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Skolnik: Global Health Challenges In The Age Of COVID Los Alamos Global Health Challenges in the Age of COVID The Key Issues The present pandemic is the quintessential global health problem. Yet, it is not the only global health challenge that we face. I comment below both on the pandemic and on other critical issues in global health. Getting COVID under Control “The health of anyone, anywhere, is the health of everyone, everywhere”. COVID highlights the importance of this, since no countr...

Northern Star DeKALB – Cassandra Kamp, senior psychology and rehabilitation and disability services major, was unanimously confirmed as the Student Government Association’s election commissioner. SGA Senator Clayton Schopfer was also confirmed as the sergeant-at-arms Sunday at the virtual SGA meeting. The duties of the election commissioner are to hold candidate meetings for the Senate and executive elections, meet with the board of elections regularly, hold debates for the candidates, admi...

  Mahony previously taught a similar class at University of Louisville as an assistant professor and at Kansas State as a dean, but co-instructed the course after he moved to Winthrop and joined the SIU system.    “This past semester, I actually taught a class that was in the Honors Program that was for both Carbondale and Edwardsville students with Dr. Bobbi Knapp here, she was my co-instructor. So Dr. Hughes will be the third co-instructor I’ve had in this class, and so Iâ...

Sometimes, I just have to stop and look back in awe at how far I’ve come in these past few months: from a sickly bat in a Wuhan meat-market all the way across the world to your neighbor’s lukewarm...

Student starts SPIA student mentor program January 18, 2021 Elizabeth Carter plans to leave her mark on the campus community “If you’re going to be there, a place shouldn’t be the same when you leave.” That’s the advice senior Elizabeth Carter lives by in college. She hopes when she graduates in May 2021 that the University of Georgia and the School of Public and International Affairs will be better than when she arrived. Carter, an international affairs major who is also pursuing a m...

La Salle News President-elect Joe Biden nominates La Salle alumnus to head the CIA William J. Burns, ’78, a career diplomat, retired from the U.S. Department of State in 2014. William J. Burns, ’78, a career ambassador and retired foreign service officer, has been nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to serve as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Burns, a native of the Philadelphia area, was a student in La Salle’s Honors Program who graduated in 1978 with an undergradua...

Share this article Share this article PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Hobbs & Towne, Inc. ("HTI") is excited and honored to announce that Jennifer Ratner has joined the firm. HTI is the premier sustainability and climate technology-focused executive search and advisory services firm in the world, with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, London and Philadelphia, where Jennifer will be based. The firm has been dedicated to supporting and transforming the most in...

Dec 19, 2020 James B. Whisker Sr. and Kevin R. Spiker have had their book “The Just War Doctrine in Catholic Thought” published by Nova Science Publishers, an academic publisher of books, encyclopedias, handbooks, e-books and journals, based in Hauppauge, N.Y. Now a resident of Everett, Bedford County, Whisker’s family has lived in Bedford County through nine generations. Whisker is author or co-author of 81 books as well as numerous articles. Whisker is professor emeritus from West Virgi...

What is undergraduate research? The Council for Undergraduate Research defines undergraduate research as “…the inquiry or investigation conducted by an undergraduate in collaboration with a faculty mentor that makes an original intellectual or creative contribution to the discipline.” It is recognized as one of Texas A&Ms high impact practices that prepares students for the workplace and society. Students connect with faculty and graduate students who, in addition to research, are able to...