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April 27, 2017 – A new interdisciplinary master’s program, designed to give students the skills to conduct rigorous scientific measurement and analysis of toxins, hazardous substances and other materials in the earth’s atmosphere and surface, will be offered this fall.
The aim is to equip students with a better understanding of environmental measurements science and policy.
“The idea is that you want to use the best available science to inform the process of policymaking” says YuYe Tong, chemistry professor and program director for the Master of Science in Environmental Metrology & Policy. “Our vision is to teach and train people to be skillful with both sides of the equation – to understand the science and the processes through which how science can best inform the policymaking.”
Tong says the new two-year program, offered through Georgetown’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is the first of its kind in the United States.
Real-Life Reflections
Faculty members and experts from Georgetown, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will teach in the program.
Antonio Possolo, chief statistician of NIST, for example, will lead the program’s course on Statistical Methods in Environmental Metrology.
“What’s happening in real life will be reflected in the classroom, and vice versa” Tong notes.
Education Gap
In addition to coursework, the program includes a 10-week summer internship and a capstone research project.
Tong says the new program also leverages Georgetown’s location in the nation’s capital and its proximity to federal agencies.
“There’s a gap in terms of education in chemical and biochemical metrology and even at NIST it can take several years to train people in terms of mastering the principles and methodologies in metrology,” says Tong.
Ensuring Chemical Safety
He notes that the Master of Science in Environmental Metrology and Policy begins at a time of widespread ...
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New Master’s Degree Melds Environmental Measurements Science and Policy
Hearst Foundations grant supports UCSC Science Communication Program
Physical and Biological Sciences News
The Hearst Foundations have awarded a grant of $100,000 to UC Santa Cruz to support the campus's nationally recognized Science Communication Program. The two-year grant will help cover instructional costs, fund an expansion of the program's digital media training, and support efforts to recruit a diverse cohort of graduate students."We are grateful that Hearst recognized our pivotal role during a time when accurate and engaging science communication is more important than ever," said program director Erika Check Hayden. "As the only science communication graduate program based at a public university, we provide the highest quality of instruction to students who represent the face of California and the nation."
Founded in 1981, the Science Communication Program focuses on practical training through rigorous coursework and diverse internships. It is the only graduate science writing program in the United States that requires a degree in science and experience in research. Graduates of the program work as reporters and editors at the nation's top newspapers, science magazines, online news services, research agencies, universities, and medical centers.
The program's multimedia curriculum is designed to meet the growing demand for full multimedia proficiency in entry-level journalism positions. The Hearst grant will fund a significant upgrade of digital media training through new equipment purchases and instruction from experts in the field.
The director is the program's sole faculty member, with additional instruction provided by professional journalists and guest editors. Much of the grant will be used to support this corps of nationally prominent lecturers and guest editors, who train students to professional standards and help open career doors for the program's graduates. The grant will also support recruitment efforts, including outreach to communities that have been underrepresented in the science communication field.
The Hearst Foundations, made up of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the Hearst Foundation Inc., act as a philanthropic resource for organizations and institutions working ...
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New Funding Will Support Research into Biology of Malaria Parasite
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Grant Dorsey, MD, PhD, received federal funding that will allow him to research the biology of the malaria parasite.In a commitment to improve the control and elimination of malaria worldwide, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) – a part of the National Institute of Health – announced on April 21, 2017, that UC San Francisco researcher Grant Dorsey, MD, PhD, will receive a renewal award for an International Center for Excellence in Malaria Research (ICEMR).
The award will fund Dorsey’s project, the Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance and Modeling of Malaria in Uganda (PRISM) for seven years at about $1 million annually.
“We’re extremely excited,” said Dorsey. “We feel very fortunate to continue the work we started.”
Dorsey, Professor of Medicine in UCSF’s Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, received a seven-year ICEMR award from NIAID in 2010. His research has informed new guidelines to antimalarial care throughout Africa, enabling thousands of children and pregnant women to live malaria-free.
PRISM is one of seven ICEMR programs selected worldwide, comprising a global network of research centers in malaria-endemic settings, including Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands and Latin America. PRISM is based in Tororo, a rural town in Eastern Uganda, and its goals are to perform surveillance of malaria in order to improve understanding and to measure the impact of population-level control interventions. With the award, Dorsey aims to build upon the work of the last seven years.
“With the initial grant, we aimed to understand epidemiology of malaria,” said Dorsey. “Now, we want to understand its biology.”
To control malaria, Dorsey and his team has primarily relied on insecticide-treated bed nets and artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACTs) for symptomatic malaria. The interventions have been extremely effective in reducing the incidence of malaria.
Between 2010 and 2015, the rate of new cases fell by 21 percent globally. In the same period, malaria mortality ...
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Marshall defeats FIU in opener of 3-game series
FIU Athletics
BECKLEY, West Va. -- Marshall scored six runs in the bottom of the third inning to snap a tie with FIU as the Thundering Herd took the first game of a three-game series, 22-6, over the Panthers Friday afternoon at Epling Stadium.The Herd is now 19-19 overall and 8-8 in Conference USA play. The Panthers are 23-16 on the season and 8-8 in conference games.With the score tied 1-1, Marshall sent nine men to the plate against FIU starter Nick MacDonald in the third. Tommy Lane's two-run single to right with the bases loaded put the Herd on top 3-1. Cory Garrastazu had a two-run double and Leo Valenti's two-run home run capped off the scoring in the third that gave Marshall a 7-1 lead.MacDonald (6-1) went 3 2/3 innings, allowed nine hits, six earned runs and struck out eight batters.Joshua Shapiro (2-4) pitched five innings, allowed five hits and four runs to record the win for the Herd.Jack Schaaf was 3 for 5 with two RBI for FIU. Zack Soria and Zach Files each had two hits.The Panthers and Herd resume the series Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. There is no video or radio broadcast for the three-game series but live in-game updates are available on Twitter: @FIUBaseball.
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Track & Field Hosts Annual Team Banquet
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Will Stafford (@WillStaffordLSU)Associate SID
BATON ROUGE – The LSU Track & Field program held its seventh-annual Team Awards and Alumni Recognition Banquet on Friday night at the Renaissance Baton Rouge Hotel in which 19 student-athletes received awards for their performance in competition, in the classroom and in the community during the 2015-16 athletic season.
The LSU Track & Field Team Awards and Alumni Recognition Banquet has been established to not only recognize the current members of the program for their performance in the past year, but also honor the alumni who have laid the foundation of success still enjoyed by the program today.
Awards were presented to members of the program for their outstanding performance during the 2015 and 2016 cross country seasons as well as the 2016 indoor and 2016 outdoor track and field seasons while leading the Tigers and Lady Tigers in all aspects of the program.
Highlighting the festivities on the night was a celebration of the LSU’s “Decade of the Dynasty” when the Lady Tigers brought home a staggering 19 NCAA team championships between the indoor and outdoor seasons from 1987-97. That included an unprecedented 11-straight national titles won at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, a streak that will surely never be broken in the sport.
Proud to have so many of these women from the #DecadeOfDynasty back with us at tonight's team banquet! #LSU #Legends pic.twitter.com/Suu8wI7rpz
— LSUTrackField (@LSUTrackField) April 22, 2017
“What a special event this has become for our program each and every year as we continue to celebrate our history, while also recognizing those still on our team who carry that standard of excellence with them,” said LSU head coach Dennis Shaver. “We’re especially proud to have so many women from that ‘Decade of the Dynasty’ come back and be recognized for what they accomplished. We’ll likely never see an era like ...
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Dateline Rice for April 21, 2017
FEATURED ITEM
Rice wins 1st over UT since 1965As part of its “Journey Through the Archives” feature in celebration of 115 years of publishing, the Houston Chronicle reprinted a 1994 article that reported Rice football’s historic win over the University of Texas.Houston Chronicle (Subscription required.)http://bit.ly/2obOXZGhttp://bit.ly/2pZ7yEu
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
The Gulf states are turning to Asia in a big way. Here’s why it matters.Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, fellow for the Middle East at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, authored an op-ed about the Gulf states.Washington Posthttp://wapo.st/2oRw9NX
Of course adults sneer at millennials: Christian SchneiderAn op-ed references Rice’s decision to replace the title “college master” with “college magister.”USA Today (This appeared in over 10 other media outlets.)http://usat.ly/2pMtLtc
With new research ‘lab,’ D.C. aims big for better public policy The Kinder Foundation has awarded a $10.7 million grant to Rice’s Houston Education Research Consortium to expand its innovative work to additional school districts in the Greater Houston region. Ruth Lopez Turley, director of the consortium, associate director of research at Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research and professor of sociology, is quoted.Government Technologyhttp://bit.ly/2obOIOcRice University receives $10.7M for Houston school partnershipPhilanthropy News Digesthttp://bit.ly/2p3b3wH
ConsenSys hires BHP Billiton blockchain and energy expert Dr. Tyler SmithAn article mentions the Business and the Blockchain conference that was hosted at Rice.International Business Times UK (This also appeared in Yahoo Finance UK.)http://bit.ly/2pm5avB
HOUSTON/TEXAS
Trump se hace a la idea de que hay que respetar los tratadosDouglas Brinkley, professor of history, is quoted about President Donald Trump. Brinkley will speak at Stephen F. Austin State University April 24.Houston Chronicle (An English translation is not available. This Associated Press article appeared in over 10 ...
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Grant to UC and Cincinnati Union Bethel to Aid Victims of Human Trafficking
UC Health News
A psychologist at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine is partnering with the social service agency Cincinnati Union Bethel (CUB) to identify and assess treatment needs of human trafficking survivors in Ohio. This work is thanks to a $900,000 grant ($300,000 renewed over three years) from the Office on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP) at the Administration for Children and Families."Ohio has the fourth highest rate of human trafficking in the country,” says Maria Espinola, PsyD, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience and a UC Health psychologist. "Cincinnati’s geographic location, transient populations and high rates of poverty and homelessness, paired with the growing opioid epidemic, places already vulnerable women and children at an increased risk for sexual exploitation and trafficking.”Espinola said she chose to partner with CUB due to the "amazing work they already do for survivors.” CUB is the longest-running social service agency in Cincinnati, addressing the needs of urban women, children, families and communities, and has served over 800 victims of human trafficking since 2006. Viann Barnett, director of CUB, has worked for the past nine years to help victims reclaim their lives from the horrors of human trafficking. "Off the Streets, a marquee program of CUB, has been at the forefront of addressing the needs of victims of human trafficking and has changed the lives of many,” she says. "We are excited to have UC as a partner on this grant which will help identify the treatment needs of victims and incorporate evidence-based, culturally-sensitive and trauma-informed therapeutic techniques to help the city’s most vulnerable. It is an unfortunate, even horrendous reality that human slavery happens in our own towns and neighborhoods, but it’s one we must confront.”"Working with underserved populations has been a pleasure and a passion for Dr. Espinola, and it speaks volumes of her character,” ...
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Spring into L.I.F.E. Programs Each Wednesday
Lone Star College CyFair News
Published on: April 04, 2017
Enjoy weekly programs at Lone Star College-CyFair learning about Cape Cod, Catalonia, book crafts, heart health as well as genealogy.
The Learning, Inspiration, Friendship and Enrichment (L.I.F.E.) programs in April and May are free and held Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the library (Room 131 unless otherwise noted) at 9191 Barker Cypress.
April 12 - Cape Cod and Its HistoryJane Stimpson takes us on a virtual excursion to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, past and present. Just what are quahogs and scrod?
April 19 - How Catalonia Celebrates St. George DayTona Espel, librarian and native Catalonian, tells us about this important cultural holiday named after the patron saint of Catalonia. Come and learn some of its traditions and taste some treats.
April 26 - Nutrition for Heart HealthDr. Mary Alavi of Balanced Health and Wellness tells the unhappy story of how humans moved from natural food to processed food. Sample some healthful snacks. Celebrating Go Red Week for Heart Health with the Wellness Committee.
May 3 - Book Leaf BlossomsLet Krissy Conn and Nicole Gibson help you craft beautiful paper flowers from upcycled discarded books.
May 10 - Genealogy Series: A World of SourcesMick Stafford, Executive Director of HCC Libraries, gives you a birds-eye view of the wealth of genealogy sources online and through your library.
May 17 - Genealogy Series: DNA and Medical Genetics TestingLSC-Kingwood Professor Brian Shmaefsky reveals the state of the art when it comes to your genes and your health. He discusses the pros and cons of direct-to-consumer DNA tests and explains what they can and cannot tell you.
May 24 - So You Want to Be a WriterProlific fiction and nonfiction author and war veteran Gordon Rottman leads a discussion on the basics of how to start (and finish) a writing project. To commemorate the sacrifices of American troops in advance of Memorial Day. Some attention will ...
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Lone Star College-North Harris student delegation returns from China
Lone Star College North Harris News
Published on: September 15, 2015
A select group of students from Lone Star College-North Harris
returned to campus this fall, talking about the academic trip of a lifetime
they took this summer. As part of the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, 14 honors
students from LSC-North Harris visited China for two weeks in August.
During their program abroad, the students travelled to Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai where
they learned about Chinas educational and economic systems along with its traditions
steeped in history and rich culture. The students had the opportunity to visit such
famous historical sites including The Great Wall, Tiananmen Square and the
Forbidden City, in addition to attending attractions such as Hangzhou Tea
Museum, Shanghais Oriental Pearl Tower and an acrobatics show with the celebrated
Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe.
The students
selected for the program are some of the LSC-North Harris highest-achieving
students and leaders on campus. They are currently enrolled in The Honors
College, an academic program designed for
high-achieving students seeking to improve their college transcripts and
transferability with challenging coursework across all disciplines.
The
mission of the LSC-North Harris Honors College is to enhance existing programs
and to reaffirm the College's commitment to excellence by identifying,
recruiting, and challenging motivated students, providing enrichment and
flexibility to develop full student potential, and to offer faculty the
opportunity for renewal and innovation.
According to Dr.
Wei Li, LSC-North Harris professor of English and developmental studies, and
faculty representative on the trip, I see great potential for these students
to become friendship ambassadors between the United States and China,
successful diplomats and business people, and citizens and peace makers of the
global village.
Wanxiang America,
China-United States Exchange Foundation, U.S. Congressional Office of Sheila
Jackson-Lee, Lone Star College, Beijing Foreign Studies University and Hangzhou
Wanxiang Polytechnics sponsored and organized the trip as part of the 100,000
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Anson Dorrance shares thoughts on character in his Last Lecture
Campus Updates – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s women’s soccer coach Anson Dorrance performs the same ritual before each National Championship game his team plays (a whopping 24, with 22 of those victories). It doesn’t have anything to do with superstition. It’s all about appreciation.
“I spend the entire day and half the night before the National Championship game writing a note to every senior on my roster, thanking each of them for the incredible human contribution they’ve made to my team,” Dorrance told the Carolina seniors attending the Last Lecture on April 20.
The next morning, Dorrance delivers the letters, often “bleary eyed and honestly half asleep.”
“Rest assured the letters are more powerful and valuable to my team than me actually being awake during the game,” he said.
Dorrance uses the letters not only to let his senior players know how important they are to the team, but he also shares copies of the letters with the rest of the team so that they remember the special women they are playing for.
“What we are consciously trying to do is to construct real connections where our players, emotionally, play for each other,” the coach explained. “And this stuff works.”
Dorrance was selected by the Class of 2017 to deliver the Last Lecture on the west lawn of the Morehead Building, as the sun began to set. The talk is based on the premise, “If you knew this was the last lecture you would ever give, what would you say?”
The talk had long been a tradition at Carnegie Mellon University, usually for professors nearing retirement. But the Last Lecture received national attention in 2007, when computer science professor Randy Pausch, dying from pancreatic cancer at age 46, gave a funny, upbeat message that got millions of viewers online.
Soon other universities, like Carolina, were also hosting Last Lectures.
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Gaining a community’s trust
Danielle Spurlock speaks at a neighborhood town hall meeting in east Durham on February 25, 2017.The revitalization of Old East Durham has resulted in a dramatic increase in property values over the last 10 years. What does this growth mean for housing affordability, equity, and environmental quality in one of North Carolina’s fastest growing areas?
To find out, the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning is listening (and lending resources) to long-term residents of Durham.
Fruit platters, hummus and veggies, chicken wings, home-baked cookies, and large pitchers of sweet tea and lemonade cover a long table at Holton Career and Resource Center. It’s the third Tuesday of the month, which means Communities in Partnership, a neighborhood initiative of old East Durham, is hosting their monthly potluck.
Across from the table, Karla Jimenez, a graduate student from the Department of City and Regional Planning in UNC’s College of Arts & Sciences, talks with a long-term resident of east Durham. Together they examine a large map of the neighborhood, and Jimenez asks her questions about local businesses and economic opportunities in the area.
The woman points to an area of Angier Road where there is a row of abandoned warehouses. “These buildings could be serving the community but they’re not,” she says. “It’s hard to see people walking to the bus stop in the rain with bags of groceries. They have to commute by bus to the other side of Durham just to get groceries.”
The conversation switches to food deserts, and while Jimenez listens intently to this woman’s concerns about her neighborhood, another graduate student from UNC is taking down notes from their conversation.
“As a facilitator I was engaging participants—I asked them what their experiences have been like, but I was essentially letting them lead the conversation,” Jimenez says. “Wherever they wanted to take the ...
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Las Vegas launches clean-needle vending machines to help addicts avoid disease
Newsroom: InTheNews
Publication Date: 4/20/2017
ByLine: ThinkProgress
URL Link: https://thinkprogress.org/vegas-needle-machines-e985b9068f13
Page Content: Features Steffanie Strathdee, PhD
News Type: National
News_Release_Date: April 21, 2017
NewsTags: AIDS/HIV; Infectious Disease; Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
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Why children struggle to cross busy streets safely
Iowa Now - Research
For adults, crossing the street by foot seems easy. You take stock of the traffic and calculate the time it will take to get from one side to the other without being hit.Yet it’s anything but simple for a child.
Video of Road crossing simulation (near miss)
New research from the University of Iowa shows children under certain ages lack the perceptual judgment and motor skills to cross a busy road consistently without putting themselves in danger. The researchers placed children from 6 to 14 years old in a realistic simulated environment (see video) and asked them to cross one lane of a busy road multiple times.
The results: Children up to their early teenage years had difficulty consistently crossing the street safely, with accident rates as high as 8 percent with 6-year-olds. Only by age 14 did children navigate street crossing without incident, while 12-year-olds mostly compensated for inferior road-crossing motor skills by choosing bigger gaps in traffic.
“Some people think younger children may be able to perform like adults when crossing the street,” says Jodie Plumert, professor in the UI’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. “Our study shows that’s not necessarily the case on busy roads where traffic doesn’t stop.”
For parents, that means taking extra precautions. Be aware that your child may struggle with identifying gaps in traffic large enough to cross safely. Young children also may not have developed the fine motor skills to step into the street the moment a car has passed, like adults have mastered. And, your child may allow eagerness to outweigh reason when judging the best time to cross a busy street.
“They get the pressure of not wanting to wait combined with these less-mature abilities,” says Plumert, corresponding author on the study, which appears in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, published by the American ...
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Georgia Tech Wins First-Ever Collegiate Drone Racing National Championship
Science and Technology
Campus and Community Science and Technology
Georgia Tech Wins First-Ever Collegiate Drone Racing National Championship
Three engineering students take home top honors for their flying skills
April 19, 2017
• Atlanta, GA
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Seth Ableidinger, Davis Engleman, and Nick Willard bring home the first place trophy at the first-ever Collegiate Drone Racing National Championship held at Purdue University.
Three engineering students took home the top trophy at the Collegiate Drone Racing National Championship held at Purdue University on April 15th. It is the first year a national championship has been organized for pilots of unmanned aircraft to compete against each other at the college level.
Twenty-seven universities fielded teams of pilots who navigated obstacle courses flying custom-designed drones. The course was designed for testing both a pilot’s speed and precision.
Georgia Tech was led by aerospace engineering major Nick Willard, who flew in the final race to seal the victory. Willard competes in many non-collegiate Drone Racing League events, and has won racing events televised on ESPN. He is affectionately known by drone racing enthusiasts as “Wild Willy.”
Willard was joined by Seth Ableidinger and Davis Engelman, two mechanical engineering majors, who held strong in preliminary races to put Georgia Tech into a solid lead.
Their times and rankings, combined with Willard’s, put Georgia Tech into first place among the field.
The University of California, Berkeley finished second, with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in third, and host Purdue University coming in fourth.
The Georgia Tech team brought home a total of $15,000 in equipment and prizes.
See footage from the first collegiate drone racing championship. (Note, the final race begins at 6:53:53. The awards presentation can be seen at 7:27:37)
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Autism and Computing
Health and Medicine
Weather forecasts warn of a snow and ice storm that will hit a swath of states in the Midwest, Northeast and South early next week. Why not use the forecast as inspiration for this year’s Valentine’s Day gift? Instead of buying loved ones flowers or chocolates, make them a disaster preparedness...
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Title Defense Begins Sunday For Women's Golf As Hosts Of The 2017 Big West Championship
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Riverside—The UC Riverside Women's Golf Team prepares to host the 2017 Big West Championship at Oak Quarry Golf Club April 23-25.The Highlanders enter the tournament as defending champs having claimed the 2016 title on Kapalua's Bay Course last April thanks to a final-round surge, which saw them erase a three-stroke deficit, and win by four shots–the program's first conference championship (read recap).UCR finished in the top-5 as a team on five occasions in the 2016-17 season. The last two came in their last two events, the Fresno State Classic in March, when they finished tied for second, and at the Wyoming Desert Classic in Arizona, where the came in fourth. (2016-17 Stats & Results)UC Riverside Women's Golf Big West Championship lineup and first round tee time:#1, Jakeishya Le, 9:36 am-The 2016 Big West Co-Freshman of the Year has carded seven rounds under par this season, including three rounds in the 60s. Her 73.68 scoring average is the second-best in the field, and would break Savannah Vilaubi's program record 74.56 set in the 2014-15 season. Le shot a final round two-under 70 in last year's championship–the best round of the tournament.#2, Paris Griffith, 9:27 am-The 2016 All-Conference Honorable Mention selection had a top-5 result at the 2017 Battle at the Rock. Griffith shot a career-best two-under par 70 in the final round of her last two events at Oak Quarry Golf Club, the 2016 and 2017 Battle at the Rock. She finished fourth in the 2016 Big West Championship.#3, Hannah Facchini (C), 9:18 am-A First Team All-Conference honoree that has a top-3 to her credit, and has earned a pair of top-10s in her last three tournaments. She set the program single low-round record with a six-under 66 in the first round of the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown. Facchini finished sixth at the 2016 conference event.#4, Julia Sander, 9:09 am-Three of her last four rounds have been played at par or better, a ...
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Admitted Students Get Sneak Peek of Caltech Life at Prefrosh Weekend
Caltech will welcome 266 students—along with 280 family members—to campus April 20-22 for Prefrosh Weekend, the Institute's signature welcome event for newly admitted first-year students.Prefrosh Weekend features more than 45 academic and student life panels and events to give parents and students a feel for the Institute; these include the popular Caltech Club Fair and Carnival along the Olive Walk on Friday afternoon. In an effort to highlight the importance of diversity in the Caltech community—and more broadly in science and engineering disciplines and careers—the admissions office is also sponsoring several sessions on the topic, as well as a Women in STEM roundtable. Admitted students have until May 1 to commit to Caltech; about 235 are expected to be enrolled.This year's admitted class of 525 students is the Institute's most diverse yet, with record high percentages of women and of underrepresented minority students."This class of admits represents a tremendous amount of effort to create a more diverse and inclusive community of scholars," says Jarrid Whitney, executive director of admissions and financial aid. "We are also able to offer all eligible students need-based financial aid, which meets 100 percent of demonstrated need; this means a Caltech education can become a reality for accepted students. Prefrosh Weekend is truly the culmination of our community's efforts to enroll the best and brightest STEM leaders."Prefrosh Weekend also presents an opportunity for members of the campus community to welcome members of the incoming class. To that end, Whitney asks all of those on campus during the event "to engage visitors and offer friendly assistance to anyone who appears lost or has questions about Caltech during their stay."
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Deciphering the Glass Universe
On April 4, science writer Dava Sobel visited Caltech to give a talk about her recent book, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, which details the lives and accomplishments of a group of female astronomers and philanthropists at Harvard in the late 1800s. Sobel's book details the many accomplishments of these women, including funding new telescopes, inventing new classification systems for stars, and discovering a yardstick for measuring distances across space.We sat down with Sobel to discuss this important time in astronomy and her motivation behind telling this story.What is the glass universe?The glass universe is the main character of this story—half a million glass plates on which the Harvard photographs of stars were taken. These plates enabled women to create a classification system for the stars and discover new objects. These plates mark the beginning of modern astrophysics.What role did women have in deciphering the glass universe?Women played a huge role in making these discoveries possible. Some of the stories I tell in my book are about the women who funded this effort, such as Anna Draper, who donated her fortune to Harvard astronomy, and Catherine Wolfe Bruce, who donated the money to build a telescope to photograph the sky of the Southern Hemisphere. One female philanthropist set up fellowships for women who wanted to work in astronomy at Harvard. These fellowships were later used to fund graduate studies and, consequently, the first-ever Harvard PhD in astrophysics was a woman named Cecilia Payne. Other stories I tell are of the women who made groundbreaking astronomical discoveries; women like Annie Jump Cannon, who created the stellar classification system that we still use today.Until recently, many women have been discouraged from doing science, thinking that it's "not feminine." But the women I describe were given ...
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Baseball Falls 5-3 in SDSU Opener
Santa Barbara Athletics News
Apr 21, 2017
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – San Diego State put together 14 hits to open the weekend series with a 5-3 win over UC Santa Barbara on Friday afternoon at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
The Aztecs (28-11) were led by Tyler Adkison and Danny Sheehan, each with 3 hits in the game. The Gauchos (16-19, 3-5 Big West) fought hard to keep the game close, but a ninth-inning rally by San Diego State proved to be the deciding factor in an unusual game.
Noah Davis, UCSB's starting pitcher had his work cut out for him on the mound. After an Adkison single and stolen base, Julian Escobedo pushed the first run of the game across in the top of the second with a chopper just over JJ Muno's head, scoring Adkison.
Then in the fifth, Alan Trejo got the inning started with a liner to center field. The next batter, Andrew Brown, got on by a fielding error, and was soon followed by a pair of hits from Jordan Verdon and Adkison once again to open the lead 3-0. Andrew Checketts, UCSB's head coach, commented that San Diego State's two-strike approach was, "really a nice job…they put the ball in play."
However, the Gauchos bounced right back the next half-inning. With two outs, catcher Dempsey Grover laid down a great surprise bunt for a single. A pair of throwing errors on the play allowed Grover to advance from first to home in one play, cutting the lead to 3-1.
The next inning, the Gauchos came back to tie the game 3-3. Billy Fredrick reached on a fielding error to start the rally, followed shortly after by a single from DH Sam Cohen. A deep fly ball by Austin Bush allowed Fredrick to advance to third, then Tommy Jew followed with a seeing-eye RBI single, scoring Fredrick and advancing Cohen to third. With runners on ...
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‘The Timeless Role of Art’
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Santa Barbara Dance Theater (SBDT) has a reputation for range and excellence, and both will be on display when the professional dance company in residence at UC Santa Barbara presents “NOW/EVER/MORE” May 4 and 5 at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara.The concert, which begins at 8 p.m., will feature diverse premieres by critically acclaimed choreographers: Guests Andrea Giselle Schermoly and David Maurice and Christopher Pilafian, SBDT’s artistic director.
“This program speaks to the timeless role of art,” said Pilafian. ”Choreographers draw upon the raw materials of inspiration, observation, empathy, resonance and passion to reveal what was invisible. ‘NOW/EVER/MORE’ carves out a discrete time and space in which we reflect on the challenges and beauties of this grand collaborative project — being human.”
Guest choreographer Schermoly’s new work, “Hers,” is characterized by a highly wrought physical vocabulary whose expressionism teases out distinct yet related facets of humanity. With SBDT, she draws original, mature performances from dancers Nikki Pfeiffer, Nicole Powell and Christina Sanchez, set to a score by Belgian composer Wim Mertens.
“Were It Not for Shadows,” the new work by guest choreographer Maurice, draws on cultural ritual, societal norms and romantic notions as forces that impose limits on the sense of self. Maurice and SBDT’s dancers explore conflicts between concepts of “I,” “we” and “they.”
Pilafian’s “Mystique,” which originally premiered in January, will be presented anew. This work for nine women, he said, is inspired by his deep appreciation of the many female friends, teachers, partners, choreographers, artistic directors and colleagues who have influenced him throughout his life.
The choreography is set to a score by composer Will Thomas, with Mary Heebner’s artwork transmuted into scenic imagery by designer Michael Klaers and costumes hand-painted by Ingrid Luna.
In Pilafian’s newest piece, “Chamber Fantasy,” features three dancers and is set to music ...
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April issue of Faculty Senate’s ‘Engage’ newsletter now available
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2017 Quest for the Best Winners Announced
SDSU College of Sciences
Ten SDSU students are being recognized for their contributions to the university.
Ten students will be recognized for their contributions to San Diego State University in the fields of academics, research, student life and community service.Winners of the Quest for the Best awards were selected for exemplifying student achievement at SDSU. Each year, SDSU students take their personal and academic achievements to new heights, and every year the university recognizes those students who demonstrate a commitment to excellence. The following individuals were selected as 2017 Quest for the Best award winners:Name: Mustafa AlemiMajor: Political science and Islamic and Arabic studiesCampus affiliations: Associated Students, Muslim Student Association Board, Students for Justice in Palestine, SDSU CommUNITYName: Grant VarnauMajor: Physics with a minor in honors interdisciplinary studiesCampus affiliations: Society of Physics Students, Weber Honors College Student Society, Marc Program Scholar, LSAMP Scholar, SACNAS memberName: Ceinna BushMajor: Communication with a minor in leadershipCampus affiliations: Delta Sigma Theta Nu Upsilon, African Student Union, Student African American Sisterhood, Retention and Recruitment Working Group, Student Life and Leadership, Vice Presidential Student Affairs Scholar, SDSU’s College Avenue Compact Program, Aztec Unity ProjectName: Mark SandersMajor: Microbiology with minors in honors interdisciplinary studies and chemistryCampus affiliations: Aztec Adventures, Health Professions Advising Office, SDSU College of Sciences ICAN Program Name: Erika Grecia MezaMajor: Psychology with a minor in counseling and social changeCampus affiliations: Psi Chi Honors Society, PsyMORE, Counseling and Social Change Club, College of Education Student Council, Western Psychological AssociationName: Asha AlshabazzMajor: Communication with a minor in Africana studiesCampus affiliations: Scholars Without Borders, One SDSU, KCR College Radio, Residential Education, Center for Intercultural Relations, National Residence Hall HonoraryName: Jason OgbeideMajor: Accounting with a minor in marketingCampus affiliations: Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Student African-American Brotherhood, Black Business Society, African Student Union, Harambee Scholars ProgramName: Yaneth Mora LopezMajor: Child and family development with minors in Spanish and counseling and social ...
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Ever Wonder: How Does Depression Affect Us?
Tufts Now All Stories
A disease that is distinct from sadness, it influences people differently, says biomedical sciences professorThe Tufts video series Ever Wonder features faculty and other experts answering questions for the curious about all manner of topics—from why we have cravings to why the oceans are salty.
You can view the entire series at http://everwonder.tufts.edu.
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UCF Alumni: Houston All-Florida Family Fun Day
Events at UCF
Want to enjoy a day filled with family fun? Join us for a Spring Family Fun Day at Discovery Green! This event will include food and friendly games of kickball, frisbee and other outdoor activities. It will be a great opportunity to not only network with fellow UCF AlumKnights, but also with alumni from schools across Florida. We look forward to seeing you there!
*This event is done in partnership with the Houston Alumni chapters of UCF, FIU, FAMU, FSU, UF, UM and USF.
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ECCO: Accepted students welcomed by Engineers of Color Creating Opportunities program team
University News - Diversity
Annual retreat highlights RIT and engineering college’s academic, cultural and social support opportunities for incoming students
April 11, 2017 by Michelle Cometa Follow Michelle Cometa on TwitterFollow RITNEWS on TwitterHaley Terhaar, from Hershey, Pa., and one of the accepted students participating in the ECCO retreat on April 7, worked with future classmates in the Toyota Production Lab in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering.
More than 75 accepted students and family members participated in the second ECCO Retreat taking place in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering. Organized by the ECCO Center team—Engineers of Color Creating Opportunities—the full-day retreat included presentations by current engineering students, information about college and campus academic and social resources, and activities to give the accepted students an idea of what they can expect as they enroll in the engineering college this fall.
The ECCO Center provides diversity programming focused on increasing the number of under-represented AALANA—African American, Latino American and Native American—student engineers in the engineering college. Over the course of the day, accepted students toured the college and met current students and faculty in several of the labs to:
Learn about integrated circuit design and development taking place in the Semiconductor & Microsystems Fabrication Lab, RIT’s clean room;
Understand different machining tools and sophisticated equipment in the Mechanical Engineering Machine Shop;
Produce 3D-printed electronic tigers in the AMPrint Center; and
Learn about the industrial and systems engineering process in the Toyota Production Systems Lab
Haley Terhaar was one of 10 students on the production line building skateboards in the Toyota lab, and her choice of RIT and engineering came after a day last spring traveling with friends on college visits. RIT was the final stop, but it was an unexpected surprise at the end of a long day, she said.
“I loved it,” said Terhaar between duties on the line. The teen from ...
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Students to consider sustainable funding model for intercollegiate athletics
Student News
UC Santa Cruz has 15 teams competing in the NCAA's Division III, including women's soccer.UC Santa Cruz students will vote this spring on a fee that would provide the intercollegiate athletics program with a sustainable funding model and provide access to athletic-related activities to students who meet the Educational Opportunity Programs criteria.
The Office of Physical Education, Recreation, and Sports is proposing a $38.50 -per-quarter fee, which if approved would provide the NCAA Division III program with approximately $1.1 million beginning in fall 2018. Approximately $160,000 would be generated to support athletic activities of student who meet EOP criteria, approximately 40 percent of the student body.
The referendum’s authors are trying to build support across campus for the fee. To date, they’ve received sponsorship from the Student Union Assembly and a handful of colleges.
Students will vote in May. If approved, the fee would sunset in spring 2042.
Andrea Willer, executive director for the Office of Physical Education, Recreation, and Sports, said the new business model was developed in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, alumni, and campus supporters.
“This collaboration enabled us to involve and engage the campus in ways we were not able to in the past,” Willer said. “This campuswide dialogue has not only informed and shaped the new business model but has also validated the multiple benefits intercollegiate athletics can bring to the greater campus community.”
The business model and fee proposal were developed by OPERS and Paul Simpson, an alumnus who played intercollegiate basketball and has a background in business. It comes as two committees—one commissioned by the Academic Senate and one of alumni and foundation board members—extensively researched the topic and issued separate reports. Both committees, among many recommendations, asked that the campus consider every reasonable measure to keep the intercollegiate athletics program, which started in 1981.
The current program consists of 15 men and women’s teams, which ...
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UW Daily – April 21, 2017
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COL: Students celebrate Earth Day, Eagle Herald, April 21
COL: UW FDL student housing project on schedule, radioinfoplus.com, April 20
COL: UWFox to present ‘Dream Role,’ Appleton Post-Crescent, April 20
COL: UW-Fond du Lac theater students recognized for performances in spring play, Fond du Lac Reporter, April 20
COL: Dwyre Garton honored for volunteer work, Appleton Post-Crescent, April 19
EXT: Brown County Departments prepare to move, Fox 11 News, April 19
EXT: Essential oils and reflexology learning session to be held Thursday, Fond du Lac Reporter, April 20
EAU: University rolls out plan to invest in faculty and staff, WEAU-TV 13, April 20
EAU: School funding takes center stage at JFC budget hearing in Ellsworth, WQOW-TV 18, April 19
EAU: State budget hearing in Ellsworth: Hundreds turn out to make their case to the Legislature’s budget panel, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, April 19
EAU: International Reading Reveals Power of Verse, Volume One, April 19
EAU: Symposium Explores Poetry Translation, Volume One, April 19
EAU: Eau Claire workshop offers insight into transgender community, WQOW-TV 18, April 19
EAU: Main Events: Panel with Severinsen rescheduled, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, April 20
EAU: Region key to environmental movement, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, April 20
EAU: Wind, a big deal, a good deal, Chippewa Herald, April 20
EAU: UW-Eau Claire faculty, students featured in Wednesday night’s PBS documentary, WQOW-TV 18, April 19
EAU: Precisely Ambiguous: The poetic metamorphosis of a U.S.-Mexico border story, Volume One, April 19
GRB: Warren Gerds/Critic at Large: Review: ‘Pippin’ pays vivid visit to UW-Green Bay’s Weidner Center, wearegreenbay.com, April 20
LAX: Veterans offered networking opportunities, business development tips at La Crosse meetup, La Crosse Tribune, April 20
LAX: Study recommends expansion of regional commuter bus service, La Crosse Tribune, April 20
LAX: ABC News Correspondent Hosts Forum at UW La Crosse, WXOW, April 21
LAX: WIZM reporter told stop recording during event on how free speech is being taken away, WIZM, April 21
MAD: Man charged with homicide ...
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Series: Understanding and Responding to Climate Change
UConn Today
How will climate change alter bird migration patterns and the spread of invasive plants? How will residents of cities and coastal communities around the world need to adapt? UConn’s faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduates are tackling these and other questions in labs and in the field every day. The answers may not halt the changes, but with each study, UConn’s researchers are amassing knowledge that will lead to greater understanding of what lies ahead.
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Arielle and the Honeybees
Campus Life – UConn Today
It is barely five minutes away from campus by car, but the UConn EcoGarden is a hidden sanctuary for senior rower Arielle Sherman-Golembeski and other members of the University’s Beekeeping Club.
Drive up the dirt road, park in an empty field, and walk behind the vegetable gardens to find active beehives in the springtime. It’s a place of relaxation for a student-athlete, a time to take a break in her demanding schedule.
The Beekeeping Club is one of the less well-known student organizations at UConn and definitely one of the least understood, but for Sherman-Golembeski ’17 (CLAS), the bees represent more than just the stereotypical stingers that many people try to avoid.
“I really didn’t like bees when I was younger, like anyone else, but I didn’t understand the beauty of what they actually do until I educated myself more,” says Sherman-Golembeski, who is vice president of the club.
Sherman-Golembeski, a double major in psychology and human development and family studies, is a three-time member of the AAC All-Academic Team, and will be honored as an Outstanding Scholar-Athlete at the UConn Club Awards Ceremony on April 26.
While attending Lyme-Old Lyme High School, she was tasked with completing a senior project of her choosing. With her mom’s friend as a mentor, she shadowed the art of beekeeping and had her project topic.
With the stress of everything going on, I need a place to ground myself. It’s nice to be around organic things, as opposed to books and weights.” — Arielle Sherman-Golembeski
Since coming to UConn, a successful rowing and academic career has not stopped her from being an active member of the Beekeeping Club since 2013 – her freshman year and also the year the club was founded.
“We’re definitely up and coming,” she says. “When I heard UConn had this club, I knew it was something ...
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Business Student Among Six UConn Fulbright Winners
Business – UConn Today
How do you top a college career that includes two Education Abroad trips, internships at international companies, and a three-part honors thesis exploring bilingual advertising and the toy industry?
Margo Bailey, a senior honors student majoring in marketing, did it by earning a Fulbright Scholarship. She’s one of six UConn Fulbright winners this year.
UConn has six student or alumni Fulbright awardees this year, and a seventh was selected as an alternate.Margo Bailey ’17 (BUS), a marketing major and honors student, received a Fulbright Scholarship to Spain;Sylvia Cunningham ’15 (CLAS), a journalism and political science major, received a Young Professional Journalist grant to Germany;Catherine Han ’17 (CLAS), a biology and English major and honors student, received an English Teaching Assistant grant to Mexico;Lara Hawley ’17 (ED), an education major, received an English Teaching Assistant grant to South Africa; Tiffany Murphy ’12 (CLAS), a political science major, received an English Teaching Assistant grant to Morocco;Marissa Piccolo ’17 (CLAS), a political science major and honors student, received a study grant to Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, MA program in Legislative Studies and Practice;Also, Paulina Rowe ’17 (CLAS), a psychology and Spanish major and honors student, was selected as an alternate for an English Teaching Assistant grant to Colombia.
Bailey was awarded a highly competitive Fulbright Scholarship to earn a master’s in management at the IE Business School, the only such scholarship to the school this year. Located in Madrid, Spain, the School is a business powerhouse that draws 65 percent of its students from other countries.
Her career goal is to work for a company, possibly the LEGO Foundation, that’s committed to fostering a love of languages and different cultures among children. Not only is this something she enjoys, it’s also something she believes can change the world.
“Understanding another person’s story makes you more empathetic,” Bailey says. “ ...
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Q & A with Jacob Shercliffe, UAA’s latest Truman Scholar
UAA economics student Jacob Shercliffe is one of 62 people nationwide named this year as a Truman Scholar. (Photo by Philip Hall / University of Alaska Anchorage)Jacob Shercliffe’s father runs the simulation lab for UAA’s College of Health. His mother helps manage the electronic health record for the Veterans Administration facility in Anchorage. His sister, UAA alumna Rachel Shercliffe, is enrolled in medical school in Michigan. And his brother graduates next month with a biology degree from UAF.
“I am the black sheep of the family,” said Jacob, a member of Seawolf Debate and Model U.N., “because they all have health-related careers/education and I study political science and economics.”
Jacob recently received the honor of being named Alaska’s sole Truman Scholar for 2017 — one of 62 Truman Scholars selected this year out of an initial 768 nominations, nationwide.
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation provides up to $30,000 to each Scholar in support of graduate study. Criteria for the honor include exceptional leadership potential, commitment to careers in government or public service and academic achievement.
Previous Truman Scholars from UAA (and its predecessor institution, Anchorage Community College) include Jonathan M. Karpoff (1977); Ronee Miller (1983); Becky L. Gay (1981); Margaret R. Simonian (1990); Glenn D. Boledovich (1992); Anna Zaroff (1997); Erin L. Trimble (2003); Miranda Zindel (2006); Umair Iqbal (2007); Candace Renee Lewis (2008); Deana Katherine Glick (2009); and Brett J. Frazer (2011).
Jacob talked to us about his life, activities and future plans:
Where were you born and raised, and where did you go to school before coming to UAA?
I was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but I never really knew the place. Trying to describe where I was “raised” is a bit of a challenging question. My parents are both ex-Air Force so we moved around a lot as a kid. I’ve lived in Panama, England, and Maryland before moving up to Alaska in the 5th grade. I ...
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Disability at Work (5/4/2017)
SJSU Events Calendar at SJSU Main Campus - King Library
Event Details
Disability at Work
Start Date: 5/4/2017Start Time: 12:00 PM
End Date: 5/4/2017End Time: 1:15 PM
Event Description:The “Disability at Work” event in MLK 225 is geared toward expanding the awareness of the largest minority group in the world and in the United States: people with disabilities. Our guest speakers from Google and SAP Ariba will share opportunities involved in the implementation of accessibility and inclusion strategies. With their innovative approaches, the presenters will invite the audience to explore a new perspective of the concept of disability.The students enrolled in COMM 132F will moderate and coordinate the event. We will have three guest speakers: Victor Tsaran from Google, Karo Caran from Adecco at Google, and Joseph Fox from SAP Ariba.
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Baseball. San José State Gets Jumped On Early By Air Force And Lose 12-6
San Jose State Spartans News -- www.sjsuspartans.com
Spartans’ six-game conference unbeaten streak at home snapped.
April 22, 2017
Final Stats
Box Score San Jose, Calif. – The San José State University baseball team could not recover from an early hole against Air Force, falling behind 3-0 before getting the first out of the game en route to losing 12-6 in the conference series opener.The Falcons (17-20, 6-13 MW) jumped on Spartans starter Matt Brown in the top of the first when Tyler Jones hit a three-run homer after Brown hit the first two batters to open the game.Brown struck out the side to end the first and finished with a career-high nine strikeouts in four innings.The Spartans (13-22-1, 7-10-1 MW) answered with a run of their own in the bottom of the first that freshman Kellen Strahm (1-for-2, R, 3 BB, 2 SB) essentially manufactured himself. Strahm lead off the inning with a walk, stole second and advanced to third on a single by Shane Timmons (1-for-4, RBI, SB). Strahm stole home on a double steal with Timmons to make it a 3-1 game.The two run deficit is the closest SJSU would come in the game.Air Force added nine more runs, scoring in five of the remaining eight innings on 13 hits and taking advantage of three wild pitches and four hit batsmen by the Spartans pitching staff.SJSU got two hits apiece from Michael Breen (2-for-3, R, RBI) and Kyle Blakeman (2-for-4, R, RBI). Breen, Blakeman and Kyle Morrison (1-for-3, R) each had a double.Brown (3-5) took the loss for the Spartans and Falcons starter Jacob Devries, who pitched six innings allowing four runs, got the win.The Spartans will look to bounce back in game two of the series on Saturday, April 22. SJSU will send Jake Swiech (1-3, 5.25 ERA) to the mound against Air Force starter Ethan Nichols (4-1, 6.29 ERA). First pitch is 4:00 ...
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New $1.5 million grant to fund national research on faith and work
A $1.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. will enable researchers from Rice University and Seattle Pacific University to examine the relationship between faith and work. The researchers hope to gain an understanding of how people from diverse workplaces and socio-economic backgrounds integrate religious views and their work.
The comprehensive study will focus on U.S. workers and will comprise a broad-based national, random-sample survey of approximately 12,000 people from multiple religious traditions and no religious tradition. Research will explore faith at work as well as religious discrimination. It will include focus groups with both professional and working-class participants and as many as 200 in-depth, follow-up interviews.
After the survey, the project will examine the unique challenges that Christians (including moderate, conservative and liberal Protestants and Catholics) face in their workplaces and careers; how their faith does or does not address such challenges; and the best ways clergy and others may attend to these challenges.
“For many, work is the single largest time commitment in life,” said Elaine Howard Ecklund, the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences at Rice and the study’s principal investigator. “And for many, faith and faith community are the most meaningful commitments in life. Understanding how people integrate these two facets of life is the core purpose of this research.”
Ecklund, who is also the director of Rice’s Religion and Public Life Program and a Rice Scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, will collaborate with Denise Daniels, a professor of management in the School of Business, Government and Economics at Seattle Pacific University.
“Our goal is that detailed data collection and carefully designed outreach efforts will put easy-to-understand data into the hands of as many U.S. clergy as possible and create networks of clergy who are trained to meet the spiritual needs of working men and women from various demographic groups, across multiple ...
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The Heel to Heal Superhero 5k
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Discussion: ‘Free Speech on a University Campus’
KU News Headlines
LAWRENCE — How does the First Amendment intersect with the primary responsibilities of a public university? An upcoming event at the University of Kansas will explore how it protects student, faculty and staff, facilitates the dissemination of research and offers opportunities for activism and advocacy on campus. In a year when its programming has focused largely on The Future University and Framing the Dialogue, conversations have encouraged audiences to consider the value of having discussions that are challenging but necessary. “Free Speech on a University Campus” will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, at Spooner Hall.
A panel of outside experts will include Stefan Bradley, associate professor of history at St. Louis University; Connie Burk, executive director, the NW Network; Susan Kruth, senior program officer, legal and public advocacy, FIRE; and Frank LoMonte, executive director, Student Press Law Center.
The event will be moderated by Jeff Chasen, association vice provost of institutional compliance, and include additional support from the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of the Provost, the Department of African & African-American Studies and the Department of American Studies.
Additionally, members of the KU community will deliver responses to the discussion, and there will be time for questions from the audience, both locally and remotely, as the event will be live-streamed online. Questions submitted via Twitter should use the hashtag #CampusFreeSpeech.
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Thomas Allison's "Molecular Movies" Concept Takes Home Stony Brook's $200K Discovery Prize
University News
Thomas Allison’s “Molecular Movies” Concept Takes Home Stony Brook's $200K Discovery Prize
Thomas Allison, holding his plaque after being named the 2017 Discovery Prize winner, with James H. Simons, Chairman of the Simons Foundation and one of the competition judges; and Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, President of Stony Brook University.
Stony Brook, NY, April 14, 2017 – Thomas Allison, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Physics, and a developer of a technology at Stony Brook that will record the movement of molecules that may lead to the development of better high-tech devices, is the winner of the 2017 Discovery Prize. He and three other Stony Brook professors faced off and presented their research to a panel of judges at the competition in the Charles B. Wang Center Theatre at Stony Brook University. As the winner, Dr. Allison receives a $200,000 award.
The winner was chosen by a distinguished panel of judges, including 2016 Nobel Laureate in Physics from Princeton,
F. Duncan Haldane
, Berkeley’s Director of the Nuclear Science Division, Professor
Barbara Jacak
, and, Chairman of theSimons Foundation and a member of the National Academy of Sciences,
James H. Simons, PhD
.
“I am thrilled to be selected to receive the Discovery Prize, and this going to be a huge lift to support the tools and human resources needed to carry out our experiments,” said Dr. Allison after learning that he was selected for the award. “We believe using lasers to create movies of molecules is something that carries incredible potential to vastly improve our understanding of molecules, electrons in molecules, and how to use molecules to ultimately develop all kinds of high-tech machinery.”
“Basic scientific research helps us to better understand our universe, asks about what we don’t know and explores the boundaries of our Knowledge. It leads to breakthroughs and innovation that literally change our world,” said Samuel L. Stanley ...
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Dr. Benjamin Luft Discusses 9/11 Oral Histories at Library of Congress
Dr. Benjamin Luft Discusses 9/11 Oral Histories at Library of Congress
The LOC’s American Folklife Center Will Serve as a Repository of the Oral Histories
STONY BROOK, N.Y., November 1, 2011 – Benjamin J. Luft, M.D., Edmund D. Pellegrino Professor of Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and Medical Director of Stony Brook’s World Trade Center Health Program, will present “We’re Not Leaving: Responders Oral Histories Redefine 9/11,” at the American Folklife Center at The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., on November 10. The Center will serve as the repository for oral histories of 9/11 first responders from around the country, which are being recorded and filmed by Dr. Luft and the WTC Health Program staff as the Remembering 9/11 oral history project. The lecture will be held in the Mary Pickford Theater, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
After hearing many stories from his first responder patients, Dr. Luft came to believe that the experiences they recounted are part of our nation’s history and must, therefore, be preserved. So in 2009 he set out to do this by recording their personal stories as an oral history. In July 2011, the Library of Congress formally expressed interest in serving as the repository for the collected oral histories and other documentation created by the project. To date, approximately 150 oral histories have been documented. The project is slated to be completed in September 2012.
“In many respects, the stories of the 9/11 responders are a reflection of the values that the American people hold dear, such as courage, patriotism, volunteerism, altruism, and a deep sense of community,” says Dr. Luft. “Their stories cause us to reflect on who we are as a people and the beliefs that we hold in high esteem and bind us as a nation.”
To date oral history interviews have been with World Trade Center first responders who reside in the ...
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Lone Star College-CyFair Phi Theta Kappa chapter recognized as ‘Most Distinguished Chapter’
Lone Star College System News
Published on: April 19, 2017 The Beta Lambda Mu Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa at Lone Star College-CyFair was named 2017 Most Distinguished Chapter, ranking it first among 1,300 chapters.
The Most Distinguished Chapter is the highest honor given to a Phi Theta Kappa chapter.
I am very proud of this impressive achievement of our students, said Stephen C. Head, Ph.D., LSC chancellor. This award validates our commitment to ensuring excellence in teaching and learning to promote student success.
This is the third year in a row a PTK chapter from LSC has been named Most Distinguished Chapter. LSC-Tomball received the award in 2015 and 2016. The award was given at the annual PTK conference held earlier this month in Nashville, Tennessee.
We are so proud of our students, said Dr. Seelpa Keshvala, LSC-CyFair president. This is an amazing accomplishment, and we are very grateful to our chapter advisors for their leadership, Dr. Blake Ellis and Veronica Martinez, who dedicated their efforts to help our students experience such great success.
The mission of Phi Theta Kappa is to recognize academic achievement of college students and to provide opportunities for them to grow as scholars and leaders. PTK is the official honors society for two-year colleges and it has more than 1,300 chapters and almost 3 million members in the United States, Canada, Germany, Peru, the Virgin Islands, the United Arab Emirates, Guam and American Samoa
To receive this recognition once is quite an achievement, said Debbra Esparza, LSC executive director Organizational Development and PTK regional coordinator for Texas. But for Lone Star College to win it three years in a row is incredible.
The annual international conference featured speakers from around the world including Dr. Jennifer Arnold, neonatologist and television personality; Andrew Porter, PTK international president; British photographer, Platon; and Jamie Hyneman, Mythbusters co-host and special effects guru.
It was a special night that culminated in our ...
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LSC-Kingwood invites recipients to GED graduation
Lone Star College Kingwood News
Published on: April 13, 2017 Earning a general education development (GED) diploma is a big accomplishment that should be celebrated.
Lone Star College-Kingwood invites everyone who passed their equivalency exams between March 2016 and April 2017 to participate in this years GED graduation. The ceremony is on Thursday, May 18 in the Performing Arts Center (PAC) Theatre at 6 p.m. During the event, college and Lone Star College System administrators will address the graduates. Dr. Katherine Persson, college president, will present two $500 scholarship awards to selected students.
This ceremony is very important and special for students who did not give up on their education by earning their GED, said Liz Maloney, a Continuing Education program coordinator. We hope these students will consider furthering their education by earning a workforce certificate, an associate degree, or a bachelors degree at a four-year university.
LSC-Kingwood acquired the program from New Caney High School in 1984. Since then, the completion and passing rate of applicants has increased. The college offers GED Test Prep and Subject Specific Classes, which help a wide-range of individuals who need a GED to keep a job, find better employment, or further their education.
To participate in the GED Graduation or for more information on the program or upcoming classes, call the LSC-Kingwood Continuing Education Department at 281-312-1660 or visit http://www.lonestar.edu/ged.htm. The college is located at 20000 Kingwood Drive.
Register now for credit classes online through myLoneStar. Classes are offered days, evenings, or weekends in traditional, Internet, video, TV and independent study formats. For more information on how to register online, visit www.lonestar.edu/registration.
For general information about Lone Star College-Kingwood, call 281.312.1600 or visit http://lonestar.edu/kingwood.htm
Known for its leadership, innovation and steadfast commitment to student success, Lone Star College provides high-quality academic transfer and workforce education/career training programs to more than 83,000 credit students each ...
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