Catamounts Care Ambassadors part of team recognized as force for beating the pandemic
WCU Stories March 16, 2021
The Catamounts Care Ambassadors, a student-led and campus supported program to build awareness of pandemic protocols, in collaboration with Student Health Ambassadors from five other higher education institutions have been recognized for innovation in programing to stop the spread of COVID-19 within the region and on respective campuses including Western Carolina University.
The team earned second place from the National Consortium for Building Healthy Academic Communities in a recent competition and will be presented an award and gift cards during a virtual summit April 21-22. The consorti
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Back in 2006, when Scott Shuford was Asheville’s planning director, he reluctantly accepted a friend’s invitation to attend a meeting about the impact of climate change on local governments.
“I didn’t see how a two-degree temperature change could affect the community,” he recalled, referring to the predicted rise in earth temperatures in years to come. “But I agreed to attend, thinking it would only be about 15 minutes.
“After about an hour-and-a-half I came out of the meeting drenched in sweat.”
All the plans he had drafted up to that day suddenly seemed to have overlooked an unsettled future fraught with unanticipated challenges. Those two degrees of temperature change meant greater threats of weather extremes of torrential rains, devastating floods, and landslides, and of their opposites, extended drought and wildfire.
There is a newly installed three-panel mural on Acushnet Avenue in New Bedford.
Commissioned by the Community Economic Development Center, it was conceptualized and painted by Kat Knutsen, and it is a joyous nod to three distinct cultures with rich histories and a vibrant presence in the city.
Utilizing dance as a common theme, one panel honors the Black community, another embraces the Guatemalan constituency, and the other recognizes the Portuguese populace.
Knutsen’s imaginative and robust celebratory paintings succeed so well in no small part because dance is universal.
Dance is something that everyone understands. Like food and song and storytelling, dance is culture made manifest. It is art without pretense and it is universal.
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February 28, 2021 at 8:55 pm by Sean Crommelin
Increasingly, disciplines like physics have found a home in research into biology â particularly research looking at the functioning of biological systems within and between cells.
A row of yeast cells with glowing-green polarization caps.
Courtesy of Carlos Gomez
Researchers working at UC Santa Barbara, including Samhita Banavar, a former graduate student in the department of physics who is now at Stanford University, Otger Campà s, with the California NanoSystems Institute, Michael Trogdon and Linda R. Petzold in the department of mechanical engineering and Tau-Mu Yi in the department of molecular, cell and developmental biology, in addition to Brian Drawert from the department of computer science at the University of North Carolina Asheville, exemplify this boundary-pushing way of thinking.