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Oh, yes! T. Rex showerhead
3-D printing just got my interest big time:
From University of Utah's Twitter feed (@UUtah): RT @MarriottLibrary: 3D printed T-Rex showerhead? Yes, please!
Is it for sale? To alumni, maybe?
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Rhodes Scholars, U.S. class of 2013
I've been delayed in noting the U.S. Rhodes Scholars class of 2013. The Rhodes Trust announced the group earlier this month, on November 17.
Rhodes Scholars get two years of study, usually, at Oxford University, in a rigorous program. The program was set up by Cecil Rhodes, the developer of Africa, in his will. He provided enough money to fund a program that annually selects 32 students of great leadership potential and very well-rounded education from the U.S., and a similar number in each of 13 other jurisdictions.
Cecil Rhodes makes peace with the Ndebele, Matobo Hills in present-day Zimbabwe, 1896. Zimbabwe was formerly known as Rhodesia. Sketch by Robert Baden-Powell (the founder of the international Scouting movement) (Wikipedia)
Over the years this program trained many of our best leaders and most accomplished people in several areas. Rhodes Scholars include many of the world's most accomplished people. I find it interesting, and inspiring, to see who won the most recent awards, what they've done so far in their young lives, and what they plan to do.
Do you know any of these people? Do any come from your home town, or your alma mater? Got a story about your Rhodes Scholar studies, or your work with Rhodes Scholars (are you Robert Reich?)?
Below is the press release from the Rhodes Trust's U.S. arm, and then profiles of the U.S. winners (with photos this year!).
The press release:
WASHINGTON, DC/November 17, 2012 – Elliot F. Gerson, American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, today announced the names of the thirty-two American men and women chosen as Rhodes Scholars representing the United States. Rhodes Scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England, and may
allow funding in some instances for four years. Mr. Gerson called the Rhodes Scholarships, "the oldest and best known award for international study, and arguably the most famous academic award available to American college graduates." They were created in 1902 by the Will of Cecil Rhodes, British philanthropist and African colonial pioneer. The first class
of American Rhodes Scholars entered Oxford in 1904; those elected today will enter Oxford in October 2013.
Rhodes Scholars are chosen in a two-stage process. First, candidates must be endorsed by their college or university. This year approximately 1700 students sought their institution's endorsement; 838 were endorsed by 302 different colleges and universities. Committees of Selection in each of 16 U.S. districts then invite the strongest applicants to appear before them for interview. Gerson said, "applicants are chosen on the basis of the criteria set down in the Will of Cecil Rhodes. These criteria are high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others, potential for leadership, and physical vigor. These basic characteristics are directed at fulfilling Mr. Rhodes's hopes that the Rhodes Scholars would make an effective and positive contribution throughout the world. In Rhodes' words, his Scholars should 'esteem the performance of public duties as their highest aim.'"
Applicants in the United States may apply either through the state where they are legally resident or where they have attended college for at least two years. The district committees met separately, on Friday and Saturday, November 16 and 17, in cities across the country.
Each district committee made a final selection of two Rhodes Scholars from the candidates of the state or states within the district. Two-hundred twelve applicants from 88 different colleges and universities reached the final stage of the competition, including 12 that had never before had a student win a Rhodes Scholarship.
The thirty-two Rhodes Scholars chosen from the United States will join an international group of Scholars chosen from fourteen other jurisdictions around the world. In addition to the thirty-two Americans, Scholars are also selected from Australia, Bermuda, Canada, the nations of the Commonwealth Caribbean, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Kenya, New Zealand, Pakistan, Southern Africa (South Africa, plus Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia and Swaziland), Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Approximately 80 Scholars are selected worldwide each year, usually including several who have attended American colleges and universities but who are not U.S. citizens and who have applied through their home country.
With the elections announced today, 3,292 Americans have won Rhodes Scholarships, representing 314 colleges and universities. Since 1976, women have been eligible to apply and 473 American women have now won the coveted scholarship. This year, men constituted 55% of the applicant pool and 53% of those who reached the final stage of the
competition. Just over 1900 American Rhodes Scholars are living in all parts of the U.S. and abroad.
The value of the Rhodes Scholarship varies depending on the academic field and the degree (B.A., master's, doctoral) chosen. The Rhodes Trust pays all college and university fees, provides a stipend to cover necessary expenses while in residence in Oxford as well as during vacations, and transportation to and from England. Mr. Gerson estimates that the
total value of the Scholarship averages approximately US$50,000 per year, and up to as much as US$200,000 for Scholars who remain at Oxford for four years in certain departments.
[The press release continues: "The full list of the newly elected United States Rhodes Scholars, with the states from which they were chosen, their home addresses, and their American colleges or universities, follows. Brief profiles follow the list." Here we have included only the profiles.]
Profiles of the U.S. Rhodes Scholars-elect class of 2013 — (These profiles include several of the at-large Rhodes Scholars-elect — for ease of edting, I have not removed them (heck, take a look and see what the leaders from other parts of the world look like). The list of only the 32 U.S. winners can be found here.):
Rhodes Scholars-elect class of 2013
Clayton P. Aldern
Minnesota, 2013
Current place of residence: Cedar
University: Brown University
Other information: Clayton is a senior at Brown where he majors in neuroscience. His work focuses on visual information processing and decision-making, and toward a better understanding of how human memory functions. Clay is also active as a peer advisor, a journalist, as editor-in-chief of a magazine of the Brown Daily Herald, and is committed to increasing scientific literacy in American culture. He also conducts research on treatment access for post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury patients.
Juliet Elizabeth Allan
Georgia, 2013
Current place of residence: Atlanta
University: University of Georgia
Other information: Juliet graduated from the University of Georgia in 2012, with bachelors degrees in Arabic, international affairs and economics, and a masters in international policy. Elizabeth's interests focus on U.S. policy in the middle east and north Africa. She has studied in Morocco, at Oxford, as well as in Peru, Germany, China, India and South Korea. She is co-director of a tutoring and mentoring program for low income students that includes 200 volunteers, and is also a long-distance runner and white water rafter.
James Bonifacio
New Zealand, 2013
Current place of residence: Christchurch
University: University of Canterbury
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics (2011) / Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Physics (Honours)
Other information: James is completing his Honours year in Maths and Physics. Fascinated by science from a young age, the focus of his interest now lies in theoretical physics. Alongside his own drive for understanding how the world works, James is passionate about teaching and inspiring others to learn, both fellow students and through volunteering at a local primary school and Refugee Homework Centre. A black belt in Taekwondo – he won Gold in the 2011 New Zealand Black Belt Championships and Silver in the 2012 South Island Championships – James enjoys the discipline physical challenge brings. He is currently training for the Coast to Coast World Multi-Sport Championship to be held in New Zealand in February 2013. Longer-term he aspires to contribute to the collective understanding of mankind through the study of theoretical physics.
Jennifer M. Bright
Current place of residence: Manhattan
University: Yale University
Other information: Jennifer is a senior at Yale majoring in ethics, politics and economics. Jenny has focused on the legal, medical, economic and political aspects of urban public health policy. She has interned for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, the New York Academy of Medicine and in the New York City Mayor's office. She is also editor-in-chief of the Yale Undergraduate Law Review and the president of the Yale Urban Collective.
Joy A. Buolamwini
Tennessee, 2013
Current place of residence: Cordova
University: Georgia Institute of Technology
Other information: Joy graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012 where she majored in computer science. She is now at the Carter Center working on global mobile surveying tools. An entrepreneur who has founded or co-founded three businesses, she has established a mobile data system for use in Ethiopia, and a digital teaching tool for schools in developing countries. Joy also helped develop a program using a robotic teddy bear to help the recognition ability of autistic children. She has won a Fulbright for work in Zambia where she will work to expand access to education.
David M. Carel
Pennsylvania, 2013
Current place of residence: Penn Valley
Other information: David is a senior at Yale where he majors in economics. He cofounded an education technology start-up and performs as lead drummer in a West African dance troup and as an instructor in Rukdan Israeli dancing. He has become a leading advocate relating to HIV/AIDS, including as president of an AIDS coalition at Yale and as a national board member of the Student Global AIDS campaign. He has done extensive work at the community level in a small town in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, the country of his parents' birth. He is fluent in Zulu and Hebrew.
Louis Chambers
Current place of residence: Dunedin
University: University of Otago
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Laws (Honours) Conjoint
Other information: Louis is completing his Honours in Law and his BA in Economics, with Environmental Management. Alongside his legal studies, Louis's love of debating won him the 2011 Australian Law Students Association Mooting Competition; he serves as President and Adjudicator for the University of Otago Debating Society and has co-founded Law for Change to inspire students and young professionals to pursue public interest legal careers. Louis is National Co-ordinator of Generation Zero, a youth advocacy organisation promoting international thinking on climate change issues. For relaxation, Louis enjoys mountain biking, running, snowboarding, rock climbing and more. Longer-term Louis hopes to contribute to environmental and climate change policy, whether via government or NGO.
Natasha Chilundika
Zambia, 2013
Current place of residence: Lusaka
University: University of Zambia
Current/recent course: Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Studies (2011)
Other information: Since completing her BSc in Agricultural Economics, Natasha has worked as a research assistant seeking to promote the interests of agricultural smallholder farming in the private sector. Whilst at University she served as Administrative Secretary for the University of Zambia Students Union Sports Council (UNZASU) and as Volleyball Team representative. In her free time now Natasha enjoys dancing, and is closely involved in her local church. Longer term she envisages a policy role, influencing national approaches to economic policy with a view to alleviating poverty.
Aidan C. de B. Daly
University: Harvard University
Other information: Aidan is a senior at Harvard majoring in computer science, with a minor in molecular and cellular biology. Aidan has done research internships at Harvard in quantum computational chemistry, at NYU in DNA computing, and at the American Museum of Natural History in population genetics. He has developed an iPhone app for field scientists, directed video productions, is a book illustrator, is co-captain of the Harvard kendo club, and was coxswain on the varsity lightweight crew.
Christopher B. Dobyns
Maryland/DC, 2013
Current place of residence: Highland, Maryland
University: Cornell University
Other information: Christopher is a senior at Cornell where he majors in African Studies with minors in Inequality Studies and Law and Society. Kit is a Udall Scholar who has studied Kiswahili and Zulu, taught English in Rwanda, worked at an orphanage in Tanzania, developed a curriculum for South Africa's National Council for Persons with Physical Disabilities, and created a curriculum on human rights abuses for a high school in Rwanda. He also founded a company that distributes low-cost energy in rural Nigeria and founded a nonprofit that provides consulting to social entrepreneurs.
Alyssa Fitzpatrick
Current place of residence: Adelaide
University: University of Adelaide
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
Other information: Alyssa is in the final year of her medical degree. During the course of her degree she took electives in Vietnam and in Oxford and found both experiences profoundly influential in different ways. Apart from her studies, Alyssa serves as Chair of Insight, the global health group of the University of Adelaide, and served as Publicity Officer for the Australian Medical Students' Association's Global Health Committee. Alyssa enjoys and performs classical and contemporary ballet and performs with, and is on the executive of, the Adelaide University Medical Orchestra. Beyond Oxford, in the shorter term, she hopes to train in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and, in the longer term, to work within the global health arena from both a medical and public health perspective.
Amanda J. Frickle
Montana, 2013
Current place of residence: Billings
University: The College of Idaho
Other information: Amanda graduated from The College of Idaho in 2012 where she majored in political economy and in history, and graduated summa cum laude. Amanda has been very active politically, a leader in the Obama campaign in Montana, as student body president, as president of the Gay-Straight Student Alliance, and as an advocate for LGBT rights. She has also worked for the Idaho ACLU, an executive officer on the feminist majority alliance, and has petitioned for sustainable environmental practices. Much of her academic work has been in gender studies.
Julian B. Gewirtz
Connecticut, 2013
Current place of residence: Hamden
Other information: Julian is a senior at Harvard majoring in history. Elected as a junior to Phi Beta Kappa, his secondary field is English and he has won prizes for his poetry. Fluent in Mandarin, his senior thesis is on the influence of western economists on Chinese reform. Julian is publisher of the Harvard Advocate, writes for the Huffington Post on China-related topics, and is a columnist for the Harvard Crimson. He also founded and directed a program that connects U.S. and Chinese young people, and has worked for Facebook, and for Alibaba in China.
Rhiana E. Gunn-Wright
Illinois, 2013
Current place of residence: Oak Lawn
Other information: Rhiana graduated from Yale in 2011 with majors in African American studies and women's gender and sexuality studies. She now works at the Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington, DC. Rhiana's senior thesis won prizes from both of her departments. Her interests focus on the complex causes of inequality, poverty, and disadvantage. She has been extremely active in community service, working for the Yale Women's Center, New Haven school children, grandmothers caring for children orphaned by HIV-AIDS in Uganda, and in Chicago for wards of the state. In Washington, she works as a health outreach volunteer with sex workers.
Margaret C. Hayden
Maine, 2013
Current place of residence: Brunswick
University: Stanford University
Other information: Margaret is a senior at Stanford where she majors in human biology and ethics in society. Her honors thesis is on the ethical implications of biological conceptions of mental illness and personhood. She has published two papers, has served as a patient advocate, and is passionate about the medical, sociological, political and moral contexts of mental illness. She is also a varsity squash player and a varsity sailor.
Christian H. Heller
North Dakota, 2013
Current place of residence: Beulah
University: United States Naval Academy
Other information: Christian is a senior at the United States Naval Academy, where he majors in history and minors in Arabic. He has interned at the U.S. Army War College and at the Office of Naval Intelligence. His academic work is focused to enable him to develop a broad understanding of the middle east. He is passionate about physical fitness, a marathoner and an amateur body builder; he is proud that he lost 115 pounds to attend the Naval Academy and to serve in the military. He has done submarine training, and attended the Marine Corps selection program at Quantico.
Allan J. Hsiao
Kentucky, 2013
Current place of residence: Louisville
Other information: Allan is a senior at Harvard with majors in economics and east Asian studies. Elected as a junior to Phi Beta Kappa, Allan is editor-in-chief of the Harvard Asia Quarterly, a professional academic journal, and the only undergraduate on its editorial board, senior editor of the Harvard Health Policy Review and of the Harvard Global Health Review. Allan was also an executive producer and director of the Identity 2012 Fashion Show, and president and co-founder of the Harvard actuarial society. He has attended a summit for young leaders in China, and has studied in Korea and Japan.
Kiley F. Hunkler
Missouri, 2013
Current place of residence: Glendale
University: United States Military Academy
Other information: Kiley is a senior at the United States Military Academy where she majors in engineering psychology. She has the highest academic average in her department and is one of a small number of seniors endorsed to attend medical school directly out of West Point, which will now be deferred until after her course at Oxford. She is a battalion commander and is captain of the women's lacrosse team. Kiley has interned at Walter Reed and worked at regional hospitals in Ghana.
Micah A. Johnson
Ohio, 2013
Current place of residence: Canton
Other information: Micah is a senior at Yale where he majors in molecular biophysics and biochemistry and psychology with a neuroscience concentration. Micah was elected as a junior to Phi Beta Kappa and won the Hunt Lyman prize as the outstanding junior at Yale intellectually and socially. His academic focus has been on brain disorders. He has done research on Parkinson's disease and worked in Ghana to design and develop a plan to improve mental health care. He founded a program at Yale that assists in public health programs in Latin America, and is executive editor of the Yale Journal of Medicine and Law. He is also a professional magician and was the international junior champion in close-up magic.
Rachel R. Kolb
New Mexico, 2013
Current place of residence: Los Ranchos
Other information: Rachel graduated from Stanford in English in 2012, and with a minor in human biology. She is now a candidate at Stanford for an M.A. in English. Elected as a junior to Phi Beta Kappa, she is managing editor of the Leland Quarterly and an opinion columnist for The Stanford Daily. She has been active with Christian ministries and in disability advocacy. She has won numerous prizes for her writing and has for two years been president of the Stanford equestrian team, representing Stanford in the national finals. She is deaf; her Rhodes interview included the use of a sign interpreter.
Catherine Laporte-Oshiro
California – North, 2013
Current place of residence: Larkspur
Other information: Catherine is a senior at Yale majoring in ethics, politics and economics. Her concentration is on Chinese state capitalism and she aspires to a career in public service related to China. She has studied Mandarin in Beijing and interned with a non-profit organization in Hong Kong and taught English in Nanjing. She also served as president of the Yale undergraduate economics association. She is team captain of the Yale Fed Challenge Team, analyzing the state of the U.S. economy. Cate also served as an economics intern for Senator Dianne Feinstein and has been active in the Yale Political Union.
Christopher Linegar
Diocesan College, Rondebosch 2013
Current place of residence: Cape Town
University: University of Cape Town
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Science in Mechatronics
Other information: Chris is completing the final year of his degree on a bursary from Denel Dynamics. His thesis project has been selected to be presented at the SAIEE National Competition later this year. Serving as Web Editor at UCT's Varsity Newspaper, he was extensively involved in promoting the growth of online student media at UCT, and has initiated several internships in journalism and web development. Building on his experiences tutoring Maths and Physics, Chris is pursuing an outreach initiative aimed at making electronic learning resources available to underprivileged school pupils across South Africa. For recreation, he is an avid photographer and enjoys mountain biking. Chris envisages a career in autonomous robotics, through which he hopes to encourage students to aspire to higher levels of robotics research in South Africa.
Benjamine Y. Liu
Current place of residence: Westlake Village, California
Other information: Benjamine graduated from Yale last year with a major in biology. He is now studying for an M.Phil. in computational biology at Cambridge University on a Mellon Fellowship. Ben also won a Goldwater Scholarship and Yale College's highest honor, the Alpheus Henry Snow prize, for intellectual achievement and character. He has extensive public health experience, including in China, the Dominican Republic, and England, and has many publications in neuroscience. He also launched a musical and educational program in the Los Angeles County jails.
Dakota E. McCoy
Current place of residence: Wexford
Other information: Dakota is a senior at Yale where she majors in ecology and evolutionary biology. Cody is a Goldwater Scholar, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and won the Frances Gordon Brown prize for intellectual distinction, leadership and service. She has several peer reviewed publications and has done research projects in ecology, primate cognition and evolutionary biology. She is a member of the varsity track and field team, where she throws the javelin and runs hurdles—and is in Yale's top 10 of all time in each discipline. She also volunteers for the Special Olympics and sings a capella.
Rachel M. Myrick
Current place of residence: Charlotte
University: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Other information: Rachel is a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majors in political science and global studies and minors in creative writing. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, she has written for the undergraduate law journal and extensively for a student magazine. Rachel is also the student body vice president and chair of the student advisory committee to the chancellor. She also designed a cultural enrichment program for children at a domestic violence shelter in Belize.
Kiron Neale
Trinidad & Tobago, 2013
Current place of residence: San Fernando
University: University of the West Indies
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Science (2012)
Other information: Kiron majored in Geography and Environment & Natural Resource Management, completing his BSc with First Class Honours. Kiron won the Caribbean Academy of Sciences Studentship to present his undergraduate dissertation on alternative fuel sources at the Caribbean Academy of Sciences General Meeting and Conference in November 2012. He currently works as an Associate Professional in the Environmental Policy and Planning Division of the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources. Beyond his academic and personal commitment to the environment, Kiron's interests embrace the visual arts, and sport of many kinds; as a track athlete he was the 60m and 300m silver medallist at the University of Alberta Campus games, where he spent a semester on exchange. Longer term, Kiron wishes to contribute to environmental policy development in the wider Caribbean.
Geoffrey Pascoe
Current place of residence: Victoria
University: Monash University
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) (2011)/ Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering and Bachelor of Science
Other information: Geoffrey is currently completing his studies, and does so as a Dean's Scholar of the Faculty of Engineering. Academically, Geoff's interests tend toward mobile robotics and he hopes to contribute – at Oxford and perhaps beyond – to transformative changes in technology in the field of transportation. Alongside his studies, Geoff has indulged his other passion, politics, serving both as President of the Monash University Liberal Club and a member of the Executive Committee of the Young Liberal Movement of Victoria. As a change from robotics and politics, Geoff umpires for the Victorian Football League Senior Squad. Whilst Geoff is unclear of the exact path his future career will take, he is clear that he will be working on ideas and technologies that impact people's lives for good.
Laura Pittman
Newfoundland, 2013
Current place of residence: St John's
University: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Engineering
Other information: Laura is the final year of her Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering. Whilst on campus, she has served as Vice President of the Engineering Students' Society, Director of Languages and Volunteers for the Canadian Federation of Engineering Student 2011 Congress, and as a participant on the Atlantic Council of Engineering Students. She was chosen to represent the university as one of twenty-five Memorial Ambassadors. Laura has also been closely involved in a programme to introduce school girls to engineering. Following these community projects and in addition to highly successful research and employment placements, she was awarded the Canadian Association for Co-operative Education Student of the Year Prize for 2011. Laura is a High School volleyball coach, and plays volleyball and football. She plays the piano and violin, and dances. Longer term, Laura hopes to combine her interests in biomechanics with socially responsible business enterprise.
Kameel Premhid
KwaZulu-Natal, 2013
Current place of residence: Durban
University: University of KwaZulu-Natal
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies and Political Science (2010) / Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
Other information: Kameel's twin passions are politics and law, with particular focus on the relationship between government, civil society, and the international community. An active member of the Democratic Alliance since 2004, Kameel served as Chief Whip for the KZN Youth Parliament (2008-2010), and continues to serve as elected Branch Committee Member for one of the Durban Wards. A keen debater, Kameel won 2nd Best Individual Speaker at the Pan-African Universities' Debating Championships in Bulawayo, 2011; was invited to serve as an Independent Judge in the 2012 World Universities' Debating Championships and has a long history of coaching young people in KwaZulu-Natal Schools' Debating Association.
Daniel A. Price
Current place of residence: Grass Valley
University: University of California, Berkeley
Other information: Daniel is a senior at the University of California, Berkeley, where he will graduate with two B.S. degrees, one in bioengineering, and one in electrical engineering and computer sciences. He also has a major in physics. He has done research in medical robotics at Johns Hopkins, and at Berkeley to develop a new imaging modality known as magnetic particle imaging. He aspires to a career applying his interests in medical devices and medical robotics to address global health care needs.
Vinesh Rajpaul
South African College School, Newlands, 2013
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Science in Physics & Applied Mathematics (2009) / Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics (Honours) (2010) / Master of Science in Astrophysics
Other information: Vinesh completed his BA at UCT with First Class Honours and is now working on a research-based Master's in Astrophysics, with a focus on exoplanetary science. He has already authored a number of peer-reviewed publications in this area. He is passionate about improving educational opportunities for young people in Southern Africa and in 2010 he raised funds to establish a merit scholarship for students from poor backgrounds, to encourage and recognise hard work and academic excellence, and has volunteered for the Red Cross Children's Hospital in Cape Town since 2006. For light relief, Vinesh enjoys language (French), literature and music (piano), "dabbles" in art and photography (with international recognition), and enjoys a number of outdoor activities, including running, cycling and hiking. Beyond Oxford, Vinesh would like to establish an exoplanet research group in South Africa and hopes to contribute, longer-term, to the development of education policy in South Africa.
Joseph W. Riley
Current place of residence: Athens
University: University of Virginia
Other information: Joseph is a senior at the University of Virginia where he majors in Chinese, and is in the honors program in government and foreign affairs. A Truman Scholar, and a Jefferson Scholar, Joe is ranked the number one Army cadet in the national ROTC. He is coauthoring a book on Sino-American relations and has done field research on Chinese mineral extraction industries in Africa. He has attended 101st Airborne Division Air Assault school, and Army Airborne Infantry school, and founded an organization to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Fund and to help bridge the civil military divide.
Mubeen A. Shakir
Oklahoma, 2013
Current place of residence: Oklahoma City
University: University of Oklahoma
Other information: Mubeen is a senior at the University of Oklahoma where he majors in biochemistry. Dedicated to a career in medicine, particularly oncology, he has interned at Columbia University and at the University of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and in its departments of pediatrics and urology. He has also worked in a program for entrepreneurs where he is developing an iPod application to detect concussions in collision sports. Mubeen also co-founded an education program for underprivileged youth in Oklahoma and tutors for children and teens in the Oklahoma Muslim community, and is an opinion columnist for the student newspaper.
David Sherwood
Western Australia, 2013
Current place of residence: Perth
University: University of Western Australia
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Science (2011)/ Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (Honours)
Other information: Dave is currently completing his degree in chemistry. Whilst at UWA, he won research placements at Monash University and the Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland; and won the Fogarty Foundation Scholarship. He has remained closely involved with the Foundation's on-going programmes to provide tutoring for disadvantaged high school students. Profoundly influenced by what he saw of unequal access to high quality education, in 2011 Dave established a not-for-profit company to organise tutoring for over 500 primary school students at 11 remote schools. For relaxation, Dave plays competitive sport – soccer, netball, badminton – and enjoys camping and water sports. Longer-term Dave hopes to contribute to broad educational reform, ensuring that an individual's life prospects are not restricted by their place of birth.
Edward Stace
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Medical Science (Honours) (2009)/ Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
Other information: Edward will complete his medical studies in the coming year. During the course of his medical degree, he took a year out to undertake research on Bone Banking, graduating BMedSc with First Class Honours. A keen sportsman, he was invited to join the New Zealand Rowing Squad but declined in favour of his studies. Instead, he joined the Territorial Army where he was promoted, this year, to Lieutenant. He continues his sporting involvement, hiking, running and playing rugby; this year he won first place in the Army's Twin Peaks Battle Tab. Alongside competitive sport, he is a jazz trumpeter. He hopes to continue medical research at Oxford and, longer-term, he envisages a career in medicine, with the aim of influencing national approaches to preventative medicine and public health.
Evan R. Szablowski
California – South, 2013
Current place of residence: Bakersfield
Other information: Evan is a senior at the United States Military Academy where he majors in mathematics. He has also studied at Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco, and worked on projects encouraging entrepreneurship in Ethiopia, and on emerging markets in the Czech Republic. Evan is also a triathlete, conducts a West Point choir, and was a member of the first American team ever to win the Sandhurst military competition.
Paul Roos Gymnasium, Stellenbosch, 2013
Current place of residence: Stellenbosch
University: Stellenbosch University
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Arts in Law (2009) / Bachelor of Arts in English (Honours) (2011); Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
Other information: Helen graduated Cum Laude in Law and in English (Honours) and is now completing her LLB. At Stellenbosch, Hockey has taken a back seat in favour of her studies and of her interest in music. An accomplished pianist and violinist, she also teaches the violin and performs in a professional music group based in Cape Town, Camerata Tinta Barocca. Earlier this year, Helen attended a Summer School at King's College, London, exposing her to the internal workings of the Royal Courts of Justice and the Old Bailey. This experience has confirmed her longer-term aspirations to become an advocate or a judge. Helen is keenly interested in the place of justice in law, particularly in the field of human rights law.
New South Wales, 2013
Current place of residence: Sydney
University: The University of Sydney
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Arts in Languages with combined Honours in Social Anthropology and Chinese Studies (2010)
Other information: Jacob's interest in how culture takes hold of our bodies and minds has led him towards a keen interest in the emerging field of neuroanthropology. Having completed his degree in 2010, Jacob has combined meanwhile his interests in rugby and China as a member of the Partnership Development Team of the Australia-China Youth Dialogue, and as the China Consultant and Liaison for the Australian Rugby Union. Alongside his career as Vice-Captain of the national Rugby Sevens team, Jacob has established the Engaging China Project which seeks to promote the study of the Chinese language in Australian schools. Longer-term, Jacob hopes to contribute to the growing body of knowledge in neuroanthropology, before seeking to influence more broadly the incorporation of empathic knowledge into the way we educate, govern, and do business worldwide.
Vincent F. Taylor
Jamaica, 2013
Current place of residence: Kingston
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Electronics (2011) / Master of Philosophy in Computer Science
Other information: Vincent completed his BSc with First Class Honours and is currently researching the scope of wireless sensor network security. He has used his talents in electronics to assist in the design and development of websites for charities such as the I Believe Initiative. He combines this with a passion for amateur radio as a webmaster of the Jamaica Amateur Radio Association. Vincent also represents the Department of Computing on the Faculty of Science and Technology Graduate Students' Social Events Committee, and has won the Professor Sir Kenneth Hall Award for Excellence in Philanthropy for his extra-curricular activities. During his leisure time, he enjoys middle-distance running and weightlifting, and amateur astronomy. Long-term Vincent envisages contributing to technological advancement in developing countries.
Joseph W. Thiel
Idaho, 2013
Current place of residence: Boise
University: Montana State University
Other information: Joseph is a senior at Montana State University where he majors in chemical engineering; he will also get a B.A. in liberal studies, with a focus on politics, philosophy and economics. He is the only student representative on the Board of Regents of the Montana University System. Joe was the vice president of Engineers Without Borders at Montana State and served as a student senator. He has done summer work related to the storage of spent nuclear fuel and in biofilms engineering. He is keenly interested in international development and worked in western Kenya on an engineering project to provide water to rural primary schools.
Maka B Tounkara
Current / recent course: Bachelor of Arts in Economics (2012)
Other information: Maka won the Citi Bank Scholarship for best overall final year student in economics, and graduated this year with Distinction. During the course of his degree he served as Vice President of the University of Zambia (UNZ) Business and Economics Association and was elected Business and Finance Chairperson for the Council of Hall Representatives. Maka also contributed to a scheme to raise awareness and understanding of HIV within the University community. By way of recreation, Maka is a keen football player. Maka is working currently as an Intern in the Budget Office of the Ministry of Finance and as a Staff Development Fellow in the economics department at UNZ. Longer term, Maka envisages a career as an academic engaged in policy work.
Andrew Trotter
Queensland, 2013
Current place of residence: Brisbane, Australia
University: Queensland University of Technology / Australian National University
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (2011) / Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (2012)
Other information: Andrew completed his BA with Distinction and LLB with First Class Honours in 2011. Whilst at QUT, he was awarded the Golden Key Asia-Pacific Outstanding Achievement Academic Award (2010), the Tom Cain Trophy for Outstanding Achievement (2011) (Best Mooter) and the Tom Cain Trophy for Outstanding Achievement (2011). Apart from academic study and debating, Andrew played cricket, acquired fluency in French and Japanese, conversational Spanish and a useful level of Mandarin. Having completed the GLDP at ANU earlier this year, Andrew is now working as Associate to the Hon Justice Atkinson at the Supreme Court of Queensland. Beyond Oxford, Andrew hopes practice at the Australian bar, whilst continuing to engage in research and law reform to improve the quality of criminal and human rights law.
Katie D. Whitcombe
Current place of residence: Mesa
Other information: Katie is a senior at the United States Naval Academy where she majors in Chinese. She is tied for first is her class in academic order of merit, and is in the top 2% in overall order of merit, and is Brigade Character Development Officer. Katie's primary interests lie in working with the peoples of the western and southwestern Pacific. She is on the varsity track and field team where she sprints and hurdles. She also plays the flute and is a dancer. She co-founded Operation Wounded Warrior on her campus, and volunteered last summer in the Philippines to work with girls victimized by human trafficking.
Georgianna H. Whiteley
Current place of residence: Wayzata
University: Luther College
Other information: Georgianna is a senior at Luther College where she majors in chemistry and minors in biology. Annie has done research on Maasai traditional medicine and the distillation of plant oils for that community's economic development. She has also worked on projects at the nanoscience and nanotechnology institute at the University of Iowa. She is active as a youth mentor, and in Habitat for Humanity and other community projects. She is a varsity tennis player.
Benjamin B.H. Wilcox
Current place of residence: Winnetka
Other information: Benjamin is a senior at Harvard majoring in history, with a focus on Latin America and the United States. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, he has done policy and community work with a Brazilian NGO, and his senior thesis relates to race and Brazilian history. Ben is also president of the Harvard-Radcliffe chorus, active in the international relations community, and has written for the Harvard Crimson and the Harvard Political Review. A cyclist, Ben has also logged 10,000 miles pedaling across North America and Europe.
Rachel M. Woodlee
South Carolina, 2013
Current place of residence: Greer
University: Wofford College
Other information: Rachel is a senior at Wofford College where she majors in business economics and Chinese language and culture. Rachel is fluent in Mandarin, and a junior member of Phi Beta Kappa. She is captain of Wofford's Division I volleyball team. She has traveled in several regions of China, lived with a family in Tibet, and has also studied in Peru and India.
Nina M. Yancy
Texas, 2013
Current place of residence: DeSoto
Other information: Nina is a senior at Harvard majoring in social studies. Nina has interned in the British House of Commons, for CNN, and for the Center for American Political Studies. She has been a teacher and director of Citystep, an organization that provides dance instruction to low income youth, and worked with developmentally challenged youth in Peru. She is also a member of the Harvard Ballet Company and a choreographer for the Expressions Dance Company. While in high school, her family lost their home in Hurricane Katrina. Nina was recently chosen to be the first class marshal of her graduating class.
Phillip Z. Yao
Current place of residence: North Caldwell
Other information: Phillip is a senior at Harvard where he majors in physics and minors in philosophy. Phil is passionate about expanding access to education and technology and has mentored in New York City's Prep for Prep program, worked in the New York City Mayor's office on a new computer science curriculum, and founded a virtual library that will reach over a million students in India with Pratham while on a summer fellowship. Phil was chair of education policy on the Harvard Undergraduate Council for two years, and continues to contribute to its education committee. He is also for a third year on the University's educational policy committee, which comprises deans and department chairs, with oversight on undergraduate educational policy. Phil is also a pianist and a poet.
Daniel W. Young
Current place of residence: Charlottesville
Other information: Daniel is a senior at Cornell majoring in philosophy and minoring in South Asian studies. He spent last spring semester in Nepal conducting research for his senior thesis on the social activism on Dalit ("untouchable") castes. His work in philosophy is focused on the intersection of normative ethics and political theory. Daniel is active in the Cornell prison education program, offering liberal arts courses to men in maximum and medium security prisons. He is also active in Cornell's outdoor education program and sings with the Cornell glee club.
Qili (Cherry) Xu
Hong Kong, 2013
Current place of residence: Hong Kong
University: The University of Hong Kong
Current/ recent course: Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (2012) / Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL)
Other information: Cherry completed her LLB with First Class Honours, graduating first in her year, and will complete the PCLL this year. She is a senior editor of the Hong Kong Journal of Legal Studies, and represented her university in the 2012 Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Following participation in a voluntary programme at the Thai / Myanmar border, Cherry leads a media project to help raise awareness for legal and political activism in the area. For light relief, she enjoys literature, music, photography, and drawing. Her passion for law is borne of a keen sense of justice, and she hopes to develop this in the future as a barrister in Hong Kong and China.
Rhodes Scholars announced for 2013 (miamiherald.com)
Rhodes Scholars announced for 2013 (sfgate.com)
Rhodes Scholars Named (insidehighered.com)
From Englewood to Rhodes Scholar: 'It's huge' (suntimes.com)
Luther College student named Rhodes Scholar (thegazette.com)
Seniors Chosen as Rhodes Scholars (thecrimson.com)
Rhodes Scholars Announced for 2013 (abcnews.go.com)
TechTest2009 Scholarship Winner Named as Rhodes Scholar [Daniel A. Price], Sierra Economics and Science Foundation
"Glendale [Missouri] woman named Rhodes Scholar," [Kiley Hunkler] CBS St. Louis
DeSoto native chosen to be Rhodes Scholar [Nina Yancy], CBS Dallas
Larkspur student among three California Rhodes Scholars for 2013 ["Larkspur native Catherine Laporte-Oshiro, Daniel Price of Grass Valley and Bakersfield's Evan Szablowski"], CBS San Francisco
[University of North Carolina] student named Rhodes Scholar [Rachel Myrick], CBS Charlotte
"2 Minnesotans named Rhodes Scholars" [Georgianna Whiteley, of Wayzata, and Clayton Aldern, of Cedar], CBS Minneapolis
"Maryland student among Rhodes Scholars" [Chris Dobyns of Highland], CBS Baltimore
2 from Chicago area named Rhodes Scholars [Rhiana Gunn-Wright, of Oak Lawn and Englewood, and Ben Wilcox of Winnetka], CBS Chicago (includes link to video interviews of the two winners)
"Is Susan Rice unfit to serve as Secretary of State?" Struggles for Justice blog
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MITx launches — new model for post-secondary learning?
We get press releases in the e-mail:
MIT launches online learning initiative
'MITx' will offer courses online and make online learning tools freely available.
MIT today announced the launch of an online learning initiative internally called "MITx." MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses through an online interactive learning platform that will:
organize and present course material to enable students to learn at their own pace
feature interactivity, online laboratories and student-to-student communication
allow for the individual assessment of any student's work and allow students who demonstrate their mastery of subjects to earn a certificate of completion awarded by MITx
operate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions.
MIT expects that this learning platform will enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences. MIT also expects that MITx will eventually host a virtual community of millions of learners around the world.
MIT will couple online learning with research on learning
MIT's online learning initiative is led by MIT Provost L. Rafael Reif, and its development will be coupled with an MIT-wide research initiative on online teaching and learning under his leadership.
"Students worldwide are increasingly supplementing their classroom education with a variety of online tools," Reif said. "Many members of the MIT faculty have been experimenting with integrating online tools into the campus education. We will facilitate those efforts, many of which will lead to novel learning technologies that offer the best possible online educational experience to non-residential learners. Both parts of this new initiative are extremely important to the future of high-quality, affordable, accessible education."
Offering interactive MIT courses online to learners around the world builds upon MIT's OpenCourseWare, a free online publication of nearly all of MIT's undergraduate and graduate course materials. Now in its 10th year, OpenCourseWare includes nearly 2,100 MIT courses and has been used by more than 100 million people.
MIT President Susan Hockfield said, "MIT has long believed that anyone in the world with the motivation and ability to engage MIT coursework should have the opportunity to attain the best MIT-based educational experience that Internet technology enables. OpenCourseWare's great success signals high demand for MIT's course content and propels us to advance beyond making content available. MIT now aspires to develop new approaches to online teaching."
OCW will continue to share course materials from across the MIT curriculum, free of charge.
MITx online learning tools to be freely available
MIT will make the MITx open learning software available free of cost, so that others — whether other universities or different educational institutions, such as K-12 school systems — can leverage the same software for their online education offerings.
"Creating an open learning infrastructure will enable other communities of developers to contribute to it, thereby making it self-sustaining," said Anant Agarwal, an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). "An open infrastructure will facilitate research on learning technologies and also enable learning content to be easily portable to other educational platforms that will develop. In this way the infrastructure will improve continuously as it is used and adapted." Agarwal is leading the development of the open platform.
President Hockfield called this "a transformative initiative for MIT and for online learning worldwide. On our residential campus, the heart of MIT, students and faculty are already integrating on-campus and online learning, but the MITx initiative will greatly accelerate that effort. It will also bring new energy to our longstanding effort to educate millions of able learners across the United States and around the world. And in offering an open-source technological platform to other educational institutions everywhere, we hope that teachers and students the world over will together create learning opportunities that break barriers to education everywhere."
Read frequently asked questions about MITx
Tip of the old scrub brush to James Darrell.
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Texas House votes to maim education, cripple health care, send the aged off to ice floes
Where anyone can find an ice floe in Texas is a powerful question, but the search will be on to find some soon, if the budget approved by the Texas House of Representatives cannot be fixed.
Texas House Democrats sent out a notice shortly after the vote, explaining some of the cuts:
An hour ago, Texas House Republicans forced through some of the most destructive budget cuts in Texas history. On a party line vote, 101 House Republicans trampled on the priorities of regular, middle-class Texas families. [1]
Tonight, Republicans voted to:
Eliminate 335,000 Texas jobs in both the public and private sectors, threatening our fragile economic recovery [2]
Lay off up to 100,000 teachers and school support workers, crowding dozens of kids into unruly classrooms [3]
Kick 100,000 kids out of full day Pre-Kindergarten [4]
Close half of the state's nursing homes, leaving thousands of seniors with no place to go [5]
Create a ripple effect that will force local governments like cities, counties and local school districts to raise taxes [6]
Cut off access to financial aid for thousands of graduating high school seniors [7], while forcing up college tuition through cuts. [8]
They didn't have to cut this deeply into the priorities set by most Texas families. They chose to make the deepest cuts public education since the creation of our school finance system in 1949. [9]
For months, Republicans have been yelling "Cuts! Cuts!" and they have ignored the thousands of office visits, letters, emails and phone calls of average Texans protesting these hurtful cuts.
Democrats offered plenty of creative solutions that would keep schools open, spare nursing homes from closing, and keep our promise to graduating seniors who have worked hard for a chance to earn a college education. Republicans shot them down one by one in favor of deeper cuts.
Anybody can swing an axe and slash budgets across the board. Texas needs people who can lead, set priorities, and protect those priorities.
Remember, Republicans chose to make these cuts. Help us hold them accountable for costing jobs, hurting families, and for choosing to sacrifice the future of too many Texas kids.
Cliff Walker
Texas HDCC
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=82R&Bill=HB1
http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Budget-cuts-could-slash-hundreds-of-thousands-of-1291051.php
http://www.kvue.com/home/117522288.html
http://www.newschannel10.com/Global/story.asp?S=14368977
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2011/mar/09/democrats-cuts-will-hit-homes/?print=1
http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/03/08/2906285/unfunded-mandates-from-the-texas.html
http://blog.mysanantonio.com/texas-politics/2011/03/house-budget-writers-ok-bill-that-would-trim-23-billion/
http://www.newswest9.com/Global/story.asp?S=14310923
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9MBC0PG1.htm
Fewer teachers when more are needed, bigger classrooms when smaller classrooms are needed, less health care in the state with the largest uninsured population of any state, the highest proportion of uninsured people.
Texas Republicans chose the meat cleaver over the scalpel to try to balance Gov. Rick Perry's $27 billion deficit. Many cuts appear targeted to do the most damage possible to education and other "liberal" state functions. Cleaver prop from YourProps.com
Prisons, highways, state parks, and other programs suffered serious cuts, too.
Had a foreign power done this to Texas, it would be considered an act of war. How will Texas citizens respond?
Texas Tribune live blogged the debate, here.
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Historians back Cronon against Wisconsin witch hunt
Just the news, folks. Just the news.
The Organization of American Historians Speaks Out on Academic Freedom and Defends OAH Member and University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor William Cronon
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Katherine M. Finley, Executive Director
Organization of American Historians
112 N. Bryan Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47401
ph 812.855.7311; fax 812.855.0696
The Executive Committee of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), led by President Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of History at Columbia University, issued the following statement on March 30, 2011, supporting academic freedom and deploring the recent efforts of Wisconsin politicians to intimidate OAH member and professor William Cronon:
The Executive Committee of the Organization of American Historians deplores the efforts of Republican party operatives in the state of Wisconsin to intimidate Professor William Cronon, a distinguished and respected member of our organization and currently the president-elect of our sister association, the American Historical Association. As a professional historian, Professor Cronon has used his extensive knowledge of American history to provide a historical context for recent events in Wisconsin. Requiring him to provide his e-mail correspondence, as the Republican party of Wisconsin has now done, will inevitably have a chilling effect on the capacity of all academics to engage in wide public debate. The timing and character of the Freedom of Information Act request for Professor Cronon's e-mail correspondence leave no doubt that the purpose of this request is to use the authority of the state to prevent William Cronon from freely exercising his rights as a citizen and as a public employee.
Cronon, a professor of environmental and U.S. western history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has come under fire from the Wisconsin Republican party. A longtime member of the OAH and a former member of its executive board, Cronon is the incoming president of the American Historical Association. He has been thrust into the spotlight for his March 15, 2011, blog post and for a subsequent op-ed piece in the New York Times, critical of the Wisconsin legislature and Governor Scott Walker. The OAH Executive Committee believes that the action of the Wisconsin Republican party in requesting e-mails sent by Professor Cronon will have a negative impact on academics who engage in wide public debate.
American Historical Association, "AHA Deplores Effort to Intimidate William Cronon," online posting, March 27, 2011, AHA Today http://blog.historians.org/news/1293/aha-council-deplores-recent-intimidation-efforts-aimed-at-cronon.
William Cronon, "Who's Really Behind Recent Republican Legislation in Wisconsin and Elsewhere? (Hint: It Didn't Start Here)," online posting, March 15, 2011, Scholar as Citizen, http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/15/alec/.
William Cronon, "Wisconsin's Radical Break," New York Times, March 21, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/opinion/22cronon.html.
William Cronon, "Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom," online posting, March 24, 2011, Scholar as Citizen, http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/24/open-records-attack-on-academic-freedom/.
Posted: Mar. 30, 2011
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FOIA "request" in Wisconsin could be violation of whistleblower protection law
Wisconsinite Jean Detjen sent me a note correcting my misinformation: Wisconsin does indeed have a whistleblower protection act. The law protects Wisconsin state employees, against retaliation for disclosing information about wrongdoing.
William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, University of Wisconsin - University of Wisconsin photo
My reading suggests that, since professors are not specifically exempted, Prof. Cronon, at the University of Wisconsin, is specifically protected.
If the University of Wisconsin gives that answer to the Wisconsin Republican Party, however, the Party will argue that it is not a government official prevented from retaliating against a government employee. That would be ample reason for the state to deny the FOIA request of the Party flatly and completely.
There is another, potentially more pernicious angle here: The Republican Party in Wisconsin is, in this case, an agent of the Republicans in the state legislature, those whose tails are on the line for violating Wisconsin law, and as Prof. Cronon outlines it, Wisconsin tradition and historical norms. It's likely that the Party is acting at the direction of legislators.
In short, it's kind of an organized crime action. I think that the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) would cover this sort of action — any retaliation for hire, or by an agent, which creates a pattern or practice of organized crime activities. Worse for the Wisconsin Republicans, if there were an ambitious U.S. attorney out there somewhere, there is no scienter requirement on RICO actions — that is, there need not be a clear formation of criminal intent. The mere actions of an organized crime group, even with no intent to break the law, can be a RICO violation.
Even worse for the Republicans, RICO is available for anyone to use. Were I Prof. Cronon, and were the Republicans to press their FOIA request to court, I'd counterclaim in federal court with the RICO statute.
That's a nasty escalation. But in these days, in this case, where a state party organization has gone to the employer of a university professor to get his job after he merely reported history, I wouldn't take chances that the Republicans would later play fair or nice.
Every step against Cronon, every press release, every statement from a legislator or party apparatchik, provides more evidence of the coordinated effort, and establishes further the "pattern and practice" of organized crime activity.
Maybe cool heads will soon prevail, maybe patriotism and love of the First Amendment will break out among Wisconsin Republicans, and they will retract their demand that Prof. Cronon deliver them all of his e-mails as a professor at the University of Wisconsin.
Maybe badgers will fly.
"Badger" is supposed to be the mascot of Wisconsin's top-flight university, not a tool of partisan politics.
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Students frozen out of schools, education, maybe hope
Does the headline pertain to Dallas ISD's being closed for cold weather for the fifth day in eight, or does it refer to the situations in Austin, where Gov. Rick Perry insists Texas is better off than the rest of the nation with a $25 billion deficit it can't close, and all education institutions being given solitary confinement or death penalties?
"Plummeting temperatures, sleet, snow, cause headaches in Dallas-Fort Worth," Dallas Morning News – "Most area school districts, including Fort Worth, Arlington, Denton and Dallas, canceled classes, as they were forced to do for four days during last week's bitter weather. In Frisco, Superintendent Rick Reedy said the threat was too great to hold classes."
"Higher education chief pleads for financial aid programs," Dallas Morning News
"Upbeat Perry touts Texas's strengths, dismisses budget 'doomsayers,'" Dallas Morning News; meanwhile, hoping bad math means voters can't put two and two together, "Perry demands more money from Congress for Texas schools," same issue, Dallas Morning News
"Superintendent of school for visually impaired says Texas could face lawsuits over education cuts," Dallas Morning News
"Dallas-area arts groups concerned about proposed state aid cuts," Dallas Morning News
Photo by Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman; Dallas Morning News caption: "Texas Gov. Rick Perry, with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst after delivering the State of the State address Tuesday, said there are 'no sacred cows' in the strapped Texas budget." Reality caption: Texas Emperor Rick Perry gives thumbs up to the lions who will face education's representative, Hypatia, in the Lege Arena fight-to-the-death; Perry promised not to be present for the final moments of the fight.
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High school juniors: Consider a college that will change your life
Here's what I told my U.S. history students on the class blog; a few other people may find my views informative:
Okay, juniors! You should be thinking hard about what you want to do, what you should do, and what you can do, after you graduate.
College?
Choosing a college can bring on all sorts of angst.
You worry about choosing the right college — the one that will advance you toward your dreams, the one where you'll fit in (yeah, we all worry about that), the one that you and your family can afford, the one where you can cut it, and the one where you can shine.
I urge you to consider a group of colleges known collectively as Colleges that Change Lives (CTCL).
Several years an education guru, Loren Pope, wrote a book profiling 40 colleges that have reputations of making much better people out of the already good students they take in. You've probably heard of some of these schools: Reed College, in Portland, Oregon; St. Olaf's College, especially for choir-minded people who don't mind Minnesota weather; Austin College, in Sherman, Texas; Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas; and a lot of others. The book was titled Colleges That Change Lives.
The colleges had the good sense to see that they were in league with each other, as well as in competition with each other — and so they banded together to create a one-application process (though each has slightly different essay requirements).
Go to their website and take a look. See especially whether they are having an open-house sort of get-together somewhere in Texas (we had to drive to Austin for our younger son — it was a great trip, and it helped him pick a school he hadn't thought of before — we urged them to come back to Dallas). (Oh — I checked. They held these events in August — plan to be there next August; note that these events were before school started, so you'll have to keep your own calendar over the summer to get there on time.)
These colleges mostly present just great places to get a good education, regardless the field you want to pursue (our son, James, did end up in one of the nation's top physics programs, something he had previously thought he'd have to go to a giant university to get; there are happy endings, you know). Which one is right for you?
I'll wager that you'd be happy at more than a dozen of these schools. By the time you graduate from one, you'll be convinced that you could not have made a better choice anywhere.
You're not too late to start the process of college consideration; but you do need to get going soon. College application deadlines for early decision come quickly when you're a senior, and the schools want your apps before December 1 (or November, or October!). Plus, next summer would be a great time to visit some of these schools.
I did not attend any of these schools, though I was heavily recruited by Lawrence University (then College), in Appleton, Wisconsin, where our younger son is now (they offered me a chance to play football, in a Division II school, which was awfully attractive). I also would be happy to discuss my undergraduate school, the University of Utah, with you, or my graduate schools and their undergraduate programs, the University of Arizona and George Washington University.
I'll be happy to tell you what I know about other schools I know a little about, too — the University of Texas-Dallas, where our older son graduated, or Georgetown, or American, or Howard, in Washington, D.C., or what little I know of the ivies, or California schools like the Claremont Colleges — all excellent places to study, and get a great life from.
Take a look at the CTCL program.
It's time you started thinking about what's out there in the world, and how you're going to prepare to live a great life.
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Beloit College's list: E-mail already passé to freshmen
If they knew what "old hat" meant, they might say that e-mail is old hat — but today's entering college class of 2014 doesn't regard e-mail as modern enough, nor much of other technology as fast enough.
Beloit College, in Beloit, Wisconsin, began to publish its profile of the cultural world of entering college freshmen in 1998. The Mindset List originally aimed to help Beloit professors understand the views of incoming freshmen, with some hopes of bridging the ever-widening Generation Gaps between faculty and students.
Among other things, the Mindset List highlights the importance of teaching patient scholarship methods to students who have astonishing access to electronic information, though not necessarily better access to real knowledge; students need to learn the difference between data and information, information and knowledge, and knowledge and wisdom.
The newest Mindset List comes as one of the list's creators will retire, an interesting footnote in historic attempts to understand rates of cultural change affecting college-bound kids. Beloit's public relations chief Ron Nief created the list with Prof. Tom McBride, who teaches modern students about Milton and Shakespeare. It is unclear whether Nief will be able to retire from compiling or interpreting the annual Mindset List. O tempora o mores!
We might assume that Nief had a hand in writing the Beloit College press release on the 2014 list:
Beloit, Wis. – Born when Ross Perot was warning about a giant sucking sound and Bill Clinton was apologizing for pain in his marriage, members of this fall's entering college class of 2014 have emerged as a post-email generation for whom the digital world is routine and technology is just too slow.
Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List. It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall. The creation of Beloit's Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief, it was originally created as a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references, and quickly became a catalog of the rapidly changing worldview of each new generation. The Mindset List website at http://www.beloit.edu/mindset, the Mediasite webcast and its Facebook page receive more than 400,000 hits annually.
The class of 2014 has never found Korean-made cars unusual on the Interstate and five hundred cable channels, of which they will watch a handful, have always been the norm. Since "digital" has always been in the cultural DNA, they've never written in cursive and with cell phones to tell them the time, there is no need for a wrist watch. Dirty Harry (who's that?) is to them a great Hollywood director. The America they have inherited is one of soaring American trade and budget deficits; Russia has presumably never aimed nukes at the United States and China has always posed an economic threat.
Nonetheless, they plan to enjoy college. The males among them are likely to be a minority. They will be armed with iPhones and BlackBerries, on which making a phone call will be only one of many, many functions they will perform. They will now be awash with a computerized technology that will not distinguish information and knowledge. So it will be up to their professors to help them. A generation accustomed to instant access will need to acquire the patience of scholarship. They will discover how to research information in books and journals and not just on-line. Their professors, who might be tempted to think that they are hip enough and therefore ready and relevant to teach the new generation, might remember that Kurt Cobain is now on the classic oldies station. The college class of 2014 reminds us, once again, that a generation comes and goes in the blink of our eyes, which are, like the rest of us, getting older and older.
Here is the list of 75 touchstones of cultural change guaranteed to give you twinges of your own aging, even if you were in the class of 2010:
The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2014
Most students entering college for the first time this fall—the Class of 2014—were born in 1992.
For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Bert Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead.
1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive.
2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.
3. "Go West, Young College Grad" has always implied "and don't stop until you get to Asia…and learn Chinese along the way."
4. Al Gore has always been animated.
5. Los Angelenos have always been trying to get along.
6. Buffy has always been meeting her obligations to hunt down Lothos and the other blood-suckers at Hemery High.
7. "Caramel macchiato" and "venti half-caf vanilla latte" have always been street corner lingo.
8. With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs, and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities.
9. Had it remained operational, the villainous computer HAL could be their college classmate this fall, but they have a better chance of running into Miley Cyrus's folks on Parents' Weekend.
10. A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority…unless it involves "real" aliens from another planet.
11. John McEnroe has never played professional tennis.
12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.
13. Parents and teachers feared that Beavis and Butt-head might be the voice of a lost generation.
14. Doctor Kevorkian has never been licensed to practice medicine.
15. Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause.
16. Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways.
17. Trading Chocolate the Moose for Patti the Platypus helped build their Beanie Baby collection.
18. Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.
19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.
20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed.
21. Woody Allen, whose heart has wanted what it wanted, has always been with Soon-Yi Previn.
22. Cross-burning has always been deemed protected speech.
23. Leasing has always allowed the folks to upgrade their tastes in cars.
24. "Cop Killer" by rapper Ice-T has never been available on a recording.
25. Leno and Letterman have always been trading insults on opposing networks.
26. Unless they found one in their grandparents' closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.
27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.
28. They've never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day.
29. Reggie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown.
30. "Viewer Discretion" has always been an available warning on TV shows.
31. The first computer they probably touched was an Apple II; it is now in a museum.
32. Czechoslovakia has never existed.
33. Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen.
34. "Assisted Living" has always been replacing nursing homes, while Hospice has always been an alternative to hospitals.
35. Once they got through security, going to the airport has always resembled going to the mall.
36. Adhesive strips have always been available in varying skin tones.
37. Whatever their parents may have thought about the year they were born, Queen Elizabeth declared it an "Annus Horribilis."
38. Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
39. Pizza jockeys from Domino's have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes.
40. There have always been HIV positive athletes in the Olympics.
41. American companies have always done business in Vietnam.
42. Potato has always ended in an "e" in New Jersey per vice presidential edict.
43. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.
44. The dominance of television news by the three networks passed while they were still in their cribs.
45. They have always had a chance to do community service with local and federal programs to earn money for college.
46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.
47. Children have always been trying to divorce their parents.
48. Someone has always gotten married in space.
49. While they were babbling in strollers, there was already a female Poet Laureate of the United States.
50. Toothpaste tubes have always stood up on their caps.
51. Food has always been irradiated.
52. There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church.
53. J.R. Ewing has always been dead and gone. Hasn't he?
54. The historic bridge at Mostar in Bosnia has always been a copy.
55. Rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties.
56. They may have assumed that parents' complaints about Black Monday had to do with punk rockers from L.A., not Wall Street.
57. A purple dinosaur has always supplanted Barney Google and Barney Fife.
58. Beethoven has always been a dog.
59. By the time their folks might have noticed Coca Cola's new Tab Clear, it was gone.
60. Walmart has never sold handguns over the counter in the lower 48.
61. Presidential appointees have always been required to be more precise about paying their nannies' withholding tax, or else.
62. Having hundreds of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine.
63. Their parents' favorite TV sitcoms have always been showing up as movies.
64. The U.S, Canada, and Mexico have always agreed to trade freely.
65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus.
66. Galileo is forgiven and welcome back into the Roman Catholic Church.
67. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always sat on the Supreme Court.
68. They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S.
69. The Post Office has always been going broke.
70. The artist formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg has always been rapping.
71. The nation has never approved of the job Congress is doing.
72. One way or another, "It's the economy, stupid" and always has been.
73. Silicone-gel breast implants have always been regulated.
74. They've always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi Channel.
75. Honda has always been a major competitor on Memorial Day at Indianapolis.
Beloit College ranks among the best small, liberal arts colleges in the U.S. Beloit College is part of a consortium our family has some fondness for, the 40 colleges in the group Colleges That Change Lives (CTCL). Every high school student should be aware of this group, and the methods developed to make application to several of these colleges easier (our son chose Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin).
This list highlights areas of potential ignorance teachers need to consider. Notice there is little on the list about the Cold War, Vietnam, nor popular books. The skew to technology includes an implicit skew away from some of the traditional ways we have transmitted culture to our children: Newspapers, magazines, books, Broadway plays and musicals. Even broadcast television is notable for the pop culture icons, and great changes in television viewing methods and habits.
The class of 2014 graduates a complete century away from the outbreak of World War I. Their parents may not have known the administrations of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson — Richard Nixon and Watergate may have been learned only from history books, by their parents.
How much more distant is the class of 2018, who enter high school as freshmen this year — next Monday, in Texas?
Christian Science Monitor, "Beloit College Mindset List says Class of 2014 can't write cursive"
Women's Day blog, "Daily Buzz: Has Cursive Handwriting Become Obsolete?"
AP story at Yahoo
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Photog (and Eagle Scout) Luke Sharrett leaving NY Times . . .
Go see the photos. Seriously. "The Capital was his classroom", by David Dunlap.
Doubtless, there are other accomplished photojournalists in Washington who have won an Eagle Scout medal with bronze palm. Luke Sharrett of The Times may be the only one who earned his just six years ago.
And he is almost certainly the only photographer who'll be leaving the D.C. press corps on Friday to start his junior year in college.
"Why are you doing that?" President Obama asked him as Air Force One was taking off the other day.
Dunlap does not say whether Sharrett earned the Photography Merit Badge. Anyone know?
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Community colleges pushed to become diploma mills
Zeno at Halfway There describes a terrible situation in California community colleges — not unlike the situation Texas high schools face. Don't tell Texas Republicans, they'll want to adopt it for community colleges, too.
State senator Carol Liu is the author of SB 1143, a measure which would somehow incorporate course completion rates in the formula for computing state funding for community colleges. Think about that for a moment. (Try giving it more thought than our legislators do.) Colleges that pass more students through their curriculum will get more funding. Colleges that pass fewer will get less. At first blush, that might seem reasonable.
Liu forgot, however, to include any quality standards in her bill. Schools that are willing to become diploma mills will prosper under her dollars for scholars program. The pressure to lower standards will be intense.
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Which party encourages education in Texas?
You have the tools to compare the party platforms and determine for yourself which part supports education in Texas — I mean, really supports education, as opposed to using Doublespeak to profess support while angling to get a shiv in the back of education.
You can look at the 2010 Texas Republican Party Platform here. There are brief mentions of education in other sections, but you'll find education starting on page 12. Texas Democrats put education up front, on page 2 (unofficial version, but the emphasis won't change).
Education sections of the 2010 Texas Democratic Party Platform appear immediately previous to this post, in eleven sections.
2010 Texas Democratic Platform: Diversity
2010 Texas Democratic Platform: Community Colleges
2010 Texas Democratic Platform: Higher Education
2010 Texas Democratic Platform: Making Our Schools Safe Havens for Learning
2010 Texas Democratic Platform: Reform of the Unbalanced State Board of Education
2010 Texas Democratic Platform: Solving the Dropout Crisis
2010 Texas Democratic Platform: Excellent Schools for Every Student
2010 Texas Democratic Platform: Public Education Funding
2010 Texas Democratic Platform: Education (preface)
2010 Texas Democratic Platform: Preamble
Which party is more favorable to educating our children well?
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This post is tenth in a series on the education planks of the 2010 Texas Democratic Party Platform.
Texas Democrats support innovative approaches to ensure diversity in every Texas institution of higher education. We condemn intolerance on Texas campuses and encourage universities to develop and offer culturally diverse curricula, student activities, and student recruitment policies that promote understanding, respect and acceptance.
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Democrats recognize and support the essential role of Texas community colleges, where almost 60% of Texas post-secondary students are enrolled. By combining affordability, high quality and responsiveness to community needs, these institutions provide an education to those who would be otherwise excluded.
Republicans have drastically reduced funding for community colleges and that burden has been shifted onto students, their families and property taxpayers. A significant funding increase would be needed just to restore Republican cuts to the 2002-3 state funding level, without adjusting for inflation. Not only do the Governor and Republican politicians again want to shift hundreds of millions of dollars in additional costs for employees' group insurance onto students and local property taxpayers, they have already cut funding by 5% this year. And they are asking for an additional 10% in cuts to Republican budgets that currently allow only 4% of students eligible for Texas Equal Opportunity Grants to receive grants designated for community college students. To maintain community colleges' role in providing lifelong education, we endorse:
full formula funding of the cost of instruction and of the growth in student enrollments;
fully state-funded full time employee group health insurance and proportional health benefits for adjunct instructors;
funding for new campuses and program expansions, especially in critical need programs, sufficient to meet Closing the Gaps goals;
rolling back tuition and fees that have increased over 50% under Republican control;
sufficient financial aid to cover 260,000 community college students who are eligible for grant assistance but receive none because state funding is inadequate; and
elimination of financial aid rules that penalize students who transfer to universities from community colleges.
To prevent further erosion of community colleges' ability to serve their communities, Texas Democrats oppose:
proposals for "proportionality" that would shift group insurance costs onto students and property taxpayers;
shifting the basis of formula funding away from actual costs; and
"incentive programs that would discriminate against colleges and programs serving disadvantaged and non-traditional students or against non-degree skill-building and retraining programs.
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Q: If $f:A\rightarrow\Bbb{R}^n$ is a bijection such that $f\in C^r$ and $\det[Df(x)]\neq 0$ then $f[A]$ is open and $f^{-1}\in C^r$ What shown below is a reference from "Analysis on manifolds" by James R. Munkres.

So I don't understand why the function $\phi$ defined in the step $2$ is of class $C^r$: clearly $f(x)-c$ is of class $C^r$ but I don't know if the norm $||\cdot||$ and the square are of class $C^r$. Then I don't understand the final step $5$: indeed I don't understand why $I\in C^\infty$ and $Df\in C^{(r-1)}$. Indeed as reference I point out that Munkres said that if $f$ is a function mapping an open set $A$ of $\Bbb{R}^m$ into $\Bbb{R}^n$ then we say that $f$ is of class $C^r$ if and only if the partial derivatives of the functions $f_i$ of order less than or equal to $r$ are continuous on $A$, but unfortunately the function $Df:A\rightarrow GL(n)$ and $I:GL(n)\rightarrow GL(n)$ are not vector fields so I don't understand what Munkres says in step $5$. So to prove the statement I am only sure that I have to prove that the entries of $Dg$ are of class $C^{r-1}$. However perhaps I can explain the step $5$ as below.
So could someone help me, please?

A: First of all we know that the sum and and product of $C^r$ functions is a $C^r$ function so by permutation formula for determinant we know that for any square matrix $A$ it is
$$
detA:=\sum_{\sigma\mathfrak{S}}sgn(\sigma)a_{1,\sigma(1)}\cdot...\cdot a_{n,\sigma(n)}
$$
and so if the elements of a square matrix are functions of class $C^r$ then the determinant is even a $C^r$ function; moreover by Cramer formula we know that if $B:=A^{-1}$ then
$$
b_{i,j}=\frac{(-1)^{i+j}|A_{i,j}|}{|A|}
$$
and so if the elements of $A$ are $C^{r}$ functions then even the elements of $B$ are $C^r$ functions.
Finally we remember that the composition of $C^r$ functions is even $C^r$.
So we know that $f, g\in C^0$ and so $f\circ g\in C^0$ and so for what we observe the elements of $Dg(y)\equiv[Df(g(y))]^{-1}$ are continuous. So we assume that the theorem holds for functions of class $C^{r-1}$. Let $f$ be of class $C^r$ so that in particular $f$ is of class $C^{r-1}$ and thus (by the induction of hypothesis) the inverse function $g$ is of class $C^{r-1}$ and so even $f\circ g$ is of clas $C^r$; moreover the elements of $Df$ are functions of class $C^{r-1}$. Finally if $Dg(y)\equiv[Df(g(y))]^{-1}$ then for what we previously observed we conclude that the elements of $Dg$ are of class $C^{r-1}$ and so $g$ is of class $C^r$.
Well we remember that above we have said that the sum and product of $C^r$ functions is even $C^r$; moreover we can immediately observe that for the universal mapping theorem for products it follows that a vector field $f$ that mapping a subset $A$ of $\Bbb{R}^m$ into $\Bbb{R}^n$ is $C^r$ if and only if $f_i$ is $C^r$ for any $i:1,...,n$.
So we finally observe that if $f(x)$ is $C^r$ then clearly $\big(f_i(x)−c_i\big)$ is even $C^r$ so that we immediately conclude that $||f(x)−c||^2≡∑_{i=1}^n(f_i(x)−c_i)^2$ is $C^r$.

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Top Physical Therapy Programs in the U.S.
If you're considering a job as a physical therapist, good for you! PTs help people recover from injury or illness so that they may manage any pain and restore/improve movement.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLSL) notes that the median salary for a PT in 2010 was more than $76,000. As for job growth, the BLS predicted that the job growth rate for PTs between 2010-2020 will be 39 percent (this is compared to an average growth rate for all occupations of 14 percent).
USNews.com has ranked physical therapy programs throughout the U.S. for 2012. Continue below to see which programs were ranked as the top 15. (Note: The rankings are based on a 5.0 scale.)
1) The University of Southern California, Department of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy. Score: 4.3
2) University of Delaware, Department of Physical Therapy. Score: 4.2
3) University of Pittsburgh, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. Score: 4.1
4) Washington University in Saint Louis, Program in Physical Therapy. Score: 4.1
5) University of Iowa, Graduate Program in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science. Score: 3.9
6) U.S. Army – Baylor University, Doctoral Physical Therapy Program. Score: 3.9
7) Emory University, Division of Physical Therapy. Score: 3.8
8) MGH Institute of Health Professions, Graduate Program in Physical Therapy. Score: 3.8
9) Northwestern University, Department of Physical Therapy & Human Movement Sciences. Score: 3.7
10) University of Miami, Department of Physical Therapy. Score: 3.7
9) University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Division of Physical Therapy. Score: 3.7
11) Marquette University, Department of Physical Therapy. Score: 3.6
12) University of Florida, Department of Physical Therapy. Score: 3.6
13) Arcadia University, Department of Physical Therapy. Score: 3.5
14) University of Utah, College of Health. Score: 3.5
You'll need a master's degree in physical therapy (MPT) in order to start practicing as a PT. However, the profession is migrating to the doctor of physical therapy degree (DPT) as the "entry-level" degree necessary to enter the field.
If you're an experienced physical therapist (or occupational or even speech therapist) and have a desire to serve coupled with an itch for adventure as a traveling PT, then contact a recruiter at MedPro Healthcare Staffing. We'd love to speak to you about traveling assignments at clinics, hospitals, rehab centers and other healthcare facilities across the country. Contact us today!
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