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Cal Poly Pomona will conduct a campus-wide test of its Safety Alert System on Thursday, July 20, at 11 a.m.
Students, faculty and staff should expect a brief Safety Alert test message on their cell, home and office phones, as well as an email.
The test will include the Alertus Desktop notification system, which sends safety messages to university-owned computers equipped with Alertus software. The Alertus system Desktop Alert can reach a larger audience virtually instantaneously, often faster than calls to campus phones or email.
A test of the InformaCast system, which delivers emergency communications through campus telephones in offices and classrooms, also is planned.
During an emergency or urgent situation, the Safety Alert System sends messages to phones, email, text/SMS, TTY/TDD devices and campus computers. Messages also will be posted on the university’s Facebook and Twitter accounts and the university home page.
To receive the messages, faculty, staff and students need to provide current contact information in BroncoDirect.
The university tests the Safety Alert System once each quarter to familiarize the campus community with this important communication vehicle, as well as to train the staff in using the system. The alerts are sent only during emergencies and scheduled tests, and never for routine messages.
For questions, visit the Emergency Communications webpage.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Campus-Wide Safety Alert Test Set for July 20
Statewide education summit takes place at CSUSB Palm Desert Campus
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From CSUSB Palm Desert: The third annual Better Together: California Teachers Summit is a free day of learning by teachers, for teachers, open to all California educators on July 28 at Cal State San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus, and dozens of other locations across the state. Registration is now open and can be done online at: http://cateacherssummit.com/register.“The Better Together: California Teachers Summit provides teachers the opportunity to meet and discuss the best practices for teaching, practices that have been tested in the experiences of teachers in our region,” said Todd Jennings, an assistant dean in CSUSB’s College of Education, which is hosting the event at the university. “The daily demands of teaching often leave teachers unable to share ideas and strategies with teachers not in their districts or schools. Better Together provides that opportunity to learn from each other in ways that benefit the region’s youth, and indeed our collective future.”Biden, wife of former Vice President Joe Biden, is a lifelong educator who has taught at community colleges, a public high school and a psychiatric hospital for adolescents over her 30-year teaching career.
As Second Lady, she worked to highlight the importance of community colleges to America’s future while continuing to teach as a full-time English professor at a community college in Northern Virginia. With the February 2017 launch of the Biden Foundation, Biden and her husband will continue their commitment to public education.
“Dr. Biden is an inspiration for all California teachers,” said Leslee Milch of Carl E. Gilbert Elementary School in the Buena Park School District. “We can’t wait to hear her insights from the classroom and her vision to better support all of our students.”
The theme of this year’s summit is “Now More Than Ever,” which reflects the importance of bringing teachers together to listen and learn ...
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Mahasiswa UPI Dapat Dipercaya
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Tasikmalaya, UPI
Sebanyak 243 mahasiswa UPI diterima oleh Kepala Dinas Pendidikan Kabupaten Tasikmalaya Drs. H. Kundang Sodikin M.Si., mewakili Bupati H. Uu Ruzhanul Ulum, SE., di Pendopo Kabupaten Tasikmalaya, kawasan pusat Pemerintahan Kabupaten Tasikmalaya Jl. Bojongkoneng By Pass Nomor 254 Desa Sukaasih Kecamatan Singaparna, Senin (17/7/2017).
Menurut Drs.H.Kundang Sodikin M.Si., mahasiswa KKN UPI disebar di 20 desa, dan kehadirannya sangat dinantikan oleh masyarakat, dikatakannya,”Dalam pandangan masyarakat, mahasiswa UPI itu dianggap serba bisa, mereka dianggap mampu mengakomodasi dan menyelesaikan permasalahan yang ada di masyarakat, dan yang paling penting adalah mahasiswa UPI dapat dipercaya.”
Lebih lanjut dikatakan, Pemkab Tasikmalaya memandang Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia sebagai universitas yang konsisten terhadap perkembangan pendidikan. UPI dianggap mempunyai kompetensi untuk mengelola masyarakat untuk menjadi tenaga pendidik, dan dengan berbagai potensi yang dimilikinya dianggap mampu menyelesaikan berbagai persoalan di masyarakat. Animo masyarakat Kabupaten Tasikmalaya terhadap pendidikan sangat tinggi, diharapkan mahasiswa KKN dapat mencerdaskan kehidupan masyarakat desa. Tenaga pendidik di wilayah kami sangat minim, kehadiran mahasiswa UPI dirasakan sangat membantu.
“Jika adik-adik mahasiswa KKN UPI mendapatkan kesulitan, hendaknya selalu konsultasi dengan pemerintah setempat seperti Kades, Camat dan unsur lainnya. Cepatlah beradaptasi, dan selalu menjaga adat istiadat masyarakat setempat. Bulan Juli ini bertepatan dengan hari jadi Kabupaten Tasikmalaya, dan nantinya mahasiswa akan banyak terlibat,” terangnya.
Saya ucapkan terima kasih kepada UPI atas perhatiannya untuk melakansankan KKN di Kabupaten Tasikmalaya. Diharapkan kegiatan ini terus berlanjut. Jika diperlukan, kami siap melakukan MoU untuk memajukan pendidikan masyarakat Kabupaten Tasikmalaya.
Sementara itu, dalam kesempatan yang sama Camat Pager Ageung Enceng Muhtar menegaskan,”Secara garis besar, dengan hadirnya mahasiswa KKN UPI di wilayah kami, kami sangat bersyukur. Adanya mereka diharapkan dapat menyerap aspirasi masyarakat terutama dalam bidang pendidikan, dengan demikian Indeks Pembangunan Manusia (IPM) meningkat.”
Mahasiswa UPI diharapkan mampu meningkatkan pengetahuan masyarakat melalui Pusat Kegiatan Belajar Masyarakat (PKBM), lanjutnya, kemudian jangan memberikan contoh yang negatif. Ajaklah masyarakat dalam komunitas pengajian, lakukan pembinaan terhadap anak-anak ...
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Material from shellfish delivers a boost to bioassays and medical tests
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July 17, 2017
Scientists at the University of Washington have discovered a simple way to raise the accuracy of diagnostic tests for medicine and common assays for laboratory research. By adding polydopamine — a material that was first isolated from shellfish — to these tests at a key step, the team could increase the sensitivity of these common bioassays by as many as 100 to 1,000 times.
More sensitive tests would allow scientists to identify pathogens, diseases and specific cellular proteins even when these “biomarkers” are present at levels far below the detection threshold of today’s standard tests. Initial results show polydopamine boosted the accuracy and resolution of these tests for biomarkers of HIV, Zika virus and proteins on cancerous tumors.
“Common bioassays are the real workhorses of laboratory experiments and medical tests,” said Xiaohu Gao, a UW professor of bioengineering. “By boosting the sensitivity of these tests, we can enable more accurate medical diagnoses earlier in a disease or condition, and enable more certainty and less waste in the research process.”
Gao led the team that developed this simple modification for many common medical and laboratory assays. They recently published their approach — known as enzyme-accelerated signal enhancement, or EASE — in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
An artistic rendering of a virus particle (light blue, foreground) bound by brightly-colored reporter molecules in a common laboratory assay.Junwei Li/Xiaohu Gao
EASE centers on the simple addition of two biochemical components, dopamine and horseradish peroxidase, or HRP, at a key step. HRP is a common protein enzyme used to speed up the rate of reactions in biomedical research. Gao and his team discovered that HRP can connect dopamine molecules together to form the polymer chain polydopamine. Polydopamine, in turn, accumulates on the surfaces of reaction vessels, such as small Petri dishes. Once the polydopamine is present, scientists can continue the traditional steps of ...
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Lee Hogge Joins Tribe Men’s Soccer Program
7/18/2017 4:43:00 PM
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – William & Mary head men's soccer coach Chris Norris announced the addition of transfer Lee Hogge (Norfolk, Va./Maury) to the Tribe's 2017 roster. Hogge joins the Green and Gold after spending his first two collegiate seasons at South Carolina. "We are excited to be able to add Lee to our program," Norris said. "Lee had a very good youth career with Beach FC in Virginia Beach. He is extremely hard-working and conscientious. Lee possesses excellent technical ability, highlighted by a cultured left foot. He also exhibits a high soccer IQ. Lee is physically strong and has outstanding endurance. We anticipate Lee featuring primarily as a wide midfielder or winger, and expect him to challenge right away for playing time." In each of his two seasons at South Carolina, the Gamecocks posted 11 wins and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Hogge earned the Conference USA Academic Medal in each of his two seasons, maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or higher. He was also selected to the SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll during both campaigns. Hogge was a two-time First Team All-State selection playing for Maury High School in Norfolk. During his senior campaign in 2015, he tallied 12 goals and 12 assists on his way to being named a Second Team All-American by TopDrawerSoccer.com. Hogge was the Atlantic Conference and Group 5A South Region Player of the Year in 2015 as well. He played for the Beach FC 96 Red and helped his team win a number of titles, including the 2012 Virginia State Cup and the 2014 ASL U17 Boys title.
Hogge joins a Green and Gold squad that welcomes back 20 players for the 2017 campaign, including four of the top five scorers from a season ago. W&M won 12 games last season on its way to a berth to the CAA Championship match. The Tribe also put together a pair of ...
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Scholarship Campaign Doubles Goal, Expanding Opportunities for Boise State Students
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Thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends, Boise State University has concluded its Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Opportunities scholarship campaign with gifts and pledges totaling more than $52 million, more than doubling the campaign’s original goal.
The four-and-a-half-year campaign was central to Boise State’s mission of providing affordable education to talented and committed students, easing the financial burden of the costs of earning an academic degree.
“Scholarships ensure that students from around Idaho and beyond have access to the high-quality education we provide at Boise State,” President Bob Kustra said. “Our scholarship students today are more engaged, more thoughtful and more passionate than ever before. They understand the value of a college education, and they work hard to get everything possible from it.”
Since the beginning of the campaign, nearly 18,000 donors provided gifts and pledges, resulting in a 34 percent increase in funds available to be awarded to students from privately funded scholarships in fall 2017. Gifts contributed toward the campaign include immediate-use funds, as well as scholarship endowment, providing investments for future scholarship growth and support.
“We are grateful to Boise State donors who overwhelmingly recognized the powerful impact scholarships have on the lives of our students. Every gift is important. Each one made a difference and helped to take this campaign over the top,” said Vice President of University Advancement Laura Simic.
About three-quarters of the nearly 24,000 Boise State students rely on some form of financial aid during their academic careers.
“Scholarships help motivate students in their studies, allow them time to focus on academics and demonstrate to them that they are coveted, lifelong members of the Bronco family. This investment ensures that great potential is not left unrealized because of an inability to bear the cost of a university education,” Simic said.
For more information on the Extraordinary Times, Extraordinary Opportunities campaign, and gifts made to colleges, visit ...
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Pecknold Learns from World Championships Experience
College Hockey News from CHN
June 2, 2017
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by Jeff Cox/CHN Reporter (@JeffCoxSports)
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Rand Pecknold can vividly recall two games from when he was 13 years old. He remembers watching the United States defeat the Soviet Union and Finland en route to the 1980 Olympic Gold Medal.
It wasn’t just a monumental moment in USA Hockey history. It also defined Pecknold’s passion for the sport that has meant so much to him.
Now, 37 years later, Pecknold finally had the opportunity to represent his country over the past month as an assistant coach on Jeff Blashill’s staff at the recently concluded World Championships.
“It was amazing. It’s a huge honor to coach for USA Hockey,” said Pecknold, who will begin his 24th season as head coach at Quinnipiac this fall.
The opportunity arose last summer thanks to a longstanding friendship with Blashill, the Detroit Red Wings head coach who rose through the ranks as an assistant and head coach in college hockey with Ferris State, Miami and Western Michigan.
Blashill invited Pecknold out to Detroit for an exchange of ideas and coaching philosophies with the Red Wings staff. That meeting led to Blashill hiring Pecknold for the staff he took to the World Championships.
“From a professional development standpoint, I couldn’t have asked for a better experience. I was immersed in the hockey world for three weeks. You’re bumping into all these NHL coaches. It was unique and I learned a ton,” Pecknold said.
The experience gave him an even greater appreciation for the rigors of professional hockey and what it takes to be a player at that level.
“You watch them on TV and you see some of [the players] coaching against them in college, but their character level … they were all A-plus character players. They had high compete levels and great work ethics. They were selfless. It ...
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UW SBDC Hosts HUBZone Certification Webinar Aug. 3 | News
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July 18, 2017
Every year, the federal government spends millions of dollars in Wyoming. Small businesses can learn what the Small Business Administration (SBA) HUBZone Program is and how it can help small businesses potentially win government contracts.
Small businesses can learn how to become a HUBZone-designated firm that can benefit them, and receive an introduction to free resources that will assist them in navigating the federal procurement process. This workshop, titled “HUBZone Certification: How It Can Help Your Business Win Government Contracts,” and sponsored by the Wyoming Small Business Development Center (SBDC), is scheduled Thursday, Aug. 3, from 11 a.m.-noon.
The SBDC is a partnership among the University of Wyoming, the Wyoming Business Council and the U.S. SBA. The SBDC focuses on educating small-business owners and potential owners on how to successfully start and operate small businesses. The SBDC’s main office is located at UW.
HUBZones are specific geographic areas designated by the government as “Historically Underutilized Business Zones.” If a business operates and employs people in these areas, such businesses may be given preference for certain government contracts. Webinar listeners can learn what a HUBZone is; learn whether their businesses are located in a HUBZone; how to apply for the program; and why it is so beneficial for their businesses to have this certification.
The Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) team will present this webinar. Brett Housholder and Andrea Lewis have more than 10 years of experience assisting businesses with government contracting. Their training in the government procurement process includes required government registrations; finding government contracting opportunities; marketing to government agencies; invoicing; and applying for government certification programs.
The program is free of charge, but participants must register to obtain the link at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1834278249152226563. The program will be recorded so registered attendees can listen when convenient.
Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made, ...
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Section of Parking Lot 50 Near Yocum Hall to Close Wednesday to Friday
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Repairs on the lot will prevent traffic from driving through it, but driveway west of Brough Commons will be open for two-way traffic.
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UWI Open Campus Principal calls for the region to be more active and interventionist
UWI St. Augustine News
To achieve the goals and objectives set out in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) framework of the United Nations, all institutions in our various countries must be “active and interventionist” in all areas that will accelerate innovation and growth, according to Dr. Luz Longsworth, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The University of the West Indies Open Campus. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s “Caribbean Action 2030” regional conference on SDGs hosted at The UWI Regional Headquarters on June 28, 2017, Dr. Longsworth said, “The University joined the call to action among partners who can make a difference to the fulfilment of this ambitious Caribbean Action 2030 Agenda.” She noted that as the region’s most established higher education institution, The UWI has consistently been engaged in research and partnerships that stimulate national and regional development, but stated “It is no longer enough for the University to provide research support for these issues. The University’s 2017-2022 strategic plan centres on The UWI as an active player, partnering with governments, regional and international organisations and other institutions in all areas that will move the needle on the key issues of economic and social development which will lead to just, peaceful and prosperous societies.” Dr. Longsworth also pointed out that The UWI was already contributing to issues of immediate importance of the region “…from the threat of the sargassum on our tourist industry to the Zika virus that threatened the health of our region, the implications of BREXIT, issues of de-risking in the banking sector and others. This, in addition to the creation of partnerships on all continents to harness expertise has led to the formation of the SUNY UWI Center for Leadership and Sustainable Development which is framed around the SDGs, joint centers for research in Africa and China, and talks are advanced with Europe and Latin America ...
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A Fresh Beginning
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ALBANY, N.Y. (July 13, 2017) -- For Pacielly Morelo, the University at Albany's Educational Opportunities Program is providing her with a way to pay back all of the sacrifices her parents made when the immigrated from Colombia to provide a better life for their children.
Pacielly and her brother have been raised in a single-parent household since she was 5 years old, when her mom passed away from cancer. That was also when her father, having given up on his own dreams to attend college to support his young family, made a promise to his children that they would go where he hadn't.
Incoming freshman Pacielly Morelo
To help fulfill that promise, Pacielly has devoted herself to doing well in school and giving back to the community. She serves as a youth leader, a member of the youth government and a Y-scholar for the YMCA. She has devoted countless hours to serving as a role model for underprivileged children.
This fall, Pacielly will become the first person in her family to attend a four-year college. In doing so, she is fulfilling the dreams of her father — whom she calls her hero.
But her father would call Pacielly his hero, for all she has done to better herself and those around her. And now for her work, Pacielly is being recognized by NBC's Today Show, with a little help from JC Penney.
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Clemson names founding dean for College of Science
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CLEMSON — Cynthia Y. Young, vice provost for Faculty Excellence and UCF Global at the University of Central Florida, has been chosen to lead the College of Science at Clemson University as its founding dean. A professor of mathematics, Young will begin on Aug. 15.
Cynthia YoungImage Credit: University of Central Florida
As an interdisciplinary scholar, Young developed mathematical models governing atmospheric effects in laser communication channels. In 2001, she was selected by the Office of Naval Research for the Young Investigator Award and, in 2007, she was selected as a fellow of the International Society of Optics and Photonics (SPIE). The author of more than 70 books and publications, Young has secured continuous federal funding exceeding $5 million since 1999.
“Attracting dynamic deans to lead our colleges is critically important as we continue our effort to be one of the very best public universities in the country,” said Clemson University President James P. Clements. “Cynthia has an exceptional track record of innovation, strategic thinking and success in leading high-performing teams. I am confident that she will build on the great work already being done in our College of Science.”
Clements also thanked Mark Leising, who has served as interim dean of the college since its inception last year. Leising, who has been a faculty member in the Clemson department of physics and astronomy since 1991 and department chair since 2011, will return to a full-time faculty role.
“Mark did an exceptional job helping launch the new College of Science when it was created last year. It was a challenging task and we appreciate all he accomplished to help lay a solid foundation for the College.”
Young joined UCF as an assistant professor of mathematics in 1997 and is a co-founder of UCF’s EXCEL program, created to increase students’ success in their first two years in STEM disciplines. Since its inception 10 years ago, the program has helped improve STEM ...
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Lincoln Center Students’ Film Debuts at Summer Festival
Fordham Newsroom
The Last Playboys, a 10-minute-long film written and directed by two Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) students, will be screened at the Princeton Student Film Festival this week.
Rising juniors Luke Momo and Nevin Kelly-Fair, made the film as part of Campus MovieFest, a festival held at the Rose Hill campus in April. Participants were given six days to create a five-minute film, but Momo and Kelly-Fair went a step further, splitting The Last Playboys into two parts.
The movie follows the romantic and social misadventures of Kelly-Fair and fellow Fordham students Daniel Camou and David Moses over the course of a single evening, as they attempt to blend in at a fashion show. It will be screened Thursday, July 20 at the Princeton Public Library.
Momo, a philosophy and visual arts double major who also has a small role in the film, said the script was inspired by his and Kelly-Fair’s own interactions and friendships at Fordham.
“It all comes down to, ‘How do you approach other people? Are you on the surface or genuine?’ This is kind of a comic extrapolation of that,” he said.
A huge fan of film, Momo also founded the Fordham Filmmaking Club. He said he hopes viewers of The Last Playboys will note the diverse influences of both French director François Truffaut’s Les Mistons and Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut in the film.
Part of the fun f making the film, he said, was trying to see how much could be done in an extremely short time frame, almost entirely with Fordham’s resources. The students edited the film on campus roughly 20 feet away from where the fashion show sequence was staged.
“It’s great to see just how much you can do with the space that you have,” he said.
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VICKY RIOS NAMED ASSISTANT SOFTBALL COACH
Athletics News
Jul 18, 2017
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Sacramento State fifth-year head softball coach Lori Perez announced today that Vicky Rios will be joining the program as an assistant coach.With 17 years of collegiate coaching experience and over 20 years as a professional softball instructor, Rios joins Perez, assistant coach Danielle Kaminaka and volunteer assistant Jim Wetzel on the Hornets' coaching staff. Rios will be heavily involved with coaching the hitters and defense, as well as recruiting and scouting.Since 2014, Rios has been a private hitting and defense instructor in the Sacramento area, and her students have played or will play in numerous Div. I conferences, including the Pac-12, Mountain West, Big West, West Coast, Conference USA and the SWAC.Prior to that, she had assistant coaching stops at UC Davis (2011-14), Sacramento City College (2009-11) and Riverside City College (2008-09). Rios also spent five years as the associate head coach at UC Riverside (2003-08), and spent two years as an assistant at Cosumnes River College (2001-03) and San Jose State (1999-01). The Oakley, Calif., native began her extensive coaching carer as head coach at Santa Clara from 1997-99. She has been a professional softball instructor/clinician since 1995."I am excited to announce that we have added Vicky Rios to our coaching staff," Perez said. "Coach Rios brings a great passion and enthusiasm for the game. Her knowledge and experience at the Division I level will be an asset to our players and our program as a whole. She is no stranger to the Sacramento area and I am thrilled to welcome her to Sacramento State."While at UC Davis, Rios coached infield, hitting and slap hitting while also being involved with recruiting, fundraising and team travel. She helped coach the Aggies to a combined 70 wins over her three seasons, including a pair of victories against Stanford. She held the same duties during her two ...
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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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In Memoriam: Jeanann Boyce
Inside MC Online
With the deepest sorrow, we inform you that Dr. Jeanann Boyce died unexpectedly in her Rehoboth home on July 8. A faculty member at the Takoma Park/Silver Spring (TP/SS) campus for twenty years, Dr. Boyce taught primarily in the computer applications program but also in the computer science and business areas. Dr. Boyce taught both on campus and online. Her many roles at the College included serving as the Co-Chair of the TP/SS Business, Management, and Information Systems department at TP/SS, Program Coordinator, TP/SS Chair of Chairs, and Academic Assembly representative. Proactively involved in professional development and service to outside organizations, Dr. Boyce served on the Board of Directors of the national Colloquium for Information System Security Education (CISSE), on the Board of the Modern Technology Management Institute, as chair of the DC chapter of Manufacturing Engineers, and as a member of the Cyberwatch Marketing Committee, among others. She completed a sabbatical in 2015. Visitation hours are from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 22 at the St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church at 152 Tulip Drive, Lewes, Delaware 19958. A mass will follow. At approximately noon, a wake will be held at the residence, 19484 Manchester Drive, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, 19971. At 5 p.m., she will be interred at Epworth cemetery, 187 Henlopen Avenue, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware 19971. The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Jeanann S. Boyce Memorial fund. Details about this fund will be shared when available. Please bring your best memories, pictures, and stories celebrating Jean's life; eulogies will be shared at the wake.
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From Pillars to PCs: The Evolution of the 'Traditional' College Experience
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A college lecture used to be given to a classroom of newly graduated 18-year-olds looking for the ‘time of their life’ and the ‘full college experience’. However, times have changed.“[In fact], it's been nearly a decade since the National Center for Education Statistics announced that 73 percent of all undergraduates don't fit that mold,” according to NPR. Often these days, students attend college part-time, as well as attend lectures online and are also busy working and/or providing for their family. The majority of “traditional” students are now enrolled in online schools, or at community and for-profit colleges. In 2010, almost half of all college students were financially independent. In addition, about 50 percent were enrolled in college part-time, 38 percent worked full-time, and 27 percent had their own dependents, according to USA Today using National Center for Education Statistics. Also, about 12 million students – which is almost half the amount of college students in the nation – attended two-year colleges rather than four-year schools. “There is a new era of education; the nontraditional student is really the traditional student nowadays,” Rasmussen College Blaine Campus Director Patty Sagert said. “This is really the traditional student of the future.” The Economy Forces Students to Change The economy appears to be the reason so many students originally began to change their expectations of college. As people without a degree began to get laid off or started stressing about the possibility of losing their jobs, they began enrolling in college. They did so because they noticed the minimum requirement to get a new job in the current job market was to have an associate or bachelor’s degree. “…A lot of people [are] going back to college to get credentials to upgrade their skills to be more competitive in the job market,” according to NPR. Like stated earlier in this article, students are no longer moving directly from high ...
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Ohio American Legion brings Buckeye Boys State to Miami University
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By Claire Wagner, university news and communications
The American Legion Buckeye Boys State board of trustees voted Thursday, June 16, to relocate the American Legion Buckeye Boys State program to Miami University’s Oxford campus in 2017.
American Legion Buckeye Boys State is an eight-day hands-on experience in the operation of the democratic form of government, the organization of political parties, and the relationship of one to the other in shaping Ohio government. Founded in 1936, Buckeye Boys State is the largest Boys State program in the nation with an attendance of more than 1,200 high school juniors (rising seniors) annually, representing nearly 600 Ohio high schools, several online high schools, and the home-schooled community.
Buckeye Boys State is sponsored by the Ohio American Legion, the largest veterans organization in Ohio. At Buckeye Boys State, boys learn about city, county and state government through a nonpartisan objective educational approach. “Buckeye Boys State is a fantastic program promoting civic leadership and numerous opportunities for boys approaching adulthood. It got me started on the work I do today,” said Randi Thomas, Miami’s director of institutional relations and a Buckeye Boys State alumnus. “Everyone runs for a position. It means half will lose. I was one who lost. I believe I learned more about myself and government and how you can have an impact without having a title. Those lessons have served me well to this day.”
“The American Legion Buckeye Boys State theme, ‘A Week to Shape a Lifetime,’ resonates strongly at Miami,” said David Hodge, Miami’s president. “Like the American Legion, Miami is deeply committed to student success, and we believe in empowering students to use their knowledge and skills with integrity and compassion to improve the future of our global society. We are thrilled to welcome the program to campus.”
The contract is for five years. The move to Miami ends a 39-year ...
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UNCG hosts college readiness camp for Latino high school students
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Sixty-one Latino high school students from across the state traveled to Greensboro last week to take part in UNCG CHANCE (Campamento Hispano Abriendo Nuestro Camino a la Educación/Hispanic Camp Opening the Path to Education), a three-day, intensive college readiness experience.
Students attended classes taught by UNCG faculty, participated in cultural activities, learned about financial aid and enjoyed all that UNCG’s campus has to offer – including meals at the Caf and a game night at the Leonard J. Kaplan Center for Wellness.
“This program is so important because many Latino students don’t realize that going to college is feasible,” said Kattya Castellón, associate director of Latino education affairs in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. “Because of the lack of exposure to the higher education system, or other obstacles they may encounter, they may not see college as an option.”
In addition, students worked in groups – with help from UNCG faculty – to create videos about how their experience at CHANCE impacted their lives. On the final day of camp, students presented these videos to their parents.
For UNCG graduate student Marisa Gonzalez, one of 16 CHANCE mentors, the program was an opportunity to give back.
“I was once in their shoes, and I still remember how difficult it was,” she said. “This program inspired students – they saw firsthand that it is possible to go to college, and that there is a lot of financial help available.”
CHANCE was funded by the Frontier Set, a new model of partnership and sharing best practices to improve student outcomes in higher education. The Frontier Set is managed by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) through funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
CHANCE also received support from the Office of Enrollment Management, the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the Office of Intercultural Engagement and other units across campus.
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Cornell’s Prasad says China’s economy is holding up
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July 18, 2017 Multi-Billion-Dollar Expansion for Hong Kong Incubator 23:08 - Government-funded incubator and accelerator Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks has proven such a success that the corporation is in the midst of a multi-billion-dollar expansion that will add two new towers to the campus by 2020. Globalive Chairman Anthony Lacavera talks to the corporation’s CEO Albert Wong. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Illinois Tech MEDLIFE Chapter Provides Medical Outreach to Residents of Managua, Nicaragua
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Twelve Illinois Tech MEDLIFE chapter students recently spent one week in Managua, Nicaragua. MEDLIFE is an international, non-governmental organization based in South America that partners with motivated, poor individuals from the communities to improve their access to education, healthcare, and community development. The mission of MEDLIFE is not only to provide assistance to these individuals, but to sustain these effects. Amongst the Illinois Tech MEDLIFE chapter group were six engineering students: Ilma Lodhi (BME 4th year), Teresa Plascencia (ARCE 1st year), Nirja Shah (BME 4th year), Shailee Shah (BME 3rd year), Austeja Staneviciute, (BME 3rd year), and Diana Wu (CHE 2nd year).
The students’ first day started at a landfill, where locals spend hours each day searching for plastic to resell in order to make a living. This “reality tour” gave the students a first-hand account of the hardships facing the people living in Managua on a daily basis.
The remaining six days were spent developing mobile clinics in various surrounding communities, where the students observed and assisted the doctors providing treatments to the local patients. The mobile clinics consist of two doctors’ stations; a triage station where the Illinois Tech students recorded basic patient information such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure and medical history; a dentist; pharmacy; and OBGYN. Students also taught toddlers and young children about the importance of good hygiene at a tooth brushing station.
Despite the hardships faced by the locals, the students were welcomed into the communities and their outreach was greatly appreciated.
Learn more about the group and their activities by following them on Facebook.
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COD Offers Free 'Living Well: Healthy at Home for Plus 50' Aug. 3
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Mike McKissackThe Continuing Education program at College of DuPage is offering “Living Well: Healthy
at Home for Plus 50” from 1 to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 3, at the College’s Glen Ellyn campus, 425 Fawell Blvd.Part of the College’s Living Well series, this workshop is aimed at participants over
age 50 who are downsizing or reorganizing. Attendees will learn techniques for de-cluttering,
estate sale secrets and home modification.While this workshop is free and open to community members over age 50, registration
is required. To register for this workshop, visit myaccess.cod.edu.For more information, email ce@cod.edu or call (630) 942-2208.Whether for personal development, professional advancement or life enhancement, the
Continuing Education program at College of DuPage provides credit and non-credit courses, classes and workshops
for adults and youth which are designed to meet a variety of educational needs and
provide a multitude of educational experiences. Designed for community members 50
and over, the Lifelong Learning Institute offers classes in music, literature, art, local history, computers, as well as the
Plus 50 program for individuals looking to return to school or advance their career.College of DuPage is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Serving
approximately 28,000 students each term, College of DuPage is the largest public community
college in the state of Illinois. The College grants nine associate degrees and offers
more than 170 career and technical certificates in over 50 areas of study.
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Our opioid addiction crisis
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We’re losing an entire generation: That’s how many have described the magnitude of the opioid addiction crisis we face in this country. A researcher and the director of a drug abuse treatment clinic offer their perspectives on what’s happening and efforts to reverse the trend. Then, what we can learn about political polarization and compromise from a new play about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Embry-Riddle Earns 7th Consecutive Title as Great College to Work For
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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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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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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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