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This year's annual Teaching and Learning Conference will take place on Friday, May 5 in the Lincoln Park Student Center. The theme of this year's conference is "Beyond Grades-Capturing Authentic Learning." The event is free and open to all DePaul faculty and staff.
"Part of going beyond the grades is thinking about educational experiences differently," says Erin Sella, assistant director of teaching support. "It doesn't need to be the traditional lecture and exams."
During the conference, more than 30 speakers will present on moving beyond traditional forms of evaluation and education.
Tom Angelo, clinical professor of educational research and innovation at the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy, is the keynote speaker. Angelo will focus on practical techniques teachers can use to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and learning quality. His session will be highly interactive, allowing attendees to participate in the teaching techniques he will highlight.
The event is made possible by Faculty Instructional Technology Services; the Office for Teaching, Learning and Assessment; Student Affairs; the University Center for Writing-based Learning; Faculty Council's Committee on Learning and Teaching and the Quality of Instruction Council.
Teaching and Learning ConferenceFriday, May 5 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.Lincoln Park Student Center, room 120 ABRSVP
Watch a recap of last year's conference.
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
Annual teaching and learning conference to explore authentic student learning
PCC re-certified as a Tree Campus USA by Arbor Day Foundation
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PCC re-certified as a Tree Campus USA by Arbor Day Foundation
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PCC has done it again — and just in time for its Earth Week celebration.
The college was notified on April 12 that it has been re-certified as a 2016 Tree Campus USA. PCC was the only community college in the country out of last year’s five recipients to receive the 2015 Tree Campus USA award. Created by the Arbor Day Foundation, the honor recognizes PCC’s exemplary commitment to the selection, protection and sustainable management of the thousands of trees that enrich its 1,500 square-mile footprint.
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PCC offers this limited open forum as an extension of the respectful, well-reasoned discourse we expect in our classroom discussions. As such, we welcome all viewpoints, but monitor comments to be sure they stick to the topic and contribute to the conversation. We will remove them if they contain or link to abusive material, personal attacks, profanity, off-topic items, or spam. This is the same behavior we require in our hallways and classrooms. Our online spaces are no different.
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#18 Women’s Tennis Downs #37 Rochester 8-1 at UAAs
Case Western Reserve Athletic News
Apr 21, 2017
The 18th-ranked Case Western Reserve University women's tennis team defeated the 37th-ranked University of Rochester 8-1 at the University Athletic Association Championships on Friday to advance to the fifth-place match at the conference championships in Altamonte Springs, Florida.
The Spartans will take on 19th-ranked Brandeis University in the fifth-place match on Saturday at 9:00 a.m., after the Judges topped 31st-ranked New York University in their consolation match meeting on Friday. Brandeis is 15-4 overall this season.
Case Western Reserve swept the three doubles matches on Friday, as junior Peyton Young and freshman Kendal Holladay topped Alex Wolkoff and Abbey Reinhart 8-2 at second doubles, junior Nina Cepeda and freshman Katrin Gurvich bested Sravya Gudipudi and Bianca Dyer 8-2 at third doubles. Rounding the doubles victories, the No.1 duo of junior Nithya Kanagasegar and sophomore Jessica Liu earned an 8-2 win over Camila Garcia and Lauren Zickar.
In singles play, four of the five Spartan victories were in straight sets. Kanagasegar topped Garcia 7-5, 6-0 in the first match, and Liu earned a 6-0, 6-2 victory over Wolkoff at third singles. In the fourth singles match, Cepeda bested Zickar 6-1, 6-2, and Young picked up a 6-1, 6-1 win over Reinhart at fifth singles. Rounding out the win, senior Kennedy Mulholland battled to a 6-1, 3-6, 10-7 win over Darby McCall at sixth singles.
CWRU's lone loss came at second singles, where Gudipudi bested Holladay 6-1, 6-4.
The Spartans improved 16-5 overall with the win, while Rochester dropped to 13-6 with the loss.
Fans can follow the action will live stats at http://www.enrollment.cmu.edu/athletics/wsoccer/xlive.htm. Results and a recap of the match will be posted to athletics.case.edu following the completion of play.
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‘Arcadia’ crew gets new set built and ready for the Rep
The fire that struck UWM’s theater building two weeks ago has become a master class in resilience.
Coming just weeks before the May 3 opening of the play “Arcadia,” the fire forced theater students and faculty to adapt quickly. The set was destroyed, so it had to be redesigned and rebuilt. The cast – which never skipped a rehearsal – had to adjust to a new set and stage.
Assistant professor of theater Christopher Guse, Arcadia’s technical director, is impressed with how quickly the set came together at Shorewood High School, which offered the use of its facilities.
“When we redesigned the show, we went for something that was manageable in a short time frame,” Guse said. “And these guys were out of control the last few days. Terrific work, really speedy and really efficient.”
Added Dennis Kavanagh, the theater department’s shop supervisor: “We actually made zero mistakes, which is really unusual.”
And in less than two weeks, the set was ready to be moved to the Stiemke Studio at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. The set was moved Friday afternoon, April 21, to the Kenilworth building for painting, and then to the Rep.
Senior Jonathan Dean, the show’s master carpenter, attributed the quick progress to the focused release of pent-up energy.
“The hardest part of the experience as the first few days when we saw the destruction but weren’t able to do anything about it,” Dean said. “That first Monday (April 10) I thought, I have tools in my basement, I’ll set up in my garage and we’ll start building scenery.
“There’s always been a resolute attitude about this.”
Amid the enthusiasm and determination, there is still grief at the loss of a “home away from home.”
“We spend more time in that building that we do at our houses,” said Ben Lisowski, a member of the ...
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TEDxNIU 2017: Pushing Limits
Academic Calendar
On April 22, 2017, eight speakers, including professionals in fields like computer science, cancer research, personal branding, language barriers, and entrepreneurship, will show us how we can push our own limits and better the world.
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Health Literacy in 30 Seconds
University at Albany University at Albany Research Headlines
The “REALM-TeenS” tool can quickly assess how well teens understand health information.
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 19, 2017) – Imagine being released from the hospital with a confusing diagnosis, stacks of papers to read and more questions than answers about what to do next.
That is the reality for a large percentage of American teenagers. Many have a limited ability to obtain, process and understand health information and services presented to them – also known as low health literacy. Yet, adolescent health literacy research remains limited compared with adult populations.
Jennifer Manganello has published a new study in Pediatrics that may be able to help fill the gap.
The study, led by Manganello, an associate professor in the Health Policy, Management & Behavior in the School of Public Health, is a collaborative effort to develop a brief assessment tool which identifies adolescent health literacy limitations in less than 30 seconds. It’s called Rapid Estimate of Adolescent Literacy in Medicine, short form “REALM-TeenS.”
The tool requires adolescents to read 10 health-related words from a list of common health care terminology. For example, “diabetes,” “asthma,” “exercise” and “bronchial.” The concept is that if an individual has difficulty pronouncing these words in isolation, he or she is likely to have difficulty with comprehension.
“Numerous studies have indicated low health literacy is linked to negative health outcomes in adults. However, limited research has been done on adolescents,” Manganello said. “REALM-TeenS offers researchers and clinicians a brief screening tool that can be used to quickly assess adolescent health literacy in a variety of settings."
Jennifer Manganello. (photo by Paul Miller)
“REALM-TeenS” is a shorter version of a longer assessment tool “REALM-Teen,” which was developed in 2006 by Terry Davis of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, one of the new study collaborators. The original tool required adolescents to read 66 health-related words in three minutes.
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MSU Extension offers pulse crop fertilization information
MSU News - Agriculture (College)
April 20, 2017 -- MSU News Service
BOZEMAN – Montana State University Extension Soil Fertility Specialist Clain Jones is sharing information on the unique soil fertility needs of pulse crops in contrast to the needs of small grains.
More in-depth information on the topic is available from MSU’s Soil Fertility Extension website in the Montana Cool-Season Pulse Production Guide and the Pulse Crop Inoculation and Fertilization presentation.
Montana is seeing a steady increase in the acres planted to peas, lentils and chickpeas, also collectively called pulse crops, according to Jones, who works in the Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences in the MSU College of Agriculture. These crops have unique soil fertility needs, different from small grains, he added.
"The most obvious difference is that (pulse crops) are legumes, which can produce their own nitrogen, rather than relying heavily on nitrogen fertilizer," said Jones. “But, that doesn't mean soil nitrogen can be ignored.”
Jones said that legumes rely on nitrogen fixation by rhizobia, a type of soil bacteria, which start to produce nodules on the roots around two weeks after plant emergence.
“It takes around four weeks after germination for nodules to be active, which is about the third node stage,” he said. “The nitrogen up to that point needs to come from the top 12 inches of soil.”
There are several factors that can limit nodulation and nitrogen-fixation, Jones said. These include saline soils, soil pH less than 5.5 or greater than 8, high levels of soil nitrate and waterlogged or dry soils.
"Nitrogen fixation can stop if the legume becomes drought-stressed," Jones said. In Montana's dryland production, this means that nitrogen fixation can be slowed by flowering, forcing the plant to rely on soil and plant stores of nitrogen for seed production, he explained.
"The trick is to have about 15 to 30 pounds total nitrogen per acre at seeding to get the plants ...
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Friday, April 21, 2017
The Sugarbush Diaries: 73 Taps, 500 Gallons, 12 Dozen Bottles of Made-in-Alberta Deliciousness
Plonk. Plonk. Plonk. The sap drips hitting the bottom of galvanized buckets in Preacher Park are louder than the raindrops on an April weekend at Michigan Tech's Ford Forestry Center.The buckets aren't full yet. But across US-41, Tara Bal's maple syrup management and culture class is collecting from the sugarbush maples that line the streets of Alberta Village. The trees look a little like hospital patients receiving IV drips. Some bear rectangular blue sacks; you can see the clear liquid inside. Flexible, thin blue tubing protrudes from the tap holes on others, snaking down into white plastic buckets.
But tapping doesn't hurt the trees, says Bal, a research assistant professor in the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science(SFRES)—you can pinpoint her location by following the smoke billowing above the Sugar Shack, out back of the research, education and conference center's dining hall and dorms. This year's sugarbush sap boil is in full production mode.
A lot had to happen beforehand. Selected entries from this year's Sugarbush journal:
February 2-22—Firewood, move evaporator, tanks, bucket to shack. Buy drill bit and mallet. Everything still needs cleaning.
February 23—Tap five birch on campus.
February 27—Tapped five trees at Forest Center.
March 2—Check sap bags. Too cold to tap trees.
March 3—Tap trees, check sap.
March 6—Got more buckets, tapped as many trees as we had buckets, bags, taps.
March 19—Pray for better weather, take more pictures
March 23—Check buckets, bags, got about 1/2 bucket of sap, pray for better weather.
March 25—Collected sap, about eight buckets
March 26—Collected sap, eight half-buckets.
March 27—Collected sap.
March 28—Mini boil, get pump-and-draw system operational. Gathered 13 buckets of sap, evaporated about 50 gallons.
April 1—Boil sap
April 2—Boil sap
April 3—Boil sap
April 5—Finish boiling, make candy, bottle syrup
April 7—Clean kitchen.
Total taps: 73
Total gallons: About 500
Ford Forestry Center, the planned community of ...
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Investiture Day Brings SSU Community Together
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Nine months after beginning her tenure as Sonoma State University's seventh president, Judy K. Sakaki received the presidential medallion from California State University Chancellor Timothy White at her formal Investiture ceremony on Thursday, April 20 in Weill Hall at the Green Music Center.
"It's been quite a dance and a time of change for the campus and for me," said Sakaki, giving a nod to the event's "Dance with Change" theme. "I am thankful for all that everyone has done to embrace the dance and to work together -- to stretch, to question, to engage, to contribute, to trust, and to re-imagine a student-centered university."
Chancellor White said, "I'm confident students will look to Judy, to her journey, to her vision, her passion, her presence and her example, to help them see they too, belong, and Sonoma State is right for them."
The Ohio State University President Michael Drake, a mentor of Dr. Sakaki's, praised her as "one of the bright stars of the education galaxy."
The ceremony featured creative works by several Sonoma State faculty and students, including a poem by SSU English Professor Kim Hester Williams, a student dance performance, and the premiere of a new Sonoma State Alma Mater composed by Music Department Chair Brian S. Wilson with lyrics by English Department Chair Brantley Bryant. There was also a Coast Miwok blessing, an Buddhist offering of gratitude, a Taiko drumming performance and speeches from community members and Sonoma State faculty, staff, alumni and students.
Investiture Day also featured a mini-conference in the Student Center and other areas of campus, with more than 50 student and faculty presentations, performances and posters on display in the morning. Nearly all the sessions in the Student Center were attended to capacity or standing room only.
After a reception in Trione Courtyard and Weill Lawn following the ceremony, the community enjoyed a free concert ...
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CSUCI art website is a finalist for two international Webby awards
CSU Chanel Islands News
Camarillo, Calif. April 18, 2017 — A website designed by members of the CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Division of Technology & Innovation (T&I) is one of five nominees for two international Webby awards.The nominated Art program web site, which is at: http://art.csuci.edu/ was selected as one of five contenders in their category, Mobile Sites & Apps School/University. The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences this year received more 13,000 entries from all 50 states and 70 countries.“This is an unparalleled honor,” said an email from Webby Awards team Managing Director Clare Graves. “As a Webby Nominee, your work has been singled out as one of the five best in the world in its category (and among the top 9% of all work entered) and is competing for the Internet's two most coveted awards: The Webby Award and The Webby People's Voice Award.”International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences judges will decide the winner of The Webby Award, but the public can help CSUCI win The Webby People’s Voice Award by voting at http://go.csuci.edu/webby. Votes can be cast up until April 20 at 11:59 p.m.The T&I team that created the website included: Senior User Experience Designer Ryan Garcia; Web Supervisor Daniel Martinez; and CSUCI student assistant Zoltan Batoczki. The team is supervised by Director of IT Strategy Peter Mosinskis, who said the team was deeply honored and humbled to be nominated.“So much brilliant design occurs behind the scenes,” Mosinskis added. “It takes both passion and discipline to design something that looks simple and works well for all users. The Art website is a perfect example of a highly useable, accessible design that can be beautiful, too.”Chair and Associate Professor of Art Luke Matjas said the website is getting hits from all across the country and drawing attention to CSUCI.“Art is a visually-driven ...
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Cal State San Bernardino to get $55 million building
CSUSB News
Faculty and Staff, News Clips, Students
April 21, 2017,
by Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
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Inland Valley Daily Bulletin — A new $55 million building at Cal State San Bernardino is expected not only to consolidate the offices of the campus’ College of Extended Learning, but to also bring international students into the student body mainstream and provide more classroom space.
Design plans for the Center for Global Innovation were approved by the California State University Board of Trustees at its March meeting. The building is expected to open in Fall 2019. The three-story, 71,000-square-foot building will sit directly behind the campus’ centerpiece, Pfau Library.
The article was published April 20, 2017, and also appeared in The Sun, The Press-Enterprise and Redlands Daily Facts.
Read the complete article at “Cal State San Bernardino to get $55 million building.”
See also the related news release,” CSU trustees approve design for CSUSB’s Center for Global Innovation.”
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What Interviewers Want to Know
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During an interview, potential employers want to gather information to gauge whether you, the position, and the organization are a good fit.
Here are some generic questions—and examples of specific questions—an employer may ask in an interview. Use these as a guide to your preparation.
Generic Questions
Specific Examples
What do you know about the organization?
What do you think a typical day is like here?
What sparked your interest in [this organization]?
Do you have any suggestions for how we can make our organization better?
What made you decide to apply for this job?
What do I need to know about your personal traits or characteristics?
What is your strongest attribute?
What is your greatest weakness?
What personality traits make you suitable for this position?
If someone said one word to describe you, what would that word be?
How do you work with others?
Would you rather be micro- or macro-managed?
Tell us about your best and worst boss.
What is your ideal work environment? That is, what type of boss/co-workers would you like to work with?
What skills do you have relevant to this position?
What work experience have you had that is relevant to this position?
Tell us about any specialized training or certifications you have.
What skills do you think you need to add to your repertoire?
How will you get those skills? I know about your college and work background, but what else have you done that would aid us if we were to hire you for this position?
What are your personal goals?
Why do you want us to hire you?
What is your dream job? How would this position help you get there?
What is your seven-year career plan?
Do you have plans for graduate school?
How much do you know about your specialized area?
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Dibutuhkan Tenaga Pendidik Bidang Studi
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Bandung, UPI
Guna memenuhi kebutuhan tenaga pendidik dan kependidikan, Sekolah Djuwita membuka lowongan untuk posisi Kepala Sekolah, Guru Kelompok Bermain, Guru TK, Guru SD, SMP, SMA semua Bidang Studi, Staff Administrasi, Resepsionis, dan HRD. Semua posisi diutamakan yang dapat berbahasa Inggris, serta bersedia untuk ditempatkan di kota Batam, Pekanbaru, Medan, dan Tanjungpinang.
Persyaratan bagi posisi Kepala Sekolah minimal berijasah magister (S2), sedangkan untuk posisi Guru minimal berijasah Sarjana (S1).
Proses interview akan dilakukan pada hari Sabtu, 29 April 2017 pukul 09.00 – 16.00 WIB di Gedung Kuliah Umum lantai Dasar, Ruang Rapat ITB Career Center, Jln. Ganesha No. 10 Bandung. Saat interview para calon membawa lamaran lengkap, membawa Ijasah asli (wajib), membawa surat keterangan dari orang tua/keluarga (ijin untuk bekerja di luar kota/pulau).
Informasi lebih lanjut dapat menghubungi contact person 081277377559/ www.sekolahdjuwita.sch.id. (DN)
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Connie Amen earns CU Denver 2017 Staff Council Service Excellence Award
University News – CU Denver Today
Chancellor Dorothy Horrell (on left) and Connie Amen, assistant dean of finance and human resources at the Business SchoolOn April 14, Chancellor Dorothy Horrell presented the University of Colorado Staff Council 2017 Service Excellence Award to Connie Amen, assistant dean of the Business School.
The Service Excellence Award is given annually to recognize and reward staff members who have provided outstanding and sustained volunteer service to their campus, community/civic/professional organizations, and the university as a whole through active involvement in staff events, community engagement opportunities, committee work, social advocacy projects and diversity initiatives. The honor includes a $1000 stipend.
Chancellor Horrell delivered the following remarks at a luncheon honoring Amen and two other recipients from CU Boulder and University of Colorado Colorado Springs.
It is my pleasure to present the Service Excellence Award to Connie Amen, the Assistant Dean of Finance and Human Resources in the CU Denver Business School.
Connie has been with CU Denver since 2007 and exemplifies the spirit of service that this award honors.
For a decade, she has contributed her time and talent in service to the Business School, the CU Denver campus as well the CU system.
Connie was originally hired as a manager, and quickly rose through the ranks. She and her small team manage operations for the entire Business School, with 75 faculty, 60 lecturers and 60 staff members. Her fellow colleagues call her the glue that holds the Business School together.
She dedicates much of her free time to ensuring her colleagues are supported.
She organized a school community fund to support members of the Business School though both milestones and hardships. For instance, Connie sends flowers on behalf of the university when someone from her department has a baby.
She manages donations, keeps track of funds and handles the logistics of these gestures.
Recently, the son of a faculty member experienced serious burns and was ...
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Proxima b discoverer to join UW astrobiologists for May 3 lecture, discussion
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April 19, 2017
The lead investigator of the research team that discovered Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet, will join University of Washington astrobiologists May 3 to discuss the planet’s potential for life and even the possibility of sending spacecraft to the world.
Guillen Anglada-Escudé of Queen Mary University of London, will give a lecture titled “Proxima Centauri b: A World of Possibilities” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 3. in 120 Kane Hall. This will be followed by brief comments by UW astronomy professors Victoria Meadows and Rory Barnes as well as Olivier Guyon, professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, and a panel discussion.
Anglada-Escude was principal investigator for the team that in August 2016 detected Proxima Centauri b orbiting its star 4.22 light years, or about 25 trillion miles away in the constellation of Centaurus. Not only the exoplanet orbiting the closest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri b is also probably similar in mass to Earth and receives about the same amount of starlight from its host star, raising the possibility that it could be habitable.
Following Anglada-Escudé, Barnes will talk about the planet’s formation and evolution with an eye toward water being possible there today. Meadows, lead investigator of the UW-based Virtual Planetary Laboratory, will discuss the ramifications of the planet’s evolution on the possibility of life on Proxima Centauri b, and how we might look for it.
Guyon, an expert on exoplanet imaging who is also project scientist for Japan’s Subaru telescope, will then discuss technology coming online in the next decade to observe Proxima Centauri b with massive telescopes.
He will also talk about Starshot, one of the Breakthrough Initiatives supported by Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and physicist Stephen Hawking, which proposes to use a high-powered, Earth-based laser to send a swarm ...
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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
T23. ...
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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
College Hockey News from CHN
April 21, 2017
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by Jeff Cox/CHN Reporter (@JeffCoxSports)
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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
Cal Poly Pomona
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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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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April 21, 2017
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.
The vice president for student affairs oversees UW units focused on student life, including Residence Life and Dining Services, the Dean of Students Office, Campus Recreation, Student Health Service, the University Counseling Center and the Wyoming Union.
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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
American University News
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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Sneak Preview of Campus Center Progress
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.”
Campus Center
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.
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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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Apr 21, 2017
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
Humboldt State University Athletics
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
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
Miami University - Top Stories
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
UNCG Now
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
News – Illinois Tech Today
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
News at College of DuPage
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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