MTSU Monday: Snake, And Lizard Researcher Gains Scholarship
May 10, 2021 Denise Ortega likes snakes. Actually, she
loves snakes and lizards, contrary to most people having at least some degree of fear of them. As a young scientist, she appreciates and studies their existence.
An organismal biology and ecology major, Ortega has earned the prestigious
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. The 22-year-old senior from Madison, Tennessee, is one of more than 400 U.S. college students from more than thousands of applicants to receive the distinction.
The scholarship is named after the late former U.S. senator from Arizona, who served in Congress for 30 years and had a strong interest in science and technology. It is among the highest awards undergraduates majoring in science can receive.
Miller is the president and CEO of Bethesda Inc., a Cincinnati nonprofit dedicated to fueling innovation and reducing health disparities in the Greater Cincinnati area. On May 17, Miller will appear at CivicCon to discuss how hospitals and communities can work together to ensure all people have an equal chance to achieve good health.
In an early May interview with the News Journal, Miller noted that health disparities are the differences in outcomes between different individuals and populations. As an example, she noted that Black men die of diabetes at higher rates than white men, and Black women are much more likely to suffer birth complications than white women.
How A Drunk Driver Inspired U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján To Back Research And Development Of Anti-DWI Technology
From the Office of U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján:
Sen. Ben Ray Luján said he was about 20 years old when a pair of headlights altered the trajectory of his life.
It was 1992. Luján, D-N.M., recalls he was staying with his parents during a summer break from the University of New Mexico. He said he was about a half-mile from home, coming back from a basketball tournament in his Toyota Celica when he rounded a bend and was hit head-on by a drunk driver who had veered far into his lane.
Around 19,000 years ago, a woman ̶ possibly a woman of some special status ̶ from a group of hunter-gatherers died and was buried in El Mirón Cave in northern Spain. In 1996, archaeologists started exploring the cave, finding abundant evidence of prehistoric people. In 2010 Lawrence Straus, Emeritus Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor at The University of New Mexico, and a Spanish student found the woman’s remains, including her jaw, after Straus had what he described as “a hunch” to dig in an area behind an engraved block at the back of the cave’s huge vestibule.
The Red Lady s jaw
The excavation was directed by Straus and Manuel Gonzalez Morales of the Universidad de Cantabria in Santander between 1996-2013 with the participation of many students from UNM, Cantabria and universities around the world. They found El Mirón has a cultural sequence ranging from the late Middle Paleolithic to the Bronze Age.
May 10, 2021 by Aimee Minbiole
Honorary degrees will also go to scholars in the arts, education, and sciences.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed 81 will deliver the main address and receive an honorary degree at Dartmouth s 2021 commencement. (Photo by Tony Rinaldo)
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Annette Gordon-Reed 81, a law scholar, MacArthur Fellow, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, will deliver the main address and receive an honorary degree at Dartmouth s 2021 commencement in Memorial Stadium, which starts at 11 a.m. on June 13. We are honored to have Annette Gordon-Reed as our commencement speaker this year, says President Philip J. Hanlon 77. With her groundbreaking scholarship, she joins a cohort of prominent honorary degree recipients whose work in the arts, economics, education, and science is transforming our world for the better.