Stony Brook Ventricular Assist Device Program Earns National Accreditation From the Joint Commission

Medical Center & Health Care

Stony Brook Ventricular Assist Device Program Earns National Accreditation From the Joint Commission
First and only program on Long Island to achieve accreditation after rigorous two-day review

STONY BROOK, N.Y., March 7, 2011 – The Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) program in the Heart Center at Stony Brook University Medical Center is not only the only VAD program on Long Island, it is also now the first VAD program on Long Island to receive national accreditation from The Joint Commission after an intensive two-day review by a team of Joint Commission surveyors. The inspection of the VAD program occurred Feb. 28 and March 1. The program's "certification of distinction" is for a two-year period, with a performance review at the end of the first year. "Accreditation is a seal of approval that signals to our patients that they are in a quality program and are in capable hands when they come to Stony Brook," said Todd K. Rosengart, MD, Co-Chair of the Heart Center, and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery for the Stony Brook University School of Medicine.   "This is an outstanding achievement reflecting on a total team commitment to providing quality care to patients requiring ventricular assist devices as 'destination therapy,'" said Margaret Duffy, MS, RN, NEA-BC, Associate Director of Nursing for Cardiac Services at Stony Brook University Hospital.   Destination therapy refers to VAD as the final treatment option for select patients whose hearts require mechanical assistance to pump blood. Once used as a temporary device for heart failure patients awaiting transplants, VAD now helps more patients extend and improve their quality of life.   To achieve accreditation, VAD programs are evaluated on standards in The Joint Commission's Disease-Specific Care Certification Manual. Programs must demonstrate conformity with clinical practice guidelines or evidence-based practices. They are also required to collect and analyze data on ...

Read More

Lone Star College wins prestigious marketing awards

Lone Star College System News

Published on: May 21, 2015 The Houston Chapter of the American Marketing Association awarded Lone Star College with three Crystal Awards for excellence in marketing and communications.
The Crystal Awards recognize Houstons best marketing work among organizations, businesses and advertising agencies.
Lone Star College is delighted to be recognized by this respected organization, said Emily deMilliano, LSC executive director of marketing. The marketing/communications department has many talented individuals who work very hard at making sure Lone Star College is communicating its message in an efficient and professional manner.
LSC received Crystal Awards for: best newsletter-print (Star newsletter, fall 2014), best illustration (Metal Bookmark Promo Item) and best nonprofit website (LoneStar.edu). In addition to the awards, LSC was a finalist in a number of other categories including advertising-magazine campaign, advertising radio campaign, advertising TV-single, product or service brochure, product or service catalog, website-most improved, and online marketing across two or more unique mediums.
For many of our students, LoneStar.edu is their first experience with the college and its important that experience is a positive one, said John King, LSC executive director, digital services. Being recognized as having the best nonprofit website validates the hard work our team does in helping those students succeed.
Entries were judged on the challenge, objectives strategy, message alignment and results. The judges evaluated more than 360 entries in 63 categories. This years contest judges commented that the winners of this years awards wowed the judges with their ability to show how their projects and campaigns affected their results.

Lone Star College was awarded three Crystal Awards for excellence bythe Houston Chapter of the American Marketing.
A portion of the proceeds from the Crystal Awards goes to AMA Houston Gives Back, the chapters philanthropic arm that provides grants for qualified marketing-related endeavors of local non-profit organizations, helping them to better serve their communities. 
Lone Star College has been opening ...

Read More

LSC-Kingwood Baseball Team Highlights Successful Season

Lone Star College Kingwood News

Published on: June 25, 2015
LSC-Kingwood Baseball Team Highlights Successful Season
Lone Star College-Kingwoods club baseball team wrapped up its 2014-2015 season with a .789 winning percentage and winning conference.
This was their first conference championship and post-season appearance since moving up to the Division I level of the National Club Baseball Association (NCBA) in 2010. The NCBA Gulf Coast East Conference consists of teams from University of Houston, Stephen F. Austin University, Louisiana State University, and Tulane University.
I am very proud of this team for a number of reasons. They accepted the challenge presented to them and in all honesty, they accomplished more than even they thought, said Daniel Jauregui, head baseball coach.
LSC-Kingwoods baseball team was the number one seed in the Gulf Coast Regional Tournament where they competed against the University of North Texas (UNT), University of Texas (UT) and Texas Tech University. They defeated UNT 4-2, but was eliminated with losses to UT 9-4 and to Texas Tech 5-3. LSC-Kingwoods conference record was 10-1 with an overall record of 15-4 which earned them a ranking of 20th in the nation.
This years team understood the long steep climb they had to do to gain the respect of the league and country, Jauregui said. This desire to prove they belonged is what drove their success in a number of first for LSC baseball.
In addition to the teams success, players also earned individual recognition. Stephen Kwiatkowski won the 2015 Gulf Coast Pitcher of the Year Award with 5 wins and 0 losses and a 0.35 ERA. Kwiatkowski and Chris Carrell earned 1st Team All Region, Patrick Welmer earned 2nd Team All Region, and Chandler ONeal earned 3rd Team All Region in the Gulf Coast Conference Spring 2015.
The key to our success was our team chemistry. We worked together and pushed through the tough times, which led us to be a great ball team, Kwiatkowski ...

Read More

Chicago roars onto the stage at Lone Star College-Montgomery And All That Jazz!!!

Lone Star College Montgomery News

Published on: April 21, 2015


The Mainstage Theatre at Lone Star College-Montgomery has been turned into jazzy nightclub for the spring production of Chicago! In the roaring '20s Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap ... until he finds out hes been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another Merry Murderess Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the American Dream: fame, fortune and acquittal. This production is a particularly special one as it marks the first time all three performing arts departments - music, dance, and drama - have teamed up for a production of this size on the Lone Star College-Montgomery stage. The audience should expect to see a wonderful collaboration between the music, drama and dance departments. The students have all grown from this experience and have really shown a great deal of professionalism while working together, said musical director and LSC-Montgomery music professor Dr. Mark Marotto. Since its debut in 1975, the sharp-edged satire has been a cherished piece of American musical theatre, with a dazzling score and always bringing to mind Bob Fosses signature choreographic style. This musical provides us with an opportunity to showcase some of our finest talent, said drama department head Chase Waites. Our students have really stepped up and brought this iconic piece of musical theatre to life on our stage.  The shows director, Tim Campbell, said that the creative team has chosen to suggest the shows historical time period of the 1920s rather than recreate it fully. He says the production team has chosen to take the pieces of all of the shows previous incarnations that have inspired them and filter them into this one production. Chicago is based off the 1926 play written by Maurine Dallas Watkins ...

Read More

Free Job Search Seminar at LSC-Tomball Community Library

Lone Star College Tomball News

Published on: December 10, 2012
Lone Star College-Tomball Community Library and Workforce Solutions are presenting a free seminar designed to help job-seekers rethink their profession and repackage their professional skill set to become more competitive in the job market.

Rebranding Your Skills (December 19, 1:00- 3:00 p.m.) is a two-hour seminar on how to evaluate employment goals, match skills with potential employers needs, and target market those skills.  Determining job objectives, identifying basic skill sets, and tailoring a presentation accordingly are just a few of the topics to be discussed.
The seminar will be held in the Lone Star College-Tomball Community Library and followed by a one-hour resume lab (3:00-4:00 p.m.).  Lab participants will need their library cards to log in to the computers (for those without a card, a temporary card can be issued) and a jump/flash drive to save their resumes.  For more information or to register for the seminar, call the Lone Star College-Tomball Community Library Reference Desk at 832.559.4211.  LSC-Tomball is located at 30555 Tomball Parkway, at the intersection of State Highway 249 and Zion Road.
# # #
With 75,000 students in credit classes, and a total enrollment of more than 90,000, Lone Star College System is the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area, and the fastest-growing community college system in Texas. Dr. Richard Carpenter is the chancellor of LSCS, which consists of six colleges including LSC-CyFair, LSC-Kingwood, LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris, LSC-Tomball and LSC-University Park, five centers, LSC-University Center at Montgomery, LSC-University Center at University Park, Lone Star Corporate College, and LSC-Online. To learn more visit LoneStar.edu.








Read More

Allure - Using a Sheet Mask Every Day Is Actually Good for Your Skin

News RSS

Elizabeth Tanzi, MD, associate clinical professor of dermatology, explained the benefits of using a sheet mask on your skin in an article for Allure.


Read More

WVU business school leads 15 years of Finance University, helping primary and secondary school students understand money

Stories | WVU Today | West Virginia University

Teaching
teachers. That’s what the 15th Annual Finance University, a week-long seminar in Charleston is
all about, as primary and secondary school teachers learn how to teach students
about money.

Finance
University: Economic & Financial Education for Teachers is a financial
literacy program that continues through July 14. For the past 14 years, the
program has been a joint effort between the West Virginia State Auditor’s
Office and the Department of Finance in the West
Virginia University College
of Business and Economics.
This year begins the transition of Finance University into the outreach arm of
B&E’s Center for Financial Literacy and
Education.

“Being the 15th
anniversary, this is a monumental year for Finance University, and the CFLE is excited to take over the responsibilities associated
with the program. It is a great opportunity to continue the legacy of this
program and we are hoping to grow the program to include a greater number of
educators from across the state in the coming years,” said Dr.
Naomi Boyd, chair of the finance department and founding
director of the CFLE.

Finance University brings speakers and scholars
together to provide instruction to educators on topics related to financial
literacy such as investment strategies and opportunities, retirement planning,
goal setting and budgeting. It serves as a platform for teachers to not only
learn about their own financial planning, but also provides them with the
knowledge and resources to take back with them into their classrooms — from
student debt to understanding the taxes that come out of your paycheck.

“We bring in speakers
from the FDIC, the Federal Reserve Bank, credit card companies, software
companies and more. There’s an awful lot of financial literacy material out
there, and the teachers take it all in during the workshops and then they
really use it in their classrooms,” said Dr.
Bill Riley, professor of finance ...

Read More

UTA-linked startup TissueGen, recognized with “Medical Device Engineering Breakthrough” award

The University of Texas at Arlington News Releases





Biotech startup TissueGen, Inc. was awarded the “Medical Device Engineering Breakthrough” award by MedTech Breakthrough, an independent organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global health and medical technology market. More than 2000 inventions from more than 10 countries competed for the awards for 2017.
TissueGen won the award for its patented ELUTE® fiber, which provides pharmaceutical, therapeutic and medical device companies with topical and implantable drug delivery from biodegradable polymer-based fibers. Medical devices incorporating these fibers have the potential to revolutionize tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications including spinal cord injury repair, nerve regeneration, orthopedic soft tissue repair, and many more.
ELUTE® fiber is based on patented technologies developed by Dr. Kevin Nelson while he was a bioengineering faculty member at the University of Texas at Arlington.  He later founded TissueGen to bring the technology to the market.
“Progress on implantable and topical fiber-based delivery of biologics and pharmaceuticals is paving the way for the next generation of orthopedic medical products, tissue engineering breakthroughs and advances in regenerative medicine,” Nelson said. “This award is further recognition that these technologies represent the future of medicine.”



ELUTE® fiber is based on patented technologies developed by Dr. Kevin Nelson while he was a bioengineering faculty member at the University of Texas at Arlington.  

TissueGen’s patented extrusion process and fiber technologies enable delivery of the broadest range of pharmaceuticals and biologics previously impracticable to incorporate in topical and implantable fiber-based devices, and opens up new possibilities for improving patient care.
"We are pleased to recognize TissueGen for their outstanding display of engineering innovation in the development of ELUTE® fiber," said James Johnson, managing director, MedTech Breakthrough. "The competition among medical device and solution engineering award nominations was fierce, and TissueGen displayed a compelling and high-impact solution for a broad range of topical and implantable medical devices products."
Teri Schultz, director of ...

Read More

VB: Mavs Video Shoot

UT Arlington Mavs Blog


Thanks to the great folks with UTA's multimedia department, on Friday afternoon UTA's volleyball team opened the first of its photo and video shoots to take place over the next few days. The team gathered for a video shoot, with each student-athlete filmed for an eventual introduction video for home matches at College Park Center. On Monday, the Mavs will have their still photography shoot, before completing the video element of the preseason on Wednesday. 





Read More

Wayne Law Golf Outing raises nearly $25,000 for endowed scholarship

Law School News

Return to News Listing


Wayne Law Golf Outing raises nearly $25,000 for endowed scholarshipJune 26, 2017The 2017 Wayne Law Golf Outing on Monday, June 5, raised nearly $25,000 for an endowed scholarship that provides financial assistance to second- and third-year students.

The scramble format event was at the Country Club of Detroit in Grosse Pointe Farms. The day included lunch, a cocktail reception and dinner. 92 golfers participated in the event.

The title sponsor was Lear Corp. and gold sponsors were Tim Guerriero and Debra Marcon.

At the reception, a $3,000 scholarship was presented to rising second-year student Kimberly Blake. Blake is a summer associate at Butzel Long and for the second half of the summer she will intern at Hogan Lovells in Mexico City.

Golf outing committee members were Chair David Galbenski, ’93, Lumen Legal; Marc Bakst, ’88, Bodman; Henry Brennan III, ’83, Howard & Howard; Chris Bernard, ’00, Bodman; Dan Bretz, ’82, Clark Hill; John Camp, ’05, Plastipak Packaging Inc.; Anthony Dietz, ’97, Mahany Law; Tim Guerriero, ’80, retired; Professor Peter J. Henning, Wayne Law; Paul Hines, ’73, Gasiorek, Morgan, Greco & McCauley; Terry Larkin, ’79, Lear Corp.; Larry Mann, ’80, Wayne Law; David McClaughry, ’93, Lorenz & Kopf; Rasul Raheem, ’84, Plunkett Cooney; Brittany Schultz, ’01, Ford Motor Company; and Robert Sickels, ’78, Sommers Schwartz.

The 2018 Wayne Law Golf Outing will be June 4 at the Country Club of Detroit.

Photo:



Rising second-year student Kimberly Blake (center) poses for a photo with major gift officer Carolyn Noble (right) and Interim Dean Lance Gable (left) after being presented with her scholarship at the 2017 Wayne Law Golf Outing.



Participants in the 2017 Wayne Law Golf Outing include, from left, Mike Horn, head coach of the WSU men’s golf team; Lawrence C. Mann, associate director of professional skills at Wayne Law; Meredith Weaver, head coach of the WSU women’s golf team; and Malcolm Perry, sales manager at LaFontaine Kia in Dearborn.



Read More

Mary Malaska to direct OSU’s online bachelor’s degree program in nursing

Oklahoma State University - News and Communications




Mary Malaska is the new director of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) online degree program at Oklahoma State University, where she will also serve as an assistant professor on the Stillwater campus. The new RN to BSN program offers registered nurses who have completed an accredited associate’s degree or diploma program the opportunity to earn their bachelor’s degree in nursing to enrich and expand their careers. 
Malaska, who holds a doctorate in nursing practice from Duquesne University, received her associate’s degree in nursing from OSU-OKC in 1978 and is a certified nurse instructor. She was named Nurse of the Year in 2011 at INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center, where she provided care to new mothers, infants and female surgical patients as a staff nurse from 1997-2016.  
Malaska has served in several positions at the OSU-OKC campus, including associate professor and division head of health sciences. She was also the team leader of the Nursing Care of Vulnerable Populations teaching team, which assisted nursing students and provided clinical supervision. She received the Dean Stringer Excellence in Teaching Award from OSU-OKC in 2007.  
Malaska earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 1993, and a Master of Science in Nursing Education from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 1996.  
She is a member of the American Nurses Association, the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, the National League of Nursing, the Oklahoma League of Nursing, the Oklahoma Nurses Association, Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Theta Tau.  
The first cohort of OSU’s RN to BSN program will begin coursework this fall. The application deadline for Spring 2018 is September 1, 2017. Learn more at http://education.okstate.edu/bsn.


Read More

The best of the best: NAU launches All-Steinway Initiative (VIDEO)

NAU NewsNAU News

Ask a pianist what piano they prefer to play, and 98 out of 100 will choose Steinway. In a machine-made universe, Steinway & Sons have produced handmade works of art for more than 160 years, recognized as the premier maker of fine pianos.Northern Arizona University’s School of Music has been a leading institution in undergraduate and graduate music study for decades. As part of a schoolwide responsibility to provide the highest quality experiences and instruments for every music student, the All-Steinway School Initiative was launched in hopes of joining the 175 elite music schools throughout the world that possess this designation.
NAU-TV’s Chris Strobel tells the story.
[embedded content]
For your listening pleasure, enjoy performances from students Mikayla Rogers and Khalid McGhee on one of NAU’s Steinway & Sons pianos.




Read More

Student Teacher Kickoff

Academic Calendar

Friday, August 25, 20178:00 AM - 11:45 AM (CT)
Altgeld Hall Auditorium
Event Type
Academic
Department
Educator Licensure
Event Url
http://www.niu.edu/educator-licensure/
Link
https://calendar.niu.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=31609


Read More

Largest Tour Ever

SSU News

Sonoma State University Provost Lisa Vollendorf asked the 500 children visiting the campus from Sacramento's Roberts Family Development Center on July 13 how many students attend Sonoma State. "It's more than a thousand," she replied to one. "No, it's less than 5 million," she told another. "It's about 10,000. This is a school where the faculty and teachers know your name," she told the largest group ever to visit Sonoma State for a tour.
This was the second annual "I Am the Future Day" visit by RFDC, who was also invited last year by President Judy K. Sakaki to experience a taste of college life. The K-8 students were treated to lunch in the student cafeteria The Kitchens, activities and demonstrations with faculty and staff throughout the day, and dinner and a movie al fresco on Weill Lawn at the Green Music Center.

Vollendorf, who officially began her tenure as Provost about two weeks prior on July 1, encouraged the children to envision themselves as college students. "As you walk around, think about becoming a student here and think about telling your brothers, sisters and friends that if they work hard in school, Sonoma State is a place for them too," she said.

RFDC serves mostly African-American youth in underserved areas of Sacramento. Most of the children in the program would be the first in their family to go to college, so having an experience like this is important to plant the idea of college in their minds, say RFDC program coordinators.

President Sakaki has made diversity and inclusivity a priority throughout her higher education career. Since beginning her tenure as President at Sonoma State, she has continuously supported initiatives and programs with the message that everyone can go to college, including attaining federal recognition for Sonoma State as a Hispanic Serving Institution earlier this year.


Read More

CI to launch autism awareness events by lighting up the library blue

CSU Chanel Islands News

Camarillo, Calif., March 28, 2016 — People who live with autism are not dealing with a mental illness, but a developmental disability. Vaccines do not cause autism. People with autism have a great deal to contribute to society. No two people with autism will have the same symptoms.These are just some of the truths about autism that advocates and educators are trying to share in order to break many of the misconceptions that still exist about this often misunderstood condition.CSU Channel Islands (CI) will join the “Light It Up Blue” awareness campaign at 6 p.m. on April 5 by illuminating the John Spoor Broome Library with blue light.The public is invited to the ceremony, which launches a series of events designed to honor a global initiative called the United Nations World Autism Awareness Day, which falls on April 2.The Great Pyramids of Giza, the Sydney Opera House and the Empire State Building are among the world landmarks that will “Light it Up Blue” on April 2.The United Nations General Assembly declared April 2 “World Autism Awareness Day” (WAAD) in 2007, with the goal of bringing the world's attention to autism, a growing global health concern affecting tens of millions. WAAD activities help to increase global knowledge of autism and stress the importance of early diagnosis and early intervention.The objective is to shine a light, a blue light, on autism to create a better understanding about those living with autism; to highlight the resources available; and to celebrate all that these individuals have to offer.“We want to celebrate their unique skills,” said Valeri Cirino-Paez, Assistant Director of Access, Orientation & Transition Programs at CI. “It’s also important to highlight the capabilities of these individuals. We do have students here who are on the autism spectrum, some with 4.0 grade point averages. They have the potential to contribute greatly to anything they pursue. I ...

Read More

Stop Signs to Be Installed at Kellogg Drive-Red Gum Lane Intersection

PolyCentric

Traffic signals at the intersection of Kellogg Drive and Red Gum Lane will be taken out of service and replaced with stop signs on Monday, July 17.
The temporary use of stop signs to control the intersection near the Student Services Building construction site is scheduled to last through Sept. 8.
The removal of the traffic signals will clear space for the construction of the realigned portion of Kellogg Drive. New traffic signals will replace the older models that were removed. The Facilities Design and Construction department will activate the realigned road in late August or early September.
To help minimize congestion, university traffic control officers will help direct vehicle flow during peak commute times.
Orientation sessions for freshmen and transfer students are expected to bring an influx of summer traffic, with each freshman session likely to consist of about 450 students and 200 parents coming to campus for the one- and two-day events.
Remaining orientation sessions for freshmen are scheduled July 19-20, July 26-27, Aug. 2-3, Aug. 16-17 and Aug. 23-24. Transfer student orientation sessions are slated for July 17-18, July 24-25, Aug. 1, Aug. 7, Aug. 10, Aug. 15, Aug. 22 and Aug. 29. Check-in time for orientation is 7 a.m.
Signage along Kellogg Drive also will be installed to caution drivers about the temporary stop signs at the intersection.


Read More

CSUSB professor comments on faith groups fighting hate crimes

CSUSB News

Bomb threats have been known to empty entire office buildings, shut down schools or bring dozens of police officers to a scene. But in some mosques around the country, voicemails threatening mass murder are ignored, not reported.
"I often hear, 'We got a voicemail. Someone said they're going to kill us all.' When I ask what they did, they say, 'We hit delete,'" said Corey Saylor, director of the department to monitor and combat Islamophobia for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR.








The American Muslims he's meeting with don't have a death wish, he added. They've just become numb to the threat. If something horrible happens often enough, it starts feeling inevitable, like it's not worth fighting.
Part of Saylor's job is to convince people that contacting the police about alleged hate crimes benefits their entire community, not just those threatened.
"We’re trying to make sure that people understand why not ignoring what happened to them is helpful to other people," he said.
Saylor is part of a growing movement of religious people and organizations, including law enforcement, working to expose the "hidden figure of crime," a phrase that refers to an estimated 125,000 alleged bias-related incidents that police never hear about each year. These activists ease victims' fears about law enforcement and facilitate police reports, addressing the biggest roadblock to understanding why hate crimes happen: underreporting.
"If we don’t measure the problem, we can’t solve the problem," said Rajdeep Singh Jolly, interim managing director of programs for the Sikh Coalition.
Between 2011 and 2015, more than half of alleged hate crimes went unreported to law enforcement agencies, according to a new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.


Half of hate crimes aren't reported to police. How can faith groups help? | Heather Tuttle, Deseret News











In 4 in 10 of these cases, victims said they didn't involve the ...

Read More

Menwa UPI Turut Sukseskan Acara Silaturahim UPI

Kabar UPI


Bandung, UPI
Anggota Resimen Mahasiswa Batalyon XI/Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (Menwa Yon XI/UPI) mengikuti kegiatan Silaturahim Keluarga Besar Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia bersama Prof. Dr. K.H. Syihabuddin, M. Pd., di Gedung Ahmad Sanusi, Kampus UPI Jalan Dr. Setiabudhi Nomor 229 Bandung, Rabu (5/7/2017).

Prof. Dr. K.H. Syihabuddin, M. Pd. menyampaikan “Kata-kata yang baik dari mulut seseorang akan melahirkan satu kebaikan, lalu kebaikan itu diikuti orang lain maka buah atau pahala dari kata yang baik akan dipetik oleh penuturnya tanpa dikurangi sedikitpun. Demikian pula sebaliknya. Jika perkataan atau tulisan yang keluar dari seseorang itu berupa keburukan, maka ia akan meraih petaka dan dosa dari keburukan itu tanpa dikurangi sedikit pun hingga hari kiamat.”
Pada acara ini Menwa Yon XI/UPI membantu berjalannya acara dengan memberikan arahan kepada para tamu undangan untuk mengisi tempat yang sudah disediakan. Acara ini juga merupakan ajang bagi anggota Menwa Yon XI/UPI untuk semakin mempererat tali silaturahmi dengan civitas akademika UPI.

“Acara silaturahim bersama keluarga besar UPI merupakan salah satu cara untuk mempererat kembali tali persaudaaraan antar sesama terutama dari pihak menwa kepada seluruh civitas akademika UPI, selain itu acara silaturahim ini kita bisa membangun komunikasi yang lebih baik untuk kemajuan bersama”, ujar Komandan Menwa Yon XI/UPI Aris Rismansah.
Selama bulan ramadan anggota Menwa Yon XI/UPI juga mengikuti kegiatan lain yang dilaksanakan di UPI, seperti pengamana tarawih, kegiatan buka di masjid Al-Furqan, tabligh akbar, tadarus bersama yang dilaksanakan setelah shalat sunnah tarawih, dan pembagian 1.453 bingkisan kepada kaum dhua’afa dan kegiatan silaturahim ini merupakan acara puncak dari rangkaian kegiatan tersebut.
Manusia merupakan makhluk sosial yang membutuhkan orang lain dan lingkungan sosialnya sebagai sarana untuk, dengan diadakannya acara silaturahim ini semoga bisa selalu menjaga keutuhan keluraga besar Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. (Yeshie/Admin/Yon XI)








Read More

W&M Women’s Track and Field Picks Up 13 Newcomers for 2017-18

College of William & Mary

The William & Mary women's track and field team will add 13 newcomers to the roster this fall, Director of Track & Field and Cross Country Alex Heacock '09 announced today.  The class includes a grad transfer from Virginia Tech, as well as eight in-state freshmen and recruits from up and down the East Coast including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida.  Six women will also join the Tribe's cross country team, winners of each of the past five Colonial Athletic Association Championships."I'm very proud of how our staff worked diligently to put this class together," said Heacock. "We certainly filled some existing needs, which will strengthen a roster that is filled with talented upperclassmen. Our goal is to have a well-rounded program, and this class demonstrates that commitment with talent being added to each event area. The future is bright with this group of talented young student-athletes joining the Tribe."Following is a brief look at each member of the incoming class:Natalie Bernstein - Sprints/Hurdles
New York, N.Y./The Spence School100m - 12.70
200m - 26.02
300m - 41.36i
400m Hurdles - 1:03.34Swept the 100m, 200m, and 400m hurdles at the league championships despite missing much of the season.Jadyn Currie – Sprints/Hurdles
Virginia Beach, Va./Landstown55m - 7.47i
55m Hurdles - 8.43i
100m Hurdles - 14.78
300m Hurdles - 45.94Eighth in the Virginia 6A state championships 100m hurdles as a senior ... 12th indoors in the 55m hurdles.Leah Earnest - Throws
Riner, Va./AuburnShot Put - 41-5.25Five-time Virginia state champion ... Won the 1A outdoor title each of the last three years ... Also won the indoor title in 2015 and 2017.Lauren Finikiotis - Distance
Gibsonia, Pa./Oakland Catholic800m - 2:18
Mile - 5:01
3,200m - 10:50Seventh in the Pennsylvania state cross country championships as a senior ... Fourth indoors at 1,600m ... Seventh outdoors.Felecia Hayes - Sprints
Chesapeake, Va./Grassfield60 ...

Read More

Geosciences Graduate Student Earns NASA Fellowship

UPDATE


Assessing how changes in our climate are affecting ecosystems and hydrosystems is vitally important – unfortunately, in many ways, assessing these changes is much simpler in woody mountain ranges than it is in the semi-arid ecosystems that dominate much of the west.
The most common tools for conducting large-scale terrain studies are with remote sensing, such as lidar, However, these tools use large or leafy biomass (think: forests) to gauge vegetation and hydrologic changes on a grand scale.
But as geosciences doctoral student Nayani Ilangakoon explained, western ecosystems often contain short-height vegetation structures, like sagebrush, which are critical for balancing global carbon dioxide levels – but aren’t as easily captured by remote sensing and traditional discrete return lidar. Sagebrush also are particularly susceptible to human disturbances and land use, as well as natural disturbances like drought, fire and climate change – all of which impact the ecosystem structure and hence the hydrologic cycle at the local and regional level. Agriculture and municipalities are reliant on western watersheds to survive, so the impacts of future hydrologic changes could be significant.
“There is very limited research going on that tells us how vegetation type and structure influences hydrology in an ecosystem, but we do know disturbances change the hydrocycle and the ecosystem itself,” Ilangakoon said. “It also changes the soil carbon, habitat quality – really everything – so assessing vegetation is critical.”
Reynolds Creek experimental watershed in southwest Idaho shows a range of plant functional types with varying density and structure. The study area also shows a gradient of topography (right), which controls both vegetation and hydrosystems.
There is a silver lining: Ilangakoon recently was selected as one of 69 graduate students (out of a pool of 385 nationally) to be awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship for her proposal to analyze data collected in the Owyhee mountains and Colorado’s Grand Mesa using a full-wave ...

Read More

Pecknold Learns from World Championships Experience

College Hockey News from CHN


June 2, 2017
PRINT












by Jeff Cox/CHN Reporter (@JeffCoxSports)





Related ArticlesRand PecknoldQuinnipiac



Rand Pecknold can vividly recall two games from when he was 13 years old. He remembers watching the United States defeat the Soviet Union and Finland en route to the 1980 Olympic Gold Medal.

It wasn’t just a monumental moment in USA Hockey history. It also defined Pecknold’s passion for the sport that has meant so much to him.

Now, 37 years later, Pecknold finally had the opportunity to represent his country over the past month as an assistant coach on Jeff Blashill’s staff at the recently concluded World Championships.

“It was amazing. It’s a huge honor to coach for USA Hockey,” said Pecknold, who will begin his 24th season as head coach at Quinnipiac this fall.

The opportunity arose last summer thanks to a longstanding friendship with Blashill, the Detroit Red Wings head coach who rose through the ranks as an assistant and head coach in college hockey with Ferris State, Miami and Western Michigan.

Blashill invited Pecknold out to Detroit for an exchange of ideas and coaching philosophies with the Red Wings staff. That meeting led to Blashill hiring Pecknold for the staff he took to the World Championships.

“From a professional development standpoint, I couldn’t have asked for a better experience. I was immersed in the hockey world for three weeks. You’re bumping into all these NHL coaches. It was unique and I learned a ton,” Pecknold said.

The experience gave him an even greater appreciation for the rigors of professional hockey and what it takes to be a player at that level.

“You watch them on TV and you see some of [the players] coaching against them in college, but their character level … they were all A-plus character players. They had high compete levels and great work ethics. They were selfless. It ...

Read More

UVU Culinary Arts Student Named Best in Nation

UVU Press Releases

University Marketing & Communications: Layton Shumway | 801-863-6863 | LShumway@uvu.edu
Written by: Jim McCulloch | 801-863-7004 | Jim.McCulloch@uvu.edu
Madeline Black, a first-year student at Utah Valley University’s Culinary Arts Institute, was named the nation’s Student Chef of the Year at the American Culinary Federation’s national convention held in Orlando, Florida, July 8-13th.
Black, a sophomore from Provo, becomes the second straight national champion from UVU’s Culinary Arts Institute. Last year, UVU’s Michelle Stephenson won the same title, the first in UVU history.
“Nobody expected UVU to do what we have done,” exclaimed Chef Todd Leonard, department chair of UVU’s Culinary Arts Institute. “From not knowing who we were just a couple years ago, to having back-to-back national champions. This has just put UVU on the culinary map to stay. We have suddenly become one of the most intriguing places in the culinary world.”
As one of five regional winners, Black had only 90 minutes to prepare a world-class dish that would impress a team of seasoned top-level chefs. Each competitor came up with their own recipes utilizing an ingredient list given to them just a few weeks earlier. This year’s list was built around duck as the main protein. Black’s final winning menu consisted of truffle-scented duck roulade finished in duck fat, with Utah honey lacquered duck thigh-riblet, pan seared foie gras with port and morel mushroom sauce, accompanied by potatoes gratin, celeriac and pea puree, with rhubarb chutney and summer vegetable medley.
“This is really a dream come true,” said Black. “I was breezing along, and then the last 10 minutes things just weren’t coming together like I’d practiced a hundred times, and it got a little crazy. But the judges said they were very impressed with the complicated dish I created and I think that’s what ...

Read More

UW Board of Trustees to Meet July 18-21 in Rock Springs | News

News Home







July 14, 2017


The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees will consider the university’s strategic plan for the next five years during a meeting Tuesday through Friday, July 18-21, at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs.
Meetings with legislators and Wyoming community college presidents also are on the agenda for the board during its traditional once-a-year, off-campus meeting.
Most of the meeting will be held in Room 3650 of the WWCC campus. UW Board of Trustees meetings are open to the public, except for executive sessions.
Public testimony will be accepted at 10:30 a.m. Friday. The business meeting, in which trustees take formal action on agenda items, is scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday.
The strategic plan, scheduled to be considered for adoption by the board Friday morning, will guide the university for the next five years. It was crafted by UW’s Strategic Planning Leadership Council and the administration during a nine-month process that included statewide and campus listening sessions, the release of a first draft and solicitation of public comment.
The final version of the plan going before the board may be found in the board report at www.uwyo.edu/trustees/2017-meeting-materials/july_18-21_2017_meeting.html, along with the full July 18-21 agenda and other materials for the meeting.
The trustees’ meeting with legislators is scheduled at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Room 2605 at WWCC, and the meeting with community college presidents is 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the same location.
The board meeting begins Tuesday at 5 p.m. with an executive session. A working breakfast of the board is scheduled at 8 a.m. Wednesday, followed by meetings of various board committees from 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Thursday’s session begins with reports from those committees at 8 a.m., with topics including: implementation of the WyoCloud financial management system; selection of a firm to help prepare a 10-year campus housing ...

Read More

U of A Faculty Member Awarded Porter Prize for Arkansas Literature

Newswire

Padma Viswanathan is being recognized for her work as a novelist, playwright and essayist and cultural journalist.

Read More

Authors of Best-Selling Book “Shattered” Visit SPA to Talk About Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign

American University News


SPA Executive in Residence, Betsy Fischer Martin interviews authors Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen about their new book, Shattered.
 It is not easy to understand what exactly led to the defeat of Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election, but journalists Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen give some compelling explanations in their recent best-selling book, Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign.The authors visited AU's School of Public Affairs on June 23, hosted by SPA's Executive-in-Residence Betsy Fischer Martin, to talk about their findings on Clinton's campaign and the current state of American politics.Parnes and Allen, who also published HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton, argue that there was a divide within the campaign between a more experienced and persuasion-focused faction and a less experienced set that was more reliant on statistics."From state offices, there were demands to the headquarters asking for volunteers, for yard-signs, for literature, but the analytics side of the campaign thought it was unnecessary to spend that money," said Allen. "They argued it was difficult, in the last months of the campaign, to win over voters who didn't like Clinton."The authors, who covered the Clinton campaign through 2016, also reported on indications throughout the campaign of a potential defeat, including the rise of populism movements like Brexit, which former President Bill Clinton recognized as a potential threat to the campaign.There was the primary election as well, in which U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) at times launched criticisms similar to those that Trump would later make."It's one thing for two people in a party to disagree on a policy issue, but when you start talking about how corrupt someone is, that just plays into the other side's hands," said Allen.Still, there was a general expectation of a Clinton win come November. Both Parnes and Allen admit that ...

Read More

Campus Tour

University at Albany University at Albany Headlines



































ALBANY, N.Y. (July 17, 2017) – Incoming President Havidán Rodríguez visited UAlbany’s three campuses last week as part of his preparation for taking office next semester.
On Monday, he met with Interim President James Stellar, Interim Provost Darrell Wheeler and the University’s executive committee. He also interacted with faculty and students by visiting academic buildings on the Uptown Campus and touring the newly expanded Campus Center. Lastly, he met with incoming students and their parents during orientation programs.
On Tuesday, Rodríguez visited the Downtown and Health Sciences campuses before returning to the Uptown campus and meeting with students in UAlbany’s Educational Opportunity Program.
He plans to visit campus again later this summer.
The SUNY Board of Trustees appointed Rodríguez as the 20th president of UAlbany on June 21. His appointment will take effect in mid-September. You can learn more about him here.



















comments powered by






For more news, subscribe to UAlbany's RSS headline feeds


About the University at Albany A comprehensive public research university, the University at Albany offers more than 120 undergraduate majors and minors and 125 master's, doctoral, and graduate certificate programs. UAlbany is a leader among all New York State colleges and universities in such diverse fields as atmospheric and environmental sciences, business, criminal justice, emergency preparedness, engineering and applied sciences, informatics, public administration, social welfare, and sociology taught by an extensive roster of faculty experts. It also offers expanded academic and research opportunities for students through an affiliation with Albany Law School. With a curriculum enhanced by 600 study-abroad opportunities, UAlbany launches great careers.












Read More

26 AND COUNTING / The Liebenberg Chronicles / Eclipse No. 15

Newsstand | Clemson University News and Stories, South Carolina

CLEMSON, South Carolina – Clemson University scientist Donald Liebenberg has personally witnessed and researched 26 total solar eclipses over the past 60-plus years.
Liebenberg, who has been an adjunct professor in the College of Science’s department of physics and astronomy since 1996, has literally travelled all over the world to enter the path of totality of solar eclipses. He has studied them from the ground, on ships in the middle of oceans, and in airplanes. He even watched one eclipse from the cabin of a Concorde supersonic airliner, where he was able to remain within the window of totality for an astounding 74 minutes.
An eclipse on June 21, 2001 in Lusaka, Zambia, was Liebenberg’s 15th eclipse. It is chronicled below.
All told, Liebenberg has spent almost three hours in totality, which surpasses anyone else on Earth.
The upcoming Aug. 21, 2017 event over Clemson will mark Liebenberg’s 27th eclipse. He has also witnessed several other eclipses that were nearly – but not quite – in the path of totality.
Please sit back and continue to enjoy these amazing adventures.
This map shows all 26 total solar eclipses that Donald Liebenberg has witnessed in person. Image courtesy of eclipse-chasers.com
IN THE WILDS OF AFRICA
Eclipse No. 15: June 21, 2001      Totality: 3 minutes, 29 seconds
Where: Lusaka, Zambia        Weather conditions: clear and dark skies
This eclipse occurred over Zambia on the day of summer solstice. It was my first eclipse of the new millennium.
Dr. Donald Liebenberg
My wife Norma and I joined a tour group and flew from Atlanta to Johannesburg, South Africa. After arriving, we settled into a nice hotel room with magnificent views of the city, which is situated on a high-altitude plateau more than a mile above sea level.
After a nice rest from our 18-hour flight, we headed to the airport and flew to Skukuza, where we stayed at a lodge on the private Sabi-Sabi game reserve. ...

Read More

Fordham Appoints New Dean of the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education

Fordham Newsroom

Faustino M. Cruz, S.M., a distinguished teacher-scholar, pastoral leader, and administrator, has been appointed the new dean of Fordham University’s Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education (GRE). He began his new role on July 1.
Cruz previously served as associate dean of academic affairs and associate professor of practical theology and leadership in the School of Theology and Ministry at Seattle University, a Jesuit Catholic university in Seattle’s First Hill and Capitol Hill neighborhoods. He taught courses in U.S. immigrant theologies, transformational leadership, theological reflection, and educational ministry.
Cruz, who has more than 25 years of experience in teaching and mentoring, also helped to train pastoral ministers, therapists, religious educators, and other leaders from culturally diverse ecumenical and interreligious backgrounds for practices within and beyond their communities.
Cruz comes to GRE on the heels of its recent accreditation from the Masters in Psychology and Counseling Accreditation Council (MPCAC) for its pastoral counseling and spiritual care program.
He said he hopes to learn about the unique needs and concerns of the Fordham community, and to continue to build on the school’s success within that framework.
“I look forward to leading a community of teacher-scholar-practitioners that passionately educates our students for solidarity, service, and justice,” he said.
Cruz was executive vice president and academic dean of the Franciscan School of Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley for six years, serving as its chief academic officer and chief operations officer.
He is vice president of the International Academy of Practical Theology, a member of the Committee on Race and Ethnicity in Theological Education of the Association of Theological Schools of the United States and Canada, and a public member of the Commission on Accreditation of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.
Cruz taught at several institutions, including the Franciscan School of Theology in California, the Wabash Center ...

Read More

BASEBALL EARNS ACADEMIC HONOR FROM ABCA

Athletics News


Jul 14, 2017





SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento State baseball team earned the Team Academic Excellence Award from the American Baseball Coaches Association. To be eligible for the honor, a team must have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 during the 2016-17 academic year. The Hornets were one of just 36 Div. I teams to be recognized by the ABCA and is just one of three schools on the West Coast to earn the award.Twelve Sacramento State players were recently named to the Western Athletic Conference all-academic team. As a team, the Hornets posted a 3.302 gpa during the spring semester and now owns an overall gpa of 3.228 — the highest among male teams at Sacramento State.The Hornets were not limited to success in the classroom during the year. Sacramento State captured the Western Athletic Conference Tournament title and advanced to the NCAA Stanford Regional. The team finished with 32 victories, marking the sixth consecutive season with at least 30 wins. Following the season Parker Brahms was named a Freshman All-American by two organizations and Justin Dillon was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays.The American Baseball Coaches Association has a long tradition of recognizing the achievements of baseball coaches and student-athletes. The ABCA/Rawlings All-America Teams are the nation's oldest, founded in 1949, and the ABCA's awards program also includes the ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Awards, the ABCA/Diamond Regional & National Coaches of the Year and several other major awards such as the ABCA Hall of Fame and the Ethics in Coaching Award.












Read More

Steak ‘n Shake coming to Student Center this fall

SIU News

July 14, 2017Steak ‘n Shake coming to Student Center this fall
by Christi Mathis
CARBONDALE, Ill. – A new dining option will soon be available at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Student Center.
Renovations are now underway in preparation for the opening of Steak ‘n Shake in the location formerly occupied by McDonald’s. Plans call for the restaurant to open about the middle of the fall 2017 semester.
The new Steak ‘n Shake will feature counter service and a wide variety of menu items, including traditional favorites such as burgers, fries and milkshakes. The restaurant will be operated by Goodness Shakes LLC. Owner Cameron Taleban, of Paducah, Ky., is also a principal in the Subway restaurants located in the Student Center and on W. Main St. in Carbondale.
The contract was finalized recently for the new Student Center Steak ‘n Shake franchise and its hours will coincide with the Student Center’s hours of operation.
The opening of the new restaurant assures a diverse selection of culinary choices at the Student Center, according to Tena Bennett, Student Center director. In addition to Steak ‘n Shake and Subway, the center is home to Starbucks and the Marketplace Food Court, which includes Sbarro, Chick-fil-A, Maroon Spoon, Freshly Tossed and Cantina Bravo.





Read More

IUPUI diversity researcher to co-edit special journal issue focusing on Black Lives Matter: Newscenter: Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

Science & Research

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 ...

Read More

Today! Chautauqua Welcomes Woodrow Wilson to Montgomery College

Inside MC Online

Come see Woodrow Wilson tonight, Friday, July 14, 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://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Chautauqua Illustration by Tom Chalkley.

Read More

How to Cope with Difficult People in the Workplace

News Beat

There will always be difficult people in the workplace for a wide range of reasons. It is important to learn what to do to cope and find the best way to handle them, especially if you are earning a Human Resources degree. Here are several tips on how to handle a difficult person, and who to get involved. Talk it out The first approach should be to sit down with the other person and discuss what you are feeling. Let the other person know how he or she makes you feel; surprisingly, they may not even realize they are difficult to deal with.  Try examining yourself You must make sure that you are not taking statements out of context, overreacting or reading too much into situations. Turn to a trusted coworker to see if they feel the same way or have noticed that you get singled out by this difficult person. Also, you will want to ensure that you are not that difficult person at work. Who to involve in the situation Working with a complicated person on your own can be difficult. Sometimes, the difficult person knows that they are difficult and they do not care, so you may need to involve managers, bosses, or even a group of coworkers. If it is your manager that you are having problems with, you will want to consult his or her boss; however, make sure you have all the facts together. You do not want to go to your manager's boss with a complaint if it is not valid. Working with difficult people in the office can take a toll on everyone. It can drastically reduce productivity, efficiency and employee morale. Being patient with those around you and expressing a willingness to help someone can show a person a lot about your personality. Communication is the key to success in a ...

Read More

Biochemistry majors Callie Miller and Audrey Short selected as 2017-2018 Beckman Scholars

Miami University - Top Stories







By Susan Meikle, university news and communications
Miami University students Callie Miller and Audrey Short have been selected as Beckman Scholars for 2017-2018. The $19,300 scholarship provides exceptional undergraduate students with continued support for a mentored research project over two summers and one academic year.

Callie Miller. Read more about her research with Mike Crowder here.
Miami was one of 12 schools to receive the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Scholars Program Institutional Award for 2016-2019. The program allows Miami to offer the Beckman Scholarship for up to five students over three years. 
Miller, a sophomore biochemistry and French double major from Champaign, Illinois, is mentored by Mike Crowder, professor and chair of chemistry and biochemistry. She has been conducting research with Crowder since she started at Miami last year.
She is working on Crowder’s research project on designing clinical inhibitors of metallo-beta-lactamases (MBLs), which render bacteria resistant to antibiotics.
“While only being a rising sophomore, Callie has quickly mastered a large number of research techniques in the lab, and she is leading her own project,” Crowder said. “She is a co-author on two submitted manuscripts, and I expect many more in the future. Her research trajectory is unbelievable, and I cannot wait to see what she accomplishes in the future.”
Miller is a member of the university honors program and treasurer of Miami’s club sailing team.  

Audrey Short. Read more about her research with Michael Kennedy here.
Short, a junior biochemistry major and physics minor from Atlanta, Georgia, is mentored by Michael Kennedy, Ohio Eminent Scholar of Structural Biology. 
Short joined Kennedy’s large lab group during her first semester at Miami. She is involved in Kennedy’s project to determine the role that gut microbes play in triggering Type 1 diabetes (T1D) in genetically susceptible individuals. 
Kennedy’s doctoral student Will Joesten has worked closely with Short since she ...

Read More

Key changes in the municipal bond market since 2007

Latest From Brookings

Beside the obvious and immediate damage it inflicted on asset values, the financial crisis of 2007-2009 reshaped the structure, functioning, and regulation of American securities markets. A forthcoming new paper from Daniel Bergstresser and Martin Luby takes a close look at how the market for municipal bonds has changed in recent years. Bergstresser and Luby will present the results of their findings at the opening panel of the 2017 Municipal Finance Conference, co-hosted by the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings, the Rosenberg Institute of Global Finance at Brandeis International Business School, the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy.
In the paper, which will be published as a Hutchins Center Working Paper, Bergstresser and Luby highlight the changes in the municipal market related to primary market issuance and secondary market trading trends, bond ownership composition, bond structures, products and processes, and market participants. They also offer a discussion of future developments that are likely to impact the municipal securities market in the future.  Here are some key factors they discuss.
State and local governments are less reliant on municipal bonds than they were before the financial crisis.
State and local governments issued $470 billion of municipal bonds in 2016, about 2 percent less, in nominal dollars, than in 2005. New bond issuance (as opposed to issuance that restructures or refinances existing debt), fell even more, about 25%, between 2005 and 2016. This decline in new issuance is far larger than the decline in state and local capital spending over this period, suggesting that municipal bonds are now increasingly complemented by other funding and financing sources for infrastructure. Understanding these other sources will be an area of concern for bond market participants.
Still, new bond structures have proven to be important financing tools.
While some bond products and structures have declined in use ...

Read More

Biology’s Menhart and Team Honored for Muscular Dystrophy Research

News – Illinois Tech Today

Research by a team led by Nick Menhart, associate professor of biology, in exon skipping, a leading near-term prospect for meaningful treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), was honored at a recent conference.
The team including biology graduate students Krystal Manyuan Ma, Xin Niu, and biochemistry undergraduate Evelyn Thomas (BCHM ’17) won a Best Poster award for “Are Alternative Exon Skip Repairs of the Same DMD Defect Equivalent?” at the Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) Connect Conference, held June 29-July 2 in Chicago. Ma was lead presenter on the poster.
This work aims to understand the impact of recently approved exon-skipping drugs on boys with DMD. DMD is a devastating disease affecting 1 in 3,500 boys, whose muscles steadily deteriorate through childhood. Most need a wheelchair by about age 12 and die by their 20s. Exon-skipping drugs aim to skip over the defective parts of dystrophin, restoring some function and halting the muscle wasting. The first member of these new class of drugs was recently approved by the FDA, with several others in ongoing clinical trials. However, there are alternative ways to skip over many patients’ mutation, and each produces differently modified dystrophin that make them better or worse repairs. The team characterized different “repaired” versions of dystrophin protein in an attempt to determine which are superior and which will be maximally effective, in any given person, based on their specific genetic defect. Ma also is working with Jeff Wereszczynski, assistant professor of physics, to use computational methods to understand the impact of the edit on the properties of the proteins in advance of more time-consuming experimental studies.
PPMD is one of the major philanthropies supporting muscular dystrophy, and is focused on DMD. The Connect Conference brings together industry partners, scientific leaders, medical providers, and people living with Duchenne and their families.
Thomas worked on the project funded by a College of Science Undergraduate Summer ...

Read More

Walker Enjoys New Role as Student Trustee

News at College of DuPage




By Brian KleemannAnthony Walker knew that becoming Student Trustee on the College of DuPage Board of
Trustees would be a good fit, even though he initially didn’t consider running.“I had been involved with the Student Leadership Council for a year but had no intention
to run for any office because I didn’t think I had the time,” he said. “(SLC President)
Kiley Pooler suggested that I should run for her position. However, I decided not
to because Safia Khan was doing so and I knew she would be great as SLC President.”Instead, Walker looked at the Student Trustee position and liked the possibilities.
With only one week before the application was due, he made the decision and quickly
collected the required number of signatures. Both he and Khan were elected, and Walker
was sworn in at the April 17 Board of Trustees special meeting.“I’ve always been curious and I’m interested in what other students are doing,” he
said. “I want to voice their concerns and bring their creative ideas to the Board
and administration.”The Bensenville resident is happy that he selected College of DuPage.“I was introverted in high school, and I knew my personality would not mix at a four-year
school,” he said. “On top of that, I did not want to put myself so heavily in debt
at a young age. I took a tour of College of DuPage and I told myself at that moment,
‘This is it!’ COD is so diverse and there are so many ways to get involved. I saw
my potential at COD and it was one of the best choices I have ever made.”Earlier this year, Walker received the Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., scholarship
through the College of DuPage Foundation. He is looking forward to becoming the first
college graduate in his ...

Read More

On land or ship, port chaplains offer comfort to seafarers of the world

Brandeis University News

Boston celebrated its maritime heritage in June by welcoming tall ships from around the world into Boston Harbor for the celebratory event, Sail Boston. Thousands of people visited the magnificent vessels at anchor to learn about Boston’s rich maritime history.

I saw the tall ships with representatives from the New England Seafarers Mission (NESM). Founded in the 1880s by the Swedish Covenant Church, the NESM today serves seafarers in Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts. In Boston, chaplains are connected to the NESM and the Seafarer’s Friend, a second nonprofit organization that brings support and assistance to thousands of seafarers on the ships that pass through the port every day.

Seafarers, or those who work on container ships, tankers and other large commercial vessels, come from all the world – with the largest numbers from China, India and the Philippines. Most seafarers work nine months a year at sea, returning home for a short period between contracts.

As a scholar, I have been interested in the history of port chaplains and the work they do with seafarers around the globe. I have interviewed and shadowed many of them in recent years while conducting ongoing research about their work across the United States. I am also working on a larger project on port chaplains that started recently in the U.K.

Most of us barely have contact with the men and women who transport the goods we use every day by ships. Port chaplains provide much-needed services for those who make their living at sea.

Who are port chaplains and what do they do?

A support system around ships

I first learned about port chaplains in 2012 when interviewing chaplains in a range of settings in Boston as part of a broader project. I had never heard of their work and was intrigued as soon as I boarded a vessel and ...

Read More

Embry-Riddle Receives $900,000 Research Grant to Advance Unmanned Surface Vessel Capabilities

Headlines RSS Feed


Eric Coyle, associate professor of mechanical engineering on the Daytona Beach Campus, will serve as principal investigator for the project. Coyle will work with his colleagues Brian Butka, associate professor of electrical engineering; Patrick Currier, associate professor of mechanical engineering; graduate students Stephen Cronin and David Thompson; and undergraduate students Jefferson Romney and Marco Schoener.
Developing stealthier ways for unmanned vessels on the ocean’s surface to communicate with unmanned underwater vehicles such as submarines will be one focus of the research initiative.
Typically, the researchers explained, underwater communication technology relies on low bandwidth and expensive acoustic devices. To address this issue, the researchers are investigating the potential use of technology normally used on these unmanned systems as emitters and receivers. The goal is to characterize how best to communicate in this manner, and to assess the data rates that can be achieved.
Researchers will also explore strategies to enhance the situational awareness of USVs through short- and long-range detection, classification and speed estimation of maritime objects using multi-model sensing.
Further, the team will develop hybrid energy system architectures in an effort to increase the energy efficiency of USVs so that they can remain on station longer. This work will involve finding ways to balance renewable sources such as wind and solar power with traditional energy sources such as batteries and diesel generators.
Testing and evaluation of the proposed communication, perception and energy systems will leverage Embry-Riddle’s Minion research platform – a 16-foot autonomous research vessel equipped with high-performance computing, an autonomous sensor suite, two brushless thrusters and substantial battery capacity.
The university will bring extensive robotics expertise to the new research project.
“Embry-Riddle is one of the few schools to compete in the Maritime RobotX Challenge, Roboboat and RoboSub competitions, which are collegiate competitions sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International ( ...

Read More

McCormack Grad School Cohosts Live Conversations with Mayoral Candidates Marty Walsh, Tito Jackson

News

UMass Boston has teamed up with WBUR, the Boston Globe, NBC Boston, NECN, and Telemundo Boston to jointly host live conversations with Boston mayoral candidates on July 19 and 20.Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and challenger Tito Jackson, a Boston city councilor, will participate in hour-long conversations later this month before a live audience at UMass Boston. The conversations will be broadcast live on WBUR radio, 90.9 FM, and live-streamed online by WBUR, the Boston Globe, and UMass Boston before an audience in the school’s media auditorium.

The conversations are intended as a kick-off to the campaign season, introducing the leading candidates for mayor and exploring issues that are important to the city’s future.

The conversations will be conducted on July 19 (Jackson) and July 20 (Walsh) as part of WBUR’s Radio Boston show, from 3 to 4 p.m. The show’s host, Meghna Chakrabarti, will be joined as co-host by Meghan Irons, city hall bureau chief at the Boston Globe.

Because the conversations are taking place as part of WBUR’s Radio Boston program, the live audience must be in their seats in the Media Auditorium, on the lower level of UMass Boston's Healey Library, by 2:45 p.m. Doors open at 2:30 and close at 2:45. The conversations are free and open to the public, but registration will be required. Register here.

The John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston, WBUR, the Globe, NBC Boston, necn, and Telemundo Boston will co-sponsor the conversations.

Mayoral candidates were invited to participate based on specific criteria that included polling, fundraising, and demonstrated political support.

McCormack, WBUR, and the Globe collaborated last year in hosting debates on the four statewide ballot questions, also broadcast live on Radio Boston.

This year, they are joined by NBC Boston, necn, and Telemundo Boston in a proposal, being considered by the candidates, to host formal debates ...

Read More