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May. 27, 2021 6:43 PM
Even though it was 15 years ago, Tomer Zilkha remembers vividly the last time he drank Starbucks coffee, the brew that millions of Americans apparently can’t do without every morning.
“I had been hiking in the Grand Canyon with my wife and her uncle,” he recalls. “We’d finished a trek of almost 30 kilometers and found ourselves in the small town of Page, Arizona. I was wiped out, I had to have a coffee. I remember we drove around looking for a small, local coffee shop, but all we saw was one Starbucks after another.”
Four Questions With Wayne Duffus: Addressing Health Disparities in HIV Prevention and Care
Published 05-27-21
Submitted by Gilead Sciences
When Wayne Duffus moved from Jamaica to New York after high school, he quickly developed an interest in science thanks to a handful of inspiring mentors. His family was immigrating to the United States, and he was excited to attend City University of New York – Brooklyn College. After graduation, as he continued exploring his newly found passion, he enrolled in an MD-PhD program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and eventually went on to specialize in infectious diseases to help fight the growing HIV epidemic. Since then, he has focused his work on HIV prevention in the clinical, public health and government sectors.
Respected Educator Returns to BPY As New Middle School Associate Principal By JLNJ Staff | May 27, 2021
(Courtesy of BPY) Ben Porat Yosef (BPY), the yeshiva day school located in Paramus, has announced that a well-respected educator, Sarah Bartges, will return to the school in a newly created position as the associate principal overseeing the middle school division. She will assume her new role at the beginning of the academic year in September 2021.
In her new role, Bartges will work with fellow administrators and educators to strengthen the middle school program by increasing the levels of academic rigor and its curriculum. She will also teach some science courses.
New York to raffle off 50 full-ride college scholarships to vaccinated 12 to 17-year-olds
New York plans to award 50 full scholarships to vaccinated young people as part of an effort to encourage children between 12 and 17 to get their Covid-19 vaccinations.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the “Get a Shot to Make Your Future” program on Wednesday and said the state would give 10 scholarships a week for the next five weeks, according to a news release from the governor’s office.
This comes as a number of states are offering prizes and other incentives to encourage residents to get vaccinated.
Ohio’s Vax-a-Million campaign is giving away five $1 million prizes to adult residents who’ve gotten at least one dose of the vaccine. Younger residents could win one of five college scholarships. The first winners were announced after a drawing on Wednesday.