NATIONAL UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD Position: CENTER DIRECTOR The University is seeking a Center Director to be responsible for recruitment, admissions and growth of the Bakersfield Center, through leadership and supervision of the Center's operations and staff. Primary responsibilities include: -Developing and implementing student recruitment strategies and retention procedures to achieve admission and enrollment expectations. -Monitoring the effectiveness of the center's lead-tracking, admissions conversions and retention procedures. -Providing leadership and motivation for staff while facilitating a positive environment for staff and students. -Maintaining comprehensive knowledge of University programs, policies and procedures and applying this knowledge in training staff, maintaining standards and resolving student issues. -Engaging in outreach and outside recruitment activities to include interfacing with local community colleges, other colleges, local governmental agencies, school districts, businesses, etc., to promote University awareness, student transfers and admissions. -Acting as a liaison between the student and University personnel and departments. -Working with the Lead Faculty, Associate Regional Dean and School Deans in planning and coordinating the center's class schedule, including analyzing the schedule of course and degree programs for assigned center and making appropriate recommendations for modifications. -Interfacing with the academic departments concerning the inter-relationship of classroom instruction and the impact on student recruitment and retention. -Coordinating, monitoring, and supervising off-site programs. -Hiring, supervising, evaluating and training assigned center staff. -Reviewing student files as a method of quality control. Ensuring students are properly scheduled, financial aid needs are addressed, data is entered into the MIS system correctly, and other vital needs have been met or addressed. -Attending management, academic planning, staff, and regional meetings representing admissions department issues and point of view. Qualifications: -Bachelor's degree in management, business, communication, human behavior, psychology or marketing. -Minimum five years student advisor and management experience. -Ability to exercise sound independent judgment without direct supervision. -Proven ability to mediate and resolve conflict. -Demonstrated interviewing skills. -Ability to handle multiple tasks in a demanding environment, higher sense of ethics, action oriented with proven ability to make decisions. -Proven interpersonal, oral and written communication abilities. -Demonstrated ability to motivate and provide leadership and training in complex areas. -Able to professionally represent the University in marketing and public relations activities. TO APPLY Visit our website at http://www.nu.edu/OurUniversity/Employment.html to apply by 5/10/2013.
In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you'd like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with "Insert Coin" as the subject line.
We keep hearing about how handheld devices are replacing laptops, so how about doing it literally? Casetop just launched a laptop-style dock on Kickstarter that you can plug your smartphone into, turning it into the processor, graphics engine and trackpad of a "laptop." In return, the dock will give you an 11.1-inch 720p display, full-sized keyboard, stereo speakers, HDMI input, MHL video input, dual-mode MicroUSB, audio output and "always-powered" USB for charging other devices. Unlike similar offerings such as the still-unshipped Clambook (or Motorola's ill-fatedLapdock) the Casebook uses the handset as a trackpad, and the creators say that it won't be device-specific, working instead with a large number of smartphones from Apple, Blackberry, Samsung and others. Of course, it needs to meet the lofty $300,000 funding goal for all that to happen, but if you're optimistic, hit the source to plop down your $250 minimum pledge.
The ongoing debate about how a gay NFL player would be treated in the locker room has largely focused on the idea that times are changing, and that acceptance of a gay player would be a modern development. But it?s often overlooked that the ultimate example of the old-school football coach was also perfectly fine with having gay players on his team.
Multiple players who played for Vince Lombardi, the legendary former Packers and Redskins coach, say that he knew some of his players were gay, and that not only did he not have a problem with it, but he went out of his way to make sure no one else on his team would make it a problem.
In 1969, Lombardi?s Redskins included a running back named RayMcDonald, who in 1968 had been arrested for having sex with another man in public. In the Lombardi biography When Pride Still Mattered, author David Maraniss writes that Lombardi told his assistants he wanted them to work with McDonald to help him make the team, ?And if I hear one of you people make reference to his manhood, you?ll be out of here before your ass hits the ground.?
Lombardi?s daughter Susan told Ian O?Connor of ESPNNewYork.com that her father would have been thrilled to have a player like Jason Collins, the NBA center who publicly revealed this week that he is gay.
?My father was way ahead of his time,? Susan Lombardi said. ?He was discriminated against as a dark-skinned Italian American when he was younger, when he felt he was passed up for coaching jobs that he deserved. He felt the pain of discrimination, and so he raised his family to accept everybody, no matter what color they were or whatever their sexual orientation was. I think it?s great what Jason Collins did, because it?s going to open a lot of doors for people. Without a doubt my father would?ve embraced him, and would?ve been very proud of him for coming out.?
Dave Kopay, the first former NFL player to come out, also played on those 1969 Redskins, and he says that while he never told Lombardi, he believes Lombardi knew not only that Kopay was gay, but that Kopay and another Redskins player, Jerry Smith, were in a romantic relationship.
?Lombardi protected and loved Jerry,? Kopay told O?Connor.
Lombardi?s brother Harold was gay, and when Harold died in July of 2011 he was survived by his partner of 41 years ? meaning their relationship began just before Vince died in September of 1970. As noted by Doug Farrar of Yahoo! Sports, Vince knew Harold was gay and didn?t just believe in ?tolerance? but believed strongly that discrimination against gay people was wrong, just as he was angered when he saw mistreatment of his black players, or discrimination against his fellow Italian-Americans.
If a coach who was considered old-fashioned even by the standards of the 1960s accepted gay players in his locker room, the idea that gay players couldn?t be accepted in an NFL locker room in 2013 is both silly and sad.
Two previously unreleased Bob Dylan song lyrics will be auctioned by Christie's on June 26th. "Go Away You Bomb" and "I Want That Bomb" were written by Dylan in 1963 for Izzy Young of the Greenwich Village Folklore Center. "I asked everyone I knew to write a song about the nuclear bomb," Young tells Rolling Stone. "Bob Dylan came in literally the next day and handed these to me."
Written at the height of Dylan's protest period, the song lyrics, which he wrote on a typewriter and then corrected by hand, bristle with anger and sarcasm. "An' I hate you cause you could drop on my by accident an' kill me," he writes on "Go Away You Bomb." "An' I I hate you twice as much as Jim Crow hates me."
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Young moved to Stockholm in the early 1970s, and the lyrics sat in a drawer until he rediscovered them a number of years ago. He was extremely reluctant to part with them, but the 85-year-old's bleak financial situation forced his hand. "My daughter, who is 39, came to me and said 'Papa, I'm sick of you surviving by miracles,'" Young says. '"You have to sell that Bob Dylan song.' She convinced me I had to, and she moved it to a bank vault for me."
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Unreleased lyrics by Bob Dylan.
Christie's estimates that the lyrics will go for ?25,000 to ?35,000, or about $40,000 to $55,000 in U.S. dollars. "It's going to be the first time in my life I'll have real money," says Young. The income will allow him to continue to operate the Folklore Center in Stockholm.
Dylan's history with Young stretches all the way back to the songwriter's earliest days in New York. Young was the owner and operator of the Folklore Center, a meeting place for local musicians full of rare books and records. "At first Dylan seemed like anybody else that came into the store," says Young. "But I noticed after a while there was something different about him. He would take every goddamn record I had in the store and listen to them. He was the only one that read all those scholarly communist books. Anything I had in the store, he would read."
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Young arranged for Dylan to headline a show at Carnegie Chapter Hall, a small theater in the Carnegie Hall complex, on November 4th, 1961. Only 53 fans attended and Young lost money. "I tried to give him 20 bucks anyway," says Young. "He refused to take it since I lost money. A lawyer friend saw us arguing about he suggested I just give him 10 dollars. We made that agreement and both of us felt good."
Young is also auctioning a rare program for the Carnegie Chapter Hall concert. It's estimated to sell for between ?1,000 and ?1,500 ($1,600 to $2,300).
The rate at which new computer hardware products are arriving in the market is simply mind-boggling. As the technology advances, the size and the price of the devices come down, while the efficiency and capacity increase. The scenario is same in all cases, whether it is about internal components like processor, motherboard, RAM, graphics card, and hard disk or for peripheral accessories like mouse, keyboard, and monitors. Personal computers became popular only before about three decades back. But already there are huge piles of outdated and antique hardware components and devices. This is a tribute to the tremendous rate of development of latest technologies in computer hardware field. Perhaps, the newest entrant into the archeological catalogue of computer peripherals is CRT monitors. The sleek looking LCD monitors are spreading like computer virus.
Data storage devices have attracted considerable attention of the technology developers. New kinds of storage devices such as newer versions of flash memory cards, hard disks using latest technology and disks of ever-increasing capacity are the results of advancement in latest technology in compute hardware. The memory size of the random access memory (RAM) cards is soaring to enable the smooth functioning of graphics animation software packages and streaming video websites. Also, computer motherboards have undergone substantial changes over the years. More and more functions are being added to the motherboard. Also, despite the incredible improvement in performance and functionalities, the price of these components has actually fallen steadily.
The most vital component of a computer is the microprocessor. It is in this field that a battle of developing latest technologies in computer hardware takes place. The pace of development of microprocessor increases as the competition between the major processor chip manufacturing companies, Intel and AMD, intensifies. Both the companies are engaging in a neck and neck competition and continuously outdo each other in introducing new technologies.
In the field of computer peripherals, the latest technology in computer hardware is in developing yet another version of wireless mouse and keyboard. The concept of wireless mouse and keyboard is about a decade old. But the development of these items is still a work in progress. The latest products of wireless mouse and keyboard are said to be highly durable and error free.
Some of the developments in the latest technology in computer hardware are gearing up for changing the present concept of desktop and laptop computers. With new developments making possible the convergence of mobile phone technology and computers, a new breed of fully functional palm-top computers are going to be introduced in near future. With touch screen monitors and without the need for a mouse, these gadgets are likely to become the next big leap in the constantly leaping technological development field.
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Contact: David Ruth david@rice.edu 713-348-6327 Rice University
Rice University lab finds possible keys to better nanofibers, films
A Rice University laboratory's cagey strategy turns negatively charged carbon nanotubes into liquid crystals that could enhance the creation of fibers and films.
The latest step toward making macro materials out of microscopic nanotubes depends on cage-like crown ethers that capture potassium cations. Negatively charged carbon nanotubes associate with potassium cations to maintain their electrical neutrality. In effect, the ethers help strip these cations from the surface of the nanotubes, resulting into a net charge that helps counterbalance the electrical van der Waals attraction that normally turns carbon nanotubes into an unusable clump.
The process by Rice chemist Angel Mart, his students and colleagues was revealed in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano.
Carbon nanotubes have long been thought of as a potential basis for ultrastrong, highly conductive fibers a premise borne out in recent work by Rice professor and co-author Matteo Pasquali and preparing them has depended on the use of a "superacid," chlorosulfonic acid, that gives the nanotubes a positive charge and makes them repel each other in a solution.
Mart and first authors Chengmin Jiang and Avishek Saha, both graduate students at Rice, decided to look at producing nanotube solutions from another angle. "We saw in the literature there was a way to do the opposite and give the surface of the nanotubes negative charges," Mart said. It involved infusing single-walled carbon nanotubes with alkali metals, in this case, potassium, and turning them into a kind of salt known as a polyelectrolyte. Mixing them into an organic solvent, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), forced the negatively charged nanotubes to shed some potassium ions and repel each other, but in concentrations too low for extruding into fibers and films.
That took the addition of ether molecules known as 18-crown-6 for their crown-like atomic arrangements. The crowns have a particular appetite for potassium; they strip the remaining ions from the nanotube walls and sequester them. The tubes' repulsive qualities become greater and allow for more nanotubes in a solution before van der Waals forces them to coagulate.
At critical mass, nanotubes suspended in solution run out of room and form a liquid crystal, Mart said. "They align when they get so crowded in the solution that they cannot pack any closer in a randomly aligned state," he said. "Electrostatic repulsions prevent van der Waals interactions from taking over, so nanotubes don't have another choice but to align themselves, forming liquid crystals."
Liquid crystalline nanotubes are essential to the production of strong, conductive fiber, like the fiber achieved with superacid suspensions. But Mart said going negative means nanotubes can be more easily functionalized -- that is, chemically altered for specific uses.
"The negative charges on the surface of the nanotubes allow chemical reactions that you cannot do with superacids," Mart said. "You may, for example, be able to functionalize the surface of the carbon nanotubes at the same time you're making fiber. You might be able to crosslink nanotubes to make a stronger fiber while extruding it.
"We feel we're bringing a new player to the field of carbon nanotechnology, especially for making macroscopic materials," he said.
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Co-authors of the paper are Rice graduate students Changsheng Xiang and Colin Young James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and of computer science. Pasquali is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of chemistry. Mart is an assistant professor of chemistry and bioengineering.
Read the abstract at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn4011544
Follow Rice News and Media Relations via Twitter @RiceUNews
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Mart Group: http://amarti.web.rice.edu/Lab/Home.html
Crown ether "cages" trap potassium ions but leave nanotubes with a repellant negative charge in solutions that will be valuable for forming very strong, highly conductive carbon nanotube fibers. The Rice University discovery appears in ACS Nano. (Credit: Mart Group/Rice University)
Nanotubes spread across the surface of a slide demonstrate that negative charges applied to the tubes are effective in dispersing them. The research at Rice University will contribute to more-effective creation of macroscale materials from nanotubes. (Credit: Mart Group/Rice University)
Located on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and is home to the Baker Institute for Public Policy. With 3,708 undergraduates and 2,374 graduate students, Rice's undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice has been ranked No. 1 for best quality of life multiple times by the Princeton Review and No. 2 for "best value" among private universities by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. To read "What they're saying about Rice," go to http://tinyurl.com/AboutRiceU.
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Contact: David Ruth david@rice.edu 713-348-6327 Rice University
Rice University lab finds possible keys to better nanofibers, films
A Rice University laboratory's cagey strategy turns negatively charged carbon nanotubes into liquid crystals that could enhance the creation of fibers and films.
The latest step toward making macro materials out of microscopic nanotubes depends on cage-like crown ethers that capture potassium cations. Negatively charged carbon nanotubes associate with potassium cations to maintain their electrical neutrality. In effect, the ethers help strip these cations from the surface of the nanotubes, resulting into a net charge that helps counterbalance the electrical van der Waals attraction that normally turns carbon nanotubes into an unusable clump.
The process by Rice chemist Angel Mart, his students and colleagues was revealed in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano.
Carbon nanotubes have long been thought of as a potential basis for ultrastrong, highly conductive fibers a premise borne out in recent work by Rice professor and co-author Matteo Pasquali and preparing them has depended on the use of a "superacid," chlorosulfonic acid, that gives the nanotubes a positive charge and makes them repel each other in a solution.
Mart and first authors Chengmin Jiang and Avishek Saha, both graduate students at Rice, decided to look at producing nanotube solutions from another angle. "We saw in the literature there was a way to do the opposite and give the surface of the nanotubes negative charges," Mart said. It involved infusing single-walled carbon nanotubes with alkali metals, in this case, potassium, and turning them into a kind of salt known as a polyelectrolyte. Mixing them into an organic solvent, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), forced the negatively charged nanotubes to shed some potassium ions and repel each other, but in concentrations too low for extruding into fibers and films.
That took the addition of ether molecules known as 18-crown-6 for their crown-like atomic arrangements. The crowns have a particular appetite for potassium; they strip the remaining ions from the nanotube walls and sequester them. The tubes' repulsive qualities become greater and allow for more nanotubes in a solution before van der Waals forces them to coagulate.
At critical mass, nanotubes suspended in solution run out of room and form a liquid crystal, Mart said. "They align when they get so crowded in the solution that they cannot pack any closer in a randomly aligned state," he said. "Electrostatic repulsions prevent van der Waals interactions from taking over, so nanotubes don't have another choice but to align themselves, forming liquid crystals."
Liquid crystalline nanotubes are essential to the production of strong, conductive fiber, like the fiber achieved with superacid suspensions. But Mart said going negative means nanotubes can be more easily functionalized -- that is, chemically altered for specific uses.
"The negative charges on the surface of the nanotubes allow chemical reactions that you cannot do with superacids," Mart said. "You may, for example, be able to functionalize the surface of the carbon nanotubes at the same time you're making fiber. You might be able to crosslink nanotubes to make a stronger fiber while extruding it.
"We feel we're bringing a new player to the field of carbon nanotechnology, especially for making macroscopic materials," he said.
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Co-authors of the paper are Rice graduate students Changsheng Xiang and Colin Young James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and of computer science. Pasquali is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and of chemistry. Mart is an assistant professor of chemistry and bioengineering.
Read the abstract at http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn4011544
Follow Rice News and Media Relations via Twitter @RiceUNews
Related Materials:
Mart Group: http://amarti.web.rice.edu/Lab/Home.html
Crown ether "cages" trap potassium ions but leave nanotubes with a repellant negative charge in solutions that will be valuable for forming very strong, highly conductive carbon nanotube fibers. The Rice University discovery appears in ACS Nano. (Credit: Mart Group/Rice University)
Nanotubes spread across the surface of a slide demonstrate that negative charges applied to the tubes are effective in dispersing them. The research at Rice University will contribute to more-effective creation of macroscale materials from nanotubes. (Credit: Mart Group/Rice University)
Located on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Rice University is consistently ranked among the nation's top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has highly respected schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences and is home to the Baker Institute for Public Policy. With 3,708 undergraduates and 2,374 graduate students, Rice's undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio is 6-to-1. Its residential college system builds close-knit communities and lifelong friendships, just one reason why Rice has been ranked No. 1 for best quality of life multiple times by the Princeton Review and No. 2 for "best value" among private universities by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. To read "What they're saying about Rice," go to http://tinyurl.com/AboutRiceU.
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