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Georgia Tech Researcher Honored with Alan T. Waterman Award
Award recognizes innovation with carbon nanotube technologies
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John Toon | April 13, 2017
• Atlanta, GA
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has recognized Baratunde "Bara" A. Cola of the Georgia Institute of Technology and John V. Pardon of Princeton University with the nation's highest honor for early career scientists and engineers, the Alan T. Waterman Award. This marks only the second time in the award's 42-year history that NSF selected two recipients in the same year. (Credit: National Science Foundation)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has recognized Baratunde "Bara" A. Cola of the Georgia Institute of Technology and John V. Pardon of Princeton University with the nation's highest honor for early career scientists and engineers, the Alan T. Waterman Award. This marks only the second time in the award's 42-year history that NSF selected two recipients in the same year.
Bestowed annually, the Waterman Award recognizes outstanding researchers age 35 and under in NSF-supported fields of science and engineering. In addition to a medal, awardees each receive a $1 million, five-year grant for research in their chosen field of study.
"We are seeing the significant impact of their research very early in the careers of these awardees," said NSF Director France Córdova. "That is the most exciting aspect of the Waterman Award, which recognizes early career achievement. They have creatively tackled longstanding scientific challenges, and we look forward to what they will do next."
Cola pioneered new engineering methods and materials to control light and heat in electronics at the nanoscale. He serves as an associate professor at Georgia Tech's George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.
In 2015, Cola and his team were the first to overcome more than 40 years of research challenges to create a device called an optical rectenna, which turns light into direct current more efficiently than today's ...
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Georgia Tech Researcher Honored with Alan T. Waterman Award
Interactive Visualization Illustrates Uncertainty of NFL Draft
Society and Culture
Society and Culture
Interactive Visualization Illustrates Uncertainty of NFL Draft
April 19, 2017
• Atlanta, GA
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Next week, 253 players will hear their names called over the course of three days in the 2017 NFL Draft. For many, it will be the beginning of a long and lucrative career in professional football. For most, it will be the highlight in an increasingly competitive business.
An interactive visualization created by a team of researchers in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Interactive Computing illustrates just how fleeting the career of a professional football player can be and how difficult it can be for teams to differentiate between the superstars and the busts.
The visualization, which catalogues each of the 32 teams’ draft picks from 2007-16, indicates with a green icon a player who is currently active on the team that drafted him. A blue icon indicates a player still in the league, but playing on a different team, and a red icon indicates a player that is no longer active in the NFL.
A quick glance at all 32 teams’ charts presents a healthy dose of red in comparison to the green and blue, illustrating the brevity of the average NFL career. An analysis has shown that the average length of a career decreased by about two years, from 4.99 years to 2.66, from 2008-14.
Only one team, the Carolina Panthers, have more than one player still active on their roster from their 2007 draft.
From a team perspective, the ebb and flow of a given franchise’s success can be traced within the colors of the visualization.
The Atlanta Falcons, owners of an 11-5 record and a near Super Bowl championship this past season, have experienced their fair share. After a 13-3 season in 2012, their third straight season of double-digit wins, they surprised many by slipping to four, six, and eight victories over the ...
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Contreras Ties NCAA Record For Triples In A Game In 7-4 Win Over San Diego State
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Box Score San Diego, CA—Mark Contreras went five for five with three triples and three RBIs, and seven different Highlanders' pitchers held San Diego State to just seven hits in the UC Riverside Baseball Team's 7-4 victory over the Aztecs Tuesday evening. The win snapped a five-game losing streak for the Highlanders.Contreras put UC Riverside (14-22) on top in the first with an RBI triple down the right field line that scored Collby Schultz. Michael Farris then made it 2-0 Highlanders with a fielder's choice grounder.UCR starter Hazahel Quidaja faced the minimum six batters through the first two innings, but the Aztecs tied the score in the bottom of the third thanks to a Alan Trejo RBI single, and a Chase Calabuig suicide squeeze.Angel Landazuri (2-3) took over for Quijada in the fourth, and he tossed one-and-a-third innings of hitless baseball, striking out three. Devin McKessson, Johnny Breidenthal, Nick Shur, and Trenton Toplikar also kept San Diego State off the board through the eighth.The Highlanders regained the lead in the top of the fifth off of Aztecs relief pitcher Adrian Mardueno (1-1). Mardueno was wild throughout the inning, walking Schultz and AJ Sawyer to lead things off. Contreras drove in his second run of the game with a double down the left field line, and Sawyer came home thanks to a passed ball to make it 4-2 UC Riverside. Harrison Pyatt came on in relief of Mardueno, but he uncorked a wild pitch that scored Contreras from third.UC Riverside kept up the pressure in the top of the sixth, and once again, free passes and wild pitches played a role. Matt Hardy drew a lead off walk, and two batters later, so did Sawyer. Contreras then lined a single up the middle to put the Highlanders up 6-2. Sawyer scampered home on a wild ...
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The Human Side of Engineering
Mentors in the Caltech course Design for Freedom from Disability gave students Stephanie Moon and Lawrence Lee a new view of the power engineers have to benefit others.Says co-instructor Andy Lin: "It's gratifying to see that the work I'm helping with is making a difference in students' lives and the lives of people with disabilities. At the end of the course, I get teary-eyed. I see how the students want to maximize their engineering skills to help people."Read more.
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UCSB Shakes Off Four-Run Deficit, Bests CSU Bakersfield 6-4
Santa Barbara Athletics News
Apr 25, 2017
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The UC Santa Barbara bullpen, led by a standout effort from freshman righty Chris Lincoln, combined for five shutout innings and the offense rallied for runs in four of the team's final five at-bats to overcome a 4-0 deficit and win 6-4 over CSU Bakersfield in Tuesday's midweek action at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.
The Roadrunners (20-16) built a 4-0 lead after 3 1/2 innings off UCSB (18-20) starter Ben Brecht, who entered the contest with a streak of four consecutive quality starts. The Gauchos meanwhile were held off the board early by CSUB's Mathew Seibert, who was making his first career start.
Seibert, who had just nine innings of Division I experience before Tuesday's game and was in a controlled start, thrived in the first three innings but faltered to start the fourth, giving up a pair of one-out singles to put UCSB in business for the first time.
Reliever Kenny Johnson came in at that point for the Runners, but couldn't stop UCSB's momentum as JJ Muno rolled a grounder through the left side to load the bases. Freshman catcher Eric Yang plated the Gauchos' first run with an RBI groundout, and then Colton Burns came through with a line double into the left-center gap to bring in a pair and cut the deficit to one.
After that three-spot, Lincoln came on for UCSB in the top of the fifth. He greeted CSUB leadoff hitter Mark Pena with a backwards K, and then received some help from his shortstop to get out of the inning. With a runner on first and two outs, Max Carter chopped one to the left side of the infield and off the glove of third baseman Kenny Corey. The ball trickled towards left field, but Muno made a heads-up play, scooping the ball up and racing to tag Andrew Penner, who was ...
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Engineering at 50
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As spirits ran high in the decades following World War II, a palpable feeling of optimism pulsed through the nation. Technology held vast promises for a better future, from transistors that revolutionized radio and other telecommunications to the early computer networks that would become the present-day internet.On the West Coast, twin senses of curiosity and possibility took hold, and it was in this climate of discovery and innovation that engineering at UCSB came into being.
And now, with curiosity and possibility still prevailing, the UCSB College of Engineering celebrates 50 years of discovery and innovation.
A College is Born
Albert Conrad, the first dean of the College of Engineering
Ohio-born Albert G. Conrad landed at UCSB by way of Yale University in 1962, An electrical engineering professor and sometime violinmaker, Conrad became the inaugural dean of UCSB’s newly established School of Engineering.
At that time, electrical engineering was the fastest-growing engineering discipline in California and on the West Coast. And it was the first department at UCSB’s fledgling engineering school, followed shortly thereafter by departments of mechanical and chemical in 1964 and 1965, respectively
But Conrad had even bigger plans. Seeing the potential of engineering education at UCSB, he lobbied then-Chancellor Vernon Cheadle in 1966 to grow the school into a College of Engineering.
“This would place it in a category with Berkeley, UCLA and Davis,” Conrad wrote in a letter to Cheadle. His request was granted and in four months the school of engineering was transformed into its own college.
“Dean Conrad was an iconic figure,” said Hua Lee, UCSB professor of electrical and computer engineering. “Students regarded him as an institution.” . Often sporting green — his favorite color, Lee noted — Conrad was the kind of person who would take the time to visit with the junior members of faculty and the students.
According to Lee, such collegiality was important in the ...
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Vanderbilt joins 40 academic partners to create, deploy robotic technology in critical manufacturing sectors
Vanderbilt News
by Brenda Ellis | Apr. 25, 2017, 2:33 PM | Want more research news? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter »
Vanderbilt University is one of 40 academic partners in a new robotics manufacturing institute in Pittsburgh that will be funded with $80 million from the Department of Defense and $173 million in matching funds from more than 200 participating partners, including companies, local governments, academic and nonprofit organizations.
The Defense Department awarded the contract for the Advanced Robotics Manufacturing (ARM) Innovation Hub to a consortium called American Robotics Inc., a nonprofit venture led by Carnegie Mellon University. The institute is the 14th — the eighth led by the DoD — in the federal government’s wide-ranging Manufacturing USA program.
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Pediatric Support for Mental Health
SDSU College of Sciences
SDSU researchers find that providing mental health care to young people in a primary care setting can help fight stigma and other barriers to receiving treatment.
“In these interventions, kids learn not to withdraw from what’s upsetting them.” Anxiety and depression are the most common mental health problems in children and adolescents. Youth with these disorders often go to their primary care physicians for referrals, but only a small number of them obtain much-needed mental health care. A new study led by researchers at San Diego State University suggests that providing a brief behavioral therapy in the pediatric primary care setting can help more young people get the help they need. The brief intervention’s benefits were especially noteworthy in Latino youth, more than three quarters of whom showed significant improvement. About three in 10 children and adolescents suffer from significant anxiety and/or depression that affects their ability to learn in school, form and maintain meaningful relationships, and engage in activities. The study’s lead author, V. Robin Weersing, professor in SDSU’s Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, said that our mental health system is not currently suited to identify and successfully treat this many youth. Additionally, families report barriers to pursuing mental health referrals that they might receive, including stigma, limited time, transportation and financial difficulties. However, statistics show that nine out of 10 kids and teens do regularly see a pediatrician, presenting an opportunity to piggyback mental health services on top of their existing medical care. To learn how effective that approach may be, Weersing and colleagues recruited 185 ethnically diverse children and adolescents ages 8 to 16 who were identified by their pediatrician as struggling with anxiety and/or depression. The study occurred at several pediatricians’ offices in San Diego and Pittsburgh. Half of these youth received outpatient referrals to standard outpatient mental health care, with the researchers continuing ...
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Urban Life is #Tweetable
Tufts Now All Stories
Half of the people on the planet live in cities, so we decided to find out whether urban residents are happy and whether some cities are more desirable than others. We found some of the answers in an unconventional place—your Twitter feed.Every time somebody posted something about their life, their dreams or simply what they ate for dinner, we analyzed it for sentiment—how many positive or negative words tweeters used to describe their feelings. Over two years we looked at millions of social media posts in eight U.S. cities for our book Urban Social Listening: Potential and Pitfalls for Using Microblogging Data in Studying Cities.
Tweets are the digital versions of those fabled crumbs that Hansel and Gretel dropped in the forest. They are a rich source of new insights into a range of social phenomena. Big companies already have mined this new frontier of social listening to market their products and guide their decision-making and investments. Twitter and other microblog data have been used to aid rescue efforts after earthquakes, tweak public transit routes and monitor heart disease rates in rural areas.
For government agencies and other organizations looking to address the challenges facing urban America, this kind of digital eavesdropping can be transformative. Our own work seems to contradict conventional wisdom that residents in cities experiencing population decline must surely be unhappy.
For our research, we created rankings from a vocabulary-based analysis of all words in a tweet containing some kind of sentiment. For instance, the word “good” generated a positive score, while “terrible” led to a negative score. After totaling up the scores, we were able to rank the happiness quotient in the eight cities based on whether residents expressed positive or negative sentiments. We compared our happiness scores with data from the U.S. census, like income and educational attainment—the conventional ...
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Bodhi Time with the CAPS Therapy Dog! - Finals Workshops
Events at UCF
Kick off finals week by taking some time for yourself by visiting Bodhi the therapy dog! Take a break, de-stress, and relax at CAPS
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Input sought on environmental review of proposed land-use change
Student News
In support of offering more housing for UC Santa Cruz students, the campus is looking at changing the land-use designation for 14 acres on the west side of campus.The land, between Family Student Housing and Porter College, is designated Campus Resource Land and needs to be changed to Colleges and Student Housing to be part of the student housing initiative. As part of the process, the campus is preparing an environmental impact report to analyze the potential impacts of a land-use change.
The first step is to develop a scope for the environmental review, and the campus is seeking input into what needs to be evaluated as part of the environmental impact report.
Members of the public can learn more online, and submit feedback by emailing eircomment@ucsc.edu.
The campus will host an information session on the student housing initiative and scoping meeting for the environmental impact report from 6–8 p.m. on May 4 at the Santa Cruz Police Community Room, 155 Center Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060.
Under a University of California student housing initiative, UC Santa Cruz is looking to add up to 3,000 beds for upper-division students, students with families, and graduate students. The campus is working to deliver the beds through a public-private partnership with the first ones available by 2020.
The 6 p.m. information session will provide an overview of the housing initiative, the planning studies that have led to the selection of the site, and the environmental review process. Campus representatives will answer questions at the end.
The 7 p.m. scoping session will provide an opportunity for members of the public to offer comment to be part of the formal record.
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UW Daily – April 25, 2017
UW Daily
UW System
On Campus
COL: Meet UW-Marshfield/Wood County student Jeremiah Glamann, Hub City Times, April 24
COL: Guest column: Networking a critical part of college life, Column, Baraboo News Republic, April 24
COL: Hundreds march for science in central Wisconsin, Stevens Point Journal, April 24
COL: Campus play finds comedy in mysteries, Baraboo News Republic, April 24
EXT: Busy nurses find a learning ally in UW Flexible Option, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 24
EXT: 4-H pledges to re-engage, Agri-View, April 25
EAU: UW-EC backs housing code changes, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, April 25
EAU: Annual Devroy forum features Jenna Johnson, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, April 24
EAU: Jobs abound for UW-Eau Claire student body, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, April 24
EAU: UW-Eau Claire grads awarded for entrepreneurial drive, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, April 23
EAU: Doc’s cool plays well at Eau Claire Jazz Festival, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, April 23
EAU: Hundreds march for science in Eau Claire, WEAU-TV 13, April 22
EAU: Hundreds participate in March for Science in Eau Claire, WQOW-TV 18, April 22
EAU: 52nd Street: Jazz once again flows through streets, venues of downtown Eau Claire, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, April 22
EAU: Cultivating young gardeners at Prairie Ridge Early Learning Center, WEAU-TV 13, April 22
GRB: Premiere for “The Great Ledge” (documentary featuring UWGB Prof. Luczaj), WFRV, April 24
GRB: Don’t know much about history? (Column by UWGB Profs. Nesvet and Shelton), Green Bay Press-Gazette, April 24
LAX: La Crosse hosting financial literacy events for Money Smart Week, La Crosse Tribune, April 24
LAX: Thousands honored in La Crosse for volunteering, News8000.com – WKBT, April 24
LAX: ABC’s Mary Bruce Visits UW-L, The Racquet, April 24
MAD: Mystery human species Homo naledi had tiny but advanced brain, New Scientist, April 25
MAD: Students seek transparency, influence in UW investments, business dealings, Capital Times, April 25
MAD: Controversy over Alice Goffman leads Pomona students to say her alleged racial insensitivities disqualify her from visiting professorship, Inside Higher Education, April 25
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Are Tattoos Toxic?
Campus Life – UConn Today
Pharmacy professor David Grant teaches one of his most popular lectures, on the toxic heavy metals in the ink used for tattoos.
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Paulick appointed to helm UAA CIO.
Dear UAA Community,
Paulick appointed to helm UAA CIOAdam Paulick was appointed this week as UAA’s chief information officer, taking on the position Pat Shier filled before Shier began serving as interim vice chancellor for Administrative Services when Bill Spindle left in October.
“Direct appointment was the best path forward,” Shier said, “considering the Strategic Pathways Phase 1 IT study and implementation work underway already, the demands of keeping our robust IT and communications infrastructure working reliably, and Adam’s demonstrated investment in UAA governance.”
Paulick has worked with ITS since his arrival at UAA in July 2013. In that time, he has helped improve UAA’s infrastructure and customer communications, and demonstrated his capabilities as an IT leader.
Paulick began his work as UAA’s interim CIO on Oct. 16.
Before leading a transformation of the Infrastructure Services section at UAA IT Services, he had amassed more than nine years’ experience as an IT consultant in the private sector and many years’ IT leadership and operations in the public sector, including the top spot for the State of Alaska Telecommunication System.
Paulick holds certifications in project management and information systems security, and served as interim State of Alaska CIO.
Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business awarded him a bachelor’s degree in accounting, and Paulick also has experience in budgeting and legislative reporting.
“We have an excellent IT team, and I expect the continuation of great work for our customers as we creatively deal with the budget pressures before us,” Shier said. “We wish to thank Adam and the entire IT team for the relevant, high-value, customer-focused work they accomplish for the university every day.”
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Research Foundation Workshop - Colleague, Collaboration, Connection (5/10/2017)
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Event Details
Research Foundation Workshop - Colleague, Collaboration, Connection
Start Date: 5/10/2017Start Time: 11:30 AM
End Date: 5/10/2017End Time: 1:00 PM
Event Description:Come and meet colleagues at this fast-paced mixer that will introduce you to the amazing variety of expertise and research activities of the SJSU faculty and staff. You will have the opportunity to have brief one-on-one discussions about your research interests and efforts with most attendees in timed intervals. Near the end of the workshop there will be additional opportunities to have longer discussions with potential collaborators to set the stage for moving forward with your successful colleague collaboration connections.
If you are interested in attending, please register (https://goo.gl/forms/gUNLAkdDJiBTQbm63) no later than Friday, May 5.
Event TypeProfessional DevelopmentWorkshop
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Baseball. Spartans Comeback From A Four Run Deficit To Win 6-5 Against Saint Mary’s
San Jose State Spartans News -- www.sjsuspartans.com
Graham Gomez and Zach Wallace combine to pitch five shutout innings to end the game.
April 26, 2017
Final Stats
Box Score San Jose, Calif. – A three-run home run by Shane Timmons got the San José State University baseball team (14-24-1) back into the game and the Spartans took advantage of free passes issued by the Saint Mary’s (26-14) pitching staff to erase a four-run deficit to win 6-5 on Tuesday night.Heading to the home half of the fifth inning, the Spartans trailed 5-1 when Timmons (1-for-4, R, 3 RBI) blasted a three-run homer over the left center wall to cut the Gaels lead to 5-4. It scored Aaron Pleschner (3-for-4, 2 R, BB) and Michael Breen (R, 2 BB) who got on with a single and walk.SJSU relievers Graham Gomez and Zach Wallace were solid out of the bullpen, entering the game in the fifth and seventh innings, pitching a combined five shutout innings to keep the Spartans in the game. The pair of lefties allowed only three baserunners in those five frames.The Spartans had scoring opportunities in the sixth and seventh innings but a runner was left in scoring position each inning until they finally broke through in the eighth.Johnny Mendoza (1-for-3, BB) led off the eighth with a single against Gaels reliever Jonathan Buckley. Mendoza advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Anders Davidson with two strikes on him. Joseph Stefanki pinch ran for Mendoza eventually coming around to score on a passed ball by Gaels catcher Jackson Thoreson to tie the game up 5-5.Buckley issued four walks in the inning, three of them coming after getting two outs. Kellen Strahm (1-for-4, 2 RBI, BB) drew the last walk of the inning with the bases loaded to score Corey Olivet for the winning run, putting the Spartans up 6-5.Wallace finished the game with an ...
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Uncertain Correspondence: What Vladimir Putin Can Teach Us about Donald Trump
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Concrete canoe team claims 1st place at regional competition
KU News Headlines
LAWRENCE — The concrete canoe team from the University of Kansas School of Engineering is headed to a national competition. The group took first place in the Mid-Continent Regional Concrete Canoe Competition last week at the University of Arkansas. The win gives the team the opportunity to compete at the national competition in June.
"I'm thrilled,” said Brittany Multer, a junior in civil engineering and co-captain of the team. “We always hope for the best, but it's always an amazing shock to hear all your hard work paid off."
The competition has several components. Teams must build the canoes — KU has been at work on design and construction since this year’s rules were released in the fall — and make a presentation about the project. Then, the moment of truth: Students have to prove the boats actually work in a series of races.
Pitted against teams from 13 colleges and universities across Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Illinois, KU’s entry earned first place in the “design report” category for a technical paper describing the design and construction of the craft; the team took third place for its oral presentation describing the process, as well as second place for the quality of its product. After that, the team raced well enough to give it first place in the overall competition.
Multer said KU’s entry, a canoe named “Voyager,” won because of the team’s attention to detail.
"Our design was pretty intricate,” she said. "And we spent a lot of time sanding our canoe, which a lot of teams don't do. One of the judges touched our boat and said, 'Smooth.'"
The team can’t change anything about the canoe itself for the national competition, but Multer said it was likely members will work on “stepping up their game” to improve the design report and oral presentation for the national ...
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New Method to Identify Nanoparticles in Tissue May Shed Light on their Health Impact
University News
New Method to Identify Nanoparticles in Tissue May Shed Light on their Health Impact
Stony Brook biomedical engineer and colleagues nationally detail the cost-effective method in Microscopy Research and Technique
Stony Brook, NY – March 29, 2016 – A team of researchers from Stony Brook University, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and George Washington School of Medicine have demonstrated a pioneering method for the rapid visualization and identification of engineered nanoparticles in tissue. The research, detailed in a paper published in Microscopy Research and Technique, is a cost-effective hyperspectral imaging method for nanomaterial analysis that may shed light on nanomaterials’ potential health impacts.
As nanoparticles are increasingly incorporated into industrial processes and consumer products, studying the potential effects of exposure is critical to ensure the health and safety of workers, consumers, and the environment. In particular, the semiconductor industry utilizes metal oxide nanoparticles in a fabrication process, which has been identified by the industry as a critical area for health and safety research due to the potential for worker exposure.
In the paper, titled “Hyperspectral Imaging of Nanoparticles in Biological Samples: Simultaneous Visualization and Elemental Identification,” the researchers were able to detail how they located metal oxide nanoparticles in an ex vivo porcine skin tissue model of cutaneous exposure.
Molly Frame, PhD, Associate Professor and Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University, and a co-author on the paper, provided all the tissue samples that were imaged for the research. The imaging procedures were led and completed by Sara Brenner, MD, and colleagues at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
“Our findings were made possible through this unique collaboration, and the journal recognized them as highly significant in the area of nanotechnology research,” said Dr. Frame. “By laying the groundwork for the most efficient means with which to visualize nano materials in great detail, we are able to better evaluate the health implications of ...
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Stony Brook Professor Receives NIH Grant for Chronic Fatigue Management Program
Stony Brook Professor Receives NIH Grant for Chronic Fatigue Management Program
The Program Involves Stress Reduction Techniques, Social Support
STONY BROOK, N.Y., October 17, 2011 – Fred Friedberg, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, through the State University of New York Research Foundation, received a $600,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue testing a home-based self management program for people with chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
The NIH grant runs for two years, effective until the end of August 2013. In 2008, Dr. Friedberg, Principal Investigator, received an initial one-year $100,000 NIH grant to launch the home-based self management program for chronic fatigue and CFS patients, with the expectation to learn how to help patients more effectively manage their conditions.
“There are no effective and established medical treatments for these illnesses, and the behavioral program is intended to help patients function and feel better,” says Dr. Friedberg, pointing out that the causes of chronic fatigue and CFS are still unknown.
CFS remains a controversial illness. Yet, the NIH and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have designated CFS as an important public health issue and recognize the need to better define, diagnose and treat the illness. For more on CFS, see this CDC link.
“Cognitive-behavioral treatment, a type of stress management training combined with low level exercise, has shown promise to help people with CFS cope better and lessen illness severity,” explains Dr. Friedberg. “This ongoing study tests a home-based version of cognitive-behavioral treatment that is based on a self-help model of illness management. We also want to see if this type of intervention saves health care costs, an important issue because of the ever increasing expenditures for health care.”
The self-help program involves lifestyle change and stress reduction techniques, including graduated ...
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Lone Star College students receive 2017 Repsol Student Innovation award
Lone Star College System News
Published on: April 25, 2017 Repsol presented four Lone Star College students its 2017 Student Innovation Award. The award recognizes local students for excellence in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
The LSC students recognized were Fabio Andrean, Aerospace Engineering sophomore; Monica Argumedo, Civil Engineering sophomore: Milton Cruz, Engineering sophomore; and Mueed Ahmad, Computer Science freshman. The students were selected through an application process that evaluated academic performance, career choice, recommendations from professors and honors undergraduate research.
We are so proud of our students, said Linda Leto Head, LSC vice chancellor, Workforce Education & Corporate Partnerships. Energy is very important to our economic development and we would like to thank Repsol for helping build the next energy workforce. It is evident that the Repsol leadership is extremely dedicated to education in the U.S.
The projects submitted by the LSC students as part of the application process were:
Nuclear Fusion: the Energy Source of the Future Andrean
Becoming a More Innovative Thinker Argumedo
Creating the Real Future: Revolutionizing Man-made Structures into Multipurpose Structures Cruz
Affordable Consumer Solar Power through Efficient Programming Ahmad
Sam Houston State University students along with students from Conroe ISD were also recognized at the event. The 19 Conroe ISD students were selected by their participation in the 2017 Sci://Tech Exposition held in February. A panel of judges of local Repsol employees evaluated applications submitted by LSC and SHSU students, selecting four winners from each school.
We believe its important to invest in students because they are the future leaders in our industry and our communities, said Mariano Ferrari, Repsol Houston Office and U.S. business unit director. We need their talent and enthusiasm to achieve our goal of building a more sustainable energy future.
The 2017 Repsol Student Innovation Award winners were presented a certificate and merchandise from Repsol Honda MotoGP racers Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa. The collegiate recipients were also ...
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Chorale, orchestra to perform Broadway hits
Lone Star College Kingwood News
Published on: April 22, 2016
The Kingwood Chorale and Chamber Orchestra invite the community to its 100 Years of Broadway Concert May 6-7 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Kingwood.
The 100 Years of Broadway Concert will be May 6-7 at 7:30 p.m.
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Toes will tap and memories will be created at the last Kingwood Chorale and Chamber Orchestra concert of the 2015-2016 season.
The Lake Houston Musical Arts Society (LHMAS) and Lone Star College-Kingwood invite the community to its 100 Years of Broadway Concert May 6-7 at 7:30 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Kingwood. The chorale and orchestra will perform hit music from various eras of Broadway shows-from the 1920s to the present.
This event is a nice diversion for the chorale and our faithful audience. We usually sing classical choral masterworks, said Dr. Todd Miller, chorale conductor and music professor at LSC-Kingwood. There are many songs that are well-known and are sure to be crowd favorites.
The concert consists of 90 musicians who will perform Broadway classics from hit productions such as The Music Man, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, The Phantom of the Opera, Godspell, and Rent. The performance features Kingwood native Kristen Hertzenberg, and John Cornelius, composer, arranger and pianist. Hertzenberg is best known for her roles in The Phantom of the Opera, Master Class, Hair, and Million Dollar Quartet. Cornelius arranged a new setting of Day Day Day from Godspell for this concert.
We will perform songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Gershwin and Andrew Lloyd Webber, just to name a few, Miller said.
Tickets to 100 Years of Broadway are $20 for general admission and $15 for senior citizens and students. The First Presbyterian Church of Kingwood is located at 5520 Kingwood Drive. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit www.lhmas.org.
Register now for credit classes online through myLoneStar. Classes are offered days, evenings, or weekends ...
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Life on Mars! In the LSC-Montgomery Biotechnology Lab
Lone Star College Montgomery News
Published on: November 18, 2015
On the heels of the release of the science fiction filmThe
Martianand NASAs confirmation of water on mars, the Lone Star College-Montgomery
biotechnology program secured a two-year grant from the Texas Space Grant
Consortium (TSGC) to evaluate the responses of microorganisms when exposed to
surface conditions similar to those found on Mars.
On the heels of the successful release of
the science fictionfilm The Martian,
staring actor Matt Damon, and the uncanny timing of NASAs confirmation of
water on mars, the Lone Star College-Montgomery biotechnology program secured a
two-year grant from the Texas Space Grant Consortium (TSGC) to evaluate the
responses of microorganisms when exposed to surface conditions similar to those
found on Mars.
TSGC, a NASA-funded organization formed in
1989, consists of institutions in Texas networked to ensure that benefits of
space research and technology are available to the public of Texas. Academic
members include both large and small public and private institutions and the
consortium has developed a mix of higher education, research infrastructure and
public service projects.
"It was pretty cool timing, said Lone
Star College Biotechnology Institute (LSCBI) director Dr. Daniel Kainer. Right
about the time approval was granted, NASA made the big announcement that they
discovered liquid water on Mars. With the movie The Martian coming out at the same time, it made our project both current
and relevant to the LSC-Montgomery student body.
This type of real-world experience is so
valuable to our students, said LSC-Montgomery president Dr. Rebecca Riley. Experiential
learning is a great opportunity for them to gain a competitive edge in todays
job market or adds to their resume when transferring to four-year programs.
The biotechnology team will examine ways in
which cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green algae, can be integrated into
sustainable life support systems for future astronauts who travel to, and
possibly colonize, on Mars. Students will ...
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College Closed January 20 in Observance of Martin Luther King Day
Lone Star College Tomball News
Published on: January 15, 2014
LSC-Tomball will be closed in observance of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday on Monday, January 20. All offices will be closed and classes will not be held.
The LSC-Tomball Community Library will be closed, as well.
Normal business hours will resume on Tuesday, January 21.
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Roar-UP! Become part of the PRIDE at LSC-University Park
Lone Star College-University Park News
Published on: March 28, 2014 The pride of LSC-University Park will be on full display April 3 as we welcome the community to a Roar-UP Open House event. Join us from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. and experience what LSC-University Park has to offer.
Information booths will give potential students and parents a glimpse of academics, continuing education and student life at LSC-University Park. Presentations on advising, admissions and financial aid are scheduled in both English and Spanish. University partners will be also in attendance to answer questions about transfer opportunities and their four-year programs.
Visit with current students, faculty and staff, experience a tour of LSC-University Park and enjoy food and prize drawings with entertainment from 104.9 Tu Música. Plus, look for ticket giveaways for the Houston Rockets and Sam Houston Race Park Concert Series.
LSC-University Park is located at 20515 SH 249 (249 and Louetta Road), Houston, Texas 77070. For more information on the Open House, please contact Deshonta Holmes, Director of Admissions and Outreach, at 281-290-2770.
LSC-University Park is the sixth LSCS campus located in the former Compaq Computers world headquarters complex. The 71-acre campus houses four university partners, a charter high school, several business partners, Lone Star Corporate College and the LSC Energy and Manufacturing Institute. Under the first President, Shah Ardalan, LSC-University Parks vision is to be nationally recognized as the model for the innovative college of the 21st century. In just two years, LSC-University Parks Invitation-2-Innovate (i2i) has resulted in many local, national and global recognitions, including one patent for the Education and Career Positioning System. The campus is located at the corner of State Highway 249 and Louetta Road across from Vintage Park. For more information about LSC-University Park, call 281.290.2600 or visit LoneStar.edu/UP.
Lone Star College System has been opening doors to a better community for 40 years. Founded in 1973, LSCS remains steadfast in its commitment to student success and ...
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Modern languages students to present at Initials research forum
K-State Today Student Edition
April 20, 2017
Modern languages students to present at Initials research forum
By Melinda CroThe modern languages department is hosting Initials, a student research forum, from 4-5:30 p.m. Friday, April 21, in Hale Library's Hemisphere Room.
Students will share their research projects conducted over the course of the academic year. Topics include creative writing, translation, literature and linguistics.
Initials was founded in 2013 by Melinda Cro, associate professor of French, and Laura Kanost, associate professor of Spanish, to create a means for students to share their research and creative endeavors with the campus community as a whole. The modern languages department brings together faculty and students with diverse interests in a common goal — to learn about languages, cultures and literature.
Undergraduate students, their presentation, area of study and mentor are:
Katherine Boulanger, "De Gaulle's Spirit in Translation," modern languages — French, Kathleen Antonioli and Melinda Cro.
Catherine Caffera, "'Germany for Germans:' Examining the Social Media Use of Two Major Political Parties in Germany," modern languages — German and international studies, Janice McGregor.
Angélica Castro, "Neither Here nor There: The Search for Identity in Undocumented Immigrants Brought to the US as Children," modern languages — Spanish, Maria Depaoli.
Eric Gudenkauf and Rey Irwin, "Sandmann to Sandman: A Parody into Madness," modern languages — German, Sara Luly.
Katlyn Krause, "Atenas, Costa Rica comparada con el modelo para ciudades latinoamericanas," modern languages — Spanish, Laura Kanost.
Lameese Madi, "La 'Playlist' du rap français: un dossier pédagogique," modern languages — French, Melinda Cro.
Madison May, "L'Interdiction Burkini: La Discrimination Légalisée," modern languages — French, Kathleen Antonioli.
Thomas Meek, "Los vegetales te harán feliz," modern languages — Spanish, Megan McCoy and Mary Copple.
Anna Paczuska, "Priestesses and Patriarchy – The Daily Lives of Ancient Greek Priestesses," modern languages — classical studies, Benjamin McCloskey.
Anne Recker, "Conservation in Costa Rica: Finding a Balance," modern languages — Spanish, Laura Kanost.
Frantina Williams, "Sprache und Identität im Saargebiet (Language ...
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The Power of Videos in Palliative Care
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Angelo E. Volandes, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and hospitalist at Massachusetts General Hospital, had a patient named Helen Thompson. Thompson, an English professor and Walt Whitman scholar, had metastatic cancer. Her diagnosis was terminal, yet no one had had “the conversation” with her, Volandes recalled.“She looked at me with those eyes, and many of you know what eyes I’m talking about. So, what could I do?” he asked at the inaugural Ronald I. Ottenberg, M.D., Memorial Lecture in mid-April. “I started having the conversation with her: ‘Professor, I think it’s time we have a forest-from-the-trees perspective. I think we need to know the risks and benefits of all these procedures, and I need to know where you are in your journey.”
The journey, he explained, includes understanding what treatments are really like — and whether the patient would prefer to pursue them or move forward with an end-of-life plan. It’s an approach that the lecture’s namesake, Ronald Ottenberg, M.D. ’59, B.A. ’56, would have supported.
Ottenberg, a long-time practitioner of orthopedic medicine, devoted himself to caring for his patients, said Danielle Doberman, M.D. ’00, M.P.H., assistant professor of medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He even completed a living will for himself, she said, which he kept in the hospital with him during his final days.
“[Our team] used it to guide us as we and the family listened to his wishes,” she explained. “We were … struck by how much his family clearly loved him and how doggedly they supported him, embracing his efforts to balance quality-of-life goals with curative efforts.” The family continues to further Ottenberg’s objectives, now through the lecture series.
“This endowed lecture … speaks to their commitment to ensuring the voices of frail and fragile patients ...
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WVU, Marshall presidents thank Justice, legislators for "freedom" bill
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West Virginia University President Gordon
Gee, Marshall
University President Jerome Gilbert and West
Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Michael Adelman today (April 25) issued a joint statement following Gov. Jim
Justice's signing of HB 2815, granting greater authority to the schools'
governing boards.
The
text of the statement:
We are writing to
express our deepest thanks to the state Legislature and Gov. Jim Justice for
taking action to modernize the state's higher education governance system so
that it can operate efficiently and serve all West Virginians.
By overwhelming
margins in both houses, lawmakers voted to give governing boards at West
Virginia University, Marshall University and the West Virginia School of
Osteopathic Medicine greater power to set policies befitting their
institutions, instead of relying on one-size-fits-all oversight from the state
Higher Education Policy Commission.
This action puts
West Virginia in line with many other states who have given their large public
universities greater autonomy as state funding for those universities has
declined.
As Johns Hopkins
University President Ronald Daniels wrote in “The Chronicle of Higher Education”
last year, public universities “are subject to an arcane web of state
bureaucratic rules that can reach every corner of the university … These sorts
of rules reduce the autonomy of public research universities to act, sometimes
in significant ways.”
In West Virginia,
where West Virginia University, Marshall University and the West Virginia
School of Osteopathic Medicine have lost nearly $44 million combined in state
appropriation over the past several years, this new governance structure will
help us be nimble and innovative enough to overcome our state’s challenges.
While funding has
decreased in recent years, the need for higher education is at an all-time
high. Since 2008, 11.8 million jobs have emerged in this country. But only
80,000 of those jobs required only a high-school education. The rest required
either a college degree or substantial post-secondary training.
Unfortunately,
West Virginia has ...
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prestigious NSF grant to further research into ecological drivers of eye and brain size evolution in fish
The University of Texas at Arlington News Releases
Shannon Beston, a third-year Ph.D. student in biology at UTA
Shannon Beston, a third-year Ph.D. student in biology at the University of Texas at Arlington, was selected to receive funds from the National Science Foundation’s Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants program to further her research into how brains and eyes evolved in response to predation.
The award will fund Beston’s dissertation project, titled “The evolution of complexity: tests of the ecological drivers of eye size and brain size evolution in nature”, which examines the evolution of complex traits in natural populations. Specifically, the work addresses how eyes and brains among populations of killifish, Rivulus hartii, found in the waters of the Caribbean off the island of Trinidad.
“Understanding how complex traits have evolved is a long-standing goal in evolutionary biology and the complex structure of the eye is frequently presented as an example of evolution that challenges the understanding of evolution by natural selection,” Beston said.
While eye size varies extensively across species, there are very few studies that have evaluated how eyes evolve within a single species, she explained. Increases in eye size are associated with improved vision. As a result, shifts in eye size are likely connected, and potentially driven, by a variety of ecological factors, such as foraging, avoiding predators, and identifying mates. Rivulus are found in fish communities on the island that vary in predation intensity, ranging from sites where they are preyed upon by large fish to sites where they are the only species present.
“My most recent work, and the basis of the research I have proposed in the DDIG, has shown that increases in predation are associated with genetically based decreases in eye size,” Beston said. “This work provides a clear link between an ecological driver of eye size evolution, but it does not establish causation. We still do not ...
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SBC announces MBK officiating changes
UT Arlington Mavs Blog
The Sun Belt Conference announced today that it has entered into a partnership with the American Athletic Conference, Atlantic Sun Conference, and Southeastern Conference for its men's basketball officiating program.
Mark Whitehead, a 32-year veteran of college basketball officiating and a five-time NCAA Final Four official, will take the managing role for the consortium.
"Participation in this consortium will provide Sun Belt Conference men's basketball with a foundation and structure that will improve the overall quality of its officiating," said Sun Belt Commissioner Karl Benson. "Under the leadership of Mark Whitehead, I strongly believe this will benefit our coaches and student-athletes and the sport of men's basketball in the Sun Belt."
Whitehead, a native of Denham Springs, La., worked regularly as an official in the SEC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12, American, Mountain West, Conference USA and Missouri Valley conferences and was selected to work the NCAA men's basketball tournament 22 consecutive years, including 18 times in the NCAA regional round. He was selected by the NCAA to officiate the Final Four on five occasions, most recently in April of 2016 in Houston. He also worked Final Four assignments in 1999 at Tampa, 2011 at Houston, 2012 at New Orleans and 2013 at Atlanta.
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Wayne Law students win Women Lawyers Association of Michigan scholarships
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Wayne Law students win Women Lawyers Association of Michigan scholarshipsApril 25, 2017DETROIT – Two Wayne Law students have been awarded scholarships from the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan Foundation.
Husnah Khan of Bloomfield Hills is the Dawn Van Hoek Scholar, and Nicole Sappingfield of Madison Heights is the Dickinson Wright Women’s Network Scholar.
The foundation makes financial awards to women law students at each of Michigan’s law schools. According to its website, scholarships are determined on the basis of the students’ demonstrated leadership capabilities; community service in such areas as family law, child advocacy or domestic violence; commitment to diversity and potential for advancing the position of women in society.
Khan, a second-year law student, is president of Wayne Law’s Muslim Law Students Association and lieutenant governor of public interest for the American Bar Association Law Student Division’s Sixth Circuit.
"I am honored to receive a 2017 WLAM scholarship and follow in the footsteps of my close friends Michelle Lenning (2016 recipient) and Farah Al-Khersan (2014 recipient),” said Khan. I am grateful to my parents for encouraging my interest in advancing the position of women in society, and I am also grateful to the Women Lawyers Association of Michigan for recognizing and rewarding that interest."
Last summer, Khan was awarded an AmeriCorps J.D. Fellowship through her work as a summer intern at the University of Michigan’s Innocence Clinic. The fellowship is awarded to individuals working to provide legal assistance to members from low-income communities.
Khan earned her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan. While an undergraduate, she studied at Oxford University in England as part of summer study abroad program.
Sappingfield is a third-year law student and for 2016-17 was the Wayne Law Review Symposium editor. She is a student intern with the Legal Advocacy for People with Cancer Clinic and ...
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Remember the Ten Scholarship recipients announced
Oklahoma State University - News and Communications
The Remember the Ten steering committee has announced nine Oklahoma State University students as scholarship recipients, who were also publicly recognized during the annual Remember the Ten Run April 15.Created in 2012, the scholarship program supports graduate students who are seeking an OSU master’s degree or doctorate in one of the following specialties: clinical psychology, counseling psychology, community counseling, and marriage and family therapy. Each recipient receives a $1,000 cash scholarship, with $500 being awarded per semester.
The first Remember the Ten Run was held on April 21, 2007, and is now an annual tradition held on the third Saturday of April. The memorial run honors the 10 members of the OSU family who died in a plane crash on January 27, 2001. The scholarship focuses on degree specialties that provide counseling following tragedies like the plane crash.
For more information on the scholarship or how to donate, visit the Remember the Ten Scholarship Program page at remembertheten.com.
This year’s beneficiaries are:
Jamie Bechtelheimer, marriage and family therapy graduate student, Corpus Christie, Texas
Jamie Bechtelheimer graduated from OSU in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a minor in Spanish. In Fall 2016, she led a team in designing and presenting an entrepreneurial idea at the Rural Health Innovation Weekend, where her team won third place and the People's Choice award. Bechtelheimer’s long-term goal is to provide therapy to children and adolescents in Tulsa public schools or in a Tulsa nonprofit agency. She wants to specialize in helping children overcome trauma and thrive in school, with an emphasis on providing culturally relevant therapy to Hispanic and multi-ethnic kids
Hannah Espeleta, clinical psychology doctoral student, Dayton, Ohio
Hannah Espeleta, who graduated from Miami University in Ohio, studies under the supervision of Dr. Larry Mullins. Her research interests address physical and mental health interventions for youth with childhood adversity, including experiences of child abuse and neglect. ...
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A weekend of choral performances at NAU
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The last weekend in April is scheduled to be a big one for the Northern Arizona University School of Music with two concerts featuring seven unique choral ensembles.On April 29, vocal jazz ensembles High Altitude and Northern Voices, under the direction of Ryan Holder, associate director of choral studies, and graduate student Sarah Harrell, will perform. The ensembles will feature an array of music from the jazz repertoire.
On April 30, the annual Spring Festival of Choirs will include performances by the five following NAU ensembles:
The Harold M. Harter Memorial Handbell Choir, conducted by graduate student Joanna Richards, will open the concert with arrangements of familiar music from the Overture to Carmen and a medley of music from “Pirates of the Caribbean.”
The Men’s Chorale will perform under the direction of graduate student Matthew Myers. The choir will sing a French folk tune arranged by Francis Poulenc along with contemporary American music.
The University Singers, conducted by graduate student Brad Beale, will perform a variety of music featuring a Renaissance motet, a Broadway arrangement and a South African praise song.
The NAU Women’s Chorale will perform a five-movement work in Persian by the contemporary Minnesota composer Abbie Betinis.
After a brief intermission, the NAU Shrine of the Ages Choir will perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Magnificat” with a guest chamber orchestra featuring instrumental faculty artists and members of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra. The choir will perform the 25-minute, 12-movement work under the direction of Edith A. Copley, director of choral studies at NAU. The performance will feature seven student soloists: Celine Durney, Josephyne Santos, Hannah Kimball, Courtney Evans, Christopher Case, Geoffrey Lambeth and Karson Krieg.
Tickets for both concerts are available online through NAU’s Central Ticket Office or by calling 928-523-5661.
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BASEBALL COMPLETES SEASON SWEEP OF PACIFIC WITH 5-2 ROAD WIN
Athletics News
Apr 25, 2017
STOCKTON, Calif. – Kody Reynolds homered for the fourth time in the last six games, Vinny Esposito was 3-for-5 and finished a home run shy of the hitting for the cycle, and Austin Roberts did not allow an earned run over five innings as Sacramento State recorded a 5-2 win over Pacific on Tuesday night in Stockton.
Paired with a 9-1 home win over the Tigers in March, Sacramento State (21-20) swept its season series with Pacific (13-25). The Tigers entered the game with a 12-7 home record this season but lost for the 10th time in their last 11 games.
Reynolds was 2-for-4 with 2 RBIs on Tuesday and has hit .360 with four home runs and seven RBIs in the last week. Esposito has also driven in seven runs in the last six games while hitting .440. On Tuesday he had a triple in the first inning, a single in the sixth, and an RBI double in the seventh and hit with two away in the top of the ninth but flew out to right field.
Roberts picked up his second win of the season and the team is now 6-3 in the nine games he has started. The freshman allowed just one unearned run over five innings, allowing four hits and one walk with three strikeouts. Ty Fox, Austin Root, and Chad Perry followed with scoreless innings and Justin Dillon allowed a run but struck out the side in the ninth in a relief appearance.
Esposito and Reynolds got the scoring started in the first inning when the former hit a two-out triple and the later drove him in with an infield single. Reynolds made it a 2-0 Hornet lead with a solo homer leading off the fourth.
Pacific got a run in the bottom of the fourth as a passed ball enabled Ryan Schalch to score from third on a groundout. Both teams put runners on the corners in the sixth inning, with Pacific doing so before recording an out, but neither team scored.
In the seventh inning Andrew McWilliam hit a leadoff single and scored from second on a Pacific throwing error. Ian Dawkins reached on the error then stole third and scored on another Tiger throwing error. After James Outman drew a walk Esposito doubled him home with a fly ball off the wall in left to make the score 5-1.
Pacific, which tallied eight hits and three errors, scored one on a pair of singles in the bottom of the ninth but nothing more. Starter Justin Giovannoni had a solid outing but took the loss, allowing two runs on six hits with three strikeouts over five innings.
The Hornets are back home for a WAC series this weekend against CSU Bakersfield. Game times are 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and noon Sunday at John Smith Field.
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College of Education to host spring forum
DePaul Newsline
On May 2, the College of Education will host its spring forum on education issues. This year's program, titled "Advancing Democracy and Justice in Public Education in the Trump/DeVos Era," will examine ways to increase support for public schools and advance an agenda of democracy, equity and justice. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Featured speakers for the discussion include Kevin Kumashiro, former dean for the School of Education at the University of San Francisco; Brandon Johnson, deputy director for the Chicago Teachers Union; Cheryl Flores, director of youth services and community schools for the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council; and Cassie Creswell, co-executive director of Raise Your Hand Action.
Advancing Democracy and Justice in Public Education in the Trump/DeVos EraTuesday, May 25:30 - 8:30 p.m.Lincoln Park Student Center, room 314RSVP required
For more information, contact Diane Horwitz at dhorwit1@depaul.edu.
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President Mitsui hosting town halls across PCC on his work plan
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President Mitsui hosting town halls across PCC on his work plan
Photos and Story by James Hill |
PCC President Mark Mitsui talks about the growing disparities in housing affordability for ethnic groups in Portland and the ramifications for the college.
For the next two years and beyond, Portland Community College’s president has a plan and he wants your input.
President Mark Mitsui is touring the college district this week to present his 2017-19 President’s Work Plan to the college community and solicit feedback on its content through town halls. After seven months on the job, Mitsui has begun to identify areas to focus his attention during the next two years. He is visiting campuses and strategic centers across the district to share his near-final work plan with students, faculty, and staff. He is also soliciting input at these meetings about his plan.
He said the focus of the plan is opportunity and equitable student success, intersecting the strategic plan, accreditation core themes, communication, board of director’s goals and community needs.
“I see this plan as a way to align PCC’s key strategic initiatives with evolving needs of our community, define a central thematic focus for college-wide goals and plans, and to accelerate the implementation of those plans,” Mitsui said at his recent town hall at the CLIMB Center. “My work plan also identifies other key areas of my focus in the next two years, including the upcoming bond election, biennial budget development and the launch of the college’s first-ever comprehensive fundraising campaign.”
If you want to catch one of President Mitsui’s final town halls about his work plan, here’s the remaining schedule:
1 p.m., Wednesday, April 19, Performing Arts Center Lobby, Sylvania Campus.
10 a.m., Thursday, April 20, Event Center, Rock Creek Campus.
2 p.m., Thursday, April 20, Room 112, Terrell Hall, Cascade Campus.
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CWRU Falls at #5 Wooster 10-5
Case Western Reserve Athletic News
Apr 25, 2017
Despite taking an early lead and hanging close throughout, the Case Western Reserve University baseball team suffered an 10-5 setback against the fifth-ranked College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio on Tuesday afternoon.The loss dropped the Spartans to 21-15 on the season, while Wooster improved to 25-5 with the victory.CWRU senior left fielder Josh Neal and sophomore third baseman Jacob Kucia each had two of the team's six hits in the game, and freshman first baseman Casey McConihe went one-for-four with a triple and three runs batted in.The Spartans jumped in front of the Scots in the game with a run in the top of the first. After senior center fielder Aaron Cain led the game off with a hit by pitch, Kucia reached on an infield single, with a throwing error allowing the runners to move to second and third. With one out in the inning, McConihe plated Cain with a groundout, putting CWRU ahead 1-0. A leadoff double by Neal and a sacrifice fly from sophomore shortstop Rocco Maue extended the Spartans' lead to 2-0 in the second.The score remained 2-0 until the bottom of the third, when the Scots collected three-straight two-out singles, including two-RBI hit from Michael Wielansky to knot the score. Wooster took its first lead of the game in the bottom of the fourth, when Jamie Lackner opened the inning with a single, eventually coming around to score on a groundout by Ryan Ostendorf, and added a run later in the inning on a Chandler Dippman run-scoring single. A two-RBI single for Garrett Crum in the fifth made it a 6-2 lead for the Scots.Case Western Reserve responded in the top of the sixth, with Kucia starting the frame by reaching on a hit by pitch and senior right fielder Tony Damiano drawing a walk to put two on ...
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Research help for CEET students
Academic Calendar
Wednesday, April 26, 201712:00 PM - 2:00 PM (CT)
Event Type
Academic
Department
College of Engineering & Engineering Technology
Link
https://calendar.niu.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=28290
University Libraries will have a table inside the Garden Road entrance to the Engineering Building to help students find the research resources they need.University Libraries has hundreds of databases, tens of thousands of academic journals and thousands of e-books to help you with your research!
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Montana realtor noxious weed online training course opens April 17
MSU News - Agriculture (College)
April 12, 2017 -- MSU News Service
BOZEMAN -- The Montana Noxious Weed Education Campaign’s online noxious weed training course for realtors opens April 17.
The course is intended to provide realtors with a broad understanding of noxious weeds so that they can recognize noxious weeds and subsequently direct both buyers and sellers to resources for noxious weed identification and management.
The training consists of five modules: noxious weeds 101, plant anatomy and weed identification, weed identification, understanding Montana’s County Weed Control Act and integrated weed management. The course is certified through the Association for Real Estate License Law Officials and the Montana Board of Realty Regulation and has been approved for four continuing education credits in the environmental issues category.
“This course is well thought out, easy to follow, very informative and will be a great resource for all agents,” said one realtor from Helena who completed the course during an earlier offering. “As compared with other online courses I have taken, this was more hands on. I like the opportunity for interaction.”
To promote the training and noxious weed education within the realtor community, a limited number of registration fee waivers are available for realtors.
Once registered, participants will have six months (Oct. 17), to complete the course and obtain four continuing education credits.
The Montana Noxious Weed Education Campaign is a cooperative effort among state and federal entities, including Montana State University and non-governmental organizations that educate the people of Montana about noxious weeds and encourage them to participate in integrated weed management.
For more information, including possible registration fee waivers, or to register, contact Shantell Martin at (406) 444-9491 or shantell.frame@montana.edu.
For more information about the Montana Noxious Weed Education Campaign, see www.weedawareness.org.
Contact: Shantell-Frame Martin, MSU Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, (406) 444-9491 or shantell.frame@montana.edu
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