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University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaContact:Posted: Jul 14, 2017Severe coastal erosion causes loss of property, infrastructure, and impacts water quality at Honokowai.Wave inundation at Honoapiilani Hwy. Other sections are actively undermined by erosion and waves.Sandbag barrier in Kahana where condominium properties are threatened by erosion and high waves.The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) will develop a high-resolution, real-time wave run-up forecast and notification system for West Maui’s coastline with a $500,000 award from NOAA’s Regional Coastal Resilience Grants Program.PacIOOS will also model a suite of inundation planning scenarios that take rising sea levels and increasing wave energies into account. Site-specific, short- and long-term forecasts will strengthen West Maui’s coastal community and economy by enhancing preparedness and response operations, and by informing future land use planning. The three-year project is expected to begin in October 2017.A combination of high water levels and large wave swells can result in significant coastal erosion, damage to infrastructure and properties and land-based sedimentation that impairs coastal water quality. The State of Hawaiʻi has experienced an increase in wave plus tide-driven flooding in recent years, and these events are expected to grow in numbers and duration due to sea level rise and changing wave energies.“We are affected by chronic shoreline erosion in West Maui. Some of the properties that are built close to the shoreline are literally on the brink of falling into the ocean,” said co-investigator Tara Owens, UH Sea Grant College Program coastal processes extension agent. “Flooding and wave inundation is also a major concern for our infrastructure, including Honoapiʻilani Highway, which is the only reliable access to this part of the island. These roughly 21 miles of coastline are extremely important for Maui’s economy, local businesses, homeowners and visitors, and yet they are extremely ...
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Mānoa: Enhancing coastal resilience in West Maui is goal of new PacIOOS grant
Community Crime Advisory
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Georgia College Public Safety has been made aware of at least three incidents with notable similarities reported to have occurred in Milledgeville near campus in the past few weeks. Out of an abundance of caution, this Community Crime Advisory is being issued to notify the campus community to keep a vigilant eye, to know your surroundings at all times and to always report any suspicious activity.There have been multiple reports of incidents in which windows to residences have been broken. In a couple of these incidents, it was also reported that the residence was entered and items were taken. At the time of the incidents, residents were not home. All instances have been off campus and are being investigated by the Milledgeville Police Department. If you have any information pertaining to these incidents, please contact the Milledgeville Police Department at 478-414-4000. Georgia College Public Safety would like to remind the university community to remain aware of your surroundings at all times and to report any suspicious activity that you see to law enforcement.
Please remember that if you find yourself in a potentially unsafe situation, you may request a safety escort from GC Public Safety at any time by calling 478-445-4054. Additionally, you may download the Rave Guardian App (available in the app stores), which allows you to place a panic call to GC Police, set a safety timer or send anonymous tips. When calling GC Police or if the safety timer expires through the Rave Guardian App, your profile and location information will be shared with dispatch to provide quick and accurate response in times of an emergency. To learn more about Rave Guardian, watch this YouTube clip or visit their website. This service is free, and you can provide as much information in your profile as you want. When signing up, be sure to select ...
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Executive & Audit Committee of the OSU Board of Trustees to meet July 20
About Oregon State University: As one of only two universities in the nation designated as a land, sea, space and sun grant, Oregon State serves Oregon and the world by working on today’s most pressing issues. Our more than 31,000 students come from across the globe, and our programs operate in every Oregon county. Oregon State receives more research funding than all of the state’s comprehensive public universities combined. At our campuses in Corvallis, Bend and Newport, and through our award-winning Ecampus, we excel at shaping today’s students into tomorrow’s leaders.
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Cyclone Feud at Meet The Coaches Night
Iowa State University
Join Cyclone coaches as we embark on an exciting year of Iowa State Athletics! The event will take place at the Community Choice Credit Union Convention Center in Des Moines.
5:00 - Social
6:00 - Dinner
7:00 - Program
You won't want to miss the opportunity to bid on exclusive collectibles, travel with teams to away competitions, and premium access to home games.
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UC Riverside Makes Top 30 in Time’s Money Magazine
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UCR is ranked 29 in Money’s Best Colleges 2017-18 issue
By Mojgan Sherkat on July 14, 2017
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UCR has been ranked 29 in Money Magazine’s “Best Colleges for Your Money 2017.”
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) – The University of California, Riverside has been ranked No. 29 in Time Inc.’s Money Magazine’s “Best Colleges for Your Money 2017,” issue. The rankings compared a total of 711 schools that met Money’s requirements.
“Being ranked among the nation’s top universities is always an honor, but this achievement is particularly meaningful because it speaks to one of our core values—making a world class education accessible and affordable,” said UCR Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox. “A lot of things make UCR great, but our record in helping students from all backgrounds succeed, both while they’re here and after they graduate, is perhaps our most enduring accomplishment.”
Among the factors the magazine weighed to compile its list are each school’s estimated cost with or without financial aid, the percentage of students who receive aid grants, and average early-career earnings of graduates.
Money’s methodology behind its 2017 rankings includes the following:
Have at least 500 students.
Have sufficient, reliable data to be analyzed.
Not be in financial distress.
Have a graduation rate that was at or above the median for its institutional category (public or private), or have a high percentage of low-income students scoring well on tests.
A total of 711 universities met those requirements – Money ranked them on other factors that fit into these three categories, that surveys show are most important to students and parents. That’s quality of education, affordability, and outcomes.
“As with all our achievements as a campus, this is a team effort. We don’t get these kinds of results without faculty, staff, and students from across UCR working towards our shared vision of excellence,” Wilcox said.
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Free weekend events with French flair
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The French founders of St. Louis might blush at the World Naked Bike Ride that takes place here this weekend, but their populist descendants will cheer the mock beheading of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette in Soulard in honor of Bastille Day on Saturday. There’s a little something français for everyone looking to fete le quatorze juillet on the banks of the Mississippi.
The Queen and King heading to the guillotine in Soulard.
Bastille Day Celebration & BeheadingSaturday, July 15, 4:00pm – 5:00pmSoulardThe gathering of the mob begins at 4:00 p.m. at the Lynch Street Tavern and marches through Soulard with stops at several bars along the route to Pontiac Square Park where the Guillotine is located. Peasant attire recommended
Let Them Eat ArtFriday, July 14, 6:00 PM – 11:30 PM Historic Downtown MaplewoodThe 12th Annual Let Them Eat Art, Maplewood’s whimsical tribute to Bastille Day features live art demonstrations by regional artists, live music, and food & drink by Maplewood’s award-winning food purveyors.
If you want to eat cake on Bastille Day, let me recommend my two favorite French patisseries in St. Louis: Comme a la Maison/Like Home at Lindell & Vandeventer, and La Chouquette at the corner of Tower Grove Ave. & McRee.
World Naked Bike RideJuly 15, 5:00 PM – 11:00 PM The GroveThe World Naked Bike Ride STL celebrates its 10th birthday! Ride as bare as you dare at the country’s third largest Naked Bike Ride, an international event celebrating bikes and bodies! Meet up in The Grove for pre-ride festivities.
Art Hill Film Series: TitanicJuly 14, 6-11:00 PMThis summer, the Saint Louis Art Museum is rolling out the red carpet for Oscar’s Best Dressed, in honor of their summer exhibition, Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715-2015. The food trucks, music, and art activities start at 6:00 p.m. Films begin promptly at 9:00 p.m. You are welcome to arrive any time to ...
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Phillips Named SBS Director of Academic Engagement and Student Success
UMass Amherst: News Archive
Lynn Phillips, senior lecturer and chief undergraduate advisor in the department of communication, has been appointed director of academic engagement and student success for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. In this position, she will further develop and lead the college in the implementation of SBS Pathways.SBS Pathways is a holistic approach to student success that supports students throughout all aspects of their university careers, including their academic, co-curricular, experiential learning and career and professional development experiences.
Phillips’s agenda includes creating programs, resources, and communication strategies for students who have historically been underserved in secondary and post-secondary settings. She will also continue to teach courses as a faculty member in communication.
As a social and developmental psychologist with a focus on the transition from late adolescence to early adulthood, social justice education and advocacy, and cultural discourses about coping and choice, Phillips’s teaching and research explore many of the issues that she anticipates arising in her new position.
As the chief undergraduate advisor in the communication department for the past eight years, Phillips focused on fostering students’ growth as intellectuals, community members and global citizens and emerging professionals. “This position will be a very natural fit for me,” she says. “Scaling up to design new initiatives for all SBS students, not just communication students, will be an exciting challenge.”
Phillips is looking forward to broadening SBS students’ connections to the critical information, resources and support they need to become engaged educational decision makers.
“I view every element of this work through pedagogical, holistic student development, and social justice lenses,” says Phillips. “I begin from a belief in the transformative potential of a high-quality, liberal arts education and from the premise that structured race, class and cultural inequities differentially equip students with the social and cultural capital necessary to anticipate and navigate the hidden curriculum of higher ...
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College of Nursing, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital Launch Pediatric Nursing Internship
Headlines – Tennessee Today
UT’s College of Nursing and East Tennessee Children’s Hospital have launched an internship program designed for students who want to pursue a career in pediatric nursing.“The Pediatric Nurse Intern program is an excellent example of how academic-practice partnerships can be a win-win for students and health facilities,” said Victoria Niederhauser, dean of the college. “This experiential learning opportunity better prepares nurses to enter the pediatric nursing workforce upon graduation.”
Nursing staff at Children’s Hospital and UT faculty designed the program’s curriculum. The idea for the program came from Niederhauser and Hella Ewing, vice president for patient care services and chief nursing officer at Children’s Hospital.
“Pediatric nursing is very specialized,” said Ewing. “Partnering with UT’s College of Nursing is the first step in better preparing students who have a passion for pediatrics. Our staff is committed to giving them the best experience to succeed when they move on to their career in nursing.”
UT and Children’s Hospital chose six rising seniors to participate in the five-week program, which launched this week. Each student is paired with a nurse mentor at the hospital as well as a clinical faculty member within the college to oversee their experience.
“Working alongside a registered nurse with a full patient load is an invaluable opportunity,” said Deb Chyka, clinical assistant professor of nursing, who will oversee the program. “Participating in this internship will result in a better prepared graduate who desires to enter the very competitive field of pediatric nursing.”
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Renowned Biologist Awarded Pitt's Dickson Prize in Medicine
Noted Biologist David M. Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D., To Receive Pitt’s Dickson Prize in Medicine at Science 2017
PITTSBURGH, July 14, 2017 – A researcher who discovered a key cellular regulatory metabolic pathway known as mTOR and whose subsequent research has revealed several roles that individual proteins in this pathway play in cancer, diabetes and aging will receive the University of Pittsburgh’s 2017 Dickson Prize in Medicine.
David M. Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D., will accept the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s most prestigious honor during Science 2017, a showcase of the region’s latest research in science, engineering, medicine and computation that will be held from Oct. 18 to 20 at Alumni Hall in Oakland and at the adjacent Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center. Dr. Sabatini is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a senior associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. He also is a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
“Dr. Sabatini is an extraordinarily innovative and imaginative scientist,” said Arthur S. Levine, M.D., Pitt’s senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean of Medicine. “His seminal discoveries concerning the mTOR pathway came when he was a 24-year-old medical student researcher. In the years since then, he has been a leader in identifying fundamental molecular mechanisms in human biology and elucidating the molecular basis of human disease.”
Dr. Sabatini and his lab at the Whitehead Institute study the basic mechanisms that regulate cell growth, the process whereby cells and organisms accumulate mass and increase in size. These pathways are often disordered in human diseases. Since the discovery of the regulatory metabolic pathway known as mTOR (for mechanistic target of rapamycin), work ...
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El projecte europeu inHERE publica un Catàleg de bones pràctiques en l’acollida de persones refugiades a la universitat
Universitat de Barcelona - Notícies
Una de les bones pràctiques seleccionades per al catàleg és el Programa de suport de la UB a persones refugiades i provinents de zones en conflicte.
14/07/2017
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El projecte inHERE (Educació superior en suport de les persones refugiades a Europa), en què participa la Universitat de Barcelona, ha publicat el seu primer resultat: el Catàleg de bones pràctiques (GPC en les seves sigles en anglès), que sorgeix d'una anàlisi en profunditat de gairebé tres-centes iniciatives procedents de trenta-dos països. El Programa de suport de la UB a persones refugiades i provinents de zones en conflicte ha estat una de les bones pràctiques seleccionades per formar part del catàleg.
Aquestes iniciatives les han presentades institucions d'educació superior i organitzacions compromeses amb l’acollida de les persones refugiades que han participat en el Mapa de benvinguda de persones refugiades (Refugees Welcome Map), una campanya organitzada per l’Associació Europea d'Universitats (EUA) fins a principis del 2017.
Com en el cas del mapa, l'objectiu del GPC és servir les comunitats acadèmiques d'Europa i altres indrets com una font d'informació i inspiració, i permetre l'intercanvi i la col·laboració entre els agents interessats. Si bé el catàleg se centra en experiències amb estudiants i investigadors refugiats, es pretén que també fomenti un debat més ampli i inclogui estratègies de les institucions d'educació superior, la seva tercera missió i quins enfocaments fan en la gestió de la diversitat.
Les bones pràctiques del GPC s'han seleccionat sobre la base d'un conjunt de criteris lligats a l'alt impacte actual o potencial respecte a la integració de les persones refugiades en l'estudi i la vida social. Tot i que es va demanar a les institucions que indiquessin la xifra d'estudiants i investigadors a què s’esperava arribar amb cada pràctica, més important que la ...
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Final Rolla Town Band performance July 21
News and Events
Hear the highlights of the Rolla Town Band’s 2017 season at its final concert of the year this July.
The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 21, at the on the front lawn of the Phelps County Courthouse, located at 200 N. Main St. in Rolla. All Rolla Town Band concerts are free and open to the public.
The performance will include highlights of the other three concerts that were held earlier this summer. The music will include American classics, pops music, brass band and traditional military marches. During the intermission, there will be a performance by the Missouri University of Science and Technology Brass Ensemble.
Organizations and individuals interested in helping sponsor the Rolla Town Band this summer are encouraged to contact Dave Cress, the band’s conductor, cressdl@mst.edu. Follow the band’s progress this summer on Facebook at facebook.com/pages/Rolla-Town-Band/133117630044254.
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Gateway Writing Project’s OneCity Stories program amplifies voices of local youth, introduces world of multimedia composing
UMSL Daily
Gateway Writing Project, housed in the College of Education at UMSL, hosted OneCity Stories: a St. Louis Youth Writing Program from June 12 to 30. The immersive summer institute was based out of UMSL at Grand Center and brought together high school students from across the St. Louis area to explore the ways in which writing connects multiple forms of media. (Image courtesy of OneCity Stories)
“Do you think writing is power?”
The question, posed one June afternoon inside a classroom at the University of Missouri–St. Louis at Grand Center, drew an immediate response.
“Definitely,” Edwardsville High School student Sydney Hershberger said. “Writing is used in a lot of ways to create change. Sometimes in good ways. Sometimes in bad.”
Indigo Thompson, a student from Metro Academic and Classical High School, also chimed in.
“I believe words are really powerful,” she said. “You take these words that mean nothing and you can add to them. It’s the way they’re brought together that makes them what they are.”
OneCity Stories program coordinators, instructors and students include (back row from left) Diana Hammond, Cathy Griner, William Morris, Johnathan Baker, Cierra Cross, Cindy Combs, Janylaa Owens, Jane Bannester and Katie O’Daniels; (middle row from left) Sydney Hershberger, Locke Meyer, Saidi Muya and Indigo Thompson; and Ray Reichert. (Photo courtesy of OneCity Stories)
Hershberger and Thompson are just two of several St. Louis-area youth who had the chance to ponder such questions this summer – and to explore the power of not just any words or writing, but their own.
Their opportunity? OneCity Stories, a new youth writing program so impressive that it became one of only 10 educational initiatives in the nation to win a $20,000 2017 LRNG Innovators Challenge Grant.
Sponsored by the Gateway Writing Project at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, OneCity Stories is more than a summer camp. It’s an ...
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Next-Gen Precision Diagnostics Now Available at UCSF
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A genome sequencing test developed at UC San Francisco that can rapidly pinpoint the cause of a bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic infection from among a huge range of possibilities is now available to help physicians nationwide diagnose mysterious cases of neurological infection in acutely ill patients.
Scientists at UCSF have already used the test on a trial basis to diagnose a number of patients, including the well-known case of a 14-year-old boy who was near death with swelling in his brain. The boy had undergone months of unsuccessful attempts to identify the cause of his illness with conventional lab tests, expensive imaging technologies, and invasive procedures, including a brain biopsy. By sequencing his cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), UCSF scientists found that he had a bacterial infection called leptospirosis, and he rapidly recovered after receiving targeted treatment with penicillin. The test has now been validated in UCSF’s Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA)-licensed clinical microbiology laboratory and is approved for clinical use.
Over the last year, UCSF physicians and researchers have examined the utility of the test using CSF collected from more than 200 patients enrolled in a nationwide study of eight hospitals, including three University of California medical centers. All of these patients suffered from acute neurological illnesses, including meningitis (inflammation of the coverings around the brain and spinal cord), encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), and myelitis (inflammation of the spinal cord).
Doctors often have trouble figuring out why these tissues become inflamed, as these conditions can have many causes, including infection, cancer, and autoimmune disease. This can lead to inappropriate treatment. For example, steroids and immunosuppressive agents that are commonly used to treat autoimmune diseases make it harder for the body to fight infection.
The new sequencing test can help overcome this uncertainly by pinpointing the genomic signatures of a wide range of pathogens—including fungi, bacteria, viruses, and ...
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No Chocolate Milk? No Problem, Kids Get Used to Plain Milk
Health – UConn Today
A new study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut has found that most students adjust to drinking plain milk after flavored milk is removed from school lunch menus.
Flavored milk served in the National School Lunch Program contains up to 10 grams of added sugar per serving, which is 40 percent of a child’s daily allowance of added sugar. Given the nation’s key public health target of limiting added sugars in children’s diets, flavored milk has come under scrutiny in the context of school nutrition.
The study measured plain milk selection and consumption in the years after flavored milk was removed in two schools. During the first year without flavored milk, 51.5 percent of students selected plain milk. Two years later, 72 percent of students selected plain milk. Both years, student selection and consumption of plain milk dropped significantly on days when 100 percent fruit juice was also available.
“The decision to remove flavored milk has both nutritional benefits and potential costs. It is clearly an effective way to lower student intake of added sugars at lunch, and over time, the majority of students will switch to plain milk,” said Marlene Schwartz, professor of human development and family studies, director of the UConn Rudd Center, and lead author of the study. “However, there will always be some students who don’t like plain milk. The challenge is finding a way to meet their dietary needs by providing other nutrient-rich options at lunch.”
The study, published July 14 in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, has implications for school nutrition policy and efforts to reduce added sugars in children’s diets.
The study was conducted in two elementary (K-8) schools in an urban New England school district during the 2010-2011 and 2012-2013 school years. Researchers assessed the selection and consumption of milk immediately ...
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Get to Know New @FIUHoops Assistant Coach Jarrett T. Lockhart: Part One
FIU Athletics
MIAMI (July 13, 2017) – With the 2017 summer recruiting period upon us, FIUSports.com wanted to take some time to sit down and chat with the Panthers' new assistant men's basketball coach, Jarrett T. Lockhart. Lockhart was recently promoted to an assistant after spending the previous three seasons as the program's director of basketball operations. In this sit-down – the first of two parts – get Lockhart's take on his new role with the program, his time in Miami and what FIU means to him, and about being the son of a New York City basketball legend.Fans are encouraged to follow @FIUHoops on Twitter, and "Like" FIU men's basketball on Facebook (www.Facebook.com/FIUMensBBall) for the latest Panther basketball news.Follow all of FIU's 18 athletic teams on Google+ (FIU Athletics), Twitter (@FIUAthletics), Facebook (Facebook.com/FIUSports), YouTube (FIUPanthers), and Instagram (FIUathletics).#####
About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in eight different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including FIU Arena and at Riccardo Silva Stadium.
About FIU: Florida International University is recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. Its colleges and schools offer more than 180 bachelor¹s, master¹s and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law, and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU is Worlds Ahead in its local and global engagement, finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. FIU has awarded 200,000 degrees and enrolls 50,000 students in two campuses and three centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell and the Miami Beach Urban Studios. FIU is a member of Conference USA and has 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.
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Jackson Named to Thorpe Watch List
LSUsports.net
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Brandon BerrioAssistant Communications Director
BATON ROUGE – LSU junior defensive back Donte Jackson has been named to the Jim Thorpe Award Watch List, which honors 45 of the nation’s best defensive backs.
The Jim Thorpe Award is named after history’s greatest all-around athlete. Thorpe was a running back, passer, kicker, and defensive back. He also played professional baseball and won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon.
Jackson played in all 12 games and started in 11 of those at cornerback. Arguably the fastest player in all of college football, Jackson totaled 39 tackles for the Tigers, including a career-high seven against Alabama.
Patrick Peterson and Tyrann Mathieu won the Jim Thorpe Award in 2010 and 2011. The duo made LSU one of two schools in the history of the award to win in consecutive seasons.
The Thorpe Award Winner is selected from three finalists and will be announced at The Home Depot College Football Awards on Thursday, December 7, 2017, on ESPN.
The Paycom Jim Thorpe Award Banquet will be held on Tuesday, February 6, 2018, in Oklahoma.
2017 NCFAA Awards Preseason Watch List CalendarMonday, July 10: Bednarik Award – Arden Key and Kevin Toliver II / Maxwell Award – Arden Key and Derrius GuiceTuesday, July 11: Rimington Trophy – Will Clapp Thursday, July 13: Bronko Nagurski Trophy – Arden Key and Kevin Toliver II / Outland Trophy – Will Clapp Friday, July 14: Jim Thorpe Award – Donte Jackson Monday, July 17: Butkus Award / Paul Hornung AwardTuesday, July 18: Biletnikoff Award / Wuerffel TrophyWednesday, July 19: Davey O’Brien AwardThursday, July 20: Doak Walker AwardFriday, July 21: Walter Camp Award
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Zhao receives Fondren’s 2017 Shapiro Award
Members of the Rice community gathered in Fondren Library’s historic Kyle Morrow Room July 10 for a reception honoring an exceptional library employee. Jane Zhao, director of the Digital Media Commons (DMC), was recognized with the 2017 Shapiro Award.
Jane Zhao addresses attendees of the Shapiro Award ceremony. Photos by Tommy LaVergne
The commons supports the creation and use of multimedia in education, scholarship and artistic expression at Rice. Located in Suite B42 in the library, the commons space boasts a state-of-the-art video and photography studio with a green screen and professional lighting, a soundproofed audio-recording studio and a multipurpose room. The DMC works to provide extensive support for creating multimedia, including training, equipment checkout and access to video-editing software. The commons was previously located in Herring Hall. Zhao oversaw its move to Fondren in spring 2015.
The Shapiro Award is presented annually to a member of the Fondren Library staff who has developed an innovative program to provide library services at Rice or has shown exemplary service to the university community. Zhao, who came to Rice in 2005, is the 16th recipient of the award since it was first given in 2002.
Zhao’s supervisor, Lisa Spiro, executive director of digital scholarship services at Fondren, noted Zhao’s dedication and professional ethos. “Jane demonstrates a strong commitment to assisting faculty, students and staff with pretty much any multimedia project, deep knowledge of multimedia, the ability to envision and implement new services and a positive, can-do attitude,” Spiro said. “In the past couple of years, Jane has the deepened the DMC’s collaborations, set up and promoted new multimedia studios, developed new training programs and offered outstanding service throughout. I think that Jane is wonderful, and based on the eight nominations she received for this award, it’s clear that many share that view. People from across the university value Jane’s expertise and ...
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El CPSV proposa mesures per frenar l’impacte de l’illa de calor urbana a la Regió Metropolitana de Barcelona
Actualitat UPC
Tot i que l’impacte del canvi climàtic crea riscos i vulnerabilitats que afecten la qualitat de vida i la salut de la població, els plans urbanístics no tenen en compte l’avaluació climàtica de les zones urbanes i metropolitanes. Com afecta el disseny urbà al clima de la ciutat? Com pot ajudar l’urbanisme a minvar l’emissió de gasos d’efecte hivernacle i adaptar les ciutats al canvi climàtic?Per donar resposta a aquestes i altres qüestions, un equip multidisciplinari coordinat pel CPSV, i encapçalat per Josep Roca Cladera, professor de l’Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB), ha estudiat i determinat quins són els principals elements que contribueixen a constituir l’illa de calor a les ciutats. Aquest fenomen –que consisteix en l’increment de la temperatura al centre de les àrees urbanes en contrast amb la perifèria o els espais rurals circumdants, especialment en hores nocturnes– té un impacte en la salut i el benestar dels ciutadans especialment preocupant quan es produeixen episodis extrems com les ones de calor, cada cop més freqüents. Les principals causes de l’illa de calor són la manca de vegetació, la impermeabilització del sòl i l’ús de materials com l'asfalt i el formigó, que a la nit desprenen la calor acumulada durant el dia, igual que els vehicles i els sistemes d’enllumenat i de climatització.El CPSV ha creat un sistema d’informació climàtica integrat, a partir del qual ha simulat els factors climàtics, geogràfics, territorials i urbans que determinen l’illa de calor del sistema metropolità de Barcelona (164 municipis, de 3.200 km2 i 4,7 milions d’habitants). Per obtenir els resultats, s’ha analitzat el règim de temperatures de la superfície terrestre (LST), de l’aire (LSAT) i de transferència de calor a l’ ...
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Simulation Center Helps Lessen Risk in First Patient Encounter
UC Health News
Real world experience is usually best, but visitors to the Simulation Center in
the UC College of Medicine, can get a pretty good substitute.
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“From the Heart” Musical Evening Set Nov. 23
Lone Star College CyFair News
Published on: November 03, 2015
Lone Star College-CyFairs Music Department presents From the Heart concert, featuring the colleges talented student musicians in the String Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble and Symphonic Band.
Join us for an evening of music from the heart that speaks to the soul, said Dr. John Wolfskill, who is codirecting this concert with Alan Johnson. Among the show highlights are great music, special guests and featured artists, sweetened with moments of capricious fun!
The 7:30 p.m. Nov. 23 concert will be held in the Main Stage Theatre, which is located in the Center for the Arts building on the Barker Cypress campus at 9191 Barker Cypress.
Visit LoneStar.edu/BoxOffice for ticket pricing, online purchasing and a complete season schedule. Contact 281.290.5201 or CFC.BoxOffice@LoneStar.edufor other information.
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Dr. Daria Willis named Dean of Instruction at LSC-Greenspoint and LSC-Victory Centers
Lone Star College North Harris News
Published on: July 01, 2014 Lone Star College-North Harris has recently named Dr. Daria Willis as the dean of instruction for the LSC-Greenspoint and LSC-Victory Centers. In her new position, Dr. Willis will be overseeing instruction at both centers and providing professional assistance for the faculty and staff.
I am delighted to take on this new role at Lone Star College and make a positive contribution to the centers, said Willis. I hope to provide a clear vision and strong leadership by supporting initiatives that will increase the level of cooperation and understanding between academic and student support units, and establish programs that empower faculty, and provide an optimal environment for student success.
Previously, she served as a professor and faculty senate president at LSC-University Park, where she started their first adjunct faculty liaison program to meet the needs of adjunct faculty members on the campus. Dr. Willis is also the founder and chair of the Lone Star College Doctoral Support Group (DSG) and served as the chair for the social and behavioral sciences department at LSC-University Park.
She also initiated the first faculty-sponsored endowment for student scholarships on the LSC-University Park campus. Under her leadership, the faculty senate raised $15,000 by March of 2014. In addition, she is the chair of Texas Southern Universitys Honors College community advisory board.
We are very excited to bring Dr. Willis on board, said Dr. Chantell Hines, vice president of LSC-Greenspoint Center and LSC-Victory Center. Her experience and knowledge will help contribute to the centers continued success.
Dr. Williss career in education began as an adjunct instructor of history at Tallahassee Community College and FAMU. She also spent time as the manager of the archives at the John G. Riley Center and Museum for African American History and Culture, in conjunction with Tallahassee Community College. While pursuing her doctoral degree, she was a museum education program representative ...
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UC San Diego Scientists Invent New Tool for the Synthetic Biologist's Toolbox
Newsroom: InTheNews
Publication Date: 7/11/2017
ByLine: Science Newsline
URL Link: http://www.sciencenewsline.com/news/2017071116050091.html
Page Content: Features Rob Knight, PhD
News Type: National
News_Release_Date: July 14, 2017
NewsTags: Research/Clinical Trials; UC San Diego Health Sciences
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JPL News: Hidden Stars May Make Planets Appear Smaller
In the search for planets similar to our own, an important point of comparison is the planet's density. A low density tells scientists that a planet is more likely to be gaseous like Jupiter, and a high density is associated with rocky planets like Earth. But a new study suggests some are less dense than previously thought because of a second, hidden star in their systems.As telescopes stare at particular patches of sky, they can't always differentiate between one star and two. A system of two closely orbiting stars may appear in images as a single point of light, even from sophisticated observatories such as NASA's Kepler space telescope. This can have significant consequences for determining the sizes of planets that orbit just one of these stars, says a forthcoming study in the Astronomical Journal by Elise Furlan of Caltech/IPAC-NExScI in Pasadena, California, and Steve Howell at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley."Our understanding of how many planets are small like Earth, and how many are big like Jupiter, may change as we gain more information about the stars they orbit," Furlan said. "You really have to know the star well in order to get a good handle on the properties of its planets."Read the full story from JPL News.
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Boxall Returns to MLS, Signs With Minnesota United
Santa Barbara Athletics News
Jul 13, 2017
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Former UC Santa Barbara defender Michael Boxall is returning to Major League Soccer, inking a deal with Minnesota United FC.
An internationally capped player with New Zealand, Boxall has spent the past four seasons playing in the Australian A-League and South African Premier Soccer League after being selected first overall in the 2011 MLS Supplemental Draft by Vancouver Whitecaps.
With the ability to play multiple positions on the back line, Boxall will immediately join the team pending receipt of his ITC and P-1 Visa. With the Loons, he will be playing alongside former UCSB star winger Ismaila Jome, who signed with the club before the 2016 season.
"We are really pleased to have added a player of his quality. He is a versatile player, can play right back, can play center back," said MNUFC head coach Adrian Heath. "He's got experience on the international stage with New Zealand and he's gotten better as his career has progressed. We think he is a player who is going to push everybody for a starting role on this team moving forward, we know he is champing at the bit to get going."
Boxall most recently played for SuperSport United in South Africa, making 53 appearances for the club over the past two seasons. Prior to his stop in Pretoria, Boxall spent two years playing with Wellington Phoenix in his native New Zealand.
At the international level, Boxall has received 27 senior caps, second-most among defenders on the current roster. He made his international debut at the age of 17 with the New Zealand U-20 team.
Boxall played at UCSB from 2007-10, where he was a fixture at center back. A strong four-year career culminated in All-America and Big West Defender of the Year honors as a senior in 2010, a season in which he led a UCSB defensive corps that allowed just 0.77 goals per game ...
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High Impact
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Growing up in Old Town Goleta, Britt Ortiz used to ride his bicycle to UC Santa Barbara on warm summer afternoons to swim in the campus pool. Little did he know he’d play water polo in that same pool during high school and college, or that his professional career would land him at UCSB decades later.Talk about coming full circle.
Education changed Ortiz’s life, and as director of UCSB’s Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) he’s doing his best to afford that same opportunity to as many high school students as he can reach. For his nearly 30-year effort, he has received the University of California’s 2017 Dr. Winston Doby Impact Award.
Presented at UC’s annual College Access and Preparation Forum, the award recognizes two exceptional UC professionals selected by their colleagues in recognition of their individual commitment to improving educational opportunities for all California students. The second recipient of the 2017 award is Catherine Cooper of UC Santa Cruz.
This year’s forum explored avenues for improving academic preparation and postsecondary access for all California students, particularly those from underserved communities.
“Britt has dedicated his professional career to helping students achieve their dreams of attending college,” said Margaret Klawunn, vice chancellor for student affairs at UCSB. “The work Britt does is special in many ways and I am impressed by his passions to help all students, not just those who attend UC. He cares just as much about a student going to community college or a California State University. He is deserving of the Doby Impact Award because his work improves lives and will be felt for generations to come.”
The award is named for the late Winston Churchill Doby, a visionary leader and advocate for educationally disadvantaged students. He served as vice chancellor of student affairs at UCLA and as vice president of educational ...
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IdeaShare initiative inspires wide variety of creative solutions
Vanderbilt News
Thursday, Jul. 13, 2017, 10:10 AM
by Cynthia Floyd Manley
Necessity is the mother of invention, so the saying goes.
Similarly, busy lines at lunch gave birth to some of the most popular suggestions in IdeaShare, an online experiment to test a new way to share as many ideas among as many people at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) as possible.
“I saw the email about IdeaShare that morning, and that day it took me 30 minutes to get through the line at lunch,” said fourth-year School of Medicine student Saad Rehman, one of several people who shared ideas for food trucks on campus or other food alternatives.
More than 10 percent of the workforce took part in IdeaShare, which used an easy online tool to invite everyone at VUMC to share ideas to address common challenges.
More than 2,300 people created user accounts in IdeaShare. During the first phase of the project, more than 200 shared about 250 ideas. These ideas, in turn, generated more than 9,500 comments and “likes.”
During the second phase, called “Pairwise,” more than 1,000 different users made choices among randomly paired ideas. These users ranked among a total of 40,176 pairs of ideas.
Great ideas emerged, including some that will be highlighted during the StrategyShare17 event on July 20 at the Student Life Center. A cross-functional work group assessing ways to enhance internal communications is also taking ideas from IdeaShare into account.
An idea to have wheelchairs with valet parkers available and ready for patients as they arrive has led to conversations among the departments involved to develop a solution.
Iesha Smith, a patient experience manager in Radiology and Radiological Sciences, submitted the idea after encountering a patient who had left his car unattended to search for a wheelchair for his family member.
“Through IdeaShare, I was able to connect with a diverse group of people throughout the organization to discuss a solution,” Smith said.
Other ...
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UCF Fitness and Outdoor Adventure Lake Claire Yoga
Events at UCF
Join us for a wonderful mixture of the outdoors and Yoga at the William E. and Jody Davis Recreation Area at Lake Claire. This normal flow class takes you through some of the basics of yoga in one of the most beautiful settings on campus.
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UW Daily – July 13, 2017
UW Daily
UW System / Top Stories
On Campus
COL/EXT: Competency-Based Education Put to the Test, EducationNext/Hechinger Report, Fall 2017
EAU/STO: Five things Chippewa Valley job-seekers should know (No. 5 cites UW-Eau Claire and UW-Stout placement rates for recent grads), Volume One, July 12
GRB: UW-Green Bay Prof. confirms second documented sighting of Black Widow spider in Green Bay, wearegreenbay.com, July 12
GRB: UW-Green Bay Prof. Draney says Black Widow more frightening than dangerous, NBC 26, July 12
GRB: UW-Green Bay’s McKinnie earns NBA contract, Green Bay Press-Gazette, July 12
MAD: Smith: Bait makes up much of Wisconsin bears’ diet, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 12
MAD: Expelled UW Student Enters Not-Guilty Pleas On Latest Sex Assault Charges, WPR, July 12
MAD: Hotdish, Jell-O and sauerkraut are tastes of Wisconsin past in ‘Old Farm Country Cookbook,’ com, July 12
MIL: UWM prof says state discriminates against transgender employees, Shepherd Express, July 12
OSH: UW-Oshkosh students send donations to USS Fitzgerald, Fox 11, July 12
OSH: Judge denies former UW-Oshkosh baseball coach’s motion, Fox11online.com, July 12
OSH: UW-Oshkosh’s Fischer earns coaching honor, Oshkosh Northwestern, July 12
PLT: Area college officials urge students to make smart choices about drug, alcohol use, Dubuque Telegraph Herald, July 13
State
National
House Republicans Counter Trump on University Research Costs, Chronicle of Higher Education, July 13
Campus Rape Policies Get a New Look as the Accused Get DeVos’s Ear, New York Times, July 12
Involvement of groups that have focused on false rape claims at department summit criticized, Inside Higher Education, July 13
Science’s Communication Problem, Inside Higher Ed, July 13
(Largely) Shunning White House on Higher Ed Spending, Inside Higher Ed, July 13
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Human Services to host trauma and addiction conference in August
The UAA Department of Human Services will host the Longitudinal Progression of Complex Trauma & Addiction Conference on Aug. 18 at Lucy Cuddy Hall. The all-day conference will spotlight case studies highlighting the necessity of a multi-disciplinary approach in addressing the complexity of trauma combined with addiction. Registration is now open at akcache.org. For additional information, download the conference flier (PDF, 1.6 MB).
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Writing Marathon (8/15/2017)
SJSU Events Calendar at SJSU Main Campus - King Library
Event Details
Writing Marathon
Event Description:This is an event we offer four times each year (late-summer, mid-January, mid-Fall and mid-Spring)– we partner with the University Library and set up shop in one of their large and wonderful meeting room spaces, to create a writing oasis. We provide coffee, tea, snacks and a delicious and nutritious lunch. You bring yourself and whatever you need to work on a writing project of your own choosing. It’s a great way to wrap up (or at least move forward) a project or two before the semester starts. You can come and go as you please – just let us know if you plan to be there at all, and if you plan to be there for lunch. Writing Marathon RSVP form.
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Football. DB Andre Chachere Named To Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List
San Jose State Spartans News -- www.sjsuspartans.com
The FWAA & Charlotte Touchdown Club took notice of Andre Chachere's all-conference season in 2016.
July 13, 2017
2017 Nagurski Trophy Watch List
Charlotte, N.C.----- San Jose State University football defensive back Andre Chachere is one of 103 players nationally and one of five from the Mountain West named to the 2017 Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List.
The award honors the best defensive player in the country and is named after the former University of Minnesota and Chicago Bears star player who is enshrined in the College Football and Pro Football Halls of Fame. Members of the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) vote for the annual award.
In 2016, Chachere was a first-team All-Mountain West cornerback. He led the Spartans with four interceptions and finished first in the conference and fourth nationally with his 18 total passes defended (1.5/game -- four interceptions + 14 pass break-ups) in 12 games. He became the first Spartan in four years with more than 100 yards in interception returns with 117 -- 11th best nationally. Three times last season, the senior from Fresno, Calif., was credited with three pass break-ups in a game -- Utah, Iowa State and Fresno State.
Chachere shared the team lead with two forced fumbles and was in on 36 tackles. He was named San Jose State's Most Valuable Player at the team's annual post-season awards event.
Each week, the FWAA will announce a National Defensive Player of the Week. The FWAA and the Charlotte Touchdown Club will name five finalists for this year's Bronco Nagurski Trophy on November 16. The winner will be presented on December 4 in Charlotte, N.C.
Chachere is the latest San Jose State player named to a preseason football watch list. Recently, placekicker Bryce Crawford, Lou Groza Collegiate Placekicker Award, and center Keoni Taylor, Rimington Trophy, were named to national watch lists.
Season tickets for the 2017 San Jose State University football season are available by calling (408) 924-SJTX or ...
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Canadian health card without baby's sex designation could reshape struggle for transgender rights, policy researcher says
KU News Headlines
LAWRENCE — Canadian officials have issued a health document to a newborn baby that did not specify the baby's sex, according to national news reports.Transgender advocates claim it is possibly the first time this has happened in the world. Searyl Atli Doty was born in British Columbia, "outside the medical system," and the baby's parent wants to avoid assigning gender to the child. Canadian authorities have not yet issued a birth certificate.
A University of Kansas researcher who has studied transgender policy issues and politics is available to discuss what the issuing of the health card means for the transgender movement.
Don Haider-Markel, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, is co-editor of the book "Transgender Rights and Politics: Groups, Issue Framing & Policy Adoption." C-SPAN's Book TV in a 2015 segment featured the research. His research and teaching are focused on the representation of interests in the policy process and the dynamics among public opinion, political behavior and public policy. He also co-authored a recent study on difficulties facing transgender political candidates.
"This move is a radical rethinking of the problems facing transgender people and nongender binary people. It has the potential to reshape the struggle for transgender rights because it removes the necessity of having to change government documents for those that have transitioned," Haider-Markel said. "And for the many people that do not desire, or cannot afford a surgical transition, having no gender marker on documents would mean that they have no pressure to transition. That said, I don’t expect that a policy shift such as this would occur overnight."
In most parts of the United States, a person must undergo a medically supervised transition before government documents, such as a birth certificate, can be changed to reflect a different gender, he said.
To arrange an interview with Haider-Markel, contact George Diepenbrock at 785-864-8853 or ...
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Award-Winning Research Could Make Wristwatches Smarter Than Smartphones
University News
Award-Winning Research Could Make Wristwatches Smarter Than Smartphones
Stony Brook, NY– July 13, 2017
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Award-winning research co-authored by
Xiaojun Bi
, an assistant professor in the
Department of Computer Science
at
Stony Brook University
outlines the design, decoding algorithm and implementation for COMPASS, a rotational keyboard that will be used to enter text into smartwatches without the need for a touchscreen.
Entering text on smartwatches is currently quite difficult, especially on those without a virtual keyboard. COMPASS is a text entry method that is based in the bezel of the watch, allowing the user to rotate three cursors that will enable them to select which letter they want to type. After selecting their letter, the locations of the cursors are then dynamically optimized to reduce the distance of the next rotation. This is similar to the predictive typing that most users would be familiar with on their smartphones, but finally allows a comparable method to be applied to smartwatches for the first time.
The researchers evaluated the performance of COMPASS with a series of user studies, which revealed that with 90 minutes of practice, users increased their typing speed from 10 wpm (words per minute) to 12.5 wpm. As stated in the research paper, an advantage of the circular layout is that different from conventional QWERTY keyboards T9 keyboards (the keyboard on the Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch), is that it allows the remaining screen area to be in a round shape. Therefore, the screen contents can be scaled to fit in the inner area without changing the look-and-feel.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18MPaI-NB9Q
The research paper won a prestigious award at this year’s
ACM CHI Conference
on Human Factors in Computer Systems (ACM CHI). ACM CHI is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. Professor Bi’s paper was co-authored by researchers from Tsinghua University (Beijing), the Key Laboratory of Pervasive ...
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Stony Brook Long Island Children's Hospital and March Of Dimes Partner Together For 2011 "March For Babies"
Stony Brook Long Island Children's Hospital and March Of Dimes Partner Together For 2011 “March For Babies”
March of Dimes “March for Babies” to be Held at Stony Brook Campus on Sunday May 1, 2011
STONY BROOK, NY,
February 14, 2011 –Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital will partner with the March of Dimes as the Suffolk County venue for its annual “March for Babies” fundraising event. On Sunday, May 1 hundreds of walkers – individuals and teams – will gather at the Stony Brook University main campus to raise funds and give hope to the more than half a million babies born too soon each year.
“The March comes at an excellent time,” said Margaret McGovern, MD, PhD Physician-in-Chief of Stony Brook Children’s and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics. “We are scheduled to open our new state of the art Neonatal Intensive Care Unit this summer, and many of the walkers who will participate on May will have a real connection to this commitment on the part of the Children’s Hospital to provide the most advanced care to premature and sick infants in a new facility designed to be family friendly.”
Stony Brook Children’s has chosen Jenny Tranfalgia as the Suffolk County 2011 March for Babies Honoree. It was 27 years ago that Jenny, and her husband Joe, had their daughter Amanda who was born at 26 weeks and lost her battle with prematurity 33 days later. As they went through the bereavement process, the Tranfaglias started the “Little Angel Fund” (LAF) whose mission is to support, educate and care for families touched by prematurity and make their experience in the NICU more comfortable.
Stony Brook Children’s has also designated the Niemann Family of Smithtown as the official Ambassador Family for the 2011 March for Babies. Natalie and Kirk Niemann’s second daughter, Lila was born eight weeks premature on September 27, 2008 with an abnormal collection of ...
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Lone Star College System Trustees to hold regular meeting June 4
Lone Star College System News
Published on: June 01, 2015
The Lone Star College System Board of Trustees will hold its workshop and regular meeting Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 6 p.m. in the board room of the Lone Star College Training and Development Center, 5000 Research Forest Drive, The Woodlands, TX 77381.
The link for the board agenda is available online at LoneStar.edu/board the Monday prior to the meeting. For more information, contact Jed Young, Executive Director of Communications, at 832.813.6521.
This notice is given pursuant to Section 551.001 et seq. of the Texas Government Code.
Lone Star College has been opening doors to a better community for more than 40 years. Founded in 1973, LSC remains steadfast in its commitment to student success and credential completion. Today, with almost 83,000 students in credit classes, and a total enrollment of more than 95,000, Lone Star College is the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area and one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the nation. Stephen C. Head, Ph.D., is the chancellor of LSC, which consists of six colleges including LSC-CyFair, LSC-Kingwood, LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris, LSC-Tomball and LSC-University Park, seven centers, LSC-University Center at Montgomery, LSC-University Center at University Park, Lone Star Corporate College, and LSC-Online.
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Elementary Students Tour College Art Gallery
Lone Star College Kingwood News
Published on: June 25, 2015
Shadow Forest Elementary fifth grade students proudly display their artwork after visiting LSC-Kingwoods Alchemy of Tea exhibit.
Days before summer break, students at Humble Elementary and Shadow Forest Elementary schools participated in art workshops that included a tour of the Alchemy of Tea exhibition in Lone Star College-Kingwoods Fine Arts Gallery. The workshops were coordinated by the art gallery and Humble Independent School District.
Our goal was to introduce elementary school students to their local art gallery and for them to learn about the artists in the Alchemy of Tea exhibit, said Kris Larson, gallery director. The workshops are a place for students to incorporate what they are seeing and hearing into their own handmade art works.
In preparation for the fieldtrip, elementary students were asked to write an essay explaining why they would like to visit an art gallery. Students who wrote the best essays were invited to participate in the gallery tour and hands-on activities.
Touring the art gallery and being part of the workshop, broadens students understanding of art and culture, said Julie Gallow, art teacher at Humble Elementary School. We are very excited about being here for the first time. We look forward to continuing this and having more workshops planned for next year.
In addition to the art gallery tour, LSC-Kingwood professor Mari Omori talked about the history of tea and provided information and materials for students to create their own teabag artwork.
The fragility and golden hues found in this collection project the historical and spiritual roots of tea. At the same time, each artist's subjects are widely varied and bring a contemporary take on tea as a medium and an inspiration, Omori said.
I wanted to go to the workshop to learn more about tea. I learned how to use recycled teabags to be creative and design anything, said Dylan ...
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A Day In the Life of a News Anchor: Tom Abrahams Lectures at LSC-Montgomery
Lone Star College Montgomery News
Published on: April 27, 2015
Ever wondered what it is like behind the news scenes? Find out the inside scoop at a Lone Star College-Montgomery Academys for Life Long Learning (ALL) lecture taught by local weekend evening news anchor Tom Abrahams on Thursday, April 23, from 10 a.m. in the auditorium at the LSC-Montgomery University Center at Montgomery.The ALL program is fortunate to be able to invite in a number of highly recognized speakers such as Abrahams, said ALL program manager Steven Gorman. This class provides members a chance to hear how the news is researched and selected to be shown to local residence, as well as offer a question and answer session. Abrahams, Channel 13s weekend evening news anchor, has traveled the world since 1999. From Chernobyl and the Panama Canal, to the Amazon jungle and the Black Sea, Abrahams has shown viewers how far away places affect our lives here in southeast Texas. He has produced special reports on subjects including the new space race, the 2008 presidential election, and the future of energy production and his award-winning reports include three regional Edward R. Murrow Awards.His lecture, which is free and open to the public, will discuss how he covers national politics and stories that relate to energy, the environment, and the economy.ALL is a membership organization filled with lectures, seminars and discussions, with classes covering a variety of topics such as art, computer technology,personal growth, languages, history, travel and more.Each of the six colleges within Lone Star College offers continuing education for older, active adults through the ALL organization. Course offerings and program events vary with each campus.A small annual membership fee of $35 allows members to take academy courses free of charge or at a minimal rate. The annual membership lasts from September 1 to August 31.For more information about ALL, contact LSC-Montgomerys continuing education department at (936) 273 ...
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Few College Offices Open Through Winter Mini Mester
Lone Star College Tomball News
Published on: December 12, 2012
Most Lone Star College-Tomball offices will be closed for the Winter Holiday from Thursday, December 20 through Wednesday, January 2. Winter Mini Mester classes will be held in the South Building during this time. A staff member from advising will be available on days that classes are held in room South -175 from the hours of 8 am to noon. The LSC-Tomball Community Library will be open during this period, but hours will vary. For a complete list of Winter Break hours for all LSC-Tomball departments, please visit http://LoneStar.edu/tomball-contacts.
Normal business will resume Thursday, January 3.
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