He embarked on a massive spending agenda that expanded federal safety net programs and seeks to add government benefits for college, child care, health care and paid sick leave.
“Big government is back, and it’s back under the auspices of this quote-unquote national emergency,” said Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.
The activist approach to governing imbues Mr. Biden’s union agenda.
The president gave multiple plugs for unions in his address to a joint session of Congress and urged lawmakers to pass the “PRO Act,” which would nullify right-to-work laws across the country and expand union power.
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Join us for a talk and workshop with Dr. Alan Segel about flow on Tuesday May 4th at 7pm
Dr. Alan Segal is a physician/scientist, clinician/educator, electrical/bioengineer, inventor and evolutionary physiologist. His main interests are the kidney, ion channels, and teaching via storytelling and comedy. He pursued graduate work in Feedback & Control Systems and did a thesis in Bioelectromagnetics, both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He then attended the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He is now board-certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology and his basic science laboratory focuses on the properties and regulation of ion channels in health and disease. He has been teaching physiology and nephrology since 1990 and has directed the nephrology fellowship program at UVM for more than a decade.
Compiling Messages from Neutron Stars
May 3, 2021•
Physics 14, 66
The combination of gravitational-wave and x-ray observations of neutron stars provides new insight into the structure of these stars, as well as new confirmation of Einstein’s theory of gravity.
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Mon, 05/03/2021
LAWRENCE Once described as “the richest bachelor in Chicago,” Robert Allerton was a gay man who in 1922 began a romance with a student 26 years his junior named John Gregg. To hide this risky relationship, they began referring to each other as father and son.
In 1960, after nearly four decades together, Allerton legally adopted Gregg.
“They are fascinating because of being so anomalous. It’s not like most people did this,” said Nick Syrett, a professor of women, gender & sexuality studies at the University of Kansas.
“But I like the idea that they complicate our history of what queer couplehood looks like in the past. And they complicate the history of what any kind of couple looks like even today.”
Funded research aims to optimize irrigation technology systems and maximize efficiency
-Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute
LINCOLN, Neb. The Irrigation Innovation Consortium recently announced funding for seven research projects in 2021, three of which are led by Faculty Fellows of the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute (DWFI). The IIC is a university and industry collaboration that accelerates the development and adoption of water- and energy-efficient irrigation technology. DWFI and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln jointly are a founding member of the consortium and DWFI Director of Research Christopher Neale serves on its Executive Committee.
“The IIC brings together university and industry partners to accelerate the development and adoption of new irrigation technologies,” said Neale. “The IIC is a great partner in helping DWFI achieve its mission of global food security without compromising the use of water to meet other vital needs.”