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O’Connor was the physician to the vice president from 2009 to 2017 and White House physician from 2006-2009 during the Bush administration. He was inducted into SBU’s Seneca Battalion ROTC Hall of Fame in 2019.
O’Connor has been an associate professor at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences since 2017, and taught previously at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.
O’Connor attended St. Bonaventure on an Army ROTC scholarship, completing a major in biology and minor in theology. He served as class president and founder/director of the campus Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) and received a military commission as a Distinguished Military Graduate.
Charges dismissed for two men accused of toppling UNC s Silent Sam statue
The district attorney said the decision was based on having to prioritize cases piling up in the court system since it was shut down by the pandemic. Author: Associated Press Updated: 7:54 AM EST January 28, 2021
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. Prosecutors have dismissed charges against two men who appealed their convictions in the 2018 toppling of a Confederate statue on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reports Orange-Chatham District Attorney Jim Woodall says the decision was based on having to prioritize cases piling up in the Orange County court system since it was shut down by the COVID-19 outbreak in March.
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A year ago, in January, when John Mascola heard that a new coronavirus had been detected in an animal market in Wuhan, China, he left everything at his desk on the fourth floor of the US government’s Vaccine Research Center and walked up one flight of stairs to the office of a longtime colleague, Nicole Doria-Rose. Felicitously, Mascola, who is the center’s director, had been working on ways to immunize people against coronaviruses. A vaccine against this new bug, soon to be known as SARS-CoV-2, was the first priority, the only surefire way of halting the growing pandemic. Mascola and Doria-Rose, an immunologist, go way back. And they hoped there was another approach that might also contribute to the cause, one they’d been chasing for more than a decade. They wanted to find a monoclonal antibody.
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ATLANTA, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Georgia Tech s Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation (CIDI), with funding from the CDC Foundation and technical assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), have launched a microsite with COVID-19 information in alternative formats for people with disabilities. The microsite showcases accessible materials that adapt existing CDC guidance into American Sign Language, braille and simplified text for people with low literacy skills. This collaboration was made possible through partnerships including Deaf Link; the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies (CLDS), Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and the American Association on Health and Disability (AAHD).
Internationally recognized writer and scholar says race, data inextricably linked
Tressie McMillan Cottom’s speech part of ongoing Ohio State lecture series
Growing as a society, whether in policy, economics or education, will require a deeper understanding of the ways in which data and race intersect, an internationally renowned scholar said yesterday during a virtual lecture at The Ohio State University.
“I can’t think of a more vital, intersectional topic in all of U.S. public life right now than the one we can have at the intersection of race and data,” said Tressie McMillan Cottom, a writer, professor, sociologist and 2020 MacArthur Fellow. “We have as a public, as a society, as a nation, experienced over the last few months just how critical data and race are to the vitality of U.S. civic and public life.”