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The OC Fair & Events Center in Costa Mesa is looking for workers to help put on the 2021 O.C. Fair, hiring a number of seasonal, part-time positions across several departments.
Jobs include building exhibits to ticket-taking to customer service in departments including parking, security and admissions. Positions are also available for applicants interested in being a member of the maintenance team, landscape crew or janitorial group.
Applicants must be 16 years or older and be willing to take part in virtual interviews and orientations during this year’s hiring process. Hiring has already begun with other start dates staggered toward the operating dates of the O.C. Fair, from July 16 through Aug. 15.
Holy Cross will honor four individuals with honorary degrees this May.
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the United States Representative to the United Nations, and Dr. Michael Collins ’77, Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, will receive honorary degrees at the College’s 175th Commencement on May 21. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield will deliver the commencement address and Dr. Collins will offer a reflection for our graduates.
Separately, Reverend David Beckmann, one of the foremost U.S. advocates for people struggling with hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world, and Sister Donna Markham, president of Catholic Charities USA, will receive honorary degrees and speak during a special virtual Convocation event for our graduating Class of 2020 on May 22. Valedictorian Kerry Shortell will also be a featured speaker.
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HANOVER Dartmouth College trustees have chosen as their next chair a graduate who arrived in Hanover as a first-generation college student who rose to become a senior partner at McKinsey & Co., the global management consultancy.
Elizabeth Cahill Lempres, who graduated from Dartmouth in 1983 and from the Thayer School of Engineering in 1984, will take over leadership of the college’s board on June 14 from Laurel Richie, who has been chair since 2017, the college announced recently.
“The board’s strategic priorities of ensuring preeminence in a rapidly changing landscape, building a more diverse and inclusive community, and increasing engagement with the graduate schools will remain core to our agenda,” Lempres said in the news release. “On a personal note, it’s a privilege to serve Dartmouth in this way. I arrived in Hanover a first-generation college student and a beneficiary of the College’s commitment to need-blind admissions. Dartmo
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In Bangladesh, a health care worker measures a child’s arm to monitor progress in a malnutrition supplementation study. MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP via Getty Images
Food supplements that alter gut bacteria could ‘cure’ malnutrition
Apr. 7, 2021 , 5:00 PM
To save a starving child, aid workers have long used one obvious treatment: food. But a new study suggests feeding their gut bacteria may be as important or even more important than feeding their stomachs. In a head-to-head comparison against a leading treatment for malnutrition, a new supplement designed to promote helpful gut bacteria led to signs of improved growth and more weight gain, despite having 20% fewer calories. The study also highlights how important gut bacteria the so-called microbiome can be to human health.