Feb 16, 2021
100 Face Shields for San Ignacio Community Hospital
In other COVID-19 news, the San Ignacio Community Hospital has received a donation of one hundred face shields. The gift to Belize is the result of a collaboration between a student from the University of North Carolina Charlotte campus and Nahir Habet, Engineering Manager at Atrium Health Musculoskeletal Institute in North Carolina. Habet was the student’s advisor on a separate biochemical project and Habet told him about the need for protective gear for frontline healthcare workers. NahirHabet is the son of Area Representative of Cayo Northeast Minister Orlando Habet who handed over the protective gears to Hospital Administrator Lizbeth Guerra.
A faculty member at East Tennessee State University is participating in a major research project helping persons with disabilities transition from the K-12 environment to new settings such as independent living, employment or post-secondary education.
ETSU is part of the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition for Students and Youth with Disabilities, an initiative led by the University of North Carolina-Charlotte that also includes researchers from George Washington University, the University of Kansas, Portland State University, the University of Maryland and the University of Oregon. The project is funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
The team is focusing their efforts on supporting the infrastructures of and building capacity within state departments of education and vocational rehabilitation agencies that serve this population. They will be working with agencies in all 50 states as well as other territories, such as Marshall Islands, Guam, Federated States of
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University of B.C. researchers have found that women who earned straight A’s in high school have similar prospects for a leadership roles as men with failing grades.
The UBC study, published in the journal Social Forces, shows just how significant the underutilization of women’s talent is in the workforce.
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Researchers looked at whether women and men who show early academic achievement during their adolescence and arguably signs of future leadership potential have similar or different pathways to later leadership positions in their careers.
VANCOUVER Women who earned a 4.0 grade-point average in high school could have roughly the same leadership prospects as men who flunked their classes, according to a new study. The findings from the University of British Columbia are based on career surveys and high school transcripts for nearly 5,000 people born in the U.S. between 1957 and 1964. Researchers used that data to create a predictive model for professional success – defined solely by how many people a man or woman supervises at work – based on an individual s GPA. The findings were a disappointing surprise to study co-author Dr. Yue Qian, an assistant professor at UBC s sociology department.
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