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To reach Posters on the Hill, student becomes recorder of the court April 28, 2021 Political science and history major Faith Privett presents research on Justice Antonin Scalia’s votes at national research conference Opposites instruct. And Faith Privett will prove it on the Hill (yes, Capitol Hill), if virtually, this week. The Norwich University junior, who’s majoring in political science and history, had chosen Ruth Bader Ginsburg as one of three Supreme Court justices sh...

Effingham, IL / Effingham Radio Mattoon, IL -(Effingham Radio)- Lake Land College named PTK Treasurer Rachel Buening, Effingham, and PTK Secretary Macy Vogt, Teutopolis, as 2020-2021 Outstanding Honors Students. Both recipients were honored at the virtual Student Recognition Banquet April 28.   As well as being active in Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society (PTK), both students were Presidential Scholars and achieved full status honors via the Honors Program courses. PTK, the Honors Program and Pr...

Special to the Weatherford Democrat Weatherford College President Tod Allen Farmer talks to students during an Honors Program lunch in March. WC expands new Honors Program Special to the Weatherford Democrat Apr 27, 2021 3 hrs ago Special to the Weatherford Democrat Weatherford College President Tod Allen Farmer talks to students during an Honors Program lunch in March. After a successful pilot program, Weatherford College is expanding...

Six students win coveted Boren scholarships Six UNG students won the Boren award in spring 2021. The Boren Scholarship recipients are Meghan McPeak, Dillon Evans, Phillip Ly, Daniel Shearer, and Katherine Torres. The Boren Fellowship recipient is Rhiannon Smith. Both provide up to $25,000 for students to intensively study language and culture abroad. After studying Chinese for a week in high school, Meghan McPeak wanted to quit. Then something clicked. "I started to remember the characters. It ...

The DePaulia Nadia Hernandez, Opinions Editor|April 25, 2021 DePaul Honors Program students are calling attention to the university’s honors curriculum which offers classes on BIPOC issues that are taught by white professors.  In the fall, the Honors Program offered classes such as “Black Lives Matter” and “Social Justice Organization” that were taught by white professors and based on research, not lived experience.  “I don’t think that a white professor would ever be able to te...

First student to complete the OHIO Honors Program graduates this spring Published: April 26, 2021 Author: Staff reports Before Marietta, Ohio, native Madi Moore set foot on Ohio University’s campus as a biochemistry major in the first full cohort of the OHIO Honors Program in fall 2019, she had earned two associate’s degrees. That previous coursework, completed during her last two years of high school through the College Credit Plus program, set Moore on a path to complete h...

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Ex-IBMer takes helm at BPI, wants it to become ‘undisputed leader in digital banking’ Share on email Jose Teodoro “TG” Limcaoco, a math major who worked briefly for IBM Philippines but spent almost his entire corporate career at the Ayala Group, has assumed his new role as president and CEO of BPI, the country’s second largest bank. BPI president and CEO Jose Teodoro “TG” Limcaoco During his first press briefing as the bank’s head honcho, Limcaoco made it clear that he wants to ...

Finders: Is the SEC Finally Ready to Clarify this Cloudy Issue for Startups and Other Private Companies?   In an effort to address an issue that has frustrated the business community for years, including startups, tech companies, and “finders,” the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a proposed conditional exemption for finders on October 7, 2020. Under the proposal, people (i.e., finders) seeking to assist companies or issuers in raising capital – for a fee – will ...

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