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Students interested in learning more about Goldwater Scholarships and other prestigious awards should contact Megan Friddle in Emory s National Scholarships and Fellowships Program.
Four exceptional Emory students have won the nation’s top scholarship for undergraduates studying math, natural sciences and engineering, after having to conduct much of their research remotely, in unfamiliar facilities or in unfamiliar ways due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Emory College juniors Ilakkia Anabayan, Greg Kimmerer and Anna Voss and Oxford College sophomore Jerry Tang are among the 410 Goldwater Scholars selected from 1,256 nominees from universities across the United States.
It is the third consecutive year that Emory has four recipients of the prestigious award. Counting this year’s winners, 42 Emory students have received the honor since it was established by Congress to honor the work of U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater.
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Live Ventures Announces Appointment of Chief Operating Officer
Live Ventures IncorporatedApril 14, 2021 GMT
LAS VEGAS, April 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Live Ventures Incorporated (Nasdaq: LIVE), a diversified holding company, announced that, effective April 10, 2021, Eric Althofer joined the company as Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director for Corporate Finance.
Mr. Althofer, 38, brings to his new responsibilities more than a decade of experience in capital markets and M&A transactions. As part of the company’s continued investment and growth through acquisitions, he will also oversee the Live Ventures finance department, where his track record of analyzing transactions will be leveraged.
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Examining the Reason Behind Cahokia s Abandonment
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI According to a statement released by Washington University in St. Louis, Caitlin Rankin, now of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her colleagues analyzed soils around an earthen mound dated to between A.D. 1050 and 1400 at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, which is located in southwestern Illinois. The ancient city, home to some 15,000 people around A.D. 1100, was surrounded by a wooden palisade made from tens of thousands of trees. It had been suggested that the city was abandoned because deforestation of the uplands surrounding Cahokia caused devastating environmental problems, including flooding in local creek drainages. But Rankin’s investigation of the Cahokia Creek floodplain revealed that the mound had been constructed on a stable ground surface. She said that while there is evidence of heavy wood use at Cahokia, and area forests might have been deplet