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Colorado bishops issue letter on the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life Congressional policies July 26, 2021 We, the Catholic bishops of Colorado, urge Congressional Representatives to support the Hyde Amendment and the Walden Amendment. We also ask the Faithful to sign The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) petition to lawmakers encouraging them to preserve the Hyde Amendment, which can be accessed at: NoTaxpayerAbortion.com, and to contact their Congressmen and ...

Questions of the Humanities and its Value The integrative humanities is a form of value creation because it shows how contemporary rewritings of the past damage the present and the future. Photo: matthew Feeney/Unsplash Education7 hours ago The tense dynamic between academic freedom and academic accountability will persist for publicly funded universities – and questions will be asked of the “utility” of disciplines in an age of economic downturns and calls for instrumentalisati...

Nigeria Prize for Literature winner, Jude Idada, and author of ‘In the Name of Our Father’ Olukorede S. Yishau, are two of the four Nigerians nominated by the United States Mission in Nigeria for the University of Iowa’s programme tagged ‘Telling Our Stories: Creative Writing and Healthcare’. The other Nigerians are Ololade Ajayi, a poet, […]

Fri, 05/07/2021 LAWRENCE — David Slusky is an instinctive sleuth willing to share the tricks of his trade to help students explore the economic questions swirling around them. Slusky, the De-Min and Chin-Sha Wu Associate Professor of Economics in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Kansas, will deliver the annual Shutz Lecture at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 12. Individuals can register to attend the Zoom webinar here. His presentation is titled “Adventures with a Natural Experi...

A green sanctuary UD volunteers help transform dying urban forest into Peace Park Efforts to revitalize a 10-acre tract of dying and ecologically compromised woods in southwest Baltimore have been described in a variety of terms in recent news articles, from the spiritual (“Our Earth is a gift from God,” says the pastor whose church owns the land) to the scientific (“What we’re trying to build is a climate-adapted, resilient forest,” according to a U.S. Forest Service ...

Ectogenesis: ethical challenges in creating artificial wombs Appeared in BioNews 1090 Three new reports in Nature illuminate the potential to transform artificial wombs from a laboratory tool into a procedure to grow and maintain a human embryo from fertilisation until birth. Two papers reported the generation of human blastocysts by culturing non-embryonic cells under specific conditions to transform them into blastocyst-like structures, called blastoids. In one study scientists treated stem c...

By Susan Gonzalez April 1, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this While 320 York St., now called the Humanities Quadrangle, has been dramatically transformed, much care was given to preserve the historical character of the building, which was built in 1932. (All photos by Dan Renzetti) When he first visited the newly refurbished Humanities Quadrangle at 320 York St. — known until recently as the Hall of Graduate Studies —...

Ethics of genetically reconstituting oocytes Appeared in BioNews 1085 In the 16 December issue of Nature, researchers reported that the addition of eight transcription factors to pluripotent stem cells converted them into a primary oocyte-like cell. While these cells did not undergo normal meiosis, and therefore did not have the correct number of gamete chromosomes, they could be fertilised by sperm to initiate partial embryonic development, with some even progressing to an eight-cell morula st...

Revelle College, Director of Humanities Program- Associate Teaching Professor University of California San Diego Revelle College invites applications for an Associate Teaching Professor position to serve as the Director of the Revelle College Humanities Program. Associate Teaching Professors have nine-month (academic-year) appointments and are full members of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of the University of California, San Diego. Revelle College is the oldest of UC San Diegos seven coll...

Revelle College, Director of Humanities Program- Assistant Teaching Professor (LPSOE) University of California San Diego Revelle College invites applications for an Assistant Teaching Professor position to serve as the Director of the Revelle College Humanities Program (LPSOE). Assistant Teaching Professors have nine-month (academic-year) appointments and are full members of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of the University of California, San Diego. Revelle College is the oldest of UC San D...