07/02/21
A team from Harvard University, Internet2, the University of California, San Diego and the University of Utah is developing a Research Computing and Data (RCD) Resource and Career Center to support workforce development in the field. The pilot project, called Cyberinfrastructure Centers of Excellence, has been awarded a $1.49 million, two-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
The career center will provide institutions and individuals with the products, tools, services and community to build and sustain successful RCD operations, according to a news announcement. Key goals are to help expand the development of new RCD professionals and to support them throughout their careers, as well as to develop practices for recruitment, onboarding, advancing diversity, equity and inclusion, professional development, student internship and training programs, and more.
Patrick Schmitz is one in a million.
On Friday, the City presented him with a little civic bling for being number 1,000,000 in the visitor count at Tournament Capital Centre.
The Highland Valley Copper metallurgic technician was given a year s free membership and a TCC ski jacket for his regular visits to the gym.
Mayor Peter Milobar said TCC attendance surpassed 900,000 last year. With six weeks before year s end, it s already more than one million.
Five per cent of Kamloops residents use the TCC every day, he said. We ve seen the success just keep growing and growing and growing, he said.
Jeff Burkhead, Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center
Worried about some of her friends, a Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center board member recently messaged the center’s CEO, Patrick Schmitz, and other staff members.
“I have friends who are just down and need some positivity,” the board member said. “I have been asked if Bert Nash has any online resources/exercises/links that would help people who are experiencing low energy or light depression during these seasonal days of COVID. Thanks for any help.”
Help is available not only on the Bert Nash website, but on a new community resource website hosted by Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health: ldchealth.org/hope. The new resource is part of Douglas County’s Unified Command Community Well-being Branch.