to an all new Inclusion and Engagement Task Force.
The AAO has announced the creation of a new task force to contribute leadership on inclusiveness and diversity issues and help ensure that the needs of all members are met. Last year the application process for the task force opened and members were invited to apply to serve on it.
“We are very excited to have eight committed and accomplished individuals joining in our efforts and bringing their leadership skills and creativity to our work on inclusion,” said AAO President Dr. Christopher Roberts. “We believe that diversity is a strength and ensuring the involvement of our diverse membership will only make the AAO stronger.”
A Republican state lawmaker is floating sweeping overhauls to how the state conducts elections. But, even before they’ve been officially introduced, the bills are already facing pushback.
The six bills, proposed by Republican Senator Duey Stroebel of Saukville, would change requirements for indefinitely confined voters, institute stricter voter ID laws and bar election funding from private organizations among a variety of other things.
The bills are currently circulating for co-sponsors and haven’t been formally introduced onto the floor. Despite that, they’ve already faced pushback from a number of Democrats and even Republican State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
E-Mail
One in four women over age 65 is unable to walk two blocks or climb a flight of stairs. Known as mobility disability, it is the leading type of incapacity in the United States and a key contributor to a person s loss of independence. New research from Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at UC San Diego suggests that light-intensity physical activity, including shopping or a casual walk, may protect mobility in older women.
Published in the February 23, 2021 online issue of
JAMA Network Open, researchers found that women who did not have a mobility disability at the start of the study, and who spent the most amount of time doing light-intensity activities, were 40 percent less likely to experience loss of mobility over a six-year period.
Radiative cooling combines with solar heating in hybrid design globalspec.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globalspec.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
But the authors of the CGS survey, which is based on an analysis of survey responses from about 280 mostly doctoral-granting institutions, found reason to think the trend line was going in a positive direction pre-pandemic, at least. We estimate that had it not been for the global pandemic, we might have more international graduate students enrolled at U.S. institutions in Fall 2020 than Fall 2019, they wrote.
But of course the pandemic happened, and international enrollments were hit hard by a combination of health concerns, pandemic-related travel restrictions and suspensions in normal visa processing at U.S. embassies and consulates. Additionally, guidance promulgated by the Trump administration last summer barred new international students from coming to the U.S. if they planned to take their courses entirely online.