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RADSHAD Davis had the better individual performance and his FIU Panthers got back into the win column with a dominant performance against Franco Miller Jr and the Florida Gulf Coast University Eagles.
Davis scored 12 of his 16 points in the first half and also added eight rebounds while Miller went scoreless in 13 minutes off the bench in the Panthers’ 85-69 win over the Eagles last night in Ft Myers, Florida.
With the victory, FIU moves to 5-1 this season, while the loss dropped FGCU to 3-2 on the year.
After cancelled games against Jacksonville State (December 6) and North Florida (December 10), the Panthers suffered their first loss of the season, 80-77 to North Florida on December 12. The Panthers started the contest shooting 43.9% from the floor and 38.1% from beyond the arc while holding FGCU to shooting 31.4% from the field and just 28.6% from three.
High school students work with FGCU researchers to combat climate change
Two-year grant from Southwest Florida Community Foundation supports work
By Annie Hubbell
The global pandemic will go down in history as the defining event of 2020. But it was also a year of extreme weather events that caught the attention of Florida Gulf Coast University researchers and their high school protégés.
Raging wildfires consumed large parts of the U.S. west coast and Australia. The Atlantic hurricane season ended with a record-breaking 30 named storms, forcing weather forecasters well into the Greek Alphabet to name them. The year 2020 is also on track to be one of the hottest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
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Rain washing off fields can pollute waterways with fertilizer. Wetlands help remove that excess nitrogen. ANT Photo Library/Science Source
Targeting U.S. wetland restoration could make cleaning up water much cheaper
Dec. 18, 2020 , 2:15 PM
Wetlands do a great job of filtering and cleaning up polluted water. But in the United States, many of those natural filters have been destroyed: filled in, paved over, or drained to become farm fields. Now, a study suggests policymakers responsible for managing wetlands could do a better job by strategically locating restored or created wetlands near sources of pollution, such as farms and livestock operations. Such a targeted approach would remove much more nitrogen which pollutes groundwater, lakes, and coastal waters than current scattershot policies, the researchers say.
Serial killings are waning, leading to speculation about the cause
The number of serial killings surged in the 1980s and has been dropping ever since.
In 1987, there were 198 separate serial killers active in the United States, compared to only 43 in 2015 and two in 2019, according to a database run by the Radford University and the Florida Gulf Coast University. The database defines a serial killing as the “unlawful killing of two or more victims by the same offender(s), in separate events.”
When a serial killing is defined as the killing of three or more victims, the number drops to 138 serial killers operating in 1987 and 26 in 2015. The number remains at two for 2019.
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The State College of Florida Collegiate School Venice is hosting free ongoing virtual information sessions for rising high school freshmen and juniors in Sarasota County interested in enrolling at SCFCS Venice for the 2021-22 school year.
The virtual info sessions for families with prospective students entering ninth grade will be held on Thursdays at 7 p.m. Interested families with students entering 11th grade should join the virtual sessions on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Both will be ongoing until March 26 through livestream at Facebook.com/SCFCSVenice.
SCFCS Venice is a tuition-free public charter school that opened for the fall 2019 semester at SCF Venice. Students are dual enrolled in college courses that also meet high school requirements, allowing them to graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree.