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The UWI, Press Release Castries, Saint Lucia (Monday February 8th, 2020) - The UWI Open Campus Saint Lucia, in collaboration with the GEF Small Grants Programme UNDP, will host its 4th Country Conference from the 15th to 17th February 2021. The theme of this year’s Conference is “Visioning Sustainable Futures - Confronting the Threats of Climate Change and Climate Variability”, and it is expected to provide an avenue to share existing research and disseminate information on Saint Lucia. ...

Meet our Montrealer of the Month: Ana Milic Working with older Montrealers who are isolated and particularly vulnerable to complications from COVID-19, Ana Milic set up peer training sessions so that everyone could become comfortable attending online. Social Sharing When the pandemic hit, she worked to ensure McGill Universitys lifelong learners werent left out CBC News · Posted: Feb 02, 2021 2:24 PM ET | Last Updated: February 2 Ana Milic and one of her three children. Originally from Serbi...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A Rice University model shows the predicted atmospheric concentration distribution in parts per billion of a downwind diesel plume six hours after Hurricane Harvey. Rice engineers modeled the hypothetical threats... view more  Credit: Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 1, 2021) - When aboveground storage tanks fail during a storm and their toxic contents spread, the threat to human health can and probably will flow downwind of the immediate area. Rice University engineers...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Artists representation of a halide perovskite photocathode. Researchers at Rice University and Los Alamos National Laboratory found halide perovskite semiconductors (silver) treated with a thin layer of cesium (blue-green) could... view more  Credit: Image courtesy A. Mohite/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 1, 2021) - Rice University engineers have discovered technology that could slash the cost of semiconductor electron sources, key components in devices ranging from ni...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The image displays the exfoliation of hexagonal boron nitride into atomically thin nanosheets aided by surfactants, a process refined by chemists at Rice University. view more  Credit: Credit: Ella Maru Studio HOUSTON - (Jan. 27, 2021) - Just a little soap helps clean up the challenging process of preparing two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Rice University chemists have found a way to get the maximum amount of quality 2D hBN nanosheets from its natural bul...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Qimiao Si is the Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University and director of the Rice Center for Quantum Materials. view more  Credit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 25, 2021) - A new theory that could explain how unconventional superconductivity arises in a diverse set of compounds might never have happened if physicists Qimiao Si and Emilian Nica had chosen a different name for their 2017 model of orbital-sele...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Jacob Robinson is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University and a core faculty member of the Rice Neuroengineering Initiative. view more  Credit: Photo by Tommy LaVergne/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 25, 2021) - Wireless communication directly between brains is one step closer to reality thanks to $8 million in Department of Defense follow-up funding for Rice University neuroengineers. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agenc...

Common calendar, Packet papers, January 22 Common calendar, Packet papers, January 22 Ongoing The AARP Foundation Tax-Aide Program will not be offered this tax season at any site in Mercer County because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, AARP is offering an alternative this year called the AARP Alternative Tax Preparation program (ATP). The ATP program provides direct taxpayer access to free online tax software for this year’s taxes as well as video and/or phone assistance with a certified ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A river-fed sedimentary plain in Iceland bears resemblance to what might have fed Mars Gale Crater more than 3 billion years ago. Researchers at Rice University studied rover data on... view more  Credit: Photo by Michael Thorpe HOUSTON - (Jan. 20, 2021) - Once upon a time, seasons in Gale Crater probably felt something like those in Iceland. But nobody was there to bundle up more than 3 billion years ago. The ancient Martian crater is the focus of a study by Rice Univ...

Yukon University’s board of governors is growing. The Yukon University Act, which came into effect in February 2020, called for an increase from 12 to 17 members to better represent key stakeholder and rights holder groups. Both the board itself and the Yukon government can appoint members to the board. In November, the government appointed Aan Goosh oo Mark Wedge, Gàndałêch Pearl Callaghan, and Christine Mahar to the Yukon University Board of Governors. Aan Goosh oo Mark Wedge is a cit...