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Twenty-five high school students from Arkansas recently spent one week on campus to learn about entrepreneurship, business plans, presentations, teamwork and community improvement projects.
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Fleischer Scholars Present Business Plans for Entrepreneurial Projects
Hasely runs at UWI
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For Release Upon Receipt - July 22, 2017St. AugustineOn Friday 21 July, The University of the West Indies (The UWI) St. Augustine Campus in collaboration with the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC) launched A Commemorative Exhibition: Hasely Crawford – National Hero. The exhibition will be housed at the Alma Jordan Library at The UWI from June 25 to August 18. In sharing his welcoming remarks, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal, Professor Brian Copeland, noted that “Hasely Crawford is considered the gold standard for excellence, not only because of his historic Olympic performance, but because of all that he’s since done. He is the gold standard for all of us, on and off the track.” He reiterated that this is not the Campus’ first partnership with NGC and expressed his desire to see more such collaborations with corporate Trinidad and Tobago. “You should note that the Commemorative Exhibition is not The UWI’s first partnership with the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago. Rather, it stems directly from a partnership developed out of NGC’s support for the Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the period 2012-2016.”The Exhibition will be housed at the Alma Jordan Library. The UWI libraries have always played a key role in supporting the strategic initiatives of the University and over the last several years have developed a suite of print and digital resources to support the certificate and master’s programmes in the pedagogy of sport. With the confirmation of the formal establishment of a Faculty of Sport this coming August, the opportunity to partner with the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago to pay tribute to a national sport icon such as Mr. Hasely Crawford could not have come at a more opportune moment. The exhibit constitutes part of the University libraries’ long-standing tradition of honouring regional icons as well as their efforts ...
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Brussels Opens New Doors for MBA@American Students
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MBA@American students at the European Parliament in Brussels. Credit: Maureen Breslin
Brussels, Belgium: what comes to mind?
Do you think of a capital city with a vibrant cultural scene? Or perhaps its thriving, innovative business community? Maybe you’re focused on its political clout—a city known for its strong connection to the European Union.
This June 16-18, 2017, a group of Kogod students experienced all of this and more. Their journey—both an academic and a cultural experience—placed them in the heart of the city for a weekend of business site visits, group presentations and sightseeing.
“It was incredible,” says Candace Applewhite, MBA ’17. “I’ve never been to Europe before, which I’ve had on my bucket list for ages.”
The trip marked the MBA@American program’s first international immersion, bringing online students together from across the US to explore Brussels’ business landscape. Nearly 60 MBA candidates attended, 29 of which also completed a London extension course following the end of the weekend.
“The immersions are eye-opening opportunities because they get students out of their day-to-day lives,” says Maureen Breslin, Director of Partner Facing Online Programs. “They offer the opportunity to network with classmates, learn, and have cross-cultural experiences.”
A Political Hot Spot
The MBA immersion kicked off with a visit to the European Parliament, seat of the European Union and hub for some of the region’s most important political debates. While touring, students learned about the EU’s decision-making process, which parties participate and how the Parliament is structured. “It was surreal to stand in the room where the Parliament actually convenes,” says Danielle Balmelle, MBA ’17.
For Applewhite, the most impactful part of the visit were the presentations. Staff lectured on some of today’s hottest topics, such as Brexit and T-tip, and discussed how the EU plans to address the issues moving forward.
Applewhite says the ...
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Center for Health Workforce Studies Releases Infographic on Variation in Dental Hygiene Scope of Practice
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The new infographic is designed to help policy makers better understand differences in dental hygiene scopes of practice across states. (Graphic by Center for Health Workforce Studies)
ALBANY, N.Y. (July 21, 2017) -- Oral health workforce researchers at University at Albany’s Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) have released an infographic designed to help policy makers better understand differences in dental hygiene scopes of practice across states.
Scopes of practice for health professionals are defined in states’ laws and regulations, describing allowable services, settings and supervisory requirements. CHWS researchers examined 2014 scope-of-practice parameters for dental hygienists across the 50 states and found that that in states where dental hygiene scope of practice rules were more closely aligned with dental hygiene professional competence, there was a positive and statistically significant association with population oral health.
An article discussing the study, Expanded Scopes of Practice for Dental Hygienists Associated With Improved Oral Health Outcomes for Adults, was published in the December 2016 issue of Health Affairs and was selected as an editor’s pick of the year.
Scope of practice is an important consideration for policymakers when identifying strategies to increase the availability of preventive oral health services.
Recognizing the importance of the relationship between dental hygiene scope of practice and state-level oral health outcomes, researchers decided to develop an infographic that could help policy makers compare dental hygiene scopes of practice across states.
Researchers conducted a series of focus groups with dental hygiene leaders across the country to identify the functions and tasks to include in the infographic, which is based on a 2016 assessment of dental hygiene scope of practice across states.
"Policymakers and other stakeholders need tools to help them understand the striking variability in state-to-state dental hygiene scope of practice. Research has demonstrated that broader scopes of practice for dental hygienists are correlated with better oral health outcomes. This infographic depicts that ...
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Clemson Life Sciences summer camp turns students into forensic investigators
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CLEMSON — Voldemort, The Joker, Maleficent and the Wicked Witch of the West were just a few of the suspects in a simulated murder investigation at a recent summer science camp for fifth- through seventh-graders held on the campus of Clemson University.
Students at the CSI summer camp decode secret messages.Image Credit: Katherine Freeman / Clemson University
The July 11-14 camp, led by instructors at the Clemson University Life Sciences Outreach Center (CULSOC) in Jordan Hall, was intended to spark interest in science for kids who might otherwise regard the subject as strictly lab coats and lectures.
On July 11, a group of 15 students from around the Upstate and Georgia began their investigation when they found a secret message written in “invisible ink,” or a dried mixture of baking soda and water, on a sheet of paper. When the paper was painted with concentrated grape juice, the message was revealed due to an acid-base reaction. The students were allowed to make their own secret messages to see how the chemical reaction works.
From there, the “victim” was identified by analyzing the loops, whorls and arches of fingerprints found at the crime scene.
“After the students discovered who the victim was, they analyzed their own fingerprints,” said Katherine Freeman, a recent Clemson graduate-turned-instructor for CULSOC. “We then noticed that there were no marks on the ‘body,’ so we concluded that our victim died from poisoning. This led us toward analyzing the ‘poisons’ that the crime scene technicians believe killed the victim.”
Microscopic hair analysis helped the students identify the “killer.”Image Credit: Katherine Freeman / Clemson University
Analyzing the poisons — mockups of arsenic, cyanide, hemlock, ricin and belladonna made from harmless household ingredients — introduced the students to the field of forensic toxicology. The study of dental evidence, called forensic odontology, was also touched on when the students examined teeth marks found on a piece ...
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IUPUI diversity researcher to co-edit special journal issue focusing on Black Lives Matter: Newscenter: Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEINDIANAPOLIS -- An Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis diversity researcher will co-edit a special edition of a journal that will examine through multiple disciplines the Black Lives Matter movement.
Among the project's goals, said Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, an associate professor of psychology in the School of Science, is to collect a volume of interdisciplinary manuscripts that seeks to:
Understand the reasons for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Deconstruct the resistance to it.
Identify strategies for effecting positive change that demonstrates the valuing of black lives.
Ashburn-Nardo will edit the special issue of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal with Kecia Thomas, a psychology professor and founding director of the Center for Research and Engagement in Diversity at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia.
"People are sharply divided in their opinions of the Black Lives Matter movement," Ashburn-Nardo said. "We think that is because it is something that is poorly understood.
"When they hear 'black lives matter,' a lot of people think that means at the exclusion of other lives. There seems to be a misunderstanding that by saying 'black lives matter' it implies that maybe white lives don't matter -- or blue lives, given that a lot of attention regarding the movement has centered around police interactions with African Americans, " she said.
"I don't think anyone in that movement feels that other lives don't matter, but that seems to be how a lot of folks are interpreting it and have a lot of strong emotional reaction to it," she said. "We are hoping this special issue can shed some light on that."
In a call for papers for the special journal edition, Ashburn-Nardo and Thomas write: "The Black Lives Matter movement came out of the Black community's chronic experience with overt and covert racism and its collective frustration with being silenced when ...
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How Going Back to School Has Made Me a Better Instructor
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When people first heard that I had made the decision to go back to school to pursue an associate degree in professional nursing, almost everyone had an opinion about it. Most supported my decision with statements like “that’s great”, and “good for you”, while others seemed perplexed by my choice, “But why? What made you decide to go back to school? You already have a Ph.D.” Well, there are a few reasons why I decided to go back to school. First off, since I began working for Rasmussen College in New Port Richey as a science instructor in 2010, I have seen the nursing program here grow in leaps and bounds, expanding in both student numbers and in the number of nursing faculty hired each quarter to meet the growing demand for the program. Wanting to be a part of this new development, I knew that I would need a degree in nursing in order to accomplish this goal. Secondly, and probably most importantly, I wanted to better understand the information that my students would be exposed to in their future nursing courses in order to help prepare them to be successful in their education. In some of the courses I taught, such as Anatomy and Physiology, Microbiology and Human Biology, I would educate students about the pathophysiology of diseases and disorders, the signs and symptoms and how these diseases might be medically treated. However, what I was unable to teach students at the time was how to care for a patient inflicted with these disorders. Now, through my education in nursing, I am not only able to educate my students about the inner workings of the body, but also how to care for the person as an individual. Now, when I talk about disorders in the classroom, I can describe nursing diagnoses that relate to the patient, nursing ...
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Evan Bader receives CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-America honors
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Evan Bader is the seventh at Miami to earn multiple CoSIDA Academic All-America honors.
by Angie Renninger, intercollegiate athletics
Evan Bader, a Miami University swimmer from Oxford, earned First-Team Academic All-America honors from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) in the Men’s At-Large classification.
He is the first at Miami to earn first-team distinction in the At-Large category, which includes student-athletes from the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling on the men’s side.
Evan Bader
This is the second CoSIDA Academic All-America honor in Bader’s career, making him one of seven Miamians to earn the honor multiple times. Last year, Bader became the first in men’s swimming and diving history to receive the award, garnering third-team accolades. He is the 12th individual in Miami athletics to receive CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-America distinction.
Bader has a 3.98 grade-point average and is a double major in chemical engineering and chemistry. He is an Olympic trials qualifier in the 200 breaststroke and owns the Miami records for the 100 and 200 breaststroke as well as the 400 medley relay.
This season, he contributed 48 points at the MAC Championships, placing sixth in the 100 breaststroke, 12th in the 200 breaststroke and 15th in the 200 IM. He also was a part of the fifth-place 200 medley relay at the conference championships.
Additionally, he is a two-time MAC Distinguished Scholar-Athlete Award recipient and a three-time Academic All-MAC selection. Bader is a member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Fraternity.
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Future Development Reads: The brittle consensus on Africa’s prospects
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Seventeen years ago, The Economist called Africa the hopeless continent. A decade later it ate its words, and popularized a new slogan: Africa rising. In 2013, to erase any doubts about its opinion about Africa, the magazine headlined its special report, A hopeful continent.
Optimism has pervaded prognostications about Africa for more than a decade. In 2014, this was the title of an article about the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook: The IMF says the World is in a Mess – But Not Africa. In his 2015 book, economist Steve Radelet pointed out that Africa is less poor, less sick, better educated, and better governed than ever before; incomes and investment are rising, debt and inflation are down, and civil conflict is subsiding. In 2016, McKinsey doubled down, ignoring rumors that the continent’s largest economy, Nigeria, would need help from the IMF and the World Bank, it declared Africa’s economic fundamentals strong.
The IMF and the World Bank are putting on a brave face. Last September, the IMF forecast Africa’s growth at less than 2 percent, highlighting that several countries were expected to grow at about 6 percent before allowing that the region’s three biggest economies—Nigeria, South Africa, and Angola—would do really badly. A month later, an article in The New York Times figured that “Africa Reeling” would be a better headline for the region. But in April 2017, the World Bank exclaimed that economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to rebound (wait for this…) 2.6 percent in 2017. The population in Africa grows by about 2.7 percent every year.
You can get whiplash reading this stuff.
African Drama
The real action is in Asia. Kenan Karakülah, my colleague here at the Duke Center for International Development, made Figure 1 using data for 1960-2016 from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators. Back in 1960, East Asia and Africa had pretty much the same ...
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2017 Retina Research Foundation (RRF) Paul Kayser Global Award Furthers Armour College of Engineering Associate Professor Jennifer Kang-Mieler’s Research
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Jennifer Kang-Mieler, associate professor of biomedical engineering, was recently named the recipient of the 2017 Retina Research Foundation (RRF) Paul Kayser Global Award. She was honored with the accolade for her research project ”A novel microsphere-hydrogel ocular drug delivery system for anti- vascular endothelial growth factors (anti-VEGFs).”
The $50,000 award is presented every two years and was first established in 2013 to recognize a vision science professional whose work has made a significant new contribution to knowledge about improving vision and prevention of blindness. The award will further Kang-Mieler’s research into the development of a drug delivery platform that encapsulates and releases anti-VEGF agents from biodegradable microspheres and thermo-responsive hydrogels for more than six months. The novel treatment would replace the conventional monthly intravitreal injection treatment for age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.
Kang-Mieler will be recognized for the achievement on Wednesday, August 9 during the opening ceremonies of the XXXIII Pan-American Congress of Ophthalmology in Lima, Peru. She will also present her research during the event on Friday, August 11.
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COD Board of Trustees Approves MOU for Glen Ellyn Civic Center Space
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By Brian KleemannThe College of DuPage Board of Trustees took its first step toward the possible establishment
of an innovation center in the Glen Ellyn Civic Center.During its July 20 meeting, the Board approved a memorandum of understanding to reimburse
the Village of Glen Ellyn for preliminary architectural costs up to $24,000 in determining
whether 8,500 square feet of space in the Glen Ellyn Civic Center can be renovated.
The MOU will yield a preliminary design and cost estimate that the Board of Trustees
will use to determine whether the College should pursue the space for an innovation
center.If created, the new initiative – to be called Innovation DuPage – would serve as both
a business incubator and accelerator that would connect small businesses with the
necessary resources to thrive and stimulate job growth.“Since its establishment 50 years ago, College of DuPage has made a positive impact
on workforce and economic development,” said College of DuPage President Dr. Ann Rondeau.
“We welcome the opportunity to work with Choose DuPage and the Village of Glen Ellyn
to create an innovation center with strong public and private partners that will expand
our local business base. The center would take what we already do well and offer it
through an exciting concept.”In June, the Village of Glen Ellyn approved the authorization of the MOU and a contract
with the architectural and engineering firm Dewberry for design services for the space.Board of Trustees Chairman Deanne Mazzochi said College of DuPage is in a unique position
to leverage its knowledge and resources to further promote local economic growth.“We are happy to explore the possibility of using this central location in downtown
Glen Ellyn for a center that could have a tremendous positive impact on DuPage County,”
Mazzochi said.Joe Cassidy, Dean of Continuing Education at College of DuPage, said the College has
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Why black homeownership rates lag even as the housing market recovers
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A decade after the housing crash destroyed the American Dream for millions of homeowners, black homeownership rates have dropped to levels not seen since the 1960s, hobbling African-Americans' efforts to build their wealth.Nationally, only 42.2 percent of blacks owned homes in 2016, compared with 71.9 percent of whites, according to a new report by Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies. And in Chicago, the gap between black and white homeownership rates is even more extreme. Only 38.9 percent of African-Americans owned homes in the Chicago area in 2015, compared with 74 percent of whites. Before the housing crash, almost half of African-Americans in the Chicago area owned homes, according to Harvard's research. Latinos in the Chicago area also lag when it comes to homeownership. Only 50.5 percent of Latinos owned homes in the area in 2015.
Local efforts are underway to help more Chicago-area residents become homeowners, something that would help strengthen neighborhoods and put those individuals on a stronger financial path.
"homeownership is a way for people to generate stability and wealth and not just go to work every day," said Deborah Moore, neighborhood planning director for Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, a nonprofit that helps Chicago residents buy and keep homes. In addition, homeownership can "change the trajectory of neighborhoods," she said.Without homes, blacks lack a powerful source of wealth creation, said Jonathan Spader, senior research associate with the Harvard center. Homeowners generally build equity that allows them to eventually buy other homes or businesses and send children to college. Homes also are passed to younger generations upon death, allowing future generations to build wealth."Because whites are far more able to give inheritances or family assistance for down payments due to historical wealth accumulation, white families buy homes and start acquiring equity an average eight years earlier than black families," researchers Thomas Shapiro, Tatjana Meschede and Sam Osoro of the Institute on ...
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Goulbourne’s USB Cable Alternative to Frail Phone Cords Hits Shelves
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Though the path from concept to product was not easy, Goulbourne knew he would succeed.
“Since Snakable went into manufacturing, it has literally been on my mind 24/7. A lot of people put their faith and money behind Snakable, and I was going to be sure that it wasn’t in vain,” said the machine operator for Boeing in Philadelphia. “There were many hurdles to overcome; and though I wasn’t always sure exactly how to overcome them, I knew doing so was the only option.”
But when the product became available for purchase in August, Goulbourne knew his hard work had paid off.
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Goulbourne first launched the Snakable campaign on Kickstarter.com, asking for $28,000 to produce tooling and the first batch of production units. By the end of the first day, he had $1,000. By the end of the first week, he had $3,000. While those were good numbers, it wasn’t going to get him to his goal so he pushed harder.
“I communicated all day every day with folks over social media, blogs, and even through other crowdfunding projects,” said Goulbourne. “I felt like a switchboard, trying to get the information out about Snakable to as many people as fast as possible.”
It was then that he found out about an event in New York City hosted by an AOL Inc. company, TechCrunch. The event was designed for startup companies and new tech products.
“My brother and I spent 10 hours demonstrating the product via 3D-printed Snakable mock-ups, on a small high-top bar table to hundreds of people,” said Goulbourne. “By the end of the day, the campaign went up over $10,000.”
By the end of the 30-day campaign, Snakable had attracted 1,335 backers from 97 countries who contributed more than $40,000 to the project.
“Getting this product from concept to delivery was easily the hardest objective I’ve ever accomplished. It was also ...
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Two McCormack PhD Students Earn Boren Fellowships to Study Languages Abroad
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Boren Fellowship Winners in the Global Governance and Human Security PhD ProgramPolly Cegielski and Linda Holcombe, both PhD students in the McCormack Graduate School, have received Boren Fellowships to study languages abroad. Cegielski is going to Tajikistan to study Pashto and Holcombe is going to Uganda to study Swahili.
The students’ work will be supported by the National Security Education Program. which funds U.S. college students who wish to study less commonly taught languages in world regions critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in studies abroad.
Cegielski is focusing on critical military studies in the Global Governance and Human Security PhD Program. She did two tours in Afghanistan as a Department of Defense civilian and one tour as a military contractor.
“The Afghan people really inspired me, especially working with the women there,” Cegielski said. “What they have to deal with every day and then still be able to put a positive face on, whether it’s family members being killed or persecuted by their own people because of how they segregate women, and yet they are still able to rise above, is incredibly inspiring.”
Cegielski’s dissertation work focuses on security forces in Afghanistan, where Pashto is one of the official languages. The Boren Fellowship will allow Cegielski to develop her Pashto skills and speak with Afghan security forces as she completes her dissertation--giving her greater credibility as a subject matter expert on Southeast Asia and preparing her for a potential job in the State Department or at the United Nations.
“I am incredibly grateful and feel amazingly blessed,” Cegielski said. She also said she couldn’t have completed her application without the support of the Office of Global Programs, the Office of Fellowship Advising and Interim Fellowships Advisor Eve Sorum, and the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance.
“For anyone seeking a fellowship, ...
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Researchers find path to discovering new topological materials, holding promise for technological applications
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An international team of researchers has found a way to determine whether a crystal is a topological insulator — and to predict crystal structures and chemical compositions in which new ones can arise. The results show that topological insulators are much more common in nature than currently believed.
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Neuroscientists to be honored at 2016 Gill Symposium for recasting role of glial cells in the brain
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IUB Newsroom »Neuroscientists to be honored at 2016 Gill Symposium for recasting role of glial cells in the brainNeuroscientists to be honored at 2016 Gill Symposium for recasting role of glial cells in the brainSept. 7, 2016FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEBLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Two prominent neurobiologists will be honored Sept. 12 at Indiana University Bloomington for their groundbreaking work on glial cells in the brain.
Ben Barres of Stanford University School of Medicine and Beth Stevens of Harvard University Medical School will be recognized during the annual symposium of the Linda and Jack Gill Center for Biomolecular Science.
Long considered supporting cells, glia are now thought to have important metabolic functions, owing in part to work of Barres, Stevens and four other symposium speakers, whose research will be highlighted with a series of lectures on the theme of "neuron-glia interaction in the nervous system."
The 2016 Gill Symposium will take place in the Whittenberger Auditorium at the Indiana Memorial Union. The event is free, but registration is required.
Ben Barres
Ben Barres, professor and chair of neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, is the recipient of the 2016 Gill Distinguished Scientist Award.
"Throughout his career, Ben Barres has identified important unanswered questions and worked to solve them even when doing so was seen as unfashionable," said Dan Tracey, the Linda and Jack Gill Chair of Neuroscience and professor in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology. "This was particularly true of his work on neuron-glia interactions, which was considered by many to be an uninteresting topic.
"Now, largely based on the results of Barres and his trainees, many others have entered this exciting area and have finally recognized its importance,” Tracey said.
Hui-Chen Lu, Gill Chair of Neuroscience and professor in the IU Bloomington Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, said: "Ben has been passionate about increasing diversity and raising awareness for ...
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Opinion: Why we should stop expecting Trump to be honest
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As scrutiny intensifies about the Trump administration’s possible ties to Russia, the obvious answer would be for the White House to disclose completely all pertinent information—the kind of radical transparency that might end the uncertainty and help build trust. But in today’s political environment, such transparency carries a heavy cost for any politician, regardless of party affiliation or background.Instead of building trust, complete transparency can leave even the most ethical politicians exposed to the negative implications of revealing information that can be turned into ammunition for partisans on the other side. For Trump in particular, complete transparency could backfire by amplifying suspicion and further escalating calls for his impeachment on allegations of obstructing justice, accepting gifts from foreign powers, or treason.Among the latest developments in the Russia story is the Senate Judiciary Committee’s intention to call Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort to testify about their meetings with the Russians during the campaign. Trump Jr.’s attendance of the meeting and his “massaging” of the details about what was discussed have amped up suspicions around possible election interference.This led The Wall Street Journal editorial board, referencing investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller and the House and Senate intelligence committees, to ask the Trump administration to pursue a policy of “radical transparency.” That logic argues for a policy of disclosing every document and email to the House and Senate committees, to the press, and to the public.RelatedBut being transparent is not as simple as it seems. Nobody is perfect, so any real transparency effort will inevitably expose both the good and the bad. A person or organization will be transparent only if they trust that those gaining access to information will not use it unfairly against them. This is why, in human relationships, we’re “radically transparent” only with ...
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Construction begins on international science experiment to understand neutrinos
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With the turning of a shovelful of earth a mile underground in South Dakota, a new era in international particle physics research officially began July 21.In a unique groundbreaking ceremony at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, a group of dignitaries, scientists and engineers from around the world, including those from the University of Chicago and its affiliated Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, marked the start of construction of a massive international experiment that could change our understanding of the universe. The Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility will house the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), which will be built over the next 10 years and operated by a group of roughly 1,000 scientists and engineers from 30 countries.
As part of the collaboration, Fermilab will generate a beam of neutrinos and send them 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) through the earth to Sanford Lab, where a four-story-high, 70,000-ton detector will be built beneath the surface to catch those neutrinos.
“Fermilab is proud to host the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility and the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, which bring together scientists from 30 countries in a quest to understand the neutrino,” said Nigel Lockyer, director of Fermilab. “This is a true landmark day and the start of a new era in global neutrino physics.”
When complete, the experiment will be the largest built in the United States to study the properties of mysterious particles called neutrinos. Unlocking the mysteries of these particles could help explain more about how the universe works, and why matter exists.
“Today is extremely exciting for all of us in the DUNE collaboration,” said Ed Blucher, professor of physics at the University of Chicago and the Enrico Fermi Institute and co-spokesperson for the DUNE collaboration. “It marks the start of an incredibly challenging and ambitious experiment, which could have a profound impact on our understanding of the universe.”
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2017 International Sand Sculpting Festival at Revere Beach This Weekend
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Artists from around the world gather for annual competition
Canadian artist Mélineige Beauregard won the solo sand sculpting competition at last year’s International Sand Sculpting Festival at Revere Beach for her work, “Go with the Flow,” (pictured above). Beauregard, who also won the award in 2015, will return for this year’s competition. Photo by Rachael Landau
It’s time to pull on your swimsuit, slather on the sunscreen, and head over to Revere Beach for the 14th annual Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival. Each year a select group of the world’s most innovative sand sculptors are chosen to take part in the three-day event, where they dig, pack, mold, and chisel extraordinarily intricate works of art using only sand, water, and tools.
The festival, which kicks off today and runs through Sunday, attracts thousands of onlookers annually and has become one of the country’s most prestigious sand sculpturing competition.
This year, 15 artists hailing from the United States, Canada, Russia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Italy will compete. Unlike years past, which included both solo and duo competitions, this year’s festival will feature only individual sculptors. In addition to creating their own works, they’ll team up to create this year’s centerpiece sculpture: a twenty-foot-wide recreation of the U.S.S. Constitution made entirely from sand. (The historic frigate, built in 1797 and commonly referred to as “Old Ironsides,” is set to return to the Boston Harbor on Sunday, after a two-year, $12 million restoration.)
Each sculptor will be given 12 tons of sand and an 18’ x 18’ exhibit area in which to mount their own sculptures. The festival kicks off today at 10 a.m. and the artists will have until 2 p.m. Saturday to complete their works. Judges will grade the sculptures based on degree of difficulty, originality, creativity, and the quality of the sculpting. Prizes ranging from $1750 to $5, ...
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Class of 2021: Life-long dancer to pursue a biology degree
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Jada MooreSince she was 3 years old, dance has been an integral part of Jada Moore’s life. A recent graduate of Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School, Moore continued to pursue her passion throughout her high school career.
“I went to a performing arts school, so we would perform about three or four times in a school season,” said Moore.
From contemporary to ballet to clog, the Augusta native has done it all. Using her years of experience for a greater good, Moore organized a community event that gave people an inside glimpse of the dance world.
“We actually just did a fine arts camp two weeks ago,” Moore said. “A friend and I put that together. We brought in people, but we were also helping.”
This fall, Moore will set aside her dance shoes to dive into other passions. She will focus much of her energy on pursuing her degree, with the ultimate goal of a career in clinical genetics. In Moore’s eyes, Georgia College was the best place to turn this dream into a reality.
“I did go to a few colleges and was like ‘hmm, they’re cool,’ but I came to Georgia College and it just felt right.”
On a campus neither too close nor too far from home, Moore says she’s mostly looking forward to the entire college experience. Though dance will not be her main priority, she does want to keep it in the picture.
“I definitely would do club or intramural type stuff, though,” Moore said. “One, for exercise. Two, because I like to dance.”
Moore will begin working toward her biology degree in the fall.
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Disrupting the future of food with gene-editing
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Federico Tripodi, MBA’08, is CEO of Calyxt, a gene-editing technology company focused on the food and agriculture industries, that celebrated its initial public offering on The Nasdaq Stock Market June 20, 2017.
Tripodi started his career in his native Argentina in 1998 in the research field of biotechnology traits and chemistry formulations; he moved to Saint Louis in 2001. He spent nearly two-decades in the ag biotech and seed industry with Monsanto. Calyxt is based in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Paris-based Cellectis.
“As more and more food companies are looking for specialty ingredients that can help them to satisfy customers’ evolving needs and desire to lead healthier lifestyles, Calyxt is perfectly positioned to be an industry leader with the emergence of gene editing as a truly game-changing technology in the food space,” said Federico Tripodi, CEO, Calyxt. “Coupled with our innovative commercial strategy, this will allow Calyxt to meet the needs of today’s consumer preferences – all of the while helping to shape the landscape for the future of food as we know it.”
“Calyxt believes that the precision, specificity, cost-effectiveness and development speed of the company’s gene editing technologies will enable it to provide meaningful disruption to the food and agriculture industries. We are proud to welcome Calyxt to the Nasdaq family of innovators,” said Nelson Griggs, Executive Vice President, Head of Global Listings, Nasdaq.
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Annual Mahoney Life Sciences Prize Established for CNS Faculty
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The College of Natural Sciences (CNS) has announced the establishment of the Mahoney Life Sciences Prize, an annual competition for CNS scientists engaged in high-impact applied life sciences research.The prize is made possible through the generosity of the Mahoney family to recognize UMass Amherst scientists whose work significantly advances connections between research and industry.
The prize is awarded to one faculty member who is the principal author of a peer-reviewed paper about original research on any topic in the life sciences that focuses on new research with translatable applications to industry and society.
It is the first faculty paper prize for CNS.
The prize includes an award of $10,000 as well as opportunities to present the research to industry leaders and the UMass Amherst community.
The three Mahoney brothers received their degrees in chemistry from UMass Amherst. They went on to become leaders in their own industries and have served as high-level alumni advisers to the campus.
The inaugural prize winner will be formally announced in the spring of 2018.
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UT’s Engel Co-Investigator on Grant Funded Through Oil Spill Penalties
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Annette Engel at a marsh.A UT earth and planetary sciences professor is co-principal investigator on a project that will study how practices to restore coastal marshes and lands are impacting marsh food webs.
“Our results will help Gulf of Mexico resource managers to plan coastal marsh restoration efforts to combat land loss in the future,” said Annette Engel, the UT Jones Professor of Aqueous Geochemistry.
The project recently received a $2 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s RESTORE Science Program. NOAA disbursed a total of $16.7 million to fund various research projects from penalties paid by parties responsible for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Michael Polito of Louisiana State University will lead Engel’s research team. Other collaborators include researchers from Rutgers University; the University of Florida; Michigan Technological University; and Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
Coastal land loss is a significant problem in Louisiana and elsewhere around the world, Engel said. Over the next three years, the team of 10 researchers, along with their students and research staff, will conduct field work together in northern Barataria Bay, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. It is where the Mississippi River water and its sediment are diverted into the nearby natural salt marshes and created marshes from previous restoration projects.
“The river diversions change the salinity of the water in the marshes, and little is known about the effects of these diversions on salt marsh ecosystems,” Engel said.
The UT group will sample sediment, soil, and water from the marshes, and other researchers will collect plant, insect, and fish samples.
“We will use genetics, chemistry methods, and computer modeling approaches to determine what lives in the natural and created marshes, and to understand how food and nutrients move through the different types of marsh ecosystems,” Engel said.
The UT researchers will focus on the microbial communities and metabolic changes that affect the food ...
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UPMC Radiotherapy Center in Rome Recognized for Highest Quality and Safety Standards
UPMC Radiotherapy Center in Rome Recognized for Highest Quality and Safety Standards
A leader in international health care accreditation, JCI sets the “gold standard” in global health care quality. Its rigorous accreditation process focuses on determining whether a health care facility has the right systems and processes in place to support high-quality and safe patient care, and has the culture and capacity to continuously improve care. JCI’s surveyors examine such crucial issues as patient and family education, access to care and medication management.
“Ensuring our patients receive the best possible care close to home is our No. 1 priority, and demonstrating compliance with JCI standards serves as validation of this commitment,” said PierCarlo Gentile, M.D., medical director, UPMC San Pietro. “Our dedicated staff is fortunate to be part of UPMC’s global network, where we can take advantage of the experience and expertise of our colleagues not only in Italy, but worldwide.”
One of three oncology outpatient clinics accredited by JCI in Italy, UPMC San Pietro offers the most advanced radiation therapy, including intensity-modulated radiation therapy and image-guided radiation therapy, to residents of Rome and the surrounding region. As part of UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, the facility leverages UPMC’s cancer expertise from more than 50 treatment locations worldwide. For instance, teams from UPMC’s radiotherapy center in Waterford, Ireland—which also has JCI accreditation—helped to guide their colleagues in Italy through the process, along with UPMC experts in Pittsburgh.
“By collaborating across our global network, UPMC has once again met the challenge of reaching internationally recognized, time-tested and comprehensive quality standards,” said Dwight E. Heron, M.D., director of radiation services, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center. “The entire UPMC team can be proud of this accomplishment, which underscores our excellent, patient-centered model of care.”
Established to respond to a growing demand around the world for standards-based evaluation of quality ...
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Xavier Pons, degà de la Facultat de Dret: «En moments de crisi i d’incerteses, la Universitat ha d’influir en la societat»
Universitat de Barcelona - Notícies
«Un element important de la nostra oferta acadèmica són les titulacions internacionals.»
«A la Facultat hi ha un bon nombre de professors i professores que formen part de grups de recerca i que tenen una altíssima productivitat científica.»
«A més de ser una necessitat, també veiem el nou edifici com una fabulosa finestra d’oportunitat.»
21/07/2017
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El degà de la Facultat de Dret, el catedràtic de Dret Internacional Públic Xavier Pons, és expert en dret internacional públic, organitzacions internacionals, dret comunitari europeu, salut humana i seguretat alimentària. Ha actuat com a consultor legal internacional de l’Organització de les Nacions Unides per a l’Alimentació i l’Agricultura (FAO) i ha publicat diverses monografies, obres col·lectives i nombrosos articles en revistes especialitzades de l’àmbit del dret internacional, particularment sobre les Nacions Unides i la Unió Europea. Dins de la Universitat de Barcelona ha ocupat els càrrecs de vicepresident i president en funcions de la Divisió de Ciències Jurídiques, Econòmiques i Socials, i de secretari general, del 2005 al 2008. En aquesta entrevista ens explica la seva actuació al capdavant de la Facultat en un moment marcat per la construcció i posada en marxa del nou edifici, que ha de respondre a les necessitats docents i de recerca del centre.
L’any vinent comença l’activitat al nou edifici de la Facultat de Dret, de més de 16.000 metres quadrats, que s’afegeix a les instal·lacions del centre i n’amplia les potencialitats.
Aquest nou edifici respon a una demanda històrica de la Facultat: fa més de disset anys que estem pendents d’aquest tema. Finalment, si bé les circumstàncies econòmiques actuals encara són molt complexes, tenim el nou edifici, que donarà suport a la docència dels cinc graus de la Facultat, amb més de 7.000 estudiants. Entre altres necessitats, ...
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Missouri S&T aerial robotic team to race drones
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Near the end of July, a team of students from Missouri University of Science and Technology will compete in an intercollegiate aerial robotics event that some have described as a complex chess match for drones. The drones are designed and built by students, including their custom electronics.
The International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC) will take place July 25-27 at Georgia Institute of Technology. This will be Missouri S&T’s first entry into the competitive scene of flying robots. At this year’s event, Missouri S&T’s Multirotor Robot Design Team will use an autonomous aerial robot named “Sentinel” to guide ground-based robots to a specific side of a playing field. The drones must navigate autonomously through an unknown terrain and obstacles, and locate other robots.
Each year, the IARC develops a new challenge that is considered “impossible to complete” by any devices currently owned by government or industry. In last year’s competition, robots had to locate an opening in a building, enter without being detected on a surveillance camera, navigate crowded hallways and reach a particular room without bumping any walls or landing. From there, the robot had to locate a particular paper inbox containing a flash drive, retrieve the flash drive, replace it with an identical blank flash drive and exit the building – all within a short time span.
Sentinel is the first aircraft the team has designed specifically for the IARC. It includes on-board electronics such as a flight control board that allows it to navigate without direct human control, an obstacle-avoiding LIDAR system, and a camera and image processing system. The drone will use the camera, combined with computer software, to identify and target the ground robots that are a part of this year’s competition. Sentinel is made of a carbon fiber base plate and uses lightweight metals to connect its parts for ...
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Alla Voskoboynikova recognized with Steinway award for outstanding piano instruction
UMSL Daily
Steinway Piano Gallery of St. Louis nominated the UMSL music faculty member for the honor, citing her excellence in “guiding each of her students to achieve their maximum potential.” (Photo courtesy of Alla Voskoboynikova)
Ask Alla Voskoboynikova about the striking instruments that dominate her studio at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and she speaks of them as treasured companions.
In one corner stands a beguiling clavichord. The other side of the room belongs to a handcrafted, seven-foot-long grand piano – and she’s especially fond of it.
“Our instrument is more than just an instrument,” explains the associate teaching professor of music. “With this one, UMSL actually sent me to New York to the Steinway factory to pick it out, and I brought this instrument here. So we feel very human about our instrument. It’s a friend.”
That connection between pianists and their pianos – particularly Steinways – made the news Voskoboynikova received last month even more special.
In June, a letter arrived from that same New York factory where she remembers trying out so many beautiful instruments several years ago. She was thrilled to learn that the company was honoring her with a Steinway & Sons Top Teacher Award.
“That came in the mail, and then Gerry Malzone, the vice president of the Steinway Piano Gallery here in St. Louis, came to campus the other day and brought this,” Voskoboynikova says, showing off a framed certificate.
Steinway bestows the awards annually in recognition of outstanding piano instruction and leadership. Malzone emphasizes Voskoboynikova’s renowned presence as a soloist, accompanist and educator as the impetus for the gallery’s nomination of her for the honor.
“Alla has excelled at guiding each of her students to achieve their maximum potential,” he says. “Her passion extends to all students whether their personal goals are for the concert stage or as a music enthusiast.”
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Superluminous supernova marks the death of a star at cosmic high noon
Physical and Biological Sciences News
The yellow arrow marks the superluminous supernova DES15E2mlf in this false-color image of the surrounding field. This image was observed with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) gri-band filters mounted on the Blanco 4-meter telescope on December 28, 2015, around the time when the supernova reached its peak luminosity. (Observers: D. Gerdes and S. Jouvel)The death of a massive star in a distant galaxy 10 billion years ago created a rare superluminous supernova that astronomers say is one of the most distant ever discovered. The brilliant explosion, more than three times as bright as the 100 billion stars of our Milky Way galaxy combined, occurred about 3.5 billion years after the big bang at a period known as "cosmic high noon," when the rate of star formation in the universe reached its peak.
Superluminous supernovae are 10 to 100 times brighter than a typical supernova resulting from the collapse of a massive star. But astronomers still don't know exactly what kinds of stars give rise to their extreme luminosity or what physical processes are involved.
The supernova known as DES15E2mlf is unusual even among the small number of superluminous supernovae astronomers have detected so far. It was initially detected in November 2015 by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration using the Blanco 4-meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Follow-up observations to measure the distance and obtain detailed spectra of the supernova were conducted with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the 8-meter Gemini South telescope.
The investigation was led by UC Santa Cruz astronomers Yen-Chen Pan and Ryan Foley as part of an international team of DES collaborators. The researchers reported their findings in a paper published July 21 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The new observations may provide clues to the nature of stars and galaxies during peak star formation. Supernovae are important in the evolution of galaxies ...
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Traveling to Mars Will Wreak Havoc on Our Bodies – Can We Prevent It?
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As humans prepare to venture deeper into outer space, including potential trips to Mars, researchers are hard at work trying to understand and mitigate the effects of low gravity and radiation on space travelers’ bodies.
“People think of technology as the limiting factor in space flight, but it’s not,” said Thomas Lang, PhD, a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging at UC San Francisco. “Human physiology is the limiting factor.”
Spaceflight seems to have a particularly notable effect on the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and immune systems. Many of the changes researchers are seeing as a result of spaceflight are similar to those seen in aging, though they happen much faster in space.
“We’re attuned to living in gravity,” Lang said.
As private aerospace companies and NASA are competing to be the first to land on Mars, UCSF researchers, and many others nationwide, are studying the effects of space travel – and trying to find ways to offset those impacts.
Bone Loss, Back Pain and Dried Plums
Since the first Apollo space flights in the 1960s and ’70s, the effects of space on muscles and bones has been apparent. After just eight days in orbit, the Apollo astronauts were so weak that they had to be pulled from their landing capsules.
In the following decades, astronauts, such as those on the International Space Station (ISS), began to exercise to keep their bones and muscles conditioned during their six-month stays. Still, many astronauts suffer back pain for years after returning to Earth.
To figure out why the back pain occurs after the exposure to low gravity, Jeffrey Lotz, PhD, the David Bradford Endowed Chair of Orthopedic Surgery at UCSF, recently studied the spines of astronauts after their time in space.
What he found surprised him.
He’d imagined that the back pain arose from disks swollen with water that would ordinarily get ...
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FIU’s Naomi Ruele to Compete at the 2017 FINA World Championships
FIU Athletics
MIAMI (July 21, 2017) – FIU's Naomi Ruele will represent her home country of Botswana in this year's FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungry, beginning Monday, July 24. Ruele will compete in 50m back and the 100m back from Danube Arena. The native of Gaborone, Botswana, will take part in the 100m back prelims and semifinals on Monday, July 24, with the finals set for Tuesday, July 25. The 50m back competition will begin on Saturday, July 29, and will conclude on Sunday, July 30, with the event finals. The 2017 FINA World Championship will feature almost 3,000 athletes in six different disciplines, competing in 75 contests over a period of 17 days (July 14-30). Fans are encouraged to follow the Panthers on Twitter (@FIUSwimDive) and become a fan on Facebook (Facebook.com/FIUSwimmingAndDiving) for all the latest Swimming and Diving news. Follow all of FIU's 18 athletic teams on Twitter (@FIUAthletics), Facebook (Facebook.com/FIUSports), YouTube (FIUPanthers), and Instagram (FIUathletics).##### About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in eight different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including FIU Arena and Riccardo Silva Stadium.
About FIU: Florida International University is classified by Carnegie as a "R1: Doctoral Universities - Highest Research Activity" and recognized as a Carnegie Community Engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as business, engineering, computer science, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes almost $9 billion each year to the local economy and is ranked second in Florida in Forbes Magazine's "America's Best Employers" list. FIU graduates are consistently among the highest paid college graduates in Florida and are among the leaders of public and private organizations throughout South Florida. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems ...
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Shanice Norton Completes Play In FIBA Championship
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BATON ROUGE -- LSU junior Shanice Norton recently completed play in her third FIBA European Championships, this time representing Great Britain in the FIBA U20 Women’s European Championships Division B.
Norton had previously represented her home country on the U16 Team at the 2012 and 2013 FIBA European Championships.
Great Britain finished eighth in the competition, scoring wins in group play over Ireland, 69-46, and Romania, 74-48, in the competition in Eilat, Israel.
Norton, who averaged 19.3 minutes a game over seven games, scored 53 points topped by the 13 points in 20 minutes against Israel. She also had nine rebounds in the contest, also her best of the tour. She averaged 7.5 points per game for the tournament, four rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.3 steals.
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Dateline Rice for July 21, 2017
Rice University News & Media
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Global business experience to help Huntsman as US ambassador to RussiaCharles McConnell, executive director of Rice’s Energy and Environment Initiative, is quoted.Sputnik Newshttp://bit.ly/2uGJXyJ
Opposition strike paralyzes parts of Venezuela as fears of violence mountFrancisco Monaldi, a fellow in Latin American energy policy at Rice’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, is quoted.The Washington Post (This also appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Boston Globe, McDowell News, AFLNet, Standard Examiner and LMT Online.)http://wapo.st/2uhRTneVenezuela is desperate for higher oil pricesBusiness Insider (This also appears in Bullfax and Latest Nigerian News.)http://read.bi/2gQBEKZ
Fluorine grants white graphene new powersA little fluorine turns an insulating ceramic known as white graphene into a wide-bandgap semiconductor with magnetic properties. Rice scientists said that could make the unique material suitable for electronics in extreme environments. Pulickel Ajayan, the Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering and founding chair of the Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering; postdoctoral researcher Chandra Sekhar Tiwary; and graduate student Sruthi Radhakrishnan are mentioned.National Science Foundationhttp://bit.ly/2txafni
Rice scientists simplify the incorporation of nitrogen into moleculesA Rice laboratory that specializes in synthesizing reagents and intermediate molecules for the design and manufacture of drugs and other fine chemicals has delivered on a promise to generalize the synthesis of electrophilic (electron-poor) aminating agents. László Kürti, associate professor of chemistry; postdoctoral researchers Padmanabha Kattamuri and Jun Yin; and McMurtry College senior Surached Siriwongsup are mentioned.National Science Foundationhttp://bit.ly/2gQmxRr
Houston team one step closer to growing capillariesIn their work toward 3-D printing transplantable tissues and organs, bioengineers and scientists from Rice and Baylor College of Medicine have demonstrated a key step on the path to generate implantable tissues with functioning capillaries.National Science Foundationhttp://bit.ly/2uJktQu
Zealandia: Lost continent beneath New Zealand to be drilledThirty ...
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La UPC, primera a Espanya al Ranking Web of Repositories
Actualitat UPC
El Ranking Web of Repositories, posiciona les universitats i altres institucions d’educació de tot el món en funció del volum, la visibilitat i l’impacte dels seus repositoris. Així, analitza més de dos mil repositoris de tot el món amb domini o subdomini propi que contenen publicacions de caire acadèmic (peer-reviewed papers). Les dades utilitzades per elaborar la segona edició del 2017 del rànquing, publicada el juliol, s’han obtingut a partir de cerques fetes durant aquest mateix mes. Pel que fa a la UPC, classifica la institució a partir dels resultats del repositori d’UPCommons i en aquesta edició puja de posicions, cosa que li permet recuperar el lideratge estatal.Els editors del rànking, Cybermetrics Lab del CSIC, ofereixen tres tipus de classificacions: la principal, que abasta repositoris de tots els temes (tipus Arxiv o RepEc) i repositoris institucionals; l’anomenada Top Institucionals, que conté exclusivament repositoris d’aquest tipus, pertanyents a universitats, ens de recerca i/o organismes governamentals, i una darrera (Portals) que inclou repositoris de difícil classificació, com ara ReseachGate, Academia o Mendeley, no considerats al rànquing principal. Així, en la classificació principal, UPCommons de la UPC es col·loca com el 31è millor repositori mundial (un lloc més amunt que a l’edició anterior), el 12è d’Europa (també un lloc més que a l’anterior) i ha passat del tercer al primer d’Espanya. A la classificació Top Institucional puja també posicions, passant del lloc 25 al 22 del món, del 10 al 8 a l’àmbit europeu i es col·loca també en el primer lloc de tot l’Estat.
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Gallery Showcases Student Talent Nov. 17- Dec. 3
Lone Star College CyFair News
Published on: October 07, 2015
The Fall Art Student Exhibition, featuring some of the best work of Lone Star College-CyFairs talented students, will be on display Nov. 17 Dec. 3.
This exhibition features the work LSC-CyFair visual art students have completed in their classes in a variety of mediums such as photography, painting, drawing and ceramics.
Come to enjoy the exhibition and stay to meet the student artists in person at the reception and awards ceremony set from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3.
The Bosque Gallery is located in the Center for the Arts building on the Barker Cypress campus at 9191 Barker Cypress.
For gallery hours and information, go to LoneStar.edu/bosquegallery or call 281.290.5273.
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Tradition of success earns the speech and debate team at LSC-North Harris the title of nation’s best
Lone Star College North Harris News
Published on: May 09, 2014
The Lone Star College-North Harris competitive speech and debate team continued their tradition of success by winning the 2014 Silvia Mariners Perpetual Sweepstakes Award at this years Phi Rho Pi National Speech Tournament. LSC-North Harris is only the third Texas school to win the award since its inception in 1970.
The Silvia Mariners Perpetual Sweepstakes Award is an ongoing prize, given each year to the community college team with the highest point total over the history of Phi Rho Pis annual tournaments.
LSC-North Harris team, which has a history of achievement at the local, regional and national levels, earned 112.5 points at this years tournament to secure the honor. Having won, the LSC-North Harris speech teams point total will now reset to zero next year.
For Wade Hescht, current team coach and a former LSC-North Harris student himself, the award has special meaning.
Winning the Mariner Sweepstakes evokes a double sense of pride for me, said Wade Hescht, director of forensics at LSC-North Harris. The points accumulated to win this award not only include my years of coaching, but also my years as a student competitor for LSC-North Harris."
Hescht, a professor at LSC-North Harris for nearly 20 years, was also an active member of the speech and debate team while attending the college. Now, along with the rest of the coaching team, professors Jonathan Stansbury, Dave Gaer and Casey Garcia, they have developed one of the nations best forensic teams.
In addition to Mariners Award, the team won numerous recognitions throughout the season, including being named the 2014 Phi Rho Pi Regional Champions, the 2014 Texas Community College Forensic Associations State Champions and the 2014 Texas Intercollegiate Forensic Associations State Champions (for two-year and four-year schools).
Once again we had a very talented group of competitors who represented the college wonderfully, said Hescht. Its amazing to see how far we have come, and ...
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Peter Mucha is new Chairs Leadership Program Director at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities
College of Arts & Sciences
Peter Mucha
Peter Mucha recently began his work as the Chairs Leadership Program (CLP) Director for the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. He succeeds department of communication professor Bill Balthrop, who was the founding chair of the program.
“The departmental chair’s position is one of the most critical academic leadership positions in the College,” says Balthrop.
“It’s a critical, and very stressful, position” agrees Mark Katz, IAH Director and former chair of the music department. “That’s why the CLP is so important—it is both a place of refuge and a great source of wisdom and best practices. Bill deserves so much credit for helping to create this lifeline for Carolina’s chairs. We owe him a great deal.”
Balthrop also served as interim Director of the Institute in 2010, and hosted the ambitious and important “A Symposium on Faculty Innovation” at Hyde Hall that year.
This summer Balthrop is in Europe conducting research into memorials.
“I am currently working broadly at the intersection of rhetorical and cultural practices. I am working on an analysis of the rhetorical functions performed by the American memorials and monuments constructed in Europe following World War I and World War II.”
Mucha said he was inspired by Bill Balthrop when he participated in the program back in 2010.
“Bill Balthrop talked about how the department chair is one of the most essential position in the College of Arts & Sciences,” said Mucha.
Mucha, the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor in Mathematics, came to UNC in 2005.
“When [IAH Director] Mark Katz asked me if I would be willing to be CLP Director, it was immediately an exciting opportunity for me,” said Mucha.
He has varied experience in leadership roles. He served as chair of the Mathematics Department in 2010. He joined CLP as a new chair when Balthrop was the director. In 2012, he ...
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Dr. Kane on Challenges Facing Genetic Testing in Prostate Cancer
Newsroom: InTheNews
Publication Date: 7/20/2017
ByLine: OncLive
URL Link: http://www.onclive.com/onclive-tv/dr-kane-on-challenges-facing-genetic-testing-in-prostate-cancer
Page Content: Features Christopher Kane, MD
News Type: National
News_Release_Date: July 21, 2017
NewsTags: Cancer; Genetics, Medical; Urology
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