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Think From reimagining the Human Development Report, to improving how we use data to fight poverty, to speeding up results through the Accelerator Labs, #NextGenUNDP is boosting countries’ progress toward the SDGs. Invest Investing nearly US$5 billion each year in development progress, and as countries’ partner of choice to access global funding windows, #NextGenUNDP understands finance and risk – and how to bring more SDG investors to the table. Manage A better workplace means bett...

Above: John Malter attended the very first Green Up Day in 1970 and continues to support annual event 51 years later. As administrator for the Mad River Resource Management Alliance, his work involves coordinating disposal, reuse and recycling of a wide range of materials for local communities. Photo by Jenny Koppang. Green Up Day fosters hope in Waterbury community after a bleak year Below: Waterbury resident Bill Minter, a seasoned Green Up Day volunteer, tends to a steady stream of cars and...

Article by UDaily staff Photo by Mark Campbell May 05, 2021 Graduates of the Classes of 2021 and 2020 to be honored The University of Delaware will hold six Commencement events this month honoring the graduating Class of 2021, as well as a ceremony celebrating the Class of 2020, whose original Commencement last year was postponed in light of the coronavirus pandemic. In keeping with necessary health protocols, the Class of 2021 will be celebra...

2021 Trustee Award Winner Jason Gainous Jason Gainous, department chair and professor of political science in the University of Louisville College of Arts & Sciences, is the recipient of the 2021 Trustees Award. The award, in its 32nd year, is UofL’s most prestigious faculty award, recognizing faculty members who have made significant contributions to student life. The UofL Board of Trustees made the announcement at its meeting April 22. “Thank you so much,” Gainous said. “I couldn’t ...

 E-Mail When access to free and low-cost birth control goes up, the percentage of young women who leave high school before graduating goes down by double-digits, according to a new CU Boulder-led study published May 5 in the journal Science Advances. The study, which followed more than 170,000 women for up to seven years, provides some of the strongest evidence yet that access to contraception yields long-term socioeconomic benefits for women. It comes at a time when public funding for birth ...

 E-Mail WHAT: A team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health has developed a new ultrasound technique to monitor the placenta for impaired fetal blood flow early in pregnancy. The technique, which uses conventional ultrasound equipment, relies on subtle differences in the pulsation of fetal blood through the arteries at the fetal and placental ends of the umbilical cord, potentially enabling physicians to identify placental abnormalities that impair fetal blood flow and, if ...

May 3, 2021 Froyla Tzalam It is official – Buckingham Palace has approved the appointment of Froyla Tzalam as the next Governor General of Belize. Over the weekend, News Five spoke with Tzalam who was on a tour with officials from the Ministry of Human Development, Families and Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs in the south. The former executive director of the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management, will now transition to becoming the Queen’s representative in Belize, rep...

May, 2021 It is official – Buckingham Palace has approved the appointment of Froyla Tzalam as the next Governor General of Belize. Over the weekend, News Five spoke with Tzalam who was [...]

Now is the time for action The bankruptcy of economics and the negligence and malfeasance of the economics profession is now evident, as I have charged since the 1960s and in my “Economists versus Ecologists”, New York Times, October 24, 1971. The generational task of metaphysical reconstruction is almost complete, as we see all the policy and market failures around us: from climate change and pandemics to crises in our global food systems and the proliferation of space junk on our planet�...