Princeton creating $5M professorship that no other N.J. college has
Updated Dec 13, 2020;
With a $5 million endowment from Google’s former CEO and his philanthropist wife, Princeton University will establish a professorship of Indigenous Studies, creating a first of its kind position for any New Jersey university.
Amid a reckoning over racial justice and the Trump Administration’s attacks on Critical Race Theory, the announcement comes “at a time when people around the globe are giving new and much needed attention to the multiple strands that compose national histories,” Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber said, according to an announcement from the school.
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NEW YORK (PRWEB) December 10, 2020 Today, Upsolve, the leading consumer bankruptcy nonprofit in the United States, announced that it is endorsing the landmark Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2020. This is the most comprehensive bankruptcy reform introduced since 2005.
On December 9, 2020, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) introduced the Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2020. During his Presidential campaign, President-Elect Joe Biden adopted Senator Warren s proposal.
According to Upsolve CEO and co-founder Rohan Pavuluri, Comprehensive bankruptcy reform is central to our nation s recovery after COVID-19 and our renewed commitment to racial justice. Pavuluri continued, Bankruptcy reform will help millions of Americans re-enter the economy. It will also help Black and Brown communities who suffer from disproportionately high debt loads.
The call comes after two drivers were prosecuted for throwing rubbish out of their car window. Bircan Ay, 54, was spotted smoking in the his licensed Hackney Carriage vehicle on the and then littering the cigarette butt while travelling along Coggeshall Road, Braintree. Ay admitted breaching the Health Act 2006 and the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and ordered to pay £282 in fines and costs. Another motorists, Elliot Peacocke, has been ordered to pay more than £1,000 after waste was seen being thrown out of the passenger window of his car along Hatfield Road, Witham. The vehicle was stopped by a council street warden but the occupants refused to provide details.
December 11, 2020
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO), the United Nations body responsible for championing global ocean science and services, has announced a new partnership to work together with philanthropic non-profit Schmidt Ocean Institute to advance the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The Institute’s research vessel
Falkor will collect ocean data that will feed knowledge generation throughout the Ocean Decade during a January deep-sea mapping expedition off the Coral Sea Marine Park in Australia. This will add to the over 50,000 square kilometres of seafloor mapped to date during their expeditions in the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea Marine Parks in 2020.
Creator Fund closes £1.5M fund to support student founders across the UK
Creator Fund, the university-focused venture capital fund making strides to unearth startup innovation within European universities, is now focussing on its next stage of support for student-led ventures as it announces the close of a new £1.5M fund.
Launched in February 2020, Creator Fund, with the backing of Founders Factory, has now expanded to 25 universities, most recently including Southampton, Strathclyde, Queen’s University Belfast, Birmingham, and Sheffield. It has trained 40 student investors at universities in the UK, France, and Sweden, invested in five ventures (RecyclEye, Suji, PockiT Diagnostics, Enso Connect, Refund Giant), and currently reviews 150 student startups a month. It runs startup workshops across the UK, and will be launching an initiative to support black founders in 2021.