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Students from the University of Nebraska at Omaha have once again sent experiments to near-space through two high-altitude balloon launches – this time in support of a unique opportunity to launch a small satellite into orbit.

Fernando Aguirre, Executive Vice Chairman of DHS, Announces Appointment of Allison Jones, Executive Vice President of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 7Newswire 01 Jun 2021, 20:02 GMT+10 WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA -- June 1, 2021 -- DHS Group today announced that Allison Jones has been appointed Executive Vice President, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I). She will report to Fernando Aguirre, Executive Vice Chairman. In this role, Jones will advance DHS global DE&I programs and initiatives...

BEIJING, May 25 (Gwadar pro)-A cooperative project on science education for youth was launched in Beijing on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Pakistan-China diplomatic relations. A three-year cooperative plan was initiated on a hybrid meeting between the Children & Youth Science Center of CAST (China Association for Science and Technology) and Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) on May 20th.   As per the plan, in the next three years, teachers training, resource shari...

OSU-Lima engineering students to train at Ford By Mackenzi Klemann - mklemann@limanews.com Shawn Stewart, plant manager at the Ford Lima Engine Plant, said the company’s existing training facility will soon house the Ohio State Lima Engineering Education and Manufacturing Center, a partnership between Ford and the university. Timothy Rehner, dean and director of The Ohio State University-Lima, said the university’s new bachelor’s degree program in engineering technology is designed to me...

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Monday, May 17, 2021 - 9:25 am POTSDAM - Shane Rogers, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering in Clarkson Universitys Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering, was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award during the Universitys spring 2021 commencement ceremonies. The $1,500 prize is given "in recognition of the importance of superior teaching." Candidates are nominated for the award by Clarkson alumni, and the final selection is made by a faculty com...

Hindu temple in Livermore, California. bell hooks once wrote that “homeplace” was a place constructed “where Black people could affirm one another and by so doing heal many of the wounds inflicted by racist domination.” I like to think that the Indian American, specifically the Hindu American community that raised me is a homeplace of sorts for brown folks in the racial superstructure of the U.S. It is the place where I made sense of my diasporic, non-white, Brahmin Hindu social positio...

The American sculptor Sarah Oppenheimer, best-known for her works that disorient the viewer’s perceptions between architecture and space, will unveil a $1.7m commission for the Landmarks public art programme at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) later this year. The sprawling but little-known outdoor art campus includes works by artists like Mark di Suvero, Louise Bourgeois and Sol LeWitt across a 433-acre campus. The work, titled C-010106, will be installed on the footbridge be...

How the Cold War in Germany played a small yet significant part in establishing IIT Madras Updated: Updated: May 12, 2021 14:48 IST A recently-published research paper unearths an oft-forgotten chapter in the establishment of IIT-Madras and its connection with the Cold War in Germany, which resulted in the formation of the now-revered institution Share Article AAA Walter Scheel (second from right), Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development of the Federal Republic of Germany, visiting II...

Homegrown Conservation Projects Underway, Courtesy of the UConn Forest How a couple of fallen trees led to a dynamic opportunity for Connecticut students UConn Forestry crew members hauling white pine boards out of the UConn forest to be used to build nesting boxes. Copy Link The UConn Forest is 2,100 acres of living laboratory, full of research and teaching opportunities, under the management of the state Department of Natural Resources and the Environment. While walking th...