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Welcome to summer student Max Brunsfeld
STATISTICS
FGATE
Uptime: 288 days/home directory usage: 59% (2.4TB available)/backups directory usage: 67%
LSF usage for Week 21 (5/24-5/30) (times are in minutes)GroupJobsTotal CPUAvg CPUAvg WaitAvg Trnr.Bredas44024525113%5573811065Hernandez30529803%17662342001Sherrill4485733%12143644918738Other867730%8470847Total48235357518%7344161267
Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period.
Most productive user of the Week: pwinget 133645.
EGATE
Uptime: 187 days/theoryfs/common directory usage: 35% (433GB available)/theoryfs/ccmst directory usage: 77% (202GB available)
LSF usage for Week 21 (5/24-5/30) (times are in minutes)GroupJobsTotal CPUAvg CPUAvg WaitAvg Trnr.Bredas2111330%54053Hernandez30855646%285202865Sherrill3229565720%9239516109Other4522830%51052Total12838463625%300514726
Note: percentages refer to the total CPU time available for the period.
Most productive user of the Week: sahan 216534.
TIP OF THE WEEK
By Massimo
Interactive LSF jobs can be requested using the -I option of bsub:bsub -I bsub -Isbsub -Ip
The -Is and -Ip options create a pseudo terminal, and should be used to open an interactive shell (i.e.: bsub -Is /bin/bash will start a bash shell).
One can even request interactive parallel jobs:bsub -n 2 -Is /bin/bash
The above line will start an interactive shell and will reserve a second processor. You will be logged in to the first processor. To find out where the second processor of your interactive job is, check the contents of the environment variable LSB_HOSTS.
Do you have usage tips that you want to share with the other CCMST users? Please send them to Massimo (massimo.malagoli@chemistry.gatech.edu) for inclusion in the Tip of the Week section.
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
CCMST Weekly News, June 4, 2010
Autism and Engineering
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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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Staff and Faculty: Attend a Performance for Mandatory Title IX Training Requirement
UCR Today
A three-act play put on by the group Life Theatre Services is coming up at the HUB May 1-2
By Sandra Baltazar Martinez on April 19, 2017
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Life Theatre Services performs at all UC schools. The play will be presented for UCR supervisors, staff and faculty, on May 1-2. COURTESY
All UC faculty and staff members must participate in mandatory sexual harassment and sexual violence (SVSH) awareness and prevention training.
Instead of completing the training online employees can attend a live, three-act play put on by the group Life Theatre Services — which performs at all UC schools. The play will be offered at UCR at HUB 260: May 1, from 1 to 3 p.m, and May 2, from 10 a.m. to noon.
Through the UCR Learning Center, online training is also readily available for those who prefer to work through the module on their own computer.
Brooke Chang, director of UCR’s Office of Title IX, encourages supervisors, staff, and faculty members to take a two-hour break and join colleagues for the live performance. Chang will also be present to answer any questions regarding UCR’s specific policies and procedures.
This training is open to all staff, who are required to take the training on a yearly basis, as well as supervisors and faculty, who are required to take the training every two years.
To sign up for the training (or to check if your training session is due), please log into the UC Learning Center website: ucrlearning.ucr.edu.
Brooke Chang
Online advance registration is required to attend the play; attendance records will be taken in order to certify the employee’s participation.
“This is a great way to learn about how to assist our students, faculty and staff, and ensure the well-being of our campus community,” Chang said.
The topic is a tough subject, but it’s important to be aware ...
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Real-world exposure to consulting with CELect course
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“I’ve loved combining my marketing and entrepreneurship studies to consult with a startup on creating an innovative marketing solution,” says Allison Halpern, BSBA’18 and member of a CELect team working with St. Louis-based Givable. “The hands-on nature of the CEL has helped me grow and apply my studies in a truly unique way!”
CELect stands for: Center for Experiential Learning (CEL) Entrepreneurial Consulting Team and this is an occasional series of interviews with students participating in the program that pairs consultants with St. Louis startups.
CEL: Who is your client and what made you interested in working with them?
Halpern: I am consulting with a startup at T-REX, called Givable. Givable is a micro-giving platform that makes charitable donations simple with daily, engaging emails. I really love Givable’s mission to make charitable giving more accessible and believe they have an innovative way to do so.
Click here to learn more (this is definitely a shameless plug).
Our consulting project is to create a marketing strategy to attract more users. As someone who values community involvement and utilizing creative problem solving to build awareness, this project fits me perfectly.
CEL: How does this class help you with your future aspirations?
Halpern: In the future, I hope to work in a marketing role, assisting and consulting clients strategically. I like the fast-paced and innovative culture that comes with client work. So, working with Givable to create a marketing strategy is really right up my alley. This summer I am interning at Facebook in the Global Marketing Solutions department to help clients optimize their advertising on Facebook platforms. I will be working on a team conducting research to better understand best digital marketing practices for clients. My CELect project involved extensively researching the industry, company, and trends to create a highly implementable plan and I think that experience will help me ...
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TEFD Announces 2017-18 Lilly Fellows
UMass Amherst: News Archive
The Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development (TEFD) has announced the selection of the 2017-18 Lilly Fellows for Teaching Excellence.The eight fellows are:
Yuriy Brun, computer science
Caitlyn Butler, civil and environmental engineering
Patrick Flaherty, mathematics and statistics
Laura Furlan, English
Kirsten Leng, women, gender, sexuality studies
Paul Musgrave, political science
Traci Parker, Afro-American studies
Ceren Soylu, economics
The Lilly Fellowship is a competitive award program, established in 1986, that enables promising junior faculty to cultivate teaching excellence in a special yearlong collaboration.
The fellows attend bi-weekly seminars on teaching pedagogy, develop a new course or substantially redesign an existing one, assess their teaching and their students’ learning through classroom visits, work with mentors to anticipate many of the challenges and rewards of faculty life at UMass Amherst, and design a teaching-focused workshop or program to share the benefits of the Lilly Fellowship with colleagues at the department, school-college or campus level.
For more information about the Lilly Fellowship, contact Brian Baldi, bbaldi@umass.edu
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Research Week 2017: UT Music Student Finds Unique Tune in Grindcore Research
Headlines – Tennessee Today
Paul RoyceMusically speaking, Paul Royse, a senior in music theory and piano performance, is going where no one has gone before.
Royse, of Knoxville, got interested in research during a music theory class analyzing rock music. His focus: grindcore, a genre of music fusing aspects of heavy metal and hardcore punk that originated in the mid-1980s but has been virtually absent in music research literature.
Royse is among more than 1,400 UT undergraduates participating in research or creative activities that help them apply what they’re learning in the classroom and prepare them for graduate school or launching a career. Between 2015 and 2016 UT more than doubled the number of undergraduates involved in research or creative achievement and saw an 87 percent increase in the number of faculty serving as mentors.
Royse, who is also an accomplished composer, learned about grindcore two years ago from a friend who is a singer in a local Knoxville grindcore band, Rat Punch.
“I fell in love with its unmatched abrasion, energy, over-the-top absurdity, philosophy, and experimentation,” said Royse. “I chose grindcore for my research because of my love of it, more than any type of punk or metal.”
Royse’s first paper is “Nose to the Grind: An Introduction to Structural Paradigms in Grindcore and Its Closely Related Genres.” He presented his research earlier this year to a packed session of academic faculty and students at a College Music Society regional conference.
“There is plenty of excellent theoretical literature on styles such as pop, rock, metal, and punk, but grindcore is relatively untouched in current scholarship,” said Royse’s mentor, Brendan McConville, associate professor of music.
Royse will graduate next month and plans to begin graduate school in music theory this fall at the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music.
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Telomere Length Predicts Cancer Risk
Telomere Length Predicts Cancer Risk, According to Large Epidemiological Study
Longer-than-expected telomeres—which are composed of repeated sequences of DNA and are shortened every time a cell divides—are associated with an increased cancer risk, according to research led by scientists from Pitt and Singapore.
“Telomeres and cancer clearly have a complex relationship,” said Jian-Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., who holds the Arnold Palmer Endowed Chair in Cancer Prevention at UPCI and is lead or senior author on two studies being presented at AACR. “Our hope is that by understanding this relationship, we may be able to predict which people are most likely to develop certain cancers so they can take preventive measures and perhaps be screened more often, as well as develop therapies to help our DNA keep or return its telomeres to a healthy length.”
Yuan and his colleagues analyzed blood samples and health data on more than 28,000 Chinese people enrolled in the Singapore Chinese Health Study, which has followed the health outcomes of participants since 1993. As of the end of 2015, 4,060 participants had developed cancer.
Participants were divided into five groups, based on how much longer their telomeres were than expected. The group with the longest telomeres had 33 percent higher odds of developing any cancer than the group with the shortest telomeres, after taking into account the effect of age, sex, education and smoking habits. That group also had 66 percent higher odds of developing lung cancer, 39 percent higher odds of developing breast cancer, 55 percent higher odds of developing prostate cancer and 37 percent higher odds of developing colorectal cancer. Of all the cancers, pancreatic had the largest increase in incidence related to longer telomeres, with participants in the highest one-fifth for telomere length at nearly 2.6 times the odds of developing pancreatic cancer, compared to those in the lowest one-fifth for telomere length. Only the risk of liver cancer ...
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Es presenta a Can Jaumandreu ‘The sound sculptures of Bernard and François Baschet’
Universitat de Barcelona - Notícies
Imatge de la presentació del llibre, ahir al Parc de les Humanitats i les Ciències Socials de la UB.
Després de l’acte es va fer una visita sonora a les escultures Baschet que hi ha al Parc.
21/04/2017
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El Parc de les Humanitats i les Ciències Socials (Can Jaumandreu) va acollir ahir, dijous 20 d’abril, la presentació del llibre The sound sculptures of Bernard and François Baschet, de François Baschet, a cura de Martí Ruiz, coordinador del Taller d’Escultura Sonora Baschet de la UB.
En aquest llibre, considerat una obra fonamental en la història de l’art, François Baschet relata l’experiència dels germans Baschet com a pioners en la investigació i la creació d’instruments musicals i escultures sonores combinant art i ciència, escultura i música. L’edició, a cura de Martí Ruiz, especialista en l’obra dels Baschet, dona a conèixer la singular concepció de François Baschet de l’acústica —un mètode per comprendre les relacions funcionals entre forma, matèria, acció i so—, la qual va donar lloc a la invenció de centenars d’instruments i escultures sonores de totes les mides i sonoritats, actualment escampats per tot el món. Edicions de la UB ha publicat una edició trilingüe en paper d’aquesta obra que ben aviat apareixerà també en llibre electrònic (eBooks).
En la presentació van intervenir el vicerector d’Arts, Cultura i Patrimoni de la UB, Salvador García Fortes; la degana de la Facultat de Belles Arts, M. Dolors Tapias; el director del Museu de la Música de Barcelona, Jaume Ayats, i l’editor de l’obra, Martí Ruiz. En acabar l’acte, es va fer una visita sonora a les escultures Baschet del Parc.
El dia de Sant Jordi, Martí Ruiz estarà d’11 a 12 h a la parada que Edicions ...
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Seven inducted into S&T Academy of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Three electrical and computer engineers with ties to Missouri University of Science and Technology were inducted into the Missouri S&T Academy of Electrical and Computer Engineers during the academy’s induction ceremony, which was held at the Comfort Suites Conference Center in Rolla, Missouri, on April 20.The academy is an advisory group to the Missouri S&T electrical and computer engineering department. Founded in 1980, the academy is composed of alumni and other electrical and computer engineers who have made outstanding contributions to their profession.
New members are listed below:
Dean S. Ford of Baltimore, chief operating officer and executive vice president for Westin Engineering Inc., earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Missouri S&T in 1995. Ford began his career as an engineer I at MAGNUM Technologies Inc. and served in roles of increasing responsibility with MAGNUM, as well as with Process Analysts Inc., MAVERICK Technologies Inc. and Wunderlich-Malec Engineering Inc. before joining Westin Engineering in 2013. A certified automation professional, Ford is a licensed control systems engineer in 15 states and is a member of several professional organizations.
Tina E. Gaines of Baxter Springs, Kansas, director of engineering for the Empire District Electric Co., earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Missouri S&T in 1989. Gaines began her career as a telecommunications engineer for Dow Chemical in 1989. In 1996, she joined the Empire District Electric Co., where she served as telecommunications engineer, manager of telecommunications and director of telecommunications before being named director of engineering in 2011. A member of the Missouri S&T Corporate Development Council, Gaines has given presentations at S&T’s Expanding Your Horizons and for the Chancellor’s Leadership Academy. She has served as interim director of Fast Freedom Wireless Internet Provider and interim director of Purchasing and Stores, she volunteers for Teach Reading to Every Kid and is a 2003 graduate ...
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Criminologist Beth Huebner part of research team tracking complex web of monetary sanctions in 9 states
UMSL Daily
UMSL criminologist Beth Huebner has joined a team of researchers from nine states investigating the often uneven way monetary sanctions are levied in the criminal justice system and the effect that can have on individuals. (Photo by August Jennewein)
The phrase “criminal justice system” may conjure images of courtrooms, juries and prison.
Less obvious is that when justice is doled out, it increasingly impacts the pocketbook.
Beth Huebner, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, is working with a team of researchers at nine universities across the country who are exploring the role that monetary sanctions play in the criminal justice system.
Her interest grew out of issues exposed in the wake of unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.
“The challenges highlighted so prominently in Ferguson can be found in many communities in Missouri and across the nation,” Huebner said.
Huebner, working with research assistant Kristina Garrity, has been studying the often uneven way monetary sanctions are levied in different jurisdictions. Preliminary findings suggest the impact on a person’s pocketbook depends largely on his or her location on a map.
Monetary sanctions can include fines, court fees, restitution, surcharges and even interest on unpaid sanctions. They can be imposed for offenses ranging from traffic violations and misdemeanors to felony convictions.
Though these types of financial punishments have a long history in the United States, state and local governments have been imposing monetary sanctions with increasing frequency over the past 30 years.
“There is an extreme amount of variation – both between states and within states – on how, when and where monetary sanctions are imposed by court officials,” said Alexes Harris, a professor of sociology at the University of Washington who has taken the lead on the collaborative efforts of the researchers. “It’s a mess, and there are few guidelines and no national framework governing the ...
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Cal State Fullerton softball stifles Hawaii in series-opening 5-0 victory
Daily Titan
In the opening game of its weekend series against Hawaii, Cal State Fullerton softball was able to come away with a 5-0 victory that included a Lexi Gonzalez home run and a shutout from Kelsey Kessler .
“Everything really came together tonight,” Head Coach Kelly Ford said. “It is an accumulation of hard work and staying focused.”
Kessler was able to throw her fifth shutout while earning her 13th win of the year, going seven innings while giving up six hits and striking out nine of the 27 batters she faced.
“She did fantastic,” Ford said. “They’re (Hawaii) really known — and always have been — for their offense and she just kept them off balance.”
The Titans were able to strike in the bottom of the third against Hawaii starting pitcher Brittany Hitchcock, after an Ariana Williams two-RBI single and a two-run home run from Gonzalez, putting the Titans in the driver seat with a 4-0 lead.
“With a pitcher throwing a drop ball, instead of chopping down I was just trying to focus on getting under it, ” Gonzalez said.
In the sixth, Bryanna Ybarra singled up the middle to drive in Zoe Richard, extending the Titan lead to 5-0.
It was all the run support Kessler needed to bring home a victory in her 11th complete game of the year.
“She worked it with three speeds, and I was so impressed with her composure and presence on the mound tonight,” Ford said. “It was outstanding.”
The Titans (24-19) resume play Saturday starting at 2 p.m. from Anderson Family Field, the first game of a doubleheader against Hawaii.
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New Master’s Degree Melds Environmental Measurements Science and Policy
News Archive
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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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
UCSF - Latest News Feed
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
LSUsports.net
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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
Strong China Initiative signed by President Obama ...
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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.
In his ...
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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
gohighlanders.com
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’
All News @ UCSB
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
UW Daily
UW System
On Campus
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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