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University of the Commonwealth Caribbean s building in Kingston, Jamaica.
The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean has inked a global partnership with the University of Arizona (UArizona), headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.
This exclusive regional agreement makes it possible for students across the Caribbean – approximately 20 countries including Jamaica - to pursue proposed dual or UArizona stand-alone bachelor’s and master’s degrees from either the UArizona or both.
Students can pursue the programmes without leaving their countries.
UCC’s Founder and Group Executive Chairman, Dr Winston Adams, noted that “the university was once again breaking new frontiers and boundaries, as an entrepreneurial pacesetter in developing and implementing such an imaginative transnational higher education partnership, including projected arrangements for team-teaching and collaborative research”.
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https://www.afinalwarning.com/503369.html (Natural News) Researchers propose building a gene bank on the moon that would house the seeds of 6.7 million species on Earth. Similar to Noah’s Ark, the gene bank would serve as a “modern insurance policy” that would ensure the survival of terrestrial life should an extinction-level event happen.
“Earth is naturally a volatile environment,” said Jekan Thanga, a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the
University of Arizona (UArizona) and one of the study researchers.
Around 75,000 years ago, for example, the eruption of the supervolcano Toba in what is now Indonesia nearly wiped out humans. The catastrophic event triggered a thousand-year-long cooling period, which scientists link to a dramatic drop in biodiversity.
Modern Ark: Why Scientists Want To Send DNA Samples To The Moon
KEY POINTS
There, samples of millions of Earth species will be preserved
It may be useful in case of a global catastrophe
Scientists want to store the DNA of millions of plants and animals on the Moon in case of a doomsday scenario, the Earth will have a back-up of its biodiversity.
It s no secret that the Earth is not in its best shape, and researchers are proposing an idea that could save the planet s biodiversity. Describing it as a modern-day Ark, in reference to the biblical story of Noah s Ark, the idea is to send samples of 6.7 million of the world s species to the Moon. At a facility in the underground lunar lava tubes in Norway, the seeds, spores, eggs, and sperm will be frozen cryogenically as a global insurance policy.