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Issue date: 10/25/07
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Gates gives grant to SAIS towards media coverage of global health
In an attempt to bolster media coverage of global health and development issues, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has gifted Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies with a five-year, $1.6 million grant.
?? The grant will go towards the school's International Reporting Project (IRP) and will be sufficient to support 24 fellowships each year in the IRP's Gatekeeper Editors Program.
?? This program allows senior U.S. journalists to travel overseas in order to increase their understanding of topics in the international media.
This contribution on the part of the Gates Foundation has increased the total financial support of the Hopkins Knowledge for the World campaign to over $2.8 billion
- Alexandra Watson
APL prosthetics team wins award from magazine
Popular Mechanics magazine gave a Breakthrough Award to the Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 team, a collaborative effort led by the Applied Physics Laboratory.
?? The team received the award after completing work this year on Proto 1, a fully integrated prosthetic arm which can be naturally controlled and can provide sensory feedback to the user.?
The arm, as the first of its kind, allows for eight different kinds of movement and far exceeds its predecessors in terms of its level of control.
?? The Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 team also finished and demonstrated its Proto 2 limb system this year, which approximates the strength and speed of movement contained in a human limb.
- Alexandra Watson
Emory appoints Dalai Lama to a faculty position
After a weekend of events at Emory University in Atlanta, the Dalai Lama was formally installed as a professor at the university on Monday, Oct. 19.
Students, faculty and officials of the university attended the ceremony; in addition, several Tibetan monks who were in attendance chanted and played cymbals, gongs and horns in celebration.
At the ceremonies, Dalai Lama urged the audience to look beyond common goals of wealth and fame and to instead work to utilize their education as a tool for change in the world.
In his role as a Presidential Distinguished Professor, the Dalai Lama will teach both students and faculty in private sessions at Emory's study-abroad program in Dharasmala, India.
The Dalai Lama will also occasionally visit and teach a few classes at Emory itself.
Emory University will also create a fellowship in the Dalai Lama's name in order to raise money for scholarships for Tibetan students currently attending either undergraduate or graduate programs at Emory.
The professorship is the latest development in the Emory-Tibet Partnership, which was founded in 1998 in order to create and facilitate the merging of Western and Tibetan Buddhist intellectual teachings.
The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhists. A Nobel Peace Prize laureate who is still revered by Buddhists throughout the world, he has been residing in exile since fleeing Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
- Alexandra Watson
Death of student from injuries after shooting at DSU
Shalita Middleton, the Delaware State University freshman who had been hospitalized for the past month passed away on Oct. 23 from serious abdominal injuries she had from being shot on Sept. 21 on Delaware's campus.
Middleton had just left her hometown of Washington, D.C., to become a biology major and a cheerleader at DSU.
Middleton was one of two students injured in the Sept. 21 shooting at the school's Dover campus.
The other victim, freshman Nathaniel Pugh, was shot in the ankle.
Eighteen-year-old DSU freshman Loyer Braden is accused of shooting the two teens. He was charged with attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault, reckless endangerment and possession of a firearm during a felony.
He is scheduled to appear before a grand jury on Nov. 5.
- Lisa Dolan
Bush appoints new executive director to black university initative
On Oct. 22, the Bush administration named previous Education Department manager Leonard L. Haynes the new executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
?? The former director, Charles M. Greene, once a U.S. Senate staff aide, announced plans to quit last month following a frustrating 18 months on the job.?
Greene cited frustrations with the bureaucracy as the reason for his decision to leave.
?? Haynes is now in charge of producing an annual report on federal-agency grants to historically black colleges.?
In past years, Greene was criticized for taking too long to produce this report.
?? Before taking on this job, Haynes served as a director of the Education Department's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), a fund intended to promote innovation in higher education.
?? The fund, however, has had problems in past years due to difficulties with Congress.
The fund was thus forced to cancel an annual competition intended to discern valuable areas of research in 2005.
?? This year Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has alotted so much money for the funding priorities of programs that she supports that FIPSE has been left with only $3.4 million in funding for its general grant competition.
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- Alexandra Watson
Fires threatened Pepperdine Univ.
Wildfires in California have threatened hundreds of homes as well as the Southern California campus of Pepperdine University.
?? Over 3,000 staff members and students were forced to relocate on Oct. 21.
The campus was later declared secure and students and faculty were allowed to return.
?? Fires were burning across Southern California as a result of hot weather and heavy winds, at the height of California's annual wildfire season.
?? This has been one of the driest rain years on California record, a fact which has contributed to the intensity of the wildfires.
- Alexandra Watson
In an attempt to bolster media coverage of global health and development issues, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has gifted Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies with a five-year, $1.6 million grant.
?? The grant will go towards the school's International Reporting Project (IRP) and will be sufficient to support 24 fellowships each year in the IRP's Gatekeeper Editors Program.
?? This program allows senior U.S. journalists to travel overseas in order to increase their understanding of topics in the international media.
This contribution on the part of the Gates Foundation has increased the total financial support of the Hopkins Knowledge for the World campaign to over $2.8 billion
- Alexandra Watson
APL prosthetics team wins award from magazine
Popular Mechanics magazine gave a Breakthrough Award to the Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 team, a collaborative effort led by the Applied Physics Laboratory.
?? The team received the award after completing work this year on Proto 1, a fully integrated prosthetic arm which can be naturally controlled and can provide sensory feedback to the user.?
The arm, as the first of its kind, allows for eight different kinds of movement and far exceeds its predecessors in terms of its level of control.
?? The Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 team also finished and demonstrated its Proto 2 limb system this year, which approximates the strength and speed of movement contained in a human limb.
- Alexandra Watson
Emory appoints Dalai Lama to a faculty position
After a weekend of events at Emory University in Atlanta, the Dalai Lama was formally installed as a professor at the university on Monday, Oct. 19.
Students, faculty and officials of the university attended the ceremony; in addition, several Tibetan monks who were in attendance chanted and played cymbals, gongs and horns in celebration.
At the ceremonies, Dalai Lama urged the audience to look beyond common goals of wealth and fame and to instead work to utilize their education as a tool for change in the world.
In his role as a Presidential Distinguished Professor, the Dalai Lama will teach both students and faculty in private sessions at Emory's study-abroad program in Dharasmala, India.
The Dalai Lama will also occasionally visit and teach a few classes at Emory itself.
Emory University will also create a fellowship in the Dalai Lama's name in order to raise money for scholarships for Tibetan students currently attending either undergraduate or graduate programs at Emory.
The professorship is the latest development in the Emory-Tibet Partnership, which was founded in 1998 in order to create and facilitate the merging of Western and Tibetan Buddhist intellectual teachings.
The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhists. A Nobel Peace Prize laureate who is still revered by Buddhists throughout the world, he has been residing in exile since fleeing Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
- Alexandra Watson
Death of student from injuries after shooting at DSU
Shalita Middleton, the Delaware State University freshman who had been hospitalized for the past month passed away on Oct. 23 from serious abdominal injuries she had from being shot on Sept. 21 on Delaware's campus.
Middleton had just left her hometown of Washington, D.C., to become a biology major and a cheerleader at DSU.
Middleton was one of two students injured in the Sept. 21 shooting at the school's Dover campus.
The other victim, freshman Nathaniel Pugh, was shot in the ankle.
Eighteen-year-old DSU freshman Loyer Braden is accused of shooting the two teens. He was charged with attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault, reckless endangerment and possession of a firearm during a felony.
He is scheduled to appear before a grand jury on Nov. 5.
- Lisa Dolan
Bush appoints new executive director to black university initative
On Oct. 22, the Bush administration named previous Education Department manager Leonard L. Haynes the new executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
?? The former director, Charles M. Greene, once a U.S. Senate staff aide, announced plans to quit last month following a frustrating 18 months on the job.?
Greene cited frustrations with the bureaucracy as the reason for his decision to leave.
?? Haynes is now in charge of producing an annual report on federal-agency grants to historically black colleges.?
In past years, Greene was criticized for taking too long to produce this report.
?? Before taking on this job, Haynes served as a director of the Education Department's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), a fund intended to promote innovation in higher education.
?? The fund, however, has had problems in past years due to difficulties with Congress.
The fund was thus forced to cancel an annual competition intended to discern valuable areas of research in 2005.
?? This year Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings has alotted so much money for the funding priorities of programs that she supports that FIPSE has been left with only $3.4 million in funding for its general grant competition.
??
- Alexandra Watson
Fires threatened Pepperdine Univ.
Wildfires in California have threatened hundreds of homes as well as the Southern California campus of Pepperdine University.
?? Over 3,000 staff members and students were forced to relocate on Oct. 21.
The campus was later declared secure and students and faculty were allowed to return.
?? Fires were burning across Southern California as a result of hot weather and heavy winds, at the height of California's annual wildfire season.
?? This has been one of the driest rain years on California record, a fact which has contributed to the intensity of the wildfires.
- Alexandra Watson
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