UWI St. Augustine News
For Release Upon Receipt - July 25, 2017St. AugustineST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago. 25 July 2017: An article published on Monday 24 July in the Daily Express indicated that the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) St. Augustine will, this year, be lowering its matriculation requirements. The article also cited the changes to the Government Assistance for Tertiary Expenses programme (GATE) as the main contributor to the matriculation adjustments.The UWI wishes to clarify the misrepresentations in this article by noting the following: 1. The CXC selection criteria only applies to the Certificate in Public Administration (CPA) not degree programmes. Programmes like the CPA can be used as a “bridging” programme to bring students up to the qualification levels required for entry to Degree Programmes. It is also used as one of the criteria for promotion in the public service. 2. The current CPA requirement is for 5 O’Levels or equivalent. The qualifications for entry into degree programmes at The UWI have not changed. The entry qualifications for the CPA programme have been expanded in keeping with university matriculation requirements to allow for applicants with at least 3 or 4 CXC passes who, having not achieved the required 5 O’ levels or equivalent, can now be assessed against additional criteria that reflect sufficient prior learning through experience, professional development or formal qualification. It should be noted that this “Prior Learning Assessment (PLA)” approach is well in line with how Universities, including The UWI, are changing their systems to improve their delivery to a wider demographic. It should also be noted that this decision is in keeping with UWI’s new strategic direction of widening access, particularly to the underserved. 3. There is no evidence that the fall in offers is a consequence of changes in GATE. Indeed there are some programmes that are seeing record numbers of applicants. About The UWI Since its ...
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Bob Briggs Honored for Staff Member Lifetime Achievement Award
American University News
In recognition of 30 years of service advising and mentoring students at
AU School of Public Affairs, Academic Counselor Bob Briggs was recently honored with American University's 2017 Maria Bueno Lifetime Achievement Award.
Briggs is currently the academic counselor to government graduate students and Ph.D. students in SPA. He began his career as an advisor in 1987, supporting undergraduate students majoring in Political Science and communications, law, economics, and government (CLEG).
"Bob works hard to ensure that graduate students understand the graduate regulations and can navigate the system to successfully complete their programs," said SPA Interim Dean Vicky Wilkins. "Bob is a valuable resource for our students while they are in the program and beyond. I am grateful for his commitment to the school and the university."
"I knew the graduate program was right for me after meeting and speaking with Bob," said Jose De Bastos SPA/MA'17. "Throughout my time at SPA he was always available and he gave me great advice about classes, professors, and work opportunities, even after I graduated."
Briggs helped Terence Szuplat (SPA/BA '95) as an undergraduate at SPA. Szuplat, who went on to become a speechwriter for President Barack Obama for eight years, says that Briggs helped him choose the right classes, encouraged him study abroad, where he interned for a member of the British Parliament, and connected him to the White House speechwriting office where he worked as an intern.
"I can say without hesitation that those opportunities simply would not have been possible without the encouragement and mentorship of Bob Briggs over many years," said Szuplat. "Bob helped me set my sights higher, spark my career, and shape my life."
Briggs also worked with Scott Goodstein SPA/BA '95 in the early 1990s. Goodstein said that Briggs recommended internships and night classes that allow him craft his own career path.
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Chemist Featured in 'Scientific American'
University at Albany University at Albany Headlines
Rabi Musah, associate professor of chemistry.
(Photo by Paul Miller)
ALBANY, N.Y. (July 31, 2017) – Tiny insect eggs are making huge headlines for Rabi Musah.
Musah, an organic chemist at UAlbany, was recently featured in Scientific American’s “60-second science segment,” for her forensic analysis of blow fly eggs to rapidly estimate a corpse’s time-of-death.
Scientific American has more than 5.5 million global readers/listeners per month and is a highly influential publication. Its “60-second science segment” provides daily commentary on some of the world’s most interesting developments in science, health and technology.
In addition, Musah’s discovery has been covered by other national publications including:
Blowflies typically lay their eggs on a body within 15 minutes after death. The eggs are hard to tell apart by appearance alone, so forensic entomologists rear them until they hatch, a few weeks later—getting a species ID and, with a little guesswork, a person's time of death
Musah has teamed up with forensic entomologist Jennifer Rosati of John Jay College and UAlbany graduate researcher Justine Giffen to develop a less time-intensive approach. It relies on mass spectrometry – the determination of masses of molecules within a sample – to rapidly classify blow fly eggs by species based on differences in their amino acid profiles.
The team investigated their method by first harvesting flies with pig-liver traps stashed throughout New York City. Findings were published last month in Analytical Chemistry.
"So it turns out that it's easy to hide pig livers in various parts of Manhattan. There's a lot of foliage and whatnot, so no one knew," Musah told Scientific American.
You can learn more about this research here.
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Meet a Tiger: Sharetta Bufford
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Graduating from high school is a big deal in Blackstock, SC. Graduating from college is an even bigger deal. This Tiger, a Blackstock native, achieved those distinctions and wants students to achieve the same success. As a recruiting program coordinator, this first-generation college graduate wants to increase the underrepresented student population in the university’s new College of Science. According to her, the Clemson Family is not just a cliché – it represents a community that she can call home.
Meet Sharetta Bufford.
Title: Recruiting program coordinator for the College of Science
Years at Clemson: Six months
What I do at Clemson: I lead on-campus and off-campus event planning and recruitment programming for the College of Science including Fall and Spring Blitz, campus visits, off-campus appearances, summer programs, and correspondence with prospective students and their families. I am usually the first contact for prospective families in our college, and I maintain the College of Science Center for Students Services email account. One of my recruiting objectives is to support Clemson Forward by leading efforts to increase the underrepresented presence of the sciences at Clemson. I also coordinate and manage the College of Science student ambassador program. I love working with the ambassadors and listening to each ambassador share their Clemson experience. Another part of my job is to develop and coordinate programs for underrepresented College of Science students such as peer mentoring and tutoring in order to help with retention efforts. Moreover, I serve as the College of Science liaison for the Connections and RiSE living learning communities to help with retention efforts. Finally, I serve as the backup advisor for the College of Science for study abroad, intra-college transfers, career planning, choosing a degree-granting major, etc.
What I love about Clemson: I love the fact that the institution is making strides to become more inclusive! As a recruiter, ...
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Ethics Expert Calls Reversal on Goldwater Rule a Mistake
Fordham Newsroom
Celia Fisher
Editors note: On July 25, the American Psychoanalytic Association announced it no longer expected its members to abide by the so-called “Goldwater Rule, a code of ethics prohibiting most psychiatrists from giving opinions about the mental state of anyone they have not evaluated.” Celia Fisher, Ph.D., the Marie Ward Doty University Chair in Ethics, professor of psychology, and director of Fordham’s Center for Ethics Education, discussed the rationale for the rule in February.
Below, she explains why the July 25 decision is an unfortunate one that elevated political and economic considerations above ethical principles.
“Revising ethical standards to address a particularly problematic political figure or to condone the publication of a book does not reflect well on the association. The public should be aware that the American Psychoanalytic Association organization does not represent the field of psychiatry per se, but a group of professionals who practice a particular therapeutic orientation within the mental health profession known as psychoanalysis,” she said.
“Responsible diagnosis in psychoanalysis, as in other mental health fields, relies on assessment techniques that are characterized by interactions with and analysis of patient responses to specific established questions. A professionally and ethically responsible diagnosis cannot be determined in the absence of such interactions or assessments. For example, although the American Psychological Association has not adopted a “Goldwater Rule”, the importance of appropriate assessments are intrinsic in its ethics code, which forbids psychologists from providing opinions of the psychological characteristics of individuals if they have not “conducted an examination of the individuals adequate to support their statements or conclusions”. To be sure, the mental health profession can and should share their knowledge with the public, but irresponsible “diagnosis” diminishes the profession and does not serve the public it seeks to inform.”
Stream the February interview with Fisher on this topic below.
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Bonding With Your Roommate Before School
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In the last UNH Tales post, we went over getting to know your roommate before school. Aside from filling out a questionnaire, there are so many other interactive ways to further that bonding. Hopefully each of these methods will give you a better understanding of one another and a positive start to the year. Who Brings What?
→ Check out UNH Housing's recommended packing list.
→ Create a master list together.
→ Divide who brings what.
Create a Roommate Bucket List
While it’s unrealistic to expect to spend 24/7 with your roommate, it is important to schedule out moments you can spend together in a fun environment. Making an effort to hang with the person you’re living with outside of your dorm room can go a long way. If things get rough, you both have those positive memories to ground your actions in.
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Create a Shared Pinterest Board
On this board, pin posts about dorm decor, DIYs, recipes and, of course, all things UNH. Share in the excitement of being a Wildcat! Check out ours here.
Start a Show
On a streaming platform, pick a program to watch together. Not only will this be a point of conversation, but this can be another activity to enjoy together once at school.
Meet Up
What better way to begin getting to know someone than to actually meet up in person? Prior to move-in day, try to find a central location or destination and meet. This could include something as simple as a coffee shop or at HoCo for dinner.
Tweet us the ways you've bonded with your roommate this summer!
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SIU to offer workforce development degree at John A. Logan
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Southern Illinois University Carbondale is for the first time offering people the opportunity to complete a bachelor’s degree in Workforce Education and Development at John A. Logan College in Carterville. Nicole Mathis of Carterville, (seated), talks about the program, the curriculum and the advantage of being able to take classes at JALC with Deborah Barnett, director of off-campus degree programs for SIU’s Department of Workforce Education and Development, and Steve O’Keefe, director of recruitment and retention for JALC. Mathis is a May graduate of SIU’s on-campus WED program and will begin working on her WED master’s degree at SIU this fall. (Photo by Russell Bailey)
July 24, 2017
SIU to offer workforce development degree at John A. Logan
by Christi Mathis
CARBONDALE, Ill. – For the first time ever, people in the Southern Illinois region will be able to complete a bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale at John A. Logan College in Carterville.
This fall, SIU is introducing an off-campus bachelor’s degree completion program in workforce education and development at John A. Logan College. The program, with specialization in organizational training and development, is geared toward adult learners who typically have completed some college classes or an associate’s degree and who have professional work experience and occupational training.
Through a combination of online and accelerated weekend classroom courses, participants can complete their baccalaureate degree in as little as one year, depending on their previous education and work experience.
“Our students enter the program with life experience, professional work experience and occupational or military training,” says Deborah Barnett, director of off-campus degree programs for the Department of Workforce Education and Development at SIU’s College of Education and Human Services. “We value this experience by evaluating it for college credit, and by incorporating it in the classroom through assignments, projects and real-world application,”
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African-American veterans in mental health care are not as activated as White veterans : Newscenter : School of Medicine
INDIANAPOLIS – Patients who are activated--meaning they have the knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their health and health care--have better health outcomes. A new study provides evidence that male and female African-American veterans receiving outpatient mental health services are not as activated as White veterans.In addition to demonstrating an association between race and lower patient activation, the study shows that the relationship between African-American veterans and their mental health providers is not as strong as the relationship between White veterans and their providers. This difference persisted after adjusting for socio-demographic factors and the study participants’ length of time with their providers. Stronger patient-provider relationships--known as working alliances--have been linked to higher treatment adherence. The study also reported that the African-American veterans had significantly lower medication adherence rates than White veterans."A clear implication from this study is that one size does not fit all. We need to tailor our efforts to meet the needs of African-American veterans--and meet them where they are," said VA Center for Health Information and Communication, Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research investigator Johanne Eliacin, PhD, the health services researcher who led the new study. "When it comes to being activated and engaged in their own health care, African-American veterans have more specific challenges that need to be better understood and addressed."There needs to be more research to develop strategies to motivate patients to be involved in their care and to work more effectively with their providers. And we need to learn how to help them sustain engagement over time." Dr. Eliacin is a clinical psychologist and psychological anthropologist. She also has an appointment as an assistant research professor in the Department of Psychology in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Her research focuses on sociocultural determinants of mental health and on reducing health disparities. ...
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Save the Date! Collegewide Fall Opening Meeting August 21
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Please mark your calendars and join Dr. Pollard and your colleagues for the Collegewide Fall Opening Meeting at The Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center (PAC) on the Rockville Campus, Monday, August 21. A continental breakfast reception will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the PAC Lobby, with the President's Meeting taking place at 9 a.m. The meeting will be followed by vice president/provost unit meetings and deans' area meetings on their home campus. More information regarding the Opening Meeting and Professional Week is available on the Fall Opening Meeting website at http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/EDU/Department.aspx?id=81727
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University of Nevada Cooperative Extension faculty receives Ph.D.
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University of Nevada Cooperative Extension faculty receives Ph.D.Posted 7/25/2017University of Nevada Cooperative Extension faculty’s doctorate degree conferred
Aurora Buffington, Ph.D.Assistant Professor and Public Health Nutrition Specialist, Aurora Buffington, received her Doctoral Degree in Public Health from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Buffington’s dissertation is titled Are vending machine selections healthier? Trends in dietary quality of vending machine food and beverage selections among NHANES participants age 6-19 years between 2003-2012.
Working for the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension Southern Area, Buffington focuses on the promotion of healthy people and sustainable, resilient and healthy food systems.
Buffington earned her Masters of Science degree in Exercise Physiology and her Bachelor of Science degree in Nutrition Science from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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100 Apps for Teachers
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Are you a teacher now or studying to become one in the future? Have you been looking for a handy list of digital apps that will help you organize your life inside and outside the classroom? Well, you have come to the right place. With the world around us becoming more technologically advanced every day, developers are creating apps designed specifically to make your life as an educator easier. Check out our 100 helpful apps below! If you’re pressed for time or you simply don’t want to scroll through them all, click on the category you are looking to skip ahead to: Classroom Learning 1. 4 Dice: Fraction Games “The goal of the game is to hit the target by working backwards Jeopardy style by giving the answer first. For teachers, one major benefit of using this game is that it provides immediate feedback of their students' progress via email.” - Justin Holladay, math teacher and game developer. Download: iOS 2. 5 Dice: Order of Operations “The game encourages students to use higher order thinking to solve the ‘target’ number by working backwards given the answer but not the equation. The best feature about this simple math game is that teachers are able to receive immediate feedback of their students’ progress through email.” - Justin Holladay Download: iOS 3. Animation Studio This app is for students and teachers interested in art and the benefits that can come from creating something original. Students can create short films with animation and upload to YouTube, where their work can be viewed and shared with the people they choose. Download: iOS 4. Bubble Math “Allows kids to practice math facts in an engaging way. Included in the free version are the beginner, easy, and medium levels with addition, and the beginner subtraction level. I use the ‘level complete’ screen as a signal for kids working independently in centers to ...
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Miami University joins commitment to advance workplace diversity and inclusion
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On behalf of Miami University, President Greg Crawford today joins a growing coalition pledging to advance diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
President Greg Crawford
Only one month after 175 CEOs came together to launch the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™, more than 100 additional CEOs/presidents have taken the pledge, committing themselves and the organizations they lead to advance diversity and inclusion.
Crawford emphasized the importance of diversity and inclusion his first week on the job. From a letter to the community July 8, 2016, “At Miami, inclusive excellence – or the recognition that our future success depends on how we foster, value, welcome, and engage a rich diversity of faculty, students, staff, and alumni – must become part of our institutional DNA. We cannot be excellent unless 1) we are diverse in the broadest sense of the word, and 2) we have an environment where our students, colleagues, and community members know the importance of their contributions and are able to flourish.”
By signing on to this pledge, Miami commits to cultivating a workplace where diverse perspectives and experiences are welcomed and respected and where employees feel encouraged to discuss diversity and inclusion. Specifically, CEOs and presidents commit to:
Continue to cultivate workplaces that support open dialogue on complex, and sometimes difficult, conversations about diversity and inclusion.
Implement and expand unconscious bias education.
Share best known—and unsuccessful—actions.
The collective of more than 270 signatories have already shared nearly 200 best known actions, exchanging tangible learning opportunities and creating collaborative conversations via the initiative’s unified hub, CEOAction.com.
Miami has submitted these existing actions:
Shared goals of education and research with the Miami Tribe at the Myaamia Center on Miami’s Oxford campus.
Support for web-based, digital and emerging technologies within an accessible and inclusive work and learning environment through for example, the Office for Accessible Technology Services and the Student Disability Services office.
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Inequality of opportunity in Egypt
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It is rare to read an account of the Arab Spring uprisings without a reference to economic injustice. Indeed, it is natural to believe that economic and social injustice fuel, if not cause, all revolutions. For this plausible generalization, the Egyptian revolt of January 2011 is a puzzle. Research shows that, compared to most poor countries, Egypt’s income inequality was low at this time, was not worsening, and its poverty rate was actually falling. Egypt is a prime case of what the World Bank calls “the [Middle East and North Africa (MENA)] inequality puzzle.”
There have been various attempts to solving the puzzle. Extending the conventional household expenditure and income surveys to capture top incomes has raised the Gini index of inequality up by as much as 15 points, but this does not challenge Egypt’s relative position based on standard surveys.
We know that income inequality is one way to measure the deeper meanings of economic injustice, but perhaps not the most relevant one. The capitalist refrain is that unequal incomes are necessary to give individuals the incentive to strive, and, as long as the opportunities for advancement are equal, participants in the competitive economic game are willing to tolerate it. According to this optimistic take on human nature, perception of injustice is less about keeping up with the Jones’s and more about if your children can keep up with theirs.
Thanks to pioneering work by John Roemer, we can actually measure this type of inequality, known as inequality of opportunity, as the share of inequality in a specific outcome—education or income—explained by circumstances beyond a person’s control, such as gender, ethnicity, and family background, to total inequality.
Applying this concept to test scores obtained from Trends in Mathematics and Science Study, Ragui Assaad of the University of Minnesota, Nadia Belhaj-Hassine of the World Bank, and ...
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Illinois Tech Office of Professional Development Offering One-Day Project Management Workshop
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Illinois Tech’s Office of Professional Development is offering a one-day Project Management Workshop on Wednesday, September 13 from 9 a.m.–4 p.m. at the Rice Campus in Wheaton, Illinois.
In today’s economy more than ever, an organization’s success is dependent upon leading projects to their successful outcomes. These projects can range from new product and technology introductions and construction projects to quickly turning around an adverse business situation or creating the ability to capitalize on a market opportunity. Starting with much fanfare, projects too often end with a whimper, are considerably over budget and end up delivering something less than expected. The reality is that success relies heavily on the entrepreneurial skills of the project leader. It is art blended with science. It requires dealing with a host of paradoxes managed in the course of connecting independent specialists toward a business objective. This workshop shatters many of the myths surrounding managing projects. Discussions present first-hand experiences and best practices of what works and why.
Benefits/Learning Objectives:
You’ll be able to improve your ability to lead projects to their successful conclusions. In addition, you’ll learn how to:
Plan activities, track progress, solve problems and lead projects to their intended outcomes
Develop the ability to compress project time without compromising results
Identify and manage project risks and develop contingency plans should the risks materialize
Build personal leadership skills to get the right things done
Create a blueprint for other projects to follow
Enable the organization to utilize project management as a competitive weapon
Who Should Attend:
Enterprising individuals who see managing projects to successful outcomes as a means to fast track their growth in their organization and careers.
Experienced project managers who are seeking new approaches and techniques to get things done.
Organizational leaders needing projects to fulfill expectations and be a source of enduring positive change.
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Board Approves MOU for Glen Ellyn Space
News at College of DuPage
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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Brandeis alum nets major award for podcast on human rights and the sciences
Brandeis University News
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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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
Princeton University News
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
College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences
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?
Northwestern Now: Summaries
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
• Atlanta, GA
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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.
The researchers analyzed frequency of cannabis use from ages 14 ...
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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
Universitat de Barcelona - Notícies
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
Health – UConn Today
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
FIU Athletics
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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Michael Bonnette (@LSUBonnette)Sr. Assoc. Athletic Director/SID
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
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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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