UPMC, Butler Health System Form Joint Venture

PITTSBURGH, July 21, 2017 – UPMC and Butler Health System (BHS) have formed a joint venture for obstetric and gynecological care that will provide patients in the Butler region coordinated, high-quality care with greater access to the latest UPMC research and clinical advances without leaving their community.
Under the joint venture agreement, BHS and UPMC have acquired Advanced OB/GYN Associates, which is comprised of five doctors: Ronald Cypher, M.D., Patricia Arnett, D.O., Rosalyn Miller, D.O., Emily Curtin, M.D., and Marydonna Ravasio, D.O., as well as three physician assistants and two midwives. The practice name, “Advanced OB/GYN Associates” will remain unchanged. The physicians, physician assistants and midwives, as well as the patients of Advanced OB/GYN Associates will have access to UPMC experts. Consultations for high-risk obstetrics, cancer, infertility and ultrasounds will continue to be provided at the current office on 901 E. Brady Street in Butler, Pa.“We are excited about this collaboration. The exceptional group of physicians and their staff at Advanced OB/GYN Associates now will have the support of two strong organizations—BHS and UPMC—to ensure the continuation of the outstanding care they have been providing their patients for years,” said Robert Edwards, M.D., chair of the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive services at UPMC. “BHS has a long-standing history of supporting the patients and physicians of Advanced OB/GYN Associates,” said Jana Panther, director of marketing and public relations at BHS. “Women’s care is a focus of the organization both locally and regionally, and we are pleased to work together with UPMC and the practice in this new capacity.”
“We are thrilled to enter into a joint venture with UPMC, which has one of the finest women’s hospitals in the world, and Butler Health System, our hometown hospital. We will continue to offer personalized, compassionate care as we ...

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Small Pest, Big Battle

Science and Technology @ UCSB

The Aedes aegypti mosquito may be tiny but it can wreak major havoc on human health, spreading diseases such as Zika, dengue fever and yellow fever.Those little suckers are about to face the fight of their life.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S. Department of Defense has awarded up to $14.9 million to a team of researchers from six University of California campuses, including biologist Craig Montell at UC Santa Barbara, to study how to use gene editing as a way to control disease-spreading mosquitoes.
Insects that carry disease represent one of the greatest worldwide threats to human health, with billions of people currently at risk of infection. Last year, more than 700 million people were infected with malaria or dengue fever, resulting in 440,000 deaths. And the prevalence of Zika virus is rising.
“Protecting the public from these diseases is difficult,” said Montell, the Patricia and Robert Duggan Professor of Neuroscience in UCSB’s Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, whose lab works with Aedes aegypti. “Vaccines to prevent the diseases either don’t exist or are not very effective, and current mosquito control methods are inadequate. Therefore, there is a critical need for a transformative, species-specific, safe and effective method to control mosquitoes.”
Called Safe Genes, the DARPA project will focus on a technique pioneered by two team members, Ethan Bier of UC San Diego and Anthony James of UC Irvine. Known as gene drive, it can spread desirable genes in wild populations or suppress harmful organisms. Gene drive has been discussed and studied for decades, but the recent discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technique has revolutionized the development of gene drive systems, offering an increasingly inexpensive, efficient and more reliable way to make precise, targeted changes to the genome.
Advances in genetics and molecular biology will allow the UC researchers to ...

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Jornada sobre pensions i assegurances

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Moment de la tercera edició del taller, organitzat pel Departament de Matemàtica Econòmica, Financera i Actuarial i la Càtedra ICEA-UB.











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La tercera edició del Taller sobre Pensions i Assegurances, organitzat pel Departament de Matemàtica Econòmica, Financera i Actuarial i la Càtedra ICEA-UB, va tenir lloc el 13 de juliol a la Facultat d’Economia i Empresa. El programa va incloure una jornada oberta al públic que va començar amb una conferència de Pilar González de Frutos, presidenta d’UNESPA, i el professor de la Universitat de València Carlos Vidal Meliá. A continuació, hi va haver una taula rodona moderada per Joan Castells, president executiu de FIATC Assegurances. Hi van participar Clara Armengol, de Banc Sabadell Pensions; Albert Closas, periodista de TV3; Cristina Farrés, de Crónica Global; Eduardo Magallón, de La Vanguardia; Susana Mendía, d’Allianz, i Ramón Ramos, d’AXA.
La Càtedra ICEA-UB sorgeix d’un conveni de col·laboració entre la Universitat de Barcelona i Investigació Cooperativa entre Entitats Asseguradores i Fons de Pensions (ICEA).






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Chemistry researcher receives prestigious honor

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Yinfa Ma. Photo by Sam O’Keefe/Missouri S&T
A renowned researcher and educator at Missouri University of Science and Technology has been selected to join an exclusive group of chemists. But he says the honor has more to do with the quality of research, education and community outreach at Missouri S&T than with his individual accomplishments.
Dr. Yinfa Ma, associate dean for research and external relations in the College of Arts, Sciences, and Business, was recently selected to be an American Chemical Society Fellow. He was one of only 65 scientists named to the 2017 class, and will be recognized at a ceremony and reception on Aug. 21, during the society’s 254th National Meeting & Exposition in Washington, D.C.
“When I received the letter, I was excited, but not just for me, but mostly for the university,” says Ma, who is also a Curators’ Distinguished Teaching Professor of Chemistry at Missouri S&T.
Ma hopes that the honor will help elevate the research and work happening at Missouri S&T, especially in the chemistry and chemical and biochemical engineering departments.
“To increase the reputation of the university, honors like this are so crucial,” Ma says. “We need to let the world know that Missouri S&T has really good chemists and they contribute to the society significantly. I think we have more colleagues at Missouri S&T deserving of this honor.”
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is the world’s largest scientific society with 157,000 members internationally. The nonprofit organization was chartered by the U.S. Congress. The ACS Fellows Program was created by the ACS Board of Directors in December 2008 to recognize members for outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession and society.
Including Ma and this year’s 64 other recipients, there are about 1060 named fellows in the world, or less than 0.7 percent of the society’s ...

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From intern to director: Tim Hydar makes big leap at Little Bit Foundation

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Tim Hydar, director of distribution for The Little Bit Foundation, stands in the organization’s new warehouse in the Hanley Industrial Court of Brentwood. Once completely moved in, Hydar and the Little Bit team will be able to continue expanding their reach and distribution numbers. (Photo by August Jennewein)
As Tim Hydar watched a shy first-grader sprint around a classroom proudly modeling a new pair of shoes, the University of Missouri–St. Louis alumnus knew he was in the right line of work.
“Now I’m going to run faster,” the student exclaimed. “I’m going to be the fastest one on the basketball court.”
For children wearing the wrong size shoe, that’s the power of a new, proper-fitting pair.
This proud sneaker owner and rising athlete is just one of the 35,000 residents in St. Louis city and north St. Louis County who have been impacted by the mission and generosity of The Little Bit Foundation.
Hydar, the director of distribution for Little Bit, and his team play an important role in ensuring regional students have fewer barriers that interfere with a quality education.
“The best aspect of my job is going into a school every single week and seeing a group of kids that have a need and being able to tell them we are going to meet that need,” Hydar said. “Then the next week we deliver on that promise. Seeing students regularly, interacting with them, learning who they are and them learning who we are – that’s definitely the best part of what we do here.”
Since its founding in 2001, Little Bit grew from delivering 170 coats in its inaugural year to distributing more than 9,900 coats, 48,300 books and 203,000 essential items in the 2016-17 school year. Today, 9,000 students across 31 schools enjoy the Little Bit Boutiques, where a consistent team of volunteers deliver school supplies and a variety of ...

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Anthony Scaramucci to be named White House communications director

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The New York Times is reporting that Anthony Scaramucci, founder of the multi-billion dollar global investment firm SkyBridge Capital, was appointed by President Donald Trump as White House communications director this morning.Scaramucci, a contributor to the Fox News Channel, was an advisor to President Trump during his 2016 campaign, and was rumored earlier in the year to have been in line for a job heading the White House’s Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs. That position never materialized, however. In his new role, Scaramucci will replace Mike Dupke, who stepped down two months ago. Scaramucci, a major donor to Republican campaigns, has been a staunch Trump defender.
Scaramucci earned his B.A. in economics at Tufts and is a graduate of Harvard Law School.
He sits on the Fletcher School’s Board of Advisors, has served on the Board of Oversees of Tufts’ School of Arts and Sciences, and was a member of the Beyond Boundaries campaign committee. He also served as co-chair of the Tufts Financial Network, which aims to help Tufts students and alumni develop connections and advance in the financial world.
Scaramucci is the author of several business books, the most recent being Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole: How Entrepreneurs Turn Failure into Success, which he has called a “brutally honest book about the ups and downs of business and entrepreneurship.”


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Georgetown Professor Elected President of the American Historical Association

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July 21, 2017 – University Professor John R. McNeill, a prominent environmental historian at Georgetown, has been elected president of the American Historical Association.
McNeill, best known for his book, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the 20th-Century World (W.W. Norton, 2000), will serve in the position from January 2019 to January 2020, but will be heavily involved in AHA matters as president elect.
McNeill has previous experience with the Association, having headed the research division as one of three vice-presidents between 2012 and 2015.
“I am pleased by the trust AHA voters placed in me and look forward to doing my best for historians across the country,” McNeill said.
The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and professions, including academia.
The professor also served as president of the American Society for Environmental History (2011-2013).
McNeill is the author or co-author of six books, most recently The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 (Harvard University Press, 2016), with Peter Engelke, and has edited or co-edited more than 15 other books.
His current book project is a global environmental history of the Industrial Revolution. 
“I will emphasize the long-distance linkages between the manufacturing centers of the 19th century and the ecological tumult in zones of raw material supply – the cotton fields and copper mines of the world,” McNeill explains.
The professor has held two Fulbright Awards, a Guggenheim fellowship, a MacArthur Grant and a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
Between 2003 until 2006, he held the Cinco Hermanos Chair in Environmental and International Affairs at Georgetown, where he has appointments in both the history department and the School of Foreign Service. 
"We congratulate Professor John McNeill, who is an ideal choice to be named President-elect of the American Historical Association,” says Georgetown Provost Robert Groves. “His leadership and scholarship in the area of environmental history have earned him ...

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Stress Worsens Effects of Toxic Chemicals in Pregnant Women

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When a pregnant woman suffers from stress, she’s more likely to have a low-birth-weight baby than a non-stressed pregnant woman if both are exposed to the same toxic chemicals, according to the first study examining the combined impact of stress and environmental chemicals on fetal development.

Data suggests that the harmful effects of smoking and air pollution are worse for pregnant women who also suffer from stress.

The evidence is just emerging, but a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco found that the impact of a pregnant woman’s exposure to several toxic chemicals commonly found in the environment was generally larger if the mom was stressed.

“It appears that stress may amplify the health effects of toxic chemical exposure, which means that for some people, toxic chemicals become more toxic,” said Tracey Woodruff, a professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Woodruff, the senior author of the study, also directs UCSF’s Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and the Environmental Health Initiative.

Taken individually, the adverse effects of stress or environmental chemical exposures on fetal growth are well known, yet their combined effect has not been clear. When combined, researchers found the strongest connection between smoking and low birth weight: highly stressed pregnant women who smoked were about twice as likely to have a low-birth-weight baby as less stressed smokers. Stress was quantified by factors such as socioeconomic status or years of education. The researchers did not investigate a potential mechanism for how stress and chemicals might interact to create this effect.

The study also showed that the effects of air pollution on low birth weight were heightened when combined with stress. Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter, a type of air pollution, increased the risk of ...

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2017 Conference USA Media Day – A Look Back

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MIAMI (July 21, 2017) – Conference USA held its annual Media Day on July 19-20 at the DFW Marriott in Dallas, Texas. The league's head coaches and two student-athletes from each school were on hand to preview the upcoming season.  Head Coach Butch Davis along with seniors Alex McGough and Anthony Wint represented FIU. Head Coach Butch Davis On getting back into coaching… I think the obvious reason is that you miss coaching, but you miss the kids. If you're going to be a coach you have to love kids, you have to like the idea of being able to make a difference in their lives, whether it's educational or football-wise, and I miss it. I miss being I the locker room, out on the practice field, the meeting rooms, and stuff, and just being around kids. It's a super career. On what his time in television has taught him about coaching that maybe he didn't know previously… I worked for ESPN, and I worked for the NFL Network, and both of them were phenomenal. (With) ESPN, one of the things that helped me was, is it gave me the opportunity to see a lot of programs behind the scenes and learn things to see how everybody else was doing it. They would send me to Alabama, to Auburn, Florida State, last year I had the chance to go and spend some time with Mike Reilly at Nebraska, and when you go to these programs, you kind of get a chance to see how other people are skinning the cat. How do they do recruiting, how they do the offseason, how they do training camp; that part was good. But from the media aspect, you also understand how important the exposure is for your program, to get a chance for the media to come and see these guys (the players) and get to ...

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Key, Guice Named Players to Watch for Walter Camp Award

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BATON ROUGE – LSU running back Derrius Guice and linebacker Arden Key have been selected as two of forty "players to watch" for the 2017 Walter Camp Player of the Year Award, the Walter Camp Foundation announced Friday.
The nation’s fourth-oldest individual college football accolade is voted on by the 130 NCAA Bowl Subdivision head coaches and sports information directors. The award will be announced on Thursday, Dec. 7.
Guice heads into the 2017 season as one of the most electric ball carriers in the country. The Baton Rouge native broke two school records, earned All-America honors and was named to the All-SEC first team by the league’s coaches and media.
The Baton Rouge native scored on the longest run in LSU history (96 yards) and set the single-game rushing record with 285 yards in the win over Texas A&M. Guice led the SEC in rushing yards and ranked second in the league in rushing yards per game.
This marks the fourth preseason watch list Guice has been named to. Guice was also named to the Maxwell Award Watch List, the Paul Hornung Award Watch List and the Doak Walker Award List.
Key has already been named to the Butkus, Maxwell and Bednarik watch lists. The junior set the single-season sacks record a year ago with 12. Key totaled three PBUs and recovered three fumbles in 2016.
Walter Camp, “The Father of American football,” first selected an All-America team in 1889. Camp – a former Yale University athlete and football coach – is also credited with developing play from scrimmage, set plays, the numerical assessment of goals and tries and the restriction of play to eleven men per side.
The members of the NCFAA are unveiling their preseason watch lists over a 12-day period this month. Seventeen of the association’s 23 awards select a preseason watch list and the NCFAA has spearheaded a coordinated effort ...

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Former History Department chair Thomas Haskell dies at age 78

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Thomas “Tom” Haskell, the Samuel G. McCann Professor Emeritus of History and a former chair of the Department of History, died July 12 at the age of 78 from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease.
“The faculty of the History Department and of Rice University has lost one of its most important figures: a thought-provoking scholar, an inspiring teacher and, not least, a leader in faculty governance,” wrote History Department Chair Carl Caldwell, the Samuel G. McCann Professor of History, in an “in memoriam” post on the department’s website.
Thomas Haskell
Haskell came to Rice in 1970, and during his 39 years as a faculty member, he served as chair of the Department of History, speaker of the Faculty Council and director of the Center for the Study of Cultures, now known as the Humanities Research Center. He also served as chair of the Graduate Committee and as a member of the Promotion and Tenure Committee along with other university committees.
“Tom did the hard, everyday work of promoting the pursuit of truth, of defending the mission of the university and defending academic freedom,” Caldwell said. “He played a central role in developing the professor-run process for addressing severe sanctions placed on professors, including terminations. These procedures remain in place today.
“Tom was equally dedicated to his teaching. His presence in the classroom was intense and demanding — and what serious students wanted,” Caldwell said.
A Ph.D. graduate of Stanford with a B.A. from Princeton, Haskell was a noted authority on the history of American thought and society and historical interpretation. He specialized in U.S. history from the 17th century to the present and also studied Victorian intellectuals.
“Historical scholarship for Tom was serious, even sacred,” Caldwell said. “History was the fearless search for truth, no matter how uncomfortable that truth could make people. Truth was essential, as was criticism. His ...

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Del 25 al 27 de juliol està oberta la matrícula per als estudiants de grau de nou accés de la segona assignació

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Quin és el procediment per matricular-te a la UPC? Què has de saber abans de fer-ho? Has de fer algun tràmit previ? On i quan has de formalitzar la matrícula? Quina documentació cal adjuntar i de quants crèdits t’has de matricular? Com es pot pagar la matrícula i quant et costarà? Tens dret a deduccions, gratuïtat o beca? Les respostes a aquestes qüestions es troben recollides al Guia de la matrícula de la UPC, una guia adreçada especialment als estudiants de nou ingrés, en la qual també es poden consultar les dates d'inici de curs i les sessions d'acollida. Si ja ets estudiant de grau de la UPC, la matrícula per al curs 2017-2018 l’has de formalitzar, a partir del 13 de juliol, en les dates concretes que t’indicarà el teu centre. Tràmits previs si ets estudiant de nou ingrés A partir del moment en què rebis el missatge de la UPC en què se't dona la benvinguda, pots iniciar el procés d’activació del teu compte a la Universitat. És un tràmit que cal fer abans de venir a matricular-te. Quan ja hagis activat el teu compte, ja podràs accedir a l’eSecretaria, la plataforma virtual amb la qual accediràs al teu expedient i a tots els tràmits acadèmics durant la teva vida universitària. Allà hauràs de revisar i modificar, si cal, les teves dades personals, autoritzar l’ús de les teves dades (LOPD) i la domiciliació dels pagaments, si optes per aquesta modalitat de pagament de la matrícula.La primera matrícula és presencial Si comences els teus estudis a la Universitat, has de realitzar la matrícula presencialment en les dates concretes que indica el centre docent on s’imparteix el grau al qual has accedit, dins dels terminis que es detallen tot seguit, ...

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Supply Chain Management Business Talk Set Oct. 28

Lone Star College CyFair News

Published on: October 14, 2015

Lone Star College-CyFairs Speaking of Business Series continues with Tracie Slone, who will present Supply Chain Management Aligning with Companies to Drive Value set for Oct. 28.
Slone, Director of Global Supply Chain at Marathon Oil, has held more than 20 roles within Supply Chain, Logistics, and Marketing; in the Corporate, Upstream, and Downstream Organizations, as well as both domestically in the United States and in supporting International Operations.
Effective and efficient supply chain management is a major factor contributing to a companys overall success. Slone will discuss the challenges and opportunities of supply chain from a global perspective.
Participants will learn the importance of teamwork and integration in leading a global supply chain organization, as well as the value of positioning oneself to advance ones career in supply chain management.
Dont miss this presentation, which will be held from 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. in the Conference Center at 9191 Barker Cypress.
Light refreshments will be served; however, space is limited.
The free Speaking of Business Series is designed to enhance the personal and professional development of future business and community leaders.
Sponsoring this series is LSC-CyFairs Business and Communication Studies Division. For information, contact Ellen Junious, at 281.290.3511.









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Register today for summer classes at Lone Star College-North Harris

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Published on: May 19, 2014
There is still time left to register for summer classes at Lone Star College-North Harris! The first summer session begins June 2 and runs through July 8, and the second summer session will take place July 10 through August 17.
Summer classes are also a great opportunity for university students to save time and money with core classes available at a fraction of the cost. Summer I registration will be open until May 30, and Summer II registration will be open until July 9.
Early registration ensures the best selection of classes and times. Due to the colleges growing enrollment, many classes are in high demand and fill quickly.
The fall semester begins August 25, and will feature academic and university-transfer courses, as well as workforce training, such as the new industrial diesel technology program.
Current and recently enrolled students can register online at LoneStar.edu/registration or at any Lone Star College location. New students can apply for admission online, or in-person. For more information call 281.618.5410. A complete listing of upcoming classes is available at LoneStar.edu/class-search.
LSC-North Harris courses are designed to fit a diverse spectrum of academic goals, and can lead to certificates, associate degrees or university transfer. Credit classes range from art, biology, and automotive technology to cosmetology, nursing and criminal justice. Classes are offered days, evenings, or weekends at LSC-North Harris, LSC-Greenspoint Center, and LSC-Victory Center, as well as in online and hybrid formats.
Lone Star College-North Harris is located at 2700 W.W. Thorne Drive, one-half mile south of FM 1960 East, between Aldine-Westfield and Hardy Roads. For more information about the college, call 281.618.5400 or visit LoneStar.edu/NorthHarris.

Lone Star College System has been opening doors to a better community for 40 years. Founded in 1973, LSCS remains steadfast in its commitment to student success and credential completion.  Today, with 78,000 students in credit classes, and a total enrollment of more ...

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Healthy Girls Save the World visit BeAM

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Girls from Healthy Girls Save the World at their recent visit to BeAM. The girls spent time with us learning how to create molds, using Alginate. (photos by Lars Sahl)Recently, BeAM at Murray Hall welcomed two groups of girls from Healthy Girls Save the World (HGSW). This organization focuses on inspiring girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum, which partners with universities and colleges to promote health and women’s empowerment. HGSW mobilizes university students to take resources available to them on a college campus and transform them into programming for girls in the surrounding community.
The girls spent time with us learning how to create molds, using Alginate, into which they put fingers or hands, creating a mold as the compound hardened. Having created the mold, the girls then had the staff pour resin into it, which after setting and removal of the mold, created a perfect replica of the fingers they had stuck in the original mold material.
HGSW believe that every girl deserves a positive space in her community where she is encouraged to learn what it means to be healthy on the inside and out, as well as given the resources to do so. The HGSW team works to organize low-cost events on the UNC Chapel Hill campus that foster the development of healthy habits related to proper nutrition, physical activity, and overall healthy lifestyles for girls.
Innovation and collaboration are the heartbeat of academic life on a college campus, and it is HGSW’s effort to maximize the potential of these forces that makes the organization distinctively sustainable. The successes of their past events have demonstrated that these invaluable resources are all readily available for the benefit of local girls at little to no cost, but require the creative organization and partnerships that HGSW continues to develop on a ...

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Lions Club Gives $400K To Shiley Eye Institute At UC San Diego Health

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Publication Date: 7/19/2017
ByLine: Patch
URL Link: https://patch.com/california/lajolla/s/g6n2q/lions-club-gives-400k-to-shiley-eye-institute-at-uc-san-diego-health
Page Content: ​Features Robert Weinreb, MD
News Type: Regional
News_Release_Date: July 21, 2017
NewsTags: Corporate - Quality, Awards, Diversity, Leadership; Ophthalmology

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High-tech cars not just for Spider-Man, Tony Stark

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An actor dressed as Spider-Man arrives for the world premiere of 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' at TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Calif.(Photo: Joe Scarnici, Getty Images for Audi)In the newest Spider-Man movie, wise-cracking Peter Parker passes his driving exam primarily with help of a prototype Audi borrowed from a billionaire super-friend.As he argues with the driving examiner, the 15-year-old fails to notice the car in front of him slow down. The car’s automatic emergency braking system kicks in, stops the car and avoids a collision.Showing off for the examiner, the secret web-slinger engages the car’s lane-keeping system — only be yelled at as soon as he takes his hands off the wheel.And when asked to perform the “grand finale” of the driving test — parallel parking — the teenage superhero hits a button, raises his arms, and lets the car maneuver itself into position along the curb.For Dan McGehee of the University of Iowa, the only thing far-fetched about the two-minute movie scene is the idea that such technology is available only in high-end vehicles for the super-rich.“We’re very far from self-driving cars, but today we are in production for all of the technologies that are mentioned there — down to the least expensive car," he said in a phone interview Tuesday. "Whether it’s the Toyota Corolla, the Honda Civic, the Chevy Cruze, (the Ford Escort,) all have automatic emergency braking, lane-keeping systems, and even automatic parallel parking available.”Buy PhotoDaniel McGehee, director of the National Advanced Driving Simulator, poses at the University of Iowa's facility in Coralville on Thursday, July 14, 2016. (Photo: David Scrivner / Iowa City Press-Citizen)McGehee, who directs UI’s National Advanced Driving Simulator, attended the Automated Vehicle Symposium last week in San Francisco.“The 2018 model is going to be a watershed year in which many of the technologies in this clip will ...

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2017 Volleyball Schedule Features First Home Tournament In 10 Years, And Four NCAA Tournament Teams

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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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Reducing Caltech's Carbon Footprint

Caltech News tagged with "staff + student_life + faculty_profile + grants_and_giving"

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

Caltech News tagged with "astronomy + exoplanets + JPL + planetary_science"

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

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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

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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

UW Daily

UW System / Top Stories
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

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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

Green & Gold News

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

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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

Lone Star College Montgomery News

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,
emphasized the importance of ...

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UTA mechanical engineer publishes findings that show brain damage that could occur from blast-induced cavitation

The University of Texas at Arlington News Releases


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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