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Attendees at ATPESC, an annual training program that provides specialized, in-depth training to doctoral students, postdocs and computational scientists on today s most powerful supercomputers. (Image taken in 2019 by Argonne National Laboratory.)
Apply by March 1 for an opportunity to learn the tools and techniques needed to carry out research on the world s most powerful supercomputers.
The architecture and software environments of today s most powerful supercomputers are complex, posing significant challenges to researchers interested in using them to advance scientific discoveries. To meet these challenges and facilitate breakthrough science and engineering on these amazing resources, the annual Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory provides specialized, in-depth training to doctoral students, postdocs and computational scientists.
Former CTU president Karen Lewis “really challenged the popular understanding about public schools,” said Robert Bruno, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “She did take on the mayor. She did take on the school board, but Karen was speaking about public education and how public education had been put at risk. . She wasn’t afraid to call out names and identify people in a very unvarnished, sometimes profane, but always profound way.”
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Karen Lewis was a fighter.
As the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, she battled for the best contracts her members could get, even as she struggled against aggressive brain cancer.
Modern women in engineering: inclusive or a façade?
Maansi Suri Filed on February 7, 2021
Hailing from a family of female engineers, I have always loved science, and, more specifically, have always dreamt of being an engineer. However, I noticed that most girls aren t encouraged to dream big and the male engineer stereotype prevails. Clearly, this is an issue that needs to be investigated and addressed.
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Despite the significant progress that has been made in bridging the gap between men and women in the workplace, women are overlooked in the field of engineering. According to the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), globally only 13 per cent of engineers are women, and more disquieting, female engineers are generally paid 10 per cent less than men (SWE Research Update: Women in Engineering by the Numbers (Nov. 2019) - All Together, 2021).
Feb 5, 2021
In this Retirement Daily Learning Center webinar, Shelley Giordano of Mutual of Omaha Mortgage and founder of the Academy for Home Equity in Financial Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, provides a description of reverse mortgages, the pros and cons of reverse mortgages, and the big three retirement challenges (longevity, market turbulence, and household shocks) reverse mortgages can mitigate.
During the webinar, Giordano also addresses the safety of reverse mortgages, who qualifies for a reverse mortgage, and how the proceeds are distributed.
Giordano also described the typical profile of a person who might use a reverse mortgage: someone who is falling short on secure monthly income; someone for whom monthly mortgage payments are a burden; someone who needs a temporary source of income to protect invested funds from sequence of return risk; and someone who would like to move but not use all their savings or have a monthly mortgage payment.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign rolled back its anti-free speech policies, which activists allegedly used to intimidate pro-Israel students, after facing legal pressure.