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Crawford is #5 nationally among returning placekickers for field goal accuracy in 2016.
July 12, 2017
2017 Lou Groza Award Preseason Watch List West Palm Beach, Fla.----- San Jose State University junior Bryce Crawford is one of 30 players named to the Lou Groza Collegiate Place-Kicker Award Watch List for the 2017 season.Crawford was superb in 2016. He converted 16-of-18 field goal tries and made his last 11 attempts. His three field goals in the season finale under wet conditions at Fresno State was the difference in a 16-14 victory. His season-long 44-yard field goal came in the October 29 win over UNLV.Crawford's 88.9 percent field goal conversion rate was 12th best among Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) players and second best in San Jose State history for kickers making at least one field goal a game in a season. His 2016 percentage is fifth best among returning kickers that made at least 15 field goals last season. Crawford was the Spartans' season scoring leader with 79 points.The Award recognizes the top kicker in the country and is named after Pro Football Hall of Fame kicker Lou Groza who played 21 seasons for the Cleveland Browns. "The Toe" was a combination All-Pro offensive lineman and kicker. He was the 1954 NFL Player of the Year and symbolized there should be a place on an NFL roster for a kicker.During the season, "Stars of the Week" will be featured on www.lougrozaaward.com. Twenty (20) semifinalists will be named on November 2. Three finalists will be announced on November 21 and honored at a December 4 banquet presented by the Orange Bowl Committee in Palm Beach County. The national winner will be presented on December 7 during the Home Depot College Football Awards Show.Season tickets for the 2017 football season are available by calling (408) 924-SJTX or by visiting www.sjsuspartans.com.
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Monday, July 17, 2017
Football. Bryce Crawford Named To Lou Groza Award Preseason Watch List
Studying Bat Skulls, Stony Brook Evolutionary Biologist & International Team Discover How Species Evolved
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Studying Bat Skulls, Stony Brook Evolutionary Biologist & International Team Discover How Species Evolved
STONY BROOK, NY, November 23, 2011 – A new study involving bat skulls, bite force measurements and fecal samples collected by an international team of evolutionary biologists is helping to solve a nagging question of evolution: Why some groups of animals evolve scores of different species over time while others evolve only a few. Their findings appear in the current issue of
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
.To answer this question, Elizabeth Dumont at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Liliana Dávalos of SUNY Stony Brook together with colleagues at UCLA and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin compiled large amounts of data on the diet, bite force and skull shape in a family of New World bats, and took advantage of new statistical techniques to date and document changes in the rate of evolution of these traits and the number of species over time. They investigated why there are so many more species of New World Leaf-Nosed bats, nearly 200, while their closest relatives produced only 10 species over the same period of time. Many bats are insect feeders, while the New World Leaf-Nosed bats eat nectar, fruit, frogs, lizards and even blood.
One hypothesis is that the evolution of a trait, such as head shape, that gives access to new resources can lead to the rapid evolution of many new species. As Dumont and Dávalos explain, connecting changes in body structure to an ecological opportunity requires showing that a significant increase in the number of species occurred in tandem with the appearance of new anatomical traits, and that those traits are associated with enhanced resource use.“If the availability of fruit provided the ecological opportunity that, in the presence of anatomical innovations that allowed eating the fruit, led to a significant increase in the ...
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SBU School of Dental Medicine "Give Kids a Smile" Provides Free Dental Care, Education
SBU School of Dental Medicine “Give Kids a Smile” Provides Free Dental Care, Education
Ronald McDonald Joins Event Celebrating National Children’s Dental Health Month
STONY BROOK, N.Y., January 26, 2011 – On February 4, 2011, the School of Dental Medicine at Stony Brook University will provide free dental screening, cleanings, fluoride treatment and oral health education to
Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine faculty, staff, and students will provide oral health education and dental care to hundreds of children at the 2011 “Give Kids a Smile” Day.
hundreds of children at “Give Kids a Smile” Day. The event is the centerpiece of the American Dental Association (ADA) National Children’s Dental Health Month. Sponsored by the ADA, Give Kids a Smile is a one day event in February at dental care locations nationwide. The event is part of a national campaign to provide dental care and promote the importance of oral health to children who might not have ready access due to their economic status. Many families on Long Island do not have adequate dental insurance or the means to provide for proper preventive care for their children. “Each year the School of Dental Medicine looks forward to Give Kids a Smile Day. Our school overflows with children from all over Long Island who come to receive some of the finest dental care available,” says Ray C. Williams, D.M.D., Dean, Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine. “I thank the faculty, staff and students of our school for their generous and enthusiastic participation in this very special day.”This year children will be able to show their bright smiles to a special guest – Ronald McDonald. As part of McDonald’s corporate support of Give Kids a Smile Day, Ronald McDonald will be walking about Center, giving thumbs up to participants, and entertaining the kids.“Wolfie,” the SBU mascot, will also welcome ...
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Lone Star College recognized for training military veterans
Lone Star College System News
Published on: May 08, 2015 The Lone Star College Office of Workforce Education, along with the International Association of Drilling Contractors, and Patterson-UTI Energy Inc. has received the Faraday Award for its efforts to prepare and train returning military veterans for careers in the oil and gas drilling industry.
The Faraday Award, presented by Electric Power and Prequalified Ready Employees for Power International (PReP Int), recognizes and honors employers, programs and partnerships focused on helping veterans transition into careers in the energy industry.
Lone Star College has had a long-standing commitment to helping our military veterans find meaningful careers after their service to our country, said Stephen Head, LSC chancellor. Working with IADC and Patterson-UTI, we have seen a 92 percent placement rate for more than 150 participants in the past year alone.
The awards are judged on the number of people assisted, the impact made on the people assisted, the return on investment and innovativeness of the program. The award was presented during the Electric Power Conference in Chicago.
Connecting our hard-working veterans to the power industry is crucial to the future of our industry, so were looking forward to celebrating the winners success stories, said Jamie Reesby, ELECTRIC POWER show director.
The collaborative effort between LSC and the IADC provides meaningful careers to veterans and needed talent for drilling floorhand/roustabout jobs across the world where safety and security are paramount.
In addition to receiving this award, LSC has also been designated a 2015 Military Friendly® School selected from a nationwide list of more than 10,000 schools by Victory Media, a veteran-owned business connecting the military and civilian worlds. This is the second year in row LSC has been recognized.
The contributions our military men and women make are so vital to the success of this great country of ours and we are grateful to be in the position to help them return to ...
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Learn More About Amateur Radios at LSC-Kingwood
Lone Star College Kingwood News
Published on: June 01, 2015
With continuous wet weather and hurricane season around the corner, a community group is encouraging the public to learn how to communicate during a disaster.
Texas Emergency Amateur Communicators (TEAC) and Lone Star College-Kingwoods engineering program will host the Amateur Radio Field Day on the college campus June 27-28. The equipment will be on display from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on June 27 and from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on June 28. The actual 24-hour field day event starts at 8 a.m. on June 27. All activity will take place in the Performing Arts Center (PAC) room 125.
The primary purpose is to have an event that tests our preparedness and readiness for actual emergencies. By holding the field day, sponsored by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), we will construct antennas and connect radios with a spontaneous-like atmosphere and operate for a full 24 hours making as many contacts as possible, said John Nobile, LSC-Kingwood student and TEAC member.
Community members interested in operating a radio on a frequency band or learning more about amateur radio equipment are invited to participate in the event. Field day operators will show the benefits of radio to use as basic communication or during real emergency events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, or any other situation where normal communication is unlikely.
Participants will see real radios in operation that can communicate on the high frequency bands and radios that can communicate to satellites orbiting the earth. They will also see the simple antennas that can be built in an hour at home to some complex antennas that can take weeks to design and build.
Another goal is to provide an educational opportunity for children and adults by sharing the opportunities amateur radio has to offer in science, math, and engineering, Nobile said. These contacts with other Amateur Radio Operators can be just ...
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LSC-Montgomery Professor Accepts National Excellence Award
Lone Star College Montgomery News
Published on: April 14, 2015
Lone Star College-Montgomery professor Michele Richey was recently selected as a 2015 recipient of the John and Suanne Roueche Excellence award, a national award given to outstanding community college faculty or staff by the League for Innovation.
Lone Star College-Montgomery professor Michele Richey was recently selected as a 2015 recipient of the John and Suanne Roueche Excellence award, a national award given to outstanding community college faculty or staff by the League for Innovation.The League for Innovation, an international, nonprofit conglomerate of community colleges and corporate partners dedicated to catalyzing the community college movement, established the John and Suanne Rouche award in honor of two distinguished community college leaders, to recognize outstanding community college teachers and their directorship efforts.Recipients are recognized annually in a series of activities and promotions, then presented each spring with the award at the Leagues Innovations conference. Richey, associate sociology professor, was presented with the award in Boston last month.I was very honored to receive this award, said Richey. I work hard to try to set my students up for success in my classes, as well as make the material applicable to their everyday lives regardless of what its like for them at home or work. I also try to advocate for students through my leadership positions on campus.Richey, a native of Norfolk, Virginia, attended New York University where she received her bachelors degree in psychology and sociology and her masters degree in higher education leadership.Richey spent ten years working in student affairs at Seattle University, the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and the University of Colorado-Boulder. While in Colorado Springs, she earned her masters in sociology.Upon relocating to Houston, Richey worked at the University of Houston and Houston Community College before hiring on as a full-time professor with LSC-Montgomery.This is my dream job and I feel extremely blessed ...
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Seminars Help Job Seekers Gain a Competitive Edge
Lone Star College Tomball News
Published on: October 29, 2012
Lone Star College-Tomball Community Library and Workforce Solutions are presenting two free seminars designed to give job-seekers a competitive edge in todays competitive job market.
Creating a Resume/Completing the Application (November 7, 1:00- 3:00 p.m.) is a two-hour seminar on how to best present yourself on paper to potential employers. Preparation, identifying skills and experience, matching them to the job, and presenting them in a compelling manner are just some of the topics to be discussed.
Using the Internet (November 21, 1:00-3:00 p.m.) is a two-hour seminar on how to harness the power of the Internet. Researching job markets, using job boards and looking up potential employers are just some of the topics to be discussed.
Both seminars will be held in the Lone Star College-Tomball Community Library (Room L-207) and followed by one-hour resume labs (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. LSC-Tomball is located at 3055 Tomball Parkway, at the intersection of State Highway 249 and Zion Road.
For more information, contact Alpana Sarangapani (832.559.4219 or alpana.sarangapani@lonestar.edu).
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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.
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WVU Center for Excellence in Disabilities receives funding for next five years
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017
West Virginia has a higher prevalence of disabilities than any other state in the United States. In 2015, 19.5 percent of the WV population reported having a disability while health programs for individuals with disabilities are limited.
The WVU Center for Excellence in Disabilities (WVU CED) was awarded funding to continue serving as West Virginia’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). The WVU CED is one of 67 UCEDDs funded to address issues, find solutions, and advance research to improve the lives of people with developmental disabilities and their families.
Funding for the next five years will focus on supporting individuals with disabilities and their families in many ways, particularly with regard to their health care, employment opportunities, health and wellness, and transitional experiences.
“Individuals with disabilities and their families living in West Virginia are particularly vulnerable to changes being considered in health care, accessible education opportunities, and employment. Given that a significant portion of our WV population has at least one disability, it is crucial that we are focused and effective in our services to the state” said Dr. Lesley Cottrell, WVU CED Director.
The WVU CED was funded 2.73 million dollars for the fiscal period of 2017-2022. This funding provides core administrative funding needed to provide training, community services, research, and information dissemination to the state. Last year, the WVU CED served 60,950 West Virginians through its 7 programs and 3 clinics.
This funding is provided by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living, Administration for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
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Gruszecki named to Polish training camp squad
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Former UTA men's basketball standout Karol Gruszecki has been selected as one of 17 players invited to participate as members of the Polish National Team in preparation for the 2017 European Championships this summer.
The team will spend two weeks in Walbrzych beginning on July 23 and will play a series of friendlies in Lithuania, Latvia, Germany and Poland. Eurobasket is scheduled for August 31 - Sept. 17 with games being played in Finland, Israel, Romania and Turkey. Poland is in Group A, along with Greece, France, Finland, Iceland and Slovenia.Gruszecki played in the 2015 championships, in which Poland finished in 11th place. He also represented Poland at the U16, U18 and U20 FIBA European Championships. He averaged 6.2 points and 2.9 rebounds per game in the three youth championship events.
Recently, Gruszecki signed a 2-year agreement to play for Polski Cukier Torun in the Polish League.
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Levin Center hosts Scholars Roundtable on Congressional Oversight
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Levin Center hosts Scholars Roundtable on Congressional OversightJune 12, 2017In an effort to analyze and improve congressional oversight, the Levin Center at Wayne State University Law School hosted 23 scholars from 19 institutions on Friday, June 9, for a Scholars Roundtable.
“Bipartisan congressional oversight is as important as ever as a means to investigate complex issues,” said former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, chair of the Levin Center at Wayne Law and the law school’s distinguished legislator in residence. “This gathering of leading scholars is intended to generate new research to make congressional investigations more effective and useful.”
The roundtable discussion at Wayne State University Law School, located in Levin’s hometown of Detroit, brought together scholars with academic disciplines ranging from law and government, to political theory and history. Discussion included past research efforts as well as developing a national research agenda on congressional oversight. Potential future research topics include defining and measuring the effectiveness of oversight, exploring incentives for members of Congress to conduct oversight and understanding how congressional oversight efforts affect policy outcomes.
“Congressional capacity to conduct meaningful, evidence-based oversight is woefully inadequate. We need to understand why that is and what to do about it,” said roundtable participant Professor Richard L. Hall of the University of Michigan. “The Levin Center assembled the best oversight scholars in the country to explore these questions and set the agenda for future research.”
The roundtable on congressional oversight is the first of its kind in U.S. academic circles.
Other participants in the scholars roundtable shared the following feedback:
“Congress’ oversight duties are as important as its lawmaking role. The conference stimulated new ideas for research and practical suggestions for improvement.” – Bryan D. Jones, J.J. “Jake” Pickle Regents Chair in Congressional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
“These are challenging times for congressional oversight. The Levin ...
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Rock Creek’s 40th birthday was a 10-month party for campus community
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Rock Creek’s 40th birthday was a 10-month party for campus community
Photos and Story by Janis Nichols |
The end of the 2016-17 year didn’t just mean the end to the academic season, but also meant an end to the 10-month celebration of Rock Creek Campus’ 40th birthday. Don’t worry, there is no mid-life crisis there.
“Thanks to all the students, faculty and staff who helped Rock Creek celebrate its 40th birthday: for showing up, for volunteering, for your generosity and for your support of PCC Rock Creek,” said Rock Creek President Sandra Fowler-Hill. “We look forward to celebrating our 50th in 2026.”
It’s an impressive four-decade run for the 265-acre campus. Starting as an idea by founding president Dr. Amo DeBernardis in 1969, college planners had to leap many hurdles to finally open Rock Creek in the middle of 1976, an effort labeled “The Battle for Rock Creek.” Since then, PCC’s rural campus has been transformed by voter-approved bond construction that has turned it into one of the cornerstone locations of the college district.
This year’s celebration started with fall In-Service when “Zippy the Drone” captured a 40th birthday photo of Rock Creek faculty and staff on the lawn outside Building 7. Campus organizers announced a 10-month long competition to secure donations for the Food Pantry that benefits students, and welcomed the first Oregon Promise students to campus.
The annual Harvest Festival in October brought more than 1,000 visitors to campus, who in turn gave 400 pumpkins new homes just in time for Halloween.
“It was a great collaboration involving ASPCC and the Learning Garden,” added Fowler-Hill.
In November, the Women’s Resource Center and ASPCC created 42 Thanksgiving baskets for Rock Creek students. With the goal of 40 baskets in honor of the 40th birthday, more than 250 campus faculty and staff donated food items for the annual event.
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Sunday, July 16, 2017
Latina Activism Conference
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After obtaining federal designation as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in February, Sonoma State University is taking another step toward strengthening its commitment to serve the Latino population of the North Bay with the inaugural Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) — or Women Active in Letters and Social Change — Summer Institute taking place on campus July 19-22. Some panel discussions are also open to the public free of charge."MALCS has been a student-driven, grassroots effort," says conference co-chair and SSU Chicano and Latino Studies Professor Patricia Kim-Rajal. "The club is really responding to student needs and demands."
The Sonoma State chapter of MALCS — a national organization of student-run clubs on university campuses — was chartered last year by student Patricia Ayala Macias. "For us, this conference is part of our continuing work of networking students with faculty mentors and inspiring them to go into grad school, and to see ourselves as researchers and part of academia," she says.
Sonoma State University Research Coordinator Dra. Mariana G. Martinez knows firsthand the benefits a conference like this can provide. As a grad student, she attended a similar conference years ago in Santa Barbara hosted by a different MALCS chapter and found it inspiring. "You get to understand a lot of the theoretical concepts and apply them to your own life," says the conference co-chair and MALCS de SSU faculty advisor.
"It's important to have these events at Sonoma State and in the North Bay, especially now that a lot of social justice work is focused on San Francisco and Oakland," says Ayala.
This is not their first time organizing an event like this on campus, either. Earlier this year Kim-Rajal and Martinez were advisors to Ayala in organizing the University's first Women of Color conference, which featured keynote speeches by SSU President Judy K. Sakaki and Black Lives Matter co-founder ...
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CI students help elementary school kids write poems inspired by historical photos of animals
CSU Chanel Islands News
Camarillo, Calif., March 21, 2016 — CSU Channel Islands (CI) School of Education graduate student Katelyn Sallee, 22, was delighted with the imaginative poems her students wrote in the second annual “Bards and Beasts” art and poetry exhibit.“They just blew me away with the descriptions they were able to come up with,” she said.Hosted by Ventura County Poet Laureate Phil Taggart, “Bards and Beasts” is an annual celebration of poetry held each year at a Ventura County elementary school.This year’s “Bards and Beasts” is being held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 24 at the University Preparation School in Camarillo.With guidance from 20 CI student teachers like Sallee, fourth- and fifth-graders used Santa Paula historian John Nichols collection of historic photos of animals as inspiration to compose poetry.One fourth-grader wrote:“My Dog – a Wonder PoemDear Pet Dog,Why do you sleep all day and why are you so fluffy?Why do you want all my food and stare out the window?What do you dream about?Why are you so hyper and smell like grassWhen I give you kisses?Do you watch T.V. while I am gone?”And a fifth-grader wrote:“Fire CatFollow me and I will show you my fire cave.My beaming smile shines when I’m runningWild in the wind.It is exhausting to always be flaming hot.My dearest companion is the bright sunIn the morningAnd the sunset at night.At nighttime, under the stars, you can onlySee the fire and flame of my beautiful fur.”CI Education Lecturer Mary Kay Rummel spearheaded the first “Bards and Beasts” in 2015, when she was Ventura County Poet Laureate.“It’s a way to bring together the University and the school and community and the arts around poetry,” Rummel said. “One of the goals of the poet laureateship is to bring poetry into the community.”Rummel and Taggart ...
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SCSF puts modern twist on ‘Comedy of Errors’
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What happens when Antipholus meets Antipholus and Dromio meets Dromio?
The pairs look alike, so it must mean that these are sets of twins, correct?
That is exactly the case. In William Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors,” a Syracusan man and his servant run into their twin brothers in the Greek city of Ephesus. When friends and families of the twins in Ephesus mistake them for the Syracuse pair, a series of wild mishaps lead to all manner of dubious outcomes – including unjust beatings, near-seduction and arrests.
The Shakespearean comedy will play out on stage this September at the Cal Poly Pomona Studio Theatre, courtesy of The Southern California Shakespeare Festival (SCSF) – a program run by Cal Poly Pomona Department of Theatre and New Dance faculty member Linda Bisesti.
Bisesti, the festival’s founder and artistic director, says that for its 13th season, SCSF will be making some modern adjustments to one of the Bard’s earliest works that will put a fresh coat of paint on a play more than 400 years old.
Taking an already bizarre story over the top, the city of Ephesus becomes Venice Beach and Syracuse changed to San Diego. The carnival-like nature of Venice Beach will be played up with a pre-show performance of circus acts that will bleed into the main performance.
Bisesti said much of the play’s reimagining stems from director Sam Robinson, who will also invert genders of the characters to place women in men’s positions, and vice versa. Antipholus becomes Anna-Maria, and Dromio becomes Darian.
“The roles are gender-bended, so the husband and wife’s roles get reexamined in terms of gendering,” Bisesti says. “Part of my belief is that Shakespeare is gender-blind and colorblind. The Elizabethans did Shakespeare with all men, and now it’s time to do it with all sorts of different people and changing ...
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CSUSB hate crime expert Brian Levin interviewed on KQED’s ‘Forum’
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Hate crimes in California increased more than 11 percent last year, according to a California Department of Justice report released this month. Race-related hate crimes – mostly against African Americans and Latinos — accounted for the majority of the incidents, but hate crimes against people based on their sexual orientation and against Muslims and Jews also rose. Forum discusses the disturbing trend and what may be driving it.
Read the Report (California Department of Justice)
Guests:Brian Levin, director, Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University San Bernardino
Hate Crimes on the Rise in California 12 July,2017Michael Krasny
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Mendongrak Budaya Menulis dan Membaca di Pedalaman
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1Lulusan SPGN 1 Bandung, sekarang mengajar di UPI dan Masih Menulis Sejumlah Buku diantaranya diterbitkan di Lambert Academic Publisher Germany sebanyak 2 Judul dan Rosda Karya 15 Judul
Menulis merupakan sesuatu yang sangat mudah bagi sebagian orang yang sudah terbiasa menulis sejumlah karya tulisnya baik buku, makalah, naskah pidato, naskah perundangan, puisi, ceritera, novel, dan mungkin berita, laporan dan sejenisnya. Namun setiap teknik dan hasil karya tulis tersebut tidaklah sama antara satu sama lain terutama cara dan peruntukannya, bahkan orang yang menulisnya.
Fenomena sekarang, sejak berulirnya era digital dan media online lainnya maka dapat dirasakan budaya menulis setidaknya akan menghadapi tantangan besar, kenapa tidak?. Coba kita perhatikan dengan cermat, misalnya seorang siswa yang disuruh mengerjakan sebuah tugas dari gurunya tentang bagaimana mengumpukan sebuah cerita maka ia dengan mudah akan mendapatkannya dan bagi siswa yang pintar mungkin mengunduhnya dan memberikan komentar atau penambahan-penambahan pada cerita tersebut. Namun sebaliknya bagi siswa yang terburu-buru, tidak cukup waktu, bahkan yang cenderung malas mungkin hanya “mencopas”-nya saja. Lebih paraha agi jika seorang guru atau dosen atau para pendidik lainnya ketika akan memberikan layanan pembelajaran, kemudian bahan ajarnya menggunakan karya-karya tulis yang sudah ada yang bertebaran di dunia maya, maka fenomena ini jika dibiarkan akan menjadi sebuah gunung es yang tinggal menunggu waktu bahwa budaya menulis akan digantikan dengan “Budaya Copy-Paste”. Kecenderungan para guru dan dosen mungkin saja akan terjebak kepada masa kemandulan untuk menuangkan ide dan pemikirannya ke dalam bentuk tulisan-tulisan berbobot yang sebenarnya mereka mampu untuk melakukannya, namun enggan untuk memulainya.
Seandainya kondisi di atas tidak terjadi dipelosok, mengingat dipelosok atau dipedalaman mungkin tidak semuanya memiliki akses internet, sehingga peluang-peluang memanfaatkan karya orang lain yang tidak benar dapat diminimalisir. Walaupun di sisi lain dengan mudahnya fasilitas akses internet dapat membantu para siswa, guru, dosen dan pendidik lainnya untuk membaca karya orang dan mencoba untuk mengikutinya, mengutifnya dan mengembangkannya menjadi karya baru yang bisa ...
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Lisa McClain and Elizabeth Cook
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Lisa McClain and Elizabeth Cook
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Lisa McClain, History, and Elizabeth Cook, English, have just returned from New York where they attended the “Reacting to the Past” 17th Annual Faculty Institute. Reacting to the Past consists of elaborate role-playing games for the college classroom, set in the past, in which students are assigned roles informed by actual events and classic texts in the history of ideas. McClain and Cook will be part of a team working with the Center for Teaching and Learning to introduce this proven pedagogical tool at Boise State.
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UW Board of Trustees to Meet July 18-21 in Rock Springs | News
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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 ...
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Travis Mossotti Named 2018 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Winner
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Roy Bentley and P. Scott Cunningham named as finalists
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In the Executioner’s Shadow
American University News
American University School of Communication professors Maggie Burnette Stogner and Richard Stack know that capital punishment is not a simple subject, and their forthcoming documentary film, In the Executioner’s Shadow, shows why. It tells the stories of people who have personal experience with the death penalty, from crime victims to a former executioner. Through their eyes and stories, the film navigates the moral quandaries of capital punishment, and larger issues of American identity, fairness and the criminal justice system in our nation.
Stogner said, “It’s about who we are as a country and what our values are in the 21st century.”
Stogner, a filmmaker and professor of film and media arts, and Stack, a strategic communication professor, have worked with several students and alumni on the project over the course of production, and it’s final entering the end stages of production.
The film will debut later this year. Their hope is that the film will spark dialogue about understanding justice.
“We’ve discovered through our various interviews that one side talks past the other. It’s a mutual predicament. And we’re trying to get people to talk to each other,” says Stack.
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UAlbany Listed Among Top 100 ‘Best Colleges for Your Money’
Students walk on the campus of UAlbany, which was ranked among the Money’s top 100 “Best Colleges for Your Money.” (Photo by Mark Schmidt)
ALBANY, N.Y. (July 17, 2017) — The University at Albany made the top-100 list in Money magazine’s latest edition of “Best Colleges for Your Money,” released last week.
UAlbany was ranked 79th on Money’s list of 711 schools that best combine educational quality, affordability and alumni success, and was among the top 10 large public universities in the Northeast on the list.
Money rated 2,400 schools on 27 criteria, including graduation rate, teacher quality, economic mobility, the net price of a degree and the earnings of graduates five years out. Economic mobility looks at the percentage of low-income students who move into the upper-middle class.
Five other State University of New York schools made Money’s top-100 list, including the University at Buffalo (98), Brockport (93), College of Environmental Science and Forestry (70), Stony Brook (54) and Binghamton (33).
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Siemens looks to marketing millennials for brain drain answers
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Finding the best way to mitigate the brain drain that occurs when a generation of experience leaves the workforce is a monumental task confronting businesses worldwide.
Intern Tanner Parsons works with mentor John Brautigam, a 25-year Siemens employee.
Companies are devoting time and resources to determine how they can maintain an informed and knowledgeable employee base during this generational transition – including Siemens, one of the largest manufacturing and electronics companies in the world.
In an effort to solve the knowledge gap, Siemens is turning to the next generation. The company is tapping Clemson University marketing students to determine the best ways it can transfer knowledge from those leaving the workforce to those entering it.
“This is a unique opportunity for undergraduate students that makes perfect sense,” said associate professor Jennifer Siemens, who along with assistant professor Anastasia Thyroff, is overseeing the three-year Creative Inquiry research project.
“Siemens is getting the perspective of young people about to enter the workforce to look into an issue that companies everywhere are dealing with. Engaging the next-generation workforce to find answers on how to transfer knowledge within an organization makes sense,” Jennifer Siemens said.
Leadership at Siemens’ U.S. Energy Management unit recognized a significant percentage of its sales and engineering workforce were becoming retirement eligible. That’s when Kevin Yates ’94, president of the Siemens division, said strategies for a knowledge transfer program were put into place.
“Many technical industries are facing a major challenge in the coming decade,” said Yates. “A generation of experienced and technical resources are about to retire, leaving a potential void of historic knowledge and relationships.”
Being an industry that draws from STEM fields, Siemens is not immune to this challenge as the number of STEM graduates entering the traditional electro-mechanical fields is lower than those leaving, Yates said.
“We are exploring how to find effective and efficient ways ...
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When Music and Words Collide
Fordham Newsroom
Until the mid-to-late 20th century, discussions about words and music in opera and art song—vocal music with lyrics drawn from preexisting poetic texts— often focused on which medium was more important. However, with advances in recording technology and the rise of popular music, that began to change.
“Instead of thinking about which medium should dominate or take priority, the question became what their relationship is and how they interact with each other to create expressive effects, cultural meanings, and new musical forms,” said Lawrence Kramer, Ph.D., an accomplished composer and Distinguished Professor of English and Music.
“I think the relationship between words and music operates with a great deal of resonance and power, and with much more reach than it customarily gets credit for.”
In his new book, Song Acts: Writings on Words and Music (Brill, 2017), a collection of previously published essays spanning over two decades, Kramer examines art song, opera, and the intricate ways that words and classical music interconnect. Song Acts, Kramer’s 13th book about music, touches on music and poetry, sexuality, war, mourning, romanticism, and cultural change, among other topics.
For Kramer, music is a meaningful cultural activity—not just a pleasant pastime.
“The thing that I’ve been interested in doing over the years is asking how one can look at particular musical works and styles, even particular moments in musical performance, as barometers of complex cultural situations,” said Kramer, who previously published the trilogy, The Thought of Music (University of California Press, 2016), Expression and Truth: On the Music of Knowledge (University of California Press, 2012) and Interpreting Music (University of California Press, 2010).
In one essay in Song Acts, “Little Pearl Teardrops,” originally published in 2002, Kramer explores the significance of tears in the music of romantic composers Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann. He cites 18th-century literature, where crying was a sign of cultivation and “ ...
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Cuban agricultural biotechnology researcher visits SIU this week
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July 10, 2017Cuban agricultural biotechnology researcher visits SIU this week
by Christi Mathis
CARBONDALE, Ill. – Mario Pablo Estrada Garcia, director of agricultural biotechnology research for the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Havana, Cuba, is visiting Southern Illinois University Carbondale this week as part of an innovation and entrepreneurship program.
Estrada will meet with faculty and staff from the university, attend the 51st annual Belleville Field Day at SIU’s Belleville Research Center and participate in two events which are open to the public. A luncheon featuring a presentation by Estrada is from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, July 11, in Room 241 at the Dunn-Richmond Economic Development Center, 1740 Innovation Drive in Carbondale. There is no cost and everyone is welcome. However, those planning to attend must RSVP by calling 618/453-6754 or emailing innovation@siu.edu.
In addition, a public reception in Estrada’s honor will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 12, in Studio E, located at the Dunn-Richmond Economic Development Center. Everyone is welcome and no RSVP is required.
The SIU Research Park is hosting Garcia July 10-14 in conjunction with the SIU/U.S. Embassy – Havana Grant Program “Connecting Cuban Entrepreneurs.” The program has established a collaboration involving a team of faculty and business development/entrepreneurship staff from SIU and a group of faculty and staff from the Universidad de Pinar del Rio in Havana.
The goal of the multi-year, multi-faceted program is strengthening Cuba’s entrepreneurship/small business development educational programs and support system while providing technical assistance to entrepreneurs and small business owners, according to Kyle Harfst, executive director of economic and regional development. He said other activities will also take place involving the Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP), the Universidad de la Habana and other entities in Cuba.
Estrada is also the leader of the organization committee for the Biotechnology ...
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IUPUI diversity researcher to co-edit special journal issue focusing on Black Lives Matter: Newscenter: Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEINDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis diversity researcher will co-edit a special edition of a journal that will examine through multiple disciplines the Black Lives Matter movement.
Among the project's goals, said Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, an associate professor of psychology in the School of Science, is to collect a volume of interdisciplinary manuscripts that seeks to:
Understand the reasons for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Deconstruct the resistance to it.
Identify strategies for effecting positive change that demonstrates the valuing of black lives.
Ashburn-Nardo will edit the special issue of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal with Kecia Thomas, a psychology professor and founding director of the Center for Research and Engagement in Diversity at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia.
"People are sharply divided in their opinions of the Black Lives Matter movement," Ashburn-Nardo said. "We think that is because it is something that is poorly understood.
"When they hear 'black lives matter,' a lot of people think that means at the exclusion of other lives. There seems to be a misunderstanding that by saying 'black lives matter' it implies that maybe white lives don't matter -- or blue lives, given that a lot of attention regarding the movement has centered around police interactions with African Americans, " she said.
"I don't think anyone in that movement feels that other lives don't matter, but that seems to be how a lot of folks are interpreting it and have a lot of strong emotional reaction to it," she said. "We are hoping this special issue can shed some light on that."
In a call for papers for the special journal edition, Ashburn-Nardo and Thomas write: "The Black Lives Matter movement came out of the Black community's chronic experience with overt and covert racism and its collective frustration with being silenced when ...
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Panel Discussion: How to be an 'Authentic' Leader
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Be authentic. Be honest. Be true to yourself.This was the overarching theme at the Authentic Leadership Panel on April 26, 2013 at the Rasmussen College Blaine campus. The panel discussed how to be a genuine leader – one that motivates, supports and drives others. The panel was made up of John Kriesel, director of Veteran Services for Anoka County, Chris McIntosh, president/CEO of 100 LLC, and Trenda Boyum-Breen, chief academic officer at Rasmussen College. A packed room full of attendees listened to a series of questions and answers, took notes and asked question themselves. Here’s some of the top four questions asked during the event. What makes a good leader? Kriesel said a good leader is one that doesn’t always take the easy path. “There’s always going to be that hard right and easy wrong,” said Kriesel. “It’s hard to take the [more difficult road], but you’re setting yourself up for success if you do.” “To me, leadership is about being inspiring, motivating and authentic,” said McIntosh. “A good leader is the bi-product of one’s core values. You’re either an authentic person or you’re not. Your authenticity has potential to resonate with people you work with because you’re real.” How can you be successful at work? How do ethics tie in? “Don’t start meetings with a task,” said Boyum-Breen. “I try to get to know the people I meet with regularly. It’s important to trust those on your team and foster the culture that you have. I want them to feel free to live authentically with me. I also try to remember that not everybody thinks or acts like me.” Regarding ethics, the group said it is at the center of everyone’s being; it is something that people will be continuously tested on in both their personal and professional lives. “ ...
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Miami University swimmers head to Olympic Swimming Trials
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By Angie Renninger, intercollegiate athletics
Elise Campbell and Evan Bader, and to the right, in action.
Miami University swimmers Evan Bader and Elise Campbell will compete in the Olympic Trails that run from June 26-July 3 in Omaha, Nebraska.
Bader, of Oxford, and Campbell, of Marshfield, Massachusetts, are both breaststroke specialists.
Campbell has two years of eligibility remaining with the RedHawks. She recently qualified in the 100 meter breaststroke at the Arena Pro Swim Series in Indianapolis, Indiana, on June 3, 2016, with a time of 1:11.38.
The preliminaries and semifinals for the women’s 100m breaststroke are June 27, and the finals are June 28. Campbell is one of 129 women qualified for the event.
Bader recently completed his eligibility with Miami. He qualified in the 200m breaststroke at the Speedo Sectionals in Columbus on July 22, 2015, with a time of 2:18.06.
The preliminaries and semifinals for the men’s 200m breaststroke are June 29, and the finals are June 30.
Bader is one of 126 men qualified for the 200m breaststroke, the same event in which Miami University alumnus Bill Mulliken (Miami ’61) won Olympic gold in 1960 in Rome. Mulliken is one of just five Americans to win Olympic gold in the event.
The preliminaries begin at 11 a.m. (ET), and the semifinals/finals begin at 7:45 p.m. (ET) each day.
A video interview with Bader and Campbell is available online.
Bader is also one of four Miami swimmers to be named Honorable Mention Scholar All-Americans.
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Future Development Reads: Books on digital transformation for your summer reading list
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Since it is time for summer reading, here are the three books I have been reading. They are all about how the world of tomorrow might look like, trying to make sense of digital transformation from different angles:
First, there is the seminal book by Klaus Schwab, CEO of the World Economic Forum, on the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” The first surprise was that the book was only published about a year ago, even though it feels that the concept has been around for very long. Schwab’s book is a plain presentation of key trends, tipping points, and impacts of the fourth industrial revolution. He also argues that the Fourth Industrial Revolution and big data, and not only quantitatively, is different from Third Industrial Revolution. In fact, it presents a qualitative quantum leap, linked to the horizontal integration of the digital space in all aspects of life. One of the best parts of the book is an annex presenting a survey of 800 leading experts, predicting major breakthroughs until 2025. For example, 78 percent believe that there will be more than 10 percent of driverless cars on United States roads in less than eight years from now.
To get a preview, here is a blog summarizing the book, and don’t miss this wonderfully uplifting 11-minute video.
Second is Big Data in Practice: How 45 Successful Companies Used Big Data Analytics to Deliver Extraordinary Results from big data evangelist Bernhard Marr. He presents 45 big data success stories in a very systematic way, covering the ususal suspects (e.g., Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM), the secretive Palantir, which works closely with the U.S. government in anti-terrorism, and businesses in traditional industries such as Walmart, Rolls-Royce, and Shell.
Marr also provides a succinct explanation of the technical breakthrough that made big data possible in the first place. In the past, more data meant a slowdown in processing ...
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Vietnam Veterans Honored at 50th Anniversary Commemoration at College of DuPage
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By Jennifer DudaCollege of DuPage was the proud host of a recent 50th anniversary event for Vietnam Veterans coordinated through the Illinois Department
of Veterans’ Affairs. The event, held April 25 in Belushi Performance Hall of the
McAninch Arts Center, drew 200 veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed
Forces between Nov. 1, 1955 and May 15, 1975. College of DuPage President Dr. Ann Rondeau and Board Chairman Deanne Mazzochi, along with state and military representatives presented each guest with a commemorative
lapel pin. Click here for more images from the event. (Press Photography Network/Special to College of
DuPage)
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Meet Rabbi Shira Rosenblum, the elite U.S. Archer at the Maccabiah who doesn’t shoot on Saturdays
Brandeis University News
When she first entered college, Shira Rosenblum had no intention of taking up archery. Instead, she tried out for Brandeis’s a cappella groups. She didn’t get in. Next, she applied to be a Resident Advisor. She was rejected. The following year, she heard that the campus archery club was meeting in her building. Having dabbled in the sport as a kid, she decided to drop by. The coach told her that there were no tryouts and anyone could just walk on to the team. This proved appealing. “I thought: great, no tryouts, they can’t tell me I can’t come, and I just started going,” Rosenblum recalled. She convinced the team to ensure that she never had to shoot on Shabbat for practices or tournaments, put in 12 hours a week, and began competing.
Fast-forward to 2017 and Rosenblum, now an ordained Conservative rabbi, is serving as the entire U.S. archery team in Israel’s Maccabiah, the quadrennial Jewish Olympics which began on July 6.
This year’s American delegation to the Maccabiah is its largest ever, with over 1,100 participants, second only to the Israelis. But the team has only one archer. Rosenblum—who has taught archery at Camp Ramah in the Rockies, was previously the #2 ranked archer in Massachusetts, and this year came in 4th in the New York State championship—is representing America alone. (Those teams with only one member for a given sport compete in all the individual events, while skipping the team ones.)
This is only the second year that the Maccabiah has included archery, but it is not the first time Rosenblum has honed her skills in the Holy Land. During her year in Israel while in rabbinical school, she happened upon the Jerusalem archery club, which graciously permitted her to use their facilities and equipment. At the time, the U.S. wasn’t ...
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Industry Forecast Predicts Need for More Than 1 Million Pilots, Technicians by 2034
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“The challenge of meeting the global demand for airline professionals will not be solved by one company alone,” said Sherry Carbary, vice president of Boeing Flight Services, in the forecast announcement. “Aircraft manufacturers, airlines, training equipment manufacturers, training delivery organizations, regulatory agencies and educational institutions are all stepping up to meet the increasing need to train and certify pilots and technicians.”
One educational institution that has already experienced growth in the maintenance arena is Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – Worldwide. Over the past few years, enrollment has doubled in the school’s undergraduate aviation maintenance program.
Ken Witcher, dean of Embry-Riddle Worldwide's College of Aeronautics.
“The aviation maintenance community is placing a higher value on education,” said Ken Witcher, dean of Embry-Riddle Worldwide’s College of Aeronautics. “Industry now is telling the workforce that a formal education, along with the required technical skills, is important.”
Witcher attributes some of this shift to manufacturers that are building more efficient and sophisticated aircraft that require complex technical support.
“It’s a different industry than it was 25 years ago,” he said. “The maintainers of tomorrow will be different than those of the past.”
While Witcher found the overall jobs outlook encouraging, he also noted the global significance of Boeing’s report.
The region with the highest projected demand by 2034 is the Asia Pacific, with an anticipated need for 226,000 pilots and 238,000 technicians. Following the Asia Pacific are Europe and North America, with a need for 95,000 pilots and 101,000 technicians and 95,000 pilots and 113,000 technicians – respectively. Other regions highlighted include Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Russia/CIS.
“This forecast demonstrates the need has grown beyond the continued conversation about the commercial pilot shortage as it is more closely linked to aircraft sales and not singularly focused on an aging workforce in the United States,” he said. “These numbers show that the demand for trained aviation professionals has ...
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Princeton supporting graduate student sentenced to prison in Iran
Princeton University News
Princeton University issued a statement after the Iranian judiciary announced on Sunday, July 16, that a Princeton graduate student conducting dissertation research in Iran had been sentenced to 10 years in prison after having been accused of espionage.
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Election series to feature party officials, IU politics experts
IU
September 9, 2016
A series of election-related programs aimed at helping IU Bloomington students and others learn about the November 2016 election gets underway next week with a discussion featuring Indiana Democratic and Republican party representatives.
John Zody
John Zody, chair of the Indiana Democratic Party, and Tim Berry, former chair of the Indiana Republican Party, will share a stage from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Student Activities Room of Briscoe Residence Center. The discussion is free and open to the public.
Zody, who lives in Bloomington, got involved with politics as an IU student. He was elected Indiana Democratic chair in March 2013. Before that, he served as Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic political director for President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.
Berry, a Fort Wayne native who lives in Indianapolis, stepped down as Republican chairman in March 2015. He served two terms as Indiana’s elected state treasurer and was in his second term as state auditor when Gov. Mike Pence selected him to become state party chairman in July 2013.
Tim Berry
The nonpartisan IU election series is sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the Political and Civic Engagement program, known as PACE, and the Civic Leaders Center. It is part of IU Bloomington’s participation in the All In Campus Democracy Challenge, a nationwide initiative aimed at increasing civic engagement and voting by college students.
Marjorie Hershey, professor of political science and coordinator of the series, said several groups were planning election-related programming and decided to join forces for a single series. Scheduled events include:
6 to 7 p.m. Sept. 19, location to be determined – A discussion on the 2016 elections featuring IU politics experts. Panelists will include Hershey; Paul Helmke, professor of practice in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, director of the Civic Leaders Center and former mayor of Fort Wayne; Leslie Lenkowsky, professor emeritus in SPEA; and Jill Long Thompson, ...
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Opinion: Why Apple shouldn’t follow Amazon’s lead
Northwestern Now: Summaries
Amazon and Apple have both achieved what most companies aspire to, but only few manage to pull off: They have become a part of our everyday lives. Amazon’s third Prime Day "grew by more than 60% compared to the same 30 hours last year," according to the company, which begs the question: Should Apple launch a similar event to promote sales?At first glance, it might seem like a good idea for Apple to offer its own version of Prime Day. Indeed, why wait for Black Friday to offer discounts on Apple products? While intuitively appealing, this view reflects a fundamental misconception that Amazon’s Prime Day is just about selling more merchandise by offering discounts. It is much more than that. Prime Day is an excellent means for Amazon to create value for its customers, while at the same time enabling it to achieve several strategic goals:Promote Amazon Prime membershipPrime membership is important to Amazon for several reasons. First, it is a source of additional revenues and profits. Even if Amazon (amzn) merely breaks even on the sale of products, the $99 annual Prime membership fee makes a sizable contribution to the company’s bottom line. In addition to generating additional revenues, Prime membership has the psychological impact of increasing customer loyalty. Many customers who enroll in Prime are more likely to spend more on Amazon—in part because they’ve paid for it and in part because they now feel that they have made a commitment to shop on Amazon. This approach has also worked very well for Costco (cost), which derives much of its profits from membership fees.Promote the Amazon ecosystemHome automation relying on personal digital assistants is the new frontier in creating customer value. With many competitors jockeying for a dominant position in this space, Amazon is determined to become the dominant player and the go-to ...
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Katherine Baicker
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Baicker is a leading scholar in the economic analysis of health policy. Her research focuses on the effectiveness and value of public and private health insurance. Her scholarship spans Medicaid, health insurance finance, health care quality and the effect of health system reforms.Baicker arrives at UChicago from Harvard University where she serves as the C. Boyden Gray Professor of Health Economics. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Social Insurance and serves as a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab. Baicker has served as a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.
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Third Annual Comm Ave Charity Classic Tonight
BU Today
Fundraiser puts hockey rivals on same side for a good cause
It’s back: the annual Comm Ave Charity Classic pits professional hockey players who formerly played for BU and BC tonight at Walter Brown Arena. The money raised goes to the Travis Roy Foundation and Compassionate Care ALS. Poster by Rich Gagnon, BU Athletics
The BU-BC hockey rivalry runs deep, but tonight an elite group of former Terriers and Eagles will take to the ice for a common goal: to raise awareness and support for ALS research and those with spinal cord injuries. The players, all with ties to the National Hockey League or the American Hockey League, will put their collegiate rivalry aside for the third annual Comm Ave Charity Classic. Puck drop is at 7 p.m. tonight at Walter Brown Arena.
All proceeds from the game will benefit two charities: Compassionate Care ALS (CCALS), which provides physical and emotional support to individuals and families battling the fatal neuromuscular disease ALS, and the Travis Roy Foundation, which assists those with spinal cord injuries and their families. Last year’s Charity Classic raised over $55,000 for the two nonprofits and organizers hope to exceed that amount this year. Both organizations also support research.
All of tonight’s participating players are former Terriers or Eagles who are current or past NHL or AHL stars. Playing for the Terriers tonight are Jack Eichel, who left BU in 2015, after being drafted by the Buffalo Sabres at the end of freshman year. Eichel won the 2015 Hobey Baker Award, college hockey’s highest individual honor. Other former BU hockey stars suiting up: Minnesota Wild forward Charlie Coyle, Boston Bruins defensemen Charlie McAvoy, San Jose Sharks forward Danny O’Regan (COM’16), and New York Islanders defenseman Doyle Somerby (CGS’15, COM’17), a former Terrier team captain. Among the returning Eagles is Calgary Flames left-winger Johnny Gaudreau, 2014 Hobey ...
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Mānoa: Will Weinstein public lecture series to bring top line-up of speakers to UH on legal, ethical issues
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University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaContact:Posted: Jul 13, 2017Judge Richard CliftonThe annual summer Will K. Weinstein Conversation Series offers a provocative list of speakers this year, including Senior Judge Richard Clifton of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals; George Rush, former head football coach at San Francisco City College, and Nick Rolovich, UH head football coach; and William Strong, chairman and managing director of Longford Capital, among many other distinguished guests.The free 6-7:30 p.m. public lectures -- beginning today, July 13, with the last on August 8 -- offer compelling discussions for the public and 1.5 CLE credits for licensed attorneys. This is the series' 14th summer, and is a joint presentation of the UH William S. Richardson Law School and Shidler College of Business. “Will Weinstein always gathers exciting line-ups of speakers and he is masterful in getting them to discuss a wide range of legal and ethical issues,” said Law School Dean Avi Soifer. “Every year we look forward to what he brings to our campus to educate and inform the public as well as our students.”The schedule of the lectures:Thursday, July 13, 6–7:30 p.m., Richardson Law School, Classroom 2 - FRAUD AND ITS RECENT GIANTS * Wes Reber Porter - President and CEO, Damien Memorial School; Visiting Professor of Law, Richardson Law School* Michael Purpura - Partner, Carlsmith Ball LLP; Former Assistant U.S. Attorney; Former Associate Counsel to the President of the United States* J. Michael Seabright - Chief Judge, U.S. District Court of Hawai‘iTuesday, July 18, 6–7:30 p.m., Richardson Law School, Classroom 2 - ETHICS IN THE BOARDROOM * Mary Bitterman - President, Bernard Osher Foundation; Lead Independent Director, Bank of Hawai‘iThursday, July 20, 6–7:30 p.m., Richardson Law School, Classroom 2 - MEDICAL ETHICS * Philip Dunn - Doctor of Emergency Medicine* Claude M. Chemtob, PhD - Clinical Professor of Psychiatry* Rick Fried - Founding Member, Cronin ...
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Nahas Named Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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She earned a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University
By Iqbal Pittalwala on July 12, 2017
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Samar Nahas, an M.D. with the UCR School of Medicine, and current UCR Health Division Director of Gynecologic Oncology, has been named the chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology effective July 1.
Samar Nahas, M.D.
Nahas earned her Canadian Board in obstetrics and gynecology from the University of British Columbia, Canada. She completed fellowship training in gynecologic oncology at the University of Manitoba, Canada.
Nahas completed a second fellowship in advanced laparoscopic and robotic surgery in gynecologic oncology at the Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Ariz. She also earned a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University.
She practices at both the Riverside University Health System – Medical Center and Riverside Community Hospital. Nahas previously worked as a member of the teaching faculty for medical students and residents at Trillium Health Partners Hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, and she is also a member of the teaching faculty at the Laparoscopic Institute of Gynecologic Oncology in San Francisco.
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Alumnae named Most Influential Business Women
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Congratulations to three Olin alumnae named among the Most Influential Business Women of 2017 by the St. Louis Business Journal. The awardees are accomplished business leaders from a wide range of industries and markets throughout the region. They also have made a difference in their own communities and at various nonprofit organizations.
From left: Sara Hannah, BSBA’01, Managing Partner, Barry Wehmiller Leadership Institute; Shelley Lavender, EMBA’03, President of Boeing Military Aircraft, a business unit within Boeing Defense, Space & Security; Theresa Ruzicka, MBA’86, President of Catholic Charities of St. Louis
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