W&M Men Earn Four IC4A Qualifiers on Friday

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The William & Mary men's track and field team opened weekend action on Friday, with three men competing at Virginia and the rest of the team in action at Duke.  In the latter meet, the Tribe is ninth out of 27 teams in the clubhouse with 12 team points, while East Carolina has a two-point advantage over Charlotte, 37-35.In Charlottesville, the top performance went to sophomore Chris Short (Toano, Va.), who ran a lifetime-best 1:52.54 in the 800m to qualify for the IC4A Championships, negatively-splitting the race en route to an improvement of more than three-quarters of a second.  The Tribe got another IC4A qualifier in the 800m down at Duke, thanks to Cole Clark (Weston, Conn.) who also improved his best by roughly three-quarters of a second to run 1:52.87.Sticking at Duke, senior Taylor Frenia (Virginia Beach, Va.) once again qualified for IC4As in the hammer throw, taking third overall at 53.44m (175-4).  Junior Dylan Anderson (Madison, N.J.) also re-qualified himself in the 110m hurdles, timing 14.87 seconds for 17th-place overall.  Grad student Alex Hedrick (Falls Church, Va.) competed in two events, tying his lifetime-best in both in a very good sign for the CAA Championships two weeks from now.  In the pole vault, he was one of just two men to clear 4.55m (14-11) on his first try, en route to finishing fifth overall.  He then came back to run the 110m hurdles, timing 15.80 seconds for 30th overall.The Tribe continues action at both meets on Saturday.Duke Invitational
Team Standings
1. East Carolina 37
2. Charlotte 35
T3. Duke 25
T3. Indiana Tech 25
5. George Mason 19
6. Campbell 18
7. North Carolina A&T 17
8. Mt. Olive 139. William & Mary 12
10. Appalachian State 11
11. Elon 8
12. North Carolina Central 7
T13. The Citadel 6
T13. LIU Brooklyn 6
T15. Concord 5
T15. High Point 5
T17. Hampton 4
T17. Davidson 4
T17. Mars Hill 4
T17. North Carolina 4
T21. West Virginia Wesleyan 3
T21. Queens (N.C.) 3
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Faculty, Staff Invited to Chef Meet and Greet April 27

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Boise State faculty and staff are invited to attend a complementary tasting and meet-and-greet event with the university’s new executive chef, Nathan Child, from 11 a.m.–1 p.m. Thursday, April 27, in the Hatch Ballroom.
Child, an Idaho native, will share bold-flavored tastings that highlight his global culinary influences. The complimentary tasting menu will include:
Spring VeggiesTerra-cotta vegetable crudité with harissa ranch dipGrilled asparagus and grapefruit saladTzatziki-filled cucumber cups
Land and SeaCrab cream cheese stuffed gougèreOrange soy glazed chicken skewerPeruvian shrimp ceviche
ActionGrilled halloumi cheeseRaspberry compoteBacon and onion jam
DessertAssorted cheesecake shots (strawberry-rhubarb, salted caramel, and dark chocolate)
BeveragesCitrus aqua Fresca (tangerine, lemon and lime)Iced teaCoffee



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Ferraro Eager to Assist in UMass Rebuild

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It’s no secret that the past few years are ones fans of the Massachusetts hockey program would like to forget.
The Minutemen have won only 13 games over the last two seasons, including five in 2016-17 under first-year head coach Greg Carvel. However, there is increased optimism surrounding the program thanks to having one of the best recruiting classes in school history slated to arrive in Amherst this September.
Des Moines Buccaneers defenseman Mario Ferraro, one of five Massachusetts recruits on NHL Central Scouting’s Final Rankings for the 2017 Draft, is a potential difference maker.
Part of the allure in coming to Massachusetts is being part of a rebuilding effort for a program that hasn’t made the NCAA tournament since 2007, its only trip.
“They’re on a big turnaround, which makes it so exciting. [Fellow recruit and potential top 10 NHL Draft pick] Cale Makar is a great player and I played with Marco Bozzo in the OJHL,” Ferraro said.
“A lot of great players are going in. It’s going to be fun. We can get it done.”
Ferraro, a native of King City, Ontario, and ranked 78th among North American skaters for the NHL Draft, is in his first year in the USHL after competing in the OJHL for the two prior seasons.
“It’s been a great experience. It’s definitely a different game. The speed and physicality,” Ferraro said. “It’s been a huge adjustment, but my teammates and coaches have really supported me.”
Ferraro’s team entered Friday’s Game 3 of the Clark Cup Playoffs Conference Semifinals trailing Sioux City, 2-0, but it’s been a great season that included the organization’s first trip to the postseason since 2006. Individually, Ferraro was named to the First Team All-USHL and USHL All-Rookie Team.
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Broncos Set Single Game Scoring Record in 28-12 Victory Over San Marcos

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POMONA, Calif. – Offense came easily and often for the Broncos who set a new school record for runs scored in a single game, defeating Cal State San Marcos 28-12 to open the four-game series at Scolinos Field on Friday. The Broncos (22-18, 18-11 CCAA) opened the first inning with seven straight runs to seal the victory early on in the day. Jeremy Taylor started on the mound for the Broncos, picking up this third win, second straight, to improve his overall record to 3-1. He threw six innings with eight hits and five earned runs. CPP continued to add to their lead in the third inning with five runs, and four more in the fourth thanks to a grand slam by Daniel Pitts. Pitts finished with a team-high five RBIs on the day. Following him was Alex Gaskin with three RBIs while five other players totaled two RBIs. Down 16-0, San Marcos made some noise in the fifth inning with five runs and followed that up in the seventh inning, scoring five runs again to make it 16-10. After the Cougars made it 16-12 in the eight, CPP tallied their biggest inning of the night, scoring 11 runs in the bottom of the eighth inning. The Broncos finished with 28 hits, one shy of tying another single game record. CPP will travel to San Marcos on Saturday for a doubleheader before returning home on Sunday to close out the series at Scolinos Field. Print Friendly Version



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UVU Fire and Police Academies to host scholarship 5K

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University Marketing & Communications: Layton Shumway | 801-863-6863 | LShumway@uvu.edu
The 2nd Guns and Hoses Scholarship 5k is set for Saturday, April 22nd at 8:00am at Fort Utah Park in Provo. Current cadets, alumni, police and fire department members, students, families, and the general public are all invited to participate.
Proceeds from the 5K go toward scholarships for fire and police academy students to help train those who serve and protect.
“There are many reasons that students cannot attend the UVU Firefighter Recruit Candidate Academy,” said Andy Byrnes, RCA Coordinator. “The biggest reason is financial. The state of the present economy and being young and inexperienced often means that our students need some assistance with school costs. The funds raised from the Guns and Hoses 5K will provide scholarships for students who may not otherwise be able to realize their dreams.”
This is the second year that the fire and police academies have held the event, and they hope to make it a yearly tradition.
Registration for the 5K is $15. Participants can register online at runnercard.com. In order to be guaranteed a t-shirt, participants must register before April 14th. Day-of registrations are welcome starting at 7:30 a.m., but must be paid in cash and participants won’t be guaranteed a 5K t-shirt.
Fort Utah Park is located at 200 North Geneva Rd, Provo, UT 84601. The race course will begin at the park and head down and back the Provo River trail and will end back at the starting point in the park.
For more information or questions about the race, contact Patrice Bolen at 801-863-6156 or Donna Cotterell at 801-863-7749.
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UW Vice President for Student Affairs Candidate Withdraws | News

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One of the finalists for the position of vice president for student affairs at the University of Wyoming has withdrawn from consideration, meaning the first campus visit by a candidate will be Thursday and Friday, April 27-28.
Lori McDonald, dean of students at the University of Utah, had been scheduled to visit UW April 24-25. That is no longer the case.
The remaining candidates are Tim Alvarez, vice president for student affairs at North Dakota State University; Sean Blackburn, UW’s current associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students; and Bill Schafer, most recently the vice president for student life at West Virginia University.
As part of a two-day interview, each candidate is scheduled to give a public presentation. Alvarez’s visit to UW for interviews will be April 27-28; Blackburn, May 1-2; and Schafer, May 4-5. The times and locations of their public presentations will be announced later.
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Staff Success: Former Custodian Earns Civil Engineering Degree

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The Staff Senate Scholarship program helped Chris Shapley earn his civil engineering degree and now he's headed to a full-time job with the Oklahoma Department of Transportation.
 

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Theresa May’s snap election gamble, explained

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Theresa May, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, decided on April 18 to dissolve Parliament and hold snap elections on June 8. The motion easily secured the required two-thirds majority in the U.K.'s House of Commons.
The decision marks a stunning reversal and has surprised many people in her own government and abroad. May had repeatedly denied that she would make such a momentous decision.
In the U.S., we're accustomed to a fixed electoral calendar. But, the power to dissolve Parliament is present in many political systems, such as in the Republic of Ireland, Canada and Japan.
That power is used frequently in some countries like Italy and rarely in others such as Germany. It can reside in the Parliament itself, or be held by the head of state. And it is a power that can be used liberally, or only in specific circumstances.
In this case, May is betting that this move will result in a larger Conservative majority in Parliament and strengthen her hand for the upcoming Brexit negotiations.
It also means yet another crucial election in Western Europe in 2017, where France and Germany already have elections scheduled.
A great power
The power to dissolve Parliament dates back to the Middle Ages, and is deeply ingrained in U.K. politics. It granted the monarch the ability to dismiss the legislature at any time, limiting lawmakers' influence. As authority shifted over time from monarchs to Parliament and the prime minister, this power remained.
For centuries, prime ministers had to ask the monarch to dissolve Parliament. In the last century, they used that privilege to shore up their party's majority in Parliament, or to receive a personal mandate.
On paper, that changed with the Fixed-term Parliaments Act of 2011, which seemed to curtail the power of the prime minister. The act set a clear schedule for elections and removed ...

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Sneak Preview of Campus Center Progress

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Campus Center, rendering of the E-TEC building, and the interior west lobby/student lounge planned for the old Business Administration building ("Building 27"). 


ALBANY, N.Y. (April 24, 2017) – Curious about the status of current construction projects on campus?

Find out more at one of three upcoming sessions that will be given by Associate Vice President for Finance and Administration John Giarrusso.
These annual presentations, each followed by a question and answer period, will be:
• Wednesday, April 26, 12-1 p.m. in the Campus Center Assembly Hall.• Thursday, April 27, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Husted Amphitheater (Husted 106A), Downtown Campus.• Tuesday, May 2, 12-1 p.m., Campus Center Assembly Hall.
Giarrusso plans to give an update on the Campus Center project, to discuss the schedule and plans for the renovation of the old Business Administration building (“Building 27”), and the design of and schedule for the new E-TEC building, among many other capital project planning and construction jobs, including residence hall work and energy efficiency projects.
“We provide these updates every spring to both inform the University community of near term work and also discuss long-term planning,” Giarrusso said. “It’s also a wonderful opportunity for us to showcase the outstanding talents and efforts of our Facilities team.”
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Giarrusso will provide photos of the current state of construction on the Campus Center West project and related renovations to the main Campus Center and will give an update on the anticipated opening date.
The redesigned Campus Center spaces will include new dining options, including 10 new food venues and a fully renovated kitchen area, with seating areas scattered through a great hall that incorporates details from the historic 1960s design with modern architectural features.
The 55,000-square-foot West addition will house glassed-in meeting rooms, Student Involvement and Student Association office suites, student group resource spaces and lounges, as well as a ...

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Clemson University trustees approve new degrees, interpretive history plan and signage

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CLEMSON — Clemson University trustees approved three new degrees and heard about a new collaborative initiative with Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) that will reduce student debt and increase the number of highly skilled, highly trained professionals entering South Carolina’s workforce.
The new degrees include a doctorate of Education (Ed.D.), focused on practicing educators seeking additional credentials and leadership positions within their profession, and Ph.D. and M.S. interdisciplinary degrees in resilient infrastructure and environmental systems engineering and science.
Through one initiative in the collaboration with MUSC, Clemson undergraduate students can apply for admission to nine health-related graduate programs at MUSC, including medicine, dentistry, physical therapy and public health, and effectively shave a year off of their studies. (See related article.)
A second initiative is a new joint doctoral program aimed at increasing the workforce in biomedical data science and informatics, a discipline that manages the use of health-related data leading to more informed and efficient research, clinical care and health care management. In the joint program, students will take classes at both MUSC and Clemson, and diplomas will have both schools’ seals.
The trustees also recommended to university leadership that the planned Duke Energy combined heat and power (CHP) facility be located west of Highway 76, close to the main campus. Evaluation of sites is under way, and the facility is expected to be operational in spring 2019.
The highly efficient facility is vital to meeting the long-term power needs of the university in a way that also allows Clemson to lower its greenhouse gas emissions. When completed, the facility will have the capacity to generate 16-megawatts of electrical power. In addition, the CHP will capture waste heat from the production of electricity to produce thermal energy that Duke will sell to Clemson to be used to heat buildings and water on campus.
The trustees also approved two ...

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Softball Hosts George Washington this Weekend

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SOFTBALL DROPS FIRST TWO GAMES OF ROAD SERIES AT SOUTHERN UTAH

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CEDAR CITY, Utah -- Sacramento State's pitching staff yielded 17 runs and 25 hits over two games as Southern Utah was able to sweep a Big Sky Conference doubleheader over the Hornets on Friday afternoon. The Thunderbirds won the first game, 9-3, before taking the nightcap in walkoff fashion by an 8-7 score.These same two teams will finish the three-game series tomorrow at 11 a.m. PDT.The losses dropped Sacramento State to 14-25-1 overall and 4-9 in the Big Sky. The nine conference losses are the most suffered by the Hornets since joining the Big Sky for softball in 2013. In fact, Sacramento State had entered the season with a 49-24 combined Big Sky record and had finished no worse than second place in the league standings each of the last three years.Southern Utah improved its record to 13-23 and 9-5 in the conference. Sacramento State, which is still 23-10 all-time against the Thunderbirds, had won five straight in the series until today's losses.The biggest highlight for the Hornets today was the play of freshman left fielder Suzy Brookshire who combined to go 4-for-6 with two walks and three RBIs. That included belting her team-high 11th home run of the season in opener. She is now just one home run shy of the Sacramento State single-season record for round trippers (12), set by Jamie Schloredt in 2008. As its stands now, Brookshire's 11 home runs are the second most in school history.GAME 2After Sacramento State's Traci Shaw hit a dramatic home run with two outs in the seventh to tie the score at 7-7, Southern Utah's Kendall Kapitzke crushed a one-out, walkoff homer in the bottom of the seventh to give the Thunderbirds an 8-7 win. The two teams combined for 15 runs and 22 hits as Sacramento State scored in every inning but the first and sixth, and Southern Utah scored ...

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NASA, other eclipse partners to visit SIU in May

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April 21, 2017NASA, other eclipse partners to visit SIU in May
by Tim Crosby
CARBONALE, Ill. – With the total solar eclipse only a few months away, the planning group at Southern Illinois University Carbondale is nailing down details on how the university and its partners will handle one of the highest-profile celestial events in the country in years.
To that end, officials from NASA, the Adler Planetarium in Chicago and a solar instrumentation company are planning a two-day visit to SIU in early May to prepare for the event, which may draw as many as 50,000 people to the campus and city.
Details about SIU’s plans for the Aug. 21 eclipse are available here.
The visiting contingent, which will include officials from the NASA EDGE webcast program, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Lunt Solar Systems, is set for May 1-2. During the visit, officials will review plans and logistics for the eclipse education program, which will have great implications for sky watchers not only in Carbondale that day, but those all over the world.
NASA EDGE is a video podcast discussing the latest technology and research going on at NASA centers across the country. New episodes appear monthly and are transmitted to the public through several websites, including NASA TV, iTunes, YouTube, USTREAM and other podcast sites.
The show, which combines humor and education, provides an insider's view of NASA and updates the public on the most innovative and groundbreaking research. On eclipse day, NASA EDGE is planning a four-hour broadcast that will include live interviews and video of the eclipse as it crosses the country.
Blair Allen, the irreverent co-host and “professional outsider” of NASA EDGE, said the trip is an important planning event for the show.
“During our trip there we will be confirming many of the logistics for our broadcast,” Allen said.  “For example, we will finalize the ...

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Track and Field Prepares for Home Border Battle

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ARCATA, Calif.- This Saturday Humboldt State Track and Field return home to host the Border Battle this Saturday. Competing on the California side with Humboldt State is Chico State and College of the Redwoods, while Southern Oregon and the Oregon Institute of Technology with be coming down from Oregon.The lumberjacks are coming off a busy and successful week, as they sent athletes Cal State L.A Twilight Open, Bryan Clay Invite, Mt. Sac Relays, Beach Invitational, and Raider Invite.
 
This weekend brought success for both Alyssabeth DeJerez and Marissa McCay. McCay finished first with in the heptathlon with a personal best 141 points. Her point total of 4935 is a strong provisional qualifying mark that gives McCay a strong chance to advance into the NCAA's. DeJerez finished first in the 400m at Cal State L.A. then traveled to Mt. Sac where she excelled in the 400m Hurdles. DeJerez continues to move forward as she recorded her new personal best time 58.68 in the 400 Hurdle at the Mt. Sac Relays.
 
The Raider invite brought success for many of the lumberjacks. Caitlin McCoy brought home first place finishes in both the 100m hurdles (15.60) and 400m hurdles (1:05.31).  Brailee VandenBoom finished fifth in both the Women's 100m and 200m dashes. Je-Ni Hardy finished second in the 200m dash with a time of 26.06. In the 800m Erin Chessin brought home a third-place finish with a time of a 2:19.17. On the field side, Lily Bankas finished first in the Shot Put and Elizabeth Jones finished second in the hammer throw.
 
HSU men are also coming off an eventful week. Corey Berner secured top ten finishes in the 100m dash and 200m dash, while Parker Irusta finished fourth in the 400m at the raider invite. CM April, Kainalu Asam, Anthony Palacio, and Brayden Leach all finished in the top of the 1-mile run.
 
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Research awards at IUPUI increased by $40.5 million in 2016: Newscenter: Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEINDIANAPOLIS -- The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis has released funding results for fiscal year 2016 showing research awards campuswide totaled $428.9 million, a $40.5 million increase over 2015.
Counting only non-IU School of Medicine awards, the campus received $67.2 million in research awards in 2016, compared to $58.1 million in 2015, a 16 percent increase.
The increase in research awards reflects, in part, the support of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to advance innovative research and creative activity.
Funding awards for 2016 show an increase in National Science Foundation awards, one of the office's strategic goals. NSF funding rose from $5.2 million in 2015 to $7.9 million in 2016.
NSF awards in 2016 included $200,022 for a research team led by the School of Engineering and Technology to overcome problems with one approach to increasing the capacity of lithium ion batteries.
Another National Science Foundation grant will enable researchers at IUPUI to develop a Breathalyzer-type device to detect the onset of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar episodes, in people with diabetes.
The funding awards underscore efforts by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research to develop and expand research programs that address important national and global needs and support economic development of Indiana and the nation.
Other external funding supported research to:
Develop information-based tools to help primary care providers improve care for patients with chronic pain, a condition that affects 100 million Americans at a cost of $630 billion annually in health care costs and lost worker productivity.
Study the use of the electronic dental record to evaluate the outcome of dental treatments.
Study nonmilitary applications of unmanned aerial systems (drone) technology, such as remote imaging for water quality, mosquito habitat mapping, disaster preparation, precision agriculture, and the utilization and analysis of data collected with unmanned aerial systems.
The office helps stimulate faculty research efforts through internal funding programs, events, workshops and proposal ...

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Inspiring Journey from Refugee to Marine to Graduate

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Nearly a decade as a refugee after fleeing a brutal civil war? Check. U.S. Marine combat engineer in Iraq and Afghanistan? Check. Promising biochemist who has been accepted into among the most prestigious research institutions in the world? Check.Meet Sharon Patray, who will walk across a stage at Cal State San Marcos on May 20 to receive her Bachelor of Science Degree in Biochemistry before setting off for a Ph.D. program at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore this fall.

“A day doesn’t go by where I don’t look back at my experiences and think about how fortunate I am,” Patray said. “Even when I’m pumping gas into my car at the gas station, I think, if you would have told me when I was a kid that I would even have my own car, I wouldn’t believe it. Where I came from, only rich people had cars.”

How did she do it?

“Determination, hard work and luck,” Patray said.

Patray’s mentor, Associate Professor of Biochemistry Dr. Sajith Jayasinghe, is among her biggest fans.

“She is a role model for my other students in the lab,” Jayasinghe said. “They see what she has done, where she has come from, and where she is going to.”

Born in the Liberian capital of Monrovia, Patray fled with her mom and most of her family to Ghana during the first Liberian Civil War, a conflict that left more than 600,000 people dead from 1989 to 1997. She was 6 years old when she left her homeland, and she would spend much of the next nine years in a refugee camp.

At the age of 15, Patray landed in Rochester, N.Y., to live with her father. Although she earned a fully paid scholarship to study engineering at Clarkson University, a private research institution near the Canadian border, Patray could not capitalize on ...

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"Words Matter: They Frame Our World" Seven-Day Symposium on the Germantown Campus Starts Today

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Words Matter: They Frame Our World is a seven-day symposium designed to educate participants about content material, skills, and an appreciation of the impact of what is said, how we hear it, and the absence of words (silence). This series of events is the result of many faculty members and students asking how to best address, in an academic way, the changing political and social environment the U.S. is facing. A full schedule with times and places is available below, on the Global Nexus website and the Integrative Learning and Events Calendar. Refreshments will be provided each day. April 21 All day across campus. We acknowledge the absence of words and those individuals or communities whose voices have been silenced by recognizing students who are participating The National Day of Silence. Also, Germantown's Earth Day celebration will have a display about science and global climate change. April 24 12 noon to 1 p.m. I've Been Framed: How the Poor in the U.S. are(Mis)Understood by Professor Rachel Sullivan in HS 167. 1 to 3:30 p.m. Consent Workshop (Poetry Slam & Workshop: combined event) with Professor Loraine Hutchins in HT 216. April 25 11 a.m. to 12 noon Gaslighting: The Mind Game that Erases your Reality by Professor Joanne Bagshaw in BE 167. 2 to 3:15 p.m. ACTING UP: What Makes Activism Work? by Professor Sam Bergmann and Jennifer Haydel in HS 169. 7 p.m. Athenaeum Symposia presents Kathy Bullock, Singing the Spirit: African and African-American Musical Connections in Globe Hall. April 26 1-2:30 p.m. The State of 21st Century Journalism: Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press A panel in Globe Hall on journalism coordinated by Professors Beverly Spencer and Mitch Tropin. April 27 2-3 p.m. We the People: What Did the Framers of the U.S. Constitution Mean? by Professor Joe Thompson in HS 169. April 28 12 noon The Portraiture of the Word, poetry and song by Professor Don ...

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Bismarck Campus Helps Fight Cancer with 'Miles for Smiles' 5K

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Community members and Rasmussen College Bismarck campus staff, faculty and students gathered at Sertoma Park in Bismarck, N.D., on Sept. 13 for the 5th Annual Miles for Smiles 5K Run/Walk.The run/walk—featuring participants of all ages—has brought in more than $20,000 in donations in the past five years for the Bismarck Cancer Center. “We didn’t have a goal set [of how much money we wanted to raise]; we just go out every year and try to grow and improve the event,” said Janelle Heinsohn, manager of student records at the Bismarck campus. Heinsohn started this event in 2010 and chose the Bismarck Cancer Center to receive the donations. At the time, she said there were several people working at the campus that were cancer survivors themselves. The Bismarck Cancer Center features world-class cancer treatments and support to those being treated through radiation at their facility. The center helps patients with various needs, including lodging, food cost, gas to get to appointments, spiritual treatment and survivorship support. “It’s a great local facility that helps a lot of people in the city … it was an easy organization to decide to donate to,” Heinsohn said. “It’s a cause that a lot of people here are passionate about. Everybody knows somebody that’s affected by cancer … it touches all sorts of individuals.” Participants are split into two groups, one for children and one for adults. During the timed runs/walk there are other activities available, including a silent auction, raffle and free chair massages. There is also a representative from the Bismarck Cancer Center available to answer questions and lend support [or whatever they do] and a cancer survivor who speaks to the participants, educating them and sharing their story. Other campuses are supporting cancer patients and survivors too this year; read about what students, staff and faculty are ...

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Proactive advising, economic impact, new degrees at trustee meeting

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Efforts to continually improve student success at Miami University include converging areas of data analytics and personal advising.
Miami’s Student Success Committee (SSC) reported to Miami University trustees at their April 20-21 meetings that SSC members are working to identify key success markers and to intervene earlier in a student’s time on campus to support him/her in achieving those markers. Already, data show at-risk students gaining in GPA and retention.
Miami’s increased retention and graduation rates, both goals of its 2020 Plan, were part of the integrative, holistic approach toward strengthening student success since the SSC was formed in 2014. Committee members are from the divisions of Academic Affairs, Student Affairs and Enrollment Management and Student Success.
Initiatives undertaken to date include use of predictive analytics for advising, identifying at-risk students, use of the UNV 101 and First-year Experience courses to emphasize career goals as a means of encouragement, analysis of a student satisfaction survey and transition survey of new students, academic policy review and enhanced international student support.
Ron Scott, assistant vice president for diversity initiatives, updated trustees on development of the university’s diversity and inclusion statement, a draft of which was shared with all Miami campuses for feedback and ideas.
President Greg Crawford’s presentation included highlights of diversity initiatives tied to academics, co-curricular experiences and the performing arts.
He also informed trustees of Miami’s recent economic impact report showing:
For each $1 the state of Ohio invested in Miami University in fiscal year 2016, the university generated an additional $7.30 from other sources.
In 2015-2016, Miami University and its employees, students and visitors spent an estimated $920 million in Ohio. Using a common multiplier of 1.0608 (dollars spent at least one more time, on average, before leaving Ohio), the total annual impact of this spending was $1.9 billion – more than 25 times greater than the state’s $75.8 million investment in the ...

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Research, advocacy at UNCG for homeless students

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Twenty minutes north of UNCG’s main campus is the National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE), a technical assistance center that has been a part of the university for nearly 20 years.
The center, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, is driven by data. And there’s one number that stands out above the rest.
It’s the number of children and youth across the country identified as homeless: 1.3 million.
Homelessness in the United States takes on different forms. Families might be staying in a shelter, spending nights in a car or couch hopping, relying on the kindness of friends and family and bouncing from home to home at a moment’s notice.
In schools, it’s not easy to identify young people in these situations. Homeless students often go unnoticed and, as a result, lack the educational resources they desperately need.
That’s where NCHE steps in. Housed in UNCG’s SERVE Center – whose mission is to work with educators and policymakers to improve education – NCHE is the technical assistance and information center for the federal Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program.
EHCY oversees the implementation of the McKinney-Vento Education of Homeless Children and Youth Assistance Act. The law grants specific rights to homeless children and youth, such as immediate enrollment in school, transportation, free meals, clothing, school supplies and tutorial services. However, accessing these resources can be difficult, and many families are unaware that they are available.
“Homeless children and youth and their families don’t have the time and resources to try to navigate systems across cities or states,” says George Hancock, NCHE director. “We work with coordinators and liaisons to provide a coordinated point where these families have access to the resources they need.”
NCHE publishes hundreds of different briefs, handbooks and toolkits, holds more than 40 webinars each year and fields approximately 200 emails ...

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Memo to Secretary Mnuchin: The people don’t want big tax cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals

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In a speech at the Institute for International Finance on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the White House tax plan would be unveiled “very soon.” As President Trump and his top economic advisors ponder their final decisions on the elements of the plan, they should consider newly released findings on public opinion about the desirable direction of tax reform.
In a survey released on April 14, the Pew Research Center asked a representative sample of Americans what bothered them about the current tax code. Sixty-two percent said they were bothered “a lot” that some corporations don’t pay their fair share, and 60 percent that some wealthy people don’t pay their fair share. By contrast, only 27 percent reported being bothered a lot by the amount they themselves pay, and an even smaller number—20 percent—said this about the amount poor people pay. Overall, 56 percent regard the current system as unfair (up from 48 percent two years ago), but 54 percent said they themselves were paying “about the right amount.”
As one would expect, there were partisan differences. But only 35 percent of Republicans said they were bothered a lot by what they themselves pay, compared to 45 percent for some corporations and 40 percent for some wealthy people. Upper-income Republicans care a lot about the complexity of the code; lower-income Republicans—the voters who put Donald Trump over the top last November–do not, and only 30 percent think they are paying too much. But a majority of these working-class Republicans do care a lot about the failure of some corporations to pay their share.
A Gallup report issued on April 18 underscored public attitudes about corporations and wealthy individuals. Sixty-three percent of respondents said that upper-income people paid too little in taxes, and even more—67 percent—believed this about corporations.
Early on, the Treasury Secretary announced what became known as “Mnuchin’s rule”: the Trump ...

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Global Leaders Program Volunteer Judges Needed for Community Innovation Projects Presentation Day

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Chicago-area professionals are invited to serve as judges and welcome to attend as guests at the Global Leaders Program Inaugural Community Innovation Projects Presentation Day on Sunday, April 30 from 1:45–3:30 p.m in Hermann Hall (3241 S. Federal Street).
About the Projects:
Teams of junior year scholars work over the course of a year to apply their creativity to a complex social issue in their community that is important to them. Guided by adult professional and undergraduate project mentors, Community Innovation (CI) project teams conduct in-depth research on their issue and work together to design and implement a solution that meets the needs of stakeholders. You can learn more about this year’s projects here.
About Volunteering:
At our CI Project Presentation Day, seven Community Innovation Project teams will showcase their accomplishments. Volunteer judges speak with three to four teams and assess their project’s design and potential impact. You can register to volunteer as a judge by completing a short registration form here.
Please contact Desmend Jetton, STEM access specialist, at djetton@iit.edu with any questions about serving as a judge.



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COD Instructor Featured at Prestigious Art Event

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By Mike McKissackCollege of DuPage Adjunct Professor of Metals and Jewelry Design Aleksandra Vali was recently invited to display her work at the prestigious 23rd annual Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design (SOFA) Fair at Navy Pier in Chicago.“I was thrilled to be invited and to have my creations featured at the fair,” Vali
said. “I’ve attended SOFA Chicago for the last eight years and it was very exciting
to be there as an exhibitor.”Vali was invited to be part of the fair after her successful participation at the
renowned Aaron Farber Gallery’s “Jewelry as Sculpture as Jewelry” exhibition in New
York City in 2016.She said exhibiting at SOFA provided great opportunities as both an artist and a teacher.“The fair gave me the opportunity to network with well-known and respected artists
and gallery owners from all over the world,” she said. “Some of my students attended
the fair and I believe it’s helpful, encouraging and motivating for them to see the
success of their instructors. In addition, I was able to connect with many potential
future students.”Trained in sculpture and ceramics in her native Russia, Vali said that she started
teaching at age 14 when the instructors noticed she was skilled not only at creating
art but also at teaching. She was asked to substitute for an art instructor for a
semester and continued to substitute teach periodically. She went on to eventually
earn a master’s degree from Novosibirsk State University in Russia and continued to
teach part-time while working as a ceramicist for seven years, eventually becoming
the lead artist for a large company. After moving to the U.S. in 2003, she enrolled
in a jewelry class at College of DuPage and discovered a passion for metalsmithing
and creating jewelry.In addition to having her work widely exhibited across the globe, Vali ...

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Interview with Eric Chasalow

Brandeis University News

By Lou Bunk —
 Eric Chasalow is a composer known for creating a vivid kind of “super-musique concrète ” that combines traditional instruments with manipulated pre-recorded sounds from any source imaginable. He teaches at Brandeis University, where he directs BEAMS, the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio. 
This past February, Eric and I met in his office at Brandeis and sat down for a good long conversation. While I came with some prepared questions, we freely drifted among many topics: the community of the Columbia-Princeton studios, what a sound carries with it, capturing the energy of Jazz solos, audience, Sound Art, conceptual art, aging, and what has stayed the same in Electronic Music while technology has changed. Below are some excerpts.  Returning to Brandeis to spend some time with Eric was such a treat, and quite meaningful for me, as he was my dissertation advisor and a mentor in electronic music. 
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You wrote that “studios are like communities” in a description of your oral history project: “The Video Archive of the Electro-acoustic Music”. Could you describe the community of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center while you were there? Who were your colleagues and mentors and how did being a part of this community impact you as a composer and musician?
It’s a big question… and I have to give just a little background. I discovered electronic music in high school. There just happened to be a copy of “Silver Apples of the Moon” in the band room, and I thought “this looks cool, what is this?” And at the same time, this local music store lent me an Arp Odyssey, which is like a MiniMoog. They just said, “Here, try and play with this.” They were looking for publicity because I had won an award for Jazz guitar.
Anyway, fast-forward a little bit, I got to college, and I started studying composition ...

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Prescott’s Observatory Named in CollegeRank’s Top 35 List

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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, is a nonprofit, independent institution offering more than 80 baccalaureate, master’s and Ph.D. degree programs in its colleges of Arts & Sciences, Aviation, Business, Engineering and Security & Intelligence. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., through the Worldwide Campus with more than
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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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2. Statistics3. Tip of the WeekANNOUNCEMENTS
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

STATISTICS

FGATE

Uptime: 295 days/home directory usage: 62% (2.2TB available)/backups directory usage: 72%

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Most productive user of the Week: atucker 192723.

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EGATE

Uptime: 194 days/theoryfs/common directory usage: 35% (433GB available)/theoryfs/ccmst directory usage: 78% (194GB available)

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Most productive user of the Week: atucker 195395.

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TIP OF THE WEEK
by Michael S. Marshall

How to turn your terminal into a quick calculator

For tcsh: add the following line to your .tcshrc:alias calc 'awk "BEGIN print !* " '


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Georgia Tech Ranked Second For Public University ROI

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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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