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INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana University School of Medicine will continue its nationally recognized work in the scientific discovery of innovative medical treatments and care for children with the appointment of Raghu G. Mirmira, MD, PhD, as director of the school’s Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, which is associated with Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health.Dr. Mirmira is an international leader in Type 1 diabetes research—specifically the biology of islet cells, which include the beta cells that produce insulin in the pancreases of healthy people, but are attacked by one’s own immune system in people who develop Type 1 diabetes. Amongst his many achievements, Dr. Mirmira’s research studies have led to the discovery and characterization of fast-acting insulin analogues, which are widely used by patients with diabetes today. He first came to IU in 2008, after Eli Lilly and Co. made a philanthropic gift to Riley Children’s Foundation in 2006 to establish the Eli Lilly and Co. Pediatric Diabetes Research Laboratories at Riley Hospital.
As director of the Wells Center, Dr. Mirmira will lead efforts to increase research collaboration amongst scientists and physicians to accelerate the development of new approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of childhood diseases, as well as providing an outstanding training environment for students, residents and fellows. Seven interdisciplinary working groups within the center focus on research related to asthma and allergic diseases, basic diabetes research, cardiovascular genetics, developmental cardiology, hematologic malignancies and stem cells, infectious diseases and global health, and molecular oncology and experimental therapeutics.
The new position will be an addition to Dr. Mirmira’s current roles as Eli Lilly and Co. Professor of Pediatric Diseases, director of the Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, professor of pediatrics and medicine, and adjunct professor of physiology and biochemistry at IU School of Medicine.
Dr. Mirmira said he is looking forward to leading such ...
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Raghu Mirmira named director of Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research
Screening method reveals glioblastoma drug target
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Craig Horbinski, MD, PhD, associate professor of Pathology and Neurological Surgery, was a co-author of the Nature paper.
A team of scientists has developed a new method for identifying drug targets in the aggressive brain tumor glioblastoma and discovered that a key gene — previously overlooked by traditional approaches — may represent a promising new target for therapy.
The study, published in the journal Nature, was co-authored by Craig Horbinski, MD, PhD, associate professor of Pathology and Neurological Surgery.
Glioblastoma, the most common form of adult brain tumor, is a lethal cancer with a median survival of just 15 months. There is no cure, and current treatment options tend to extend patients’ lifespan only modestly.
Previously, most laboratory research in the area has focused on in vitro cellular models. But drug therapies based on targets discovered in vitro have had limited clinical success for glioblastoma patients, in part because such cell models poorly match how the cancer behaves in humans.
“What works against cancer cells in a dish doesn’t necessarily work when the same cells are grown in mice. Something that works very well in mice is more likely to work in patients, but it is far too expensive and laborious to test every new drug in mice without first testing it in a dish,” Horbinski said. “It’s very frustrating for everyone, including scientists, doctors and especially patients.”
In the current study, Horbinski and collaborators demonstrated a new, more efficient method to screen for potential drug targets in glioblastoma.
The team developed an in vivo functional screening strategy — using models of mice implanted with human glioblastoma cells, which closely mirrored the natural tumor environment — to identify changes in cancer gene regulation. They then compared those results with screening results from cells in a dish. The scientists discovered that many of the genes necessary for cancer cell growth in the brain were ...
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Adrian Talbott appointed executive director of UChicago Institute of Politics
UChicago News
Adrian Talbott, a leader in civic engagement at the University of Chicago, has been appointed executive director of the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.Talbott, who serves as director of strategy, research initiatives and development in the Office of Civic Engagement, will join the Institute of Politics on Aug. 1. Talbott’s experience prior to joining the University in 2014 includes co-founding and serving as executive director of Generation Engage, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to increasing civic participation among college-age youth.
“Adrian has devoted his life to encouraging young people of all political persuasions to become active, engaged citizens; for him, this work is not a job but a mission,” said David Axelrod, the founder and director of the Institute of Politics. “He has the experience, energy and commitment to help build on the tremendous momentum the IOP has established in five short years on campus. We are thrilled to welcome him.”
The nonpartisan Institute of Politics is a leader on campus and across the country in igniting a passion for politics and public service among young people, through speakers and visiting fellows, career development programs, and opportunities for civic engagement and community service. Talbott will oversee the institute’s extracurricular programs and staff, while advancing new initiatives and building and strengthening partnerships with other units of the University and outside organizations.
Axelrod thanked the institute’s outgoing executive director, Steve Edwards, who was instrumental in growing institute programing and building its strong staff. Edwards was recently appointed vice president and chief content officer at WBEZ, Chicago’s public radio station.
“The IOP would not be what it is today without Steve Edwards,” Axelrod said. “His brilliant, sensitive leadership has earned him the love and respect of IOP students and staff and my undying gratitude. We borrowed him from journalism five years ago and return him today, trailed by a litany ...
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Music for a Summer Evening
BU Today
There may be no finer place to be this evening than the Hatch Shell on Boston’s Charles River Esplanade. Oh, you’ll have to share space with a couple of thousand fellow citizens. But it will be worth it. For tonight marks the start of the Boston Landmarks Orchestra’s 2017 season of free summer concerts.
Comprising some of the Boston area’s finest professional musicians, the BLO has earned a reputation for presenting eclectic classical music concerts on the Hatch Shell, as well as for performing in city neighborhoods, youth centers, and public parks. Since its founding in 2001, the orchestra has played classical music from a range of composers in a fun, approachable way.
Tonight’s opening concert, titled Music for a Summer Evening, includes, appropriately, Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a work for voice and orchestra that nostalgically recalls a child’s memories of summer. The lush piece is based on a largely autobiographical prose poem by Pulitzer-winner James Agee. First performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1948, Barber’s composition has become a staple of 20th-century classical music.
Led by musical director Christopher Wilkins, the orchestra will also perform Ralph Vaughan Williams’ English Folk Song Suite, one of the British composer’s most famous pieces, originally written for a military band; Frederick Delius’ Summer Evening, one of three tone poems created between 1888 and 1890; The Blue Planet, a 10-minute orchestral work by Peggy Stuart Coolidge that later became the official theme song for the World Wildlife Fund (Coolidge was the first female American composer to have a recording made of her symphonic works); excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi’s five-act opera I vespri siciliani; and Edward Elgar’s moving Enigma Variations, composed in 1899. The composition features 14 variations on a single theme—each said to be a musical sketch of various friends of the composer’s. Elgar’s most ...
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Mānoa: UH researchers available to discuss July king tides
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MEDIA ADVISORYUniversity of Hawaiʻi at MānoaContact:Posted: Jul 18, 2017Link to video of June 2017 low tide and king tide (details below): http://bit.ly/2u6Z5EZWhat: The University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa can provide researchers and experts in the days leading up to, and the day of, the July king tides.Where:Location 1 - Duke Kahanamoku statue at Waikīkī BeachLocation 2 - lifeguard station 1C in Ala Moana Regional Park (map)When: July 21, 2:00 p.m. at both locations (tide is expected to peak at about 3:08 p.m.)Who: Experts and researchers from the University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program, UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology’s Department of Geology and Geophysics and the UH Sea Level Center, and State of Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural ResourcesWhy: The last of the upcoming peak astronomic tides of the summer, known as king tides, are occurring on July 21 and July 22. The tides are expected to be among the highest recorded since record keeping started 112 years ago. The king tides may produce flooding events and will provide a glimpse of what will eventually become routine with continued global warming and sea-level rise. The next king tides will occur in November.VIDEO:Low tide and the June king tide comparison b-roll (1 minute, 30 seconds):- (00) Māpunapuna at Āhua and Kilihau Streets (1 shot low tide and 2 shots king tide)- (:30) Ala Wai Canal from McCully Street Bridge (1 shot low and 2 shots king tide)- (1:00) Waikīkī Beach (1 shot low and 2 shots king tide)Photo resource: Hawai‘i Sea Grant Flickr album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/156807380@N03/albums###
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Graduate Program Assistant
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The Graduate Program Assistant position is posted in an attempt to locate additional applicants. The position is posted on the external site http://www.gcsujobs.com. It is open to all applicants and will remain open until filled. The link to the position is: https://www.gcsujobs.com/postings/4909.If you know of someone who will be a good fit, please provide the posting information. Questions may be directed to Human Resources at 478-445-5596.
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Delta Officially Opens New Advanced Manufacturing Facility at Georgia Tech
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Delta Officially Opens New Advanced Manufacturing Facility at Georgia Tech
July 19, 2017
• Atlanta, GA
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From left, Don McConnell, Georgia Tech vice president of Industry Collaboration; Steve Cross, Georgia Tech executive vice president for Research, Gil West, Delta’s senior executive vice president and chief operating officer, David Garrison, senior vice president for Engineering, Quality, Planning and Logistics for Delta; Tad Hutcheson, senior vice president of the Delta Air Lines Foundation; and Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson cut the ribbon on the new Delta Air Lines Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility at Georgia Tech.
Nearly three months after opening its Global Innovation Center in Tech Square, Delta Air Lines cut the ribbon on its new Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility on 14th Street in a special ceremony July 19.
“We’re really excited about the partnership with Delta,” said Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson. “This facility is a little different. Our students, faculty, staff and researchers will be able to develop products, and it provides Delta an opportunity to collaborate with its partners.”
Made possible by a $3 million gift from the Delta Air Lines Foundation, the facility was designed to be an integrated physical and cyber manufacturing technology testbed as well as a demonstration and teaching facility. The Advanced Manufacturing Pilot Facility (AMPF) will be a flagship component of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute as a location where early-stage concepts can go from idea to reality.
“Over the last two years, inspired by insights gained from our close collaboration in manufacturing research with industry partners, faculty members from the schools of Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Interactive Computing came together to define the requirements for a learning and research facility that will provide the foundation for future innovations in digital manufacturing,” said Don McConnell, Georgia ...
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Report on Trump budget focuses on regulatory spending
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While President Donald Trump has pledged an all-out effort to do away with wasteful regulations, his proposed 2018 budget would increase federal spending on regulatory agencies by 3.5 percent, according to a new report issued July 18, 2017 by the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis and the Regulatory Studies Center at George Washington University.
“President Trump’s proposed budget calls for more staff and resources for agencies responsible for immigration and border protection, while reducing staff and resources at other agencies, particularly those focused on the environment,” concluded the authors, whose annual reports track shifts in regulatory spending across nearly six decades.
The current budget analysis, conducted by Melinda Warren of the Weidenbaum Center and Susan Dudley of the Regulatory Studies Center, reveals that the president’s requested 3.4-percent increase in expenditures for federal regulatory departments and agencies is two times the increase President Obama got for those same regulators in 2017.
Highlights:
Although President Trump has made reducing regulatory burdens a priority, he proposes to increase the regulators’ budget in FY 2018.
The proposed 2018 regulators’ budget reflects a 3.4% real increase in expenditures.
The proposed increase is twice the 1.7% increase estimated in 2017.
Proposed outlays are $69.4B for 2018 compared to $65.9B in 2017 and $63.7B in 2016.
Proposed staffing levels would decline by 0.5%—from 281,300 full-time personnel in 2017 to 279,992 in 2018. In 2017, regulatory agency staffing increased 1.5%.
Some agencies are budgeted for significant increases in both expenditures and staff, while others face dramatic cuts.
Agencies within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) focused on immigration are the big budgetary winners, including:
Coast Guard,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
Customs and Border Control, and
Transportation Security Administration.
Overall, DHS regulatory agencies would increase expenditures by 13.7% (an additional $4.1B) in 2018, after a 5.9% increase ($1.7B) in 2017.
DHS staffing is also budgeted to grow by 2.3% (3,294 additional people) in 2018 following a 1.3% increase (1,896 people) in 2017.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is targeted for sharp reductions in ...
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Massachusetts Teachers Show Off Their Homemade Mobile Apps
UMass Amherst: News Archive
*** MEDIA ADVISORY ***DATE: Friday, July 21TIME: Media opportunity 12:30-2 p.m.WHAT: Showcase Mobile Computer Science Principles professional developmentWHERE: Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, 100 Bigelow St., Holyoke
High school teachers from 12 Massachusetts schools will show off their projects on the last afternoon of a four-week course where they have been learning how to make their own mobile apps. The summer professional development course prepares teachers to bring new skills to their students who are taking the advanced placement high school class “Mobile Computer Science Principles” in the fall.
Designed to help teachers boost computer science participation among high school girls and underrepresented minorities, the course teaches how to create socially relevant applications for mobile phones and other devices. It is project-based and emphasizes writing, communication, collaboration and creativity.
Examples of mobile apps created in past classes include one that helps to prepare high school students for college, one that assists in medical emergencies, another that lets restaurant diners donate money for local needy people, one that helps shoppers find the lowest price, an app designed to remind people to take their medication and one to help immigrants prepare for citizenship.
Media can interview facilitator Beryl Hoffman, associate professor of computer information technology at Elms College in Chicopee, computer science teacher Deddie Quillen from Westborough High School and coordinator Renee Fall of the Commonwealth Alliance for Information Technology Education (CAITE) at UMass Amherst’s College of Information and Computer Sciences.
CAITE helped secure funding through Google’s CS4HS program and collaborated with Trinity College, the Green High Performance Computing Center, CSTA-Greater Boston and CSTA-Western Massachusetts to offer the workshop. Funding also supports a professional learning community of about 50 educators in Massachusetts that includes this group. This year’s 12 teachers now join 13 who took the course last year.
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Mariea Hoy Awarded Inaugural DeForrest Jackson Professorship
Headlines – Tennessee Today
Mariea Hoy, a professor in the School of Advertising and Public Relations, is the inaugural recipient of the DeForrest Jackson Professorship.The school’s first named professorship, the DeForrest Jackson Professorship was created earlier this year with a $500,000 gift from Suzanne Sackleh Masters of Atlanta, who received her bachelor’s degree in advertising and public relations in 1989. Masters made the gift in honor of her favorite professor, DeForrest Jackson.
Jackson came to UT after retiring as communications director for Coca-Cola in Atlanta. He earned his master’s degree in communications from UT and went on to serve as an associate professor of advertising until he retired in 1996. He died in 2013.
The Jackson Professorship will be held by tenured faculty members on a three-year rotating basis. It rewards and recognizes an outstanding School of Advertising and Public Relations faculty member whose research, teaching, and academic and professional service have uniquely contributed to the mission of the school, the College of Communication and Information, and the university.
Hoy has been at UT since 1989. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Central Oklahoma and a master’s and doctorate in business administration, both from Oklahoma State University. She teaches advertising research, advertising and society, and advertising campaigns. Her research focuses on public policy areas such as advertising disclosures, advertising to children, online privacy, and covert advertising.
To date, CCI has raised $11.92 million of its $15 million Journey to the Top 25 campaign goal.
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Neuroethics Symposium Set for September 25
Neuroethics of Implanted Brain Stimulation DevicesMonday, September 25, 20178:30 am - 3:00 pmUniversity Club123 University PlacePittsburgh, PA 15213
Keynote lecture:Implanted Brain Stimulation Devices: Ethical,Legal, and Practical IssuesHank Greely, JDDirector, Stanford Center for Law and the BiosciencesDirector, Stanford Program in Neuroscience and SocietyCo-Chair, Neuroethics Division of the NIH BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Group
Abstract: Invasive brain stimulation devices have great, and to some extent, already demonstrated potential, but, like all technologies, they come with a set of challenges. This talk will talk about ethical challenges arising from the relationship between the patients, doctors, and companies; the impact such technology may have on our sense of being human and being the source of our individuality; the legal issues arising from possible unintended effects of invasive brain stimulation; and practical issues, ranging from FDA and reimbursement considerations to public fears. It will also try to situate this technology, and the issues it raises, in relation to similar emerging neurotechnologies.
This activity has been approved for 3.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit TM. This program has been approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for (3) hours of substantive credit. The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.
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A Plastic Planet
Science and Technology @ UCSB
More than 8 billion metric tons. That’s the amount of plastic humans have created since the large-scale production of synthetic materials began in the early 1950s. It’s enough to cover the entire country of Argentina, and most of the material now resides in landfills or in the natural environment.Such are the findings of a new study led by UC Santa Barbara industrial ecologist Roland Geyer. The research, which appears in the journal Science Advances, provides the first global analysis of the production, use and fate of all plastics ever made, including synthetic fibers.
“We cannot continue with business as usual unless we want a planet that is literally covered in plastic,” said lead author Geyer, an associate professor at UCSB’s Bren School of Environmental Science & Management. “This paper delivers hard data not only for how much plastic we’ve made over the years but also its composition and the amount and kind of additives that plastic contains. I hope this information will be used by policymakers to improve end-of-life management strategies for plastics.”
Geyer and his team compiled production statistics for resins, fibers and additives from a variety of industry sources and synthesized them according to type and consuming sector. They found that global production of plastic resins and fibers increased from 2 million metric tons in 1950 to more than 400 million metric tons in 2015, outgrowing most other man-made materials. Notable exceptions are steel and cement. While these materials are used primarily for construction, the largest market for plastics is packaging, which is used once and then discarded.
“Roughly half of all the steel we make goes into construction, so it will have decades of use; plastic is the opposite,” Geyer said. “Half of all plastics become waste after four or fewer years of use.”
And the pace of plastic production shows no signs of slowing. Of the total ...
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Cinc investigadors presenten els seus projectes de recerca en el I Simposi Postdoctoral UB - la Caixa
Universitat de Barcelona - Notícies
Participants en el simposi.
19/07/2017
Recerca
Aquest dimecres, 19 de juliol, té lloc el I Simposi Postdoctoral UB - la Caixa, a l’Edifici Històric de la Universitat de Barcelona. Durant la jornada, s'han presentat recerques que duen a terme diversos investigadors contractats per la UB amb l'impuls de la Fundació Bancària la Caixa.
Concretament, s’han explicat els projectes postdoctorals d’Òscar Capdeferro, expert en mecanismes jurídics per lluitar contra la corrupció i promoure la bona administració; Eveline Chagas, que ha presentat la seva recerca sobre menors immigrants i les tasques i intervencions en inserció social; Irene Garcia, que ha parlat de l’efecte de nivells elevats d’olis vegetals en la dieta de l’orada per millorar el cultiu d’aquesta espècie i contribuir a innovar en els pinsos destinats a aquests peixos; Alba Guimerà, que ha fet una exposició sobre la sociologia de la literatura i el producte cultural, i Pablo Rivera, que ha explicat la seva recerca sobre l’impacte de la inserció de les tecnologies digitals als centres escolars catalans.
Ha presidit l’acte el rector de la UB, Joan Elias, i també hi han intervingut la vicerectora de Personal Docent i Investigador, Mercè Pallàs, i Ignasi López, director de Ciència de l’Àrea de Recerca i Estratègia de la Fundació Bancària la Caixa.
L’any passat la Fundació Bancària la Caixa va donar suport financer, mitjançant un conveni amb la Universitat de Barcelona, a la contractació de disset investigadors postdoctorals, entre els quals hi ha els cinc que presenten les seves recerques en el simposi. Per al curs vinent, està prevista la signatura d’un nou conveni i la renovació dels ajuts.
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Heather Castelli: world traveler, mechanical engineer
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Up until last summer, Heather Castelli had visited more foreign countries than U.S. states.
“I follow in my grandfather’s footsteps,” says Castelli, a 2017 mechanical engineering graduate of Missouri S&T. “He left Hungary in 1956 at the start of the revolution. My grandmother is from there as well. It all comes back to them.”
Heather Castelli sits at the rim of Quilotoa, a volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes mountains. After its last eruption 800 years ago, the crater has accumulated an 820-foot-deep lake.
Castelli first traveled with Engineers Without Borders to Honduras. The next year she returned to Honduras with EWB, visited Panama for a conference and went to Nicaragua with Miner Challenge Alternative Spring Break. She chose Hong Kong for her study abroad trip as a senior because she wanted something different.
“I was looking for a culture shock,” Castelli says. “I had never really experienced a culture shock. I was raised in a multicultural household. I’m the first generation not to speak Hungarian. It’s very normal for me to sit at a dinner table and have no idea what anyone is saying.”
Starting this fall, she will begin a full-time job for Accenture as a business analyst. The prospect of frequent business travel isn’t a problem.
“I’ve known a lot of people who have done a lot of different types of work for Accenture and every pro or con they mention is a pro for me,” Castelli says.
“I lived out of a 46-liter backpack during my entire six months in Hong Kong, so living out of a suitcase isn’t an issue,” she says. “I’ve learned how to travel light because I don’t like to carry things.”
This past spring break Castelli and six friends road-tripped in an old, red wood-paneled van nicknamed “Clifford” to hike through sites like the Grand ...
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Communication alumnus Pasha Zalutski gaining attention as Russia’s first openly gay comedian
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Pasha Zalutski, a native of Belarus and 2003 UMSL graduate, performs earlier this year at the Kiev Independent Standup Festival. He was chosen “Best Male Comedian.” (Images courtesy of Pasha Zalutski)
Pasha Zalutski walked determinedly onto the stage and shook hands with host Andrew Beburishvili as the spotlights flashed in all directions in the background.
Then he turned to the audience and the judges, pulled the microphone from its stand and launched into his set.
Zalutski, a 35-year-old native of Belarus who graduated from the University of Missouri–St. Louis in 2003 with a degree in communication, was debuting on the Russian television show “Otkryti Mikrofon,” which translates to “Open Mic” and has similarities to the former NBC show “Last Comic Standing.”
His first bit was about the importance of how people carry themselves, and he began with an observation that, because he looks nervous about getting his bag checked by security while riding the subway, he’s the one who always gets stopped.
“There’s a different way,” he told the crowd in Russian.
Then he deepened his voice and continued toward the punch line: “I should be like, ‘Sir, sir, you! The one in the uniform. You, you, you. I’m talking to you! Get over here right now and get to work! Don’t forget to pat me down. I ain’t paying taxes for nothing.’”
Zalutski paused briefly to soak in the laughter of the audience. He had their attention.
He was about to leave them in disbelief.
“See?” Zalutski said. “You gotta carry yourself right. Especially when you’re gay. Which I am.”
There was momentary silence, and the camera panned to judge Yuliya Akhmedova, whose jaw had dropped. She let out a low groan and began clapping her hands together slowly.
“But it’s not important. It’s not important,” said Zalutski, breaking the tension. “Let’ ...
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Lecturer Eric Canin to return to CSUF following investigation into misconduct
Daily Titan
Anthropology lecturer Eric Canin will return to teach at Cal State Fullerton this fall after Arbitrator Jan Stiglitz concluded that his actions during an altercation that occurred Feb. 8 warranted a two-month suspension.
Canin was put on paid leave after the university’s internal investigation concluded that “a campus employee struck a student and that as a consequence, the speech of the student group was stopped.”
The university will consider two months of Canin’s paid leave last semester following the incident toward fulfilling the two-month suspension if he reimburses what he was paid during that time, said CSUF Chief Communications Officer Jeffrey Cook in an email.
“In his decision, Arbitrator Stiglitz agreed with the University’s factual conclusions regarding Dr. Canin’s misconduct, finding that ‘based on the sworn testimony of the percipient witnesses, I do conclude that Dr. Canin attempted to grab a sign’ being held by a student and ‘I also conclude that Dr. Canin did at some point, in some way, use his hand to make physical contact’ with a student’s face,” Cook said in an email.
Canin was served a notice of termination following the conclusion of the internal investigation, Cook said in an email. The decision was appealed in accordance with the California State University system’s collective bargaining agreement with the California Faculty Association.
This appeal led to the case being assigned to Stiglitz as a means of settling the dispute.
“Arbitrator Stiglitz then focused on Canin’s ‘intentions’ to opine that ‘there was a momentary but most unfortunate and inappropriate loss of control’ and while ‘(Canin’s) actions did, in a limited way, interfere with the rights of the College Republicans,’ that since he has worked at the campus for 20 years without incident the disciplinary penalty for his conduct should be a two-month suspension instead of termination,” Cook said in an email.
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Big-Data Analysis Points Toward New Drug Discovery Method
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A research team led by scientists at UC San Francisco has developed a computational method to systematically probe massive amounts of open-access data to discover new ways to use drugs, including some that have already been approved for other uses.
The method enables scientists to bypass the usual experiments in biological specimens and to instead do computational analyses, using open-access data to match FDA-approved drugs and other existing compounds to the molecular fingerprints of diseases like cancer. The specificity of the links between these drugs and the diseases they are predicted to be able to treat holds the potential to target drugs in ways that minimize side effects, overcome resistance and reveal more clearly how both the drugs and the diseases are working.
“This points toward a day when doctors may treat their patients with drugs that have been individually tailored to the idiosyncracies of their own disease,” said first author Bin Chen, PhD, assistant professor with the Institute for Computational Health Sciences (ICHS) and the Department of Pediatrics at UCSF.
In a paper published online on July 12 in Nature Communications, the UCSF team used the method to identify four drugs with cancer-fighting potential, demonstrating that one of them – an FDA-approved drug called pyrvinium pamoate, which is used to treat pinworms – could shrink hepatocellular carcinoma, a type of liver cancer, in mice. This cancer, which is associated with underlying liver disease and cirrhosis, is the second-largest cause of cancer deaths around the world – with a very high incidence in China – yet it has no effective treatment.
Large-Scale Analyses Without Need For Biological Experiments
The researchers first looked in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a comprehensive map of genomic changes in nearly three dozen types of cancer that contains more than two petabytes of data, and compared the gene expression signatures in 14 different cancers to the gene expression signatures for normal ...
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Get to Know New @FIUHoops Assistant Coach Jarrett T. Lockhart: Part Two
FIU Athletics
MIAMI (July 19, 2017) – With the 2017 summer recruiting period in full swing, FIUSports.com continues its chat with the Panthers' new assistant men's basketball coach, Jarrett T. Lockhart. Lockhart was recently promoted to an assistant after spending the previous three seasons as the program's director of basketball operations. In this sit-down – the second of two parts – Lockhart talks about what it was like to play in the BIG EAST Conference, what advice he would give Division I prospects as they look to make their college decision and what some of the biggest changes are in Division I basketball since he played.Fans are encouraged to follow @FIUHoops on Twitter, and "Like" FIU men's basketball on Facebook (www.Facebook.com/FIUMensBBall) for the latest Panther basketball news.Follow all of FIU's 18 athletic teams on Google+ (FIU Athletics), Twitter (@FIUAthletics), Facebook (Facebook.com/FIUSports), YouTube (FIUPanthers), and Instagram (FIUathletics).#####
About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in eight different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including FIU Arena and at Riccardo Silva Stadium.
About FIU: Florida International University is recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. Its colleges and schools offer more than 180 bachelor¹s, master¹s and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law, and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU is Worlds Ahead in its local and global engagement, finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. FIU has awarded 200,000 degrees and enrolls 50,000 students in two campuses and three centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell and the Miami Beach Urban Studios. FIU is a member of Conference USA and has 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.
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Profiles of New Baseball Players for the 2018 Season
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Bill FranquesCommunications Sr. Associate
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Coach Paul Mainieri on Wednesday released the 2018 LSU baseball roster, including the Tigers' 18-man class of new players. Following are profiles of the members of the signing class:
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Brandt Broussard, INF
5-10, 160, R-R, Jr., JC
Baton Rouge, La. (University HS/Delgado CC)
Son of Burke Broussard, the starting second baseman for LSU’s first College World Series team in 1986
Batted .429 with two home runs, 16 doubles, three triples and 15 stolen bases with a .531 on-base percentage last season at Delgado … committed only six errors during the year
Named the National Junior College Athletic Association Player of the Week during the 2017 season, when batted .567 in one week with 17 hits
Batted .404 with a .991 fielding percentage senior year of high school at University High
A two-time all-district and all-metro selection in high school
Paul Mainieri on Brandt Broussard:
“Brandt is the son of former LSU baseball player and former University High baseball coach Burke Broussard. Brandt grew up around LSU baseball and now gets to fulfill his dream of wearing the purple and gold himself. Brandt attended Delgado Community College and played for Coach Joe Scheuermann where he excelled this past year, hitting over .400 and playing great defense. The last second baseman we recruited from Delgado (Cole Freeman) worked out pretty well for the Tigers, and I am expecting Brandt to have the same kind of impact on our program. Brandt knows the game inside and out. He will challenge for a starting infield position at second or third base.”
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Daniel Cabrera, OF/LHP
6-1, 185, L-L, Fr., HS
Baton Rouge, La. (Parkview Baptist HS)
Selected in the 26th round of the 2017 MLB Draft by the San Diego Padres
Rated the No. 82 prospect in the MLB Draft by Baseball America and named the top player in Louisiana by Max Preps
Playing this summer in the Cal Ripken League – ...
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Spencer Foundation funds RUSMP study
The Chicago-based Spencer Foundation is supporting research led by the Rice University School Mathematics Project (RUSMP) that aims to explore the factors affecting high school students’ success in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Adem Ekmekci
Principal investigator (PI) Adem Ekmekci, director of research and evaluation for RUSMP and clinical assistant professor of mathematics, and co-PI Danya Corkin, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Houston-Downtown, received one of the foundation’s research grants to study how students’ social cognitive factors and their math and science teachers’ qualifications relate to students’ motivation, achievement and career choice in the STEM fields.
Using a nationally representative data set developed by the National Center for Education Statistics (the High School Longitudinal Study 2009), RUSMP hopes to understand how all of these relations compare across different subpopulations of students, such as gender and ethnicity. Ekmekci said such information has the potential to impact policies to increase and broaden student participation in STEM and inform math and science teacher preparation and professional development programs about the types of teacher dispositions, qualifications and practices that positively relate to student STEM outcomes.
The Spencer Foundation is dedicated to the belief that research is necessary to improve education around the world.
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La UPC s’adhereix al Pacte Nacional per a la Reforma Horària
Actualitat UPC
El Pacte Nacional per a la Reforma Horària s’ha subscrit, el 17 de juliol, al Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya, en un acte encapçalat pel president Carles Puigdemont. Amb la signatura d’aquest Pacte, el Govern català i les 110 organitzacions i entitats signants s’han compromès a assumir l’Objectiu 2025, que ha de permetre que Catalunya s'equipari amb una sèrie d’indicadors europeus i aconseguir, en els propers anys, que les persones puguin viure uns horaris més racionals i saludables. La carta de compromisos cap a l’Objectiu 2025, que s’inclou en el Pacte per a la Reforma Horària, contempla, entre d’altres, el següents propòsits: recuperar les dues hores de desfasament horari en relació a la resta del món; impulsar una nova cultura del temps a les organitzacions a favor de models més eficients i més flexibles per atendre les noves necessitats socials, i consolidar el factor temps com a nova mesura de llibertat, equitat i benestar.La signatura del Pacte és la culminació de la tasca desenvolupada pels impulsors de la Reforma Horària i el Consell Assessor per a la Reforma Horària (CARH), òrgan adscrit al Departament de la Presidència de la Generalitat de Catalunya, durant gairebé quatre anys, des que es va gestar a la tardor del 2013 i es va presentar el 29 de gener de 2014. Entre els signataris del Pacte s’inclouen 12 universitats catalanes, entre elles la UPC, així com l’Associació Catalana de Municipis (ACM) i la Federació de Municipis de Catalunya; els actors socials (CCOO, UGT, Unió Sindical Obrera de Catalunya, FEPIME Catalunya, PIMEC, la Confederació Patronal Tercer Sector de Catalunya), l’Associació de Botiguers i Comerciants de Catalunya (ABCCAT); AEDIPE Catalunya; el Cercle d’Economia; l’Associació de Famílies nombroses de Catalunya; els Col·legis oficials de Periodistes, Politòlegs i Sociòlegs, ...
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Estrogen in the Brain Prevents Obesity, Glucose Intolerance in Menopause
UC Health News
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found that adding estrogen in the brain may improve metabolic health in obese females.The study conducted by Christina Estrada, a doctoral candidate in the UC psychology graduate program in the laboratory of Matia Solomon, PhD, an associate professor in the UC Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, used animal models with menopause (surgically-induced) to induce obesity. The findings will be presented this week at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the leading society for research encompassing all aspects of eating and drinking behavior. "We know as women age and enter into menopause, they tend to gain body weight and body fat, particularly in the abdominal or ‘belly’ area. Excess abdominal fat greatly increases risk for cardio-metabolic diseases,” says Solomon. "While there are likely many factors that are associated with these risks in menopausal women, estrogen loss is associated with body weight and fat gain during menopause. In fact, estrogen treatment can offset this weight gain in many women. For decades, we have known that estrogen regulates energy balance in brain areas like the hypothalamus. Many people don’t think about the brain as a regulator of body weight; however, overall metabolic health is maintained by crosstalk between the brain and the body.” Because in the brain, the medial amygdala (MeA) regulates body weight and contains an abundance of estrogen receptors (molecules that respond to estrogen), the researchers focused their attention on the MeA as a target area to prevent metabolic risk factors, commonly associated with menopause. The researchers used an animal model of surgical menopause by removing the ovaries and delivered estrogen directly in the MeA. Compared to placebo, estrogen treatment in the MeA prevented weight and abdominal fat gain and improved glucose tolerance in models without ovaries, suggesting this region is as an ...
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LSC-Fairbanks Center Family Fall Festival Set Oct. 23
Lone Star College CyFair News
Published on: October 16, 2015
Join the Lone Star College-Fairbanks Center for the Annual Fall Festival from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23 for a free, family fun evening.
This event offers students and families a host of different activities that represent the diversity of different cultures in the community. Come enjoy a fall-themed evening of games, prizes and food.
For information on this event at LSC-Fairbanks Center, which is located at 14955 Northwest Freeway near Beltway 8, go to LoneStar.edu/cyfair or call 281.290.3442.
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CHI Lone Star College-North Harris School of Cosmetology hosts open house Jul. 10
Lone Star College North Harris News
Published on: June 26, 2017 CHI Lone Star College-North Harris School of Cosmetology is hosting an open house at its facility, located at 910 E. Richey Road in Houston. Designed to introduce prospective students to the schools offerings, the open house will take place on Monday, July 10 from 5 to 7 p.m.
The relationship between LSC-North Harris and Farouk Systems, makers of the famous CHI Ceramic Hairstyling Iron and ammonia-free CHI Ionic Hair Color, originally began in 2010 with professional development for instructors, access to more advanced CHI products for students, and expanded career opportunities for graduates.
The expanded partnership capitalizes on the world-renowned products and methods of Farouk Systems, along with the colleges expertise in education and training. Graduates are prepared to work in the most sought-after industry positions, and have an invaluable understanding of both client service and the manufacturing process.
The CHI LSC-North Harris School of Cosmetology offers programs leading to an AAS degree or certificates in cosmetology, esthetics, instruction, with both part-time and full-time options available. It also offers low-cost salon services to the community. Spring registration is now open and the program is currently taking applications for the upcoming semester. Prospective students can request additional information by calling 832.234.5600, or by visiting LoneStar.edu/CHIschool to begin the application process.
Students in the program will have an opportunity to develop cosmetology skills, including hair cutting, permanent waving, hair styling, manicuring, facials, hair coloring, hair-straightening and client consultation on hair care products.
The state-of-the-art space is also home to the LSC-North Harris massage therapy program, where students can complete their massage therapy certification in as little as nine months. Much like the cosmetology program, the massage program works closely with industry partners to ensure its graduates are prepared to succeed in the workplace.
Students impacted by the recent closing of the Regency Beauty Institute are encouraged to attend. College representatives will be ...
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5 Common Medications That Can Mess With Digestion And Damage Your Gut
Newsroom: InTheNews
Publication Date: 7/10/2017
ByLine: Organic Life
URL Link: https://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/wellbeing/medications-that-damage-gut-and-digestion/slide/1
Page Content: Features Kelly Lee, PharmD, and Christina Mnatzaganian, PharmD
News Type: National
News_Release_Date: July 14, 2017
NewsTags: Gastroenterology; UC San Diego Health Sciences
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Perry Research Scholars Institute brings talented high schoolers to the UI
Iowa Now - Research
Squeals of delight echo through the University of Iowa’s MacLean Hall, followed by the excited voices of young people testing the latest in virtual reality technology—in this case, a virtual bike ride through a virtual neighborhood with virtual moving cars.“Watch out for that car!”
“Oh my gosh! There’s another one coming.”
Inside the Hank Virtual Environments Lab, teenagers cluster near a stationary bicycle surrounded by video screens. As the teens take turns riding the bike, they listen to UI research assistant Pooya Rahimian explain how he uses behavioral and computer science techniques to study perception-action problems.
“This is so cool,” says Amy Liao, a 14-year-old from Iowa City, just seconds after jumping on the stationary bike for her turn.
Liao is one of 18 teens taking part in the first Perry Research Scholars Institute (PRSI), a two-week summer camp program for eighth-, ninth-, and 10th-graders organized by the College of Education’s Belin-Blank Center.
The camp runs through July 21 on the UI campus. Its purpose is to introduce teens to a variety of academic research—from work at UI Hospitals and Clinics to anthropological digs in a field near the Coralville Reservoir—and to provide quiet time to contemplate future career choices.
It also serves as a bridge between two existing and very popular summer academic programs offered by the UI’s Belin-Blank Center: the Blank Summer Institute for the Arts & Sciences for seventh- and eighth-graders from Iowa and the Secondary Student Training Program, for 10th- and 11th-graders from around the world.
“With this new program, our goal is to expand students’ conceptions of what it means to do research,” says Lori Ihrig, supervisor of curriculum and instruction at the Belin-Blank Center. “By working with partners across the UI campus, we can show students the variety of ways knowledge is created at a research-intensive institution.”
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Tamica Smith Jones Named To Division I-AAA ADA Executive Committee For 2017-18
gohighlanders.com
Cleveland, OH—UC Riverside Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Tamica Smith Jones was recently named to the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association Executive Committee for 2017-18."I am excited to join this esteemed network of colleagues, many of whom I have met and engaged with over the years," said Smith Jones. "Serving on the D1-AAA executive committee will be an honor, and provide another set of applicable resources as a non-football campus to identify and enhance common initiatives. With the current climate of intercollegiate athletics, it's imperative to be connected and collaborate with colleagues across the industry as often as possible in an effort to advance the strategic vision and elevate our student-athletes in 17 sports."Tim Hall (Maryland Baltimore County) will serve as the DI-AAA ADA president, while Lynne Robinson (Mount St. Mary's) takes over as 1st Vice President, Mary Ellen Gillespie (Hartford) is the 2nd Vice President, and Carla Wilson (UMKC) is the 3rd Vice President. Scott Lazenby (Texas A&M Corpus Christi), will serve as Secretary, and Ken Kavanagh (Florida Gulf Coast) will serve as the Association's Treasurer.Rounding out the Executive Committee are Patrick Elliott (Binghamton), Phil Hutcheson (Lipscomb), Don DiJulia (St. Joseph's), Jean Lenti Ponsetto (DePaul), Jeff Konya (Oakland), John D'Argenio (Siena), Steve Watson (Loyola) Roderick Perry (IUPUI), Scott Leykam (Portland), Chris King (UTRGV), Kim Record (UNC Greensboro), Irma Garcia (St. Francis), Robert Lineburg (Radford), and Rich Ensor (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference).Now in its 17th year, the Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association's mission is to enhance initiatives common to its Division I-AAA membership (the Division I institutions that do not sponsor football), in particular, aspects related to their flagship basketball programs.The association presents an All-Sports trophy each year to the top Division I-AAA institution in the Learfield Directors' Cup standings, as well as trophies for individual sports. The Highlanders took home trophies in 2015-16 ...
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Edelman, Team USA Take Home Gold at 2017 Maccabi Games
Santa Barbara Athletics News
Jul 18, 2017
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Behind a game-high 29 points and 19 rebounds from UC Santa Barbara redshirt senior forward Drew Edelman, the United States women's basketball team secured a 71-61 victory over Israel to claim the gold medal at the 2017 Maccabi Games.
The standout performance for Edelman capped off a dominant performance at the Maccabiah, as the Sunnyvale, Calif. native averaged 24.6 points per game en route to tournament Top Scorer and Most Valuable Player awards. Edelman especially raised her game in the semifinal and championship rounds, averaging 29.5 points per game and 18.5 rebounds per game. She had averaged a solid 21.4 points per game in preliminary play, best among Team USA players.
The victory in the championship game avenged a six-point loss to Israel in the preliminary round, which ultimately represented Team USA's only loss in the tournament.
Women's basketball's was the 31st gold medal won by Team USA, which accrued 106 total medals (44 silver, 36 bronze) to finish second behind Israel in the medal table.
The Maccabiah is the world's largest Jewish athletic competition in the tradition and values of Maccabi, emphasizing the centrality of the State of Israel in the life of the Jewish people. The Maccabi Games are often called "The Jewish Olympics."
Edelman is coming off a standout debut season at UCSB. The USC transfer, who redshirted in 2015-16, led the Gauchos in both scoring (11.7 points per game) and rebounding (7.7 per game). Edelman was rewarded for her strong campaign with Second Team All-Big West and All-Big West Tournament honors.
With her holding down the frontcourt, UCSB earned a No. 4 seed in the Big West Tournament and came within inches of a league title, storming back from a 19-point deficit in an eventual 56-55 heartbreaking loss in the championship game to Long Beach State.
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Entrepreneurial program adds to Vanderbilt student-athlete experience
Vanderbilt News
Jul. 19, 2017, 9:30 AM
Ten rising sophomore student-athletes are presenting business ideas this summer as part of Pre-Flight, an entrepreneurial experience and pitch workshop held at the Wond’ry.
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UM Board and System officials announce plans for alternative funding for UMKC Conservatory
University of Missouri System
June 28, 2017
COLUMBIA, Mo. – The University of Missouri Board of Curators and System officials announced today that they will develop plans for an alternative funding match for the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Downtown Campus for the Arts (Conservatory) rather than seek funding from the state under the 50-50 matching program for capital projects.
“This approach will allow construction to begin sooner and save money by avoiding construction cost inflation on a project that will benefit the students of UMKC, the people of Kansas City and the state of Missouri,” UM System President Mun Choi said. “This is a strategic investment to support our key goals in academics and scholarship. That makes it a priority for the UM System and UMKC.”
Choi said that details of the financial plans for the $96-million construction project and the $2M operating costs are being developed without reliance on state funding. These plans will be presented for approval to the Board of Curators at the September meeting.
The UM System has designated UMKC as Missouri’s Campus for the Performing Arts. The Conservatory, founded in 1906, has been praised by The New York Times as “one of the country’s liveliest academies.” It has a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and four Guggenheim Fellows among its faculty. The Conservatory also trains vocal, instrumental and dance professionals, educators, and music therapists who live, work and teach across the state of Missouri and the nation.
UMKC Chancellor Leo E. Morton said the decision demonstrates that Choi and the Board of Curators recognize how critical the downtown campus is to the future of UMKC, the city and the state.
“The performing arts are a $1 billion industry for the state of Missouri, and the national and international renown of UMKC’s Conservatory of Music and Dance is a significant piece of the foundation for that industry,” Morton said. “UMKC’s Downtown Campus ...
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FIEA Student Video Game Playtest
Events at UCF
Farming robots and sword-fighting soldiers are among the characters who will visit the University of Central Florida on July 19 as part of an on-campus video game playtest by UCF graduate students. Four student teams from UCF’s Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy (FIEA) will be seeking public input on their latest in-progress video games.
The playtest will be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on July 19, 2017 in the Tech Commons building. The students will be on UCF’s concourse recruiting players the day of the playtest and the event is free and open to the public.
These games serve as the students’ theses for the FIEA program, which was ranked the #2 graduate video game development program this year by the Princeton Review. The public will have a chance to play the games, meet the developers and shape the games with their feedback. The games will be finished on August 4, 2017.
The games being tested are “Hollowed,” “The Draft,” “Master Key” and “The Logician.” “The Draft” is a virtual reality game where you play as a soldier in a gladiator sport. “Logician” is a farming game with robots that aims to inspire an interest in programming. In “Master Key” players use a tether gun and wall running to escape an alien planet. In “Hollowed” players solve physical puzzles in the underworld using cooperation between two characters that they control.
For more information about the games or the playtest, please contact polish.fiea@gmail.com.
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NIH grants $1 million to RIT Scientists-In-Training Program for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Undergraduates
RIT News Releases - Top Stories
Goal is to increase the number of underrepresented students who enter Ph.D. program in the biomedical and behavioral sciences
July 14, 2017 by Susan Murad Follow RITNEWS on TwitterMark Benjamin/NTID
RIT/NTID has received $1 million from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to develop a Scientists-In-Training Program for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Undergraduates.
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded a grant to Rochester Institute of Technology that is expected to provide $1.025 million in funding over five years to develop a Scientists-In-Training Program for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Undergraduates. The award is funded through the Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) program, which is designed to increase the number of underrepresented students who enter Ph.D. programs in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The establishment of the RIT-RISE program is a groundbreaking achievement because it is the first RISE program to specifically serve deaf and hard-of-hearing students.
The RIT-RISE program consists of two components: one is open to the entire university and a second offers additional support to selected RIT-RISE Scholars. The RIT-RISE program will offer a suite of scientific enrichment workshops, presentations, and activities that are tailored to the needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing scientists and open to the entire university. These events are expected to attract students who, for example, wish to enrich their research skills, stay abreast of hot topics in biomedical and behavioral fields, sharpen their presentation skills, or get help applying to graduate schools. RIT-RISE will also provide faculty workshops to share best practices for promoting effective communication between hearing and deaf researchers in the lab.
Selected RISE scholars will also receive intensive training and wage support for working in research laboratories with RIT researchers and, eventually, in the laboratory of a mentor from another institution. The RIT-RISE leadership team will help match supported scholars with participating research mentors in their fields of interest. ...
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UW Daily – July 18, 2017
UW Daily
UW System / Top Stories
On Campus
EXT: Reactivating Uptown through the arts, Kenosha News, July 17
EXT: UW-Extension holds online class geared toward modern parenting, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, July 18
GRB: UWGB grad’s big idea? No more dishwashing, Green Bay Press-Gazette, July 17
GRB: Aaron Rodgers, Randall Cobb to greet fans at Prevea wellness event (at UWGB), WBAY, July 18
LAX: Fundraiser to be held for resident battling cancer, Janesville Gazette, July 18
LAX: UWL installs new artificial turf on multi-purpose athletic field, WKBT, July 17
MAD: Energy jolt: UW-Madison to get funding for bioenergy center, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 18
MAD: New grant will shift focus of UW-Madison alternative fuel research center away from ethanol, Wisconsin State Journal, July 18
MAD: Hearing is believing: Speech may be a clue to mental decline, AP via Wisconsin State Journal, July 18
MAD: Stress And Poverty May Explain High Rates Of Dementia In African-Americans, NPR News, July 17
MAD: UW Warns Anti-Abortion Bill Could Worsen OB-GYN Shortage, WPR, July 17
MAD: Minneapolis shooting sparks conversations about police body camera policies (mentions UW Police Department), WMTV, July 17
MAD: Worried about dementia? Hearing and language problems could be forerunners of cognitive decline, Los Angeles Times, July 17
MAD: UPDATE: Camp counselors move dorms after gas leak at Sellery Hall, WKOW-TV 27, July 17
MAD: Downtown streets reopened after gas leak discovered in UW-Madison’s Sellery Hall, Wisconsin State Journal, July 17
MAD: Mosquito capable of transmitting Zika virus found in Dane County, officials say, WISC-TV 3, July 17
MIL: UWM’s Innovative Weather manager explains forecasting challenges, WUWM, July 14
MIL: UWM sustainability officer says bike trail extensions need input from surrounding community, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 16
MIL: UWM researchers find that quagga mussels change lake ecosystems, Marine Technology News, July 17
PLT: UW-Platteville welcomes goat grazing, AgriView, July 18
STO: Professor explains Ayn Rand’s cult of personality (UW-Stout’s Tim Shiell presents program on 20th century writer), Dunn County News, July 17
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UConn Reads 2017-18: ‘Nation of Immigrants or Land of Refugees?’
Campus Life – UConn Today
Though we are widely recognized as a nation of immigrants, the migration of peoples to the United States has consistently occupied a vexed place in U.S. politics, not least in the current political climate. This year’s UConn Reads selection, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s short story collection ‘The Refugees,’ affords an opportunity for the University community to reflect upon and debate the hot-button issue of immigration.
We often hear that the United States is a “nation of immigrants,” but it may be more accurate to say the country is a “land of refugees.” Refugees – individuals who are the involuntary inheritors of wartime displacements, natural disasters, and state-authorized subjection – have played a key role in American history. From the forced migration of enslaved peoples to the urgent movement of Puritans seeking freedom from religious persecution; from the involuntary relocation of Native subjects during the 19th century to the post-World War II resettlement of Holocaust survivors in the 20th; from those impacted by Cold War conflicts (in Asia and Latin America) to those escaping the realities of the ongoing War on Terror, the line between immigrant and refugee is more often than not blurred.
We often hear that the United States is a ‘nation of immigrants,’ but it may be more accurate to say the country is a ‘land of refugees.’
Although immigrants and refugees are often considered marginal in mainstream discussions of who is and is not a “true” American, their – our – stories of migration, acculturation, and assimilation are central. Many of us have in common an ancestor who traveled from “over there” to “over here,” and the histories that brought us into being as Americans, whether as refugees or immigrants, are inextricably tied to the desire to seek (voluntarily or involuntarily) a better life. Our language and literature are replete with references to “cities upon a hill,” “promised lands,” “ ...
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Kitchen Aid Mixer – New, $250. Details and contact information available: https://anchorage.craigslist.org/app/6206475576.html
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General News. 51 Spartans Receive MW Scholar-Athlete Recognition
San Jose State Spartans News -- www.sjsuspartans.com
Eight student-athletes received the honor each of their four years at San José State.
July 18, 2017
Colorado Springs, Colo.-- A school-record 51 San José State University student-athletes have received a 2016-17 Mountain West Scholar-Athlete Award for their performance in the classroom during their athletic career.The MW Scholar-Athlete Award is one of the highest academic honors bestowed by the conference. To be eligible for the award, student-athletes must have completed two semesters at the institution, have a 3.5 or better grade point average and have participated in a competition in a Mountain West-sponsored sport.The Spartan student-athletes represent 13 sports, led by women's swimming and diving with 13 honorees and followed by women's track and field with seven.Eight San José State student-athletes have earned an award each of their four years -- Jack Veasey (BASE); Karina Nunes (WXC/T&F); Tim Crawley (FB); Chelsea Jenner and Katelyn Linford (SB); Taylor Solorio (WSW); and Marie Klocker and Gaelle Rey (WTN)."Our student-athletes continue to make us proud by showing us that academic excellence is indeed achievable. I am impressed that we continue to set records each year with the number of student-athletes recognized by the Mountain West. Our coaches and academic team work diligently to ensure that every Spartan is successful in the classroom," said Eileen Daley, senior associate athletics director for academics and student services.The Spartan Scholar-Athletes helped the Mountain West to a new league-record 756 student-athletes recognized.2016-17 San José State University MW Scholar-Athletes
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Rice’s Baker Institute receives $3M gift from Alfred C. Glassell III to endow fellow in drug policy
Katharine Neill Harris named first Glassell Fellow in Drug Policy
Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy has received a $3 million gift from the Glassell Family Foundation led by Houston philanthropist Alfred C. Glassell III to endow a fellow in drug policy and advance the research of the institute’s Drug Policy Program.
From left, William Martin, Katharine Neill Harris, Edjward Djerejian, Alfred C. Glassell III and Pam Lindberg. Credit: Michael Stravato/Rice’s Baker Institute
Katharine Neill Harris, who currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship in drug policy at the Baker Institute, has been named the first Alfred C. Glassell III Fellow in Drug Policy.
The Drug Policy Program, led by William Martin, the Harry and Hazel Chavanne Senior Fellow in Religion and Public Policy at the institute, provides policymakers, scholars and the public with comprehensive and objective analyses of issues and trends with important implications for state, national and international drug policy.
The Alfred C. Glassell III Fellow in Drug Policy will build research capacity, work with local and international institutions to exchange knowledge and ideas, produce policy recommendations and evaluate the effectiveness of research.
“Drug policy is a critical issue at the federal, state and local levels,” said Baker Institute Director Edward Djerejian. “The Baker Institute is providing policymakers and the public with insightful, nonpartisan policy analysis and recommendations on how to deal with this challenge. With the Glassell Family Foundation’s generous support, the Drug Policy Program will expand its research on issues related to crime, addiction, rehabilitation and other key issues.”
The fellowship is an expansion of a postdoctoral fellowship in drug policy supported by the Glassell Family Foundation for the past five years and now held by Harris. Martin said that Harris, who earned her Ph.D. in public administration and urban policy at Old Dominion University, has significantly enhanced the Baker Institute’s ...
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Study shows language development starts in the womb
KU News Headlines
LAWRENCE — A month before they are born, fetuses carried by American mothers-to-be can distinguish between someone speaking to them in English and Japanese.
Using noninvasive sensing technology from the University of Kansas Medical Center for the first time for this purpose, a group of researchers from KU’s Department of Linguistics has shown this in utero language discrimination. Their study, published in the journal NeuroReport, has implications for fetal research in other fields, the lead author says.
“Research suggests that human language development may start really early — a few days after birth,” said Utako Minai, associate professor of linguistics and team leader for the study. “Babies a few days old have been shown to be sensitive to the rhythmic differences between languages. Previous studies have demonstrated this by measuring changes in babies’ behavior; for example, by measuring whether babies change the rate of sucking on a pacifier when the speech changes from one language to a different language with different rhythmic properties.
“This early discrimination led us to wonder when children’s sensitivity to the rhythmic properties of language emerges, including whether it may, in fact, emerge before birth,” Minai said. “Fetuses can hear things, including speech, in the womb. It’s muffled, like the adults talking in a ‘Peanuts’ cartoon, but the rhythm of the language should be preserved and available for the fetus to hear, even though the speech is muffled.”
Minai said there was already a study that suggested fetuses could discriminate between different types of language, based on rhythmic patterns, but none using the more accurate device available at the Hoglund Brain Imaging Center at KU Medical Center called a magnetocardiogram (MCG).
“The previous study used ultrasound to see whether fetuses recognized changes in language by measuring changes in fetal heart rate,” Minai said. “The speech sounds that were presented to the fetus in the two ...
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Study Reveals Origin of Modern Dog Has a Single Geographic Origin
University News
Study Reveals Origin of Modern Dog Has a Single Geographic Origin
Reported in Nature Communications, the finding counters previous research that suggested two domestication events led to the modern dog
STONY BROOK, N.Y., July 18, 2017 – By analyzing the DNA of two prehistoric dogs from Germany, an international research team led by Krishna R. Veeramah, PhD, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolution in the College of Arts & Sciences at Stony Brook University, has determined that their genomes were the probable ancestors of modern European dogs. The finding, to be published in Nature Communications, suggests a single domestication event of modern dogs from a population of gray wolves that occurred between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago.
Dogs were the first animal to be domesticated by humans. The oldest dog fossils that can be clearly distinguished from wolves are from the region of what is now Germany from around 15,000 years ago. However, the archeological record is ambiguous, with claims of ancient domesticated dog bones as far east as Siberia. Recent analysis of genetic data from modern dogs adds to mystery, with some scientists suggesting many areas of Europe, Central Asia, South Asia and the Middle East as possible origins of dog domestication.
(L to R) Shyamalika Gopalan, PhD Candidate,
Dean Bobo, Bioinformatics Scientist, and Krishna Veermah, Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolution. (F) Four-legged friend, Joci
In 2016, research by scientists using emerging paleogenomics techniques proved effective for sequencing the genome of a 5,000-year-old ancient dog from Ireland. The results of the study led the research team to suggest dogs were domesticated not once but twice. The team from Oxford University also hypothesized that an indigenous dog population domesticated in Europe was replaced by incoming migrants domesticated independently in East Asia sometime during the Neolithic era.
“Contrary to the results of this previous analysis, we found that our ancient dogs from the same time period were very similar ...
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