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The School of Liberal Arts (SOLA) Global Engagement Lab has been transformed into a new state-of-the-art remote collaborative classroom designed to enable distance learning and other learning experiences. The impetus for establishing the Lab was to meet the needs of modern language learning and provide students with the opportunity to directly engage with native speakers on a global scale. This space was previously used as a traditional language instruction classroom. The facility is located in Miguel Hall, Room 304, and was funded by George I. Alden’s $111,000 grant from his trust. The Global Engagement Lab is designed as a space…
By Guest Contributor Julia Smith Speaking at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Preparedness last month, Marie-Claire Wangari of Women in Global Health said: I got it.”Women have risked their lives to save us during the pandemic. We are not going to ask them now to go back to gender inequality or business as usual.” In 2020-2021, while conducting research for the Gender and COVID-19 Project, I interviewed 200 people on the front lines of the pandemic in Canada, including nurses, doctors, custodial staff, family caregivers, and teachers. I had the opportunity to talk to a woman near me.…
Image credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunchDays after TikTok announced a new feature for developers called “Direct Post” that makes it easy for third-party apps to publish videos to its platform, Meta announced that its own Sharing to Reels widget for mobile apps is now available. announced that it is now available to all developers. Similar to TikTok’s Direct Post, the idea of Sharing to Reels is to leverage the video editing app’s broader community to generate more content for Meta’s short-form video platform and TikTok’s competitors. . The Sharing to Reels integration launched in limited alpha testing last November with a variety…
Author George Santayana once famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” This maxim seems especially poignant in light of the twin conflicts occurring in the Western and Eastern hemispheres. Because this isn’t the first time we’ve seen massive border walls being built to stop refugees fleeing environmental degradation. This is also not the first time we have seen instability in the Middle East exacerbated by conflicts over precious water resources. History seems to be teaching us some lessons. Consider the cautionary tale of the rise and fall of Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia, which arose in the…
On August 10, the City Board of Education will hold an “ABCs of Black History” meeting at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Miami Gardens regarding Florida’s new curriculum standards for African American history. woman. Da Valera/TNS Much of America’s prominence and prosperity is due to the fact that it has led the world in mass education.Even without a public school system, it had one of the highest literacy rates in the world in the 19th century. We were one of the first companies to offer public school to young people through 12th grade.We were the first country to open college…
This article has been reviewed in accordance with Science X’s editorial processes and policies. The editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the authenticity of the content: fact confirmed Peer-reviewed publications trusted sources proofread got it! Due to the inherent anisotropy of optical PSF, HR lateral images naturally serve as a reasonable gold standard for increasing the axial resolution of raw data. Unpaired lateral and axial images obtained directly from the same anisotropic volume are used for unsupervised self-learning. Isotropic restoration is then achieved by loading the trained self-net to enhance all axial slices in the original image stack.…
VTech® products selected by Walmart as holiday essentialsChicago, October 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Today, VTech® announced that its Drill & Learn Workbench™ has been named to Walmart’s 2023 Top Toys list. All products on our prestigious list have been specially selected by retailers and include a great selection of the most popular toys for the upcoming holiday season.”Walmart’s Top Toys list is an important list-building tool for gift givers each year during the holiday season. We’re thrilled that our Drill & Learn Workbench is featured as a top toy.” said. daniel norwoodVice President of Marketing, VTech Electronics North America. VTech®…
Local libraries offer more than just books. Check out the variety of classes, programs and events taking place at the Clearview and High Plains library districts and the Loveland Public Library. (Jim Rydbom/Staff photographer) The High Plains and Clearview library districts as well as the Loveland Public Library offer a variety of programs and activities for all ages. Check out this list of some of the events taking place at local libraries for the week of Oct. 14-20. To see a full list of events taking place at libraries in Weld and Larimer counties, go to www.mylibrary.us, www.clearviewlibrary.org or www.lovelandpubliclibrary.org.…
Victory Capital Management increased its holdings in shares of Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT – Free Report) by 3.0% in the second quarter, according to the company’s latest disclosure filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor now owns 1,095,367 shares of the retailer’s stock after acquiring an additional 31,665 shares during the period. Victory Capital Management’s holdings in Walmart stock were worth $172.17 million at the end of the most recent reporting period. A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently modified their positions in WMT. GW Hensler & Associates lifted its holdings in…
North Carolina State University celebrates Latinx Heritage Month each year from September 15th to October 15th. 15. And in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), Latinx faculty make significant contributions to diverse communities on and off campus. Alejandra Huerta is one of the Latina faculty members making a difference at North Carolina State University. Passionate about agricultural research and bacterial plant pathogens, Huerta is focused on expanding the university’s reach to better engage underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Huerta was born in Michoacán, Mexico, but later moved to Salinas, California, known as the “Salad Bowl…