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In studying COVID-19 testing and positivity rates in West Virginia between March and September 2020, West Virginia University researchers found disparities among Black residents and residents experiencing food insecurity.
Specifically, the researchers found communities with a higher Black population had testing rates six times lower than the state average, which they argue could potentially obscure prevalence estimates. They also found that areas associated with food insecurity had higher levels of testing and a higher rate of positivity.
Rosabella Daraoui, Co-Valedictorian
Rosabella is the daughter of George and Mona Daraoui of Rochester, New Hampshire. She is the younger sister of Karen, 21, and Jennifer, 19, both of whom are graduates of St. Thomas Aquinas High School. She is also the proud older sister of Charbel, 10. Rosabella attended middle school at St. Elizabeth Seton School and is a parishioner of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Parish in Rochester.
Rosabella is a member of the National Honor Society and the French Honor Society. While at St. Thomas Aquinas High School, she earned the Yale Book Award and the English Department Award (junior year), the Math Department Award (sophomore year), the French Department Award and Le Grand Concours Bronze Award (freshman year), and Le Grand Concours Honorable Mention (sophomore, junior, and senior years).
NH Business Review
SilverTech unveils banking platform … and more
May 13, 2021
Kendall Davis, a recent graduate of Nashua Community College’s Promineo Tech Back-End Coding Bootcamp, has joined the NH Tech Alliance as an intern. She majored in Japanese Studies at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte and received the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship to study abroad at a J.F. Oberlin University in Tokyo, Japan. She has participated in York IE’s B2B SaaS Sales training and is applying for IBM’s New Collar Apprenticeship program.
U.S. Sen.
Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, has joined with Sen.
Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., in sponsoring a bill aimed at expanding opportunities for hands-on learning in STEM education. The Supporting STEM Learning Opportunities Act would invest in experiential learning opportunities to strengthen the pipeline of students entering the STEM workforce, especially from traditionally underrepresented groups like women and communities of color. The legisl
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It is common for societies to erect statues in honor of soldiers who fought bravely for the country.
The trouble with the statues of Confederate soldiers and warriors is that the people honored fought on the losing side: a side dedicated to the separation of the United States into two countries, one with slavery and one without. Lose the war, win the peace, if it can fairly be called that.
You can see why there s no middle ground on Confederate monuments. Historian Karen Cox, who teaches at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, takes up the story in her book
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – The future Apple campus is a long way from being built n the Triangle but the tech giant is already recruiting Triangle talent for as many as 3,000 future positions.
And if Apple is seeking short-term office space to house its new hires, as reported by the Triangle Business Journal, it will be readily available. That’s according to the latest commercial real estate data from firm CRBE.
Multiple sources told the Triangle Business Journal’s Caleb Harshberger that the company is considering identifying a temporary office site to lease. A landing place could be 200,000 square feet of space at the Cary-based MetLife campus in “Building 3.”