In the Student Spotlight: July 20, 2017

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Choon Pong Tan, an international graduate student and global adviser, was awarded the 2016 and 2017 Community Leader Award, given to the top student who builds friendships and establishes a sense of community within the International House. U.S. News highlighted NAU’s global initiatives and the way Tan took advantage of these leadership opportunities to enhance his overseas education in “Find Global Student Community Via International Houses.”


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University members named in list of 50 most influential Latinos

DePaul Newsline

This month, "NegociosNow" included three DePaul University members in its list of the 50 most influential Latinos. The publication recognized Elizabeth Ortiz, vice president for the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity; Jose Padilla, vice president and general counsel; and Jennifer Rosato Perea, dean for the College of Law, in the education and culture category of the inaugural list. As part of its 10th anniversary celebration, the publication created the list to further recognize and honor thriving members of the Latino population in the Chicago area.
"NegociosNow" currently is the only Hispanic business publication in Illinois. It aims to provide key business information to Hispanic business through stories, columns and special in-depth features. The publication is distributed nationally and reaches more than 15,000 Latino entrepreneurs and business leaders across Illinois alone.


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2017 DiSanto Field Turf Project from Start to Finish

Case Western Reserve Athletic News

Video of the new turf being installed at DiSanto Field from start to finish.

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3-D Printing Sweeping Toy Industry Off the Shelves

Michigan Tech 'Latest News'

Cheap, plastic toys—no manufacturer necessary. The 2020 toy and game market is projected to be $135 billion, and 3-D printing brings those profits home. 



People have scoffed that 3-D printers are simply toys themselves. But they probably didn't realize how much money is made off playthings. Do-it-yourself (DIY) manufacturing—making goods at home with a 3-D printer using open source designs from a free online repository—has a multimillion-dollar impact on the overall toy industry.
A team of engineers from Michigan Technological University and the London-based company MyMiniFactory published their results on the topic in Technologies (DOI: 10.3390/technologies5030045) this week.
More than Monopoly Money
The research team, led by Joshua Pearce, a professor of materials science and electrical engineering at Michigan Tech, focused on how much a desktop 3-D printer could save consumers.
"The 3-D printing industry is now dominated by small, low-cost printers and as the industry grows we're going to see a lot more DIY manufacturing," Pearce says. "The evidence is just overwhelming that this makes sense from a consumers' perspective."
To dig deeper into the potential savings, the study investigates the 100 most popular downloaded designs from MyMiniFactory, which is one of dozens of repositories where people freely share 3-D printable designs online. They used three different printing materials to analyze the potential costs of printing on an open source Lulzbot 3-D printer—commercial filament (spaghetti-like strands easily purchased online), pellet-extruded filament (cheaper option to make filament at home), and post-consumer waste plastic (converted to filament using a recyclebot).
When a commercially available toy was available for comparison, all filament types saved consumers more than 75 percent of the cost and the recyclebot filament saved more than 90 percent. In total—and just using the data from 100 toys (less than one percent of MyMiniFactory's repository)—people offset $60 million dollars per year in toy purchases.
To Pearce, an important added value emerged ...

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Thousands of Teachers

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On July 28, nearly 10,000 teachers will visit 21 California State University campuses and other host sites to share innovative strategies that empower PreK-12 teachers and build strong communities to positively impact students during the Better Together: California Teachers Summit.“The CSU is pleased to support and engage in the third annual Better Together Summit. This day honors and celebrates the profession of teaching,” said Marquita Grenot-Scheyer, CSU’s assistant vice chancellor for teacher education. “Educators across the state will have the opportunity to share best practices that support the learning of all PK-12 students to ensure student success.”
This marks the third year the CSU is partnering with the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU) and the New Teacher Center (NTC) to host the summit and bring together a growing network of educators to share strategies and lessons learned in the classroom.
The CSU is the largest producer of teachers in both the state and nation. As teachers prepare for the upcoming school year, this summit provides a unique opportunity to give them a forum to share cutting edge strategies and best practices led by teachers and for teachers. Teachers will gain concrete knowledge and have the opportunity to network with colleagues from their home region supporting continued collaboration.
Dr. Jill Biden, a lifelong educator and former Second Lady of the United States will provide the keynote address, which will be livestreamed from the event headquarters to all 35 sites. The day-long summit will also include TED-style EdTalks presented by local teachers, as well as Edcamp discussions on timely topics like bullying in the classroom, celebrating diversity and teaching students to be critical thinkers.
At Sonoma State, there will be a focus on the Maker movement with attendees able to explore the university's brand new Makerspace in the library.
Alternative education teacher and Sonoma State alum Jonna Weidaw will give an ...

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Former Second Lady Jill Biden is keynote speaker for Teachers' Summit at CSUCI

CSU Chanel Islands News

July 18, 2017 — Professor of English and the former Second Lady of the United States, Jill Biden, Ph.D. will be the keynote speaker for the third annual “Better Together” California Teachers’ Summit.The event will be held Friday, July 28 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Grand Salon at CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI). This is the third year that CSUCI will host one of the statewide events.“Better Together” coordinator Dianne Wilson-Graham, Executive Director for the California Physical Education-Health Project, said more than 300 educators are expected at the event, which will run simultaneously with Better Together Events on 35 campuses throughout California.“We are expecting to reach our full capacity,” said Wilson-Graham. “This is a wonderful opportunity for local teachers to come together and talk across schools, across grade levels, and across districts about those things that matter to teachers.”The Summit is a collaborative effort among the California State Universities, the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, and New Teacher Center.  The event is open to all California Pre-K-12 teachers, teacher candidates, and school administrators.The morning will begin with a welcome followed by Biden’s address, which will be live-streamed to all 35 campuses from where she will be speaking at St. Mary’s College in the Bay Area.“In her 30 years in education, she has taught at community colleges, a public high school and a psychiatric hospital for adolescents,” Wilson-Graham said. “As the Second Lady, she highlighted the importance of community colleges to America’s future. We are looking forward to her insights on how teachers can change the lives of students for the better.”At the 2012 Democratic National Convention, Biden said: “For me, being a teacher isn’t just what I do — it’s who I am.”After Biden’s keynote address, teachers will hear two “Ed Talk” sessions from local teachers.Fashioned after the popular “TED ...

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Cal Poly Pomona to Move Ahead With Lanterman Site Development

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The Office of the Chancellor and Cal Poly Pomona have informed the CSU Board of Trustees that the university intends to move forward with the development of Campus South, formerly occupied by the Lanterman Developmental Center.
The State of California transferred jurisdiction of the approximately 300-acre Lanterman site from the Department of Developmental Services to Cal Poly Pomona in July 2015. The university has maintained the property for two years, during which time consultants conducted pre-development feasibility studies to determine whether the land should be retained and repurposed. The analysis examined the surrounding region, existing site conditions, the local climate, site topography, geotechnical characteristics, available open space, building conditions, historical significance and readily developable zones. The consultants’ findings suggested that the property holds considerable potential for development over time.
The action on Tuesday marks the start of what will be a deliberative process, which will begin with Request for Qualifications to engage a master developer or a team of developers to collaborate with the university on a plan for the property. The university expects to issue the RFQ in the near future.
Once a developer has been selected, the university will proactively seek input from constituents on campus and in the region.
“The campus will continue to keep various constituents inside and outside the university informed of development considerations and plans,” President Soraya M. Coley said.


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CSUSB women’s business center offers QuickBooks training workshop

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Colton, Ca. – Get control of your business accounting by attending a three-part QuickBooks training series on Thursdays, July 27, Aug. 4 and Aug. 11,  presented by the Inland Empire Women’s Business Center, a program of the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship at Cal State San Bernardino.“Get Control with QuickBooks” will introduce participants to QuickBooks, the popular software for small business accounting, and show them how to set up and manage accounts, run reports, and streamline their accounting by automating common tasks. Participants will work with the latest QuickBooks software on laptops provided by the IEWBC.The workshop will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Thursdays, July 27, Aug. 4, and Aug. 11, at the Inland Empire Women’s Business Center, 1003 E. Cooley Dr., Suite 109 in Colton. The cost for the three-part series is $97. To register, visit the IEWBC website at www.iewbc.org.The Inland Empire Women’s Business Center, 3780 Market St. in Riverside, is a program of the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship at Cal State San Bernardino.  Housed in the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration, IECE, which administers the program in collaboration with the U.S. Small Business Administration, is Inland Southern California’s leading organization dedicated to supporting and promoting entrepreneurship. The IEWBC provides business counseling, training and mentoring designed for women business owners. The Inland Empire Women’s Business Center hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday by appointment only. For more information, visit the IEWBC website at www.iewbc.org or contact Michelle Skiljan at (909) 890-1242.Set in the foothills of the beautiful San Bernardino Mountains, CSUSB is a preeminent center of intellectual and cultural activity in inland Southern California. CSUSB serves more than 20,000 students each year and graduates about 4,000 students annually. CSUSB is listed among the best colleges and universities in the western United States, according to The Princeton Review,  ...

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Prodi Akuntasi FPEB UPI Launching CPA & CIPA

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Program Studi Akutansi FPEB UPI melaksanakan seminar tentang Tantangan dan Peluang Sertifikasi Akutansi dan Opening Ceremony Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Islamic Profesional Accountant (CIPA) & Auditor Forensik di Gd. Garnadi Kampus Bumi Siliwangi Jl. Dr. Setiabudhi No. 229 Bandung. Rabu (19/7/2017).

IAPI (Institut Akuntan Publik Indonesia) sebagai fasilitator memiliki tujuan mewujudkan Akuntan Publik yang berintegritas, berkualitas dan berkompetensi berstandar internasional, mendorong pertumbuhan dan independensi profesi yang sehat dan kondusif bagi profesi Akuntan Publik, menjaga martabat profesi Akuntan Publik dan kepercayaan Publik, melindungi kepentingan Publik dan Akuntan Publik, serta mendorong terwujudnya good governance di Indonesia.
Wakil Rektor Bidang Riset, Kemitraan dan Usaha Prof. Dr. Didi Sukyadi, M.A berharap CIPA  ini menjadi pusat keunggulan bagi para dosen untuk mengembangkan profesinya, networking dan untuk mahasiswa juga bisa menjadi sarana untuk berlatih. Sehingga pada saat bekerja di lapangan mereka unggul dan profesional.

“Tidak hanya unggul dan profesional di dalam negeri, tapi juga di luar negeri. Walaupun sebetulnya akutansi ini punya dua program yaitu pendidikan dan non pendidikan. Alumni dari pendidikan sudah banyak yang berhasil, baik tingkat nasional maupun menjadi pimpinan di berbagai instansi tertentu” tambahnya.
Prof. Didi Sukyadi juga mengungkapkan “UPI ingin prodi akuntasi lebih maju lagi dari sebelumnya dan program ini pun mendapatkan dukungan dari para pimpinan universitas. UPI sudah mempersiapkan perangkat untuk mengikuti CIPA , mulai dari pengadaan perangkatnya. Namun mereka bisa melakukan test dimana saja karena program ini berbasis online. Setelah test hasilnya bisa langsung diketahui, tapi sertifikat bukan UPI yang mengeluarkan, UPI hanya menjadi test center saja.
Program ini terbuka untuk umum, tidak hanya untuk mahasiswa UPI. Jadi untuk pendaftar yang ingin mengikuti test tidak hanya dari wilayah Bandung, tapi juga seluruh Indonesia. Sehingga peluang bagi para pelamar dari luar daerah yang ingin mendaftar test CPA dan CIPA di UPI sangat terbuka luas.
Wakil Rektor Bidang Riset, Kemitraan dan Usaha juga menuturkan “Untuk saat ini UPI hanya memiliki beberapa unit ...

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Birds versus buildings: Rural structures post greater relative threat than urban ones

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About one billion birds are killed every year when they unwittingly fly into human-made objects such as buildings with reflective windows. Such collisions are the largest unintended human cause of bird deaths worldwide — and they are a serious concern for conservationists.
A new paper published in June in the journal Biological Conservation finds that, as one might suspect, smaller buildings cause fewer bird deaths than do bigger buildings. But the research team of about 60 — including three co-authors with the University of Washington — also found that larger buildings in rural areas pose a greater threat to birds than if those same-sized buildings were located in an urban area.
Lead author of the paper is Stephen B. Hager, professor of biology at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Co-author Karen Dyson, an urban design and planning doctoral candidate in the UW College of Built Environments helped collect bird-collision data and assisted in editing the paper, along with UW alumni Anqi Chen and Carolyn Foster.
The research team monitored 300 buildings of varying size and environmental surroundings for bird mortality at 40 college and university campuses in North America in the autumn of 2014. This included six buildings on the UW’s Seattle campus. They designed a standardized monitoring protocol so that the field crews documented bird mortality uniformly. In all, they documented 324 bird carcasses of 41 species. At each site, somewhere between zero and 34 birds met their feathery demise.
“Consistent with previous studies, we found that building size had a strong positive effect on bird-window collision mortality,” Hager and team wrote in a statement about the continent-wide research. “But the strength of the effect on mortality depended on regional urbanization.”
Why is that? The researchers think it might be related to how birds select habitats during migration, and differences in bird behavior between urban and rural populations. For ...

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Tribe Baseball Receives ABCA Academic Award

College of William & Mary

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – The William & Mary baseball team received recognition for its hard work in the classroom after being honored with the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Team Academic Excellence Award. The distinction acknowledges teams coached by ABCA members that posted a GPA over 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for the 2016-17 academic year. The Tribe was one of 38 Division I programs, the only D-I school in the state of Virginia and one of two CAA teams (UNCW) to gain the praise. In total, 220 programs were recognized with the academic award, including 69 high school programs and 60 teams from NCAA Div. III. 
Leading the way for W&M in the realm of academics this year was senior Ryder Miconi and junior Ryan Hall. In addition to picking up his second CAA All-Academic nod, Miconi repeated as the conference's Baseball Scholar Athlete of the Year. Furthermore, Hall garnered CoSIDA Academic All-District laurels as a finance major. 
The ABCA has a long tradition of recognizing the achievements of baseball coaches and student-athletes. The ABCA/Rawlings All-America Teams are the nation's oldest, founded in 1949, and the ABCA's awards program also includes the ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Awards, the ABCA/Diamond Regional & National Coaches of the Year and several other major awards such as the ABCA Hall of Fame and the Ethics in Coaching Award. Print Friendly Version


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Engineering Complex Reopens After Infrastructure Upgrade

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Boise State University’s Engineering Building, Micron Engineering Building and Harry W. Morrison Laboratory will reopen to full function and general occupancy at noon on Friday, July 21. The infrastructure upgrade project on each of the three buildings is now complete.



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Pecknold Learns from World Championships Experience

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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 Trustees Amend Action on Reserves | News

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Indirect cost recovery funding from University of Wyoming faculty research grants will remain with academic units, following action by the UW Board of Trustees today (Thursday).
Meeting in Rock Springs, the board revisited its June action relating to the university’s unspent cash balances, ensuring that indirect cost funding from research grants remains available for use by UW faculty members. The action came at the recommendation of the UW administration.
“We appreciate the board’s effort to address our concerns and those of our faculty members regarding indirect costs related to research funding,” President Laurie Nichols says. “This action resolves any questions about the status of this important funding for the faculty’s research activities.”
“We are grateful that the board recognized that the faculty entrepreneurial and research activities supported by these funds directly enhances the education and research opportunities for UW students,” Faculty Senate Chair Michael Barker says.
In approving the university’s budget for the 2017-18 fiscal year, the Board of Trustees in June took a centralized approach to UW’s reserve funds. The FY 2018 budget process is the first under UW’s new fiscal management system, which has given the board and administration a more complete look at the university’s finances, including significant unspent cash balances among various UW units.
In essence, the board voted in June to move 80 percent of campus units’ unspent cash balances into centralized reserves, leaving the other 20 percent proportionally in the accounts of those units.
The board’s vote today distinguishes a total of $15.05 million in indirect cost recovery funding from UW operating reserves.
Separately, the board voted to move additional unspent cash balances from the 2016-17 fiscal year into the specific reserve accounts that had been established previously. It also added nearly $7 million to the unspent cash balances of the various units, lifting that total from $12.43 million to $19.11 million.
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Razorback Football Fan Day Scheduled for Aug. 12

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Arkansas football head coach Bret Bielema and players will host the Razorbacks' annual Fan Day presented by Pepsi on Saturday, Aug. 12. The event will be open to the public and free.

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Exploring Social Entrepreneurship While Climbing Mountains in Norway

American University News


AU Students in front of NHH. Credit: Siri Terjesen
For two weeks this summer, the undergraduate course MGMT-396: Non-profit and Social Entrepreneurship was taught like a graduate-level seminar.
From June 19-30, Dr. Siri Terjesen, Associate Professor of Management and Interim Director of the AU Center for Innovation, brought eight AU undergraduate students to the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Bergen, Norway, for a two-week intensive session.
Of the 25 students who participated (who were from ten countries and universities all over the world), AU’s cohort represented the only undergraduates—the rest were postgraduate students pursuing master’s degrees.
“It was a neat stretch for our AU students,” Terjesen says. “They really rose to the challenge.”
Many AU students were also pursuing majors other than business. “It was a very steep learning curve,” says Victoria Holton, a rising junior studying international relations. “But I enjoyed it.”
Learn. Climb Mountains. Repeat.
Certainly, the opportunity to visit Norway was a good motivator for the students to participate in the program.
David Peters, CLEG ’19, was excited to visit the country for the first time, particularly since it’s where much of his family is from, “Most days I would go for a hike up one of the seven mountains surrounding Bergen,” he said. “Since it stays light out well past 10 o’clock, there was plenty of time to do longer hikes without fear of it getting dark.”
The students also regularly played pick-up soccer games with the other participants, played cards in the dormitories, and explored other parts of Bergen and the surrounding areas.
But that was only after class ended each day. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with an hour break for lunch, the students were busy with their studies. Terjesen and her co-professor Bram Timmermans, Associate Professor at NHH, lectured on topics like the ethics of social entrepreneurship and how ...

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Teaching Tomorrow’s Leaders

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ALBANY, N.Y. (July 24, 2017) – Leaders in higher education, whether department directors, student affairs coordinators, academic advisors, athletic directors or policymakers, are in demand.
UAlbany’s School of Education has launched a new Master of Science in Higher Education to strengthen the leadership pipeline for the more than 30 colleges and universities in the Albany area and beyond. The degree is designed to prepare students to lead within college and university settings, and is offered through the Department of Educational Policy & Leadership (EPL).
“Colleges and universities are a national resource, yet face tremendous challenges. We need great leaders in higher education and UAlbany is proud to offer a cutting-edge program that combines theory and practice to prepare the next generation of college leaders,” said Interim President James Stellar.
The University at Albany was one of the first SUNY campuses and the first in the area to offer courses in higher education, and has been educating leaders in the Capital Region and beyond for more than 40 years. Previously, students could concentrate in higher education within the MS in Educational Administration and Policy Studies. Now, prospective students have a degree targeted precisely to their career goals.
“Creating a standalone degree program better prepares students for their future careers and sends a clearer signal to the employers that graduates have gained the necessary knowledge and skills to be effective managers and leaders in the higher education workforce,” said Jason E. Lane, chair of EPL and former senior associate vice chancellor of the SUNY system. “We look forward to working with other institutions in the region to support the preparation of their next generation of leaders.”
“With more than 30 colleges and universities in the Capital District, the Albany area is an ideal location to learn about higher education and to launch a career,” said Professor Susan D. Phillips, a faculty member in the program, former UAlbany ...

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Business faculty research aided by Dean’s Excellence Fund

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Five College of Business faculty members received more than $100,000 in one-year grants for research in the 2016-17 academic year that addresses significant societal problems and improve the human condition.
The third annual Dean’s Excellence Fund awarded grants to research projects that are led by business school faculty, but collaboration across departments and colleges is encouraged.
“The Dean’s Excellence Fund is aimed at supporting research that has the potential to bring national prominence to Clemson University,” said Bobby McCormick, College of Business dean. “The ideal outcome would be for this research to result in external funding, significant awards, or multi-year projects that ultimately would benefit the university and those areas of study affected by the research.”
Faculty receiving grants and their research areas, include:
– Daniel Greene, assistant professor, finance. Daniel’s research examines how CEOs are involved in the selection of board members and how that influences a range of outcomes including compensation, CEO turnover, company financial policies, etc.
– Sergey Mityakov, associate professor, economics. Sergey’s research examines the role of banks in offshore operations, money laundering and tax evasion activities, and more generally, in other types of firm-level fraud.
– Lily Shen, assistant professor, finance. Lily has done extensive research on shale gas extraction and the impact fracking has on housing prices. The research looks at the environmental impact and the economic benefits the process brings in the form of jobs, wages and external investments.
– Heshan Sun, associate professor, management. A management information systems expert, Heshan’s research probes human-computer interaction, business analytics, and trust in e-commerce. In this research, he studies how a multi-party privacy control system for collaborative data sharing on social networks will combat the negative consequences of habitual trust.
–   Blerina Bela Zykai, assistant professor, finance. Blerina’s research centers on investments, institutional investors and marketing efficiency. This research examines institutional investor trades in mutual funds ...

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GSS Student Attends G7 University Summit Alongside Fordham Provost

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Sandy Soler, a student at the Graduate School of Social Service (GSS), was selected by the G7 organizing committee to attend the G7 University summit in Udine, Italy. Held from June 29 to 30, the summit focused on sustainability in higher education. Soler was one of a select group of students who attended the distinguished meeting. Stephen Freedman, Ph.D., provost of Fordham University, was a speaker at the summit and served on a panel about global citizenship.







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

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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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Montgomery College Professor of Psychology talks about Twitter Fueled Anxiety

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Category: FeaturesPublished: Jul 20 2017 12:00AM Montgomery College Professor Azadeh Aalai talked with The Atlantic about how social media comparison leads to anxiety. Read how Twitter fuels anxiety here. Related MediaTheAtlantic.png

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U.S. Presidents with College Education: From Learners to Leaders

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Earning a college degree is not a requirement to become America’s commander-in-chief, but history tells us that the vast majority U.S. Presidents valued a college education.Throughout history 34 out of 44 presidents earned at least a college degree – and 32 percent of those earned an advanced degree. But did education contribute to their leadership ability? Consider what President John F. Kennedy once said: “Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.” We live in a nation where we have the opportunity to gain an advanced education to better our lives. By choosing to invest in your education you have the ability to create positive changes in your life, your career and one day, maybe even your nation. Below is a list of U.S. presidents and the college education they received, including the schools they attended and the academic degrees they received. These leaders helped shape the future for our nation. Perhaps their academic achievements will inspire you to become a leader in the future. An Ordered List of our President’s College Education 1. George Washington, 1789 - 1797 College Attended: College of William and MaryDegree Earned: Surveyor's License 2. John Adams, 1797 - 1801 College Attended: Harvard UniversityDegrees Earned: Bachelor’s degree; Master’s degree 3. Thomas Jefferson, 1801 - 1809 College Attended: College of William and MaryDegree Earned:  Bachelor’s degree 4. James Madison, 1809 - 1817 College Attended: Princeton UniversityDegree Earned: Bachelor’s degree 5. James Monroe, 1817 - 1825 College Attended: College of William and MaryDegree Earned: Bachelor’s degree 6. John Quincy Adams, 1825 - 1829 College Attended: Harvard UniversityDegrees Earned: Bachelor’s degree; Master’s degree 7. Andrew Jackson, 1829 - 1837 College Attended: None 8. Martin Van Buren, 1837 - 1841 College Attended: None 9. William Henry Harrison, 1841 Colleges Attended: Hampden-Sydney College; University of PennsylvaniaDegree ...

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President Crawford touts Miami's entrepreneurial mindset on Capitol Hill

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President Greg Crawford testifies before U.S. House Committee on Small Business.
Miami University President Greg Crawford testified before the U.S. House Committee on Small Business Wednesday, July 19, on Capitol Hill, championing higher education’s vital role in entrepreneurship development.
Chaired by U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, the committee is exploring potential policy options to help spur small business growth.
During his testimony, Crawford described how universities cultivate business and civic leaders using an entrepreneurial thought process in all majors.
He provided numerous examples of how Miami embraces entrepreneurship by encouraging students to think creatively and learn through trial and error.
Read his full statement online.
Watch the committee’s session online.


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How BCRA 2.0 would impact enrollee costs, according to your age and income

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On July 12, we examined how the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA) discussion draft would affect people’s total spending on covered health care services, with the goal of providing a full picture of health care costs for consumers purchasing coverage in the individual market under the BCRA as opposed to current law. The analysis that follows updates this examination for the revised legislation made public on July 20 (“BCRA 2.0”).
There are two primary differences between the two versions of the BCRA that impact this analysis:
More money is dedicated to the law’s Patient and State Stability Fund. Specifically, BCRA 2.0 allocates an additional $15.2 billion for this purpose in 2026, the relevant year for our analysis. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that some of this money would be dedicated to reducing premiums, some to reducing enrollees’ out-of-pocket spending, and some to “other” purposes. (Our analysis accounts for the resulting reductions in premiums. Unfortunately, due to data limitations, we cannot account for the reductions in out-of-pocket spending, but accounting for these amounts would not change our qualitative findings.)
BCRA 2.0 newly allows health savings accounts (HSAs) to be used to pay health insurance premiums in the individual market.
As in our earlier analysis, we find that the BCRA 2.0 would increase total costs for lower-income enrollees in all age groups. For higher-income enrollees, older enrollees would generally experience increases in costs, while younger enrollees would experience reductions in costs, though these reductions would be smaller than the increases experienced by older enrollees.


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To construct estimates of the total health care costs (premiums plus out-of-pocket cost-sharing) that an individual market enrollee at different ages and incomes could expect to pay in 2026, on average, under the BCRA and under current law, we rely upon CBO’s estimates of the BCRA. We focus on the year 2026 because CBO provides estimates in that year for individual ...

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Health Physics Students and Alumni Attend Annual HPS Meeting in Raleigh, N.C.

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The Illinois Tech Master of Health Physics program had a strong presence at the 62nd Annual Health Physics Society (HPS) Meeting, which took place July 9-14 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Students, alumni, past and present board members, and program administrators attended the tradeshow, at which Illinois Tech had a booth, and a number of students and alumni gave talks and volunteered at the conference. Illinois Tech personnel also met with several prospective students. S.Y. Chen, director of the Master of Health Physics program, hosted a reception for students and alumni, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the program.
The Health Physics Society is a professional organization whose mission is excellence in the science and practice of radiation safety. There are nearly 5,000 HPS members representing all scientific and technical areas related to radiation safety, including academia, government, medicine, research and development, analytical services, consulting, and industry.
To learn more about the Master of Health Physics program at Illinois Tech, visit the website.




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Advising and Registration Sessions Through Aug. 21

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By Mike McKissackAdvising and Registration sessions for new students are now open at College of DuPage
through Monday, Aug. 21.“Enacted to address the needs of our student population, we’ve renamed and updated
our new student registration program to more accurately reflect what the sessions
entail,” said Associate Dean of Counseling and Advising Services Nathania Montes.
“We are also offering multiple daytime, evening and additional weekend opportunities
for new students to participate.”Held at all COD locations, these free three-hour sessions enable students to make
a smooth transition into attending College of DuPage, meet one-on-one with counselors,
select upcoming classes and build a schedule in the myACCESS student management system.
The session will also include a student success presentation, an instruction session
on student technology tools at COD, assistance with payment arrangements and the opportunity
to connect with other COD students.All new and transfer students are required to attend a session. Sessions are limited
in size and seats fill quickly. To register, call Campus Central at (630) 942-3000
or email campuscentral@cod.edu. Click here to view more information about these sessions.



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Larry Kanarek '76 departs from Brandeis Board of Trustees

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Larry Kanarek '76 departs from Brandeis Board of TrusteesJuly 19, 2017Larry Kanarek '76, chair of the Brandeis Board of Trustees, announced that he is stepping down from the Brandeis Board, effective July 18.In a note to his fellow trustees, Kanarek wrote, “The past two years have been an exceptionally rewarding time for me at Brandeis, first leading the presidential search committee that resulted in the hiring of a new president, and then as your chair helping Ron settle into and become familiar with Brandeis, while working with you to bring about changes in the board’s structure, the issues on which it focuses and how it works together. This required a nearly full-time commitment on my part during which I put aside some other significant personal and professional commitments. Now that Ron is fully integrated into Brandeis and with a very successful first year under his belt, I feel the time is right to step down. I will of course remain close to Brandeis and continue to be one of this great university’s most committed alumni. I hope to find other ways to contribute to Brandeis, which changed the arc of my life.
“I am confident that with your leadership and Ron’s, Brandeis’ best days lie ahead,” Kanarek added.
A board member since 2010, Kanarek has been deeply involved with the university for decades. In the 1990s, he led the development of the strategic plan for the Brandeis International Business School, and sat on its Board of Overseers. He led the fundraising campaign to establish an endowed scholarship in honor of economics professor Barney Schwalberg, and supported the Joel Friedland ’76 Endowed Study Abroad Scholarship, among other initiatives.
“I have appreciated being able to work so closely with Larry during my first year at Brandeis,” said President Ron Liebowitz. “Larry’s love for this university is both palpable and inspiring. I ...

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Moody’s Investors Service Upgrades Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Credit Rating

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Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) has increased its credit rating for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University from Baa1 to A3. This investment-grade rating is the highest underlying rating the University has received from Moody’s.
Moody’s announced the increase on July 18, 2017, citing the University’s large and growing scale of operations and consistently positive operating performance as well as strong fiscal management.
“We are extremely pleased to receive the upgraded rating from Moody’s,” said Mori Hosseini, Chair of Embry-Riddle’s Board of Trustees. “This upgrade is a result of the commitment of the Embry-Riddle Board and Administration to being good stewards of the University’s financial resources. A consistent focus on operating efficiencies and strategic investments in our programs and our facilities has clearly strengthened the University.”
Dr. P. Barry Butler, President of Embry-Riddle, noted that the Moody’s report commented on the University’s disciplined financial and capital planning. “The Board and the Administration work very closely together in these two key areas,” he said. “Students are the ultimate benefactors of the increased rating. Now, the University will have access to even lower interest rates, which will allow us to continue to focus on affordability and our graduates’ return on investment.”
Moody’s further indicated that the University’s market niche as the leading provider of aviation and aerospace technology-related education was a key strength.  
“The rating is also indicative of the University’s strategic positioning,” Dr. Butler added. Further, “our focus on relevant, STEM-related degrees has contributed to increased enrollment.”
The announcement by Moody’s can be found online.

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Environmentally Responsible: University Hall Earns LEED Gold Status

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University Hall Is UMass Boston’s Second Building to Earn High Marks for SustainabilityThe University of Massachusetts Boston is now home to two LEED Gold-certified buildings. University Hall has joined the Integrated Sciences Complex in receiving high marks for environmental responsibility.

The U.S. Green Building Council rates buildings according to LEED criteria (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), a variety of environmental responsibility measures including use of energy efficient building design and materials, renewable energy sources and technologies, and recyclable and locally available materials. LEED-certified buildings use less water and energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There are four levels of LEED status: certified, silver, gold, and platinum.

UMass Boston has a strong track record of green efforts. In April, MassRIDES, MassCommute, and MassDOT gave UMass Boston a Pinnacle Award at the annual Excellence in Commuter Options (ECO) Awards. The Pinnacle Award is the highest honor given at the ceremony.

In 2015, UMass Boston received a Leading By Example Award from Governor Charlie Baker’s office, recognizing the university’s efforts to create a sustainable and energy-efficient campus. UMass Boston has also been recognized nationally, appearing in The Princeton Review’s Green Colleges Guide for the past seven years.

About UMass BostonThe University of Massachusetts Boston is deeply rooted in the city's history, yet poised to address the challenges of the future. Recognized for innovative research, metropolitan Boston’s public university offers its diverse student population both an intimate learning environment and the rich experience of a great American city. UMass Boston’s 11 colleges and graduate schools serve nearly 17,000 students while engaging local and global constituents through academic programs, research centers, and public service. To learn more, visit www.umb.edu.


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WPI Hall of Fame Ticket Information - Induction Slated for Friday, September 8th

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Jul 20, 2017





WORCESTER -- The WPI Athletic Department, Poly Club, and Hall of Fame Selection Committee have revealed the inductees for its 35th class, which will be inducted as part of Homecoming Weekend on Friday, September 8th.
The inductees (pictured left to right) include:Jason Benoit '88 - WrestlingNick Fluet '01 - FootballLee C. Conroy (Helberg) '05 - Women's Basketball and VolleyballNickie Hunter '93 - Field Hockey and SoftballF. David Ploss '70 - RowingMalcolm MacPherson - Men's Soccer
Additionally, the Frank C. Harrington - Class of 1898 - Award will be presented at the first time at the Hall of Fame dinner after being handed out previously at the annual athletic banquet.  The 2017 recipient is former head athletic trainer Dave Abraham.  The Harrington Award is presented to a distinguished contributor to WPI Athletics over a significant period of time.
The evening begins with cocktails at 6pm with dinner beginning promptly 7pm in the Campus Center Odeum.  For ticket information, please contact Pam Griffin (griff33@wpi.edu - 508-831-5873) by Friday, August 18th.  Tickets are $50 a person.  Invitations will be sent out in the next few weeks. You can also RSVP by visiting http://wpi.imodules.com/athleticshof2017.
Saturday will be a busy day with three teams in action at Alumni Stadium.  Field Hockey begins the day at 10am versus Elms while Football meets RPI for the Transit Trophy at 1pm and Women's Soccer faces Fitchburg State at 5pm.
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Scientists create first laboratory generation of high-energy shock waves that accelerate astrophysical particles

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Throughout the universe, supersonic shock waves propel cosmic rays and supernova particles to velocities near the speed of light. The most high-energy of these astrophysical shocks occur too far outside the solar system to be studied in detail and have long puzzled astrophysicists. Shocks closer to Earth can be detected by spacecraft, but they fly by too quickly to probe a wave’s formation. Now a team of scientists has generated the first high-energy shock waves in a laboratory setting, opening the door to new understanding of these mysterious processes.

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Physics' Brian Swingle Co-authors Review of Two Papers on Information "Scrambling" in Many-Body Quantum Systems - Physics

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Column: Keeping your location private a snap with Snap Map

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Snapchat’s latest update, Snap Map, introduced snappers to a new feature: a map that allows users to see the exact location of their friends and family. This addition immediately received backlash from the public regarding its safety and purpose. Despite the worries surrounding Snap Map, I’m here to tell you it’s not as scary as people are making it sound.

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Harpist Florence Sitruk appointed to IU Jacobs School of Music faculty

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Harpist Florence Sitruk appointed to IU Jacobs School of Music facultyFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 19, 2017BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of harpist Florence Sitruk as professor of music in harp, effective Aug. 1.
“Florence has built an international profile as one of the world’s finest harpists and pedagogues” said Gwyn Richards, David Henry Jacobs Bicentennial Dean. “She champions contemporary repertoire for the instrument, seeks new repertoire wherever it can be found and looks for collaborative opportunities at every turn. Her deeply engaging personality draws people to her, giving her the opportunity to win them over to music and her beloved instrument. People feel her passion and commitment, audiences her unique voice and students her nurturing and caring demeanor.”
Born to French-German parents, Sitruk took her first harp lesson at age six, with early studies at Stuttgart Music University and in Paris with Marielle Nordmann. Sitruk earned her Artist Diploma from the Jacobs School of Music, studying with Susann McDonald, whom she calls decisive for her musical development, as well as with pianist György Sebök, who predicted she would become “one of the finest artists in her field.” Today, she is acclaimed internationally for her musical language, intelligent programming and pedagogic passion.
“I am delighted to welcome Florence Sitruk to the Harp Department faculty at the Jacobs School,” said Elzbieta Szmyt, chair of the department. “I have known Florence for many years, and she is a leading force in the harp world. A graduate of Jacobs herself, not only is she a phenomenal harpist, she is a truly inspiring harp pedagogue. Her engaging personality and collegial attitude make her successful in working with all levels of students and collaborating with other musicians. I cannot think of a better addition to our faculty to continue the great legacy of our department, established ...

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Cash for carbon: A cost-effective way to reduce deforestation

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[embedded content]EVANSTON - A new Northwestern University study suggests that paying people to conserve their trees could be a highly cost-effective way to reduce deforestation and carbon emissions and should be a key part of the global strategy to fight climate change.The study, led by Seema Jayachandran, associate professor of economics in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern, sought to evaluate how effective “Payments for Ecosystems” (PES) is at reducing deforestation. PES is a program in which people are given financial rewards for pro-environment behaviors.In the study, people who owned forest in 60 villages in western Uganda were given cash rewards if they kept their forest intact and refrained from deforesting it. Forest owners in another 61 villages in western Uganda received no monetary incentives.“We found that the program had very large impacts on forest cover,” said Jayachandran, also a faculty fellow with Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research. “In the villages without the program, 9 percent of the tree cover that was in place at the start of the study was gone by the end of it, two years later. In the villages with the PES program, there was 4 to 5 percent tree loss. In other words, there was still deforestation, but much less of it.“It wasn’t the case that only forest owners who were planning to conserve anyway enrolled,” Jayachandran said. “The payments changed people’s behavior and prompted them to conserve. And we didn’t find any evidence that they simply shifted their tree-cutting elsewhere. This truly was a net increase in forest cover in the study region.”The first of its kind, the study applies the method of field experiments, or randomized controlled trials, to the question of how effective PES is. The study design helped the researchers accurately measure the averted deforestation caused by the program.Jayachandran said the cost ...

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Edes Prize winner explores themes of empathy through multimedia project

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Theater director, performer and visual artist dado gyure, MFA’14, is this year’s recipient of the Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists, for her multimedia project based on a short story by Hans Christian Andersen.The Edes Prize provides a one-year, $30,000 award to a recent alum from four universities, including the University of Chicago, and helps provide an emerging artist the means to substantially advance their practice.













Dado’s winning entry is based on a 2014 live sculptural installation she staged at the Gray Center Lab. It was part of her MFA thesis project focused on The Little Match Girl Passion, a 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning composition based on the Andersen story by composer David Lang. The original short story, first published in 1845, details a poor young girl selling matches on New Year’s Eve.

“In these wildly politically charged times, I am interested in revising the Match Girl project in order to closely examine the shifting terrain of American empathy,” dado wrote in her project proposal to the jury of the Edes Prize.

The proposal stood out for its ambitious scope and for the “wildness of her imagination,” according to Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, assistant professor in Theater & Performance Studies, who sat on the Edes Prize selection committee. 

“We’re excited to see where she takes this project and where this project will take her, particularly in terms of opening up new processes of creating work and new relationships with collaborators, spaces and audiences,” Danzig said.

Dado is excited to utilize the prize to hire professional vocalists and musicians, but also to dig deeper into the questions of human behavior at the center of her performance piece.

“I’m interested in why things are valuable in a given moment,” dado said. “What really drives Match Girl is that there’s systemic empathy behavior that I need to understand and somehow ...

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Free Concert Tonight at Somerville’s Assembly Row

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Chris Kazarian, Griffin Robillard to play Baxter Park Amphitheater
Head over to Somerville tonight for a free outdoor concert, courtesy of Assembly Row Live Music Thursdays series. Tonight’s event features performances by local musicians Griffin Robillard and Chris Kazarian at the Baxter Riverfront Park Amphitheater, pictured above. Photo courtesy of Federal Realty Investment Trust
Most people know of Assembly Row in Somerville as a shopping destination featuring dozens of retailers, including J. Crew Factory, Adidas, Loft Outlet, and Nike Factory Store, as well as the home to Legoland Discovery Center. But on select Thursday nights from May through August, the complex offers a series of free, outdoor concerts titled Assembly Row Live Music Thursdays at the adjacent Baxter Riverfront Park Amphitheater overlooking the Mystic River.
Tonight’s event, featuring local musicians Chris Kazarian and Griffin Robillard, kicks off at 6 p.m. Robillard describes his sound as “folk-tinged indie rock that blends 90s alt-folk with the bigness and theatricality of 70s rock.” A native of Minneapolis, he plans to release his first studio album Cracks in the Ceiling, in September. Robillard says he fashioned the record “between stints in his dad’s Minneapolis basement, Copenhagen, and Boston,” where he now lives.
Kazarian, a Berklee College of Music alum who has performed with a number of local bands, brings his solo acoustic act to the stage tonight. He says he plans to perform a set of original songs that he describes as “poems fused with sounds meant to reflect on what it is to be me.”
In addition to its numerous retail offerings, Assembly Row offers nearly two dozen al fresco, local, and one-of-a-kind eating options, so plan to arrive in time for a pre-concert libation or stay after for a post-concert meal. You can find a complete list of restaurants here.
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Georgia College School of Nursing receives nearly $1.4 million in external funding to aid medically underserved communities

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The Georgia College School of Nursing has secured nearly $1.4 million in external federal funding from Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) opportunity from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The funding will create two vital academic partnerships between the university and the Georgia Department of Public Health (GDPH) and First Choice Primary Care, a nonprofit community health center operating in Macon and Warner Robins. The grant goes toward the program’s mission to prepare nurse practitioners for service in rural and medically underserved communities across the state. The funding also marks the largest single faculty grant awarded at the university. “Most of the health care shortages are outside of Atlanta. Atlanta has an abundance of doctors, and then you get to the rural parts where there might be only one provider in the whole county,” said Dr. Sallie Coke, FNP-BC, PNP-BC, professor and interim associate dean of the College of Health Sciences. “This is where nurse practitioners can fill the gap.”
Coke said the shortages are widespread across the state, with 129 of the 154 counties in health care shortages. These locations lack in mental health providers, primary providers, pediatric providers and more.
“We are in the perfect location to help communities who are experiencing these shortages. As part of our graduate program, we only accept students from within the state of Georgia and the School of Nursing’s focus is on helping these rural and medically underserved populations,” said Coke. “We want the students to go back into the communities that they are from and be able to provide health care.”
The grant will enable a practice opportunity for both GC nurse practitioner students and GDPH nurses, allow training of nurse practitioner students by facilitating preceptorships with Public Health nurse practitioners throughout the state and allow GDPH nurses to advance their careers by providing full traineeships to attend Georgia ...

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Urban Challenges are Creating Smart Cities

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Urban Challenges are Creating Smart Cities






July 20, 2017
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A majority of the world's people now live in urban areas, like Atlanta, creating both challenges and opportunities for "Smart Cities." (Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech)





Cities have been around for thousands of years, so urbanization is hardly a new phenomenon — but it’s happening now at an unprecedented pace.

In 1950 about 30 percent of the world’s population lived in cities, a number that shot up to nearly 55 percent by 2016 and is expected to hit 60 percent by 2030, according to United Nations statistics. This dramatic growth brings challenges on a variety of fronts, transforming “smart cities” from a catchy phrase into a critical endeavor.

Georgia Tech has been intensifying its smart cities initiative, including membership in the national MetroLab Network and the launch of a new faculty council with members from more than a dozen university units.

“Smart cities is a highly complex area, encompassing everything from resiliency and environmental sustainability to wellness and quality of life,” said Elizabeth Mynatt, executive director of Georgia Tech’s Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) and distinguished professor in the College of Computing, who is co-chairing the new council. “Although Georgia Tech has been working in this area for some time, we’re organizing research so we can be more holistic and have combined impact.”

“Instead of discrete projects, we’re moving into a programmatic approach,” agreed Jennifer Clark, associate professor of public policy and director of Georgia Tech’s Center for Urban Innovation. “Smart cities research touches on everything from computing and engineering to the social sciences. It’s a different way of thinking about technology — not just in the private sector but also the public sector — so we make cities more efficient and economically competitive places.”

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Bard in the Quad at OSU to present ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona’ for 12th season

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University Theatre’s Bard in the Quad returns for its 12th season this August with a western-themed production of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, “Two Gentlemen of Verona.”
Performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. nightly from Aug. 3-6 and Aug. 10-13 in the Memorial Union Quad, 2501 S.W. Jefferson Way, Corvallis. 
Bard in the Quad performances are held outside and no seating is provided, creating a fun, laid-back atmosphere. Attendees are encouraged to bring low lawn chairs and/or blankets, warm clothing and food if desired. Seating begins at 6:30 p.m. and no one will be seated prior to that time.
“Two Gentlemen of Verona” is a romantic comedy about Proteus and Valentine, two inseparable friends living happily in Verona. When Valentine seeks his fortune in Milan and ends up leaving Proteus behind, promises are broken as Proteus finds himself suddenly infatuated with Valentine’s love-interest, Sylvia. 
With a new setting in the American Wild West and music presented by Miss Kitty and the Barn Bangerz, the story of action, disguise, mistaken identity, and a scene-stealing dog unfolds.
This summer’s production will feature adoptable dogs playing the role of a senior dog named Crab for each performance. The dogs will be provided by Heartland Humane Society and Heartland volunteers will join the cast and crew in promoting the organization’s work caring for homeless animals in Benton County. 
The cast features Oregon State University students, staff, alumni and community members including: Stuart Ashenbrenner as Valentine; Sedona Garcia as Sylvia; Forest Gilpin as Thurio; Matt Holland as Launce; Emily Peters as Miss Kitty; Andrew Schiek as Speed; Cheyenne Dickey as Antonia/Bandit; Matt Easdale as Bandit; Genesis Hansen as Julia; Kay Keegan as musician; Grace Klinges as Lucetta/Bandit; Mac Powers as musician; Mike Stephens as Duke of Milan; and Kyle Stockdall as Proteus.
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