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This is an image created by NASA of a total solar eclipse as seen from Earth.
CLEMSON, South Carolina – For many people, the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and for those who hope to photograph the event, the Clemson University campus — which is almost perfectly in the path of totality — will be an ideal location.
Photographing an eclipse, however, requires special equipment as well as skills best learned through practice. If you plan to photograph the eclipse, now is the time to prepare.
“My experiences, even with just two total eclipses, have been insanely memorable,” nature photographer Eric Adams said. “It’s truly a beginning-to-end kind of experience. It’s riveting.”
We asked Adams, who has photographed two total solar eclipses, for his suggestions on how to best photograph an eclipse. We also spoke to experts at New York City-based B&H Photo and camera manufacturer Ricoh/Pentax.
From filters to final focus, these professionals’ tips will help you get your best shot of the 2017 eclipse.
To learn more, go to https://adobe.ly/2u5GrNH.
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Everything you’d want to know about photographing a total solar eclipse
ROWING'S ESTEL BOIX TO COMPETE IN UNDER-23 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Athletics News
Jul 12, 2017
World Rowing Under-23 Championships infoSACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Sacramento State's Estel Boix, who will begin her collegiate rowing career at Sacramento State in the fall, was selected to compete for Spain at the World Rowing Under-23 Championships in Bulgaria from July 19-23.Boix will enroll at Sacramento State as a sophomore in the fall after spending two years at the University of Girona in Catalonia, Spain. She has competed for Club Natico Banyoles in Spain.At the World Championships later this month, Boix will sit at stroke with the lightweight double. No stranger to international competition, Boix also competed for Spain in four races at the 2015 World Rowing Junior Championships in Brazil.A total of 42 countries are expected to compete at this year's World Rowing Under-23 Championships, which take place at the Plovdiv Regatta Venue in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.Boix is the second Sacramento State incoming recruit to gain international rowing experience this summer. Freshman Mikaela Smyth was one of 14 women selected to compete for the Canadian Junior National Team at the CanAmMex Regatta, which took place earlier this month in Victoria, British Columbia.Two months ago, Sacramento State completed its season with a third place finish (out of seven teams) at the American Athletic Conference Championship. The Hornets finished ahead of San Diego State, UConn, Temple and SMU.
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SIU offers new criminology and criminal justice online bachelor’s degree
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July 10, 2017SIU offers new criminology and criminal justice online bachelor’s degree
by Andrea Hahn
CARBONDALE, Ill. – A new online bachelor’s degree option from the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice offers students the opportunity to earn a Southern Illinois University Carbondale degree from anywhere.
The program, which launches this fall, should appeal to those seeking careers in policing, corrections, probation, parole, juvenile service, security, investigations and research, as well as those who want a solid foundation from which to pursue an advanced degree.
Students will be able to complete all requirements for the major and university core curriculum requirements. The online curriculum is the same as the on-campus program, and the same faculty members who teach on campus teach online. A directed-advisement approach helps online students select appropriate coursework every semester.
“This program was designed for everyone from new freshmen to those who have completed some college coursework,” said Joseph Schafer, professor and department chair. “Our classes offer students the flexibility to complete their studies around their work and family obligations. And our courses are primarily taught by our faculty, who continually seeks ways to bring their research experience into the classroom to prepare students for careers throughout the justice system.”
For more information, contact Michael Harbin, undergraduate coordinator of recruitment and retention, at mharbin@siu.edu or 618/453-6434.
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Ingram Named Head Cross Country and Track & Field Coach
Humboldt State University Athletics
ARCATA, Calif. – Humboldt State athletic director Duncan Robins announced that longtime assistant coach Sarah Ingram has been named the head coach of the Lumberjack track & field and cross country programs.
"Sarah is a talented, motivated coach who is committed to HSU and her student-athletes," said Robins. "We are excited to have Sarah, a homegrown talent, leading our track & field and cross country programs." Ingram is entering her seventh season with the Green and Gold programs after serving as an assistant coach under Scott Pesch since 2011. She was instrumental to the team's historic 2017 campaign, which saw multiple program records fall and featured record-breaking performances at the Outdoor Track & Field Championships. "I am thrilled about my new role serving our team, and the opportunity to continue building upon the recent successes of our program," said Ingram. "It's an honor to be at the helm of a program that personally, as a local athlete, I take so much pride in seeing grow. I look forward to furthering a tradition of relentless hard work, positivity, respect, and commitment to academics, team, and community." The Arcata product has guided her student-athletes to 13 program records within the jump, hurdle, sprint and heptathlon/decathlon events, and 98 Jacks recorded program top 10 all-time performances. Her instruction has helped produce 19 California Collegiate Athletic Association Champions, eight All-Americans and one NCAA National Champion. Ingram coached five All-Americans in 2017, including the program's first individual NCAA National Champion in Marissa McCay. HSU's women's program finished 11th out of 115 teams last season and scored a program-record 23 points.
Prior to HSU, Ingram established herself as one of the top high school coaches in the area. She developed the McKinleyville High School track & field program into a local powerhouse; coaching 22 athletes to individual Humboldt Del Norte League Championships and the team to back-to-back HDN League Team titles in 2010 and 2011.
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IUPUI diversity researcher to co-edit special journal issue focusing on Black Lives Matter: Newscenter: Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEINDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis diversity researcher will co-edit a special edition of a journal that will examine through multiple disciplines the Black Lives Matter movement.
Among the project's goals, said Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, an associate professor of psychology in the School of Science, is to collect a volume of interdisciplinary manuscripts that seeks to:
Understand the reasons for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Deconstruct the resistance to it.
Identify strategies for effecting positive change that demonstrates the valuing of black lives.
Ashburn-Nardo will edit the special issue of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal with Kecia Thomas, a psychology professor and founding director of the Center for Research and Engagement in Diversity at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia.
"People are sharply divided in their opinions of the Black Lives Matter movement," Ashburn-Nardo said. "We think that is because it is something that is poorly understood.
"When they hear 'black lives matter,' a lot of people think that means at the exclusion of other lives. There seems to be a misunderstanding that by saying 'black lives matter' it implies that maybe white lives don't matter -- or blue lives, given that a lot of attention regarding the movement has centered around police interactions with African Americans, " she said.
"I don't think anyone in that movement feels that other lives don't matter, but that seems to be how a lot of folks are interpreting it and have a lot of strong emotional reaction to it," she said. "We are hoping this special issue can shed some light on that."
In a call for papers for the special journal edition, Ashburn-Nardo and Thomas write: "The Black Lives Matter movement came out of the Black community's chronic experience with overt and covert racism and its collective frustration with being silenced when ...
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Today! Chautauqua Welcomes John Pershing to Montgomery College
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Come see John Pershing tonight, Wednesday, July 12, at 7 p.m. in Globe Hall on the Germantown Campus. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call Sella Gesumwa at 240-567-7766 Or visit: http://montgomerycollege.edu/Chautauqua Illustration by Tom Chalkley.
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St. Cloud Tie Swap Helps Rasmussen Students Dress for Success
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Coming up with the right attire for an important job interview or a fancy night out can be difficult – mainly because it can carry a high price tag and, for college students, it’s often not something that's just lying around in your closet.Jeff Frie, a career services advisor at Rasmussen College in St. Cloud, sympathized with college students, and created a solution. “One day, I was going through my closet and thought, ‘I have a million ties,’ said Frie. “Students come through our Career Services Center and we talk about upcoming interviews, and a lot of them don’t have a sports coat or more than one tie. I know when I was in college I had one crumpled up tie…So, I decided to bring in some ties and ask others on campus to donate some as well.” The ties are hanging conveniently in the Career Services Center in the St. Cloud campus waiting to be taken home and worn. Frie said he’s been collecting ties there for the past couple of weeks and hopes it really takes off. “Once you’ve borrowed the tie, bring it back for the next guy or keep it…it’s totally up to you,” he said. The idea spawned after the campus' big remodel this past winter, and bringing in a steady flow of students to the career center is now Frie's focus. “We have a huge room now since the remodel at our campus and I really started thinking about how we can drive some traffic to this space and help others out,” Frie said. “For me it was really about building a culture; I wanted others to know this center is a place to learn and feel energized about their career search.” On the flip side, Frie is also encouraging people to donate ties. If you have ...
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Miami's Scripps Gerontology Center awarded $1.4 million grant
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Phyllis Cummins, senior research scholar, Scripps Gerontology Center
Miami University’s Scripps Gerontology Center is the recipient of a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The money will be used to research older learners and their ability to complete college programs.
“Our research focus is community college students ages 40-64,” said Phyllis Cummins, senior research scholar at Scripps. “The age group is an important component of Ohio’s labor force and an under-studied group in terms of education and labor market outcomes.”
Cummins is primary researcher of the project, Mapping Barriers to Community College Completion among Older Learners: Identifying Malleable Factors to Improve Student Outcomes.
She said middle-aged and older workers represent a substantial segment of the labor force, and their primary vehicle to improved employment prospects is education. More than 15 percent of students at Ohio’s 23 community colleges are older learners.
“The overarching goal of the project is to identify factors that are easily influenced to improve the educational and labor market outcomes for older students in community colleges,” said Cummins.
The factors researchers will examine are the institution in general, the classroom, the educator and student levels.
“A better-educated workforce is essential to filling high-demand jobs in Ohio and to keeping the state competitive in a global economy,” said Chancellor John Carey of the Ohio Department of Higher Education. “Improving employment opportunities for our citizens who continue to work at older ages is an important aspect of Ohio’s economic health.”
The 3-year grant, which starts July 1, will use data collected by the Ohio departments of Education and Jobs and Family Services and is funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, the independent and non-partisan statistics, research and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education.
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More than 2,000 enjoy UNCG Summer Music Camp
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It’s a record year for UNCG’s 35th annual Summer Music Camp.
More than 2,000 student musicians from 21 states and Bermuda will attend the two sessions, making this year’s music camp the largest in UNCG history.
During the weeklong sessions, which run July 9-21, campers receive individual and group instruction from top musicians, including many UNCG students and alumni. Each week culminates with camper performances at venues across campus – an opportunity for students to show off what they’ve learned to their families and the general public.
Since the camp’s founding in 1983, more than 60,000 musicians have attended UNCG Summer Music Camp, widely known as the largest university summer music camp in the nation.
This year’s camp features 15 concert bands, five orchestras, four choirs and 160 pianists. According to Camp Director Dr. John Locke, a professor of music in UNCG’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, the demand this year was even greater than in previous years. Approximately 1,400 campers applied on the first day of registration, Feb. 1.
What’s the secret to the camp’s success? A combination of quality and affordability.
“We offer a really outstanding experience at a very reasonable price,” Locke said. “We have tremendous word-of-mouth reputation and a loyal following.”
For Locke, the ultimate goal is to “light a spark” in these young musicians.
“When they return home, we want them to be fired up about practicing their instrument,” he said. “I hope we can provide instruction that they’ve never had before – we want to open their eyes to new techniques.”
Performances will take place on Friday, July 14, and Friday, July 21, at 6:15 p.m. in Elliott University Center (Cone Ballroom and Auditorium), Taylor Theatre, UNCG Auditorium and the Recital Hall in the Music Building. All performances are free and open to the public.
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Separatist agitations in Nigeria: Causes and trajectories
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President Buhari’s health challenges have sparked intrigue in Nigeria and awakened the politics of succession, which revolve around an assumed power-sharing arrangement between the northern and the southern parts of the country. This intrigue is reminiscent of what happened when former President Umaru Musa Yar’adua (of the north) died before completing his term and was eventually succeeded by Goodluck Jonathan, a southerner.
The north-south flare-up occasioned by Buhari’s illness comes amid increasing agitations for the independence of the Republic of Biafra by mostly Igbo groups from the eastern part of the country. Energy around the movement has been growing. For example, Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of one of the Biafran separatist groups, the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) was detained for nearly two years on several charges that included treason and operating a pirate radio, Radio Biafra. He was refused bail, despite several court rulings granting him bail. His prolonged incarceration turned him into a cult figure among his followers.
Agitations around Biafra have drowned out other separatist agitations, giving the wrong impression that Biafra is the only separatist threat in the country. The truth is that there is separatist agitation in virtually every area in the country—underlying the fact that the foundation for Nigeria’s nationhood remains on shaky ground. Among the Yoruba, for instance, echoes of separatism come in different forms—from a direct call for Oduduwa Republic to those championing a Sovereign National Conference to decide if the federating units of the country still want to continue to live together, and, if so, under what arrangements. In the north, there are intermittent demands for Arewa Republic, while some talk of the “north” as if it is “a country within a country.” In the Niger Delta, apart from the demand for Niger Delta Republic, shades of separatism are embedded in the demands for “resource ...
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Physics’ Segre Elected to Sigma Xi Executive Committee
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Carlo Segre, Duchossois Leadership Professor of Physics, was elected to the executive committee of Sigma Xi, the international honor society for scientists and engineers. His two-year term started July 1, 2017, and will end June 30, 2019. Concurrently, he is serving as the North Central Region Director of Sigma Xi until 2019. Segre was president of the Illinois Tech chapter of Sigma Xi from 2005–16.
Members of Sigma Xi support interdisciplinary research, encourage cooperation among researchers, maintain integrity and honesty in all scientific activities, and share results with the world. Executive committee members act on behalf of the Board of Directors between meetings.
Segre is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the International Centre for Diffraction Data, and an active member of the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, Materials Research Society, and Electrochemical Society. He is the director of the Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research and Instrumentation (CSRRI) and deputy director of both the Materials Research Collaborative Access Team (MRCAT) and Biophysics Collaborative Access Team (BioCAT) at Argonne National Laboratory. His research includes developing breakthrough nanoelectrofuel battery technology to extend the range of electric vehicles.
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Third Annual Choreography Showcase and Competition July 29 at the MAC
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By Jennifer DudaThe College of DuPage Dance Department will present its third annual Choreography
Showcase and Competition at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 29, in the Playhouse Theatre
at the McAninch Arts Center, located on the Glen Ellyn campus, 425 Fawell Blvd.Seven choreographers were chosen from a highly competitive group of submissions: Miriam-Rose
LeDuc, Taylor Mitchell and Cole Vernon, Laura Moschel, Alanna Nielsen, Ela Olarte,
Sarah Olson, and Fernando Rodriguez. Cash prizes will be awarded as decided by a panel
of judges, which includes past winner Cecilia Ferguson-Bell; Melissa Thodos, founder
of Thodos Dance Chicago; and master teacher Laura Wade.“This year’s show has some incredible choreographers, and I’m excited because it gives
them an opportunity to show their creations for a new audience as well as compete
for cash prizes,” said Jon Sloven, College of DuPage Dance program faculty member.
“It also brings new people to the COD campus and highlights the incredible McAninch
Arts Center and all it has to offer.”The event also includes an opening number choreographed by Sloven, featuring students
from COD’s Dance program. Additionally, a post-performance discussion with the choreographers
will be held prior to the naming of this year’s winner.Tickets for the July 29 Choreography Showcase are $15. For more information, please
call the MAC Ticket office at (630) 942-4000 or visit: www.atthemac.org.
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Busy time for alumnus as head lawyer of ACLU in Massachusetts
Brandeis University News
By Brian KlotzMatthew Segal ’99 is the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. That’s another way of saying that the Brandeis alumnus has been very busy lately.“We feel like we’re in the fight of our lives,” he says, referring to the swath of new challenges he and his colleagues have had to contend with under the current presidential administration.Earlier this year, in the wake of President Trump’s executive order to impose a travel ban on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, Segal argued Louhghalam vs. Trump, the Boston lawsuit that led to a temporary halt of the ban.Segal notes, however, that while the events since the presidential election have created significant battles for the ACLU, the organization is busy with many other issues that predate Nov 8. “Much of the work in social and racial justice occurs at the state level,” he says.One of Segal’s proudest accomplishments came in April, when Massachusetts overturned a record 21,839 wrongful convictions tainted by former Boston drug lab chemist Annie Dookhan. It was the culmination of advocacy Segal had been working on since he began at the ACLU of Massachusetts in 2012.Over the past several years, Segal has emerged as a leading voice for perspective on complex cases involving civil liberties. For example, The New York Times quoted him frequently in its coverage of the recent high-profile case of Michelle Carter, a Taunton teenager convicted of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend via text messaging to commit suicide.Segal’s passion for justice developed as an undergraduate at Brandeis, where his parents, Donald ’69 and Risa ’69, met and married – with the ceremony even taking place at the campus’ own Berlin Chapel.Segal remembers the impact of taking sociology courses with Professor Gordie Fellman, who also taught his mother. “He helped me to understand how structure in our ...
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Crews Break Ground on Wind Tunnel Building at Embry-Riddle Research Park
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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, is a nonprofit, independent institution offering more than 80 baccalaureate, master’s and Ph.D. degree programs in its colleges of Arts & Sciences, Aviation, Business, Engineering and Security & Intelligence. Embry-Riddle educates students at residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz., through the Worldwide Campus with more than
125 locations in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and through online programs. The university is a major research center, seeking solutions to real-world problems in partnership with the aerospace industry, other universities and government agencies. For more information, visit
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UMass Boston, Community Partners Team Up on New Mural at John W. McCormack Middle School
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2016 Love Your Block Grant, National Grid, Paul Revere Transportation, and UMass Boston Community Relations Funded MuralIf you’re walking, driving, or riding past the John W. McCormack Middle School on Mt. Vernon Street these days, it’s hard to miss a new addition to the outside of the building. A new mural depicting life on Columbia Point and in Dorchester shows familiar places and even some notable people, like Queenette Santos, the unit director for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester.
The mural is the result of a collaboration between UMass Boston professor Joan Arches’s civic engagement students and the Harbor Point Outreach Partnership, an after-school tutoring and youth enrichment program at the Walter Denney Youth Center, which is staffed by students in the university’s service-learning classes and volunteers from the community.
Students in Arches’s fall 2015 class submitted a grant proposal to Love Your Block, a program that offers mini-grants for improvement projects in the Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan neighborhoods, for the creation of a mural that would bring community pride to the street. The mural was one of six projects to receive grant funding, which is jointly awarded by the City of Boston, citiesofservice.org, and Americorps.
Thanks to additional funding from National Grid, Paul Revere Transportation, and UMass Boston’s Office of Community Relations, Boston-based muralist Laura DeDonato Wyatt was able to design the mural last fall. The piece was installed on the school last month. Wyatt integrated an existing rock wall into her design.
“My favorite part is people’s reactions to the cutouts to make them come closer to see if they are real – the little kid and the climber – and then they actually come and see the mural and spend time looking at it. It kind of draws them in,” Wyatt said.
Lindsey Connors, who earned a bachelor’s degree in community ...
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Analysis shows carbon-slashing promise of new biofuel technology
Princeton University News
Finding an alternative vehicle fuel poses a difficult challenge: it has to be relatively cheap and able to reduce carbon emissions without using up valuable crop land or trees from forests. Now, researchers at Princeton's Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment say one possible solution might be all around us.
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Food and Nutrition Securities Often Overlooked, Says Atmospheric and Oceanic Science's Raghu Murtugudde - Down To Earth
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$25 million Lilly Endowment grant to attract leading scientists to IU School of Medicine, enhance Indiana’s life sciences sector
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INDIANAPOLIS – A $25 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. will elevate Indiana’s position as one of the nation’s top life science research hubs by funding an innovative recruitment strategy designed to attract top scientists to Indiana University School of Medicine and the state.The grant will fund the Indiana Collaborative Initiative for Talent Enrichment (INCITE), a collaboration between IU School of Medicine and non-academic partners such as the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute, Eli Lilly and Co., Roche, Dow, Cook, BioCrossroads, IU Health and Eskenazi Health. Through the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), the initiative also will include partnerships with Purdue University and the University of Notre Dame.
As part of INCITE, IU School of Medicine will hire biomedical scientists whose work will not only enhance research and education at the school, but also strengthen the economic health of Indiana’s broader life sciences community. Various members of the life sciences sector will collaborate with IU School of Medicine in this endeavor by serving on a scientific advisory board to advise the school on areas of unmet need in the community and helping to attract biomedical scientists whose expertise and interests are relevant to both IU and INCITE partners. IU School of Medicine expects these collaborations will focus on several key research areas that build on existing strengths and opportunities for growth including applications for genomic medicine and new treatments for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and childhood diseases.
"For Indiana to continue to grow as one of our nation's leading centers for life science research and innovation, it is critical that we continue to attract the top research talent to our state," said IU President Michael A. McRobbie, PhD. "The collaboration funded by this generous grant from Lilly Endowment will further invigorate efforts by Indiana University faculty to turn their scientific breakthroughs into the types of new ...
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Political scientist gains international renown for his research on authoritarianism within democratic states
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Authoritarianism and DemocracyPolitical scientist Edward Gibson gains international renown for his research on authoritarianism within democratic statesJuly 12, 2017By Daniel P. SmithThe coincidence was not lost on Edward Gibson.
At the same time that the Northwestern political scientist was in Veracruz, Mexico to receive an award for his research on authoritarianism in democracies, human rights groups discovered mass graves in the same Mexican state.
The finding served as a stark and sobering footnote to Gibson’s acceptance of the Medal of Merit from the National University of Veracruz. Gibson’s work includes Boundary Control: Subnational Authoritarianism in Federal Democracies, a prize-winning 2013 book that argues that local authoritarianism in states and provinces is a regular feature of political life in national democracies.
“Veracruz is a state that’s experienced violent and repressive government for some time, and it is a prime example of how local authoritarian regimes endure in democratic nations,” says Gibson, who joined Northwestern in 1994 and is now the College’s associate dean for faculty affairs.
Gibson, who has devoted much of his scholarly life to studying the problems of democracy, discusses the personal experiences that have fueled his research, the continued reign of authoritarian governments and what might be done to ensure that democracy prevails.
How did you get interested in authoritarianism?
I grew up in Latin America, and spent much of my early life under authoritarian governments. When I was getting my graduate degree in the 1980s, a wave of transitions to democratic government across Latin America led me to study the problems these emerging democracies face.
Most of us look at a country’s national government to determine whether it’s a democracy, but that doesn’t necessarily reflect what’s happening at the local level. When you head out into the provinces, where people really feel the force of politics, you often find a different universe ...
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Faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships
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Twenty-four faculty members received named professorships or were appointed distinguished service professors. Steven Davis, Daniel Diermeier, Angela V. Olinto and Canice Prendergast received distinguished service professorships; and Zeresenay Alemseged, Bariş Ata, Katherine Baicker, Joy Bergelson, Michael Bourdaghs, John M. Cunningham, Thomas F. Gajewski, Mikhail Golosov, Rex Haydon, Jeffrey Hubbell, Emir Kamenica, Stefan Nagel, Madhav Rajan, Wilhelm Schlag, Sonali M. Smith, Nir Uriel, Christopher Woods, Ben Zhao, Haitao Zheng and Laurie Zoloth received named professorships.Biological Sciences Division
Zeresenay “Zeray” Alemseged has been named the Donald N. Pritzker Professor in Organismal Biology and Anatomy and the College.
A noted paleoanthropologist, Alemseged studies the origin of early human ancestors and the environmental factors that influenced their evolution. He established and led the Dikika Research Project, in which Alemseged made several breakthrough findings, including the discovery of the almost-complete fossilized remains of “Selam,” a 3.3-million-year-old child of the species Australopithecus afarensis. Now known as “the world’s oldest child,” it is the most complete skeleton of a human ancestor discovered to date and represents a major advancement in the understanding of human and pre-human evolution.Alemseged is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the co-founder and president of the East African Association of Paleontologists and Paleoanthropologists. He was a senior scientist at the Max Planck Institute and recently the Irvine Chair and senior curator of anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences.
Joy Bergelson has been named the James D. Watson Professor in Ecology and Evolution and the College.
Bergelson’s work focuses on the plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the community of bacteria that inhabit it, with particular interest in understanding how the ecology of these interactions shapes evolutionary change. Her studies combine molecular evolutionary research with functional genomics under natural field conditions to test models of host-pathogen co-evolution. Along with colleagues she also has pioneered the ...
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The Languages of Game of Thrones
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Athchomar Chomakaan!
Huh?
That means “Hello” in Dothraki (but only when directed at a non-Dothraki), one of the languages spoken in the HBO hit show Game of Thrones, whose seventh season starts Sunday night.
The Dothraki and the High Valyrian heard on the show were invented by linguist David J. Peterson, who won a 2009 contest dreamed up by the Game of Thrones creators. They contacted the Language Creation Society (Peterson is a cofounder) and asked members to create the Dothraki vernacular, since Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin had not developed the language in his books.
Peterson’s skills have impressed linguists around the world, including admitted “medium-size” fan of the show and the books Alexander Nikolaev, a College of Arts & Sciences assistant professor of classical studies and of linguistics. An expert in ancient languages, Nikolaev has led workshops on fictional languages in Game of Thrones, Star Trek, and Lord of the Rings. He was recently named a Center for the Humanities junior research fellow for the coming academic year.
BU Today spoke with Nikolaev about the real-world history that went into creating the Game of Thrones plot, how languages are created, and what he, as a linguist, thinks of the phrase “Valar morghulis.”
BU Today: When George R. R. Martin was creating the world of the Song of Ice and Fire series, did he have any real history in mind?
Nikolaev: Yes, absolutely. Basically, the history of Westeros is a mirror-image of the history of the British Isles: the original population of Westeros were the Children of the Forest, later ousted by the First People, who in turn had to move to the North when the Andals came along. Then came the Rhoynars, who took control over the southern part of the continent. Finally, with Aegon’s Conquest, the era of Targaryens begins.
Now think of the ...
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Mānoa: Hundreds of species of fungi in deep coral ecosystems discovered by UH Manoa botanists
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University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaContact:Posted: Jul 11, 2017Rebreather diver and Pisces V sub collecting coral and macroalgae. Credit: Robert K. Whitton.Manipulator arm of thePiscesV sub collecting algae in Auau channel. Credit: HURL.Researchers from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Department of Botany have discovered hundreds of potentially new species of fungi in the deep coral ecosystem in the ‘Au‘au channel off Maui. Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCE) are generally found at depths between 130 to 500 feet and possess abundant plant (algal) life as well as new fish species. The mysteries of these reefs are only recently being revealed through technological advances in closed circuit rebreather diving. Previously overlooked—being too precarious for conventional SCUBA and too shallow to justify the cost of frequent submersible dives—mesophotic reefs continuously disclose breathtaking levels of biodiversity with each dive, yielding species and behavioral interactions new to science. The UH Hawai‘i Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) used the Pisces V submersible to collect native algae from the mesophotic reefs in the ‘Au‘au channel. Using the DNA sequencing facility at the UH Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, Benjamin Wainwright, lead author of the study and a botany postdoctoral researcher, and colleagues determined which species of fungus were associated with the native algae.Fungi have been documented in almost all habitats on Earth, although marine fungi are less studied in comparison to their terrestrial counterparts. Scientists have found fungi in deep and shallow water corals, marine sponges and other invertebrates. The recently discovered fungi, however, were found living in association with algae.“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first documented evidence confirming fungi in MCEs,” said Wainwright.Additionally, the research team discovered that 27% of the species detected in these deep dark environments are also found on terrestrial rainforest plants in Hawai‘i. “Finding such high overlap ...
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Young Scientists Academy Symposium and Reception
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In this six-week Young Scientists Academy (YSA) program, academically motivated rising seniors from area schools conduct research under the guidance of a Georgia College faculty member and undergraduate mentors. Young Scientists Academy Internship students tackle an individual research project and acquire valuable technical and analytical skills, culminating in data analysis and a YSA poster symposium. In some cases, YSA interns submit their work to national science conferences like the American Chemical Society’s National Conference.This summer we have outstanding high school student participants from Milledgeville, Alexis Roberson of Baldwin County High School; from Milledgeville, George "Tre" Banks of Baldwin County High School; from Monticello, Drew Schilling of Jasper County High School and from Sparta, Adiah Bland of Georgia College Early College. We also have an observer as well from Monticello, Andrew Pratt of Jasper County High School.
Our mentors for this summer are Georgia College undergraduate chemistry majors Martin Alcantar and Jillian Turner.
Throughout the six weeks of the program, these students participated in weekly workshops with the Young Scientists Academy director and mentors who provided insight into the scientific process, researched ethics, how to read a research paper, how to make a poster and how to network in the science and engineering fields. There are also sessions on college admission strategies and programs. Georgia College’s Science Education Center hosts these students in the Young Scientists Academy Program to conduct scientific research during Summer 2017 at the Georgia College Department of Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy. Georgia College's Young Scientists Academy Program is graciously funded through the Science Education Center, the American Chemical Society's Project SEED program and the Georgia College Office of Academic Affairs.
Come and see all of these bright young students present their projects that they have been working hard on this summer. The symposium will be held this Friday, July 14 from noon to 2 p.m. in ...
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Climbing Stairs Just Got Easier with Energy-Recycling Steps
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Climbing Stairs Just Got Easier with Energy-Recycling Steps
Device is easier on knees and ankles than conventional stairs
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Jason Maderer | July 12, 2017
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A demonstration of the steps, which can be placed on existing staircases.
Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory University have created a device that makes walking up and down stairs easier. They’ve built energy-recycling stairs that store a user’s energy during descent and return energy to the user during ascent.
The spring-loaded stairs compress when someone comes down the stairs, saving energy otherwise dissipated through impact and braking forces at the ankle by 26 percent. When going up, the stairs give people a boost by releasing the stored energy, making it 37 percent easier on the knee than using conventional stairs. The low-power device can be placed on existing staircases and doesn’t have to be permanently installed.
Each stair is tethered by springs and equipped with pressure sensors. When a person walks downstairs, each step slowly sinks until it locks into place and is level with the next step, storing energy generated by the user. It stays that way until someone walks upstairs. When a person ascending the stairs steps on the sensor on the next tread up, the latch on the lower step releases. The stored energy in the spring is also released, lifting up the back leg.
The paper is currently published in the journal Public Library of Science PLOS ONE. The authors say the initial idea was to use energy-recycling prosthetic shoes to help people going up stairs.
“Unlike normal walking where each heel-strike dissipates energy that can be potentially restored, stair ascent is actually very energy efficient; most energy you put in goes into potential energy to lift you up,” said Karen Liu, an associate professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive ...
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OSU researcher studies cross-laminated timber as seismic retrofit tool
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Safer historic buildings and more jobs for the timber industry are the goals of a partnership between an Oregon State University structural engineering researcher and a newly formed nonprofit group in Corvallis, Oregon.
Andre Barbosa of the OSU College of Engineering is collaborating with Cascadia Seismic Strategies on a $150,000 project to study the use of cross-laminated timber panels for seismic retrofits on unreinforced masonry buildings.
A grant coordinated through the Downtown Corvallis Association and Oregon Main Street is covering roughly two-thirds of the cost of the project, which will result in mockups of CLT retrofit systems at the 107-year-old Harding Building at Third Street and Madison Street in Corvallis.
“We’ll build prototypes that will provide details that will let engineers and construction folks see how things go together,” said Barbosa, a volunteer with Cascadia Seismic Strategies.
Barbosa is one of the original members of the group, named after the subduction zone that lies off the coast of Oregon. The major Cascadia earthquake that experts say is on the horizon would be particularly damaging to vintage masonry structures like the Harding Building, the cornerstone of the original Third Street business district.
“The DCA is concerned about the potential devastation that a Cascadia Subduction Zone mega-quake would wreak,” said Cascadia Seismic Strategies spokeswoman Roz Keeney. “Members of the DCA’s design committee recruited structural engineers, historic architects and other building professionals to join in a conversation about earthquake preparedness and historic building preservation. This group went on to form Cascadia Seismic Strategies, which is now focused on this cutting-edge project to develop a low-cost reinforcement method using local wood products and off-the-shelf steel connectors.”
Engineering work is scheduled to start in August. The grant for the 34-month project underwrites multiple design and construction strategies for dealing with weaknesses in unreinforced masonry buildings, as well as production of a video ...
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Slow Earthquakes Occur Continuously in the Alaska-Aleutian Subduction Zone
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UC Riverside study reports nearly continuous tremor and 1,300 low frequency earthquakes in this region
By Iqbal Pittalwala on July 12, 2017
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Image shows tremor sources and low frequency earthquake distribution in the study region and historic large earthquakes in the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone. Each red star represents the location of 1 min tremor signal determined by the beam back projection method, and the black stars show three visually detected low frequency earthquakes located using arrival times of body waves. Image credit: Ghosh lab, UC Riverside.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Seismologists at the University of California, Riverside studying earthquakes in the seismically and volcanically active Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone have found that “slow earthquakes” are occurring continuously, and could encourage damaging earthquakes.
Slow earthquakes are quiet, can be as large as magnitude 7, and last days to years. Taking place mainly at the boundary between tectonic plates, they happen so slowly that people don’t feel them. A large slow earthquake is typically associated with abundant seismic tremor—a continuous weak seismic chatter—and low frequency (small and repeating) earthquakes.
“In the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone, we found seismic tremor, and visually identified three low frequency earthquakes,” said Abhijit Ghosh, an assistant professor of Earth sciences, who led the research published recently in Geophysical Research Letters. “Using them as templates, we detected nearly 1,300 additional low frequency earthquakes. Slow earthquakes may play an important role in the earthquake cycles in this subduction zone.”
The Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone, which stretches from the Gulf of Alaska to the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, is one of the most active plate boundaries in the world. It is 3,800 km long and forms the plate boundary between the Pacific and North American plates. In the last 80 years, four massive earthquakes (greater than magnitude 8) have occurred here.
Abhijit Ghosh lands in Alaska to do field work. Photo credit: Ghosh lab, UC ...
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DC Residency intros execs to policy makers
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“When we met with members of the Council of Economic Advisers to the White House, Congressional staffers and Congressional members, it really impressed me that they need input from industry.” That was one of many takeaways Patti Williams, a member of Olin’s Executive MBA (EMBA) cohort shared after their DC Residency – a deep dive into government regulations and policy – in Washington, DC with Olin partner, the Brookings Institution.
Williams who is Vice President and General Counsel of Peabody Energy completed the EMBA program in May of this year and was featured in a recent article on Olin’s unique DC Residency program published by the Poets & Quants for Executives website.
The four-day DC residency with Olin’s partner the Brookings Institution provides students the opportunity to talk face-to-face with government decision makers including legislators, administrators and power brokers who influence policy behind the scenes. During the residency, students complete two courses: Business and Government, and Business and Society. They engage with speakers from current and former members of Congress to US governors, White House advisors and administrators from organizations such as the Federal Reserve and the Office of Management and Budget.
Olin EMBA graduate, Chris Hawkins, Vice President of operations at Multiply, a St. Louis-based fan engagement platform, says the DC Residency provided an insider’s view of the complexity of the legislative process.
Hawkins told Poets & Quants, the DC Residency was a non-stop learning experience. “There wasn’t any time where you thought, ‘OK, this is where I’m going to step outside and take this call for work.’ You felt like you couldn’t miss anything.” Hawkins added “It really addressed a hole I had as [business] related to public policy.”
According to Poets & Quants, “One of the biggest takeaways for many…participants was the importance and impact business leaders can have within society as a whole. [ ...
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Nieswandt Named Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement
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Martina Nieswandt, associate dean for research and engagement in the College of Education and associate professor of teacher education and curriculum studies, has been named associate vice chancellor for research and engagement by Vice Chancellor Mike Malone.Beginning in late summer, she will work on increasing research support capacity and services, improving communication, and implementing strategic initiatives, said Malone.
Nieswandt succeeds Elizabeth Chilton, who was named dean of Harpur College at Binghamton University in New York.
Nieswandt came to the College of Education faculty in 2011 from the Illinois Institute for Technology in Chicago. She has also previously held faculty positions in education at the University of Toronto and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received her M.A. at Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany, in 1987 and a Ph.D. from the University of Kiel, Germany, in 1996.
She has been the principal or co-principal investigator on a number of projectss sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the Illinois Board of Education and the German Science Foundation. The focus of her research is on student motivation and success factors in middle and high school science programs.
Prior to her appointment as associate dean for research, she was a Dean’s Leadership Fellow in the College of Education. As associate dean, she led a significant expansion of staff, developed new procedures for pre- and post-award grant administration, new training opportunities and expanded cross-campus relationships.
“Martina brings a solid foundation of experience managing her own projects and grants and she has established a successful research support infrastructure within the College of Education. Her experiences perfectly complement the priorities identified in our strategic plans,” said Malone.
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Boyd Center Partners with Vanderbilt, THEC to Research ‘Drive to 55’ Outcomes
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The Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research is partnering with Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development and the Tennessee Higher Education Commission to research the effectiveness of initiatives developed under the state’s “Drive to 55” campaign.The partnership, made possible with a $400,000 grant, will establish the Tennessee Postsecondary Evaluation and Analysis Research Lab, or TN-PEARL. TN-PEARL will research several questions connected to the state’s “Drive to 55” campaign, including how state, local, and institutional policies can raise postsecondary educational attainment and whether recent policies are effectively increasing postsecondary attainment and returns. The research will begin this fall.
The “Drive to 55” campaign was created in 2013 as an effort to have 55 percent of working-age Tennesseans hold a postsecondary credential by 2025. The three largest initiatives created under the campaign are Tennessee Promise, Tennessee Reconnect, and the Tennessee Labor Education Alignment Program, or Tennessee LEAP.
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“‘Drive to 55’ is about much more than the number 55. It motivated a lot of change in the way that people learn about college and move through college,” said Celeste Carruthers, an associate professor with the Boyd Center and Department of Economics in UT’s Haslam College of Business. “The rest of the country is looking at all of this experimentation in Tennessee and wondering if it’s working. Our aim is to track the progress of postsecondary success in the state and identify whether particular efforts are accomplishing what they set out to do.”
Carolyn Heinrich
Carolyn Heinrich, a professor of public policy, education, and economics at Vanderbilt, noted that there will be many insights generated from the analysis of how “Drive to 55” policies and programs are working.
“We want to create an analytical framework that will help us to understand both their individual and collective impacts,” she said. “This is important to helping the state understand how it can best invest ...
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Pitt Statement Regarding PETA Claims
PITTSBURGH—In response to a statement issued by PETA on July 11, 2017, the University of Pittsburgh issued the following:
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals today made claims related to the University’s routine self-reporting of issues that arise in the housing and care of laboratory animals for the timespan dating from Jan. 1, 2015, to April 1, 2017. In all instances, corrective actions were promptly taken, and in all instances the National Institutes of Health, the agency with which the reports are filed, acknowledged that the University took proper remedial actions. This result is consistent with both the USDA and the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) responses to the last two allegations levied against Pitt by PETA.
In February, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service conducted a four-day focused inspection of animal research spaces at the University in response to a PETA complaint. Pitt was found to be in full compliance with USDA regulations. In May, OLAW also found that PETA’s claims were unsubstantiated and that institutional responses to routine animal husbandry and veterinary care needs were appropriate.
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The Physics of Hearing
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Humans have an uncommon aural ability: In a room full of people all engaged in separate conversations, we can push aside the extraneous voices and background noise to hear one particular speaker. Similarly, in a music venue, we can enjoy the performance of a soloist as comfortably as we can a full orchestra more than 100 decibels louder.Exactly how this happens — how we make sense of sound — is not fully understood. Scientists who study the biophysics and neurobiology of hearing and the information theory of complex auditory signals are among the group now investigating those underlying mechanics at UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP).
Funded by by the National Institutes of Health, “Physics of Hearing: From Neurobiology to Information Theory and Back” is a synergistic research program at KITP that brings together scientists from different fields to study a common topic.
“We have a wide array of scientists, including statistical physicists, neurobiologists, physiologists, computer scientists and mathematicians,” said program coordinator Tobias Reichenbach, a senior lecturer in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London. “We expect that these different perspectives will yield significant progress in understanding the neurobiology of hearing and oral communication as well as speech-recognition technology.”
An impressive body of research over the past few decades has shed light both on the biophysical mechanisms used by the inner ear to encode sound stimulation into neural signals and on some of the principles by which those neural signals are subsequently processed in the auditory brain stem and cerebral cortex.
“Nevertheless, we lack an understanding of how a complex auditory scene is decomposed into its individual signals such as speech,” said program coordinator Maria Geffen, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania, whose Laboratory of Auditory Coding combines computational and biological approaches to study the neuronal mechanisms for auditory perception and learning.
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La Universitat de Barcelona, la més demanada en primera preferència
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Les dues titulacions universitàries més demanades a Catalunya en primera opció per al curs 2017-2018 s'imparteixen a la Universitat de Barcelona.
12/07/2017
La UB torna a ser un any més la universitat catalana més sol·licitada en primera opció per al curs 2017-2018. En concret, ha rebut 14.041 sol·licituds en primera preferència. La UB ha rebut un 30,49 % de les sol·licituds en primera opció dins del global del sistema universitari català, mentre que ofereix aproximadament un 27,16 % de les places. Les dues titulacions universitàries més demanades a Catalunya en primera opció per al curs 2017-2018 s'imparteixen a la Universitat de Barcelona: Administració i Direcció d’Empreses, amb 865 sol·licituds, i Psicologia, amb 854.
Medicina al campus Clínic és la quarta titulació més demanada a Catalunya, amb 831 sol·licituds. Val a dir que la UB també imparteix Medicina al campus de Bellvitge, que ha rebut 375 sol·licituds en primera opció.
A la UB, les notes de tall més altes són les de la doble titulació de Física i Matemàtiques, amb 13,115 punts; Medicina (campus Clínic), amb 12,725, i Medicina (campus Bellvitge), amb 12,639. La UB té assignats un total de 273 alumnes amb una nota d’accés superior a 13, enfront els 214 de l’any passat.
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Energy-recycling steps eyed for post-surgical recovery, aging in place
A Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher wants to make walking up and down stairs easier through the creation of a device that recycles the energy we use to climb and descend.Yun Seong Song, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&T, built the spring-loaded stairs as a postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Tech. He is lead author of a new research paper in the journal Public Library of Science (PLOS ONE)
“When walking down, the spring in the stairs acts as a cushion and brake,” says Song. “The gentle downward movement alleviates work by the trailing ankle, which is what keeps you balanced and prevents you from falling too fast on normal stairs. When going up, these springs help you by giving back the energy that was stored.”
The initial idea was to use energy-recycling prosthetic shoes to help people going up stairs, says co-author Karen Liu, an associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Interactive Computing. Also contributing to the paper is Lena Ting, a professor of biomedical engineering in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech.
“Unlike normal walking, where each heel-strike dissipates energy that can be potentially restored, stair ascent is actually very energy-efficient; most energy you put in goes into potential energy to lift you up,” says Liu. “But then I realized that going downstairs is quite wasteful. You dissipate energy to stop yourself from falling, and I thought it would be great if we could store the energy wasted during descent and return it to the user during ascent.”
The spring-loaded stairs compress when someone comes down the stairs, saving energy otherwise dissipated through impact and braking forces at the ankle by 26 percent. When going up, the stairs give people a boost by releasing the stored energy, making it 37 ...
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Students and Alumni Work on Launching Ventures During Summer Entrepreneurial Program
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The StartupHoyas Summer Launch Program at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business is hosting 13 entrepreneurial ventures this summer in its startup incubator program.
Now in its seventh year, the eight-week program is designed specifically for current Georgetown students and recent graduates who want to launch a new venture. The nearly two dozen students and alumni receive dedicated support from Georgetown faculty, mentors, and other experienced entrepreneurs; work space in the business school’s Rafik B. Hariri Building on the Georgetown campus; a stipend to support their efforts; introductions to local investors and entrepreneurs; invitations to exclusive networking events; and the opportunity to present their ideas to the D.C. entrepreneurial community.
The Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative held an open house with participants Tuesday, June 13, and the teams will present their work at a showcase event held at 1776 on Monday, July 24.
This year’s companies include:
Batches Baking Co: Home baking kits, individually packaged with pre-measured, quality ingredients and idiot-proof instructions making even the most inexperienced baker look like a regular Martha Stewart. It is led by Eileen Rogan (MBA’17).
Crane Vision: A vision aid for tower crane operators, allowing the crane to operate remotely and improving the efficiency and the safety of the construction process. It is led by Dalton Dwyer (L’17)
Dapos: An auction platform that helps sporting venues earn revenues from unused capacity by enabling attendees to bid for an upgraded seat. It is led by Juan Pablo D'Alessandro (MBA’18).
Defy Desserts: Delicious, organic, all-natural desserts that are low on sugar and high on protein and fiber. Designed for any busy person seeking to maintain a healthy lifestyle. It is led by Anthony DeThomas (MED’17).
Dressmate: Allows college students to rent out their business and party clothing to other students within their campus. Items can be searched by color, brand, occasion, availability, and price. It is led by ...
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Supervisor Jeff Sheehy Visits UCSF to Rally Community Around HIV/AIDS Funding
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In his first visit back to UC San Francisco since becoming a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Jeff Sheehy rallied the University community to join in fundraising for AIDS Walk San Francisco – especially as HIV funding is under attack at the federal level.
Sheehy, who served as communications director of the AIDS Research Institute from 2000 to 2017, joined UCSF HIV/AIDS leaders Diane Havlir, MD, and Paul Volberding, MD, at the UCSF Parnassus library to discuss their lives and careers in fighting HIV.
Support AIDS Walk SF
You can support AIDS Walk San Francisco by joining one of the many UCSF groups or by donating to a team.
The July 7 event was held in support of AIDS Walk San Francisco, the annual trek to raise funds for HIV programs and services in the Bay Area. UCSF is working toward an ambitious fundraising goal of raising $200,000 for the event, scheduled for July 16 in Golden Gate Park.
A Critical Time of HIV Funding
Sheehy said that supporting HIV/AIDS funding is part of maintaining critical health care infrastructure at time when under attack.
“AIDS Walk is part of the same struggle of us coming together with our values in solidarity to show the world that we’re still fighting, still marching, and still walking,” said Sheehy. “We need to get everyone we know to walk because we all have to be in this fight together.”
In the Bay Area, AIDS Walk SF plays a significant role in the backing of local organizations, including the Golden Compass program, which is located at Ward 86 at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. It was in that ward that UCSF launched the world’s first HIV/AIDS outpatient clinic.
The Devastating History of HIV
During his visit, Sheehy spoke to the overwhelming toll of HIV/AIDS on San Francisco – and the University’s inspired response – ...
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Kevin Nylen Soccer Academy at FIU a Big Community Success
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MIAMI (July 12, 2017) – FIU men's soccer Head Coach Kevin Nylen may be entering his first season at the helm of the Panthers, but he is no stranger to Miami and the FIU program. Before a one-year stint as chief scout and U16 head coach with the Orlando City SC (Major League Soccer) Development Academy, Nylen spent four years as an assistant coach for the Panthers, helping to build FIU into one of the top teams in Conference USA – and the nation. In addition, he also built a solid foundation in the community for the only Division I men's soccer program in Miami, one that he continues to foster. And this summer, Nylen hasn't missed a beat with the popular Kevin Nylen Soccer Academy at FIU. "We want FIU Soccer to be known throughout the South Florida community," said Nylen. "Many of our alumni and current players have played for youth clubs from here in the local area. It is very important to our program to have a great relationship with the entire soccer community in South Florida." The Academy ran the first of its two camps on May 13 for kids ages 14-19, and the second – the Elite Residential Camp – runs from July 29-August 1. Players will receive a professional soccer experience directed by the FIU men's soccer staff alongside an elite group of collegiate coaches.Attacking play and creativity are encouraged in an environment that is positive, challenging and fun.
The Elite Residential Camp is staffed with top level coaches. The camp will feature college coaches from various programs and divisions of the college game. The camp includes a valuable "recruiting seminar" which will help aspiring players to understand the college recruiting process as well as the demands of being a college student-athlete."We want to aid and assist in the understanding of being recruited at the collegiate level," said Nylen. "How ...
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Jeansonne Wins U.S. Amateur Qualifier in Mississippi
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Rice scientists simplify the incorporation of nitrogen into molecules
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Rice University lab’s reagents ease chemical design for drugs, agriculture
HOUSTON – (July 12, 2017) – A Rice University laboratory that specializes in synthesizing reagents and intermediate molecules for the design and manufacture of drugs and other fine chemicals has delivered on a promise to generalize the synthesis of electrophilic (electron-poor) aminating agents.
Aminating agents are valuable building blocks that can incorporate nitrogen atoms into molecules in a single efficient step without the use of contaminating metals or catalysts.
Rice researchers, from left, László Kürti, Surached Siriwongsup and Padmanabha Kattamuri stand by the custom reactor they use to produce a nitrogen polarity-reversal agent in bulk. The aminating agents derived from it are meant to simplify the process by which chemists design drugs and other compounds. Photo by Jeff Fitlow
In his lab, Rice synthetic organic chemist László Kürti showed a tray piled high with the new reactivity-modifying agent, a nitrogen umpolung reagent used to synthesize aminating agents. An umpolung reverses the polarity of nitrogen atoms, which allows them to react differently with other atoms.
Kürti expects the robust umpolung reagent will give chemists easy access to highly sought-after, electron-poor nitrogen atoms when condensed with virtually any electron-rich primary amine.
The process is the subject of a paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
When the design of a new drug involves trial and error and each trial may take hundreds of chemical steps over days and weeks, any effort to simplify existing synthetic routes is worthwhile, Kürti said. “This novel approach represents an operationally simple, scalable and environmentally friendly alternative to transition metal-catalyzed, carbon-nitrogen cross-coupling methods that are currently used to access structurally diverse amines,” he said.
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