the same time would be greater than reducing harvest on one species after another, but our work suggests that synchronous recovery is ultimately better for recovering the ecosystem—and better from an economic perspective as well,” says coauthor Mark Novak of the Oregon State University College of Science.
Frequent PE helps adolescents to be better informed about physical activity’s role in health (Health Medicine Network)
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. (see also ANI, Medical Xpress)
51 percent of tweets about dementia contain stigma: study (McKnight’s Senior Living)
Researchers at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, made the determination after they developed software and analyzed 33,000 tweets that made some reference to Alzheimer’s disease or ...
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OSU’s 2017 EdFest to focus on literary citizenship
About the OSU College of Liberal Arts: The College of Liberal Arts includes the fine and performing arts, humanities and social sciences, making it one of the largest and most diverse colleges at OSU. The college's research and instructional faculty members contribute to the education of all university students and provide national and international leadership, creativity and scholarship in their academic disciplines.
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UCR Professor Teams with Joshua Tree Non-profit to Create Artist Residency Program for Veterans
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Charles Evered teams up with the Hi-Desert Cultural Center
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The Charles J. Evered House will be an artist residency for veterans.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) – Charles Evered, professor of playwriting at the University of California, Riverside, is seeking to create a special artist’s residency program with a non-profit group in Joshua Tree.
The residency, Charles J. Evered House, is primarily for military veterans who are writers, painters, musicians, and artists of all kinds. The initiative is being created in partnership with the Hi-Desert Cultural Center.
The residency, Evered said, will also be open to those who served in conflict zones — including war correspondents and combat photographers.
“People who document war are often underpaid, uninsured, and targeted by regimes – living very precarious lives. Our veterans returning home face many challenges as well,” Evered said. “But, maybe if we could provide them with a peaceful and secure place to collect their thoughts for a while, it’ll advance their work and amazing things might come from it. Veterans have incredible stories to tell. To me, they literally are the stories of our times.”
The residence is named after his late father, who was a veteran of World War II. He died in 1979.
“I haven’t had a dad for almost 40 years, but I feel like I talk to him every day. He was a great man, and I want him to live on in some way,” said Evered, who shares his father’s name.
Evered, who is founding artistic director of the Department of Theatre, Film and Digital Production, was himself a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Reserve and his son is entering his fourth year in the U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps. His daughter is a junior firefighter in Princeton, N.J. – rounding out three generations of service.
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Angela Zeng came to St. Louis from her native China in 1996 to earn her PhD in pathology from SLU before earning her MBA at Olin in 2005. She’s launched a natural beverage startup in St. Louis called Karuna and has been attracting the attention of local media with her bottled drinks that promote nutrition through plant-based beverages.
The St. Louis Business Journal reported that Zeng is investing $1.5 million to $2 million of her own money in the venture.
“Two of nature’s hardest-working healers, Mung Bean Sprouts and Aronia Berries, come together in Karuna Heal to bring you pure revitalization,” according to the website.
“Karuna Heal: Bean Sprout & Aronia Berry juice is rich in vitamins, minerals and a wealth of antioxidant properties.
“The benefits of these natural ingredient powerhouses will illuminate the path to true nourishment and healing.”
Karuna comes in four other flavors: Divine Chestnut. Fruity Longan, Divine Three, and Sunny Date.
Link to St. Louis Business Journal (paywall)
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UMass Motorsport Club Hosts Annual UMass Car Show April 23
UMass Amherst: News Archive
AMHERST, Mass. – The UMass Motorsport Club is hosting the 11th annual UMass Car Show on Sunday, April 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Lot 33 on North University Drive at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Sponsored by Ed’s Custom Muffler Shop in Springfield, the event attracts more than 600 vehicles and thousands of spectators each year. The show will include 14 judging categories, a live DJ, audio sound-off and an exhaust competition. Food will be provided by the BabyBerk food truck operated by UMass Dining Services.
Admission is free but there is a $10 entry charge for vehicles to be in the show.
The UMass Motorsport Club is a registered student organization and part of the recreation council at UMass Amherst.
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UT Press Partners with School of Art to Create Book Covers
Headlines – Tennessee Today
Sierra Plese, a senior in graphic design from Farragut, Tennessee, is about to see her work go to press.Plese’s design, featuring carefully selected type, has been chosen to grace the cover of Athens of the New South, published by UT Press.
“I really appreciated the chance to work with UT Press,” said Plese. “It has been a great learning experience and I am excited to see my work published.”
The opportunity is the result of a new partnership between UT Press and the School of Art’s graphic design program.
After seeing a similar project done at the University of Illinois Press, Kelly Gray, senior designer at UT Press, reached out to Associate Professor Deborah Shmerler to see if her students would be interested in helping design the cover of the book.
UT Press prepared a presentation for Shmerler’s typography class, inviting students to submit their designs to be considered for the cover of the book, which is a reflection on the history of Nashville.
Weeks later, UT Press returned to critique the work.
“We were extremely pleased with the results. There were around 19 designs, and several of them revealed promising talent and a deeper engagement with the material than we had expected,” said Gray. “The critique involved discussing basic design concepts, getting students to elaborate on their aesthetic visions and defend their choices.”
Gray and her team from UT Press chose three designs as potential covers. From those, the writer, Mary Ellen Pethel, selected Plese’s design. Plese is currently working with UT Press on creating an interior design to complement the cover.
Shmerler says the experience sparked her students’ interest in book production.
UT Press is planning on making the competition an ongoing partnership. In addition, they are currently in the process of creating an internship that allow students to explore similar concepts in depth.
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Pitt Chancellor Patrick Gallagher Issues Statement on Dan Rooney’s Passing
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La Universitat de Barcelona obté grans resultats en la competició d’analítica de dades més gran de l’Estat
Universitat de Barcelona - Notícies
Les dues guanyadores en la categoria Microsoft Predictive Modelling són alumnes de la Universitat de Barcelona.
Els dos equips de la UB, Random6 (Alexandra Abós i Xisca Pericàs) i Visual Miners (David Solans, Biel Stela i Ignasi Pérez), han fet un gran paper a la Cajamar UniversityHack 2017.
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L’equip Random6, format per Alexandra Abós i Xisca Pericàs, de la Universitat de Barcelona, ha guanyat la Cajamar UniversityHack 2017 en la categoria de Microsoft Predictive Modelling. L'equip Visual Miners, compost per David Solans, Biel Stela i Ignasi Pérez, també de la UB, ha quedat segon en la categoria IBM Card Analytics. La Cajamar UniversityHack està considerada la competició d’analítica de dades més important de l’Estat. En aquesta edició, que va finalitzar el passat 6 d’abril, hi han participat tretze universitats i 130 equips.
En la categoria Microsoft Predictive Modelling, els equips havien de predir la probabilitat que un client contracti un producte financer sobre la base d'unes variables anonimitzades de clients particulars de Cajamar. En el cas d'IBM Card Analytics, es tractava de crear la millor aplicació i visualització a partir de dades anonimitzades de Cajamar de transaccions amb targeta a la ciutat de València, amb dades reals agregades del Grup Cajamar dels anys 2015-2016.
La Universitat Carlos III, guanyadora en aquesta segona categoria, i les universitats de València, Autònoma de Madrid i Europea de Madrid també han obtingut bons resultats en aquesta competició.
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Missouri S&T students build competition-ready canoe out of concrete
The Concrete Canoe Design Team races their canoe at Little Prairie Lake on Saturday April 23, 2016. Sam O’Keefe/Missouri S&TStudents from Missouri University of Science and Technology have built a 250-pound canoe out of concrete and will prove that it floats during the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2017 Mid-Continent Student Conference.
The Missouri S&T Concrete Canoe Design Team will showcase its canoe and compete against other regional universities at the conference, which will be held April 21-22, at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
For the competition, students must design a “lightweight” concrete canoe that can remain buoyant when completely submerged in water, is strong enough to hold several paddlers and can easily maneuver through the water.
After passing a “swamp test,” designed to test the buoyancy of the canoe, the team will then race it in head-to-head short-distance and endurance events.
Each team is also judged on its engineering reports, a presentation and displays that illustrate the manufacturing process.
This year, Missouri S&T’s canoe was built using a mold that was repurposed mold from a previous year. It is approximately 18 feet long, 2.5 feet wide and 15 inches deep. The canoe is made of a mixture of Portland cement – the same material found in sidewalks – ceramic air-filled bubbles, carbon fiber and repurposed coal ash.
To learn more about the team, visit facebook.com/MissouriSTConcreteCanoe.
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Students grapple with new documentary, linguistic inequality alongside visiting sociolinguist
UMSL Daily
For Associate Professor of Linguistics Benjamin Torbert (at right), introducing Walt Wolfram to UMSL students last week was a special treat. Wolfram, the William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor at North Carolina State University, had a critical impact on Torbert’s own life and scholarship years ago. (Photo by Evie Hemphill)
Liz Miller and her classmates in English 5800 have been digging into the intersections of dialect, stigma and discrimination all semester. But that focus impacted her in a new way last week when one of the authors they’d been reading – Walt Wolfram – showed up in person.
“It was great to put a face and a voice to everything we’ve been studying,” said Miller, who is wrapping up her master’s degree with emphases in rhetoric and gender studies at the University of Missouri–St. Louis this spring. “I really appreciate that he showed us concrete examples of what [linguistic diversity] has looked like at his university. It gives me hope that we can all do better.”
Although Wolfram, who leads the Language and Life Project at North Carolina State University and has devoted about 50 years to researching social and ethnic dialects, was only in St. Louis for one day, Miller and fellow campus community members had ample opportunity to interact with him during the April 6 visit.
“One reason that I invited Dr. Wolfram is that this is the first semester I’ve taught a graduate course and an undergraduate course in my specialty at the same time,” said UMSL linguist Benjamin Torbert, a Department of English faculty member and former student of Wolfram’s. “So I thought we could get him in front of the undergrads in the afternoon and the grads in the evening.”
Torbert also opened the educational events up to the public, and the afternoon showing of the Life and Language Project’s brand ...
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CSUF Young Americans for Liberty host beach ball event to promote free speech and address student rights
Daily Titan
Members of the Cal State Fullerton Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) club rolled a giant beach ball through Titan Walk Wednesday, inviting students to write their political opinions on it and sign the club’s petition to protect free speech on campus.
The petition seeks to “protect free speech on campus” and calls for the termination any faculty member who encroaches on the rights of students, said Aaron Van Meter Jones, president of the CSUF chapter of YAL.
Jones said the clause about faculty termination was added after a Feb. 8 altercation involving part-time anthropology lecturer Eric Canin and three members of the CSUF College Republicans club during a protest on campus.
“The week before our first planned event, Eric Canin decided to assault a student over his political beliefs so then the petition kind of became personal,” Jones said.
An internal university investigation determined an “employee struck a student,” according to an emailed statement from CSUF Chief Communications Officer Jeffrey Cook Feb. 22. The statement read “even when we find opposing views objectionable, ours is a campus where we will insist that respect be afforded to the right of others to assert those views.”
Canin was suspended following the incident.
Canin and his representatives have continued to deny that Canin struck anyone. Canin said in a text message after the altercation that he was “confident any video would exonerate” him.
“It is grotesque that the attack on Dr. Canin, the silencing of Dr. Canin and the threat to take away his livelihood is being portrayed as a defense of free speech,” said California Faculty Association Fullerton Faculty Rights Chair Tyler McMillen in a text message in March.
The petition has about 170 student signatures, Jones said, and YAL plans to send it to the anthropology department head, Interim Dean of Students Alisia Kirkwood and the vice president of Student Life and Leadership ...
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Watch: April 18 Liturgy, Building Dedications on Historical Ties to Slavery
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April 14, 2017 – Georgetown, in partnership with the Archdiocese of Washington and the Society of Jesus in the United States, will hold a religious ceremony and building dedication on April 18 in honor of the 272 enslaved men, women and children sold by Maryland Jesuits in 1838.
The Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition, and Hope will take place at 10 a.m. in Gaston Hall as part of the day’s events, which will be attended by descendants of the enslaved people as well as members of the university community and the general public.
The liturgy will include Bishop Barry Knestout of Washington; Rev. Robert Hussey, S.J., Provincial of the Maryland Province Jesuits; and Rev. Timothy Kesicki, S.J., president of the Jesuit Conference, the organization that represents the Society of Jesus in the United States and Canada.
The event will be webcast live. Those who would like to attend may register.
Following the religious ceremony, the university will dedicate two campus buildings for Isaac Hawkins and Anne Marie Becraft. These halls were formerly named for two Jesuits involved in the 1838 sale to Louisiana plantation owners.
Isaac Hawkins Hall, formerly known as Mulledy Hall and provisionally named as Freedom Hall in 2015, will be named for the first enslaved person listed in documents related to the 1838 sale.
Anne Marie Becraft Hall, formerly known as McSherry Hall and provisionally named in 2015 as Remembrance Hall, will be renamed for a free woman of color who established a school in the town of Georgetown for black girls. The school was one of the first such educational endeavors in the District of Columbia.
She later joined the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the oldest active Roman Catholic sisterhood in the Americas established by women of African descent.
Also scheduled for April 18 is a reflection hour and lunch reception aand other events to honor the descendants and reflect on Georgetown’s historical ties ...
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The Hormone Oxytocin is Being Tested for Treatment of PTSD and Alcohol Abuse
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Nightmares. Obsessive thoughts. Avoiding particular places. Sudden outbursts. Fearing you’re in danger. Survivor guilt.
These experiences – manifestations of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) – are part of life for up to 1 in 3 U.S. combat veterans and active military personnel. That’s more than triple the prevalence of PTSD in the population at large. About two-thirds of those with PTSD struggle with alcohol abuse.
A new trial may hold new hope for these military personnel through treatment with oxytocin, sometimes referred to as the “love hormone.”
A Shift in Thinking
It’s no surprise that the threat or actuality of battle takes a psychological toll. What is surprising, are changes that Jennifer Mitchell, PhD, an associate professor of neurology in the UCSF School of Medicine, has found in the U.S. military’s attitude toward the condition, and its willingness to experiment in order to help troubled soldiers.
Jennifer Mitchell, PhD“It used to be that when an officer was experiencing this kind of thing, they were simply excused from the military,” said Mitchell, whose work focuses on PTSD and substance abuse. “Now they’re coming to accept that this is happening to many career personnel, and the military wants to keep these active duty people going. It’s an entirely new development philosophically.”
That shift is allowing Mitchell to test the potential of oxytocin, a hormone released during sex, childbirth and lactation as a treatment for PTSD and substance abuse among active military personnel. Oxytocin, present in both women and men, plays a role in social behavior, trust, empathy, and managing stress and anxiety. Its qualities have drawn researchers to the hormone, which is showing promise as a treatment for autism and schizophrenia.
“It helps with several conditions because they all involve similar stress responses,” said Mitchell, who has published findings about oxytocin for substance abuse. “Our thinking is that ...
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Nursing Students Tackle Real-World Healthcare Needs
Health – UConn Today
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome can strike fear in the heart of a new parent – something Olivia Briggs ’17 (NUR) knows well. When her nephew was a newborn, her sister obsessively bounced in and out of his room to make sure he was still breathing, she recalls. Not long before, a friend of her sister’s lost her baby to SIDS, the cause of 4,000 sleeping-related deaths annually in the United States, according to the American SIDS Institute.
Biomedical engineering students demonstrate a prototype of the Baby Breathing Bed. The concept will be part of the School of Nursing Shark Tank event on April 19. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)Briggs’ experience is the inspiration for the Baby Breathing Bed, a sensor-equipped mattress designed to detect impaired breathing in infants and alert parents in time to prevent SIDS. The innovation is one of 21 concepts being presented by teams of UConn seniors on April 19, when the School of Nursing is scheduled to hold its annual Healthcare Innovation “Shark Tank” event, which is part of the school’s ATHENA Research Conference.
“I came up with the idea and brought it to my group thinking that maybe this would be something that parents could use, even if only for peace of mind,” says Briggs. “It might be enough of a comfort for parents just knowing that their child is on this bed and if something were to go wrong, they would get an alert, instead of having to go into the room all the time and check on the infant.”
Last spring, the then third-year nursing students began working in a range of clinical settings. They were organized into teams and asked to come up with an innovation to address a healthcare need they were encountering and that had broad, real-world applicability, says Professor Christine Meehan, who with Professor Anna Bourgault co-directs the Healthcare Innovation Program.
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No. 37 FIU Women Tennis Travels to Boca Raton on Saturday
FIU Athletics
MIAMI (April 14, 2017) – The No. 37 FIU women's tennis team (18-1) travels to Boca Raton, Florida, to face Conference USA foe Florida Atlantic (11-9) on Saturday, April 15. First serve is set for 10 a.m. The Panthers come into Saturday's match having won 16-straight matches, including the team's 12th shutout of the season with a 4-0 victory over UCF on Saturday, April 1.The Owls come into Saturday's match having won seven of their last eight outings and are coming off a 5-2 loss against Miami on Friday, March 31.Saturday will mark the 28th meeting all-time between the two schools with FIU holding a 27-1 edge in series history. The Panthers have won 11-straight versus the Owls. The last meeting between the two schools resulted in 4-0 win for FIU on April 9, 2014 in Boca Raton.
Andrea Lazaro, Ulyana Grib and Maryna Veksler have each recorded 19 or more wins this season, with Veksler registering a team-best 14 victories in dual matches. Lazaro is currently ranked No. 44 in the latest Oracle/ITA Women's National Singles Rankings. The native of Barcelona, Spain, has registered an overall record of 19-2 (13-1 in dual matches) and is 17-3 in doubles, with an 11-1 recorded with her partner senior Nina Nagode. Nagode is competing in her last regular season dual match as a Panther Nagode enters Saturday's action with an overall career record of 40-19.
Fans are encouraged to follow the Panthers on Facebook (Facebook.com/FIUWTennis) for all the latest FIU women's tennis news. Follow all of FIU's 18 athletic teams on Twitter (@FIUAthletics), Facebook (Facebook.com/FIUSports), YouTube (FIUPanthers), and Instagram (FIUathletics).#####About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in seven different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including FIU Arena and Riccardo Silva Stadium.
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Jackson Throws Hammer PR at Mt. SAC Relays
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Will Stafford (@WillStaffordLSU)Associate SID
TORRANCE, Calif. – NCAA Indoor Champion Johnnie Jackson added his name to the NCAA-title chase outdoors during Thursday’s action at the 59th Mt. SAC Relays as he raised his personal best by more than eight feet with a series-best throw of 231 feet, 2 inches to take third place in the men’s invitational hammer throw.
Five of Jackson’s six throws on Thursday night eclipsed his personal best entering the meet after opening his outdoor season with a previous PR of 222-9 at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays two weeks ago.
Jackson opened with a mark of 223-5 for his very first attempt of the competition to sit second after the first round of throws before posting a best of 231-2 in the second round to take the lead in the event. He carried that lead into the finals after wrapping up the qualifying round with a throw of 224-4 with his third attempt.
Jackson, who added throws of 224-7 in the fifth round and 227-5 in the sixth round, slipped to third place in the fifth round after UNAL Tigres athlete Diego Del Real threw a winning mark of 246-0 and Ole Miss standout Dempsey McGuigan threw 231-5 to edge Jackson for second place. Unattached thrower Connor Neu followed in fourth at 228-11, while Iron Wood Track Club’s Sean Donnelly ended the day in fifth place at 228-3.
Jackson continued his outstanding 2017 season as he moved back into the NCAA’s Top 10 as the No. 7-ranked hammer thrower nationally this season. His 231-2 also moved him up a spot into the No. 2 spot on LSU’s all-time outdoor performance list in the men’s hammer throw, trailing only the school-record mark of 239-5 set by former NCAA Champion Walter Henning during the 2010 season.
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‘Memory’s Encouragement’ by Rice’s Gorry explores how to discover significance in one’s life
In a new book, Rice’s Tony Gorry recalls scenes from his earliest postwar childhood and adolescence, weaving his present reality with these images to unlock meaning hidden in the remembered moments. Gorry helps his mother, discovers his father’s combat heroics, goes on adventures with his dog, sleds, watches clouds and learns slowly about the world of a small town in New York and the attitudes and principles that govern his parents’ generation.
TONY GORRY
Published this month by Paul Dry Books, the 173-page memoir “Memory’s Encouragement” reveals that while these moments on their surface may appear “ordinary,” they point the way to a life well-lived.
“I began writing it when I was first diagnosed with leukemia about eight years ago,” said Gorry, the Friedkin Professor Emeritus of Management at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business. Prior to his retirement, he was also a professor of computer science and the director of the Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning at Rice.
“I thought about the ways in which my parents had faced adversity,” Gorry said. “And as I wrote some about their lives, I began to better understand aspects of my own. I published a short essay about my confrontation with leukemia that received quite a bit of attention, so I began to expand it as well. And soon I found I was integrating my experience as a teacher, researcher and consultant in some reflections on our lives in the ‘high-speed’ lane of the internet. Last I found myself returning to a piece I published in the Classical Journal on the challenges of learning ancient Greek. Over time, all these came together in my memoir that extends from my birth during the Second World War to the present day.”
Gorry also “remembers” events at which he was never present, such as the evening his parents first ...
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Trial and Error: Researchers Publish Findings From First UC Phase I Trial
UC Health News
Sometimes in life, the only way to learn is through failure.The same is true in science: Without testing a hypothesis, which sometimes is incorrect, researchers wouldn’t know how to tweak experiments or improve drug combinations to make important strides.Researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine recently published a study—their inaugural study in the Phase I Experimental Therapeutics Program first formed in 2010—which did not have favorable outcomes, but that opens the possibility for future studies which could be applicable to patient treatment in the future."It was our first investigator-sponsored trial, but it just didn’t work out the way we hoped. However, the results of our study do highlight the critical need for consideration of biopharmaceutical properties in designing investigational agents targeting molecular pathways and drug delivery approaches to find therapeutically relevant drug combinations,” says John Morris, MD, study co-author and director of the UC Phase I Experimental Therapeutics Program.The study, published in the journal Targeted Oncology, found that the combination of two targeted therapies which showed promise in preclinical models (human tumor samples and animal models) were not beneficial and caused a number of side effects in patients enrolled in the study."The development of molecularly targeted agents, small molecules or antibodies directed against specific cancer-causing targets, has transformed cancer therapy, leading to improved disease control and extended survival,” says Morris, co-leader of the UC Cancer Institute's Comprehensive Lung Cancer Program, member within the Cincinnati Cancer Consortium, professor in the division of hematology oncology and UC Health medical oncologist. "However, only a few of these agents have been successful as single agents, likely because many tumors develop alternate signaling pathways or harbor additional genetic alterations and are not driven by a single mutation. Therefore, these tumors require targeting of multiple key signaling regulators, warranting combination therapy.”Morris says a pathway known ...
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Get tickets for Summer Family Musical set July 5-7
Lone Star College CyFair News
Published on: June 01, 2016
Dont miss Freckleface Strawberry: The Musical on stage July 5-7 at Lone Star College-CyFair.
This show, based on the New York Times Best Selling book by celebrated actress Julianne Moore, is a fun and touching family musical.
Families can step inside the book's pages with Freckleface and friends as they learn to love the skin they're in at this performance specifically created for young audiences.
Performances will be held at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Tuesday, 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday and 10 a.m. Thursday in the Main Stage Theatre.
For tickets, group discounts and information go to LoneStar.edu/BoxOffice, call 281.290.5201, or email CFC.BoxOffice@LoneStar.edu.
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Lone Star College-North Harris announces audition for spring theatrical performance
Lone Star College North Harris News
Published on: November 19, 2015
The Lone
Star College-North Harris Division of Fine Arts will host an audition for its
spring theatre production, A Midsummer Nights Dream, on December 8 from 5 to
8 p.m. The audition is open to actors from throughout the community,
and not just students at Lone Star College-North Harris. This play is one of William Shakespeare's
most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
A
Midsummer Nights Dream, is a comedy believed to have been written between 1590 and 1597. The play
portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens,
Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of
four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit
the forest in which most of the play is set.
Twenty actors are needed for the
cast. To audition, actors must prepare one monologue from a Shakespearean play
or sonnet. To schedule an audition, call 281.765.7963 or email Director Cash
Carpenter at cash.carpenter@lonestar.edu . Students who are part of the Lone
Star College system will also receive college credit if cast.
Rehearsals are tentatively scheduled
to begin on Jan. 19, 2016. The performance is scheduled for February 24 through
28, 2016.
The LSC-North Harris Division of Fine Arts offers a variety of concerts,
theatrical productions, art exhibitions and lectures, workshops and more
throughout the year. Past theatrical performances include Tarzan, Steel Magnolias and Rent.
Lone Star College-North Harris is located at 2700 W.W. Thorne Drive,
one-half mile south of FM 1960 East, between Aldine-Westfield and Hardy Roads.
For more information about the college, call 281.618.5400 or visit LoneStar.edu/NorthHarris.
Lone Star College has been opening
doors to a better community for more than 40 years. Founded in 1973, LSC
remains steadfast in its commitment to student success and credential
completion.Today, with almost 83,000 students in credit classes, and a
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Thursday, April 13, 2017
From Classroom to Courtroom
University at Albany University at Albany Headlines
Albany Law School President and Dean Alicia Ouellette, at right, congratulates a UAlbany student on a fine showing in the Undergraduate Intercultural Moot Court Competition. (Photo by Meaghan Lambert)
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 14, 2017) — Last Saturday, 21 UAlbany students were at Albany Law School, presenting legal arguments on behalf of their client before a panel of local practicing attorneys and judges. The case focused on a family law issues related to parental rights.
The day was part of the 2nd annual Theodore T. Jones Undergraduate Intercultural Moot Court Competition. The competition is named after a New York Court of Appeals judge who served on New York’s highest court, and honors his dedication to pipeline and other diversity initiatives.
“There’s no better experience than a real-world experience, and this moot court competition provides UAlbany students interested in a career in law with as close to a real-world courtroom experience as there is,” said Michael N. Christakis, vice president for Student Affairs and a public service professor.
Christakis worked with Rosemary Queenan, Albany Law School’s associate dean for student affairs, and Professor Jim Acker of UAlbany’s School of Criminal Justice, to organize and seek funding for the competition. Acker spent the spring semester preparing the UAlbany students for the competition in his Moot Court class. Queenan and Professor Jerry Rock also visited the class to help prepare the students for competition day.
The winners of the competition, Samantha McCarthy ’18, a psychology major, and Ali Hansen ’19, a criminal justice and environmental health dual major, as well as finalists Nicholas Gonzalez ’20, a political science and communication dual major, and Alicia Cacioppo ’19, a psychology and art dual major, earned cash prizes.
Several other competitors were recognized for their outstanding oral advocacy skills during the first two preliminary rounds of the competition: Lisa Dobrowolsky ’19, a criminal justice and sociology dual major, for best oral ...
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Clemson hosts conference designed to strengthen South Carolina forestry industry
Newsstand | Clemson University News and Stories, South Carolina
CLEMSON — Forestry industry leaders from across South Carolina converged on Clemson University Tuesday for an all-day conference billed as an opportunity to forge collaborations between business and higher education.
Forestry executives from across South Carolina attend the Forestry Industry Advisory Conference hosted by Clemson University.
The Forestry Industry Advisory Conference was hosted by Clemson’s forestry and environmental conservation department and attended by more than 70 industry executives and representatives from state and federal agencies. The attendees worked with Clemson administrators, faculty, Extension foresters and students to find ways they can partner to keep the state’s $20 billion forestry industry humming.
The conference’s keynote speaker was John D. Williams, chief executive officer of Domtar Corporation, the largest integrated producer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America.
Williams spoke about the need for creativity and innovation in an industry that will be renewing much of its workforce over the coming years.
“Clemson’s number one deliverable is fabulous graduates,” Williams said. “This industry, regardless of the grade we’re making now, is going to face its challenges and we need talented teams of people who can help the industry overcome these challenges.”
Williams also called for the forestry industry to embrace sustainability.
“When forests are well-managed they are self-sustaining ecosystems. Clemson is clearly focused on this. Nobody needs sustainable forests more than the pulp and paper industry. If they’re not there, we’re done. Sustainability can also serve as a marketing story that sets the Southeast apart from other markets,” Williams said.
Forestry industry representatives from Schneider Tree Care, American Forest Management, Milliken, International Paper and others called on Clemson’s forestry department to fill curriculum gaps, incentivize curriculum innovation, provide research support in areas that apply more directly to industry needs and help create manufacturing markets for South Carolina’s abundant timber.
One such initiative is Clemson’s Wood ...
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