OSU Today
Today in the News Media is a synopsis of some of the most prominent coverage of OSU people and programs. Inclusion of any item constitutes neither an endorsement nor a critique, but rather is intended only to make the OSU community aware of significant items in the media.
Oregon State University displays new logo (Capital Press)
Oregon State University, the alma mater or sports team favorite of many Pacific Northwest producers, has a new logo and branding to go with it. The new logo is an intentional artistic representation of what the university stands for and the practical research and education it does in agriculture, forestry, natural resources, engineering and other work that benefits Oregonians. (see also KTVL)
Did Nabisco ruin America’s favorite cookie? (New York Post)
Food companies do make minor product changes in order to save big bucks; sometimes they talk about it, sometimes they don’t. “Many times companies might change sugar brands etc., in an attempt to reduce the cost of production,” Elizabeth Tomasino, an assistant professor of enology at Oregon State University, said in an email to The Post. She also suggested I’d need at least 200 participants for a blind taste test. I think I asked about 11.
OSU plans Take Back the Night events Thursday (Gazette-Times)
Oregon State University will hold a march, rally and survivor speak-out on Thursday in recognition of “Take Back the Night,” an event held in many locations throughout the world to raise awareness about sexual violence. (see also Register-Guard)
Bike-sharing program adds two OSU stations (Gazette-Times)
Bike-sharing options in the city have expanded with the addition of two new stations at Oregon State University. Pedal Corvallis racks were installed last week in front of the Kerr Administration Building on Jefferson Way and in front of Weniger Hall on Northwest Monroe Avenue near 23rd Street.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Academic Strategies Committee of the OSU Board of Trustees to meet May 2
About Oregon State University: OSU is one of only two U.S. universities designated a land-, sea-, space- and sun-grant institution. OSU is also Oregon’s only university to hold both the Carnegie Foundation’s top designation for research institutions and its prestigious Community Engagement classification. Its more than 26,000 students come from all 50 states and more than 90 nations. OSU programs touch every county within Oregon, and its faculty teach and conduct research on issues of national and global importance.
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Photo Recap: Highlander Day of Service 2017
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To show their work, Highlanders proudly posted photos of their day's labor via social media outlets
By Sandra Baltazar Martinez on April 26, 2017
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A student from UCR’s TRIO Scholars Program, works on campus with other classmates on Highlander Day of Service on April 22, 2017. courtesy
Highlanders placed their UC Riverside stamp on community projects all across the Inland Empire — and beyond.
On April 22, dozens of Highlanders, friends, and family, participated in the annual Highlander Day of Service. They devoted their Saturday morning to service projects that benefited communities in Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and Orange counties. UCR alumni in Oakland, Washington, D.C., and London, organized their own community service efforts.
Higlander Day of Service started in 2015 with over 500 participants who registered for 25 projects throughout California. Last year the event gathered 350 volunteers to work on 22 projects, including picking up seven bags of trash from the River Thames in London.
Volunteer work on campus this year included beautification of the gardens outside of Watkins Hall, and the R’Garden. Among the many other projects UCR volunteers rolled up their sleeves for this year, were trash and debris removal from local streets, rivers, and parks; assembling food packages for low-income families and children; canal clean up in London; clean up of Lake Merritt in Oakland; packing lunches for the homeless in Washington D.C.; and working on care packages to mail to soldiers abroad.
To show their work, Highlanders proudly posted photos of their day’s labor via social media outlets. Here is the recap:
UCR volunteers helped with care packages for Operation Gratitude on Highlander Day of Service on April 22, 2017. Jorge Ancona (third from right), assistant vice chancellor for Alumni and Constituent Relations, joined the team. COURTESY
Volunteers helping ship packages for Operation Gratitude on Highlander Day of Service on April 22, 2017. COURTESY
Volunteers at Sycamore Canyon Park on ...
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Quants earn 3rd place in year-long competition
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A team of Olin students took third place in the Chicago Quantitative Alliance’s Investment Challenge, a year-long competition that requires students to apply stock selection and portfolio management skills in a simulated, real life hedge fund experience. Congratulations to the WashU Green Team: Chongyu Li, Siyong Chen, Yingan Yi, Yuanfang Liu, Yuming Lou, and Sahil Ghurye, captain, for their excellent finish.
“It pits you against other domestic and international business schools like Cornell, Columbia, Fuqua, Tepper, CUHK, ISB, Georgia Tech etc.,” said Sahil Ghurye. “This year 50 colleges took part in the competition.”
Rich Ryffel, Senior Lecturer in Finance has organized and mentored Olin teams for the CQA competition for the past two years. “The objective of the CQA Investment Challenge is to successfully manage an equity long/short market neutral portfolio over the course of the academic year,” Ryffel explained. Kirk MacDonald, a Senior Research Analyst at Argent Capital Management served as the team advisor.
“It gave us a great opportunity to apply classroom theories to a simulated real world setting,” said Ghurye. “The competition helped us follow the public markets and factor recent macroeconomic trends that might affect our portfolio. We had to monitor our portfolio often to stay within the constraints set by the challenge.”
The winning team was determined by the combination of their absolute return, risk adjusted return and an evaluation of a strategy presentation with an emphasis on the risk adjusted returns. Prizes include $3,000 in prize money distributed across the top three teams ($1500, $1000, $500).
Ghurye and his fellow finance quant team members encourage other students to compete in the CQA. “I would certainly recommend the CQA challenge to students who aspire to work in finance. The challenge doesn’t take too much of your time but it gives you great exposure to public markets and to great mentors.” Another perk, Ghurye adds: “The CQA challenge ...
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Annual Daffodil Run to Support Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County
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Hundreds of students, staff and faculty are expected to participate in the 7th annual Daffodil Run to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County on Sunday, April 30, beginning at Kendrick Park in Amherst. The race begins promptly at 10 a.m., with 5k run/walk and 10k options.
Families and community members can participate in games such as tug-of-war and three-legged races, or try disc golf, hula hooping with Hoop Joy or corn hole. There will be a bounce house for the little ones, music, barbecue for race participants and more.
Runners and walkers may register on race day at Kendrick Park beginning at 8 a.m. Prizes will be award to the first, second and third place male and female runners as well as the top runner from each age category. Costumes are encouraged and creative costumes will also earn prizes.
Every year, many UMass runners and volunteers are members of UMass Amherst Greek Life, including representation from TKE, Pi Delta Psi, Theta Chi, and Delta Kappa Delta. The Sylvan Snack Bar team returns this year with a team of 15 runners.
Big Brothers Big Sisters develops friendships between mentors and mentees that are supported by professional case managers, giving children and families added support as they navigate challenges ranging from everyday growing pains to those challenges faced by immigrants, single-parent households or families in shelter, for example.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hampshire County helps 181 children annually, but nearly 160 children still await the opportunity to be matched with a mentor. With this year’s Daffodil Run, the organization hopes to raise funds to provide more support to youth in the community and to reduce the number of children waiting for a mentor.
For more information, click here or call Jen Loebel, 413/259-3346.
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Architecture Students Win National Design Competition Award
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Rachel Elbon and Adam Smith, students in the School of Architecture in the College of Architecture and Design, have won an award in the 2016–17 AIA COTE Top Ten for Students national design competition. The event is hosted by the American Institute of Architecture Committee on the Environment and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.Rachel Elbon and Adam Smith, students in UT’s School of Architecture, were named in the 2016-2017 AIA-COTE Top Ten for Students national design competition.
Elbon and Smith, who are fourth-year students, designed “Gastronomia: Sustainable Architecture,” a community hub-inspired design that includes a culinary research lab, farm-to-table restaurants, affordable housing, and farming technologies. The project was one of 10 winning submissions.
Winning projects will be exhibited April 27–29 at the AIA Convention in Orlando, Florida, and at the 106th ACSA annual meeting in March 2018.
The sustainable farm and community hub design by Rachel Elbon and Adam Smith, students in UT’s School of Architecture, includes affordable housing and a culinary research lab. The design was named in the AIA COTE Top Ten for Students.
Now in its third year, competition challenges students across the United States to prepare cutting-edge designs that demonstrate sustainable design thinking. Participants must address site ecology, energy and water use, ecological systems, and other factors that affect environmental impact.
Earlier this month, Elbon and Smith earned a first-place finish in UT’s Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EUReCA), a university-wide competition that encourages undergraduate participation in faculty-led research enterprises and capstone projects. Of the 330 entries, Elbon and Smith earned a Gold Award with their design “Urban Quarter Organics.” Their faculty mentor was Kevin Stevens, a lecturer in the School of Architecture.
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Pitt Bioinformatics Study Provides Clues to Relationship between Schizophrenia and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Pitt Bioinformatics Study Provides Clues to Relationship between Schizophrenia and Rheumatoid Arthritis
PITTSBURGH, February 24, 2017 – An in-depth computational analysis of genetic variants implicated in both schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh points to eight genes that may explain why susceptibility to one of the disorders could place individuals at lower risk for the other, according to the results of a study published today in the journal npj Schizophrenia. “There is a wealth of genomic data on both schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis. Analyzing it jointly with known protein interaction information could provide invaluable clues to the relationship between the diseases and also shed light on their shared roots,” said Madhavi Ganapathiraju Ph.D., associate professor of biomedical informatics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and senior author of the study. While schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder of unknown origin and rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease of the joints that occurs as a result of the body’s immune system attacking its own cells, both disorders are thought to be influenced by multiple genetic risk factors modified by the environment.“Several previous research studies have hinted at a potential inverse relationship in the prevalence and risk for the two disorders, so we wondered if individual genetic variants may exist that could have opposing effects on the risk of schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritis,” said co-senior author Vishwajit Nimgaonkar M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at Pitt’s School of Medicine and human genetics at Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health.The researchers first analyzed two large databases of genetic variants significantly associated with either schizophrenia or rheumatoid arthritis. They identified 18 unique variants, also known as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that were located in the HLA region of the genome that harbors genes associated with immune function. The variants appeared to confer different risk for ...
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‘A Multi-Benefit Project’
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Four years after receiving the property as a gift from a nonprofit, UC Santa Barbara has officially begun its planned ecological restoration of a former golf course in Goleta.With the support of a diverse array of public agencies, UCSB is working to revive and preserve wetlands on the upper Devereux Slough, which some 50 years ago was filled with soil to make way for Ocean Meadows Golf Course. With the integration of adjacent uplands, the 136-acre parcel now known as North Campus Open Space (NCOS) will ultimately open to the public, coastal habitat and trails extending three miles along the Ellwood Devereux coast by connecting several existing preserved properties.
“UC Santa Barbara cherishes the opportunity to partner as a long-term steward of this open space, and we are excited that we have now broken ground on a project that will restore and preserve these precious wetlands for public access, research and teaching,” said Chancellor Henry T. Yang.
For the environment, and the community
With cooperation from multiple departments and divisions at UCSB, and in continued collaboration with several outside partners, the project from day one has been developed with the community in mind — and involved. A series of open meetings, held over three years, was meant to elicit broad input, foster discussion of the evolving plans and engage the public in the process.
Further, in keeping with a longstanding commitment when it comes to open spaces, UCSB is integrating its research and education mission into the design and management of the project. Already several academic courses, class projects and independent student efforts have centered on research opportunities at the site, including public use, insect diversity, soil and water quality, carbon sequestration and sea level rise.
“California has lost over 90 percent of its wetlands due to development over the last century and half, yet these lands serve an important ecological function ...
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Tercera Festa de la Ciència de la UB
Universitat de Barcelona - Notícies
La III Festa de la Ciència de la UB tindrà lloc el proper 12 de maig.
L’objectiu principal de la festa és arribar a públics no especialitzats i a totes les edats.
La tercera edició d'aquesta festa arriba farcida d’activitats noves.
A la tarda s’ha programat una representació de l’espectacle Flebotín, un mosquit del Cretaci, del projecte Pinta’m un conte.
Inclourà un racó amb una selecció de llibres, contes i còmics infantils de temàtica científica per als més petits.
26/04/2017
Recerca
La III Festa de la Ciència de la Universitat de Barcelona, que tindrà lloc el divendres 12 de maig durant tot el dia a l’Edifici Històric, arriba farcida d’activitats noves. Un neuroconcert, un espai dedicat a la figura de Sabater Pi, un taller sobre el patrimoni cultural de Mèxic i una activitat d’astronomia per entendre millor com és la Via Làctia són algunes de les novetats més destacades de la festa, que inclou, també, els tallers de més èxit de les dues edicions anteriors.
Neuroconcert de cinc veus a cappella
Una de les novetats més destacades de la festa d’enguany és la programació d’un neuroconcert, a les 19 h, al jardí Ferran Soldevila de l’Edifici Històric. L’objectiu de l’actuació, organitzada per l’Institut de Neurociències de la UB, és parlar de la percepció musical i de les emocions que genera, a partir del diàleg amb músics i neurocientífics i l'acompanyament en directe de cinc veus a cappella.
No és la primera vegada que La UB Divulga organitza un neuroconcert. L’any 2013, en va programar una desena en el marc del projecte NeuroUB: Neurociència, Música i Art, i l’experiència va ser tot un èxit. Entendre els mecanismes mitjançant els quals la música genera estats afectius ...
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Leach Theatre to host a Muppet sing-along this month
Leach Theatre will host Sing-Along with The Muppet Movie as a part of the 2016-17 Leach Special Performance Series at Missouri University of Science and Technology this month.The sing-along with take place at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 29, in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall. Tickets are $40 for a four-pack or free with the purchase of a $15 goodie bag. Tickets can be purchased through the Leach Theatre Box Office, located in the vestibule inside the main entrance of Castleman Hall facing 10th Street. The Leach Theatre Box Office is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Tickets can also be purchased online at leachtheatre.mst.edu or by calling 573-341-4219 during business hours.
The classic Muppet Movie returns with all your favorite pals — Fozzie Bear, Kermit the Frog and more. In this sing-along, the hosts and crew lead the audience of cheering, singing fans to renew their Rainbow Connection. It’s full of interactive surprises like bubbles, streamers, kites, confetti pops and characters coming right out of the screen and into the audience.
Post a video impersonation of Kermit The Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear or another favorite Muppet character under the Facebook posting “Enter Your Chance To Win” for a chance to receive a prize package of four free tickets and soft drinks to see Sing-Along with The Muppet Movie on Saturday, April 29, 2017. The winner will be picked on Wednesday, April 26, 2017. Posts must be shorter than 30 seconds and be G-rated. One post per person.
The Muppet sing along is sponsored by Phelps County Regional Medical Center, KFLW and the Missouri Arts Council.
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Campus police captain completes intensive FBI academy
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Marisa Smith was one of two Missouri law enforcement officers selected for the 10-week program in Quantico, Virginia, earlier this year. She’s been a member of the UMSL Police Department since 2003. (Photos courtesy of Marisa Smith)
Being outnumbered isn’t exactly new to Marisa Smith.
One of only two women in her St. Louis County Police Academy graduating class years ago, the University of Missouri–St. Louis staff member became the university’s first female minority police captain in 2016 when colleagues surprised her with the promotion.
Now she’s just back from being one of 19 women from around the country and the world to spend 10 weeks at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“I was pleased, honored and humbled to represent not just UMSL but Missouri,” she said of the experience.
FBI Director James Comey congratulated UMSL Police Captain Marisa Smith during her graduation from the FBI National Academy this spring.
Smith was one of two officers from the Show-Me State who were part of the recent FBI National Academy, which trains both U.S. and international law enforcement managers in intelligence theory, management science, law, behavioral science, communication and more.
“Less than 1 percent of all law enforcement executives from across the country are selected to participate, and from that 1 percent less than 10 percent are women,” UMSL Police Chief Forrest Van Ness said. “Of all the 750,000 commissioned men and women in law enforcement across the country, FBI Director James Comey selected 226 law enforcement members – including our own Marisa Smith.”
Earning 17 credits from the University of Virginia during her stay in Quantico from early January through mid-March, Smith enrolled in academy courses focused on effective leadership, stress management, effective writing, compliance law and public speaking.
Each day also involved physical training, and it proved an intense but incredibly worthwhile schedule.
“It was great to discuss various issues and talk about how ...
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Former CSUF professor Phil Janowicz announces 2018 congressional bid for District 39 seat against Ed Royce
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“It’s only fitting that I announce my campaign where I was initially inspired to run—right here at Cal State Fullerton,” said Phil Janowicz, who kicked off his 2018 Congressional campaign kickoff in CSUF’s Becker Amphitheater, amid cheers from his core supporters.
Janowicz, the president and CEO of education consulting firm Quill and Abacus, was once a chemistry professor at CSUF where he mentored over 100 students in the Supplemental Instruction Program and his research lab.
“When I realized how many of my students were struggling to meet basic food and housing needs, I decided I had to do more than teach chemistry,” Janowicz said in his first speech as a political candidate.
Now, he’s challenging CA 39th Congressional District Rep. Ed Royce’s incumbent seat.
“My opponent is running from his record of voting with Trump 96 percent of the time,” Janowicz said, stirring boos from the crowd. “My opponent runs from the voices of his constituents, refusing to hold town hall meetings or answer questions from our community.”
Rep. Royce could not be reached for a response.
A major voice of Royce’s constituency outcry has been Indivisible CA D-39, which previously held a vigil to “mourn” Royce’s relationship with constituents on Feb. 23, and held a demonstration in front of Royce’s Brea office on March 23.
Janowicz himself is a member of Indivisible CA D-39.
Indivisible CA is “united against the Trump agenda” and counts Republicans among its members, Janowicz said.
“There’s a lot of enthusiasm among people in Indivisible (CA D-39),” said assistant professor of health science and Indivisible CA D-39 member Shana Charles. “Everybody who’s met him said that they really appreciate not only his values, but also his intelligence, his dedication and his willingness to step up and fight this fight for us.”
Charles is a volunteer for Janowicz’s campaign and ...
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Washington’s First Census Research Data Center Opens at Georgetown
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April 26, 2017 – Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy yesterday opened the first Research Data Center (RDC) in Washington, a joint project of the U.S. Census Bureau and the school’s Massive Data Institute.
The center provides secure access to qualified researchers at Georgetown and nearby universities and institutions examining a wide range of social and economic issues.
“The Georgetown RDC strengthens and animates Georgetown and the McCourt School’s commitment to world-class, 21st-century research and scholarship,” said Robert Groves, Georgetown's provost and the former director of the U.S. Census Bureau. “We are very pleased to partner with the Census Bureau to provide expanded but secure access to these critical data.”
Studying Critical Issues
The Georgetown RDC is the first Census Research Data Center to open in Washington, D.C. and the 24th RDC in the country.
The university’s J. Bradford Jensen, who helped establish the first university-based RDC at Carnegie Mellon University, will serve as executive director of Georgetown’s RDC.
“The restricted-use microdata provided by Census through the RDC, like the American Community Survey, the Census of Manufacturers, and Current Population Survey, will be an incredibly valuable resource to Georgetown and other qualified researchers,” said Jensen, the McCrane/Shaker Chair in International Business at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. “We hope Georgetown faculty, graduate students and other researchers studying critical issues in economics and workforce issues, health and health care, statistics and demographics will get in touch about how we can work together.”
Accessing Data
Nate Ramsey, lead administrator of the Federal Statistical Research Data Center program at the Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies, will serve as acting administrator of Georgetown’s new center.
RDCs are Census Bureau facilities, housed in partner institutions that meet all the physical and information security requirements for access to governmental restricted-use microdata.
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New Vice Chancellor to Nurture Inventions, Bring Products to Market at More Advanced Stage
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In a bold move to bring its life science inventions to market with higher value, so they are more likely to reach patients and better support the university’s mission, UC San Francisco has hired Harold E. “Barry” Selick, PhD, as its first vice chancellor for business development, innovation and partnerships.
Selick will oversee proof-of-concept studies of promising UCSF life science inventions – which encompass drug molecules, device prototypes, digital health applications, and more – to gather evidence on which inventions are most likely to help patients as new therapies, diagnostics or software.
One aim is to keep inventions from languishing on companies’ shelves, which often occurs when firms license early-stage inventions but do not invest the necessary resources to develop them. Another is to increase the licensing revenues earned by UCSF inventions: companies are likely to pay more for innovations with more proven value, Selick said.
“It’s high-risk, high-reward,” Selick said. “But we’re going to bias the odds of success in our favor by working with the smartest people in the world: scientists from UCSF and, on our advisory board, some of the most accomplished investors from Silicon Valley, who will be helping us cherry-pick the most promising programs. With this strategy, UCSF can begin to invest more fully in itself and develop even more technologies to benefit patients.”
For drug candidates or devices, proof-of-concept studies could take the form of small-scale clinical trials to demonstrate that they have adequate safety and efficacy in patients for a licensing company to launch larger, more definitive clinical trials. Similarly, digital health applications and diagnostic technologies could be advanced to the point where they could be evaluated in real-world scenarios prior to undergoing the more rigorous development required for commercialization.
Deep Industry Knowledge, Longstanding UCSF Ties
A former pharmaceutical company CEO with broad biotech experience, Selick has deep industry knowledge and longstanding ...
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FIU Golf Takes Two C-USA Superlative Awards
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IRVING, Texas (April 26, 2017) -- FIU senior Camila Serrano (Bogota, Colombia) has been named Conference USA Golfer of the Year and junior Katerina Krasova (Ricany, Czech Republic) earned Most Improved Golfer as the All-Conference USA awards were announced by the league office Wednesday. The selections are made by the 11 head coaches in the league. Serrano was the highest-ranked player in the league by Golfstat after the Conference Championships, and the only one ranked among the Top 200 players in Division I, finishing the season ranked 81st in women's golf. She was 44-1 versus the top players in the league, losing just once to teammate Krasova, in the regular season. Serrano posted four finishes in the top five at 10 tournaments for the season, three more times in the top 10, including a tie for ninth at the C-USA Championships last week. Her average finish was in the 89th percentile, finishing with a record of 658-85 and a stroke average of 72.57, which was the best of her career by more than a stroke from her freshman year and three strokes better than her sophomore and junior campaigns. Serrano's senior season lowered her career average by more than half a stroke over 101 tournament rounds. She was the top vote getter for all-conference and earned First-Team All-C-USA honors for her outstanding season. She is a four-time all-conference selection and the third-straight Golfer of the Year from FIU. Serrano took home four Golfer of the Week honors this season and was the 2014 C-USA Women's Golf Freshman of the Year."Cami had a very solid year," said Vogel. "She finished in the top 10 in seven of our 10 events. It's a testament to her good play in the tournament and she kept good focus and good game plan each time out. She was pretty impressive."
Krasova finished almost four strokes better in 2017 that the previous season with a 75.36 ...
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A Look Back at the Historic 2017 Season
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Brandon BerrioAssistant Communications Director
BATON ROUGE – From start to finish, the LSU gymnastics team made history in 2017 with its consistency and team performances. Ultimately the Tigers finished the season, the 40th under head coach D-D Breaux, as the NCAA national runner-up to match the best finish in school history.
By the Numbers: 2017 LSU Gymnastics Season• LSU totaled a 197.7375 in to match the best finish in school history as the NCAA national runner-up. The score marked the second-highest for the program at an NCAA Championship.• LSU set a then record score of 198.275 in the NCAA Semifinal II to earn a spot in the sixth NCAA Super Six in school history. The score is the best ever in a prelim and the second-best score in NCAA Championship history. • The squad captured three championships during the historic season. LSU totaled a 197.450 at the NCAA Lincoln Regional for the program's 16th regional title and fifth straight. • LSU scored a 198.075 at the SEC Championship to win the second league title in school history. The score was enough for the fifth highest in school history and the third highest by any team at an SEC Championship. • LSU went on a tear during the season and captured the inaugural SEC regular season title after sweeping the league with a 7-0 record. The Tigers clinched the championship at home against No. 3 Florida with a score of 198.150 for the fourth highest in school history. • LSU defeated Florida, Georgia and Alabama in the same season for just the second time in school history. The Tigers finished with a record of 12-0 against the three SEC powerhouses. • Finished with a 34-2 record overall for the most wins in a single season in school history. It marked just the second time in school history LSU has surpassed the 30-win mark. • The Tigers ended the season with a 21-1 record in the postseason. ...
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Rice’s Lydia Kavraki wins ACM Athena Lecturer Award
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Rice’s Lydia Kavraki wins ACM Athena Lecturer Award
Computer scientist recognized for groundbreaking research on robotics, biomedicine
HOUSTON — (April 26, 2017) — Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has received one of the most prestigious honors in her field, the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Athena Lecturer Award.
Kavraki, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and professor of bioengineering, was recognized for inventing randomized motion-planning algorithms in robotics and for the development of robotics-inspired methods for bioinformatics and biomedicine.
Lydia Kavraki (Photo by Doni Soward/Rice University)
“I am deeply honored by this award,” said Kavraki, who joined Rice’s faculty in 1996. “It recognizes years of work done with my students and collaborators at Rice and around the globe. I am also delighted that ACM has chosen to name one of its top awards after Athena, the goddess of wisdom in ancient Greek mythology, who was a patron of human ingenuity and an astute adviser of heroes. It strikes a chord with me, as her picture was on the cover of my textbooks when I was growing up in Greece.”
Given annually since 2006, the Athena Lecturer Award celebrates women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science. The award carries a cash prize of $25,000 and the honoree is invited to give a lecture at a major ACM conference of her choice that will be recorded for the association’s website.
“Planning the motion of objects in a three-dimensional space has been a central challenge in the robotics field for a long time,” said ACM President Vicki Hanson. “Lydia Kavraki’s Probabilistic Roadmap Method (PRM) has had a tremendous impact. It is now widely used in robotics applications in industry and is a foundational idea for numerous researchers in the field.”
Though the award recognizes Kavraki’ ...
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El 27 d’abril torna la jornada 'Girls in ICT Day' per promoure l'interès per les TIC entre les noies
Actualitat UPC
La iniciativa internacional Girls in ICT, Expanding horitzons, Changing attitudes se celebra anualment a més de 150 països de tot el món amb l’objectiu d’encoratjar les noies a estudiar carreres de l’àmbit de les TIC. Quatre campus de la Universitat participen, per segon any consecutiu, en aquesta acció, oferint tallers i xerrades per a l’alumnat de secundària i de batxillerat, amb la idea d’aprofitar millor el talent femení, fer valdre el treball de les dones en la ciència i l’enginyeria, apropar els estudis politècnics a les dones joves, així com incrementar el nombre de vocacions científiques i tecnològiques.Per part seva, la Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona (FIB) i l’Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria de Telecomunicació de Barcelona (ETSETB) organitzen, al Campus Nord, conferències i activitats sobre com programar un robot o una app. Alícia Casals, experta en robòtica, presentarà la xerrada Robots: màquines o companys?; Elisenda Bou, fundadora i CTO de Vilynx, parlarà sobre com crear una start-up i Lourdes Mercadal, experta en Internet, Mòbils i Innovació, oferirà una xerrada sota el títol Del teclat a la veu. Pel que fa a les activitats als laboratoris, van des d’experiències divertides amb ones electromagnètiques fins a tallers de mesura del pols cardíac i la respiració fent ús de telèfons intel·ligents. L’Escola Politècnica Superior d’Enginyeria de Manresa (EPSEM) organitza, d’una banda, la xerrada sobre les dones i les TIC a càrrec de Rosa Artisó Carrera, sòcia fundadora de SAYÓS&CARRERA, i de l’altra, un taller sobre Internet de les coses i missatgeria instantània. Així mateix, l’Escola d’Enginyeria de Telecomunicació i Aeroespacial de Castelldefels (EETAC) oferirà una xerrada-taller sota el títol La realitat augmentada i la realitat virtual ...
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Attend Talk on Making Ends Meet in a Capitalist Democracy
Lone Star College CyFair News
Published on: April 04, 2017
Lone Star College-CyFairs next Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) community deliberative dialogue, set April 20, examines the different approaches that can be taken to improve peoples quality of life.
Income and wealth disparities are a fact of life in a capitalist democracy such as ours, said John Duerk, CCE coordinator at LSC-CyFair. That said, does anyone have a responsibility to minimize the chasm that exists? If so, how can it be achieved? What role can private enterprise play? Governing institutions?
Join this Deliberative Dialogue: Making Ends Meet: How Should We Spread Prosperity and Improve Opportunity? from 3 p.m. 4:30 p.m. in the Conference Center on the LSC-CyFair campus at 9191 Barker Cypress.
One of the CCEs goals is to get people thinking about actions they can take to address challenges in their immediate community and the broader society.
For event information, contact Professor Melanie Steel via phone at 281.290.3906 or email Melanie.Steel@LoneStar.edu.
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Lone Star College-North Harris announces fall 2015 fine arts calendar
Lone Star College North Harris News
Published on: September 08, 2015
The Lone Star College-North Harris Division of Fine Arts has announced an exciting lineup for the upcoming fall semester. Mark your calendars now and come enjoy the many art, music and theatre productions at LSC-North Harris. All events are open to the community and free, unless otherwise noted.
September and October Fine Arts Calendar:
Visions 2015Current works by LSC-North Harris non-art faculty will be displayed in the Library Gallery from Sept. 15 Oct. 9. Art opening and reception will be Sept. 15 at 1 p.m.
Oaxaca a.i.rLSC-Kingwood art professor Mari Omari will present her cochineal (crimson dye) paintings and installation work from Artist in Residency in Oaxaca, Mexico. Fine Arts Gallery, Sept. 17 Oct. 9. Art opening and reception will be Sept. 17 at 1 p.m.
Art Lecture SeriesRomanian-born, Texas-based artist Adela Andea will present a conversation on the medium of light, what constitutes the medium of light, and her artistic approach and aspiration about light sculpture and light installation as a part of this series. Andea is best known for creating uniquely illuminated and kinetic sculptures.Sept. 23 at 1 p.m. in the Teaching Theatre, Community Education Building, Room 101.
Seeing Through the Dragons EyesLSC-North Harris art professor Gary Conners will present new works that explore the interweaving of cultural identity and assimilation from a Western artist relating to the traditions of East Asian. Fine Arts Gallery, Oct. 13 Nov. 6. Art opening and reception will be Oct. 13 at 1 p.m.
Tracers Written by an ensemble of actors who served in Vietnam, Tracers explores their military training and combat, but is primarily concerned with the rigors of companionship and loyalty within a platoon of soldiers. The play finds the horror and solace within relationships among men at war, and the ties that link them to the battles, long after the guns go silent.
Directed by John Cash CarpenterOctober 14-17 at 7:30 p.m. October 18 at 2 ...
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Carolina’s Innovation Showcase features promising commercial, social ventures
Campus Updates – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
More than 300 entrepreneurs, investors and community leaders from across the region gathered at UNC’s Annual Innovation Showcase to connect, share and collaborate with faculty, students and staff who are launching new social and commercial enterprises.
Hosted by Innovate Carolina at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the high-energy event featured 70 promising faculty and student-created ventures, including the work of enterprising UNC researchers, who explained how their ideas are primed to make a significant economic and social impact in the state and around the globe. The showcase provides an opportunity for networking with startup ventures, while highlighting key programs in the Innovate Carolina Network, as well as the many ventures that receive their support.
“The Showcase is a great example of our University’s thriving innovation ecosystem and how its variety of programs make a tangible difference the everyday lives of citizens in North Carolina and around the world,” says Judith Cone, vice chancellor for innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development at UNC-Chapel Hill. “It’s a tremendous opportunity to celebrate the many impressive faculty and student ventures at UNC, while recognizing the entrepreneurial strength and economic impact that extends from our University and throughout the local community, region and state. With innovation as a cornerstone of UNC’s strategic framework, we will continue to collaborate and build upon our successes together.”
The showcase offers investors, industry leaders and other professionals who support entrepreneurs a chance to learn about each venture through breakout rooms organized by UNC-Chapel Hill programs. Each venture presents its latest innovations and ideas during the breakout sessions.
Innovate Carolina brings together key groups from across the University and community – including those at the Innovation Showcase – to support a cohesive innovation ecosystem, while working with innovators to help advance ideas and put them to use for the public good.
“We are creating what’s nothing short ...
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Well Said: Robots and minds
As technology advances and robots are further integrated into daily life, the line between a mechanical tool and a potentially living thing is becoming more blurred.
But do robots actually have minds? And if they do, how will human interaction with robots change?
In this week’s episode, we talk about robots and minds with Kurt Gray, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Join us every Wednesday for the University’s podcast as we talk with Carolina’s newsmakers and experts. Each episode, students, faculty, staff and alumni will discuss what’s going on in classrooms, labs and around campus, and how it pertains to the local, national and international headlines. Head here to listen to the podcast.
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Dr. Kane on Genetic Testing for Prostate Cancer
Newsroom: InTheNews
Publication Date: 4/19/2017
ByLine: OncLive
URL Link: http://www.onclive.com/onclive-tv/dr-kane-on-genetic-testing-for-prostate-cancer
Page Content: Features Christopher Kane, MD
News Type: National
News_Release_Date: April 21, 2017
NewsTags: Cancer; Urology; Surgery
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UI student-owned business wins $100,000 at prestigious TCU start-up competition
Iowa Now - Research
HealthTech Solutions, a business founded by two University of Iowa students, both from Iowa, that makes it easier to connect organ donors with recipients, won the grand prize in a start-up venture competition sponsored by TCU.The team won $25,000 in cash and $75,000 in in-kind services, including marketing/advertising, IT consulting, legal consulting, and financial services consulting.
Health Tech Solutions was founded by Dalton Shaull, a 2016 UI engineering graduate from Oskaloosa, Iowa, and Eric Pahl, a Health Informatics doctoral student from Ames, Iowa. The company modernizes communication in organ transplant, using a real-time mobile software application that facilitates instantaneous communication and information flow. The innovation allows clients to coordinate organ transplants in a real-time, collaborative communication process so that no donated organ goes to waste and the more than 120,000 people in the US waiting for a donated organ will receive one.
The business is headquartered in the Bedell Entrepreneurship Learning Laboratory (BELL), the University of Iowa’s start-up incubator for student-owned businesses managed by the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center (JPEC).
The Barrentine Values and Ventures Competition brought together students from 51 universities with start-up businesses that benefit specific populations, communities, and/or the environment to compete at TCU’s Neeley School of Business.
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Georgia Tech Researcher Honored with Alan T. Waterman Award
Science and Technology
Science and Technology
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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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
MAD: Hands-on work at ...
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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)
SJSU Events Calendar at SJSU Main Campus - King Library
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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