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More than 40 events scheduled as part of national festival Penn State and central Pennsylvania will host more than 40 events this spring in conjunction with the “Remake Learning Days Across America” festival of innovation. Image: Penn State Penn State, central Pennsylvania host Remake Learning events in April, May April 16, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State and central Pennsylvania will host more than 40 events this spring in conjunction with “Remake Learning Days Across America,�...

23 Apr 2021 Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Kenya is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit organization established in 1985 to promote womens individual and collective power to claim their rights in all spheres of life. FIDA-Kenya is a membership organization with over 1,100 women lawyers and law students and is committed to creating a society that is free from all forms of discrimination against women in Kenya. The organization works towards addressing challenges facing womens access...

Christine D'Arpa’s profile on The Conversation

MANAGEMENT and Science University (MSU) recently awarded 914 diplomas, 955 bachelor’s degrees, and 90 postgraduate degrees at its 27th Convocation Cer...

Daily Monitor Monday April 12 2021 Prof Barnabas Nawangwe poses with the Minister of Education and Sports Janet Kataha Museveni at the opening of the Makerere University auditorium in 2019. Photo | Rachel Mabala Summary A number of courses have been scrapped from the list of courses offered at Makerere University. Does this action affect the validity of the graduates? What causes these course to be cancelled and what is the way forward for those that had  interest in those courses? Advertiseme...

Perspectives from Havana in a Year of Covid and Embargo Perspectives from Havana in a Year of Covid and Embargo – A Series of Weekly Conversations What has Cuba been like in the past year?What is like now?What have been the major challenges and achievements? Like the rest of the world, Havana and Cuba have just completed the first full year of Covid 19.  It has done so with the full force of the U.S. embargo on its neck, including additional measures enacted by the Trump administration and...

Alabama Forensic Council wins two national championships By Anna Claire Toxey April 10, 2021 Members of the Alabama Forensic Council at the University of Alabama figured out how best to make the Pi Kappa Delta National Comprehensive Tournaments new virtual format work for them, and came away with two national championships. (contributed) The Alabama Forensic Council, the University of Alabama’s competitive speech team, won two national championships in speech and debate recently during the vi...

Off to a busy start, data institute responds to COVID and seeks director The American Family Insurance Data Science Institute’s first two years have been nothing if not eventful. Last spring, as the campus and state shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, AFIDSI responded to the need for mathematical modeling to guide policy decisions and public health outreach. Within weeks, the institute had convened a team of leaders and experts from across the U.S. The COVID-19 Research Group met ...

New Data Science degree emerges as the fastest growing major at UW-Madison April 8, 2021 By Nicole Herzog Data Science is one of the most rapidly emerging career sectors in the nation, as it finds new uses for increased computing power is used across a wide variety of fields. Here, bundles of orange data cables connect arrays of computer servers in the Space Science and Engineering Center Data Center at UW–Madison. Photo: Jeff Miller From February through June, we will highlight the w...

Though Black faculty members have been part of the Penn State community for over 60 years, “the challenges facing Black faculty are no less formidable” in 2021, according to the second “More Rivers To Cross” report. As a follow-up to the first report published in January 2020, biobehavioral health professor Gary King and an independent group of Black faculty members published part two of “More Rivers To Cross” on March 25. The 2020 report, which was 93 pages long, ...