Senate Republicans killed the bipartisan January 6 commission bill Friday, using the filibuster to block the legislation from advancing. Only six Republicans …
Two graduates recognized as Jack Welch Scholars
May 6, 2021
AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst will honor the exemplary achievement, initiative and leadership of some of its most talented and accomplished graduating seniors during Undergraduate Commencement ceremonies taking place Friday, May 14 at McGuirk Alumni Stadium. Four smaller, socially distanced ceremonies will take place at 9 a.m., 12 p.m., 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. due to COVID-19 safety protocols.
Ten members of the graduating class will be honored as 21st Century Leaders at Undergraduate Commencement:
Jason Biundo of Burlington, Mass., is a Commonwealth Honors College student who is graduating with degrees in biology and neuroscience. He was named Residential Life Peer Mentor of the Year. In his sophomore year, he joined the Moorman Lab, a neuroscience lab that studies motivation and addiction, and propelled that experience into being accepted into an immersive summer program in computational
April 21, 2021 MACOMB/MOLINE, IL - Six students graduating from Western Illinois University at the end of the Spring 2021 semester have received the highest recognition from their colleges for their overall academic excellence by being named a College Scholar.
Faculty in each of the University s four academic colleges; Global Education and Outreach and the Centennial Honors College each select a graduating senior as the college s outstanding student. Students graduating as College Scholars have satisfied the criteria of excellence established by their individual academic college s faculty members. A Departmental Scholar is an outstanding degree candidate in an academic major as determined by the faculty in the major department. An Honors Scholar is a student in the Centennial Honors College who has completed a set of honors requirements and has achieved a grade point average of at least 3.4 on a 4.0 scale.
Disasters Intensify With Climate Change, Carry Billion Dollar Costs
Federal government says 2020 saw record 22 separate weather climate disasters that each cost a billion dollars or more.
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and last updated 2021-04-21 07:00:00-04
Adam Smith. I m an applied climatologist with NOAA: What we ve seen over the last several years are rising trends in different types of extremes in different parts of the countries.
I m Adam Smith. I m an applied climatologist with NOAA. And I study the interface between extreme events, risk, costs and the science about all of these events.
Since 1980, the United States has found that we ve been impacted by 285 of these billion dollar whether or climate disaster events. And the total cost for these 285 events approach $2 trillion in 2020 dollars.