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2021/05/05 20:04 Wu Cheng-wen, chief executive officer of the 2021 National Intercollegiate Athletic Gamess executive committee (NCKU photo) Wu Cheng-wen, chief executive officer of the 2021 National Intercollegiate Athletic Gamess executive committee (NCKU photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), host of this year’s National Intercollegiate Athletic Games from May 14–18, has pledged to present a one-of-a-kind nationa...

FRS, CST) as its new independent Co-Chair today. The CST is the government’s highest-level advisory body on science and technology, advising on issues that cut across the full range of the government’s responsibilities. Members of the council are leading figures in the science and technology community, including representation from academia and key high-tech businesses. Presidents from the national academies and the Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation ( UKRI) participate as ex-...

Date Time Hydrogen, renewables, manufacturing: what must happen next Following international climate talks, Sydney experts from the Faculty of Engineering discuss the future of hydrogen energy, renewables and advanced manufacturing, and the investment that’s needed to ensure Australia comes out on top. Energy companies, and state and federal governments are looking to retrofit existing gas pipelines for hydrogen transport. Credit: Pixabay. Hydrogen could be king, but there’s one bi...

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Share The Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) has selected doctoral students Giulia Andreoni and Vasilis Charisopoulos as recipients of the 2020-2021 Cornelia Ye Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. “Their commitment to mentoring and guiding their students beyond the classroom and engaging their students with the Cornell community to enhance learning is what stood out to the committee,” said Kim Kenyon, an associate director at the CTI and chair of the award selection committee. Andreoni,...

One year after the coronavirus was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, health professionals have decried moves to go maskless.

Date Time Recognition for two outstanding teachers Two Sydney academics were awarded citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in the Federal Government’s Australian Awards for University Teaching. Deputy-Vice Chancellor (Education) Professor Pip Pattison congratulated Dr Stanaway and Dr Shirvanimoghaddam on their citations. “The awards recognise and celebrate the impact of educators on student outcomes and are an outstanding testament to the innovative approaches...

March 2, 2021 Cornell researchers found no evidence of students transmitting COVID-19 to employees or the broader community during the fall semester, but students who traveled were eight times more likely to test positive within two weeks of their return, according to a new report that is helping the university shape its ongoing pandemic response. The Cornell epidemiological modeling team, led by Peter Frazier, associate professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering...

Share New Delhi: Fresh graduates from the Class of 2020 at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) continue to be in demand and are drawing higher starting salaries, despite a tough economic environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More than nine in 10 NTU fresh graduates in the labour force reported that they were employed within six months after completing their final examinations, comparable to the previous cohort. 4,636 NTU graduates responded to the 2020 Joint Autonomous Univer...

FRANCESCA ZANIER AND STEFANO CIONI, ESA/ESTEC The time-to-first-fix (TTFF) is the time that a GNSS receiver takes to make available for the first time from switch-on an indication of the user position. Smaller TTFFs have become a premium performance metrics for any receiver, particularly as smartphones, tablets and location-based services have expanded so rapidly. The TTFF depends on a number of factors, some specific to receiver design, others depending on the particular conditions the receiv...