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Riverside–Head Volleyball Coach Michelle Patton-Coleman announced the 2017 UC Riverside Volleyball schedule today.The 2017 non-conference slate of matches includes matches against three NCAA Tournament teams, and the first tournament at UCR in 10 years."Our pre-season schedule is exciting because it will be our first time hosting a tournament at UCR in about a decade," said Patton-Coleman. "Playing in front of our home crowd is always fun."The Alumni Match takes place Sunday, August 20 at 1:30 pm in the SRC Arena, and is free to attend.On August 25 at noon, the season officially gets underway against Fairleigh Dickinson in the Titan Tournament just a short drive away in Fullerton.Just a week later, the Highlanders play host to matches in the Fullerton-UC Riverside Classic September 1-2.The Labor Day Weekend event is the first tournament at UCR since the UC Riverside Tournament in 2007, which was held in the Physical Education building on campus.The Blue and Gold open the Fullerton-UC Riverside Classic against Chicago State in the SRC Arena at noon on Friday, September 1st, and close out the event against NCAA Tournament participant and MEAC champion Howard University on Saturday at 8 pm.
2017 Fullerton-UC Riverside Classic SRC Arena schedule:
Friday, September 1
Chicago State vs. UC Riverside, 12 pm PT
San Jose State vs. UC Riverside, 5 pm PT
Saturday, September 2
Chicago State vs. Southern Utah, 1 pm PT
Howard University vs. UC Riverside, 8 pm PT
Coach Patton-Coleman and company then head to Lubbock, TX for the Texas Tech Tournament, where they'll battle WAC champion UT Rio Grande Valley on Friday, September 8 at 8 am PT.The non-conference season concludes at the Denver Invitational September 15-16. The Highlanders take on the Summit League champion Pioneers in their second of three matches in the tournament."Playing quality matches in Texas and Denver gives our young team the valuable experience of battling in hostile environments, which will help us ...
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2017 Volleyball Schedule Features First Home Tournament In 10 Years, And Four NCAA Tournament Teams
Reducing Caltech's Carbon Footprint
Caltech sustainability efforts paid dividends in fiscal year 2016, cutting water use by 11 percent and trash generation by 5 percent while increasing hazardous material recycling by 11 percent compared to the previous year.Those highlights, reported by Caltech Sustainability in its "Annual Sustainability Update 2016" report were among dozens of metrics showing the Institute's progress in reducing its environmental footprint. The report also highlighted areas where improvements could be made, such as increasing carpool usage and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.John Onderdonk, director of sustainability programs, says that "progress in the last year has been steady and really strengthened long-term positive trends."For example, he notes that the Institute has made significant progress in reducing demand for and increasing efficiency in energy and water use. Recent achievements in those areas have included: installation of a direct chilled-water loop to connect the campus's central and satellite utility plants to improve cooling in campus buildings; installing dedicated tree irrigation systems; installing low-flow urinals campus-wide; overhauling the 10-megawatt gas turbine in the central plant to bolster efficiency; and upgrading fuel cells providing 2 megawatts to boost their efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.Here are some other highlights from the report:Caltech now derives 88 percent of its own power needs from on-campus sources—and those on-campus sources are 15 percent cleaner than power provided by the municipal utility;Water features including the Gene Pool and the Watson Lab fountain have been outfitted with systems to use recycled water from air conditioning condensation, saving as much as 200,000 gallons of water annually;The campus now recycles 34 percent of its waste, a 3 percent increase over the previous year;In 2016, the campus installed 61 Level 2 electric vehicle charging stations around campus; the stations are free to use for campus electric vehicle owners as part of a research project led by Steven Low, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, to determine how the Institute can ...
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Holographic Imaging Could Be Used to Detect Signs of Life in Space
We may be capable of finding microbes in space—but if we did, could we tell what they were, and that they were alive?This month the journal Astrobiology is publishing a special issue dedicated to the search for signs of life on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. Included is a paper from Caltech's Jay Nadeau and colleagues offering evidence that a technique called digital holographic microscopy, which uses lasers to record 3-D images, may be our best bet for spotting extraterrestrial microbes.No probe since NASA's Viking program in the late 1970s has explicitly searched for extraterrestrial life—that is, for actual living organisms. Rather, the focus has been on finding water. Enceladus has a lot of water—an ocean's worth, hidden beneath an icy shell that coats the entire surface. But even if life does exist there in some microbial fashion, the difficulty for scientists on Earth is identifying those microbes from 790 million miles away."It's harder to distinguish between a microbe and a speck of dust than you'd think," says Nadeau, research professor of medical engineering and aerospace in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science. "You have to differentiate between Brownian motion, which is the random motion of matter, and the intentional, self-directed motion of a living organism."Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn, and is 100,000 times less massive than Earth. As such, Enceladus has an escape velocity—the minimum speed needed for an object on the moon to escape its surface—of just 239 meters per second. That is a fraction of Earth's, which is a little over 11,000 meters per second.[embedded content]Professor Jay Nadeau describes her lab's work and proposal to use new microscopes on spacecraft that could visit the icy moons of Enceladus (Saturn) and Europa (Jupiter) and to collect and search water samples for life.Enceladus's minuscule escape velocity allows for an ...
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A Virtual Revolution
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In Georges Seurat’s masterpiece, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” the artist used millions of dots of color to paint a scene of Parisians at a park along the banks of the River Seine. When it was exhibited for the first time in 1886, the technique — known as pointillism — was revolutionary and sparked a new artistic movement: Neo-Impressionism.Today, 131 years later, Laila Shereen Sakr, an assistant professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Film and Media Studies, is using billions of social media posts to create a revolutionary work of art. Using a program she developed — the R-Shief Media System, which has been collecting and analyzing social media posts since 2008 — she’s building a virtual reality (VR) world that gives form to those countless tweets.
“How can we create a cinematic VR production out of these tweets?” Sakr said. “Can we make a VR production that’s cinematic using real-time data? Social media in particular seemed very apt. We started thinking, ‘What would that cinematic world look like?’ ”
In the “2018 Arab Future Tripping VR Prototype” Sakr developed, that world looks like it’s from another universe. Her cyborg avatar VJ Um Amel — video jockey “mother of hope” in Arabic — moves through a landscape literally animated by tweets. Trees sprout from the ground, each one a virtual manifestation of an individual social media post.
“The shape of the tree is not random,” Sakr explained. “It’s shaped according to the data we’ve structured from our Twitter archive. I am approaching this world-building project using a mix of gaming, sculpture, design and cinematic production methodologies.”
The VR prototype, which was funded with a UCSB Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant, was fueled by 60,000 users who tweeted roughly half a million posts during the Women’s March in January. Developed with the help of her two graduate lab ...
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Ultrathin device harvests electricity from human motion
Vanderbilt News
by David Salisbury | Jul. 21, 2017, 9:19 AM | Want more research news? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter »
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Imagine slipping into a jacket, shirt or skirt that powers your cell phone, fitness tracker and other personal electronic devices as you walk, wave and even when you are sitting down.
A new, ultrathin energy harvesting system developed at Vanderbilt University’s Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory has the potential to do just that. Based on battery technology and made from layers of black phosphorus that are only a few atoms thick, the new device generates small amounts of electricity when it is bent or pressed even at the extremely low frequencies characteristic of human motion.
Transmission electron microscope image showing the ultrathin layers of black phosphorus used in the energy harvesting device An angstrom (Å) is about the width of a single atom and is one tenth of a nanometer (nm). (Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory / Vanderbilt)
“In the future, I expect that we will all become charging depots for our personal devices by pulling energy directly from our motions and the environment,” said Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Cary Pint, who directed the research.
The new energy harvesting system is described in a paper titled “Ultralow Frequency Electrochemical Mechanical Strain Energy Harvester using 2D Black Phosphorus Nanosheets” published XXX online by the journal ACS Energy Letters.
“This is timely and exciting research given the growth of wearable devices such as exoskeletons and smart clothing, which could potentially benefit from Dr. Pint’s advances in materials and energy harvesting,” observed Karl Zelik, assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt, an expert on the biomechanics of locomotion who did not participate in the device’s development.
Graduate student Kathleen Moyer holds up the guts of the ultrathin energy harvesting device in a glove box. It is so thin ...
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Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering Jerry Meldon Dies
Tufts Now All Stories
Jerry Meldon, an associate professor of chemical engineering and a Tufts faculty member since 1978, died on Tuesday when he drowned while swimming in a lake in North Carolina. He was 69.Jianmin Qu, dean of the School of Engineering, said Meldon was “a great asset to the university and had a profound impact on the students he taught throughout his 40-year career at Tufts. He will be greatly missed by many students, colleagues, alumni and staff.”
Meldon, who received the Henry and Madeline Fischer Award for engineering teacher of the year in 2010, was remembered by colleagues and former students as a brilliant instructor who knew his subject matter inside and out. Professor Kyongbum Lee, the chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, said Meldon was one of the few faculty members who could teach the whole discipline. “He sort of did it all,” he said.
At faculty meetings, Meldon would often advocate for giving students a strong foundation in chemical engineering basics before they could branch off into newer disciplines. Some of those courses, such as thermodynamics or fluid dynamics and heat transfer, were among the most challenging undergraduate courses at the school. But he was also empathetic, Lee said. “He used to go out of his way to give his students chances to do well.”
Beth Frasso, who worked with Meldon for 12 years as a department administrator, said Meldon always made time for students and was interested in their careers. “He would try to help people make contacts—I know that was important to him,” she said. She recalled him as a great storyteller, whether he was sharing tales of colorful colleagues or reminiscing about his days as a post doc in the physiology department at Odense University in Denmark. “Every now and then he would go to the Danish Pastry House and bring us a kringle,” Frasso ...
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Collective Bargaining - PBA
Events at UCF
The next collective bargaining session between the University of Central Florida and the Police Benevolent Association (PBA) will take place on Friday, July 21, 2017, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in UCF Human Resources - Innovation Center Suite 100.
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Politics PhD candidate named a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar
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Michael Wilson Becerril, a doctoral candidate in politics, has been named a 2017-18 Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar. He is one of only 12 scholars selected out of a pool of 115 applicants for this prestigious national dissertation fellowship that recognizes students working in peace and conflict studies.The fellowship is offered by the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent, nonpartisan Washington, D.C.-based organization established and funded by the U.S. Congress to promote international peace.
Wilson Becerril studies resource conflicts in Peru, where he has conducted long-term, immersive fieldwork in four gold mining communities. His project is titled, "Gold Mining in Peru: Everyday Violence and the Politics of Attention."
The fellowship will support Wilson Becerril's dissertation, which focuses on the processes through which conflicts become violent, as well as the dynamics that lead some individuals to eschew violence in the midst of conflict.
Wilson Becerril also just completed a research fellowship with the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, as well as a Ph.D. fellowship at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. He earned a B.A. in political science and international politics with minors in anthropology, peace studies, and history from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point in 2012; he is expected to graduate in June 2018.
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UW Daily – July 20, 2017
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On Campus
COL: Nature and family fun at Prairie Fest set July 29 at Gottfried Prairie (held at UW-Fond du Lac), Fond du Lac Reporter, July 19
COL: Upcoming Continuing Education offerings include Freezer Meals, youth camps, Hub City Times, July 18
COL: Thanks for support of UW-Manitowoc renovation (second headline), Op-ed, Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter, July 19
COL/STP: Attic hosts free theater workshop for high school students, Appleton Post-Crescent, July 19
EXT: Online class teaches parents about digital media and young children, WSAW, July 18
EXT: Lincoln County Fair provides opportunity to learn through 4-H projects, Wausau Daily Herald, July 19
EXT/MAD: Green County 4-Hers attend conference at UW-Madison, Independent Register, July 18
GRB: UW-Green Bay ‘snaps’ at its students, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 18
GRB: Wisconsin ninja (UWGB student) coaching at East TN camp, WBIR, July 17
GRB: Winchester explores Iroquoian culture (presented by UWGB alumus), Waupaca Now, July 19
MAD: Big Ideas at UW-Madison, Channel3000.com – WISC-TV3, July 20
MAD: UW-Madison chronicles campus community with #UWSummer, Capital Times, July 19
MAD: Man pleads guilty to 2016 sexual assault in his UW-Madison dorm while high on LSD, Wisconsin State Journal, July 20
MAD: Video of hit-and-run crash that killed UW-Madison student months later shown in court, Wisconsin State Journal, July 20
MAD: Former UW student pleads guilty to charges related to sexual assault, WISC-TV 3, July 19
MAD: New program aims to fill a rural doctor shortage, WKOW-TV 27, July 19
MIL: UWM grads find jobs at Milwaukee startups, Shepherd Express, July 18
MIL: Peck artists contribute to community-based art projects, Shepherd Express, July 18
State
National
House Republicans at odds with Trump’s proposed higher ed cuts, Washington Post, July 20
Loan program for black colleges struggles with oversight, repayment, Wall Street Journal, July 20
Why Aren’t Students Showing Up For College? NPR, July 17
Ted Mitchell will be the American Council on Education’s next president, Inside Higher Ed, July 20
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Campus Safety Enhanced with New Fire Ladder Truck
UConn Today
The UConn Fire Department’s ability to handle difficult fires, emergencies in high places, and other complex rescue calls is now being greatly enhanced with the addition of a modern ladder truck to its firefighting apparatus.
The new Tower 122 truck was delivered to the University this spring, and went into service July 7 after the necessary practice runs were completed and firefighters were trained in its use. The new vehicle replaces the department’s 1994 truck, which had outlived its 20-year service life and was increasingly out of service in need of costly repairs.
“This purchase was planned out very thoughtfully to meet the needs of the University for another 20 years,” UConn Fire Chief Greg Priest says of the new Rosenbauer truck, which can carry 300 gallons of water in its on-board tank and, when attached to a hydrant, can pump 1,500 gallons per minute.
The purchase comes after a three-year planning process that started with a committee of people from the fire department, motor pool, and elsewhere, who mapped out the attributes a new truck would need to best serve the campus.
UConn Fire Capt. Mitchell Dlubac, an 18-year veteran of the department, headed the committee as it painstakingly reviewed everything from the ideal on-board generator power to the sizes and lengths of the hoses, the aerial’s maximum reach and angles, and other attributes.
Rosenbauer was selected through a competitive bidding process, making UConn one of a growing number of East Coast fire departments to add equipment from that company, which has been producing fire apparatus in Europe for more than a century. The vehicle was built and equipped entirely in the U.S., and replaces the Pierce that had been in service at Storrs since 1994.
Four additional feet might not sound like much, but it could get you to the next window. — Fire Chief Greg Priest
With a 104-foot height when ...
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UAA student seeks affordable housing near university, available to house or pet sit
UAA student seeking nice family with a big house with an extra room and bathroom near the University, if possible. I can pay $250-300/month plus my services for housesitting or pet sitting, if you need it. I don’t smoke, party, drink, or do drugs and won’t bring anybody home. Please contact Amalia at amaliaval123@gmail.com.
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W. Volleyball. 51 Spartans Receive MW Scholar-Athlete Recognition
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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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SBU Dean of the School of Marine Sciences Appointed NSF Director, Division of Ocean Sciences
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SBU Dean of the School of Marine Sciences Appointed NSF Director, Division of Ocean Sciences
SoMAS Dean Dr. David O. Conover will retain faculty appointment at Stony Brook University
STONY BROOK, NY, April 28, 2010 – Dr. David O. Conover, Dean of the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University, has accepted a position as the Director of the Division of Ocean Sciences with the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective July 19, 2010. Dr. Conover has served with distinction as Dean of SoMAS for the past seven years, and will remain a faculty member with SoMAS during his service to the NSF.
David O. Conover
Conover joined the faculty of Stony Brook University in 1981 and became Dean in 2003. Under his leadership, SoMAS has greatly expanded its faculty, added two undergraduate majors, increased its enrollment more than five-fold, acquired new waterfront research and education facilities, attracted state funding to build a new $7 million marine lab, and greatly amplified its endowments. Conover founded and serves as the Executive Director of the New York Marine Sciences Consortium, representing 27 academic institutions with marine science expertise in the state. He has served on boards of the New York Sea Grant Institute, the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, and the National Association of Marine Laboratories. Dr. Conover also serves as the SUNY Chancellor’s designee on the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Council, which is charged with designing ecosystem-based approaches for managing New York’s aquatic resources.
“My entire professional career has been based at Stony Brook and it has been a wonderful experience, including the great honor and privilege to serve as Dean. My enthusiasm for SoMAS and SBU remains exceedingly high, but the NSF position provides an unparalleled opportunity for me to work on ocean science and policy issues in D.C. on a national and international scale and to give something back ...
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Department of Surgery in SBU School of Medicine Opens and Demonstrates New High-Tech Surgical Skills Center
Department of Surgery in SBU School of Medicine Opens and Demonstrates New High-Tech Surgical Skills Center
STONY BROOK, NY, January 19, 2011 – Friday, January 7, leadership from the Stony Brook University School of Medicine and Department of Surgery officially opened and tested the new Surgical Skills Center (SSC) located on level 2 of the Health Sciences Center. The 1,800 square-foot facility is dedicated to surgical training of fellows, residents and medical students, and complements the School’s existing 6,000 square foot Clinical Skills Center that opened in 2006, further reinforcing simulation training as a major component of medical education at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine.
Embraced as a training tool and promoted as an assessment of resident surgical skills by the American College of Surgeons, surgical simulation is emerging nationwide as a resource with enormous potential for teaching, learning, and research. The SSC at Stony Brook focuses on the development of surgical and clinical skills early on in the training process, as well as provides advanced levels of training to build surgical leadership skills and foster effective communication and collaboration between healthcare teams. It is also an innovative tool for critical assessment of patient safety issues and provides an excellent mechanism for developing and conveying best practices. At dedicated skill stations in this setting, doctors at various levels of training use high-tech tools to perform surgical interventions outside the operating room. These tools include computerized workstations, life-like mannequins, accurate anatomical models, and virtual reality simulators for several types of surgical interventions.“This new facility will further enhance clinical skills education and promote surgical training at the highest level,” said Kenneth Kaushansky, M.D., Senior Vice President of the Health Sciences and Dean, School of Medicine. “The Surgical Skills Center should make Stony Brook University School of Medicine a national leader in training students, residents, and attending physicians current and future surgical techniques, allowing their delivery ...
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Lone Star College awarded grant to help improve safety in the energy industry
Lone Star College System News
Published on: April 30, 2015 The National Science Foundation has awarded Lone Star College a $430,291 grant to develop instructional modules for workforce training programs in Process Technology.
The purpose of this project is to develop instructional elements called Process Technology for various energy degree programs, said Dr. Melissa Gonzalez, LSC vice chancellor, workforce and economic development. We are excited that the National Science Foundation chose Lone Star College to help construct this very important program.
LSC will hire industry experts to develop the curriculum which will be piloted at 10 colleges across the U.S. Once complete, the modules will be housed on a website that all colleges can access.
Once implemented, the program will increase students knowledge of equipment-based and process-based troubleshooting, which will lead to increased safety and improved efficiency in the energy industry. In addition to the petrochemical and refining industry, students with this training and the Associate of Applied Science degree (AAS) will also be qualified to work in a variety of other industries such as food and beverage processing, pharmaceutical and bio manufacturing, and brewing and distilling process businesses.
The grant will primarily fund curriculum development and testing. It will also establish an annual college team simulator competition that will allow students the opportunity to showcase the troubleshooting skills acquired during an energy degree program in an environment that mimics the urgency associated with troubleshooting abnormal operations.
The new LSC Process Technology program will be housed in a new 50,000 square foot Advanced Technology Center that will be constructed as part of the recent bond election which voters approved last fall. The program will be implemented in the fall 2016 pending approval by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and will be a partnership between LSC-Kingwood and LSC-University Park.
In addition to stackable progressive Level I and Level II certificates and the AAS degree, the Process Technology program will enhance ...
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Civil Rights to be Discussed at LSC-Kingwood
Lone Star College Kingwood News
Published on: April 24, 2015
History teachers, professors and historians are invited to Lone Star College-Kingwoods third History Day Conference on Thursday, June 18 from 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Designed to be interactive and thought provoking, this conference is for community members interested in the examination of the Civil Rights movement and how to teach it. Participants will also receive resources needed for instruction.
The Civil Rights Movement and the killing of Jim Crow were, as historian Todd Purdum has said, a time of shared civic purpose, national unity, and hope that the nation might yet live up to its founding creed. Join us at LSC-Kingwood for our third annual History Day as we explore the grass-roots movement that changed America, said Dr. John Barr, history professor.
The conference format includes morning presentations by distinguished authors and afternoon break-out sessions discussing primary sources. Presentations will be given by Patricia Bernstein, The First Waco Horror: The Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the NAACP; Marvin Sparks, The Music and Musicians of the Civil Rights Era (from gospel to jazz)"; Dr. Gavin Wright, The Economic Significance of the Civil Rights Revolution; and Dale Carpenter, Lawrence vs. Texas and Modern Civil Rights. The event will be held in the Student-Conference Center.
In addition to talking about this important topic and providing resources, our goal is to deepen relationships between the independent school district instructors and the college instructors, said Kimberly Klepcyk, dean of academic partnerships and initiatives.
General admission to LSC-Kingwoods History Day Conference is $45 per participant or $10 for students with a current college ID. The cost includes a meal and gift bag. Teachers, with a local independent school district, whose registration fee will be paid by their school must contact Sarah Berry at Sarah.W.Berry@LoneStar.edu.To register, visit https://eventbrite.com/event/16602823492/. The deadline to register is June 14. For ...
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Writers in Performance Series Welcomes State Poet Laureates to LSC-Montgomery
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Published on: April 06, 2015
Lone Star College-Montgomery and the Montgomery County Literary Art Councils Writers in Performance series welcomes three state poet laureates for a panel discussion and reading on Thursday, April 16. The panel discussion begins at 5:30 p.m. in the General Academic Center (building G),room 102, at LSC-Montgomery, with the reading following at 7 p.m., also in room G-102. All events are free and open to the public. Lone Star College-Tomball English professor and poet Melissa Studdard will conduct panel interviews on the States of Poetry: 3 State Poet Laureates Views on Poetry in Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas, comparing the difference in positions between the three states, the publishing opportunities for poets, poetry demographics, the Poet Laureate experience, and the future of poetry. The session will end with questions, answers and readings.Panelists include:LSU Press Poet and 2015 Louisiana Poet Laureate Ana Leavell Haymon. Haymon is the author of several poetry collections including Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread and Eldest Daughter, teaches poetry writing in Baton Rouge, and directs a writers retreat in New Mexico. 2014 Oklahoma Poet Laureate Nathan Brown. As a singer, songwriter, photographer, and poet, Brown has published nine books, written and performed music in numerous venues, and teaches at the University of Oklahoma and Austin Community College. 2011 Texas Poet Laureate and LSC-Montgomery English professor Dave Parsons. Parsons holds several recognitions including a national endowment, a publishers prize, and eight writing awards from Lone Star College. Parsons was inducted into The Texas Institute of Letters and has published five books of poetry.Writers in Performance is a reading program dedicated to bringing the most distinguished minds and their bright visions to the citizens of Montgomery County through thought-provoking literature and cultural diversity. The series events are made possible by the partnerships between Lone Star College-Montgomery, SWIRL Literary & Arts Journal, the Conroe Commission on Arts & Culture, the Greater ...
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LSC-Tomball Receives the National Association for Developmental Education Accreditation
Lone Star College Tomball News
Published on: July 05, 2017 TOMBALL, Texas Lone Star College-Tomballs Developmental English program has received accreditation from the National Association for Developmental Education (NADE), becoming one of the first programs in the nation to be awarded the accreditation.
NADE Accreditation is a significant accomplishment, and we are pleased to recognize Lone Star College-Tomballs Developmental English Program for achieving this distinction, Linda Thompson, chair of the NADE Accreditation Commission, said in a written statement. We applaud the faculty, administrators, president and trustees, and the entire community of Lone Star College-Tomball on this achievement.
The NADE Accreditation is valid for 10 years (through March 2028) with an interim report required during year five. An official plaque, according to Thompson, will be awarded to LSC-Tomball during a recognition event in 2018.
Caroline Jamroz, professor of Developmental English at LSC-Tomball, who served as the lead person in securing the NADE accreditation, said LSC-Tomball is excited to receive the NADE accreditation and credits the hard work of the Developmental English departments faculty and leadership team.
At LSC-Tomball, we have dedicated faculty create learning experiences that enable students to develop new beliefs about their abilities and their potential," said LSC-Tomball President Dr. Lee Ann Nutt. "Thanks to Caroline Jamrozs perseverance and determination, and with the support of her colleagues, the developmental English program is now accredited by the National Association of Developmental Education. This accreditation is a formal recognition of the dedication of LSC-Tomball faculty to our students success.
According to NADE, "Reviewers found overall that the faculty and staff of Developmental English Program at Lone Star-Tomball have demonstrated a commitment to the establishment of a quality program and to the success of their students through the use of continuous and systematic assessment and evaluation. The reviewers commend the applicants for persevering through the mandatory changes they have faced. In fact, it appears that the faculty and their administration used these ...
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Alison K. Hall, PhD, Named Associate Dean of Research Workforce Development
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The George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to welcome Alison K. Hall, PhD, as the new associate dean of research workforce development.In this role, Hall will provide oversight of research workforce development across the school. She will give guidance on research education, promote research opportunities, and provide sponsored research support.
“Hall has extensive experience fostering clinician-investigator research and in building interdisciplinary training programs,” said Ray Lucas, MD, associate dean for faculty affairs and professional development at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. “She has an impressive track record of extramural funding and extensive experience in research workforce development. We are honored to have her join the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences leadership team.”
At GW, Hall will develop mentorship and training for clinician investigators, and support the medical student research track. She will be a resource for faculty seeking to develop research training and research education initiatives and help them respond to emerging opportunities. Additionally, she will work to enhance engagement of underrepresented minorities in biomedical research and foster a culture of collaboration and interdisciplinary research.
Hall was most recently the deputy director of the Division of Training, Workforce Development and Diversity at the National Institute of General Medical Science (NIGMS). She led national workshops on clinician scientist training and “on-ramps” to research at multiple career stages, as well as national programs to enhance training and diversity. Prior to this experience, Hall was the associate dean for graduate education at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. During her time there, she led efforts that resulted in doubling the number of PhD students from diverse groups and was able to secure funding for new post-baccalaureate and MD summer research programs.
Hall is a published neuroscientist with a focus on neurodevelopment and the peripheral nervous system. She served on ...
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‘Finish line’ in sight for inaugural class of data analytics grad students at WVU business school
Stories | WVU Today | West Virginia University
A year ago, students
from across the country and various walks of life took a leap into the new,
online Business Data Analytics graduate program at the West
Virginia University College
of Business and Economics.
After completing their final on-campus residency, and much course work over the
past 12 months, these students will cross the finish line August 4 with a
Master of Science in Business Data Analytics degree.
The inaugural
class of 18 students included an interesting mix of individuals; a majority of
the group had ties to West Virginia or WVU, but also included participants from
three different time zones. Students will have earned 30 credit hours in a year
through 10 courses, but with unique elements to the curriculum that encompassed
experiential learning objectives — such as the capstone projects that provided
students with real life assignments.
“WVU was one of
the first institutions to offer data analytics in a master’s program and in an
online format,” said Mark Gavin, associate dean for graduate programs, research
and executive education and a catalyst for the creation of the program. “This
is a program that definitely — and quite successfully — answered the industry’s
call. That call was for individuals who know how to use analytics and data
science to support business decisions and strategies. That’s the future model
of business.”
Gavin said the
final capstone project was a group project, delivering their work on
contemporary, real world projects to WVU’s partnering organizations.
“When the
College of Business and Economics was building this program, I really believe
the achievements we saw in these students — the incredible amount of knowledge
they have gained — is what we had in mind,” Gavin continued. “And the worldwide
demand for, and value of, these students in their respective industries will
confirm that.”
Virginia Kleist, Brad Price and Stephane Collignon, the architects of the program,
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UTA mechanical engineer publishes findings that show brain damage that could occur from blast-induced cavitation
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Ashfaq Adnan, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, and his postdoctoral associate Yuan Ting Wu recently published research findings in Nature’s Scientific Reports revealing that if battlefield blasts may cause cavitation in the brain’s perineuronal nets, which, in turn, may collapse and cause neuronal damage.
Cavitation is the development of bubbles, much like those that develop around a ship’s spinning propellers.
Ashfaq Adnan, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington, and colleague Yuan Ting Wu, recently published research findings in a leading journal revealing that if battlefield blasts could cause cavitation in the brain’s perineuronal nets, which, in turn, may collapse and cause neuronal damage.
Existing scans and medical technology cannot detect whether cavitation bubble forms inside the brain due to blasts or how these blasts affect a person’s individual neurons, the brain cells responsible for processing and transmitting information by electrochemical signaling. Adnan’s research focuses on studying the structural damage in neurons and the surrounding perineuronal nets area in the brain. He then determines the point at which mechanical forces may damage the PNN or injure the neurons.
Adnan’s paper, a result of research supported by a grant through the Office of Naval Research’s Warfighter Performance Department and UTA, is titled, “Effect of shock-induced cavitation bubble collapse on the damage in the simulated perineuronal nets of the brain.” Timothy Bentley is the program’s director.
“This study reveals that if a blast-like event affects the brain under certain circumstances, the mechanical forces could damage the perineuronal net located adjacent to the neurons, which could lead to damage of the neurons themselves. It is important to prove this concept so that future research may address how to prevent cavitation damage and better protect our soldiers,” Adnan said. “I must ...
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First veteran scholarship fund established at OSU
Oklahoma State University - News and Communications
An anonymous alumna and her husband have created the Veteran Appreciation Scholarship Fund at Oklahoma State University to benefit veterans and other military-affiliated students on campus. This is the first scholarship fund established specifically to help the veterans or a dependent that qualifies to receive the veteran’s GI Bill benefits.“What many don’t realize is that GI Bill benefits are limited to 36 months of study, whether they’re used by a veteran or one of the veteran’s dependents,” said Rick Hansen, coordinator of Veteran Student Academic Services at OSU. “This limitation does not always allow our student veterans to reach their educational goals, so this scholarship fund represents a critical first step to help overcome that limitation.”
The largest number of veterans on campus are enrolled in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology seeking degrees that often require more than four years of study, explained Hansen. Additionally, many exhaust their benefits while earning their undergraduate degrees and less than 10 percent have benefits available for their continued education. That often means taking a full or part-time job and extending their college stay. In some cases, such as students studying with the help of the National Guard, tuition is covered, but help is needed in meeting the cost of fees, books and supplies.
Scholarship recipients can be either undergraduate or graduate students at OSU with documented financial need. They must be a U.S. military veteran, reservist, National Guardsman or the dependent of a U.S. military veteran or active duty service member.
“The establishing donors have invited everyone to join in helping build this scholarship so it can serve as many as possible and every donation of any size will be greatly appreciated,” Hansen said.
The scholarship will be funded on a non-endowed basis and that means every donation is especially important to help OSU veterans or ...
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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
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Video of the new turf being installed at DiSanto Field from start to finish.
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Thursday, July 20, 2017
3-D Printing Sweeping Toy Industry Off the Shelves
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.
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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
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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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July 20, 2017
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
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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June 2, 2017
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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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July 20, 2017
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
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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
University at Albany University at Albany Headlines
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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