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The rankings were based on a two-part methodology: an institutional audit that captured demographics and workplace policies from each institution and a survey of employees on workforce practices. More than 45,000 people at 232 institutions participated in this year’s survey, with 79 of the schools earning the title of Great College to Work For.
Only 42 of those 79, including Embry-Riddle, were additionally named Honor Roll schools for excellence across multiple categories. Embry-Riddle won high marks in the following areas: Facilities; Workspace & Security; Job Satisfaction; Professional/Career Development Programs; Respect and Appreciation; Supervisor/Department Chair Relationship; and Work/Life Balance.
“It’s very gratifying that for the seventh year in a row, Embry-Riddle employees who responded to the Great Colleges to Work For survey have given the university their vote of confidence,” said university President Dr. P. Barry Butler. “At Embry-Riddle we offer benefits that support the work/life balance that is so essential to attracting and retaining top-tier faculty and staff.”
Embry-Riddle employs more than 2,200 faculty, staff, and administrators worldwide. Benefits include paid holidays, including the week off between Christmas and New Year’s Day, a generous personal leave program, a four-day summer workweek, a 403(b) retirement plan with Embry-Riddle gift and matching contribution, health insurance with vision and dental coverage, a telecommuting option, and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program. A tuition waiver program offers free tuition to employees and family members, with employees allowed paid time off to attend Embry-Riddle classes.
“The Great Colleges to Work For distinction is well-known by academic jobseekers as a sign that an institution’s employees are valued and given opportunities for growth,” said Liz McMillen, editor of The Chronicle. “Any college or university on our annual list has proven that they emphasize one of their best assets: their faculty and staff.”
The full survey rankings can be found online here and will appear July 21 in The ...
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Embry-Riddle Earns 7th Consecutive Title as Great College to Work For
At the cellular level, a child's loss of a father is associated with increased stress
Princeton University News
The absence of a father — due to incarceration, death, separation or divorce — has adverse physical and behavioral consequences for a growing child. But little is known about the biological processes that underlie this link between father loss and child well-being.
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Geology's Thomas Holtz Comments on Estimating Animals' Top Running Speeds - Science
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IU School of Global and International Studies begins offering Peace Corps Prep
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IUB Newsroom »IU School of Global and International Studies begins offering Peace Corps PrepIU School of Global and International Studies begins offering Peace Corps PrepProgram provides students with skills needed for careers in international developmentSept. 8, 2016FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEBLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The Peace Corps has added Indiana University Bloomington to its list of more than 25 partner institutions for Peace Corps Prep, a program designed to provide students with the skills needed for service and careers in international development.
Starting this fall, the IU School of Global and International Studies is offering the Peace Corps Prep program as part of the existing Global Service and Peace Corps Prep Certificate, housed in the Department of International Studies.
"The Peace Corps Prep program will support our students to develop crucial leadership and professional skills while learning how to channel empathy and a sense of social responsibility into meaningful service experiences," IU Bloomington Provost and Executive Vice President Lauren Robel said.
For three years, IU Bloomington has ranked among the Peace Corps' top volunteer-producing colleges and universities, moving up 13 spots in the latest rankings. Currently, 47 IU Bloomington alumni serve as Peace Corps volunteers. Since the Peace Corps was created in 1961, 1,653 IU alumni have served overseas with the agency.
Lee Feinstein, founding dean of the School of Global and International Studies, said the new program adds to the school's mission.
"The Peace Corps Prep Program showcases the commitment of our school to prepare globally minded students, able to collaborate and change the world through their actions," Feinstein said.
The new program’s curriculum consists of 25 credit hours that include service-learning, cultural competency and global affairs courses, foreign language expertise, and a global service capstone project that showcases the community service experience of the graduates. The program emphasizes leadership development and international engagement and promotes meaningful internship opportunities, domestically and abroad. Sophomores are highly encouraged to enroll ...
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In photos: NUsolar retires current car at annual race in Texas
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Solar Car 6 on the track. NUsolar competed at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix from July 3 to 8 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. NUsolar’s Solar Car 6 (front left) at the starting grid before the start of a race day at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix from July 3 to 8 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. NUsolar team members work on Solar Car 6’s electronics. The student team competed at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix from July 3 to 8 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. A view of the road from just outside the cockpit of NUsolar’s Solar Car 6. The student team competed at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix from July 3 to 8 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Members of NUsolar work on Solar Car 6 (SC6) from below. SC6 completed a net 12 laps over the two days of racing at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix, July 3 to 8 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. NUsolar’s Solar Car 6 from the side. The student team competed at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix from July 3 to 8 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. NUsolar team member Akash Borde, a rising junior, emerges from the cockpit of Solar Car 6. The student team competed at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix from July 3 to 8 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Solar Car 6 navigates the final turn before the start/finish line of the Circuit of America track in Austin, Texas. NUsolar raced the car from July 3 to 8 at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix.
EVANSTON – The Northwestern University Solar Car Team (NUsolar) raced its sixth-generation solar car for the final time earlier this month at the 2017 Formula Sun Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, completing a net 12 laps over three days of racing.NUsolar’s Solar Car 6 (SC6) performed better each day, completing four laps on day ...
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Madhav Rajan
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The dean of Chicago Booth, Rajan was most recently senior associate dean at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he held the Robert K. Jaedicke Chair in Accounting. Rajan’s primary research interest is the economics-based analysis of management accounting issues, especially as they relate to the choice of internal control and performance systems in firms.He has served as editor of The Accounting Review and is co-author of Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, the leading cost accounting textbook used around the world. Before joining Stanford in 2001, Rajan held faculty positions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In 2000, Rajan won the David W. Hauck Award, Wharton’s highest undergraduate teaching award. Earlier this year, he received the Robert T. Davis Award for lifetime achievement and service, the highest faculty recognition awarded by Stanford GSB. Rajan held a visiting professorship at Chicago Booth in 2007-08.
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A Semester Devoted to Coffee
BU Today
Most Starbucks baristas can’t say they have picked, roasted, and brewed their own cup of coffee. Julia Shaw has them beat. A passion for coffee brought Shaw (CAS’18) to Central and South America for nine months this year, where the urban sustainability major worked with a nonprofit that strives to improve the lives and livelihoods of coffee farmers.
Shaw’s java affair started last year with a job at Blue State Coffee, where her manager’s zeal for coffee inspired Shaw to treat it like more than just a job. “Her passion spread to me and I fell in love with it,” she says.
Like many serious coffee houses, Blue State sends a manager each year on what it calls an origin trip to taste the different coffees it’s considering selling. Shaw, who had recently enrolled in a Spanish-language program at the Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires (she is a Spanish minor and the courses would count towards her program), decided to design her own origin-esque trip before classes began. “I knew I wanted to see how coffee was produced,” she says. “A lot of people don’t even know that coffee starts out as a fruit. I wanted to go and fully immerse myself in that.”
After some digging, she signed on to volunteer with the Guatemala-based De La Gente (“Of the People”), a nonprofit that works with small farmers and cooperatives, helping them grow and sell coffee.
For one month, she lived with host families in Ciudad Vieja, about 15 minutes outside of Antigua, Guatemala, following the farmers as they ascended volcanoes to pick the coffee cherries (which contain the coffee beans) and carry the fruit down in a basket balanced on her head. The beans were picked out, processed and sorted, then roasted and packaged. Lower grade beans were sold in local markets, the rest ...
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High alert on electric usage
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For the remainder of the week, July 19 – 21,* GC will be on high-alert status as higher temperatures result in increased electric prices above the normal operating price. The campus community is urged shut down all nonessential lighting and equipment especially during the peak hours of 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Please do not just turn off, unplug everything not pertinent for use.
If you have access to windows, use the natural light. Turn lights off when you leave your office/residence. Keep temperatures to 75 degrees F. Unplug computers, monitors, printers, copier machines, lab instruments, appliance and other equipment. All of these activities will help tremendously.
Facilities Operations staff will conduct walkthroughs turning off classroom and other unoccupied space lighting and individual AC units in unused spaces as well as shutting down hot water pumps and other non-essential equipment. If Facilities Operations staff attempt to turn off lighting or AC equipment in areas where it is needed, please inform them of the need and they will gladly accommodate. For faculty and staff, should there be a few occupants in your respective areas, consider working from another location such as the library and notify Facilities Operations that the building is unoccupied; steps will be taken to shut the building down.
*Friday is the last day for new student orientation. For the buildings that are involved in the activities for the day, operations should be at normal status.
The Office of Sustainability and the Department of Facilities Operations would like to thank everyone for your cooperation and understanding in this matter. We urge you to assist with communications by passing this information along to the campus community. If you have comments or questions, please do not hesitate to call or email: Mark Duclos, Director of Facilities Operations, 478-445-6546, mark.duclos@gcsu.edu or Lori Strawder, Chief Sustainability Officer, 478-445-7016, lori.strawder@gcsu. ...
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Minority business enterprise manufacturers to meet in Atlanta August 15-16 for second annual National MBE Manufacturers Summit
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Minority business enterprise manufacturers to meet in Atlanta August 15-16 for second annual National MBE Manufacturers Summit
July 18, 2017
• Atlanta, GA
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Attendees of the inaugural National MBE Manufacturers Summit in Atlanta in 2016 discuss issues affecting minority business enterprises. (FILE PHOTO)
More than 250 minority business enterprise (MBE) manufacturers from across the country will be in Atlanta August 15 and 16 for the second annual National MBE Manufacturers Summit 2017.
The Summit, which is hosted by the Atlanta Minority Business Development Agency’s (MBDA) Advanced Manufacturing Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Global Learning Center, brings together world-class leaders in manufacturing and is the premier event that brings industry peers together, facilitates networking and procurement opportunities, and highlights innovation.
BMW Group, Enhanced Capital, FORCAM, Grady Health System, Ingersoll Rand, Novant Health, Siemens, and WestRock are Summit sponsors.
Among the highlights for attendees of the 2017 Summit:
One-on-one fast pitch meetings with corporations and original equipment manufacturers.
Experiencing the most cutting-edge technologies through on-site “innovation pods.”
High-level exposure for companies participating in the second annual “Poster Walk Competition.”
Featured speakers include:
“We are building on the success of last year’s inaugural program, and a critical focus of this effort is innovation because it remains a key issue, according to our MBE manufacturers,” said Donna Ennis, Atlanta MBDA Advanced Manufacturing Center director. “Our Summit is designed to facilitate critical one-on-one meetings between our attendees and corporations, as well as provide the opportunity for our MBE attendees to network with one another.”
The Atlanta MBDA Advanced Manufacturing Center is a program of the Enterprise Innovation Institute (EI2), Georgia Tech’s chief economic development and business outreach arm. A sister program to the Atlanta MBDA Business Center, the Atlanta MBDA Advanced Manufacturing Center was created via a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce MBDA awarded to Georgia Tech ...
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OSU names new public safety leader
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University has selected Suzanne “Suzy” Tannenbaum to be its new director of public safety.
Tannenbaum, a public safety lieutenant at the Oregon Health & Science University since 2014, starts at OSU on July 20.
“I am honored and humbled to be selected as the director of public safety at Oregon State University,” she said. “I have enjoyed my time at OHSU Department of Public Safety, learning as we have grown the police department, having worked with some of the finest officers and staff.
“With 24-plus years of law enforcement and public safety experience as a foundation, I am well equipped to take on this new and exciting challenge. I look forward to working with the wonderful students, dedicated men and women within the department, the fine staff and professionals at OSU, our department partners, and the OSU community at large. I know together we will make Oregon State University a safer place to study, work, play and live.”
Tannenbaum will report to Mike Green, OSU’s interim vice president for finance and administration.
“I am very pleased that Suzy Tannenbaum will be Oregon State University’s new director of public safety,” Green said. “Her many years of experience in the public safety arena along with her vision for this important role and the university’s Department of Public Safety will enable her to lead in effective and transformative ways for the Oregon State community.”
In her role at OHSU, Tannenbaum had public safety oversight of three campuses, as well as university facilities throughout Oregon. She oversaw all aspects of public safety management from hiring and training, to campus safety assessments and community education and outreach.
Prior to working at OHSU, she was director of campus safety at Clackamas Community College and an instructor and administrator at the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training police academy. She also ...
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UCR Assistant Professors Receive NSF CAREER Awards
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8 faculty receive grants totaling $4 million for outstanding research and education
By Sarah Nightingale on July 17, 2017
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UCR’s 2017 NSF CAREER Award Recipients (clockwise from top left): Boniface Fokwa, assistant professor of chemistry; Nathaniel Gabor, assistant professor of physics and astronomy; Haizhou Liu, assistant professor of chemical and environmental engineering; Ming Liu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering; Zhiyun Qian, assistant professor of computer science and engineering; Hideaki Tsutsui, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; Yulong Xing, assistant professor of mathematics; Ruoxue Yan, assistant professor of chemical & environmental engineering.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — Eight researchers from the University of California, Riverside have been awarded Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The CAREER award is one of NSF’s most prestigious awards. It supports promising assistant professors as they pursue outstanding research, excellence in education, and the integration of these activities.
Faculty members from UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering received five awards and faculty from the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences received three. The 2017 projects and awardees are:
Rational Design of Magnetic Materials Featuring Low-dimensional Subunits, by Boniface Fokwa, assistant professor of chemistry. Award amount: $604,000.
Optoelectronic Probes of Interlayer Electron-hole Pair Multiplication in Atomic Layer Semiconductor Heterostructures, by Nathaniel Gabor, assistant professor of physics and astronomy. Award amount: $542,000.
Beyond Conventional Drinking Water Management: Control of Redox-driven in situ Release of Accumulated Inorganic Contaminants from Water Distribution Infrastructure, by Haizhou Liu, assistant professor of chemical and environmental engineering. Award amount: $512,000.
Advanced Optical and Electrical Characterization of Novel Van der Waals Heterostructure Materials, by Ming Liu, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Award amount: $460,000.
Empowering Attacker-centric Security Analysis of Network Protocols, by Zhiyun Qian, assistant professor of computer science and engineering. Award amount: $500,000.
Printable and Injectable Chromatic Nanosensor for One-step, Naked-eye Detection, by Hideaki Tsutsui, assistant professor of mechanical engineering. Award amount: $500,000.
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Exec MBAs prepare for global leadership in Mumbai
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“Batch 3,” the third cohort of students in the joint IIT-Bombay-Washington University Executive MBA program gathered last week in Mumbai to begin an 18-month course to advance their leadership skills and careers while working full-time. WashU Chancellor Mark Wrighton and Olin Dean Mark Taylor welcomed the new class via video message.
Shivganesh Bhargava, Head of the Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management at IIT Bombay, and Kurt Dirks, Olin’s Bank of America Professor of Managerial Leadership and Co-Director of Bauer Leadership Center, were present for the formal launch at IIT and Welcome Dinner at Taj Lands End. Graduates of the program from Batch 1 and 2 also attended.
“The joint global degree is meant to equip executives with the tools, education and confidence to work in any industry in any part of the world as leaders in the new landscape of economic development. This also enables them to apply the concepts they learn while taking the course and know its impact in real-time.” Prof. S. Bhargava, Head of Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management at IIT Bombay.
Executive MBA -Mumbai Batch 3 At-a-GlanceNumber of students: 25Average age: 39Average years of professional experience: 15.3Women students: 7
IIT-Bombay and Washington University launched the first US-India joint Executive MBA program in Mumbai in 2015. The partnership between Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM) at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay and Olin Business School offers only the Executive MBA program in the world to confer a degree from both an Indian and an American university.
Thanks to Kiran Shesh, CEO of IITB-WUStL Research and Educational Academy, for the photos in this gallery from the Batch 3 launch. Click on photos to enlarge.
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Expect Traffic, Some Full Parking Lots During Conventions
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The Jehovah’s Witnesses conventions, held annually at the Mullins Center, will begin on Friday, July 21. Expect increased traffic throughout campus, especially on Commonwealth Avenue, with capacity parking conditions in Lots 25 and 12 during event hours.Events are scheduled 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday through Sunday.
The 2017 convention dates are:
July 21-23
July 28-30
August 4-6
August 11-13
Summer parking regulations are in effect, so any vehicles displaying a current year-long UMass Amherst parking permit may park in Yellow Lots (11, 12 or 13), Purple Lots (22, 44 or 49) or Green Lots (25, 26, 33). Note that Lots 34 and 27 are not included in Summer green alternatives.
For more information, call Parking Services at 413/577-PARK.
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Korean Police, Medical Students Train at Forensic Anthropology Center
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A group of South Korean crime scene investigators and medical students excavate human remains at UT’s Anthropology Research Facility.A team of 21 South Korean crime scene investigators and medical students last week excavated and buried human remains, caught insects, and examined human skeletons for trauma as part of a training program at UT’s Forensic Anthropology Center (FAC).
The five-day course broadened the medical students’ understanding of the effects of diseases on bones. It also expanded law enforcement personnel’s knowledge of collecting evidence at crime scenes, said Dae-Kyoon Park, professor at Soonchunhyang University in Asan City, South Korea, and the team’s organizer.
The training included forensic entomology, estimating time since death, and determining the age and sex of a skeleton. During the week, the visitors studied bones from UT’s Bass Donated Skeletal Collection and conducted field work at the UT Anthropology Research Facility, commonly known as the Body Farm.
This is the first time a large international group has trained at the FAC, said assistant director Giovanna Vidoli.
The trip materialized through the efforts of Park, whose relationship with UT dates back to 1998 when he first came to study with Richard Jantz, former director of the FAC. Park returned in subsequent years as a visiting scientist in the UT Medical Center’s Department of Pathology. He began bringing medical students to the FAC in 2015.
This year’s group is the first to include both medical students, from Soonchunhyang University, and law enforcement personnel, from the Korean Metropolitan Police Agency.
UT’s skeletal collection, with its examples of various pathologies, gave the medical students an opportunity to examine how diseases can work their way through the body and down to the bone.
From left, Giovanna Vidoli, assistant director of UT’s Forensic Anthropology Center; Taehwa Song, professor and trainer at the Korean Police Investigation Academy; and Dae-Kyoon ...
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The University of Pittsburgh Sets Budget and Tuition
PITTSBURGH—The operating budget, capital budget and tuition rates for the 2018 fiscal year were set Monday, July 17, at a joint meeting of the University of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees Budget and Executive Committees.
The operating budget, which includes investments in research, academic quality, diversity and inclusion, and economic development, has increased from $2.1 billion to $2.2 billion. The capital budget of $251.7 million will allow the University to renovate its properties and address deferred maintenance.
Students from Pennsylvania attending the Pittsburgh campus will see a 2.5 percent increase in tuition. For example, students attending the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences will incur an increase of $442. Out-of-state enrollees’ tuition at the Pittsburgh campus will increase by 3 percent, or for students of the Dietrich School, $864. Pennsylvania students at regional campuses, excluding Titusville, will pay an additional 2 percent, or approximately $252 for students of most majors. The tuition at the Titusville campus will not change.
Financial aid available to students will increase by the same percentage as tuition, helping limit the impact on students and their families, as has been the long-standing practice at Pitt.
“As always, our goal is to control cost while expanding opportunity for our students, our faculty and our community,” said University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Patrick Gallagher. “Our endowment returns are helping to mitigate the drastic effects of reduced state support and to keep tuition increases from being any greater.”
A fundamental assumption in the budget approved today is that Pitt will be receiving an appropriation from the Commonwealth at a level equal to last year’s funding. The appropriation bills for the state-related universities, including Pitt’s, have not been approved pending continuing discussions on state revenues.
“Despite the continuing budget discussions in Harrisburg that affect Pitt, we felt that it was important to approve a final budget for next year and not pass along the uncertainty to our students ...
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Rising to the Top
Science and Technology @ UCSB
Here’s a challenge: Build a pump that can deliver a drug to you automatically when you’re sick. Now make it smaller than a penny. And make it accurate enough that you can guarantee it won’t pump one microliter more than prescribed amount (otherwise it might kill you). Now make it cheap enough to mass-produce for millions of people and make sure it runs on a tiny battery.Think you can do it?
UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineering postdoctoral researcher Karen Scida has an idea, and it’s promising enough that the deans of the College of Engineering and the Division of Mathematical, Life & Physical Sciences at UCSB have awarded her this year’s Otis Williams Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Otis Williams Fund at the Santa Barbara Foundation provides support for young Ph.D. scientists to work at the interface of biology and engineering. For her fellowship, Scida has a plan to engineer a solution to one of the world’s largest epidemics: diabetes.
The human body runs on the sugar glucose. An elaborate distribution system turns the variable source of glucose (the food you eat) into a constant source of fuel to power your cells. Glucose is extracted from food by the digestive organs — mouth, stomach and intestines — and is then dynamically distributed throughout the blood stream to places where it’s needed — your brain when you’re reading, your muscles when you’re running, your stomach when you’re digesting. When glucose isn’t needed, it’s shuttled to short- and long-term storage facilities, the liver and fat tissue, respectively, for later use.
The pancreas is a critical regulator of this dynamic control system. It tells the organs when to accept or pass on circulating glucose by secreting hormones, including insulin, into the bloodstream.
Unfortunately, in diabetes, the pancreatic control system is broken. People with diabetes need ...
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Ferran Adrià inaugura el curs Sapiens, la metodologia d’El Bulli Foundation
Universitat de Barcelona - Notícies
Ferran Adrià va explicar als alumnes que un dels objectius del curs és donar a conèixer la metodologia Sapiens.
18/07/2017
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El xef Ferran Adrià va inaugurar ahir, dilluns 17, en companyia del rector de la Universitat de Barcelona, Joan Elias, el curs d’Els Juliols Sapiens, la metodologia d’El Bulli Foundation, en què l’equip d’El Bulli Lab explicarà la metodologia Sapiens i els projectes d’El Bulli Foundation amb l’objectiu de donar a conèixer una professió, una empresa, un àmbit, una disciplina i un sector. Aquest curs té lloc del 17 al 20 de juliol al matí, a la Facultat d’Economia i Empresa.
Adrià va agrair a la Universitat de Barcelona «l’oportunitat d’explicar tot el que s’ha fet en aquests quatre anys a El Bulli», i el rector Elias va assenyalar que «aquest curs és el millor espai per aprendre qüestions relacionades amb la innovació de la mà d’un innovador nat, com és Ferran Adrià». La metodologia Sapiens s’aplica per millorar tant l’eficiència com els resultats relacionats amb la creativitat i la innovació, i per connectar coneixement i fer més eficient la innovació.
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Police Violence Against Black Men Subject of New Book by Georgetown Law Professor
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July 18, 2017 – Paul Butler, the Albert Brick Professor at Georgetown Law, is the author of a recently published book that shows police violence against men of color in America is widespread and regularly supported by judges and politicians.
The New Press published the book, Chokehold: Policing Black Men, earlier this month.
Butler, a former federal prosecutor with scholarly expertise in criminal law and racial justice, talks below about how the criminal justice system harms black men and makes recommendations for change.
How would you describe this book to someone who has no knowledge of the history of race in America?
Chokehold is a book about black men and how the law treats us. It’s about state violence against black men, including violence by the police, but I also interrogate violence by black men, mainly against each other. The idea is that many of the problematic features of U.S. criminal justice — mass incarceration, erosion of civil liberties and brutal policing — are based on fear of African-American men. In the criminal context, the Supreme Court has given the police what I call “super powers,” with the understanding that these powers are to be deployed against African-American men. I look at cases in which the Court gives the police extraordinary power to arrest, to use force — including deadly force — and to racially profile. If these powers were deployed against anyone else but African-American men, there would be widespread concern. But because these powers are used mainly against African-American men — and because our society has all these concerns and fear about African-American men — I don't think that this extraordinary police power has received the attention it deserves.
Was there one specific impetus for the book? Or has this been gradually taking shape in your mind?
When I was at law school [at Harvard] I knew I wanted to be a public interest lawyer ...
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Did life begin on land rather than in the sea?
Physical and Biological Sciences News
For three years, Tara Djokic, a Ph.D. student at the University of New South Wales Sydney, scoured the forbidding landscape of the Pilbara region of Western Australia looking for clues to how ancient microbes could have produced the abundant stromatolites that were discovered there in the 1970s.Stromatolites are round, multilayered mineral structures that range from the size of golf balls to weather balloons and represent the oldest evidence that there were living organisms on Earth 3.5 billion years ago.
Scientists who believed life began in the ocean thought these mineral formations had formed in shallow, salty seawater, just like living stromatolites in the World Heritage–listed area of Shark Bay, which is a two-day drive from the Pilbara.
But what Djokic discovered amid the strangling heat and blood-red rocks of the region was evidence that the stromatolites had not formed in salt water but instead in conditions more like the hot springs of Yellowstone.
The discovery pushed back the time for the emergence of microbial life on land by 580 million years and also bolstered a paradigm-shifting hypothesis laid out by UC Santa Cruz astrobiologists David Deamer and Bruce Damer: that life began, not in the sea, but on land.
Djokic’s discovery — together with research carried out by the UC Santa Cruz team, Djokic, and Martin Van Kranendonk, director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology — is described in an eight-page cover story in the August issue of Scientific American.
“What she (Djokic) showed was that the oldest fossil evidence for life was in fresh water,” said Deamer, a lanky 78-year-old who explored the region with Djokic, Damer, and Van Kranendonk in 2015. “It’s a logical continuation to life beginning in a freshwater environment.”
The model for life beginning on land rather than in the sea could not only reshape our idea about the origin of life and where else ...
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Amid Backdrop of Health Care Debate, UCSF Raises Funds at AIDS Walk San Francisco
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As a national debate about health care continues, hundreds of staff, faculty, students and supporters of UC San Francisco participated in AIDS Walk San Francisco to raise funds for research and care as well as to raise awareness of proposed legislation in Washington, D.C.
The mood at this year’s event Sunday in Golden Gate Park was upbeat and defiant, with many walkers holding signs advocating for health care protections for people with pre-existing conditions. At the UCSF booth at the event’s start, volunteers encouraged participants to write postcards to legislators urging them to reject the proposed health care bill that could eliminate protections for pre-existing conditions such as HIV/AIDS.
Top 5 UCSF Fundraising Teams
1) UCSF 360 Positive Care & Women’s HIV Clinic – $22,9812) UCSF - ARI/Global Health Sciences – $18,1643) UCSF - Ward 86 – $17,1224) UCSF - Campus Life Services Team – $7,8855) UCSF - Benioff Children's Hosp. Oakland – $5,465
* Totals as of July 17
Throughout the 10-kilometer route on the sunny morning, walkers young and old were buoyed by live musical performances that included a marching band, DJs and belly dancers.
The event raises funds for HIV programs and services throughout the Bay Area. This year’s event will benefit Project Open Hand, Positive Resource Center and the Golden Compass Program at Ward 86 at Zuckerberg San Francisco General to continue to support the cutting-edge clinic with a continuum of services for long-term survivors of HIV.
The Golden Compass Program, launched this January, provides multidisciplinary medical care and psychosocial support for people over 50 living with HIV. It is part of Ward 86 at ZSFG, the world’s first dedicated HIV clinic when it opened in 1983 and still one of the top-rated medical care facilities for HIV in the world.
“We’re trying to holistically manage all the health care conditions that may come around for people who are older and living with HIV, absolutely made possible by ...
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@FIUWSoccer Adds Four More for Upcoming Campaign
FIU Athletics
MIAMI (July 17, 2017) -- A second crop of recruits for FIU women's soccer Head Coach Sharolta Nonen and staff has resulted in four new future Panthers heading to Miami this summer. Midfielders Lillie Della Penna, Lauren Hinton and Asha James, as well as goalkeeper Hanna Rizzi will appear on the FIU roster this August. "The number-one thing that stands out about this group is that they play with heart and intensity," said Nonen. "They chase every ball down and love to play. That, alone, excites me. They will come in with a willingness to work and we can make faster improvements when players come in with that attitude and mindset." Della Penna comes from Seminole, Florida, just outside of Tampa, and earned four letters for the Seminole High Warhawks, winning most improved player in 2015, midfielder of the year in 2016 and the Coaches Award in 2017. Seminole was 8-5 last season. Her club team, the Tampa Bay United, took the State Championship of Florida in 2016 and 2017. They finished 12-8-2 last spring. Her aspiration is to be an art major. Texas' Lauren Hinton played both the defender and midfield positions at McMillen and Plano East High Schools. After missing her junior season due to injury, she was a captain for Plano East as a senior, earning a second-team all-district level in the 6A classification. She was first-team all-district as a freshman and sophomore at McMillen High. The Parker, Texas, native played for the D'Feeters U18 soccer club last year after playing on the U16, U15 and U14 Dallas Texans club teams. She also featured on the McMillen track team, competing in the long jump and as a member of the 400m relay team. She plans to major in international business or political science, with plans to work in international affairs. James comes to FIU from Canaan, on the island of Tobago. She played ...
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Etling, Key Named to Watch Lists
LSUsports.net
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Brandon BerrioAssistant Communications Director
BATON ROUGE – LSU quarterback Danny Etling has been named to the Wuerffel Trophy Watch list and linebacker Arden Key has been named to the Butkus Award Watch List, the two organizations announced Tuesday.
The Wuerffel Trophy is known as “College Football’s Premier Award for Community Service.” Named after 1996 Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Danny Wuerffel, the Wuerffel Trophy is awarded to the FBS player that best combines exemplary community service with athletic and academic achievement.
Etling is a standout in the classroom as he earned a spot on the CoSIDA Academic All-District team in 2016 and was named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll. The May 2017 graduate in mass communication will begin work on his master’s degree in the fall. Etling is the Vice-Chair of the Southeastern Conference Football Leadership Council after being voted by a group of his peers from other schools in the league.
On the field, Etling started the final 10 games at quarterback in 2015, leading the Tigers to a 7-3 mark over that span. He finished the season with 2,123 passing yards and 11 touchdowns and ranked No. 6 in the SEC in passing yards per game (193.0). Etling paired with Derrius Guice at Texas A&M to become the first duo in school history to have a 300-yard passing/200-yard rushing game.
The formal announcement of the 2017 recipient will be made at the National Football Foundation’s press conference in New York City on December 5. LSU’s Rudy Niswanger won the inaugural Wuerffel Trophy in 2005.
The Butkus Award honors is in its 33rd year of recognizing the nation’s best linebackers. The watch list features 51 players, and it is identified by a 51-person selection panel of experienced coaches, talent evaluators and journalists.
Key has already been named to the Maxwell and Bednarik watch lists. The junior set the single-season sacks record a year ago with 12. Key ...
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OER expert available to comment on Amazon Inspire relaunch
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Open educational resources expert available to comment on Amazon Inspire relaunch
HOUSTON – (July 18, 2017) – Daniel Williamson, managing director of OpenStax, a Rice University-based publisher of open education resources (OER) and textbooks, is available to comment on the relaunch of Amazon Inspire.
In June 2016, Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Inspire, an educational website that the company touted as “a new, free service to support learning and teaching in the digital classroom … to help teachers discover and share free, quality digital educational resources.”
Amazon Inspire features a search tool that teachers can use to explore educational resources, a gather function educators can use to curate resources and an upload function that allows teachers to share content, among other features.
A problem quickly arose last year when educators found the site offering materials that had copyright and intellectual property rights issues. Amazon quickly pulled the material and has been working with educators and groups the past year to vet material for the relaunch of the site.
“Commercial companies can be beneficial for the open educational resource landscape and have the ability to improve access to resources and improve discoverability,” Williamson said. “The challenge for Amazon Inspire and other commercial entities entering the space is ensuring fair and transparent licensing processes that help students and instructors.
“Open educational resources are more than free books. They present opportunities to enhance academic freedom, and they allow students permanent, unrestricted access to the materials they need most.
“From one OER provider to another, we’re excited to have another member in the open resources community, but believe that Amazon should take care to embrace all of the OER principals — including maintaining an open stance when it comes to contributing to the advancement of the educational community by sharing any research findings,” he said.
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L’EEBE acull, el 19 de juliol, una jornada sobre l’Agenda Besòs
Actualitat UPC
L’objectiu de la trobada, que tindrà lloc a partir de les 9 h a la sala d’actes de l’EEBE, al Campus Diagonal-Besòs, és impulsar la fase de concreció de l’Agenda Besòs, així com donar a conèixer els treballs de l’Agenda Besòs i compartir amb els participants els objectius i les línies estratègiques del projecte, així com validar i prioritzar el pla d’acció i realitzar propostes de millora.El rector de la UPC, Enric Fossas, i la presidenta del Consorci del Besòs, Janet Sanz, inauguraran la sessió, en la que està previst que hi participin també les alcaldesses de Barcelona, Ada Colau; de Badalona, Dolors Sabater; de Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Núria Parlón; de Montcada i Reixac, Laura Campos, i l’alcalde de Sant Adrià de Besòs, Joan Callau.El programa de la jornada preveu, a més de la presentació de l’Agenda Besòs, a càrrec de Janet Sanz, presidenta del Consorci del Besòs, i de Josep Bohigas, director general de Barcelona Regional SA, les ponències del geògraf Joan Roca que porta per títol La ciutat des del Besòs, una mirada històrica i vital, i del professor i polític Ricard Gomà, titulada Besòs, barris i metròpolis, una mirada actual. Els assistents participaran en diferents grups de treball, les conclusions dels quals es presentaran posteriorment. L’alcalde de Sant Adrià de Besòs, Joan Callau, serà l’encarregat de fer la cloenda de la jornada.
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American Heart Association Funds UC Research on Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
UC Health News
Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, has been awarded a $250,000 catalyst grant from the
American Heart Association (AHA) to continue his research on hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy.
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L.I.F.E. Includes Creativity, Mystery and Holiday Topics
Lone Star College CyFair News
Published on: November 02, 2015
Attendees at Lone Star College-CyFairs weekly programs this November and December can partake in Zentangle drawing, origami, a CSI mystery, cake decorating and holiday singing.
The Learning, Inspiration, Fellowship, and Enrichment (L.I.F.E.) programs are free and held Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the library (Room 131 unless otherwise noted) at 9191 Barker Cypress.
November 4 Drawing the Zentangle WayColor yourself mindful, relaxed and creative after a Zentangle drawing class. Catch the Zentangle wave with artist and librarian Krissy Conn.
November 11 Origami Magic with Kusudama BlossomsLinda Gabrielson demonstrates the fine art of paper folding to create beautiful flowers. Come away with your very own blossom.
November 18 Crime Scene Investigation ExtravaganzaThe game is afoot! Tap into your inner Sherlock with a multi-generational interactive learning experience in criminal justice. Join forces with our preschoolers and solve a mystery. Criminal Justice Professor Jennifer Bourgeois and the Criminal Justice Club share their expertise in leading this event. Meet in Technology Building Room 102.
November 25 No Workshop
December 2 Cake Decorating with Angelic ConfectionsGet inspired for holiday entertaining with Angela Harkins. (Angelicconfections.com) Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.
December 9 Holiday MelodiesChanteuse Miriam (Scubie) Hoyt tickles the ivories and leads us in a festive holiday sing along. Wassail, anyone? Meet in ARTS Recital Hall 102.
L.I.F.E. program will resume in the new year starting Jan. 13, 2016.
Call the library at 281.290.3214 for L.I.F.E. program information or go online to LoneStar.edu.
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Lone Star College-North Harris hosts Super Saturday registration event July 22
Lone Star College North Harris News
Published on: July 06, 2017 Who likes to wait in long lines to register for college courses? Avoid the wait times by stopping by Lone Star College-North Harris Super Saturday registration event! Designed for prospective students and their families, the event will take place on Saturday, July 22, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the colleges Student Services Building, located at 2700 W.W. Thorne Drive in Houston. This event is free and open for the community to attend.During the event, representatives from the colleges various programs will be available to discuss education options with students and their families. For those interested in applying or registering for classes, additional staff will be available to assist with the application process. On-site services will include: financial aid assistance, admissions information, advising and New Student Orientation sessions.
Bacterial Meningitis vaccinations will also be available for students at the event.As of January 1, 2012, all students entering college are required to show proof of an initial meningococcal vaccination or a booster dose during the five-year period prior to enrolling. They must get the vaccine at least 10 days before the semester begins. Fall classes begin Aug. 28.The vaccination clinic will serve:
Ages 17 and under must have parental consent
Ages 18 and under - $20 per person
Ages 19+ - $100 per person
With proof of Medicaid or CHIP card, the vaccination is free of charge. Methods of payment include check, credit or cash.
For more information about Super Saturday, call 281.765.7980.
Lone Star College-North Harris is located at 2700 W.W. Thorne Drive, one-half mile south of FM 1960 East, between Aldine-Westfield and Hardy Roads. For more information about the college, call 281.618.5400 or visit LoneStar.edu/NorthHarris.
Lone Star College offers high-quality, low-cost academic transfer and career training education to 95,000 students each semester. LSC is training tomorrows workforce today and redefining the community college experience to support student success. Stephen C. Head, Ph.D., serves ...
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Should doctors prescribe exercise and diet changes to people who aren't obese?
Newsroom: InTheNews
Publication Date: 7/10/2017
ByLine: San Diego Union Tribune
URL Link: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/sd-me-heart-exercise-20170710-story.html
Page Content: Features James Sallis, PhD
News Type: Regional
News_Release_Date: July 14, 2017
NewsTags: Primary Care/Family Medicine; UC San Diego Health Sciences
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UI external research funding sees uptick despite challenges
Iowa Now - Research
Fiscal year 2017 saw an estimated 1 percent increase in both total external funding and funding that supports research and scholarship at the University of Iowa.Total external funding (which includes gift commitments and charitable grants supporting research through the UI Foundation) rose from $551.9 million in FY16 to $557.7 million in FY17. Meanwhile, grants and contracts that support discovery at the UI increased from $437.9 million to $443.3 million—the most dollars awarded to the UI since FY11.
The College of Engineering was particularly successful in FY17, with a 72 percent increase in funding over last year. The bump stems in part from a $6.5 million award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development supplemented by additional cost sharing from the state of Iowa to Professor Larry Weber for a project to study the Iowa watershed and a $3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for Associate Professor David Cwiertny to develop a Sustainable Water Development graduate program.
Despite the overall increase in funding, Dan Reed, UI vice president for research and economic development, says federal dollars for UI research have continued to contract by an average of 1.4 percent per year over the past decade. This decrease includes less competitive biomedical research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Reed says that’s all the more reason why universities like Iowa need to nurture more creative, ambitious, and interdisciplinary research proposals, something his office’s newly formed Research Development Office is seeking to accomplish.
Despite the challenges, Reed emphasizes that scholars and researchers at Iowa continue to seek answers to life’s important questions.
“Discovery—especially the game-changing variety—is fueled not only by money but by vision, imagination, and cooperation,” Reed says. “It’s about forging new frontiers of discovery and innovation and promoting a culture of creativity that inspires and motivates.”
FY17 funds support research across the university
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Caltech Store to Relocate to Millikan Library Lobby
The last remaining occupant in the Winnett Student Center—the Caltech Store—will be closing its doors beginning July 17 and relocating to a temporary location on the first floor of Millikan Library. The move is part of a larger, multi-month effort to vacate Winnett so that the existing building can be demolished to make way for the construction of a new campus hub, called the Hameetman Center.The Caltech Store, which sells clothing, souvenirs, office materials, Apple computers, and computer supplies, is planning to re-open in the lobby of Millikan Library the week of July 24, says manager Karyn Seixas. The store's new operating hours will be 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.The Hameetman Center, named in honor of Caltech trustee Fred Hameetman (BS '62) and his wife, Joyce, is scheduled to open in fall 2018. Exterior demolition of Winnett, which has served as the central gathering place for Caltech's community for more than 50 years, is anticipated to begin in mid-August. Over the next month, the building and construction team plans to start clearing and breaking down the interior of the building, in preparation for the complete demolition of the facility, says Greg Norden, the project manager for the Hameetman Center.The Caltech Store is just the latest of the relocations of offices and services that were once housed in Winnett. This spring, the Red Door moved to share a space with the campus convenience store, creating the Red Door Marketplace, which will ultimately be housed in the Hameetman Center; Caltech's Ticket Office was moved permanently to the Keith Spaulding Building of Business Services, next to the Post Office Center.While access to areas in close proximity to the building site may be limited throughout the construction process, Norden says that they are working to maintain clear and easy passage for pedestrians. For instance, the pedestrian access along the ...
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Key to Speeding Up Carbon Sequestration Discovered
Scientists at Caltech and USC have discovered a way to speed up the slow part of the chemical reaction that ultimately helps the earth to safely lock away, or sequester, carbon dioxide into the ocean. Simply adding a common enzyme to the mix, the researchers have found, can make that rate-limiting part of the process go 500 times faster. A paper about the work appears online the week of July 17 ahead of publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."While the new paper is about a basic chemical mechanism, the implication is that we might better mimic the natural process that stores carbon dioxide in the ocean," says lead author Adam Subhas, a Caltech graduate student and Resnick Sustainability Fellow.The research is a collaboration between the labs of Jess Adkins from Caltech and Will Berelson of USC. The team used isotopic labeling and two methods for measuring isotope ratios in solutions and solids to study calcite—a form of calcium carbonate—dissolving in seawater and measure how fast it occurs at a molecular level.It all started with a very simple, very basic problem: measuring how long it takes for calcite to dissolve in seawater. "Although a seemingly straightforward problem, the kinetics of the reaction is poorly understood," says Berelson, professor of earth sciences at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.Calcite is a mineral made of calcium, carbon, and oxygen that is more commonly known as the sedimentary precursor to limestone and marble. In the ocean, calcite is a sediment formed from the shells of organisms, like plankton, that have died and sunk to the seafloor. Calcium carbonate is also the material that makes up coral reefs—the exoskeleton of the coral polyp.As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen past 400 parts per million—a symbolic benchmark for climate scientists confirming that the ...
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Sharing the Wealth
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Economic redistribution has been a core political dispute around the world for centuries. And while intuitively fairness seems a natural explanation for why people support redistribution, researchers at UC Santa Barbara find that fairness doesn’t really explain who supports redistribution or why.Support for redistribution, they have shown, is rooted in compassion, self-interest and envy — but not fairness. Their work is published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Prototypical characters
“Understanding the economic and political nitty-gritty of redistribution does not come naturally to us,” said Daniel Sznycer, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Montreal, a research scientist at UCSB’s Center for Evolutionary Psychology, and the paper’s lead author. “But humans have been interacting with worse-off and better-off individuals over evolutionary time. This process built neural systems that motivate us to act effectively in situations of giving, taking and sharing.
“The evolved human mind,” he continued, “would overlook the public policy complexities of modern redistribution and instead perceive it in terms of a much simpler mental model featuring a small number of prototypical characters — the self, the worse-off other and the better-off other — and different motives directed at each character.”
To understand the logic behind support for — or opposition to — economic redistribution, the research team focused on three motives: compassion, self-interest and envy.
First compassion
“Our ancestors lived in a world without social or medical insurance, and so they benefited from covering each other’s shortfalls through mutual help,” said John Tooby, a professor of anthropology at UCSB and co-director of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology. “If your neighbor is starving and you have food, you can save his life by sharing with him. Later, when the situation is reversed and he shares his food with you, your life is saved.”
This evolutionary dynamic selected for a spontaneous motivation to ...
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Economist explains impacts of Senate health plan
Vanderbilt News
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Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Vanderbilt University)
Vanderbilt University economist Andrew Goodman-Bacon, who studies the long-term effects of public safety net programs like Medicaid, gives his take on the latest Senate health care proposal called the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017. Here are Goodman-Bacon’s thoughts on the proposal:
The bill enacts steep and growing cuts to federal Medicaid funding. After 2025, the bill indexes the growth of federal Medicaid spending to general inflation instead of health care inflation, effectively cutting spending by not growing it in step with the segment it is supposed to fund. This is a huge cut that gets worse and worse over time. Proponents will argue that the bill simply limits federal funds, and states can choose to cover whatever they want. States will say they can’t afford to cover what they want because federal money is insufficient. The almost certain result will be smaller, less generous Medicaid programs.
The bill punishes states for spending too much of their own money. States that spend a lot on each recipient—even when much of that spending comes only from state money—will lose 0.5-2 percent of their federal reimbursement. For a rough scale, Tennessee spends $35 billion on the disabled population, and so this penalty would be something like $17 million to $71 million for that group alone. This is a huge incentive to cut services and eligibility for expensive groups.
The bill limits Medicaid’s ability to pay for care obtained before recipients apply. Medicaid applications take time. You need to report income, assets, family structure, and often get verification for your condition (which itself requires a medical visit). ...
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University of Missouri student veterans named Pat Tillman Scholars
University of Missouri System
June 29, 2017
Mizzou law student and UMSL engineering major are the only students from Missouri to receive the prestigious academic scholarship in 2017
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Two University of Missouri students are among the 60 student veterans selected to the 2017 class of Pat Tillman Scholars. Paul Wade, Army veteran, member of the Missouri National Guard and University of Missouri law student; and Heath McClung, Army veteran and University of Missouri-St. Louis engineering student, each received the award.
Every year, the Pat Tillman Foundation receives thousands of applications from military veterans and their spouses. Only 60 of the best-poised leaders, who show strength in character, academic excellence and potential, are chosen as Tillman Scholars. Wade and McClung are the only scholars from Missouri universities in the 2017 class.
“The Pat Tillman Scholars program is one of the most prestigious awards for our nation’s student veterans,” said Mun Choi, president of the UM System. “This year, 60 scholars were named from an applicant pool of thousands. As Tillman Scholars, Paul and Heath are representing our nation’s very best, right here in Missouri.”
Wade graduated from Glenwood High School in Chatham, Illinois, and received his undergraduate degree from Truman State University. In the Army, Wade served in three combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now a full-time law student at MU, Wade spends his free time volunteering with Team RWB, a community organization aimed at enriching the lives of America’s veterans. Previously, Wade served as vice-president of Mizzou Law Student Veterans Association. He also has participated in the Mizzou Law Veterans Clinic, where law students can practice their legal skills helping veterans with legal issues connected to their service.
“As a veteran, I don’t believe myself to be any better than my civilian classmates, but I recognize that my experiences are drastically different from many other people attending law school,” Wade said. “The Pat Tillman Foundation ...
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Bridging the gap in the biomedical sciences
Tufts Now All Stories
BOSTON (July 17, 2017)—Eighteen undergraduate students are visiting Tufts University’s Health Sciences campus for 10 weeks of scientific seminars, research, workshops, mentoring and activities across Boston to learn more about careers in the biomedical sciences. The Building Diversity in Biomedical Sciences (BDBS) program provides students who typically come from backgrounds underrepresented in the biomedical sciences with valuable research and career training to assist them in taking the next step in their education.Each summer, the program, which is based at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts, welcomes 17-22 students who are interested in pursuing Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D. studies. Over the course of the 10 weeks, each student works closely with two mentors—one faculty member, one graduate student or postdoctoral fellow—while he or she completes a research project that will be presented at a judged poster competition at the end of the program. The students with the winning posters will receive a trip to a national meeting the following fall to present their work.
In addition to the research and career training, BDBS participants learn presentation skills, the tenets of responsible conduct of research, and how to work productively as a member of a team. A survey of over 200 recent participants reveals that approximately 75 percent have gone on to pursue advanced degrees.
Mara Shainheit, Ph.D., assistant professor of biological sciences at Towson University, participated in BDBS and later returned to Tufts to earn her Ph.D. from the Sackler School. She now recommends BDBS to her undergraduate students, one of whom is taking part this summer.
“I participated in BDBS because I was looking for an immersive research experience before I finished college. As soon as you connect with your Tufts mentors, you are surrounded by people who support and encourage you while you’re learning. I gained hands-on experience because my mentors ...
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Collective Bargaining - AFSCME
Events at UCF
The next collective bargaining session between the University of Central Florida and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) will take place on Tuesday, July 18, 2017, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. in UCF Human Resources - Innovation Center Suite 100.
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UCSC arts research center awarded $250,000 grant from U.S. Forest Service
Student News
Joshua Harrison (left), with Digital Arts and New Media research professor Newton Harrison, founder/director of the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure, a research center based in the Arts Division at UC Santa Cruz (Photo by Maureen Dixon Harrison)The U.S. Forest Service has awarded a $250,000 grant to the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure, a research center based in the Arts Division at UC Santa Cruz.Founded by Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison, research professors in UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media Program (DANM), the Center for the Study of the Force Majeure brings together artists and scientists to design ecosystem-adaptation projects in critical regions around the world to respond to climate change.The center will use the grant to study the economic feasibility of developing an innovative forest industry cluster near Reno, Nevada.Titled the “Western Nevada and Central Sierra Nevada of California Regional Wood Utilization Team,” the project will estimate the supply of wood biomass in the area east of the central Sierra crest and in western Nevada, and assess the possibility of producing wood products from that supply.Funds will be used to support the creation and management of a special committee, led by Joshua Harrison, co-director of the UCSC center. The multidisciplinary, bi-state team will then cultivate local businesses in the area that can generate useful products from wood biomass.The aim of the grant--part of $8.3 million in distributed funds just announced by the U.S. Forest Service--is to stimulate the removal of hazardous fuels from forests to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires and promote forest health, while at the same time spurring the economic development of rural communities. “Our first step is to get a much better estimate of the supply--the amount of timber by species along with brush and other biomass available in the WUT ( ...
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UW Daily – July 17, 2017
UW Daily
UW System / Top Stories
On Campus
COL: UW-Manitowoc faculty member approved for promotion (mentions Regents vote), Herald Times Reporter, July 13
COL: UW-Manitowoc Student Spotlight: Nick Stone, Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter, July 17
COL: Volleyball camp for first- and second-grade children at UW-Washington County, West Bend Daily News, July 14
COL: UW-Marshfield/Wood County Continuing Education Music Lessons, Hub City Times, July 15
EXT: UW-Extension: Four reasons to consider being a volunteer, Kenosha News, July 15
EXT: Agronomy Field Day to Focus on Managing Nitrogen, Wisconsin Ag Connection, July 17
EXT: Pierce county youth compete in national 4-H Shooting Sports, River Falls Journal, July 15
EXT: Farmers share ideas at Forage Council meeting, Wisconsin State Farmer, July 13
EXT: Answers to your Japanese beetle questions, Green Bay Press-Gazette, July 14
EXT/LAX: Couple’s ‘micro-mini farm’ venture began as a hobby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 17
EAU: UW-Eau Claire grad works to inspire women (featuring UW-Eau Claire graduate Beatris Mendez-Gandica) July 16
EAU: Thin Ice: Priest’s long trek guided by faith (featuring UW-Eau Claire graduate the Rev. Tom Lindner), July 16
EAU: New book details local’s Civil War journey (Q&A with UW-Eau Claire graduate Dustyn Dubuque), July 17
GRB: ‘Ninja Warrior’ episode with 3 Suamico competitors airs Monday (including UWGB student Luke Chambers), Press-Gazette, July 14
GRB: Biologist (UWGB’s Michael Draney): ‘It’s A Bad Year’ For Mosquitoes, WPR, July 13
GRB: Laura Harper Wins Award from DCEDC Entrepreneurial Training Program (Co-sponsored by UWGB SBDC), Door County Pulse, July 14
GRB/OSH: Tide of retirements – Companies Brace for the Exodus of Baby Boomers – and Their Tribal Knowledge (UWGB and UWO praised for Eng. Tech programs), Insight on Manufacturing, July 14
LAX: UW-La Crosse offers business plan workshop, Courier Life News, July 15
LAX: UW-La Crosse offers leadership training, La Crosse Tribune, July 15
LAX: LJO’s 43rd summer series ready to jazz up the park, La Crosse Tribune, July 15
LAX: Former La Crosse woman aims to ...
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Rosay appointed associate dean in College of Health, Myrstol interim Justice Center director
André Rosay, newly appointed associate dean for academic and student affairs in UAA College of HealthDr. André Rosay, Justice Center director since 2007, has been appointed associate dean for academic and student affairs in the UAA College of Health. Dr. Rosay bids farewell to the Justice Center here.
Dr. Rosay brings years of significant and progressively responsible academic, research and administrative leadership to his new role. As Justice Center director, he provided leadership and management necessary to support academic programs, promote research productivity, manage human and financial resources, and strengthen internal and external partnerships. Dr. Rosay looks forward to the many opportunities his new role will provide to advance health and welfare in partnership with faculty and staff in the College of Health, as well as community partners on the tribal, local, state and national level.
Brad Myrstol, appointed interim UAA Justice Center director
Dr. Brad Myrstol, director of the Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Center and the Alaska Justice Information Center, has been appointed interim director of the Justice Center.
Dr. Myrstol received his Ph.D. in criminal justice from Indiana University in 2006. He has served as the principal or co-principal investigator on a variety of Alaska justice topics, including the offending trajectories of juveniles, the criminal case processing of domestic violence, sexual assault and sexual abuse of a minor cases, the role and impact of Alaska’s Village Public Safety Officer (VPSO) program on the state’s response to domestic violence and sexual assault, sex offender recidivism trajectories, sexual violence victimization among university students, the structure and organization of policing in Alaska, as well as factors impacting charging, time-to-disposition, and sentencing outcomes in felony cases.
While at UAA, Dr. Myrstol has received more than $1 million in research funding from sources including the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, ...
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