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Brandeis alum nets major award for podcast on human rights and the sciencesVivek Vimal PhD '17 was honored by the Association for the Advancement of Science for exploring whether everyone deserves access to information. And he plays his own piano compositions!Photo: Mike LovettVivek VimalLawrence Goodman July 24, 2017Is access to knowledge a fundamental human right?Vivek Vimal, Phd ’17, explores this question in a series of 20- to 40-minute podcasts featuring interviews with a refugee from communist Czechoslovakia and a Brandeis philosophy professor, graduate student and postdoctoral fellow. The podcasts won the first-ever American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science and Human Rights Student Digital Media Competition. The assigned topic was “building bridges between science and human rights.”“I really wanted to bring together people from different walks to life — not just from different academic disciplines, but different spheres of existence,” Vimal says. The interviews he conducted for the podcasts have led him to believe access to knowledge is a human right. “Intrinsically, gathering knowledge is integral to who we are as human beings,” he says.Vimal, who earned his doctorate in neuroscience, opens each podcast with a dramatic flourish of classical music for the piano. He wrote and recorded the music himself specifically for the podcast.In the first podcast, Vimal speaks with Jan Srajer, a professional carpenter, contractor and owner of J.V.S. Harvest Builders in Woburn, Massachusetts. Vimal and Srajer met last summer after a 200-year-old tree on Vimal’s lawn fell over. Vimal wanted to salvage the wood and formed a woodworking group with his neighbors that Srajer joined.
Srajer describes his flight from his native Czechoslovakia in the 1980s to escape the oppression of the country’s communist regime. Srajer recently became interested in the medicinal powers of wild mushrooms. In the podcast, he discusses the difficulties he’s faced as a nonscientist ...
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Brandeis alum nets major award for podcast on human rights and the sciences
Prescott Students Build Micro-Gravity Device for NASA's Micro-g NExT Challenge
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The devices were built to aid in one of three specific microgravity scenarios: collecting surface samples, collecting subsurface samples, and anchoring. Embry-Riddle's Massive Aerospace Dynamics (MAD) team included students Farjam Ashrafzadeh, William Hosea, and Daniel Griffith—accompanied by faculty advisor Professor Richard Mangum—who travelled to Houston, Tex. to put their prototype to the test in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory—an under-water, micro-gravity simulated environment.
"The teams participating in the challenge present their concept to high ranking NASA officials and safety directors," said Ashrafzadeh. "Then, the teams present the tool to safety divers (who work alongside astronauts in training for space walks) who test the device."
Members of the MAD team were determined to challenge themselves by avoiding current methods of obtaining subsurface samples in their design. The result was their Extra-Terrestrial Subsurface Sampling Device (ETSSD), funded primarily through the Undergraduate Research Institute (URI).
"The team wanted to build a device that would be entirely original," said Ashrafzadeh, "MAD did not want to simply reinvent the wheel. The solution we came up with was to create this bullet-like device that can penetrate the deposit and funnel the material around itself to obtain the sample."
"We began with the capturing mechanism," explained Hosea, who is majoring in Space Physics and was instrumental to designing a drill that could work under the micro-gravity testing conditions. "We designed everything off of that. The width of the drill, drill bit, and drill shaft itself were all dependent on the iris—the capturing mechanism we decided to use."
During the NASA exercise, once the diver reached the desired drilling depth, the MAD team instructed them to insert the custom 3D printed torsion key, which closed a specially designed iris mechanism housed within the device's cylinder, thus capturing the subsurface material for extraction. The team was given three opportunities to demonstrate their design, and achieved one ...
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Exposure to violence hinders short-term memory, cognitive control
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Being exposed to and actively remembering violent episodes — even those that happened up to a decade before — hinders short-term memory and cognitive control, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought
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New study suggests there are about seven times more “long-period” comets than predictedComets that take more than 200 years to make one revolution around the sun are notoriously difficult to study. Because they spend most of their time far from our area of the solar system, many "long-period comets" will never approach the sun in a person's lifetime. In fact, those that travel inward from the Oort Cloud—a group of icy bodies beginning roughly 300 billion kilometers away from the sun—can have periods of thousands or even millions of years.
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft has delivered new insights about these distant wanderers. A team of astronomers led by James Bauer, a research professor of astronomy at the University of Maryland, found that there are about seven times more long-period comets measuring at least 1 kilometer across than previously predicted.
The researchers also found that long-period comets are, on average, nearly twice as large as "Jupiter family” comets, whose orbits are shaped by Jupiter’s gravity and have periods of less than 20 years. The findings were published July 14, 2017, in The Astronomical Journal.
"The number of comets speaks to the amount of material left over from the solar system's formation," Bauer said. "We now know that there are more relatively large chunks of ancient material coming from the Oort Cloud than we thought."
The Oort Cloud is too distant to be seen by current telescopes, but is thought to be a spherical distribution of small icy bodies at the outermost edge of the solar system. The density of comets within it is low, so the odds of comets colliding within it are low. Long-period comets that WISE observed probably got kicked out of the Oort Cloud millions of years ago. The observations were carried out in 2010 during the spacecraft's primary mission, before it was renamed NEOWISE and reactivated to target ...
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Chicago Cubs and Incapital owner Tom Ricketts to speak at IU Entrepreneurial Connection Day
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IUB Newsroom »Chicago Cubs and Incapital owner Tom Ricketts to speak at IU Entrepreneurial Connection DayChicago Cubs and Incapital owner Tom Ricketts to speak at IU Entrepreneurial Connection DaySept. 6, 2016FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEBLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Tom Ricketts, chairman of the Chicago Cubs and of Incapital LLC, will speak at this year's ninth annual IU Entrepreneurial Connection Day at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
Registration is required to attend, and admission is limited. The event, on Friday, Sept. 9, is being presented by the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at IU Bloomington.
“Mr. Ricketts has a great perspective on the entrepreneurial nature of businesses, even those as old as the Cubs organization,” said Idalene “Idie” Kesner, dean of the IU Kelley School of Business and the Frank P. Popoff Chair of Strategic Management. “We’re very pleased that he’ll be our keynote speaker, and I’m sure his insights will be interesting and valuable to those who attend.”
Ricketts’ presentation, at 1 p.m. in Room 2075 of the Hodge Hall Undergraduate Center, will be followed by an annual networking event for IU Kelley entrepreneur alumni and students from 2 to 4 p.m.
In rapid-fire fashion, entrepreneurs briefly summarize their businesses and ideas at the networking event. Whether the need be funding, employees, partners or know-how, it is designed to spread the word and enable faster connections.
A lifelong fan of the Cubs, Ricketts led his family’s acquisition of the team from the Tribune Co. in 2009. When he and his family were introduced as the Cubs’ new owners, he outlined three goals for the organization: win the World Series; preserve and improve Wrigley Field for future generations; and be good neighbors, giving back to the city and neighborhood. He and his siblings Laura and Todd serve as the team’s board of directors.
Ricketts also chairs Incapital LLC, which he co-founded ...
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When should the police use confrontational tactics?
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EVANSTON - Citizens depend on police to provide public safety while maintaining the trust of the community. How can democratic societies balance these two, often conflicting, aims -- given citizens’ often divergent views over basic tenets of criminal justice policy?In a newly published article, Northwestern University economist Charles F. Manski and his co-author, Carnegie Mellon University criminologist Daniel S. Nagin, outline a “formal model of optimal policing” that can be used to resolve tensions between public safety and community trust -- and that also can help a public that is prone to privileging one over the other, depending on the circumstances, to keep both in mind.“In our view, dispassionate evaluation of policing tactics is the best way to both honor and achieve the sometimes conflicting objectives of crime-control policy in a democratic society,” the authors wrote.Charles F. ManskiNagin and Manski, the Board of Trustees Professor in Economics and a fellow with Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research, aimed to create a cost-benefit model that expresses the social benefits and costs of proactive crime-prevention strategies. They built their model with a fundamental tradeoff of policing tactics in mind: How much does a tactic reduce crime and how much does it interfere with innocent people’s lives? And how much does it have a disproportionate impact across racial and ethnic groups?While police use many tactics to prevent crime, from actively arresting suspects to passively stationing a driverless patrol car in a high-crime area, the authors investigate those that involve direct interaction with the public. Taking the example of the widely used confrontational tactic of “stop, question, and frisk” (SQF), an investigative procedure where an officer stops and questions an individual and then searches him or her, the researchers assume that such confrontational police tactics deter crime but also invade individual privacy the more they are used.In the ...
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Sarah Hammerschlag
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Sarah Hammerschlag is a scholar in the area of Religion and Literature. Her research thus far has focused on the position of Judaism in the post-World War II French intellectual scene, a field that puts her at the crossroads of numerous disciplines and scholarly approaches including philosophy, literary studies, and intellectual history. She is the author of The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and Broken Tablets: Levinas, Derrida and the Literary Afterlife of Religion (Columbia University Press, 2016) and the editor of the forthcoming volume Modern French Jewish Thought: Writings on Religion and Politics (Brandeis University Press, 2018). The Figural Jew received an Honorable Mention for the 2012 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award, given by the Association of Jewish Scholars, and was a finalist for the AAR’s Best First Book in the History of Religions in 2011. She has written essays on Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot which have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Jewish Quarterly Review and Shofar, among other places. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled “Sowers and Sages: The Renaissance of Judaism in Postwar Paris.”
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Summertime Fun at the Rose Kennedy Greenway
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Zipline, beer garden, carousel among highlights
Riders speed down “The Z,” a new 220-foot zipline running high above the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Photo Courtesy of the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy
Heads up, thrill seekers—there’s a new way to get your adrenaline pumping, and it’s located right in the heart of downtown Boston.
The Rose Kennedy Greenway, the 1.5-mile public park that extends from Chinatown to the North End, recently added “The Z,” a 220-foot zipline that runs through the park from Clinton Street to its landing area near North Street, across from the Greenway’s North End parks. Visitors get unparalleled views of Boston and the waterfront from atop the 30-foot starting tower before embarking on their ride. Tickets are $8 for one rider, $15 for a pair, and riders must weigh between 45 and 250 pounds and be at least 40 inches tall.
“The Z” is one of a number of offerings that have turned the Greenway into a summer destination for residents and tourists alike. Also new to the park is Trillium Garden, Boston’s first fully open-air beer garden. Featuring brews from Trillium Brewing Company and wine from Westport Rivers Winery, the garden is open from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends.
While the Trillium Garden caters to adults, children will want to visit the Greenway Carousel in the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Grove. Featuring animals native to Boston (including a lobster, cod, fox, squirrel, grasshopper, whale, and harbor seal), the carousel has proven to be one of the Greenway’s most popular draws, and was designed to be accessible to individuals with physical, cognitive, and sensory disabilities.
The Greenway also offers seven fountains (the Rings Fountain located in the Wharf District parks is the most popular, offering jets of water, perfect for cooling off on a hot summer day) ...
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Mānoa: Nicholas Comerford to serve as dean of UH Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
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University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaContact:Posted: Jul 25, 2017Nicholas ComerfordNicholas Comerford will start his new role as dean of the UH Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and director for Research and Cooperative Extension effective September 1, 2017.Comerford is currently director of North Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, where he also is a professor in the Soil and Water Science Department. He oversees 2,300 acres of infrastructure, along with research and extension programs of faculty representing nine campus departments. In his early career, Comerford was employed as a forest soil specialist by the State of Washington, mapping forested soils in the foothills of Mount Rainier and along the Skagit River Valley.Comerford’s research expertise is in the area of forest soils, with an emphasis in tropical and subtropical regions. His work concentrated on soil-tree root interactions, the measurement and modeling of soil nutrient bioavailability and general aspects of forest soil management. As an active member of the Soil Science Society of America, he was elected president of the society and served in that capacity in 2010. Comerford was a past board member and chair of the related Alliance of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science Societies (ACCESS) Corporation.Comerford earned his PhD in Silviculture and Forest Influences from the State University of New York and Syracuse University, his master’s degree in Forestry from the University of Maine, and his bachelor’s degree in Forestry from the University of Illinois.Said UH Mānoa Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Michael Bruno, “We are very excited about Dr. Comerford joining the leadership team at Mānoa. His impressive and varied accomplishments in the field, his expertise in tropical soils science, and his experience working closely with both faculty and the community via vibrant extension programs all add up to a terrific background for the new dean ...
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Georgia College Miracle receives national award
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Members of Georgia College Miracle attended the annual Dance Marathon Leadership Conference at the University of Maryland recently where they were recognized as the Most Improved Dance Marathon in the nation. GC Miracle won this award out of the more than 300 programs throughout the country. Congratulations to those involved in this initiative.
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From Students to Employees, Harrington Switches Gears
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From Students to Employees, Harrington Switches Gears
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Victor Rogers | July 24, 2017
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Kim Harrington, associate vice president of Human Resources, has been at Tech for 16 years.
While most Georgia Tech seniors are eager to “get out,” many Institute employees spend seasons of their career here, including Kim D. Harrington.
Harrington is the associate vice president of Georgia Tech Human Resources. Since her arrival in 2001, she has served Georgia Tech’s campus, its students, and employees in impactful leadership roles.
Harrington spent 14 years supporting the student experience through her work in the Student Center. When Paul Strouts, vice president of Campus Services, asked Harrington to take the helm of Human Resources as interim AVP in 2015, it was with the understanding the appointment would only last a couple of months.
“Never in a million years did I envision this opportunity,” said Harrington, who holds a master’s degree in counseling and educational psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a doctorate in educational psychology from Georgia State University.
Strouts selected Harrington for the interim role based on her diverse higher education experience, team orientation, and leadership ability. Confident HR was in capable hands, Strouts spent the following months determining the qualifications and experience necessary for a candidate who could lead the department permanently.
After about six months in the role at HR, Harrington asked Strouts about returning to her post at the Student Center. However, Strouts had received positive feedback from HR and the campus – they wanted her to stay.
Harrington served as the interim AVP for roughly 10 months before participating in 15 rigorous Institute-wide interviews for the permanent role. Strouts officially appointed her the new AVP of HR in November 2015. Today, Harrington thoroughly enjoys the job and the unique perspective afforded to her.
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Shark Tank casting call in St. Louis
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Calling all entrepreneurs! ABC’s Shark Tank is coming to St. Louis July 29 in search of startups to pitch on Season 9 of the show. The casting call is part of a nationwide casting tour supporting minority entrepreneurship and recruiting diverse voices to pitch on Shark Tank. During the show’s 8 seasons, over $100M has been invested in companies featured Shark Tank.
The St. Louis Casting Call for ABC’s Shark Tank will be held at the Small Business Matters Summit during the National Urban League Conference on July 29, 2017.
St. Louis Shark Tank Casting CallHyatt Regency St. Louis at the ArchSaturday, July 29; 10am-5pm
You must register to pitch.
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Erdman Co-Creator of New Opera “The Scarlet Professor”
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Harley Erdman, a dramaturg and graduate program director of the department of theater, has written the lyrics for a new opera to be presented in the fall.“The Scarlet Professor,” co-created with Eric Sawyer, a composer based at Amherst College, is based on local author Barry Werth’s book of the same name about Smith College professor Newton Arvin, forced to retire early in 1960 after gay pornographic material was discovered in his apartment.
William Hite, UMass Amherst senior lecturer in voice, sings the lead role.
“The Scarlet Professor” runs Sept. 15-17, 23 & 24 at Theatre 14 in the Mendenhall Center for the Arts at Smith College, sponsored by the Five College Opera.
Visit “The Scarlet Professor” website to learn more about the opera and find a link to purchase tickets.
Erdman is also working on a new musical “Donny Johns,” which is a modern adaptation of the Don Juan story.
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Adolescent Marijuana Use May Impact Psychosocial Outcomes
Pattern of Marijuana Use During Adolescence May Impact Psychosocial Outcomes in Adulthood
PITTSBURGH, July 25, 2017 – How an adolescent uses marijuana, in particular a pattern of escalating use, may make an adolescent more prone to higher rates of depression and lower educational accomplishments by the time they reach adulthood. Those findings come from a new study led by researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Pitt Department of Psychology published today in the journal Addiction.
“We know that cannabis use in adolescence is associated with outcomes like lower educational level, and difficulties with mood and depression, but through this long-term study, we’ve been able to provide a much deeper insight into this relationship, showing that certain characteristics of use may be more important than others,” said Erika Forbes, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, psychology and pediatrics, and lead author of the study. “The findings highlight that understanding marijuana use across the entire period of adolescence, which we know is an extremely vulnerable developmental phase, may tell us much more about detrimental long-term impacts than knowing about overall or one time use.”
Researchers analyzed 158 boys and young men from Pittsburgh who were part of The Pitt Mother & Child Project (PMCP), a long-running longitudinal study of males at high risk for antisocial behavior and other psychopathology based on low income, family size and child gender, led by Daniel Shaw, Ph.D., distinguished professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.
At age 20, the young men self-reported annual cannabis use characteristics for every year since they started use during an interview. Each man’s brain was also scanned using fMRI to assess functional connectivity in the brain’s reward circuit. The study participants completed questionnaires at ages 20 and 22 that examined psychosocial outcomes measuring depression and educational attainment.
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Where There’s Smoke
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The close juxtaposition of the ocean and the mountains in Santa Barbara makes for beautiful views — but when it comes to wildfires, it can also spell danger. In the past decade, the area has experienced seven major fires on both sides of the Santa Ynez Mountains, including the Whittier fire that started July 8.In fact, say UC Santa Barbara researchers, the region epitomizes one of the worst wildfire hazard scenarios affecting a highly populated area along the West Coast of the United States. A significant portion of the city’s population resides in mountain areas near canyons and passes, making them particularly vulnerable to fires during extreme weather conditions such as rapid warming and decreased relative humidity. The accompaniment of frequent gusty downslope winds called sundowners are known to exacerbate wildfires.
To evaluate urban wildfire patterns and resilience strategies, a group from UCSB’s Earth Research Institute (ERI) and Department of Geography has recently been awarded a $1.5 million National Science Foundation grant.
“The project’s main goals are to improve existing fire-weather forecast methods, increase resilience and reduce the socioeconomic impact of wildfires,” explained principal investigator (PI) and ERI researcher Leila Carvalho, a professor in UCSB’s Department of Geography. “We will integrate atmospheric, fire-spread and transportation models to enhance the current understanding of extreme fire weather regimes and wildfire behavior in the wildland-urban interface.”
Co-PI Charles Jones has been studying regional climate for nearly two decades. “We know the basic mechanism of the sundowner winds, but they are heavily influenced by topography,” said Jones, a UCSB geography professor and an ERI researcher. “Sometimes you have sundowner winds in Santa Barbara but not in Refugio up the coast, and vice versa. We want to understand these spatial variabilities in high resolution and use what we learn to run fire models and develop statistics of high-potential fire spread.”
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El Consell Assessor Municipal d’Universitats ja és una realitat
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El CAMU estarà constituït per cinquanta agents socials i econòmics de la ciutat.
25/07/2017
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Avui, 25 de juliol, s ‘ha constituït el Consell Assessor Municipal d’Universitats (CAMU), una plataforma que coordinarà sinergies entre l’Ajuntament de Barcelona i les universitats de la ciutat. L’acte, que ha tingut lloc al Saló de Cent presidit per la tinenta d’alcaldia de Drets Socials, Laia Ortiz, ha posat de manifest un objectiu comú, que és el de crear un espai de diàleg i discussió que agilitzi la presa de decisions. D’aquesta manera, Barcelona disposarà per primer cop d’un organisme d’interlocució amb les universitats.
L’alcaldessa de Barcelona, Ada Colau, serà la presidenta del nou organisme, en el qual el rector de la Universitat de Barcelona, Joan Elias, serà el vicepresident primer. El Consell pretén afavorir la integració de les universitats en el teixit ciutadà des del vessant acadèmic, social, cultural i econòmic, i potenciar Barcelona com a ciutat universitària de referència.
Una de les accions més destacades serà la creació de diferents comissions de treball amb temàtiques específiques, com la de biblioteques i sales d’estudi, la de la col·laboració de les universitats en la formació al llarg de la vida o la d’urbanisme per als entorns de les universitats.
Amb la constitució del CAMU, el govern municipal s’assegura tenir un òrgan d’assessorament en matèria universitària, que proposarà fórmules que afavoreixin la implicació de les universitats en les necessitats de la ciutat, facilitin la transferència de coneixement entre les dues parts, potenciïn la relació amb els barris on es desenvolupin les accions i fomentin la igualtat d’oportunitats en l’accés a la universitat. El CAMU estarà constituït per cinquanta agents socials i econòmics de la ciutat.
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Mun Choi challenges more than 100 young scientists, STARS graduates at UMSL
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UM System President Mun Choi was the challenge speaker for the 2017 STARS Program Confirmation Ceremony July 21 at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center on campus. (Photos by Marisol Ramirez)
University of Missouri System President Mun Choi visited St. Louis on Friday for a celebration of gifted young minds as 96 high school students and six undergraduate research associates graduated from the 2017 Students and Teachers as Research Scientists summer program at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
Choi was the featured speaker for the confirmation ceremony on campus. His address pointed to past generational feats – sending a man to the moon, creating the artificial heart, launching the World Wide Web – and challenged the graduates to be as curious, creative, ambitious and civic-minded as their parents and grandparents had been before them.
“Your generation will need to not only match, but dramatically extend the contributions from those who came before you,” said Choi, who cited sustainable energy, climate change and affordable health care as some of the immediate issues facing their generation. “We need your talents, creativity and innovation to help address these and other major problems that confront us. We’re counting on you. Are you ready?”
The event included a ceremonial robing of the graduating science researchers and handshakes from STARS Program Director Ken Mares, former director Chuck Granger and UM System President Mun Choi.
Thanks to the STARS program, they may be one step closer to pursuing careers of such discovery and importance after six weeks of intensive, collegiate science research.
STARS pairs academically talented high school rising seniors and new undergraduate students with more than 60 local scientists in the fields of biology, chemistry, computer science, earth science, engineering, environmental science, mathematics, medicine, physics and psychology.
The mentors are top researchers from Confluence Discovery Technologies, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Saint Louis University, Washington University in St. Louis ...
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Tackling Childbirth-Related Mortality in the World’s Poorest Place
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In Malawi, a small, landlocked nation in southeastern Africa, hardly anyone congratulates a woman who is pregnant. They will do so only after she gives birth, and then only if both mother and child survive.
That’s because Malawi, the poorest country on the planet, has the world’s highest rate of preterm births. Women there have a one-in-29 lifetime risk of dying from childbirth-related causes. And their babies face even more dire odds: The neonatal mortality rate in Malawi is 22 per 1,000 live births, or one in 45.
Such statistics are almost unimaginable to those living in the U.S., where the maternal mortality rate is just one in 3,800 and the neonatal mortality rate is just four per 1,000 live births (or one in 250). But that discrepancy is all too real to Melanie Perera, MS ’12, who spent three years training nurses in Malawi.
“In one year there,” says Perera, “I saw more babies and children die than I’d seen in five years as a nurse at Stanford.”
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Perera didn’t hesitate when she was asked by School of Nursing faculty members Kimberly Baltzell, RN, PhD ’05, and Sally Rankin, RN, PhD ’88, to direct a new program called Global Action to Improve Nursing and Midwifery (GAIN). Baltzell and Rankin, founding directors of the nursing school’s Center for Global Health, created the program to train Malawian nurses in leadership and clinical skills and to offer on-site coaching for a year afterward. They hope the program will not only turn the tide on childbirth-related mortality in Malawi, but also help address the nation’s critical need for nurse training.
GAIN will launch in September with a cohort of 20 Malawian nurses. The trainees will learn clinical practices based on World Health Organization standards, which range from ...
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The Not-So-Sweet Side-Effects of Artificial Sugars
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In light of a new study published last week, showing that artificial sweeteners do not help in weight management and may be associated with increased BMI and cardiometabolic risk, UConn Today consulted with physician assistant Bradley Biskup, leader of the Lifestyle Medicine Program at the Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center at UConn Health, to find out the latest health information about popular artificial sweeteners.
What are the most popular sugar substitutes used by Americans?
In the United States, there are seven sugar substitutes that have been approved for use. They are stevia, aspartame, sucralose, neotame, acesulfame potassium (Ace-K), saccharin, and advantame. Even maltitol and sorbitol are used frequently in toothpaste, mouth wash, and in foods such as “no sugar added” ice cream.
With the use of sugar substitutes on the rise, what is the latest research showing?
Initially, it was felt that artificial sweetener use instead of regular sugar would help people lose weight, and decrease their risk of diabetes and metabolic syndrome. However, new research is showing just the opposite, as is shown by a recent study. The research findings published in the July issue of the journal CMAJ shows artificial sweeteners may actually be associated with weight gain and heart health risks.
What steps should Americans take to troubleshoot the potential health risks of artificial sweeteners?
The most important thing for Americans to do is to gradually reduce the amount of sugar and artificial sweeteners they are eating on a daily basis. By gradually having less, your taste buds will increase sensitivity for sugar over 20 to 25 days. If you have one quarter less sugar or artificial sweetener each month, you will allow your taste buds to adapt without noticing a significant change in perceived sweetness.
What are the downsides of consuming too much sugar?
The problem of consuming too much sugar isn’t just with the sugar. ...
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Gabrielle Rains Takes Bronze at Pan-Am U20 Championships in Peru
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MIAMI (July 25, 2017) – FIU track and field standout Gabrielle Rains' "summer season" continues to be a tremendous success. The Sherwood Park, Alberta, native placed third, and took home the bronze medal, in the discus at the Pan-Am U20 Track and Field Championships on July 22, in Trujillo, Peru. Rains posted a throw of 53.06m to reach the medal stand. Her performance in Peru fell just short of breaking her Canadian U20 and FIU record of 53.10m that she set on March 18 at the Hurricane Invitational, a record stood for more than 31 years. Her record-setting throw is currently tied for the 19th-best U20 throw in the world this year, the second-best mark in Conference USA, and the 42nd-best in NCAA Division I during the 2017 campaign. Rains, who will be a sophomore in the fall, has already had a successful summer. On July 6, she won the Canadian U20 Track and Field Championship discus title at the Terry Fox Athletic Facility in Ottawa, Ontario. Rains set a new championships U20 record with her toss of 51.60m en route to the gold medal. Following the Pan-Am Championships, and before returning to Miami, Rains will take part in the 2017 Canada Summer Games at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, August 3-4. During her freshman season at FIU, Rains enjoyed a banner season. She took second-place at the Conference USA Championships in El Paso, Texas, with a throw of 50.95m, and advanced to the NCAA Division I East Region Prelims in Lexington, Kentucky. Fans are encouraged to follow the team on Facebook (Facebook.com/FIUTrackXC) for all the latest FIU Track and Cross Country 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 ( ...
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Football Home Opener will be a Night Game
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BATON ROUGE – LSU’s 2017 home opener against Chattanooga on September 9 will be under the lights in the Tiger Stadium as the game will kickoff at 6:30 p.m. CT, the Southeastern Conference announced on Tuesday.
The LSU-Chattanooga game will be televised on the SEC Network Alternate channel. It’s the first meeting between LSU and Chattanooga in football. .
The only other two LSU games on the 2017 schedule currently with kickoff times are the season-opener against BYU in Houston, which starts at 8:30 p.m. CT on ESPN and the SEC opener against Mississippi State in Starkville, which carries a 6 p.m. start on ESPN or ESPN2.
Kickoff times along with television plans for the remainder of LSU’s schedule will be announced as the season progresses. Game times are typically announced two weeks ahead of time.
The Tigers are coming off an 8-4 season under head coach Ed Orgeron in 2016.
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Baker Institute expert: Heroin-assisted treatment programs can help in fight against opioid deaths
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Baker Institute expert: Heroin-assisted treatment programs can help in fight against opioid deaths
HOUSTON — (July 25, 2017) — Establishing heroin-assisted treatment programs, which provide severely addicted individuals with controlled access to pharmaceutical-grade heroin, could make a significant dent in the number of U.S. deaths from opioid use, according to an expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.
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Katharine Neill Harris, the Alfred C. Glassell III Fellow in Drug Policy, outlined her insights and recommendations in a new Baker Institute blog, “Want Fewer People To Die From an Opioid Overdose? Give Them Heroin (Assisted Treatment).” She is available to discuss the issue with media.
Of the 52,404 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2015, roughly 63 percent involved an opioid, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Prescription painkillers, the most widely used opioids, still accounted for the largest share of opioid overdose deaths — nearly half — in 2015. But over the last few years, the rise in overdose deaths has been driven primarily by a spike in deaths related to heroin and synthetic opioids. From 2014 to 2015, there was a 20.6 percent increase in deaths involving heroin and a 72.2 percent increase in deaths from synthetic opioids other than methadone, particularly fentanyl and its analogues, according to the CDC.
“If current trends continue, we will see an increase in the share of the heroin supply that is not heroin at all but much more powerful opioids like fentanyl,” Neill Harris wrote. “This poses a life-threatening risk to users who, unable to determine the content of drugs they purchase off the street or the internet, are more likely to consume a lethal dose, incorrectly assuming that they are taking an appropriate amount.”
Neill Harris said heroin-assisted treatment, or HAT, is a well-established ...
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L’ETSAB, menció d’honor del Tongji International Construction Festival 2017
Actualitat UPC
El projecte ‘One Meter Eighty’, realitzat pels estudiants Raquel Andreu, Anna Badia, Meritxell Padrós, Ana Teodora i Marc Solà, de primer curs del grau en Estudis d’Arquitectura de l’ETSAB, liderat pel professor Nacho López, ha rebut la menció d’honor del Tongji International Construction Festival and Fengyuzhu Plastic Polypropylene Sheet Design and Construction Competition del 2017, que ha tingut lloc del 5 a 10 de juny, a la Universitat de Tongji, a Xangai. Coordinat pel College of Architecture and Urban Planning de la universitat xinesa, el Festival ha consistit a dissenyar i construir un pavelló exterior a base de planxes de polipropilè cel·lular, per protegir-se de la intempèrie i per ser instal·lat en una àrea de 3x5 m. Amb l'objectiu d'inspirar el potencial creatiu dels estudiants, descobrir joves talents i fomentar l’esperit innovador, el concurs s’ha centrat enguany en el concepte de les micro-comunitats i els estudiants han hagut d’idear el pavelló, pensant en una comunitat temporal i espacial, i construir-lo amb el material aportat pels organitzadors.L’equip de l’ETSAB, que ha fet el projecte en el marc dels tallers internacionals de l’Escola, ha estat l’únic grup espanyol que ha participat en el Festival, juntament amb 35 grups de la Universitat de Tongji, 14 grups d’altres escoles d'arquitectura xineses i altres 11 d'escoles d'arquitectura internacionals. Cada grup disposava de set dies per dissenyar i muntar la seva estructura constructiva de plàstic a la plaça del College of Architecture and Urban Planning de la Universitat de Tongji, i en total se n’han construït 60.Mitjançant aquesta pràctica, el Tongji International Construction Festival busca fomentar el coneixement perceptiu i racional de les propietats dels materials constructius, així com del procés i la tecnologia de construcció, la funció de l’arquitectura, la dimensió de la figura humana, l’espai arquitectò ...
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UC Research Examines Lung Cell Turnover in Influenza Pneumonia
UC Health News
Influenza is a recurring global health threat that, according to the World
Health Organization, is responsible for as many as 500,000 deaths every year,
most due to influenza.
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Interactive Morning Nature and Art Walk set Nov. 7
Lone Star College CyFair News
Published on: October 05, 2015
Bring the family Nov. 7 to the Lone Star College-CyFair Center for the Arts for a lively and interactive morning Nature and Art Walk for Scholarships before joining in the annual Cy-Fest fun at the 9191 Barker Cypress campus.
Come at 8 a.m. for some hot chocolate, tea and coffee, then choose an 8:30 a.m. or 9 a.m. guided tour. The walk begins and ends at the Art building and finishes in time to enjoy the free family festivities from 10 a.m. 2 p.m. at Cy-Fest.
We are excited to offer this walk event as an opportunity to showcase our beautiful campus as well as the talent of our students in conjunction with the 11th annual Cy-Fest the community knows so well, said Heidi Scanio, Fine Arts Coordinator.
The nature walk encompasses a roughly 1.5 mile route through the Barker Cypress campus, lakes and nature trails. Along the way, walkers can not only learn about the colleges Katy Prairie Restoration Area and performing arts venues, but they can hear several performance ensembles and young walkers can enjoy a scavenger hunt. In addition, all walkers can participate in creating a community art mobile installation made of 1,000 paper cranes.
The Scholarship Nature and Art Walk is also a fund-raising effort to support visual and performing arts students nurture their talents and succeed in their academic and career goals, said Scanio. All proceeds are earmarked for student scholarships.
Tickets for the nature walk are $5 per person and walkers can also buy a string of paper cranes for $5 to hang on the art installation. Walk tickets and paper cranes can be purchased in advance online at LoneStar.edu/BoxOffice or at the box office Saturday morning.
For event information, call 281.290.3956.
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Lone Star College-North Harris student selected to attend Clinton Global Initiative University Conference
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Published on: May 08, 2014 Lone Star College-North Harris student Tara Alcera, recently attended the prestigious Clinton Global Initiative University Conference (CGI U) at Arizona State University, where she represented a health education project that she and her high school classmates created in the southern Philippines.
The Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), a program of the Clinton Global Initiative, brings together college students to address global challenges with practical, creative solutions. CGI U participants do more than simply discuss problems they take concrete steps to solve them by creating action plans, building relationships, participating in hands-on workshops, and following up with CGI U as they complete their projects. Since 2008, students have made more than 4,000 Commitments to Action.
Alcera represented The Berchmans Initiative. Named after the Jesuit St. John Berchmans, who preached philanthropy and good deeds, the initiative started when Alcera and her high school classmates saw a need to bring health education and medical attention to impoverished areas of southern Philippines.
Our project, The Berchmans Initiative, is important to me because through it, in my own little way, I am able to be of service to others, said Alcera. I am able to impart what I know, and what I have, to others who, sadly, might never even have such things. When you help someone, you get this great sense of accomplishment. I've never felt anything like it. It's a wonderful feeling.
Alcera and her classmates founded the group in 2012, recruited volunteers and sought partnerships with medical professionals and health agencies in the Philippines. Their almost-quarterly projects have included health seminars, hygiene packet distributions, medical treatment and disbursement of nutritious food for more than 200 women and children in the towns of Lunzuran, San Jose Gusu and Mercedes of Zamboanga City.
This project was something my high school classmates and I came up with, said Alcera. Basically, we all grew up in ...
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Bike&Place: New tool helps planners create cyclist-friendly networks
Washington Street, Houston, Mississippi: Streetscape rendering after implementing downtown, trail-oriented growth. (Image courtesy of Brian Morton.)You’d like to bike downtown for your job, to go shopping or to attend an event. Those first few blocks near home seem safe enough, but you get a bit worried when traffic gets heavier. It turns out, you’re not alone in how traffic stress affects your willingness to bicycle. Center for Urban and Regional Studies researcher Brian J. Morton has developed a tool that will help town planners design more cyclist-friendly networks around signature places in their community.
In a recent study for the Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center (STRIDE), Morton used an open-source software package to create an easy-to-use travel demand model for use by planners working in towns and small cities. Morton’s goal was to build a product that predicts demand for bicycle travel by “interested but concerned” cyclists. Called Bike&Place, Morton’s tool helps planners increase bicycle accessibility.
Roger Geller, bicycle coordinator for Portland, Oregon, created a typology of four kinds of cyclists: strong and fearless; enthused and confident; interested but concerned; and “no way no how.” In a national survey, participants were categorized into those four types in the following percentages: 7 percent; 5 percent; 51 percent; and 37 percent. The 51 percent of “interested but concerned” noted that they “like riding a bicycle…and they would like to ride more. But, they are afraid to ride….Very few of these people regularly ride bicycles… [and they] will not venture out onto the arterials to the major commercial and employment destinations they frequent.…They would ride if they felt safer on the roadways — if cars were slower and less frequent, and if there were more quiet streets with few cars and paths without any cars at all.”
Three small towns in Mississippi were used to develop and ...
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UC San Diego plans to build new hospital in Hillcrest
Newsroom: InTheNews
Publication Date: 7/18/2017
ByLine: San Diego Union Tribune
URL Link: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/sd-me-ucsd-hillcrest-20170718-story.html
Page Content: Features UC San Diego Health
News Type: Regional
News_Release_Date: July 21, 2017
NewsTags: AIDS/HIV; Burn; Corporate - Quality, Awards, Diversity, Leadership; Emergency/Trauma; Surgery; Primary Care/Family Medicine
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Brain tumor expert Dr. Daniela Bota battles the recurrence of glioblastomas
UC Irvine Health News
July 20, 2017
In the News: UC Irvine Health brain tumor expert Dr. Daniela Bota tells CBS Los Angeles about research underway that raise hope for treatments to combat glioblastomas, the aggressive type of brain tumor that has been diagnosed in Arizona's Sen. John McCain.
In most cases, glioblastoma patients see a recurrence of the tumor within six to seven months after surgery.
"There is not any surgical procedure to remove the whole tumor out of the patient’s brain,” Bota, a neuro-oncologist and co-director of the UC Irvine Health Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program, tells CBS Los Angeles. "This tumor is very infiltrative, this tumor tries to regrow and reform in the brain."
That is why Bota has clinical trials underway that seek to use patients' immune systems and other drug regimens to stop those tumor cells from reforming.
View the CBS Los Angeles report ›
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Curtan Shares On Experience Of Playing Against USA Softball Team
gohighlanders.com
Riverside, CA–UC Riverside Softball outfielder Jenna Curtan had the opportunity to play against the USA Softball team in an exhibition game on July 13 in Sacramento, CA.The First Team All-Conference honoree and Roseville, CA native competed as a member of the Sacramento Rush All-Star team, which was comprised of the area's present and past college players."I had so much fun getting to know other extremely talented softball players in the Sacramento area, as well as playing in front of a 7,000 person crowd at Raley Field." said Curtan.In the game, Curtan went 0-2, and the Rush were held scoreless, however that had little impact on her outlook."Playing in an exhibition game against Team USA was an experience that was one of a kind. Representing my community and UCR in this event was extremely humbling. I am grateful for the opportunity to play against a team that I never would have had the chance to otherwise."In addition to the Softball games, the event also included a youth clinic before play began, as well as a meet and greet after the games."This opportunity helped me learn so much more about the game, and how important it is to continue to share my love of this sport with young girls.""Softball being put back in the 2020 Olympics is a huge stepping stone for our sport and getting the opportunity to play against the team that will represent our country was an honor, and one that I will remember for the rest of my life."Curtan prepares for her senior season at UC Riverside after hitting a team-leading .351 last season.
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Caltech Store Reopens in Millikan Library
The Caltech Store reopened on Monday, July 24, after moving to its new (albeit temporary) location on campus—in the lobby of Millikan Library. The move was made to allow for the demolition of the existing Winnett Student Center and the subsequent construction of a new campus hub, the Hameetman Center, on that same site.Current plans are for the Caltech Store to be part of the Hameetman Center's retail space when the building opens in the fall of 2018."Student Affairs would like to thank the offices of the president and provost, Development and Institute Relations, and the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering for allowing us to use their respective spaces during this transition period as well as for their patience during the construction phase," says Joe Shepherd, Caltech's vice president for student affairs.The Caltech Store's new operating hours will be 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
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Summer Update: Pair of Gauchos Named NECBL All-Stars
Santa Barbara Athletics News
Jul 24, 2017
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – UC Santa Barbara baseball players Tommy Jew and Kevin Chandler have both been named New England Collegiate Baseball League All-Stars, it was announced over the weekend.
Jew, a redshirt freshman outfielder, and Chandler, a sophomore right-handed pitcher, are both playing for the Mystic Schooners this summer in the NECBL.
Named a starting outfielder for the South Division squad, Jew has been tearing the cover off the ball, ranking in the top-10 league-wide with a .354 batting average (sixth) and eight home runs (fourth). The San Ramon, Calif. native has accrued a .636 slugging percentage and was named the NECBL Player of the Week on Jul. 10 after hitting .571 and clubbing three home runs in a six-game span.
Chandler was one of nine hurlers selected to the South Division roster. A reliever so far during his time at UCSB, he has authored a 2.63 ERA in six appearances (four starts) spanning 27 1/3 innings for the Schooners. Averaging just over a strikeout per inning (28 in 27.1 IP), Chandler was unscored upon in four of his first five outings, including a seven-inning, three-hit performance on Jun. 29 at Plymouth.
Jew and Chandler are not the only Gauchos putting together strong summers so far.
Playing for the Medford Rogues in the Great West League, freshman catcher Eric Yang has put together a .402/.505/.552 slash line over 24 games. The West Hills, Calif. native has reached base in all but two contests and has recorded multiple hits in 11 of his appearances.
Sophomore right-handed pitcher Noah Davis had a solid debut in the Cape Cod League, regarded as the top collegiate summer league in the country. In five appearances (four starts), Davis went 1-1 with a 2.81 ERA for the Cotuit Kettleers. A weekend starter for UCSB the past two seasons, he allowed two earned runs or fewer in every one of his Cape outings.
After an attention-grabbing freshman campaign with the ...
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New Staff Orientation to extend hours effective August 2017
Vanderbilt News
Jul. 24, 2017, 4:45 PM
(Vanderbilt University)
New Staff Orientation plays a key role in onboarding new staff and welcoming them to the Vanderbilt community. In an ongoing effort to improve the experience and make a lasting impression on our new colleagues, HR has decided to extend the orientation program.
Currently, New Staff Orientation runs from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Effective August 2017, the orientation program will begin at 8 a.m. and close at 3 p.m., with one hour allocated for lunch. The increased duration will allow more time for valuable benefits information to be communicated as well as promote greater interaction and improve information retention.
Please feel free to email clair.brigman@vanderbilt.edu or call 615-322-8320 if you have any questions. You can also visit the orientation page on the Human Resources website.
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The Bee Nutritionist
Tufts Now All Stories
Rachael Bonoan and I approach nine honey bee hives on Cummings School’s Grafton campus, covered from head to toe in heavy bee suits. One bee after another begins to buzz the mesh veil protecting our faces. I break into a sweat, not from being encased in canvas on a hot summer afternoon, but rather from a bit of bee-induced panic.But Bonoan, a Tufts Ph.D. candidate in biology, is unperturbed, as she goes about gently taking the top off the hive and filling it with smoke she pours from a kettle. She leisurely begins removing the frames inside the hive, one by one, to inspect each rectangle’s wax comb for signs of healthy reproduction: bee eggs, just-hatched larvae that look like tiny grubs, velvet-looking little hexagons (cells in the comb where the grubs have been capped over in wax to incubate until they’re ready for prime time), and fuzzy young bees that have just chewed their way out of the wax to make room for the next round of babies. “It’s all about knowing the bees, really,” says Bonoan. “I didn’t get stung at all last year.”
Though certainly savvy about working at “bee speed,” Bonoan, G18, tells me that there’s much she still wants to learn about how nutrition affects these highly social insects.
She hopes her research may help honey bees and other bees, which are responsible for pollinating a third of the crops consumed by Americans. Their numbers have declined at an alarming rate—half of all honey bee colonies, which should exist in perpetuity, have been wiped out since the 1950s. Possible causes include chemicals and pesticides, diseases caused by fungi, viruses and bacteria, stress from being trucked all over the country to pollinate crops, and—Bonoan’s special area of interest—nutritional deficiencies caused by pollinating large amounts ...
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Winning the Contract: Marketing & Selling to the Government
Events at UCF
This seminar will provide you with suggestions on how to market your products/services to Government agencies and we’ll provide links to a current list of government purchasing activities. We’ll commence with a brief overview of selling to and doing business with the federal government including registration, and principles and practices of contracting. Then will transition and provide you with suggestions on how to market your products/services to the government including market targeting (who are the agencies and what do they buy), what to say, capabilities statements, the use of social media and specific recommendations on who do I contact/visit and what to say.
Fee: $30
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Master gardener Orin Martin celebrates 40 years at the Alan Chadwick Garden
Student News
Every morning at about 7 a.m., Orin Martin takes a slow stroll through the Alan Chadwick Garden, soaking up the quiet as he observes the verdant beauty around him."There's a saying that the best fertilizer is the footsteps of the farmer—or, as I like to say, the shadow of the gardener," says Martin, who this month celebrates his 40th anniversary with the UC Santa Cruz Farm & Garden.
At 68, Martin could retire, but he isn't remotely interested.
"When I'm here at first light, with the fog lifting, it's a transcendental moment," he says. "Like when you hear the first few notes of a John Coltrane saxophone solo, and the hair on the back of your neck stands up, and every cell in your body knows you're alive."
Thus speaks a man in love with his work. Martin remains fully engaged with all aspects of his job as manager of the Alan Chadwick Garden: planting, propagating, pruning—and passing on the knowledge he has acquired over four decades.
"I get to hang around really bright, motivated Gen X'ers and Millennials who go on to succeed at things I would never dare to try," Martin says of the students and apprentices with whom he shares his days. "I just love these kids. They are so intrinsically motivated. They want you to teach them, and they want to go out and do things. They're the light of the world."
If it sounds like Martin has the dream job, he'd be the first to tell you no one would have predicted it 40 years ago.
This snapshot of Orin Martin is pinned to a garden bulletin board that is crowded with yellowed newspaper clippings and faded notes.An unlikely gardener
"Growing up, gardening to me was an onerous chore my old man made me do when I messed up," Martin recalls.
That changed after ...
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UW Daily – July 24, 2017
UW Daily
UW System / Top Stories
On Campus
COL: Fond memories of a respected educator and friend, Baraboo News Republic, July 22
COL: Learning doesn’t stop for the summer at UW-Marshfield/Wood County, USA Today, July 24
EXT: More Beetles, Bigger Threat: Japanese Beetle Population On The Rise In Door County, Door County Daily News, July 22
EXT: UW-Extension: Flooding and its impact on agriculture, Kenosha News, July 21
EXT: Event celebrating Uptown builds community, Kenosha News, July 21
EXT: County reaches out to Cambria area after Didion explosion, Portage Daily Register, July 20
EXT: Marshfield’s 2017 growing season second wettest on record, Hub City Times, July 20
EXT: Unanimous Opposition to Back Forty Mine Goes to County Board, Door County Pulse, July 21
EAU: UW-Eau Claire students benefit from social worker immersion program, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, July 23
EAU: Air-conditioning malfunction closes UW-EC’s Nursing Building, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, July 21
EAU: Air-conditioning malfunction closes UW-EC’s Nursing Building, Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, July 21
EAU: It Seems to Me: Climate change not partisan (commentary by UW-Eau Claire faculty member James Boulter), Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, July 23
EAU: UW-Eau Claire Nursing Building closed due to mechanical issues, WQOW News 18, July 21
EAU: UW-Eau Claire geology professor explains Antarctica iceberg break implications, WQOW News 18, July 21
EAU: UW-Eau Claire researchers head back to Lithuania to continue research, WQOW News 18, July 21
EAU: The New Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, July 21
GRB: UW-Green Bay ‘snaps’ at its students, AP via Washington Times, July 24
GRB: Tickets remain to see Brett Favre at Lee Remmel Sports Awards Banquet (to benefit UW-Green Bay and other institutions), Appleton Post-Crescent, July 21
GRB: Brass Differential’s (featuring Prof. Gaines) tuba, er, sousaphone steals the show, Appleton Post-Crescent, July 20
LAX: Sobieski lumberjack takes a swing at championship title, Green Bay Press Gazette, July 22
LAX: New Student Union at UW-La Crosse brims with new ...
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Fighting Tick-Borne Diseases on Multiple Fronts
UConn Today
UConn is on the front line in the fight to control the spread of tick-borne diseases. At the state testing lab on campus, UConn scientists are tracking established and emerging diseases carried by ticks from around the country.
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Wanted: Grolsch bottles
Wanted: Grolsch bottles, preferably 16oz and clear. Wanting to buy a few but the shipping is outrageous on everything I’ve found. If anyone’s got any extras sitting around in their garage in good condition, I’d love to talk! Thanks. Contact Laura at lezamborsky@alaska.edu
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Softball. 51 Spartans Receive MW Scholar-Athlete Recognition
San Jose State Spartans News -- www.sjsuspartans.com
Eight student-athletes received the honor each of their four years at San José State.
July 18, 2017
Colorado Springs, Colo.— A school-record 51 San José State University student-athletes have received a 2016-17 Mountain West Scholar-Athlete Award for their performance in the classroom during their athletic career.The MW Scholar-Athlete Award is one of the highest academic honors bestowed by the conference. To be eligible for the award, student-athletes must have completed two semesters at the institution, have a 3.5 or better grade point average and have participated in a competition in a Mountain West-sponsored sport.The Spartan student-athletes represent 13 sports, led by women’s swimming and diving with 13 honorees and followed by women’s track and field with seven.Eight San José State student-athletes have earned an award each of their four years – Jack Veasey (BASE); Karina Nunes (WXC/T&F); Tim Crawley (FB); Chelsea Jenner and Katelyn Linford (SB); Taylor Solorio (WSW); and Marie Klocker and Gaelle Rey (WTN).“Our student-athletes continue to make us proud by showing us that academic excellence is indeed achievable. I am impressed that we continue to set records each year with the number of student-athletes recognized by the Mountain West. Our coaches and academic team work diligently to ensure that every Spartan is successful in the classroom,” said Eileen Daley, senior associate athletics director for academics and student services.The Spartan Scholar-Athletes helped the Mountain West to a new league-record 756 student-athletes recognized.2016-17 San José State University MW Scholar-Athletes# # #
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