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125 locations in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and through online programs. The university is a major research center, seeking solutions to real-world problems in partnership with the aerospace industry, other universities and government agencies. For more information, visit
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Friday, April 21, 2017
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UMass Boston Postdoctoral Researcher Works to Save Salamanders from Deadly Fungus
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When Molly Bletz was a kid, she loved to catch salamanders in her backyard. Today, as a postdoctoral researcher at UMass Boston, she is helping to save salamanders from a deadly fungus.Bletz recently received a 2017 David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship from the Society for Conservation Biology and the Cedar Tree Foundation. The fellowship will support her research at UMass Boston, and her collaboration with the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies to translate that research into effective policy and conservation action.
“North America is home to 50 percent of the world’s diversity of salamanders,” Bletz said. “They are crucial species in two ecosystems. As juveniles, they live in aquatic habitats, and as adults they become more terrestrial.”
The salamander chytrid fungus, which is deadly to many salamanders, has already traveled from Asia into Europe. While this fungus hasn’t yet impacted North American salamanders, Bletz hopes to find ways to protect these salamanders before the fungus spreads. Options for mitigation include vaccination, micro-predator manipulation (introducing bugs that might eat the fungus), or the creation of a probiotic cocktail that would boost salamanders’ ability to fight off disease.
Bletz’s mentor, Assistant Professor of Biology Doug Woodhams, has already demonstrated the efficacy of the probiotic method in his lab. Bletz compares the probiotic approach to humans eating large quantities of yogurt. The probiotics encourage good bacteria to flourish, and protect against bad microbes.
Bletz will complete her PhD at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany this spring. The Smith Conservation Fellows collaborate with academic and practitioner partners. Bletz will work with Woodhams at UMass Boston and Priya Nanjappa of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies on this research.
Woodhams looks forward to the ways in which this fellowship will help build a bridge between UMass Boston scientists and government agencies tasked with conservation.
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Springfield Stuns Baseball in NEWMAC West Weekend Series Opener
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Apr 21, 2017
Northboro, MA --- Freshman Chad Shade (Pittsfield, MA) belted two home runs and walked twice to account for four RBI and five runs scored in a 14-6 Springfield victory over host WPI Friday afternoon at the New England Baseball Complex.
The Pride up their record to 14-11 overall and 6-6 in NEWMAC action while the Engineers dip to 23-9 and 11-4.
Springfield dented the scoreboard twice in the first and three times in the second for the early 5-0 lead. Shade began the game with a walk. He reached third on a failed pickoff and a wild pitch before advancing home on a single up the middle by senior Colin King (Berlin, CT). Later in the frame, King scored on a hit to center by junior Logan Barrett (Petersham, MA). With two outs in the second, King added another RBI with an infield knock. Junior Mark Joao (Wappingers Falls, NY) followed with a 2-RBI double to center.
The Crimson and Gray got on the scoreboard in the third with an RBI walk by senior Nick Comei (Haverhill, MA) and a productive ground out by sophomore Steven Gallagher (Coventry, RI). The Pride took the runs back with solo shots by Shade and Joao in the top of the fourth. WPI scratched together an unearned run to make it a 7-3 ballgame after four.
After a scoreless fifth, the guests offense picked back up with two in the top of the sixth as Joao drove in one with a single and Barrett sent a sacrifice fly to left. Shade added three more in the seventh with a towering blast that wrapped around the pole in left. Freshman David Larson (Port Tobacco, MD) plated Gallagher with a double down the left field line in the bottom of the inning.
Springfield scored one behind an RBI single by junior Peter Marsicano (Allentown, NJ) ...
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Fung Global Fellows to focus on the culture and politics of resentment
Princeton University Top Stories
Six exceptional early career scholars from around the world will come to Princeton University this fall to begin a year of research, writing and collaboration as the fifth cohort of Fung Global Fellows.
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Column: Lifting the tobacco ban on campus could create a source of income for the university
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The idea of having tobacco on campus is off-kilter and not the first thing people would think of as beneficial to the campus.
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Star Trak: February 2017
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Feb. 1, 2017FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEBLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Venus will dominate the evening sky in the west during February. It will be brightest in midmonth but close to that peak every night.
This month will be a prime opportunity to see Venus with the naked eye in daylight. It will be highest due south in mid-afternoon and won’t set until more than three hours after sunset.
If the night sky is dark enough, the planet will cast shadows on the ground. Try looking for the shadow of Venus on a layer of fresh snow after the full moon on Feb. 10, for example.
As the evening sky darkens at the start of the month, red-orange Mars will be easy to spot a few degrees to the upper left (south) of brilliant white Venus. Mars will fade noticeably as it moves eastward away from Venus. At the beginning of the month, Mars will set only 20 minutes after Venus, but by month’s end it will set a half hour later as seen from mid-northern latitudes.
Jupiter will climb above the eastern horizon around 11 p.m. local time at the beginning of February and two hours earlier by month’s end. Wait until it is high in the south to get the best views with a telescope, showing cloud features and its four Galilean moons. The giant planet will be 4 degrees north of the bright white star Spica in the constellation Virgo.
Saturn rose soon after 4 a.m. today and will rise two hours earlier by the end of the month. Its rings will be tilted 27 degrees to our line of sight, almost as open as they ever become. As dawn begins to brighten, Saturn will glow in the south-southeast 20 degrees to the left (east) of the bright orange star Antares in the constellation Scorpius.
Mercury will appear very low in the east-southeast each ...
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Six earn prestigious Massey Awards for outstanding service at UNC-Chapel Hill
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Six earn prestigious Massey Awards for outstanding service at UNC-Chapel Hill
(Chapel Hill, N.C.— April 19, 2017) – Six employees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been selected by Chancellor Carol L. Folt to receive the 2017 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards, one of the most coveted distinctions earned by faculty and staff.
“The exemplary people recognized with the Massey Award help create the wonderful quality of life we experience at Carolina,” said Folt. “I thank each of the awardees for their extraordinary contributions to the Carolina Community. They put the heart and soul into what it means to serve others.”
The late C. Knox Massey of Durham created the awards in 1980 to recognize “unusual, meritorious or superior contributions” by University employees. In 1984, he joined the families of his son, Knox Massey Jr., and daughter, Kay Massey Weatherspoon, to create the Massey-Weatherspoon fund. Income from the fund supports the Massey Awards and Carolina Seminars. Due to endowment growth, the 2017 Massey Award winners will each receive a $10,000 stipend, an increase of $2,500 over previous years.
Chosen from campus-wide nominations, the Massey Award recipients will be honored at a luncheon hosted by Folt on April 22, where they will receive their stipend and an award citation. This year’s recipients are:
Allison Legge, interim registrar and senior associate director for enrollment and undergraduate admissions, Office of Undergraduate Admissions
San San Lwin, housekeeper, McIver Residence Hall/Kenan Community
Delmazine McAdoo, housekeeper, Connor Residence Hall/Connor Community
Sherry Salyer, teaching professor, director of undergraduate studies, Department of Exercise and Sport Science
Dave Stevens, senior associate dean of business and operations, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Charles Streeter, applications analyst, Student Affairs Information Technology, and Employee Forum chair
Allison Legge
Legge helps Carolina build a high-caliber student body from more than 45,000 first-year applicants and 2,500 transfer applicants each year. Known as a “consummate professional” and ...
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Northwestern opposes executive order restricting immigration
Northwestern Now: Summaries
EVANSTON - Northwestern University has joined 30 other colleges and universities around the country in filing an amicus brief opposing President Donald Trump’s second executive order restricting immigration.Universities today greatly depend on the talents of students and scholars from around the globe to advance scholarship and enrich student learning, and the institutions already are feeling the order’s damaging effects, according to the brief.The amicus brief was filed April 20 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case of State of Hawaii, et al., v. Donald J. Trump, et al.The president’s second immigration order falls short on justifying the ban on affected individuals from the six specified countries while harming the ability of American universities to carry out their global missions, the brief concludes. Issued March 6, the president’s second executive order would suspend entry of nationals from six Muslim-majority countries into the United States for 90 days. The countries are Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, and the order would bar entry of affected individuals who seek the categories of visas most commonly relied upon by international students.The president’s second executive order has been blocked from going into effect by orders of federal district court judges in Hawaii and Maryland. And the Trump administration is challenging those court orders in appeals to the Fourth and Ninth Circuits.The universities “take extremely seriously the safety and security of their campuses and the nation,” the brief states. But they “believe that safety and security concerns can be addressed in a manner that is consistent with the values America has always stood for, including the free flow of ideas across borders and the welcoming of immigrants.”Through established visa programs, the many international students, faculty and scholars who make American university campuses their homes have been thoroughly vetted by the U. ...
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Q+A: Classics scholar discusses new Core sequence in Humanities
UChicago News
Beginning with Fall Quarter 2017, UChicago will offer Poetry and the Human, the first new Humanities Core sequence since 2007. Students in the sequence will study techniques and concepts in poetry from various cultural traditions and learn from instructors across ten departments in the Division of the Humanities, as well as from the Committee on Social Thought and the Creative Writing program.Sarah Nooter, associate professor in the Department of Classics, specializes in Greek works and literary theory and linguistics. Nooter helped lead Poetry and the Human's development and recently discussed with UChicago News her inspiration and some of the works that students will encounter.
Where did the idea for Poetry and the Human come from?
I was asked to update one of the original courses, but I found that a bit demoralizing. And I thought about myself as a freshman and what would have been inspiring to me, and that’s how I first started thinking about this course.
Can you tell us what students might expect to study in each section?
The first section is about forms and transformation in and through poetry—really just learning about what poetry is and how it’s been thought about as foundational and at foundational moments. We’ll read poetry and philosophy from a number of different traditions, including Chinese, Indic and Mayan poetry, and will end by focusing on book 24 of The Iliad, which is about loss and mortality, looking at old English translations and contemporary adaptions.
The second quarter is where we’ll look at politics and performance. We’ll talk about current events and how a poet responds to the world and finds his or her voice. It’s not always about being anti-establishment. Sometimes poets are working with the regime to build institutions, for better or worse. We’ll also be able to bring in film to think about ...
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Sorian Brings K-pop Flair to BU Community
BU Today
If you walked through the College of Fine Arts basement on a Tuesday night recently, chances are you’d have been treated to an impromptu concert. A young woman might have been singing a somber ballad in one practice room, a group of guys singing and rapping an R&B song in another, or a pianist experimenting with song arrangements in a third. These members of Sorian the Sound Makers, a student-run K-pop, hip-hop, and a cappella group whose goal is to spread Korean music and culture and enrich cultural life at BU, were rehearsing for their spring concert.
Sorian was founded in fall 2010, as the K-Pop craze was beginning to hit the United States. “It started as just a group of people who love music and love to sing coming together to have fun,” says Junehyung (Julia) Park (CFA’17), club president. “The name of the group is derived from the Korean word sori, which means ‘music’ in English, with an at the end, indicating ‘the people of’: Sorian means ‘People of music.’”
Initially, the group performed all kinds of music, but by 2013 decided to focus exclusively on K-pop, which originated in South Korea in the 1980s and 1990s. The genre draws inspiration from traditional Korean music as well as Western genres such as R&B, Western pop, hip-hop, reggae, jazz, electronica, and more. K-pop spread globally with the help of social networking sites and ignited in the United States in 2012 when Korean pop star PSY’s “Gangnam Style” became a viral sensation, attracting hundreds of millions of views on YouTube.
Yongjin Cho (CAS’18) at a recent rehearsal. Photo by Alexandra Wimley (COM’17)
“The K-pop genre entails various types of music, says Park. “Most of its songs have music videos involving choreography and cool fashion styles, which helped it gain a huge popularity around the world. Through our concerts and ...
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JazzFest 2017: Note new location
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The location for JazzFest 2017 has been changed to GC Front Campus.Spring is in bloom, and just like every spring in Milledgeville, that means it is time to swing. The 28th Annual JazzFest – sponsored by the Georgia College Department of Music, Allied Arts and Milledgeville Main Street – is just around the corner. This year’s festival will feature internationally-renowned saxophonist Jeff Coffin performing with the Georgia College Jazz Band.
This year's JazzFest begins at 3 p.m., Saturday, April 29. The location has been changed to Front Campus at Georgia College. Jazz bands from local area schools will participate, along with a sunset concert featuring the Georgia College Jazz Band with Coffin.
The JazzFest has been a spring tradition since 1990, first organized by Jim Willoughby, former chair of the Music Department. Dr. Cliff Towner, the GC Director of Band Activities, says this year’s JazzFest “is going to be on a whole new level from recent years. Partnering with Allied Arts and Milledgeville Main Street has enabled us to bring even more great jazz to Milledgeville. The seven performing ensembles, along with an artist of the caliber of Jeff Coffin, are sure to please jazz enthusiasts and the community at large.”
This year’s festival begins with the Jones County High School Jazz Band at 3 p.m., followed by jazz bands from Oak Hill Middle School, Houston County High School, Baldwin High School and Riverwood International Charter School.
The Georgia College Jazz Combo and Alumni Band will follow soon after. Finally, the Georgia College Jazz Band will kick off its concert around 7 p.m. and welcome Coffin to the stage.
Coffin is a three-time Grammy award-winning saxophonist, member of the Dave Matthews Band and a 14-year former player with Bela Fleck & the Flecktones. Coffin received a music education degree from the University of North Texas, where he played with the famous One ...
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CCMST Weekly News, June 11, 2010
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Summer Lecture Series in Electronic Structure Theory
Throughout the summer, a series of lectures in electronic structure theory will be presented at the advanced undergraduate/beginning graduate level. Lectures will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays in MSE 4202A from 2-3PM. The summer students, the new theory/computational graduate students, and anyone else who is interested are cordially invited to attend.
The series will start next Tuesday, June 15, at 2:00 pm in room MSE 4202A with "Intro to Electronic Structure Theory", by Prof. Sherrill.
The complete schedule of the lectures can be found at http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/opp/sched.html
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TIP OF THE WEEK
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Georgia Tech Ranked Second For Public University ROI
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Georgia Tech Ranked Second For Public University ROI
April 21, 2017
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Georgia Tech came in ranked second on that list with a net 20-year return on investment of $824,000.
Economists generally agree that a higher education is a good return on your investment. Those who earn their college degree typically obtain salaries much higher than those who do not, and in a majority of cases, those people earn enough to make up for the tuition costs associated with college.
Researchers at Money magazine used 2017 data from the website Payscale to compile a list they call "The 25 Best Public Colleges for Big Paychecks."
They determined the top public universities with the highest return on investment based on costs, graduation rates, and earning potential out of college.
Georgia Tech came in ranked second on that list with a net 20-year return on investment of $824,000.
While these rankings are based on the cost of in-state tuition, Money and PayScale note that Georgia Tech also ranks in the Top 20 when out-of-state tuition costs are factored in as well.
Read more about the rankings here.
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Friday, April 21, 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 reveals plans for new $60 million arts and education complex (Oregonian)
Oregon State University plans to build a $60 million complex for theater, arts and music on its Corvallis campus, officials said this week. (see also KLCC, Philanthropy News Digest)
Engagement with nature contributes to overall life satisfaction (News-Medical)
New research at Oregon State University empirically demonstrates that a variety of mechanisms for engaging nature significantly contribute to a person’s overall well-being.
‘Stumptown scud’ scavenger hunt: Scientists seek unique Portland creature (KATU)
The $25,000 grant from the Oregon Zoo Foundation will go in part to Oregon State researchers for work toward a conservation plan for the fingernail-sized species. (see also KPTV)
Corvallis EPA office opens its doors (Democrat-Herald)
By following this data over time, Compton said, the agency has been able to identify when the amount of nitrate leaching spikes. That has helped Oregon State University develop farming techniques that both reduced the amount of nitrate leaching for certain crops, and the human and environmental effects of that leaching, while helping farmers avoid wasting fertilizer.
Holocaust survivor plans OSU talk (Herald & News)
More than 70 years after the end of World War II, Lucille Eichengreen is still bearing witness to the horrors of the Holocaust. The 92-year-old Eichengreen, author of “From Ashes to Life,” will share her story of survival next week as part of Oregon State University’s annual observance of Holocaust Memorial Week.
Oregon State University Board votes Friday on tuition increase (KLCC)
Oregon State University Board Considers Tuition Increase FridayThe Oregon State University Board of Trustees is expected to vote to ...
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OSU Center for the Humanities hosts ‘Blackout’ exhibit featuring work of Kerry Skarbakka
CORVALLIS, Ore. – “Blackout,” an exhibit of work by Oregon State University’s Kerry Skarbakka, is on display at the OSU Center for the Humanities now through June 8. The center is located at Autzen House, 811 S.W. Jefferson Ave., Corvallis. The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
Skarbakka is assistant professor of photography at OSU and teaches courses in photography and sculpture. Blackout is Skarbakka’s second solo exhibition in Corvallis in the last year. The site-specific installation is comprised of objects of art and understanding, encapsulated in the medium used to line the beds of trucks, and thus blacked out, or rendered void.
Skarbakka said the Center for the Humanities exhibition, which coincides with the March for Science and Earth Day on April 22, provides “a message of solidarity against attempts to defund and silence the arts, the sciences and the humanities.”
Skarbakka’s performance-based photographic work depicting existential anxieties and loss of control through the acts of falling, drowning and fighting have been exhibited internationally including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Haifa Museum of Art, Israel; and The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh.
His work has been featured on the cover of notable publications such as Aperture and The Missouri Review, and in other publications including Afterimage, Art and America and ArtReview International.
Skarbakka has received funding from Creative Capital, Seattle's 1% for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. Skarbakka received his B.A. in studio art from the University of Washington in 1994 and his M.F.A. in photography from Columbia College, Chicago in 2003.For more information, visit www.skarbakka.com
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Sweet and Sour Stories of Citrus
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May 6 festival will unveil progress to cultivate inclusive histories at Riverside’s California State Citrus Historic Park
By Bettye Miller on April 21, 2017
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UCR researchers are uncovering hidden histories to help California Citrus State Historic Park tell a more inclusive story of the region’s citrus industry and use creative means to draw attention to it.
RIVERSIDE, California – The story of Riverside’s citrus industry typically begins with Eliza Tibbets and her role in planting the area’s first navel orange trees, Anglo ownership of groves and packinghouses, and a largely Mexican labor force. Lesser known are the contributions of African American grove owners, Italian-owned boarding houses, child laborers who were known as ratas, and a workforce that included Mexicans, Asians, Sikhs, and African Americans.
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside are uncovering these hidden histories to help California Citrus State Historic Park in Riverside tell a more inclusive story of the region’s citrus industry and employ creative means to draw attention to it. The pilot program is part of a broader effort by California State Parks to make its more than 280 sites more culturally relevant to an increasingly diverse population. The results of the UCR-led project will serve as a model for the state park system.
Inland residents will be able to see the progress UCR historians have made at the Sweet & Sour Community Festival on Saturday, May 6, from 1 to 4 p.m. at California Citrus State Historic Park, 9400 Dufferin Ave, Riverside.
The festival will feature the unveiling of art installations, including a series of outdoor photo-murals, alternative “trail markers,” and a museum display – all under the title “Manos, Espaldos, y Blossoms” (“Hands, Back and Blossoms”) – collaboratively created by poet Juan Delgado and photographer Thomas McGovern; a set of two larger-than-life-sized stereo viewers set in the groves by artist Arnold Martin; and an installation of the ...
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Career advice from George Bauer: embrace serendipity
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“There’s a lot of serendipity in terms of how things happen to you,” George Bauer tells Kurt Dirks in an interview for the new Bauer Leadership Center. “Sometimes the impressions you make on people have a serendipitous effect on how things happen to you, ultimately.”
Mr. Bauer shares three important career tips in the short video above. And here we excerpt a story he shared about the role serendipity played in his early career:
“I got a bachelors and master’s degree in engineering here at Washington University in the 1950s. In those days, IBM kept its personal records on punch cards and a number 7 was a bachelors; a 6 was a high school degree; a 7 was bachelor’s degree; an 8 was a master’s degree; and a 9 on the IBM punch card indicated an employee had a PhD. They didn’t make a distinction between a master’s degree in engineering and an MBA.
“So, IBM wanted to get some people with some product experience out of the marketing side of the business into the finance side, get some end user experience into the pricing algorithms for example. And so they were sorting cards in IBM headquarters and low and behold, my card with an 8 punch fell out with every other MBA card with an 8 punch and the listing went to a fellow I knew in Chicago who had hired me in St. Louis. And my name was the only one he recognized on that list. And the point I’m making is, sometimes the impressions you make on people have a serendipitous effect on how things happen to you, ultimately.
“So he called me up in Milwaukee where I was the marketing manager in Milwaukee for IBM and he said, “George, how you doing?” I said, “I’m great. I’m ahead of quota. Things couldn’t be ...
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Wolfe Delivers Lecture on Brazil at Brown University
UMass Amherst: News Archive
Joel Wolfe, history, gave the inaugural Thomas E. Skidmore Memorial lecture “O Grande Brasil: A Spatial History of the Making of a Nation” at Brown University on April 13.Wolfe’s lecture reinterprets modern Brazilian history by using geography as its starting point. Almost every key event, practice, and social arrangement in Brazil was fundamentally shaped by the nation’s massive size.
The event was presented by the Brazil Initiative and Brazilian Studies Association, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.
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Undergraduates Research Rett Syndrome to Raise Awareness, Improve Patient Care
Headlines – Tennessee Today
From left: Izabella Nill Gomez, Taryn Lester and Ashlee TannehillThree undergraduate students at UT are researching Rett syndrome, a progressive neurological disorder that afflicts one in 10,000 females. They want to raise awareness about the disorder and hope their discoveries translate into improved care for patients.
Izabella Nill Gomez, Taryn Lester, and Ashlee Tannehill are working in the lab of Keerthi Krishnan, assistant professor of biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology.
They are among more than 1,400 UT undergraduates involved in research. Between 2015 and 2016 the number of UT undergraduates doing research more than doubled and the number of faculty mentors increased 87 percent.
Rett syndrome is an autism-associated disorder that primarily affects girls and women. It is not inherited but results from a random, spontaneous gene mutation. It leads to several impairments that impact nearly every aspect of life, including the ability to speak, walk, eat, and breathe easily
“Before I started in Dr. Krishnan’s lab, I didn’t know what Rett syndrome was,” said Tannehill, a sophomore from Nashville who is majoring in neuroscience with a minor in psychology. “We’re just trying to find out more about the disease and why it occurs, and see how our research can be translated into care for the patient.”
Gomez, a junior from Brazil who is majoring in neuroscience with a minor in psychology, said they are comparing the brain circuitry of mice that have the Rett syndrome mutation and those without.
“We analyzed fine motor skills behavior in mice. We’re trying to see if there is a difference,” she said.
Visible effects of Rett syndrome include repetitive hand movements, motor impairments, and regression in speech and social communication.
In addition to their research, Tannehill, Gomez, and Lester, a sophomore from Trenton, Tennessee, who is majoring in neuroscience with a minor in psychology, will participate in a strollathon—an event similar to ...
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Pitt Property and Facilities Committee Approves Renovation Projects and Lease Agreement
Projects include renovations to the Cathedral of Learning; Chevron Science Center; and Posvar, Scaife and Victoria Halls
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La Nit dels Alimara atorga catorze premis a experiències de promoció turística
Universitat de Barcelona - Notícies
Fotografia de grup de tots els guardonats durant la Nit dels Alimara.
L'acte el va presidir el conseller d’Empresa i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Jordi Baiget.
El rector de la Universitat, Joan Elias, va donar un premi a la innovació en l’estratègia per a la promoció a la campanya «Escapada al més autèntic Empordà».
21/04/2017
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Ahir al vespre, el Campus Internacional de Turisme, Hoteleria i Gastronomia CETT-UB va acollir la Nit dels Alimara. Durant l’acte —que va aplegar més de mig miler de persones vinculades al turisme, l’hoteleria i la gastronomia— es va dur a terme el lliurament dels Premis Alimara a la promoció turística nacional i internacional, que, coincidint amb la seva 33a edició, s’han renovat i han adoptat un nou nom: Premis Alimara. Turisme 360. En total, s’han distingit dotze campanyes de promoció turística i dues entitats. El conseller d’Empresa i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Jordi Baiget, va presidir aquest acte, al qual van assistir el rector de la UB, Joan Elias, i la vicerectora de Docència, Amelia Díaz.
Premi a la innovació en el producte o experiència
Impulsat pel Grup CETT, conjuntament amb B-Travel, el Saló Internacional de Turisme de Catalunya, el certamen ha reconegut tres campanyes de promoció turística amb un premi Alimara a la innovació en producte o experiència. Una de les guardonades és «Llegim a la Llémena: descobrim el Bosc de Llibres», de l’Ajuntament de Sant Martí de Llémena, perquè és una iniciativa fresca i original que uneix el turisme i la cultura i permet donar a conèixer un petit municipi diferenciant-lo de la resta. La segona campanya premiada en aquesta categoria és «Benvinguts a pagès», de l’Agència Catalana de Turisme, el Departament d’Agricultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya i la Fundació Alícia, ...
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S&T’s Academy of Chemical Engineers inducts two new members
Two professionals were inducted into the Academy of Chemical Engineers at Missouri University of Science and Technology during its annual induction ceremony on Thursday, April 20. The academy honors chemical engineers for contributions to their profession, leadership and involvement with Missouri S&T. It serves as an advisory group to the Missouri S&T chemical and biochemical engineering department.The new members are listed below:
Dutro “Bruce” Campbell of St. Louis, intellectual property attorney and owner of Campbell IP, earned a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Missouri S&T in 1992. He earned a juris doctorate at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law in 1996. Campbell began his career with Shell Oil Co., where he worked as a unit process engineer. After graduating from law school, Campbell joined Husch & Eppenberger, now Husch Blackwell LLP, as an associate attorney, later moving into a partner position. After serving the firm for 18 years, he left to establish his own intellectual property law firm, Campbell IP, which serves clients from all over the country, ranging from individuals to Fortune 500 companies. Campbell also serves as intellectual property counsel for the St. Louis corporate law firm Stock Legal LLC.
Mike Schmidt of St. Louis, principal at Bluefield Process Safety LLC, earned bachelor of science and master of science degrees in chemical engineering from Missouri S&T in 1980 and 1985, respectively. He also earned a master of business administration from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Schmidt has worked for several chemical companies throughout his career, beginning with Union Carbide in 1977. In 1984, he was deeply impacted by the Bhopal gas tragedy – considered one of the world’s worst industrial disasters – and he has worked for greater process safety ever since. Schmidt founded Bluefield Process Safety in 2008. Since 2009, he has been a lecturer at Missouri S&T, where he teaches graduate courses on safety engineering and process risk management, ...
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12 undergraduate students earn College of Arts and Sciences research grants
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UMSL students (from left) Michael Austin, Sara Ricardez, Jacob Smreker, Meghan Littles, Kristin Bales, Rachel Schafer, Nick Terzich and Amanda Loelke are among the 12 undergraduates who received a 2017 College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Award this spring. Not pictured are Fatima Amtashar, Miranda Jany, Danielle Oyler and Laura Smith. (Photo by August Jennewein)
When people think of collegiate research, often professors and their graduate researchers first come to mind.
But at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, you’ll also find undergraduate students stepping into lab coats and helping advance projects at the university. That’s because the UMSL undergraduate experience extends beyond the classroom and campus life.
“One of the important aspects of education at UMSL is the opportunity students have to participate in independent research, scholarship and creative endeavors,” said College of Arts and Sciences Dean Ron Yasbin. “The college prides itself on encouraging our students to take advantage of this component of our research and land-grant mission.”
It does so specifically by awarding the College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Award annually to students who apply for funding for their research projects at the university. This spring, CAS Undergraduate Research Awards went to 12 students, who received up to $1,000 in funding for their individual research.
“Beyond promoting independent research, scholarship and creative endeavors,” said Yasbin, “this experience exposes students to the real-life requirement of writing grants in order to pursue these endeavors.”
For many of these undergraduates, this is the first time they apply for a grant and receive research funding. That was the case for senior psychology major Meghan Littles.
“I was really excited about it because I’m going on to grad school, and with applications, it was really important to get a lot of research experience to make myself a better candidate,” Littles said. “So it was really nice having this opportunity here ...
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Second annual Titan Night Market brings a blend of diverse Asian cultures to CSUF
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The fragrance of different cultures coming together emanated from the CSUF Student Housing Piazza Wednesday at the second annual Titan Night Market. The event was part of Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) heritage month.
“I really hope to bring the APIDA community together to build a coalition and get not just those organizations, but all of our student organizations on campus to collaborate,” said Jacob Chacko, the coordinator for the Asian Pacific American Resource Center.
Inspired by the 626 Night Market, an event that brings the Asian street food culture to the San Gabriel Valley every summer, different APIDA organizations handed out foods from different Asian cultures for participating in activities.
“We brought it here last year, very successful as you can see. There are a lot of people here and it’s just been a collaboration with a lot of our APIDA student organizations,” Chacko said.
Food at the event included katsu, baklava, spam masubi, spring roll and milk tea, among other cultural dishes.
“I think it’s really cool. We get to try food and just get to learn about other cultures,” said freshman kinesiology major Janelle Martin. “I love Asian fusion. I don’t know exactly what specific area it comes from, but I love all types of food like this.”
Along with going to different booths to get a taste of various ethnic food, students were also able to engage in activities such as origami, giant Jenga and a photo station.
“There was a lady there who was able to educate me on some of the history of origami, and I thought that was pretty interesting to learn about,” said senior kinesiology major Darius Nguyen.
As the event progressed, students from the participating organizations performed dances, chants and songs.
Juliane Aurora, a contestant on “American Idol” and “The X Factor,” was the guest performer. She started ...
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New Solar Panels to Produce Clean Energy, Help Low-Income D.C. Residents
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April 21, 2017 – A major solar panel project to be installed on six buildings at Georgetown this summer will increase the university’s sustainability efforts, reduce costs and serve low-income residents in the city.
The university has signed a power purchase agreement with Community Renewable Energy to install what Xavier Rivera, director for Georgetown’s department of energy and utilities, says is the largest rooftop solar system installation in the District of Columbia to date.
"This innovative project exemplifies Georgetown’s commitment to sustainability, an integrated approach driven by our Catholic and Jesuit heritage and our commitment to social justice and the common good,” says Robin Morey, vice president for planning and facilities management.
Minus 223 Cars
The project, facilitated by renewable energy consultant ClearRock, is expected to generate about 1.5 million kilowatt-hours of power each year, contributing to a cleaner electric grid and reducing annual emissions the equivalent of avoiding the use of 1.1 million pounds of coal or taking 223 cars off the road.
The project will be installed at no cost to the university and is expected to save Georgetown over $3 million on energy costs over 20 years.
“This initiative allows us to leverage the economics of solar to advance sustainability while addressing important deferred maintenance needs on campus,” Morey says.
The project includes replacing and modernizing the original solar panels on the roof of the Bunn Intercultural Center and installing new solar panels on the rooftops of Regents Hall, the Davis Performing Arts Center, Alumni Square, McDonough Gym and the Leo O’Donovan Dining Hall.
Common Good Commitment
A portion of the revenue generated by the solar project will create a “community investment fund” to support clean energy projects in low-income areas of the District.
“This is a win-win for both the university and the city and is in keeping with Georgetown’s commitment to the common good,” says Morey.
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Planet hunting alumna Natalie Batalha among Time's 100 most influential people
Physical and Biological Sciences News
Natalie Batalha, a NASA scientist who earned her Ph.D. in astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, has been named to Time magazine's annual list of the "100 most influential people in the world."Batalha leads the science investigation effort for NASA's Kepler Mission, searching for Earth-size planets beyond our solar system. Kepler aims to find out how common planets are in the "habitable zones" of other stars, where temperatures could allow liquid water to pool on the surface of the planet without freezing or evaporating. Working at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Batalha has been a leading figure of the mission since she joined the team in 1999.
"I'm so very proud of her, and very happy to see her get recognition for all the great work she's done at NASA as part of the Kepler mission. Natalie rocks!" said Steve Vogt, professor emeritus of astronomy and astrophysics, who was Batalha's adviser when she was a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, where she earned her Ph.D. in 1997.
Batalha is one of three planet hunters featured on Time's list. The others are Guillem Anglada-Escudé of Queen Mary University of London, who has been a frequent collaborator with Vogt on recent planet discoveries; and Michaël Gillon of the University of Liège in Belgium. Speaking of Batalha and Anglada-Escudé, Vogt said, "You'd be hard-pressed to find two nicer and more capable people in the field."
Batalha is the first woman at NASA to receive the Time 100 designation. UCSC alumna Kathryn Sullivan was named to the list in 2014.
"I'm honored to be part of the Time 100 and feel strongly that recognition belongs to the entire team of scientists and engineers who opened our eyes to the large number of potentially habitable worlds that populate the galaxy," Batalha said in a NASA statement. "Searching for potentially habitable worlds makes one appreciate ...
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2016 NIH Funding: A Look at Top Recipients and Their Research
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UC San Francisco received more than $575.6 million in federal funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2016. The highly competitive awards and grants are crucial to advancing the research across our schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and the Graduate Division.
The funding supports research and education across multiple health-science arenas at UCSF. It also advances scientific health research that helps us better understand key biological functions and translate findings into treatments and cures for patients.
Below are a few highlights of researchers who received the most NIH funding and how their NIH grants are helping them to change the future of health.
School of Medicine
Alexander Marson, MD, PhD1. Diane Havlir, $12,395,178
2. Dean Sheppard, $6,281,170
3. Alexander Marson, $6,142,102
4. John Fahy, $6,085,587
5. Steven Deeks, $5,656,950
It has long been known that genetics control the immune system, but how remains a question. Alexander Marson, MD, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, has spent the last 10 years answering that question by exploring the genetic circuits that control specific aspects of immune cell function to understand how variations in genetics contribute to different diseases.
Marson’s goal is to use that understanding to point toward new therapies – both by finding new targets for drugs and by actually changing the genetics of immune cells to give them new functions to treat cancer, autoimmune diseases and infections affecting the immune system, such as HIV.
Marson’s studies rely on CRISPR technology, which enables researchers to cut out and replace, or “edit,” genetic sequences within living cells to understand and treat disease.
“CRISPR provides the scalpel to go in and cut out some part of the human genome and potentially even replace part of it,” Marson said. “That is just an incredible ability, to truly understand how the genome works.”
One of Marson’s current projects – with collaborators in the UCSF Diabetes Center and Institute for Human Genetics – is focused ...
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FIU Women’s Tennis Tops Charlotte, 4-0, in C-USA Quarterfinals
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DENTON, Texas (April 21, 2017) – The FIU women's tennis team (20-1), won its 18th-straight match, blanking the Charlotte 49ers, 4-0, in the quarterfinals of the 2017 Conference USA Women's Tennis Championships on Friday. Ranked No. 41 in the latest Oracle/ITA Women's Tennis National Rankings, the Panthers tied the school record for the program's longest winning streak, matching the 18 consecutive wins in the 2001 season, while notching the team's 14th shutout of the season. The win marked the team's 20th of the season, the most by an FIU squad since the 2005 campaign (21). In the first-ever meeting between the two schools, FIU jumped out to a 1-0 lead following doubles action. The duo of Mina Markovic and Gabriela Ferreira got things started with a 6-0 win over Megan Smith and Pierina Imparato. The Panthers clinched the doubles point with a victory by Maryna Veksler and Ulyana Grib over Tai Martin and Immie Cowper, 6-2. Veksler gave the Panthers a 2-0 lead with a 6-0, 6-3 win over Martin in singles action. The victory was her 23rd of the year as the native of Kiev, Ukraine, improved to 16-2 at the No. 2 position this season. Ferreira won her 12th-straight with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Smith to give FIU a 3-0 edge. The product of Asuncion, Paraguay, remained perfect in dual matches this season, improving to 10-0 following Friday's win. Grib clinched the match with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Imparato. The victory gave the first-year Panther her 23rd singles win of the season and her 17th of the spring. The win improves FIU to 5-3 all-time in the C-USA Women's Tennis Championships. The Panthers will next face the winner of the Marshall/WKU match in the C-USA Semifinals on Saturday, April 22. First serve is set for 1 p.m. Fans are encouraged to follow the Panthers on Facebook (Facebook.com/FIUWTennis) for all the latest ...
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Track & Field to Host Annual Alumni Gold
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Will Stafford (@WillStaffordLSU)Associate SID
BATON ROUGE – Fans attending Saturday’s LSU Alumni Gold meet at the Bernie Moore Track Stadium on Saturday afternoon ahead of the National L-Club Spring Football Game later that night are in for a treat as the very best of the LSU Track & Field program past and present will be on display in the annual competition.
Two NCAA leaders and 10 other individuals and relay teams currently ranking among the NCAA’s Top 10 this season will be in action for LSU alongside a host of decorated professionals and other alumni accounting for a total of 34 NCAA titles, 54 SEC titles and 99 All-America honors during their collegiate careers in Baton Rouge.
Five of the program’s Olympians will be on show, including reigning Olympic Silver Medalist Fitzroy Dunkley, former Olympic finalists Damar Forbes and Muna Lee and Jamaicans Natoya Goule and Isa Phillips.
In addition, reigning World Champion Vernon Norwood, World Championships Bronze Medalist Cassandra Tate and Jasmin Stowers, one of the world’s fastest 100-meter hurdlers of all-time, will be welcomed back this weekend to kick off their outdoor seasons alongside other NCAA Champion and All-American alumni. 2012 Bowerman Award winner Kimberlyn Duncan; former NCAA Champions Walter Henning, Shermund Allsop and LaTavia Thomas; and past All-Americans Rodney Brown and Joshua Thompson are also in the field.
The afternoon session at this year’s LSU Alumni Gold meet is set to begin at 1:20 p.m. CT following an opening ceremony at 1:15 p.m. and runs through the 4x400-meter relays at 4:25 p.m. A recognition of the alumni in attendance is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. during the running of the women’s 5,000 meters.
Admission is free as the morning session at the LSU Alumni Gold starts bright and early with the start of the “B” section finals on the track and the first field events of the competition scheduled ...
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NEWT welcomes congressional reps, NSF director
National Science Foundation Director France Córdova (right) and U.S. Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas (center), meet with Rice President David Leebron at an April 11 reception in honor of Rice’s NSF-funded Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) center. Leebron, Córdova, Culberson and U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, learned about NEWT research and saw demonstrations of NEWT’s prototype solar-powered desalination system and a water mineralization system created by undergraduates in a NEWT-sponsored course at Rice’s Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen. NEWT, the first NSF engineering research center in Houston and only the third in Texas, is developing compact, mobile, off-grid water-treatment systems that can provide clean water to millions of people who lack it and make U.S. energy production more sustainable and cost-effective. (Photo by Jeff Fitlow)
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Mateo Valero, director del BSC-CNS, rep el premi Charles Babbage
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L’IEEE atorga a Mateo Valero el premi Charles Babbage, que consisteix en un certificat i una dotació de mil dòlars, per “les seves contribucions a la computació paral·lela a través d'un treball tècnic brillant, la tutoria als estudiants de doctorat i la construcció de l'entorn europeu d'investigació increïblement productiu". El premi serà lliurat el 31 de maig a Orlando (Florida, als Estats Units) en el decurs de la celebració de l’International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2017). En el mateix marc de la trobada, l’1 de juny, Valero farà una conferència destacada titulada Arquitectures Runtime-aware.Mateo Valero, que centra la seva recerca en arquitectures per a computació d’altes prestacions, ha publicat prop de 700 articles, ha ofert més de 500 conferències i ha estat reconegut amb nombrosos premis per la seva tasca científica. Entre els reconeixements internacionals, destaca el Premi Eckert-Mauchly (2007), el guardó internacional més important en l’àmbit de l’arquitectura de computadors; el premi Seymour Cray (2015), el més important al món en l’àmbit de la computació d’altes prestacions, i el premi Harry H. Goode (2009). També ha rebut diversos reconeixements d’àmbit nacional, com el Premio Nacional de Investigación Julio Rey Pastor d’informàtica i matemàtiques; el Premio Nacional de Investigación Leonardo Torres Quevedo d’enginyeria; el Premio Rey Jaime I d’Investigació, de la Generalitat Valenciana; el 17è premi de la Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació; la Creu de Sant Jordi de la Generalitat de Catalunya i el Premio Aragón. Valero va obtenir el títol d’Enginyer de Telecomunicacions l’any 1974 per la Universitat Politècnica de Madrid i va fer el seu doctorat en Telecomunicacions a la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), on poc després d’arribar va començar a donar classes a la recent creada Facultat d’ ...
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UC Helping Red Cross to Save Lives
UC Health News
Seven people each day die across the U.S. during home fires, and often it is from not having a working smoke detector. As recently as March 29 an elderly couple died from a small but smoky fire in their Evanston home that was not equipped with smoke detectors.To increase the number of local homes with working smoke detectors, the University of Cincinnati and UC Health will join with the Red Cross on April 29 to install 1,000 new smoke detectors in Greater Cincinnati homes. Called "A Cause for Alarms: Mega Blitz 2017” volunteers from across the region will visit homes in target neighborhoods and offer to replace batteries in detectors or, if needed, install new smoke detectors at no charge to homeowners or renters. They’ll also provide free fire evacuation information.UC and UC Health are again co-sponsoring the event. "This is the third year we’ve been participating and it gets better every year,” says Lori Mackey, senior associate dean for operations and finance in the College of Medicine and a volunteer for the last two years. "This is just another instance of how the College of Medicine and UC Health have worked together to make a difference in our community. Not only are we doing something that could potentially save lives, but it’s a really fun event.”This year the Red Cross is offering two shifts for those interested in participating. Volunteers are asked to gather at either 8 a.m. or noon on April 29, at Jack Cincinnati Casino, 1000 Broadway. People will be treated to food, festivities and instructions before heading out in teams of four with tools, batteries and smoke detectors to various neighborhoods in Greater Cincinnati. This year the Red Cross is hoping volunteers will visit approximately 3,000 homes in Madisonville, Norwood, St. Bernard, Paddock Hills and Oakley in Ohio and in Dayton, Bellevue and Covington in Kentucky. ...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017
The Search for Identity
American University News
Ludy Grandas, an American University professor of World Languages and Cultures, and Backpack Documentary en Español student, sets up an establishing shot in the streets of Columbia Heights for her production titled "Don Antonio, el Barber Panamericano."
For individuals who come from mixed cultures, the search for identity can be an arduous process, rife with a feeling of imbalance that stems from traversing the differences in our roots.
At some point, however, imbalance gives way to equilibrium as these women and men find their roots do not compete, but rather complement, helping each person to accept and absorb diversity as part of themselves and their world view.
Being American and Peruvian has granted me the tools to conquer challenges in the language realm, and has gifted me with the understanding that it is possible to appreciate and belong to different worlds.
For this reason we, multicultural beings, share a special story that feels sometimes unsettling, as we debate and question our sense of belonging to one particular group or another.
I chose to pursue my master's at American University, hopeful that I'd exercise the Latina that is part of me. When I decided to take Backpack Documentary en Español, I found myself in a place that invited me to use my Spanish and to be surrounded by peers with the same fervor for the Hispanic-Latino culture.
For an array of reasons, be it curiosity, passion, or the comfort of company that shares a common language, Backpack Documentary en Español attracted students from different corners of the world, each one with their own motivations for engaging in the experience.
The course, offered for the first time last fall, represented the first time in its nearly 25-year history that the School of Communication offered a class taught entirely in Spanish. As students of the course, what we experienced during the semester was ...
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State Budget Keeps Campus Moving Forward
University at Albany University at Albany Headlines
The new state budget will benefit renovation of the Schuyler Building as the new home of CEAS, shown at left behind Dean Kim Boyer, Congressman Paul Tonko and Interim President Stellar; enactment of the tuition-free Excelsior Scholarship, and a boost for NYSUNY 2020 projects such as the Center of Excellence in Atmospheric and Environmental Prediction and Innovation, whose design is at right.
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 19, 2017) — The passage of the New York State Budget on April 10 promises to engineer good news to the campus in several areas.
“I would like to thank everyone who has worked so hard on behalf of our legislative priorities,” said Interim President James Stellar in a letter to the campus on Monday. The president and UAlbany’s government relations team made numerous visits this year to the state Capitol and the area’s legislative delegation to advocate for the University’s legislative priorities.
The result included funding within the budget’s $550 million capital investment allocation for the University’s top priority, renovating the Schuyler Building in Albany’s midtown — the future home of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS).
The new funding, said Stellar, “will empower us to move forward with the first phase of the Schuyler renovations.” He noted the project will also aid the greater community, by injecting “new energy into the neighborhoods around our Downtown Campus and catalyze new private investment.”
CEAS Dean Kim L. Boyer said, “All of us in the College are very grateful for the continuing support of our advocates in the Legislature and the tireless efforts of our friends in the Office of Government and Community Relations.
“Capital funding sufficient for UAlbany to make the first installment toward the cost of creating a world-class facility for the College underscores the importance of our mission, and the Legislature’s confidence in us,” he added. “It is as humbling ...
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A Linton family legacy
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William “Bill” T. Linton III’s family has a strong Clemson legacy, one that stretches from the 19th century through the 20th and into the 21st.
“Clemson is a very special place to me because not only did I go here but my father, my grandfather and my great grandfather went here,” said Bill. “And our youngest son, William, is currently a junior and that means a lot to me.”
Many of Bill’s ancestors have not only walked the Clemson campus but they have accomplished many notable things. Bill’s great grandfather, Charles Carter Newman, graduated in 1895 making him the first Clemson graduate. “Clemson graduated its first class in 1896 but he came here as a junior when his father came to be the professor of agriculture so he was already a junior by the time he matriculated,” said Bill.
Charles Newman had four children, one daughter and three sons, ultimately carrying out the family legacy. Two of his three sons attended Clemson and left their own mark on the University. Carter Newman graduated in 1927 and was inducted into the Clemson Athletic Hall of Fame for both track and field and men’s basketball. Wilson Newman graduated in 1931 and later went on to endow the building Newman Hall, which is named in honor of Bill’s grandfather and great grandfather.
Mildred, Charles Newman’s daughter and Bill’s grandmother married a Clemson graduate. “She met my grandfather, William T. Linton who graduate in 1928. Their son, my father, William T. Linton Jr. graduated in ’57. I am William T. Linton III and my son who is currently enrolled here is William T. Linton IV, so there are four generations of William T. Lintons who have matriculated here,” said Bill. “Hopefully there will be more Lintons in the future.”
Bill Linton ’83 and his wife, Barbara (Turnage) ’83 as students at Clemson University.
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Meet Wide Receivers Coach Andre Barboza
Fordham Newsroom
After a week off for Easter Break, the Fordham University football Rams returned to action on Tuesday for spring practice number eleven on Murphy Field which gives us the chance to meet up with the newest Ram assistant coach, wide receiver coach Andre Barboa.
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Celebrating Joshua Meyrowitz
UNH Today: Campus Life Articles
Members of the University community, friends and family are cordially invited to join the Department of Communication in celebrating Professor Joshua Meyrowitz’s retirement from the University of New Hampshire on Sunday, April 30, 2017 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. at the University's Museum of Art in the Paul Creative Arts Center.Professor Meyrowitz, who joined the faculty in 1979 when communication was still part of the Department of Theatre, has been a central figure in shaping the communication department, currently home of the second largest undergraduate major in the College of Liberal Arts.
Retirement is probably not the right term to describe the transition of this active scholar, extraordinary teacher and dedicated committee member, since we are certain that he will continue the first two of these activities in new venues. We doubt he will miss the committee work. Please join us in celebrating this transition. Refreshments will be served.
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EIGHT GYMNASTS BRING HOME MPSF ALL-ACADEMIC HONORS
Athletics News
Apr 19, 2017
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Eight members of the Sacramento State gymnastics team earned Mountain Pacific Sports Federation all-academic honors. The eight selections were tied for the most in the conference. To earn the award, a student-athlete must have a minimum of a 3.00 grade point average, be at least a sophomore academically, have competed at her institution for at least one season and competed in 50 percent or more of her team's meets during the 2017 season.The honorees for the Hornets in alphabetical order were: Jennifer Brenner, Julia Konner, Courteney Ng, Lauren Rice, Jackie Sampson, Lauren Schmeiss, Caitlin Soliwoda and Courtney Soliwoda.This season marked the second consecutive year that the Hornets have had eight gymnasts named the the MPSF all-academic team. Brenner, Rice and Caitlin Soliwoda each earned the honor in both seasons. Following the 2016 season, Sacramento State was recognized by the National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches for its team gpa of 3.326 which placed it among the top 40 programs in the country.
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Debater finishes in top 10 at national championship
SIU News
Arielle Stephenson, a senior business economics major at from Torrance, Calif., finished in the top 10 in the nation as a solo debater for Southern Illinois University Carbondale at the National Forensic Association National Championship Tournament Lincoln-Douglas Debate. She is shown here on Honors Day with awards for Outstanding Senior in Business Economics and the the Lavina Micken Award for Excellence in Debate. (Photo provided)
April 19, 2017
Debater finishes in top 10 at national championship
by Andrea Hahn
CARBONDALE, Ill. – Arielle Stephenson, a senior at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, finished in the top 10 as a solo debater at the National Forensic Association National Championship Tournament Lincoln-Douglas Debate.
Stephenson, a business economics major from Torrance, Calif., competed over Easter weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She finished in a tie for ninth place at the national tournament from a field of nearly 80 competitors. The SIU debate team has finished in the top 10 at a national championship for 11 consecutive years.
“Arielle was in the championship debate of the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA) last year, finishing second in the country with her partner,” Todd Graham, director of debate at SIU, said. “This year, Arielle debated in the solo style of debate, called Lincoln-Douglas debate, and not having much experience in it, I’d say she did an outstanding job finishing in a tie for ninth in the country.”
“Debating without a partner put a unique pressure on my debating skills that only made me more motivated and dedicated to the research this activity requires,” Stephenson said. “I knew winning or losing was up to me and no one else -- and that kept me focused on each round, argument and speech that I gave.”
Graham said the team is in transition to a different style of debate. In the future, SIU will focus on British Parliamentary debate, a style Graham describes as “the newest ...
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