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OSU adds staff positions for new RAISE initiative

As part of a new initiative at the school, The Ohio State University is recruiting faculty members whose focus will be addressing how race and equity issues converge with STEM education, criminal justice, economic opportunity and engagement with urban communities. Last week 10 additional faculty positions were approved through the Office of Academic Affairs for [...]

By |2022-05-05T12:20:26-04:00Wednesday, May 4, 2022|

Early home of slain Black Panther leader receives historical landmark designation

MAYWOOD, Ill. (AP) — The Illinois childhood home of Fred Hampton, an iconic Black Panther Party leader who was shot and killed during a 1969 police raid of his Chicago apartment, has been designated a historical landmark. In a news release, organizers of the Save The Hampton House initiative, led by Hampton's son and his [...]

By |2022-05-02T09:57:28-04:00Thursday, April 28, 2022|

Fire training, vehicles lacking at nuclear waste repository

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The federal government's nuclear waste repository in New Mexico has major issues in fire training and firefighting vehicles, with its fleet in disrepair after years of neglect, according to an investigation by the U.S. Energy Department's Office of Inspector General. The investigation was spurred by allegations regarding fire protection concerns at [...]

By |2022-04-27T15:01:51-04:00Tuesday, April 26, 2022|

Trees scorched by wildfires could disrupt timing of snowmelt

TWIN BRIDGES, Calif. (AP) — In a California forest torched by wildfire last summer, researcher Anne Nolin examines a handful of the season's remaining snow, now darkened by black specks from the burned trees above. Spring heat waves had already melted much of the year's limited snowfall across California and parts of the West when [...]

By |2022-04-27T15:06:18-04:00Monday, April 25, 2022|

Inmates study at first accredited college based in a prison

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — Behind a fortress wall and razor wire and a few feet away from California's death row, students at one of the country's most unique colleges discuss the 9/11 attacks and issues of morality, identity and nationalism. Dressed in matching blue uniforms, the students only break from their discussion when a [...]

By |2022-04-25T14:45:04-04:00Friday, April 22, 2022|

Finance heads urged to boost fight against food insecurity

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged world finance leaders this week to "get concrete" as they look for ways to combat a looming crisis over food insecurity around the globe that Russia's war in Ukraine has made even worse. "This threat touches the most vulnerable people the hardest — families that are already spending [...]

By |2022-04-25T14:45:10-04:00Friday, April 22, 2022|

California preserve a model for decreasing flood risk

MODESTO, Calif. — Between vast almond orchards and dairy pastures in the heart of California’s farm country sits a property being redesigned to look like it did 150 years ago, before levees restricted the flow of rivers that weave across the landscape. The 2,100 acres at the confluence of the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers [...]

By |2022-04-25T14:46:58-04:00Thursday, April 21, 2022|
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