Brittany Hodak joins Experience.com as Chief Experience Officer
San Ramon, CA, Feb. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Experience.com, home of the world’s most impactful Experience Management Platform, today announces that it has hired award-winning entrepreneur and renowned CX speaker Brittany Hodak as its Chief Experience Officer (CXO). As CXO, Hodak will be responsible for continuously improving the experiences of Experience.com’s employees, customers, and customers’ customers as the company continues its explosive growth.
“Brittany is the perfect person to help us deliver on our promise to create the world’s best experiences,” Experience.com CEO and Founder Scott Harris says. “She’s one in a million when it comes to operationalizing superfandom. Chief Experience Officer at Experience.com is a role designed for her.”
NIH grant supports development of virtual environments to train clinicians treating COVID-19
In an era of required social distancing and stressed medical resources, a virtual clinical environment that allows doctors and nurses to safely practice intubating a simulated COVID-19 patient, among other necessary procedures, could accelerate and enhance training efforts.
With the support of a new $654,000 supplement grant, a team of engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will develop an artificially intelligent agent called the Virtual Intelligent preceptor for COVID (VIVID), which will prepare teams for surgeries, to intubate patients, and to properly use personal protective gear, without increasing anyone’s risk of exposure.
UCA hosts virtual reading from writer Kiese Laymon
UCA hosts virtual reading from writer Kiese Laymon Kiese Laymon courtesy of UCA
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Kiese Laymon (“Heavy: An American Memoir,” “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America,” “Long Division”) will give a public reading via Zoom as an artist-in-residence at the University of Central Arkansas Feb. 23-24.
Laymon is currently the Hubert H. McAlexander chair of English at the University of Mississippi, where he founded the Catherine Coleman Initiative for the Arts and Social Justice a program aimed, Laymon’s bio states, “at getting Mississippi kids and their parents, more comfortable reading, writing, revising and sharing,” his bio states. He’s a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and his work has appeared in the The New York Times, Esquire, Colorlines, The Lost Angeles Times, The Guardian, Ebony, Lit Hub and Arkansas’s own Oxford American magazin
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Kennedy Gachuhi |
February 4th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Former President Daniel Moi.
Regarded as the professor of Kenyan politics, former President Daniel Moi rose from a herdsboy in the rural village of Sacho, Baringo County, to become one of the most powerful leaders in Africa.
His early education through African Inland Mission School in Kabartonjo and later at Tambach Teachers Training College transformed him into one of the country’s pioneer teachers.
His zeal for formal education and commitment to spiritual life presented him an opportunity to be among the top political leaders.
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Moi was in 1955 elected as a member of the Rift Valley Legislative Council (Legco). He was reelected in 1957, and was among the leaders picked to draft Kenya’s first Constitution.
Shreveport, LA LSU Shreveport’s Debate Team is continuing its noteworthy streak of victories after its most recent competition, the Southern Forensics Championship. The Pilots won eight Louisiana State Championships against twenty-nine collegiate programs representing nine states. The late January contest was hosted virtually by the University of Central Arkansas.
The team’s winnings included top individual state prizes in the overall debate sweepstakes and in the overall Louisiana Tournament Championship. These triumphs were in addition to a second-place team victory in the overall debate and tournament championship.
In the International Public Debate Association (IPDA) portions of the competition, the team went home successful in both individual and team categories. Team IPDA freshman partners Jewel Thomas and Mathew Coleman finished the tournament as quarter finalists. Coleman was also the fourth-place speaker in the team division. In the novice division, freshman Mallory Ta