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Jim Given is a Dean’s Honored Graduate in the Department of Computer Science. He is graduating with a 3.8663 cumulative GPA as he completes his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in the Turing Scholars Honors Program, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. In addition to an outstanding academic record, he is being recognized for his research and teaching in Computer Science under the direction of Professor Lorenzo Alvisi.
Jim’s research has focused on Distributed Systems—the study of computer systems that operate on multiple computers and coordinate their activities over a network. In his research, he has been collaborating with another student David Wetterau. Professor Alvisi commented, “Their partnership has been remarkable: they have shown the kind of enthusiasm, dependability, and quiet determination in the face of the inevitable setbacks that occur during a research project that would be the envy of many graduate students! …Of course, what has been most impressive have been their results.” The work addresses fundamental questions regarding machine replication and is the basis of Jim’s honor’s thesis entitled “Building Replicated Services for Performance.”
Beyond his research, Jim has been an active member of the Department of Computer Science. As a junior, Jim was a member of UT’s six-person team of undergraduates who won the International Student Cluster Competition at Supercomputing ’13, as they defeated teams from around the world. Jim’s team worked for several months with a hardware vendor to design and build the winning supercomputing cluster from commercial components. Jim was also a CS Ambassador, helping to arrange visits by prospective students. Finally, Jim has been a great asset to the Turing Scholars Program. He’s a consistent volunteer, served on the governing board, and this past year was chair of the board. As chair, Jim has pushed the organization in a new direction, creating a technical seminar series, so that students can be better exposed to the research that is being done in the Department of Computer Science. Beyond all of this, Jim and his compatriot David also contributed as teaching assistants for Dr. Alvisi’s Distributed Systems class. Their efforts exceeded expectations to the point that they found themselves serving as teaching assistants for the graduate version of the course this past spring. This is a remarkable commentary on both Jim’s computer science knowledge as well as his dedication and poise.
In the fall, Jim will start a new job at Apple Inc.
I took a free tour of the Science Barge, a not-for-profit enterprise which is trying to prove that NYC's food needs could be met using renewable energy.
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano working inside the Life Sciences Glovebox (LSG) on the International Space Station. Luca tweeted this image with the text: Working inside LSG for the Micro15 experiment, I prepare some samples of cells to be incubated in microgravity: an experiment that’s only possible on board the ISS.
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Credit: ESA/NASA
Science Homework: Diffusion Practical - The glass on the left started with clear water, and the glass on the right a coffee solution. Coffee solution was gradually added to the clear water.
Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Science and Technology: Addressing Current and Emerging Development Challenges. IAEA, Vienna, Austria. 29 November 2018
SESSION 1: Improving Quality of Life
PANEL 1.1B: Human Health
The contribution of applications of nuclear science and technology to the well-being of society is visible all around. The IAEA has been at the forefront of enlarging the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology for sustainable development in Member States through capacity building, technology transfer and the dissemination of knowledge, mainly and especially through its Technical Cooperation Programme. In this session, the Conference will discuss factors that impact the quality of life such as energy, materials, industry, environment, food and agriculture, nutrition, human health and water resources, and the various techniques which contribute to socio-economic sustainable development, as well as their ever-expanding innovations in new areas with unprecedented possibilities. The discussion will include the role of the IAEA in the delivery of these techniques to its Member States.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Moderator: Mr Nicholas Banatvala, Senior Advisor on NonCommunicable Diseases, World Health Organization (WHO)
Panellists:
Ms Sylvie Chevillard, Head, Experimental Cancerology Lab, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, France
Ms Mary Gospodarowicz, Medical Director, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada; former President, Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)
Mr Jun Hatazawa, Professor and Chairman, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Tracer Kinetics; Director, Medical Imaging Center for Translational Research, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Mr Jatinder R. Palta, Professor and Chair of Medical Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University; Chief Physicist, National Radiation Oncology Program, Veterans Health Affairs, United States of America
Mr Mike Sathekge, Head, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria, South Africa Moderated Discussion
Title: Christian Science Center
Creator: Peter H. Dreyer
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Source: Collection 9800.007, Peter H. Dreyer slide collection
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Photographer: Peter H. Dreyer
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Citation: Peter H. Dreyer slide collection, Collection #9800.007, City of Boston Archives, Boston
The Health Sciences Program at the University of Hartford prepares you for professional or graduate study in health-related fields, such as occupational therapy, speech pathology, or public health.
The pre-professional track of the health science program prepares you for professional or graduate study in such health-related fields as dentistry, allopathic or osteopathic medicine, optometry, chiropractic, or podiatry.
The curriculum includes prerequisite coursework for many graduate programs in health-related fields, such as biology, physics, and chemistry. The curriculum can also be tailored to meet your needs if you are interested in graduate programs with unique prerequisites (for example, two semesters of physics or a semester of biochemistry).
Additionally, you will take health science courses that introduce you to a wide range of health-related topics, such as Educational Strategies for Healthcare Professionals, The Human Genome, Introduction to Public Health, and Cardiovascular Disease. These courses can help you determine your long-term career goals by exposing you to a range of healthcare professional roles.
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Science Fiction / Heft-Reihe
Markus T. Orban (Thomas R. P. Mielke) / Rekruten für Terra
cover: Rudolf Sieber-Lonati
Zauberkreis-Verlag
(Hamburg / Deutschland; 1968)
ex libris MTP
DR JAY PETERSEN ADJUSTS THE LARGE GONI-OMETER INSTALLED IN A SPECIALLY SHIELDED CAVE OF THE A W WRIGHT NUCLEAR - YALE.
THE CAVE IS UNDER 20 FEET OF EARTH AND HAS 3 FOOT WALLS, FLOOR AND CEILING OF A SPECIAL CONCRETE CONTAINING NONE OF THE COMMON NATURALLY RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES (E.G. THORIUM AND POTASSIUM) SO THAT THE NORMAL RADIATION BACKGROUND LEVEL IS LESS THAN ONE THOUSANDTH OF THAT IN A TYPICAL RESIDENCE. THE PROJECTILE BEAM FROM THE ACCELERATOR ENTERS FROM THE RIGHT, AND PASSES THROUGH THE TARGET UNDER STUDY IN THE CENTRAL HEMISPHERICAL CHAMBER BEFORE EXITING TO THE LOWER LEFT AND BEING STOPPED IN AN UNDERGROUND BEAM DUMP OUTSIDE OF THE CAVE. ONE OF THE LARGE, COMPUTER CONTROLLED GAMMA RADIATION DETECTORS IS SHOWN ON ITS OVERHEAD MOUNT TO THE LEFT OF DR. PETERSEN, A NUMBER OF SUCH DETECTORS MAY BE USED SIMULTANEOUSLY UNDER ON-LINE COMPUTER CONTROL IN THE MEASUREMENT OF CHARACTERISTIC RADIATION PATTERNS FROM THE TARGET NUCLEI UNDER STUDY FOLLOWING THEIR STIMULATION BY THE PROJECTILES IN THE BEAM.
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ISPC Science Forum 2016 held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 12–14 Apr 2016 (photo credit: ILRI / Susan MacMillan)
SHOWN IS NANO-SIZED CRYSTALS OF COBALT OXIDE, AN EARTH-ABUNDANT CATALYST, HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY CARRY OUT THE CRITICAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION OF SPLITTING WATER MOLECULES AT LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY.
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Simulation showing Outer Planets and Kuiper Belt: a) Before Jupiter/Saturn 2:1 resonance b) Scattering of Kuiper Belt objects into the solar system after the orbital shift of Neptune c) After ejection of Kuiper Belt bodies by Jupiter
Planets shown: Jupiter (green circle), Saturn (orange circle), Uranus (light blue circle) and Neptune (dark blue circle)
simulation/description credit to enWiki user:AstroMark
Kuiper belt: ...is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU [Astronomical units]) to approximately 55 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, although it is far larger—20 times as wide and 20–200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small bodies, or remnants from the Solar System's formation. While the asteroid belt is composed primarily of rock and metal, the Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (termed "ices"), such as methane, ammonia and water. It is home to at least three dwarf planets – Pluto, Haumea and Makemake.
Scattered disc: ...is a distant region of the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy minor planets, a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects. The scattered disc objects have orbital eccentricities ranging as high as 0.8, inclinations as high as 40°, and perihelia greater than 30 astronomical units. These extreme orbits are believed to be the result of gravitational "scattering" by the gas giants, and the objects continue to be subject to perturbation by the planet Neptune. While the nearest distance to the Sun approached by scattered objects is about 30–35 AU, their orbits can extend well beyond 100 AU. This makes scattered objects "among the most distant and cold objects in the Solar System". The innermost portion of the scattered disc overlaps with a torus-shaped region of orbiting objects known as the Kuiper belt, but its outer limits reach much farther away from the Sun and farther above and below the ecliptic than the belt proper.
Because of its unstable nature, astronomers now consider the scattered disc to be the place of origin for most periodic comets observed in the Solar System...
Formation of the Kuiper belt and Scattered disc?: The scattered disc is still poorly understood: no model of the formation of the Kuiper belt and the scattered disc has yet been proposed that explains all their observed properties.
According to contemporary models, the scattered disc formed when Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) were "scattered" into eccentric and inclined orbits by gravitational interaction with Neptune and the other outer planets. The amount of time for this process to occur remains uncertain. One hypothesis estimates a period equal to the entire age of the Solar System; a second posits that the scattering took place relatively quickly, during Neptune's early migration epoch.
Models for a continuous formation throughout the age of the Solar System illustrate that at weak resonances within the Kuiper belt (such as 5:7 or 8:1), or at the boundaries of stronger resonances, objects can develop weak orbital instabilities over millions of years. The 4:7 resonance in particular has large instability. KBOs can also be shifted into unstable orbits by close passage of massive objects, or through collisions. Over time, the scattered disc would gradually form from these isolated events...Modern theories indicate that neither Uranus nor Neptune could have formed in situ beyond Saturn, as too little primordial matter existed at that range to produce objects of such high mass. Instead, these planets, and Saturn, may have formed closer to Jupiter, but were flung outwards during the early evolution of the Solar System, perhaps through exchanges of angular momentum with scattered objects. Once the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn shifted to a 2:1 resonance (two Jupiter orbits for each orbit of Saturn), their combined gravitational pull disrupted the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, sending Neptune into the temporary "chaos" of the proto-Kuiper belt. As Neptune traveled outward, it scattered many trans-Neptunian objects into higher and more eccentric orbits... - enWikipedia
In another portion of the abandoned school in Pine Grove Louisiana we found one classroom that still resembled it's original functioning design. The Science Lab. Valve mounts on the desktops for gas tubes that can connect to bunsen burners, small wash sinks on each island/workspace for cleaning up or rescuing the incidental burn moment. It was a surreal site to see.
Books still littered the lab, some open on the table tops to pages of experiments and exercises published around 1982. All the jars, bottles, and beakers still present had cultivated a white milky film making all the glass look frosted. Part of me wanted to take one, it filtered light so well, but the reality is it's probably toxic and the boy in me was squelched by the voice of a current father who wouldn't dare let my own children play with it, so my inner child gets corrected as well.
Ultimately this room made me think about post-apocalyptic movie scenes of the future. Is this what a classroom would look like months after someone dropped the nuclear bomb hundreds of miles away? I hope no one ever has to know that, again.
Postcard of the Science room, St. Ignatius, Galway where the pupils are writing under the instruction of a Jesuit. scgalw3-7-2-14
Images are copyrighted therefore if you wish to reproduce the images permission is necessary. archives@jesuit.ie
Brady managed to sort out permission for an old school, all the science chemicals have been left behind for us to shoot.
lue with a led lenser from the left and a green flash in the room behind.
As part of Manchester Science Festival. The ‘Science Extravaganza’ brings together experts from across the faculty, creating family friendly workshops for members of the public. This year, the John Dalton Building became a Forensics Lab for a giant game of ‘who done it’, complete with detective notebooks and crime scene tape…
We were also proud to to host Combination Dance Co. working in collaboration with scientists from MMU, UCL and the Motor Neuron Disease Association. Dancers and martial arts performers staged an interactive dance exploring how we currently understand a motor neurone works, how MND affects the body and the effects MND has on those living with the disease.
Laboratórios da UNIFESP, abril de 2010
A ciência, assim como a arte, a partir do século XX se distanciou do humano, segundo alguns autores como Ortega y Gasset e Boaventura. Ciência e arte então se tornaram praticamente antônimos. Como reaproximar ciência, arte e homem?
I only had 2 hours here this visit,so I just managed to capture the ground floor.
The Science Museum is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London. It was founded in 1857 and today is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 2.7 million visitors annually.
Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, the Science Museum does not charge visitors for admission. Temporary exhibitions, however, may incur an admission fee. It is part of the Science Museum Group, having merged with the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester in 2012.
Photograph of a 2% agarose gel in borate buffer. This will be used in electrophoresis to separate bands of DNA based upon size and conformation.
Each well is 6mm x 2mm (depth unknown).
FIU 2015 Master of Science in International Real Estate (MSIRE) Urban Property Miami River Boat Tour
November 13th, 2015 | Miami, FL
Learn more at: msire.fiu.edu
INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY CONCEPT.
FUSION IS THE POWER SOURCE OF THE SUN AND STARS. IT OCCURS WHEN FORMS OF THE LIGHTEST ATOM, HYDROGEN, COMBINE TO MAKE HELIUM IN A VERY HOT (100 MILLION DEGREE CENTIGRADE) IONIZED GAS, OR PLASMA. TO ACHIEVE INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY POWERFUL LASERS OR PARTICLE BEAMS ARE FOCUSED ON A SMALL PELLET OR FUEL FOR FEW BILLIONTHS OF A SECOND. MAGNETIC FUSION ENERGY IS ANOTHER APPROACH TO FUSION ENERGY. DOE'S FUSION ENERGY SCIENCES PROGRAM LEADS THE NATION'S EFFORT IN THE STUDY OF PLASMA, THE FOURTH STATE OF MATTER, WHICH CONSTITUTES MOST OF THE VISIBLE UNIVERSE, AND IS AT THE CORE OF A FUSION POWER SYSTEM.
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