University of New Orleans doctoral student Naw Safrin Sattar, who is specializing in high performance computing, is one of 15 recipients of the 2021 Parallel Computing Summer Research Internship.
The internship with Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is an intense 10-week program aimed at providing students with a solid foundation in modern high performance computing topics integrated with research on real problems encountered in large-scale scientific codes.
“It is a great opportunity to work on real-life computational problems and implement solutions with guidance from mentors with scientific and computational expertise,” Sattar said. “This guidance and the expertise will be very helpful in my Ph.D. dissertation works and my future career. I am looking forward to a great summer ahead.”
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The Louisiana House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation Monday that would vastly expand the state’s medical marijuana offerings by allowing dispensaries to sell the smokable form of the drug to patients.
The House voted
73-26 to approve Speaker Pro Tempore Tanner Magee’s HB 391, which would allow patients to receive up to 2.5 ounces of raw marijuana every two weeks.
The state’s current medical marijuana program only allows patients to purchase non-smokable forms of the drug including tinctures, topical ointments, inhalers and gummies from the state’s nine licensed dispensaries. Magee said those processed products are far more expensive than the raw form of the drug that patients would gain access to if his bill becomes law.
The doctor says this isn t your grandfather s marijuana that people are using these days. Author: Meg Farris (WWL) Updated: 5:27 PM CDT May 3, 2021
NEW ORLEANS A bill in the legislature to legalize recreational marijuana is getting bipartisan political support.
A recent poll conducted by the University of New Orleans finds that a majority of respondents, statewide, are now in favor of legalizing it as well.
We ve heard from the supporters, but not everyone is on board. And a doctor from Colorado says she wants to make sure the health consequences are part of the debate as the bill heads to the Louisiana house floor.
‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ Written by Cynthia Calvert Published: 04 May 2021
Harris County Commissioner Jack Cagle recently told the Kingwood Area Republican Women his take on ‘the good, the bad and the ugly’ of current conditions in Harris County. Cagle, a Republican, sits on the county’s preeminent decision-making board, albeit in the minority. He is a Republican and one of two on the five-seat group.
“There are many, many 3-2 votes,” he said to the ladies’ April luncheon.
In the 2018 election, dozens of Republicans lost their positions when a Democratic surge sent dozens of officials home, including County Judge Ed Emmett, who was replaced by Lina Hidalgo.
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Marijuana legalization in Louisiana gets boost from public support: The tide is changing
Forty-three percent of U.S. adults now live in a place that has legalized the drug for recreational use, according to the Pew Research Center.
Sam Karlin
BATON ROUGE Republican state Rep. Scott McKnight, a conservative 40-year-old Baton Rouge businessman, was torn over the proposal in the Louisiana Legislature to legalize marijuana for recreational use.
A former reserve deputy in East Baton Rouge Parish, he knew law enforcement has concerns with the idea. But one thing that helped sway McKnight to vote for the bill making him one of three Republicans to send the proposal out of committee and on to the full House for debate in a historic vote was public opinion.