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Home Science Assistant Professor Recruitment 2023
Home Science Assistant Professor Recruitment 2023 : राजस्थान लोक सेवा आयोग द्वारा कॉलेज होम साइंस असिस्टेंट प्रोफेसर के 39 पदों पर भर्ती का नोटिफिकेशन जारी कर दिया है। आरपीएससी होम साइंस असिस्टेंट प्रोफेसर भर्ती 2023 के लिए ऑनलाइन आवेदन 6 सितंबर से 5 अक्टूबर 2023 तक कर सकते हैं। Home Science Assistant Professor Recruitment 2023 के लिए अभ्यर्थियों का चयन प्रतियोगी परीक्षा एवं साक्षात्कार के माध्यम…
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By: Louise Perry
Published: Jun 8, 2023
When we get home from the supermarket, our two-year-old likes to assist with taking the groceries out from underneath his stroller and carrying them to the kitchen. He will pick up a carton of milk and heave it towards the fridge like an atlas stone. “Well done darling” I say to him in a pitch slightly higher than usual, “you’re being so helpful.” 
Of course he isn’t actually being helpful. In fact, he’s slowing down the process of unpacking and risking an enormous milk spillage all over the kitchen floor. But my goal is encouragement and kindness – he’s only two, bless him, and that carton is awfully big and heavy. 
My husband regards these exercises with more of a gentle briskness. “Thanks mate” he’ll say in his usual tone of voice, excising my white lie. In this, I’ve learnt, my husband is typical of other men. In a 2015 study led by Mark VanDam, a professor in the Speech and Hearing Sciences department at Washington State University Spokane, researchers outfitted preschoolers and their parents with recording devices to monitor social interactions over the course of a normal day. The mothers, they found:
… used higher pitch and varied their pitch more when interacting with their child than with adults. The fathers, on the other hand, did not show the same pattern, and instead talked to their children using intonation patterns more like when they talked to other adults.
As an instinctive speaker of so-called ‘motherese’ – that is, baby talk – I find that when our son mispronounces a word (‘tawtah’ for ‘water’ or ‘mulack’ for ‘milk’) I will automatically echo it back to him, while my husband will automatically respond with the correct pronunciation. These differences persist despite the fact that we share childcare almost exactly equally within our family. 
It turns out we’re not alone in this sex difference, and that it may well have some adaptive purpose. "We think that maybe fathers are doing things that are conducive to their children's learning but in a different way,” writes VanDam, “the parents are complementary to their children's language learning.” Mothers speak down to children, while fathers speak to them like equals – in combination, these two kinds of stimuli promote the development of adult language. 
The adoption of motherese is an instinct that, in its correct context, is both comforting and developmentally useful. But it can also, in some circumstances, be dysfunctional. And, as I have become more and more fluent in it, I have started to notice that motherese is no longer confined to the nursery or the classroom, but is now to be found also in public life. Not in its full expression – “have you got a boo-boo, honey?” – but in a more subtle form. 
I heard a lot of motherese, for instance, in the responses to philosopher Kathleen Stock’s appearance this week at the Oxford Union – a political event considered significant enough to attract commentary from the Prime Minister and rolling updates on the homepages of several national newspapers.
Students at risk of being traumatised by Stock’s mild-mannered, centre-left brand of politics were ushered towards ‘welfare rooms’ offering ear plugs, bottles of water, and snacks. “The Union has made the choice to amplify a voice that actively harms trans students, trans people and the trans community at large” wrote one student politician, “we’re tired of [the Union’s] refusal to listen to the communities they hurt” insisted another. It was as if Stock was a rampaging bully on the playground, knocking other children to the ground, and her critics were leaping to the defence of the persecuted toddlers. 
Witnessing the backlash against her, you’d never guess that Stock’s only sin is to offer a careful academic critique of the doctrine of gender identity – that is, the claim that one can become a member of the opposite sex (or some other identity category in between) merely by force of will. As she reiterated in her Oxford Union speech, to reject this doctrine is not to deny the humanity of trans people, but rather to balance their interests against those of other people, particularly women. 
But I am by no means the first to notice an unexpected feature of the crowds that formed outside the Oxford Union this week, and indeed all of the crowds that congregate in support of trans activism (now a regular occurrence, and not just in the Anglosphere). While the occasional acts of outright aggression are overwhelmingly committed by men, the crowds in general are mostly composed of young women. 
Polling reveals this to be a wider pattern. In the UK, women – and particularly young women – are far more supportive of trans activism than are their male counterparts. The same gap can be seen in US polling. The public figures who have received the most flak for their criticisms of trans activism are disproportionately women – I’m thinking not only of Kathleen Stock, but also of JK Rowling – and yet so, too, are the movement’s most devoted allies. This is, in the main, an intra-female conflict. 
But if trans activism poses a threat to women’s interests – as Stock and Rowling insist that it does – then why have so many women come out in support of it? I want to propose two explanations for this seeming paradox. 
Firstly, in socioeconomic terms, the women who have the most to lose from the disintegration of female-only spaces – prisoners and domestic abuse victims, for instance – are not actually the same women who are draping themselves in blue and pink flags outside the Oxford Union. This is a textbook example of what Rob Henderson has termed a ‘luxury belief’ – an idea that confers status on the rich, while causing harm to the poor. 
But then I am begging the question, because why on earth would trans activism confer status on the rich, or indeed anyone? This is where we come to the second factor: the extraordinarily well-documented differences in personality that have been observed between male and female populations cross-culturally. 
Note that there is a crucial distinction to be drawn between average and absolute differences. It is not true that all men or all women exhibit only masculine or feminine personality traits, in the same way that not all women are short and not all men are tall – rather, average differences between the sexes are obvious only at the population level. 
One trait on which men and women differ substantially is agreeableness. To put it bluntly, women are usually nicer than men – that is, they are “more nurturing, tenderminded, and altruistic more often and to a greater extent than men,” as psychologist Professor Yanna Weisberg puts it. 
This nurturing instinct often finds its way into polling on political questions. For instance, a typical study from 2017 asked 3,014 college students the following question: “If you had to choose, which do you think is more important, a diverse and inclusive society or protecting free speech rights.” 61% of male students chose to prioritise free speech, compared with only 35% of female students – exactly what you would expect from two populations that differ in this most crucial of traits.  
Don’t think that I’m bashing agreeableness per se –  it’s one of those personality traits that really does offer advantages and disadvantages all along the spectrum. Disagreeable people are often rude, but they can also be refreshingly honest; agreeable people are often pleasant, but they are easily taken advantage of. Think of agreeableness as motherese: soothing and lovely in the right circumstances, cloying and foolish in the wrong ones.  
The problems arise when an agreeable style of politics gloms onto a group that seems to offer plentiful opportunities for babying. Right now, it is trans people who have found themselves in the hot seat (or the high chair). For just one example of this babying tendency in action, observe the progressive response when then-66 year old Caitlyn Jenner came out as trans (a response parodied exquisitely in a South Park episode titled ‘Stunning and Brave’). When Glamour honoured Jenner as the magazine’s 2015’ Woman of the Year' – despite the fact that Jenner had not yet lived as a woman for a full year – I couldn’t help but hear the high pitched notes of motherese (“you look so pretty sweetie”, “well done that was very brave.”) 
Observe, too, the trans celebrity Dylan Mulvaney’s recent appearance on Drew Barrymore’s talkshow, which culminated with Barrymore kneeling on the ground, looking Mulvaney straight in the eye, and offering a heartfelt pep talk on self-love. Some gender critical feminists looked at this scene and saw a woman prostrating herself before a man. What I saw was a mother kneeling down to reassure a young child – for some bizarre reason, Barrymore was speaking motherese to a grown adult on national TV. 
At the risk of stating the obvious, trans people are not babies. Nor are they pets. They do not need earplugs and snacks to withstand an academic discussion, and they do not need to be spoken to like toddlers. Real two-year-olds may benefit from the gentleness of motherese. The rest of us need to grow up.
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Women are more likely than men to say a trans women should be able to enter a women’s refuge, favouring this by a 36-32 margin while men oppose it 40 to 30. In fact, across all 6 questions pertaining to the trans issue (Stock, Rowling, refuges, gender identity, pronouns, teaching biological sex), women are significantly more supportive of the trans rights position even when ideology is taken into account. Women even exceed LGBT identifiers in their support for the pro-trans position on many questions.
Why? Is this not against the female interest? The likely answer is that women are more likely to be cultural leftists than men across most of the 25 attitudinal items in the survey. The inclination to empathise and care for groups perceived as vulnerable best accounts for the pattern. The result of the empathy dynamic is that the gender-critical feminist position, while intellectually prominent, is still a contested view among women. Indeed, the largest source of opposition to greater trans access to women’s spaces comes from cultural conservatives.
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This isn't a war between men and women, as some would like to assert.
It's really a war between different denominations of feminism. Like Catholicism vs Protestantism. Or Sunni vs Shi'a Islam.
One thing that's hilarious and worth pointing out: gender-critical feminists will sometimes say things along the lines of, well that agreeableness was socialized into women by "the patriarchy" to make them compliant. Which means they're denying the same evolved sex-based differences that they started off defending. Like claiming to be a Catholic while denying transubstantiation.
Either sex-differences are real, and can explain different participation rates in physics and kindergarten teaching, different career priorities and trajectories (and thus, the mythical "pay gap") and different work patterns as readily as they explain differences in swimming, cycling and weight-lifting performance, making "the patriarchy" as unnecessary as a god is to the existence of the universe... or they're not, and the gender-critical argument goes up in smoke in the flames of social constructivism. God can't be both good and unknowable.
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scifigeneration · 1 year ago
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From the Moon’s south pole to an ice-covered ocean world, several exciting space missions are slated for launch in 2024
by Ali M. Bramson, Assistant Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University
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The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample from an asteroid and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission exploring the lunar south pole, and 2024 is shaping up to be another exciting year for space exploration.
Several new missions under NASA’s Artemis plan and Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative will target the Moon.
The latter half of the year will feature several exciting launches, with the launch of the Martian Moons eXploration mission in September, Europa Clipper and Hera in October and Artemis II and VIPER to the Moon in November – if everything goes as planned.
I’m a planetary scientist, and here are six of the space missions I’m most excited to follow in 2024.
1. Europa Clipper
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NASA will launch Europa Clipper, which will explore one of Jupiter’s largest moons, Europa. Europa is slightly smaller than Earth’s Moon, with a surface made of ice. Beneath its icy shell, Europa likely harbors a saltwater ocean, which scientists expect contains over twice as much water as all the oceans here on Earth combined.
With Europa Clipper, scientists want to investigate whether Europa’s ocean could be a suitable habitat for extraterrestrial life.
The mission plans to do this by flying past Europa nearly 50 times to study the moon’s icy shell, its surface’s geology and its subsurface ocean. The mission will also look for active geysers spewing out from Europa.
This mission will change the game for scientists hoping to understand ocean worlds like Europa.
The launch window – the period when the mission could launch and achieve its planned route – opens Oct. 10, 2024, and lasts 21 days. The spacecraft will launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and arrive at the Jupiter system in 2030.
2. Artemis II launch
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The Artemis program, named after Apollo’s twin sister in Greek mythology, is NASA’s plan to go back to the Moon. It will send humans to the Moon for the first time since 1972, including the first woman and the first person of color. Artemis also includes plans for a longer-term, sustained presence in space that will prepare NASA for eventually sending people even farther – to Mars.
Artemis II is the first crewed step in this plan, with four astronauts planned to be on board during the 10-day mission.
The mission builds upon Artemis I, which sent an uncrewed capsule into orbit around the Moon in late 2022.
Artemis II will put the astronauts into orbit around the Moon before returning them home. It is currently planned for launch as early as November 2024. But there is a chance it will get pushed back to 2025, depending on whether all the necessary gear, such as spacesuits and oxygen equipment, is ready.
3. VIPER to search for water on the Moon
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VIPER, which stands for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, is a robot the size of a golf cart that NASA will use to explore the Moon’s south pole in late 2024.
Originally scheduled for launch in 2023, NASA pushed the mission back to complete more tests on the lander system, which Astrobotic, a private company, developed as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
This robotic mission is designed to search for volatiles, which are molecules that easily vaporize, like water and carbon dioxide, at lunar temperatures. These materials could provide resources for future human exploration on the Moon.
The VIPER robot will rely on batteries, heat pipes and radiators throughout its 100-day mission, as it navigates everything from the extreme heat of lunar daylight – when temperatures can reach 224 degrees Fahrenheit (107 degrees Celsius) – to the Moon’s frigid shadowed regions that can reach a mind-boggling -400 F (-240 C).
VIPER’s launch and delivery to the lunar surface is scheduled for November 2024.
4. Lunar Trailblazer and PRIME-1 missions
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NASA has recently invested in a class of small, low-cost planetary missions called SIMPLEx, which stands for Small, Innovative Missions for PLanetary Exploration. These missions save costs by tagging along on other launches as what is called a rideshare, or secondary payload.
One example is the Lunar Trailblazer. Like VIPER, Lunar Trailblazer will look for water on the Moon.
But while VIPER will land on the Moon’s surface, studying a specific area near the south pole in detail, Lunar Trailblazer will orbit the Moon, measuring the temperature of the surface and mapping out the locations of water molecules across the globe.
Currently, Lunar Trailblazer is on track to be ready by early 2024.
However, because it is a secondary payload, Lunar Trailblazer’s launch timing depends on the primary payload’s launch readiness. The PRIME-1 mission, scheduled for a mid-2024 launch, is Lunar Trailblazer’s ride.
PRIME-1 will drill into the Moon – it’s a test run for the kind of drill that VIPER will use. But its launch date will likely depend on whether earlier launches go on time.
An earlier Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission with the same landing partner was pushed back to February 2024 at the earliest, and further delays could push back PRIME-1 and Lunar Trailblazer.
5. JAXA’s Martian Moon eXploration mission
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While Earth’s Moon has many visitors – big and small, robotic and crewed – planned for 2024, Mars’ moons Phobos and Deimos will soon be getting a visitor as well. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, has a robotic mission in development called the Martian Moon eXploration, or MMX, planned for launch around September 2024.
The mission’s main science objective is to determine the origin of Mars’ moons. Scientists aren’t sure whether Phobos and Deimos are former asteroids that Mars captured into orbit with its gravity or if they formed out of debris that was already in orbit around Mars.
The spacecraft will spend three years around Mars conducting science operations to observe Phobos and Deimos. MMX will also land on Phobos’ surface and collect a sample before returning to Earth.
6. ESA’s Hera mission
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Hera is a mission by the European Space Agency to return to the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system that NASA’s DART mission visited in 2022.
But DART didn’t just visit these asteroids, it collided with one of them to test a planetary defense technique called “kinetic impact.” DART hit Dimorphos with such force that it actually changed its orbit.
The kinetic impact technique smashes something into an object in order to alter its path. This could prove useful if humanity ever finds a potentially hazardous object on a collision course with Earth and needs to redirect it.
Hera will launch in October 2024, making its way in late 2026 to Didymos and Dimorphos, where it will study physical properties of the asteroids.
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jcmarchi · 18 days ago
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Street smarts
New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/street-smarts/
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Dozens of major research labs dot the streets of Kendall Square, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, neighborhood in which MIT partially sits. But for Andres Sevtsuk’s City Form Lab, the streets of Kendall Square themselves, and those in other cities, are subjects for research.
Sevtsuk is an associate professor of urban science and planning at MIT and a leading expert in urban form and spatial analysis. His work examines how the design of built environments affects social life within them. The way cities are structured influences whether street-level retail commerce can thrive, whether and how much people walk, and how much they encounter each other face to face.
“City environments that allow us to get more things done on foot tend to not only make people healthier, but they are more sustainable in terms of emissions and energy use, and they provide more social encounters between different members of society, which is fundamental to democracy,” Sevtsuk says.
However, many things Sevtsuk studies do not come with much pre-existing data. While some aspects of cities are studied extensively — vehicle traffic, for instance — fewer people have studied how urban planning affects walking and cycling, which most city governments seek to increase. 
To counter this trend, several years ago Sevtsuk and some research assistants began studying foot traffic in several cities, as well as Kendall Square — how much people walk, where they go, and why. Most urban walking trips are destination-driven: People go to offices, eateries, and transit stops. But a lot of pedestrian activity is also recreational and social, such as sitting in a square, people-watching, and window-shopping. Eventually Sevtsuk emerged with an innovative model of pedestrian activity, which is based around these spatial networks of interaction and calibrated to observed people counts.
He and his colleagues then scaled up their model and took it to major cities around the world, starting with the whole downtown of Melbourne, Australia. The model now includes detailed street characteristics — sidewalk dimensions, the presence of ground floor businesses, landscaping, and more — and Sevtsuk has also helped apply it to Beirut and, most recently, New York City.
The project is typical of Sevtsuk’s research, which creates new ways to bring data to urban design. In 2023, Sevtsuk and his colleagues also released a novel open-source tool, called TILE2NET, to automatically map city sidewalks from aerial imagery. He has even studied interactions on the MIT campus, in a 2022 paper quantifying how spatial relatedness between departments and centers affects communications among them.
“Applying spatial analytics to city design is timely today because when it comes to cutting carbon emissions and energy consumption, or improving public health, or supporting local business on city streets, they relate to how cities are configured,” Sevtsuk says. “Urban designers have historically not been very focused on quantifying those effects. But studying these dynamics can help us understand how social interactions in cities work and how proposed interventions may impact a community.”
For his research and teaching, Sevtsuk received tenure at MIT earlier this year.
Growing and living in cities
Sevtsuk is originally from Tartu, Estonia, where his experiences helped attune him to the street life of cities.
“I do think where I come from enhanced my interest in urban design,” Sevtsuk says. “I grew up in public housing. That very much framed my appreciation for public amenities. Your home was where you slept, but everything else, where you played as a child or found cultural entertainment as a teenager, was in the public sphere of the city.”
Initially interested in studying architecture, Sevtsuk received a BArch degree from the Estonian Academy of Arts, then a BArch from the Ecole d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires, in Paris. Over time, he became increasingly interested in city design and planning, and enrolled as a master’s student at MIT, earning his SMArchS degree in 2006 while studying how technology could help us better understand urban social processes.
“MIT had a very strong research orientation for even masters-level students,” Sevtsuk says. “It is famous for that. I came because I was drawn to the opportunity to get hands-on into research around city design.”
Sevtsuk stayed at MIT for his doctoral studies, earning his PhD in 2010, with the late William Mitchell as his principal advisor. “Bill was interested in the influence of technology on cities,” says Sevtsuk, who appreciated the wide-ranging intellectual milieu that sprang up around Mitchell. “A lot of fascinating and intellectually experimental people gravitated around Bill.”
With his PhD in hand, Sevtstuk then joined an MIT collaboration at the new Singapore University of Technology and Design, a couple of years after it first opened.
“That was a lot of fun, building a new university, and we were teaching the first cohort and first courses,” Sevtsuk says. “It was an exciting project.”
Living in Asia also helped open doors for some hands-on research in Singapore and Indonesia, where Sevtsuk worked with city governments and the World Bank on urban planning and design projects in several cities.
“There was not a lot of data, and yet we had to think about how spatial analyses could be deployed to support planning decisions,” Sevtsuk says. “It forced you to think how to apply methods without abundant data in the traditional sense. In retrospect some of the software around pedestrian modeling we developed was influenced by these constraints, from understanding the minimum data inputs needed to capture people’s mobility dynamics in a neighborhood.”
From Melbourne to the Infinite Corridor
Returning to the U.S., Sevtsuk took a faculty position at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2015. He then joined the MIT faculty in 2019.
Throughout his career, Sevtsuk’s projects have consistently added insight to existing data or created all-new repositories of data for wider use. His team’s work in Melbourne leveraged a rare case of a city with copious pedestrian data of its own. There, Sevtsuk found the model not only explained foot traffic patterns but could also be used to forecast how changes in the built environment, such as new development projects, could affect foot traffic in different parts of the city.
In Beirut, the modeling work on improving community streets is part of post-disaster recovery after the Beirut port explosion of 2020. In New York, Sevtsuk and his colleagues are studying the largest pedestrian network in the U.S., covering all five boroughs of the city. The TILE2NET project, meanwhile, provides information for planners and experts in an area — sidewalk mapping — which most places do not have data on either.
When it came to studying the MIT campus, Sevtsuk brought new a new approach to a subject with an Institute legacy: An earlier campus professor, Thomas Allen of the MIT Sloan School of Management, did pioneering research about workspace design and collaboration. Sevtsuk and his team, however, looked at the larger campus as a network.
Linking spatial relations and email communication, they found that not only does the level of interaction between MIT departments and labs increase when those units are spatially closer to each other, but it also increases when their members are more likely to walk past each other’s offices on their daily routes to work or when they patronize the same eateries on campus.
Urban design for the people
Sevtsuk thinks about his own work as being not just data-driven but part of a larger refashioning of the field of urban design. In American cities, urban design may still be associated with the large-scale redevelopment of neighborhoods that took place in the first few postwar decades: massive freeways tearing through cities and dislocating older business districts, and large housing and office projects undertaken in the name of modernization and tax revenue increases but not in the interests of existing residents and workers. Many of these projects were disastrous for urban communities.
By the 1960s and 1970s, urban planning programs around the country attempted to quell the inadequacy of large-scale urban design and instead focused on the social and economic needs of communities first. The role of urban design was somewhat sidelined in this transition. But instead of giving up on urban design as a tool for community improvement, Sevtsuk thinks that planning and urban design research can help uncover the important ways in which design can support communities in their daily lives as much as community development initiatives and policies can.
“There was a turn in the field of planning away from urban design as a central area of focus, toward more sociologically grounded community-driven approaches,” Sevtsuk says. “And for good reasons. But during these decades, some of the most anti-urban, car-oriented, and resource-intensive built environments in the U.S. were created, which we now need to deal with.”
He adds: “In my work I try to quantify effects of urban design on people, from mobility outcomes, to generating social encounters, to supporting small local businesses on city streets. In my research group we try to connect urban design back to the qualities that people and communities care about. Faced with the profound climate challenges today, we must better understand the influence of urban design on society — on carbon emissions, on health, on social exchange, and even on democracy, because it’s such a critical dimension.”
A dedicated teacher, Sevtsuk works with students with broad backgrounds and interests from across the Institute. One of his main classes, 11.001 (Introduction to Urban Design and Development), draws students from many departments — including computer science, civil engineering, and management — who want to contribute to sustainable and equitable cities. He also teaches an applied class on modeling pedestrian activity, and his research group draws students and researchers from many countries.
“What resonates with students is that when we look closely at the complex organized systems of cities, we can make sense of how they work,” Sevtsuk says. “But we can also figure out how to change them, how to nudge them toward collective improvement. And many MIT students are eager to mobilize their amazing technical skills towards that quest.”
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tallmantall · 7 months ago
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James Donaldson on Mental Health - Teenage suicide is not easy to talk about, but teenagers need us to listen
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By: Hannah Urban NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Talking about suicide, specifically when it’s your teenager, is not something that is easy, which I found out quickly when trying to find people to talk to about it. No one was willing to talk to me about their experience, even anonymously. It can have a lot of stigma around it, as Dr. Alex Bettis, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences at Vanderbilt, explains. “I think when we think about suicide it can be this really scary topic with teens,” she said. “It can be uncomfortable for people to talk about the fact that a kid might think about killing themselves or hurting themselves in some way.” But for years, it has been an increasing struggle. Since 2017, the number of Tennessee high schoolers who considered attempting or actually attempted suicide has only gone up, according to the State of the Child report from 2023. In 2017, 8.3% of high school students reported attempting suicide. In 2021, the number rose to 13.4%. In 2023, 78% of mental health treatment facilities served teenagers ages 13 to 17. Where is this increase coming from?  Bettis offered three possibilities, based on research and on her experience with teens. Stress, added stress from the digital world, and an increase in teenagers who are willing to speak up about their experiences with mental health. Navigating everyday pressures — school, relationships, friendships, parents, caregivers — can make teens more vulnerable to anxiety and depression, Bettis said. Sometimes, when a teenager has a stressful encounter with another person, there is a bigger risk for suicidal thoughts afterwards. And the digital world may be enhancing these stressful interactions, Bettis thinks. “Maybe you have a kid who is getting bullied in person at school, but then they go home and they might not really get a break from that, because they are also getting bullied online. Kids can’t quite disconnect from some of those interpersonal things as easily as we could in my generation,” she said. Though there are no statistics behind it, Bettis thinks another possible reason for why there is an increase is just that more kids are willing to talk about their experiences. She credits them with a lot of bravery for being so open about mental health. “I think young people are the ones who are leading the charge. I think they are fearless in talking about mental health, and I think that’s such a shift. It’s really wonderful to see a generation of kids who want to prioritize mental health,” she said. If you have struggled with mental health and want to share your story, I want to hear from you. Please email me at [email protected] #James Donaldson notes:Welcome to the “next chapter” of my life… being a voice and an advocate for #mentalhealthawarenessandsuicideprevention, especially pertaining to our younger generation of students and student-athletes.Getting men to speak up and reach out for help and assistance is one of my passions. Us men need to not suffer in silence or drown our sorrows in alcohol, hang out at bars and strip joints, or get involved with drug use.Having gone through a recent bout of #depression and #suicidalthoughts myself, I realize now, that I can make a huge difference in the lives of so many by sharing my story, and by sharing various resources I come across as I work in this space.  #http://bit.ly/JamesMentalHealthArticleFind out more about the work I do on my 501c3 non-profit foundationwebsite www.yourgiftoflife.org Order your copy of James Donaldson's latest book,#CelebratingYourGiftofLife: From The Verge of Suicide to a Life of Purpose and Joy www.celebratingyourgiftoflife.com Link for 40 Habits Signupbit.ly/40HabitsofMentalHealth If you'd like to follow and receive my daily blog in to your inbox, just click on it with Follow It. Here's the link https://follow.it/james-donaldson-s-standing-above-the-crowd-s-blog-a-view-from-above-on-things-that-make-the-world-go-round?action=followPub What can we learn from the teenagers Bettis works with? “Every time I meet with a kid, there is always something you can connect on. Even in the midst of being in the hospital, a really horribly scary time, they also have a sense of humor, they’re making jokes… remembering that human piece of things, that people are much more than a mental health diagnosis — that’s really a good grounding reminder.” Bettis works with psychiatrically hospitalized kids and kids who are in partial hospitalization programs. Meaning, kids who are admitted to inpatient services because of concerns that they have done something to hurt themselves, or kids aren’t able to go to school because mental health is getting in the way of day-to-day tasks. She sees a lot of teenagers who are in deep pain, and says what they often want adults to understand is that they just want it to go away. “They are hurting, and what happens is this thought about escaping becomes a solution in their mind. What they want is for the pain to end, what they want is to feel better,” she said. “I think remembering that in the thick of all the heavy stuff these are just kids and they are doing the best they can… and that It’s our job as the adults in the picture and the providers in the picture to really show up and support them and show that we care.” Resources available For parents who feel like their child may be experiencing suicidal thoughts, there are several resources to help understand how to talk about it or bring it up. Bettis shared a list with me. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention:Teens and suicide: what parents should know — https://www.apa.org/topics/suicide/talking-teens.pdf American Psychological Association:Talking to teens, suicide prevention — https://www.apa.org/topics/suicide/talking-teens.pdf International Association for Suicide Prevention:helpful crisis resources and some tips on how to support someone in crisis —https://www.iasp.info/suicidalthoughts The Child Mind Institute:What to do if you're worried about suicide — https://childmind.org/article/youre-worried-suicide/ There is a 988 suicide crisis hotline that is available 24/7 to anyone who needs help, as well as a crisis text line where all you have to do is text HOME to 741741 to connect with a volunteer crisis counselor. Read the full article
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Fostering research, careers, and community in materials science
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Gabrielle Wood, a junior at Howard University majoring in chemical engineering, is on a mission to improve the sustainability and life cycles of natural resources and materials. Her work in the Materials Initiative for Comprehensive Research Opportunity (MICRO) program has given her hands-on experience with many different aspects of research, including MATLAB programming, experimental design, data analysis, figure-making, and scientific writing.
Wood is also one of 10 undergraduates from 10 universities around the United States to participate in the first MICRO Summit earlier this year. The internship program, developed by the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), first launched in fall 2021. Now in its third year, the program continues to grow, providing even more opportunities for non-MIT undergraduate students — including the MICRO Summit and the program’s expansion to include Northwestern University.
“I think one of the most valuable aspects of the MICRO program is the ability to do research long term with an experienced professor in materials science and engineering,” says Wood. “My school has limited opportunities for undergraduate research in sustainable polymers, so the MICRO program allowed me to gain valuable experience in this field, which I would not otherwise have.”
Like Wood, Griheydi Garcia, a senior chemistry major at Manhattan College, values the exposure to materials science, especially since she is not able to learn as much about it at her home institution.
“I learned a lot about crystallography and defects in materials through the MICRO curriculum, especially through videos,” says Garcia. “The research itself is very valuable, as well, because we get to apply what we’ve learned through the videos in the research we do remotely.”
Expanding research opportunities
From the beginning, the MICRO program was designed as a fully remote, rigorous education and mentoring program targeted toward students from underserved backgrounds interested in pursuing graduate school in materials science or related fields. Interns are matched with faculty to work on their specific research interests.
Jessica Sandland ’99, PhD ’05, principal lecturer in DMSE and co-founder of MICRO, says that research projects for the interns are designed to be work that they can do remotely, such as developing a machine-learning algorithm or a data analysis approach.
“It’s important to note that it’s not just about what the program and faculty are bringing to the student interns,” says Sandland, a member of the MIT Digital Learning Lab, a joint program between MIT Open Learning and the Institute’s academic departments. “The students are doing real research and work, and creating things of real value. It’s very much an exchange.”
Cécile Chazot PhD ’22, now an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University, had helped to establish MICRO at MIT from the very beginning. Once at Northwestern, she quickly realized that expanding MICRO to Northwestern would offer even more research opportunities to interns than by relying on MIT alone — leveraging the university’s strong materials science and engineering department, as well as offering resources for biomaterials research through Northwestern’s medical school. The program received funding from 3M and officially launched at Northwestern in fall 2023. Approximately half of the MICRO interns are now in the program with MIT and half are with Northwestern. Wood and Garcia both participate in the program via Northwestern.
“By expanding to another school, we’ve been able to have interns work with a much broader range of research projects,” says Chazot. “It has become easier for us to place students with faculty and research that match their interests.”
Building community
The MICRO program received a Higher Education Innovation grant from the Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab, part of MIT Open Learning, to develop an in-person summit. In January 2024, interns visited MIT for three days of presentations, workshops, and campus tours — including a tour of the MIT.nano building — as well as various community-building activities.
“A big part of MICRO is the community,” says Chazot. “A highlight of the summit was just seeing the students come together.”
The summit also included panel discussions that allowed interns to gain insights and advice from graduate students and professionals. The graduate panel discussion included MIT graduate students Sam Figueroa (mechanical engineering), Isabella Caruso (DMSE), and Eliana Feygin (DMSE). The career panel was led by Chazot and included Jatin Patil PhD ’23, head of product at SiTration; Maureen Reitman ’90, ScD ’93, group vice president and principal engineer at Exponent; Lucas Caretta PhD ’19, assistant professor of engineering at Brown University; Raquel D’Oyen ’90, who holds a PhD from Northwestern University and is a senior engineer at Raytheon; and Ashley Kaiser MS ’19, PhD ’21, senior process engineer at 6K.
Students also had an opportunity to share their work with each other through research presentations. Their presentations covered a wide range of topics, including: developing a computer program to calculate solubility parameters for polymers used in textile manufacturing; performing a life-cycle analysis of a photonic chip and evaluating its environmental impact in comparison to a standard silicon microchip; and applying machine learning algorithms to scanning transmission electron microscopy images of CrSBr, a two-dimensional magnetic material. 
“The summit was wonderful and the best academic experience I have had as a first-year college student,” says MICRO intern Gabriella La Cour, who is pursuing a major in chemistry and dual degree biomedical engineering at Spelman College and participates in MICRO through MIT. “I got to meet so many students who were all in grades above me … and I learned a little about how to navigate college as an upperclassman.” 
“I actually have an extremely close friendship with one of the students, and we keep in touch regularly,” adds La Cour. “Professor Chazot gave valuable advice about applications and recommendation letters that will be useful when I apply to REUs [Research Experiences for Undergraduates] and graduate schools.”
Looking to the future, MICRO organizers hope to continue to grow the program’s reach.
“We would love to see other schools taking on this model,” says Sandland. “There are a lot of opportunities out there. The more departments, research groups, and mentors that get involved with this program, the more impact it can have.”
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Universe Today has investigated the importance of studying impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets, and astrobiology, and what these disciplines can teach both researchers and the public about finding life beyond Earth. Here, we will discuss the fascinating field of solar physics (also called heliophysics), including why scientists study it, the benefits and challenges of studying it, what it can teach us about finding life beyond Earth, and how upcoming students can pursue studying solar physics. So, why is it so important to study solar physics? Dr. Maria Kazachenko, who is a solar astrophysicist and assistant professor in the Astrophysical & Planetary Science Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, tells Universe Today, “Solar physics studies how our Sun works, and our Sun is a star. Stars are building blocks of our Universe.  We are made of stardust. Stars provide energy for life. The Sun is our home star – it affects our life on Earth (space weather, digital safety, astronauts’ safety). Therefore, to be safe we need to understand our star. If we do not take our Sun into account, then sad things could happen. The Sun is the only star where we could obtain high-quality maps of magnetic fields, which define stellar activity. To summarize, studying the Sun is fundamental for our space safety and for understanding the Universe.” The field of solar physics dates to 1300 BC Babylonia, where astronomers documented numerous solar eclipses, and Greek records show that Egyptians became very proficient at predicting solar eclipses. Additionally, ancient Chinese astronomers documented a total of 37 solar eclipses between 720 BC and 480 BC, along with keeping records for observing visible sunspots around 800 BC, as well. Sunspots were first observed by several international astronomers using telescopes in 1610, including Galileo Galilei, whose drawings have been kept to this day. Presently, solar physics studies are conducted by both ground- and space-based telescopes and observatories, including the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope located in Hawai’i and NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, with the latter coming within 7.26 million kilometers (4.51 million miles) of the Sun’s surface in September 2023. But with all this history and scientific instruments, what are some of the benefits and challenges of studying solar physics? Dr. Kazachenko tells Universe Today that some of the scientific benefits of studying solar physics include “lots of observations; lots of science problems to work on; benefits from cross-disciplinary research (stellar physics, exoplanets communities)” with some of the scientific challenges stemming from the need to use remote sensing, sometimes resulting in data misinterpretation. Regarding the professional aspects, Dr. Kazachenko tells Universe Today that some of the benefits include “small and friendly community, large variety of research problems relying on amazing new observations and complex simulations, ability to work on different types of problems (instrumentation, space weather operation, research)” with some of the professional challenges including finding permanent employment, which she notes is “like everywhere in science”. Image of the Sun obtained by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on June 20, 2013, with a solar flare discharging on the left side. (Credit: NASA/SDO) As noted, the study of solar physics involves investigating space weather, which is when the solar wind interacts with the Earth, specifically with our magnetic field, resulting in the beautiful auroras observed in the high northern and southern latitudes. On occasion, the solar wind is strong enough to wreak havoc on satellites and even knock out power grids across the Earth’s surface. This was demonstrated with the Carrington Event on September 1-2, 1859, when fires at telegraph stations were reported across the globe, along with several strong aurora observations, as well. While this event occurred with the Earth’s magnetic field largely deflecting the incoming solar wind, life on this planet could be doomed without our magnetic field protecting us. Therefore, what can solar physics teach us about finding life beyond Earth? Dr. Kazachenko tells Universe Today, “The Sun can tell us about stellar activity, including flares and coronal mass ejections that might be crucial for the creation of life on the planets. How frequent are these flares? How strong could they be? Why are some flares eruptive (leaving the star) and others confined (keeping erupted plasma on the star)? Why do we observe mostly confined flares on other stars? The Sun could also tell us about the science behind the long-term stellar evolution (stellar cycles, stellar dynamo).” Image of a coronal mass ejection being discharged from the Sun. (Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Solar Dynamics Observatory) Like most scientific disciplines, solar physics encompasses researchers from a myriad of backgrounds, including the aforementioned exoplanet communities, but also includes standard physics, astrophysics, computer science, plasma physics, and fluid dynamics, just to name a few. It is through constant collaborative and innovative efforts from these backgrounds that researchers can study not only our own Sun, but suns in other solar systems throughout the cosmos. Therefore, what advice can Dr. Kazachenko offer upcoming students who wish to pursue studying solar physics? “Have fun and work hard,” Dr. Kazachenko tells Universe Today. “Talk to people who work in the field and talk to people you would like to work with. Work on your math and communication skills.” As noted, solar eclipses are an important facet of studying solar physics, as they have been both observed and documented for thousands of years by a myriad of civilizations across the globe. The Holy Grail of eclipses are total solar eclipses, which is when the Moon completely blocks out the Sun, offering solar physicists a rare opportunity to observe and study coronal mass ejections, which Dr. Kazachenko mentions could be vital to the creation of life. The upcoming total solar eclipse that will cross the United States in a couple of months will provide scientists with even greater opportunities to study the Sun’s many attributes, even more than the 2017 total solar eclipse. For this upcoming eclipse, Dr. Kazachenko plans to lead an expedition to Eagle Pass, TX, with the National Solar Observatory’s Education & Public Outreach Team. Image of the total solar eclipse August 21, 2017, above Madras, Oregon. (Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani) “The solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, is around the corner,” Dr. Kazachenko tells Universe Today. “It is a life-changing experience. Not because I am a solar physicist, but because it makes you feel like you are part of the Universe. The best place to see it will be in Texas (e.g. San Antonio, Austin or Dallas).” How will solar physics help us better understand our place in the cosmos in the coming years and decades? Only time will tell, and this is why we science! As always, keep doing science & keep looking up! The post Solar Physics: Why study it? What can it teach us about finding life beyond Earth? appeared first on Universe Today.
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Aditi Mahavidyalaya seeks Assistant Professors; apply online by December 20, 2023.
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Aditi Mahavidyalaya seeks Assistant Professors; apply online by December 20, 2023.
Aditi Mahavidyalaya, a college affiliated with the University of Delhi, is inviting online applications for the position of Assistant Professor in various departments. The appointment is in Academic Pay Level-10, with a salary range of Rs. 57,700-1,82,400 per month. The last date for submitting applications is 20th December 2023 or within 21 days from the date of publication in the Employment News. The online application link is available at https://colrec.uod.ac.in/. Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PWBD) can seek assistance at the college’s help desk for filling out the application form. The college has reserved two posts for Hindi Patrakarita Evam Jansanchar. Any updates or corrections will be posted on the college website. Qualification, publication, and experience details can be found on the University and college websites.
Aditi Mahavidyalaya is inviting online applications for the post of Assistant Professor in various departments.
The last date for application submission is 20.12.2023 or within 21 days from the date of publication.
The web-link for online application submission is https://colrec.uod.ac.in/.
Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PWBD) can seek assistance at the college’s help desk for filling up the form.
The college has vacancies in departments such as Mathematics, Education, Political Science, Geography, Hindi, Home Science, Physical Education, Social Work, EVS, Economics, and Commerce.
Two posts are reserved for Hindi Patrakarita Evam Jansanchar as per the roster.
Any addendum or corrigendum will be posted on the college website.
The details regarding qualification, publications, experience, screening guidelines, and indicative proforma are available on the university and college websites.
Aditi Mahavidyalaya is Hiring Assistant Professors
Online applications are invited for the post of Assistant Professor.
Last date for application submission is 20.12.2023 or within 21 days from the date of publication.
The web-link for online application submission is https://colrec.uod.ac.in/.
Assistance for Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PWBD)
PWBD can seek assistance at the college’s help desk for filling up the form.
Vacancies in Various Departments
Mathematics
Education
Political Science
Geography
Hindi
Home Science
Physical Education
Social Work
EVS
Economics
Commerce
Reserved Posts
Two posts reserved for Hindi Patrakarita Evam Jansanchar as per the roster.
Addendum and Corrigendum Information
Any addendum or corrigendum will be posted on the college website.
Qualification and Screening Guidelines
Details regarding qualification, publications, experience, screening guidelines, and indicative proforma are available on the university and college websites.
Apply Now for Assistant Professor Position at Aditi Mahavidyalaya!
Don’t miss the opportunity to join Aditi Mahavidyalaya as an Assistant Professor.
Submit your application before the deadline.
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Fwd: Job: NorthernArizonaU.PlantEvolution
Begin forwarded message: > From: [email protected] > Subject: Job: NorthernArizonaU.PlantEvolution > Date: 18 November 2023 at 06:07:36 GMT > To: [email protected] > > > Assistant Professor, Botany #607593 > > > Job Description: > The Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Arizona University > serves more than 2,500 undergraduate majors across six bachelor-degree > programs. The department has more than 100 students enrolled in graduate > programs, both at the MS and PhD levels. With a strong tradition of > teacher-scholars, the Department of Biological Sciences has research > strengths in many areas of Biology, including Physiology, Ecology, > Evolution, and Ecosystems Science, and Microbiology. The Deaver Herbarium > is a nationally recognized research collection housing >130,000 plant > specimens collected from 55 countries and from regional tribal and federal > lands. All specimens have been added to the Southwestern Environmental > Information Network web portal. Located in Flagstaff, Arizona at an > elevation of 7,000 feet, Northern Arizona University allows unparalleled > access to a variety of life zones and ecosystems on the Colorado Plateau. > > Individuals are invited to apply for a tenure-track Assistant Professor > of Botany/Plant Evolution in the Department of Biological Sciences at > Northern Arizona University (NAU). We are seeking an individual with > the expertise to serve as curator of the Deaver Herbarium and with > related research interests in botany and plant evolution including the > integration of genomic methods. Successful candidates will be expected > to contribute to the BS, MS, and PhD programs in the Biological Sciences > through teaching undergraduate and graduate-level classes in disciplines > including botany, taxonomy, systematics, evolution, and genomics. > > Successful candidates should demonstrate a strong commitment to effective > undergraduate teaching utilizing inclusive, data-driven pedagogies. They > should also exhibit an ability to establish an active and welcoming > research program that centers around the mentoring of NAU undergraduate > and graduate students that leads to peer-reviewed publications. The > ideal candidate will demonstrate a willingness to engage in outreach to > agencies and tribes to promote the university¡¦s mission and values, > and serve on department, college, and university committees as fitting > a tenure-track position. > > Responsibilities Include: > >  *   Offer existing and new classes to support an Ecology and >      Evolutionary Biology BS and the Wildlife Certificate; >  *   Serve as Curator of the Deaver Herbarium which is also home to the >      Navajo Nation plant collection; >  *   Develop a research program in botany/plant evolution; >  *   Obtain external funding to support the herbarium and research; >  *   Participate in service for the department, college, university, >      and discipline. > > Minimum Qualifications: > >  *   PhD with a research emphasis in Botany and/or Plant Evolution. >  *   At least two semesters of teaching at the college/university level >      inclusive of teaching as a graduate student. > > Salary: > Anticipated salary range is $70,000 to $71,053. Annual salary commensurate > with candidate's qualifications and related experience. > > Application Deadline: > Vacancy will remain open until filled.  Applications received before > December 11, 2023 will receive full consideration. > > Please see nau.jobs
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UMass Boston LEND Director of Psychiatry Dr. Kerim Munir awarded the AUCD International Service Award
LEND Director Emeritus Dr. David Helm and Social Worker/ LEND & UCEDD Alumna Beverley Gilligan nominated Dr. Kerim Munir for the AUCD International Service Award. The following blog post is part of David and Beverley’s nomination letter to the AUCD Awards Committee.
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We are proud to announce that Dr. Kerim M. Munir has been awarded the AUCD International Service Award! Dr. Munir is Director of Psychiatry at the ICI’s LEND program (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities) at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Munir has made a huge impact on international perceptions and understanding of people with mental health concerns, autism, and related disabilities. His leadership and work both with international professional organizations, for instance the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), has been instrumental in changing perspectives across the world.
In 1999, there was an earthquake in Turkey following which Dr. Munir traveled to Turkey to provide psychiatric services under UNICEF. In 2000, he presented on the Psychosocial Schools Project Marmara Earthquake UNICEF Recovery Program for Children to an international audience. Since that time, he has made close to 100 international presentations, often supporting and partnering with his international fellows or former mentees.
His understanding and research into comorbidity and social determinants of developmental
psychopathology has led to his leadership roles in a number of international associations and has been the foundation for his multiple National Institutes of Health (NIH) research and training grants.
Dr. Munir has received continuous funding from NIH since 2001, supporting more than 90 international graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to come to Boston for research training in child mental health, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and research ethics. They return to their home countries often for leadership positions and careers in health and research. For example, Dr. Ozgur Oner, one of the first fellows, is now Professor and Head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Bahcesehir University, Faculty of Medicine, and continues to be involved in lecturing, mentoring, and research.
From 2010–2019, Dr. Munir hosted the ‘Research Methods in Ethics & Health Science (RMHS)’ Summer Institute at Koc University in Turkey, where over 300 international fellows and scholars attended, giving them an opportunity to discuss and present their work. In June 2023, Dr. Munir, with the assistance of Professor Daniel Wikler of the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, resumed a modified version of this program for 30 participants in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, continuing the goal of generating and sustaining global mental health and bioethics researchers in high and low- and middle-income countries.
Dr. Munir is also currently a co-Investigator on a Fogarty/NIH RO1 grant ‘Optimizing prevention approaches for children reintegrating from orphanages in Azerbaijan’ with Pl Leyla lsmayliova, University of Chicago, for the grant period 2019–2024. The Site Director in Azerbaijan is Narmin Guliyeva, MD an Associate Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, who was an international fellow in Dr. Munir’s program studying in Boston in 2016.
Thus, for over 20 years Dr. Munir has played a key role in training physicians and psychologists from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and throughout Central Asia.
As noted above, there have been over 90 fellows who have come to this country to study with Dr. Munir and while they reside in Boston for 3–6 months many of these fellows would also join LEND program activities as their schedules permitted. The impact back in their home countries has been enormous and continues to develop. The impact these scholars imparted onto our other long-term LEND fellows was also enlightening.
The list of accomplishments goes on and on, but all indicate Dr. Munir’s international influence in the world of disabilities has been and continues to be substantial.
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Join Saint Leo University Astronomy Club to View Solar Eclipse, Oct. 14
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The Saint Leo University Astronomy Club is hosting an eclipse-viewing event, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturday, October 14. Join Saint Leo University Astronomy Club to View Solar Eclipse, Oct. 14 The public is welcome to join the club to view the solar eclipse — which might be a once-in-a-lifetime experience — on campus at 33701 County Road 52, St. Leo, FL 33574. Serving as Eclipse Ambassadors for NASA are club advisor Dr. Harsha Perera, assistant professor of physics/physical sciences, and undergraduate student Gregory Connelly. “On October 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse will cross North, Central, and South America,” states the NASA website. “Visible in parts of the United States, Mexico, and many countries in South and Central America, millions of people in the Western Hemisphere can experience this eclipse.” The club will provide free solar eclipse glasses while they last to those attending. There will be activities for all ages including decorating eclipse glasses and eclipse demonstrations. Saint Leo’s Astronomy Club also hopes to stream the live eclipse on a big screen. The sun is never completely blocked by the moon during an annular solar eclipse, NASA states “Therefore, during an annular eclipse, it is never safe to look directly at the sun without specialized eye protection designed for solar viewing.” This event will take place in the Bowl area near the Student Community Center. This area is a grassy lakeside space, and those attending will have to walk down a small hill to reach the activities.  Requests for accommodations can be made by emailing [email protected]. For more information, visit https://www.saintleo.edu/about/title-ix#toc-requesting-accommodations. For more information about the event, contact [email protected] or call her office at (352) 588-7408.   About Saint Leo University Saint Leo University is one of the largest Catholic universities in the nation, offering more than 60 undergraduate and graduate-level degree programs and specializations to more than 15,300 students each year. Founded in 1889 in the Benedictine tradition, the private, nonprofit university is known for providing an education to learners of all backgrounds and ages. Saint Leo is regionally accredited and offers a residential campus in the Tampa Bay region of Florida, at education centers, and through an online program for students anywhere. The university is home to more than 104,000 alumni. Learn more at saintleo.edu. Read the full article
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RPSC Recruitment 2023
RPSC Recruitment 2023 : 533 Post for Librarian, PEI and Assistant Professor Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC) has released the notification for the recruitment of for the Post of Librarian, Physical Education Instructor and Assistant Professor Home Science with 533 Vacancies. Candidates can check the eligibility criteria from the official notification and apply Online Between 06…
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Teaching Faculty Jobs 08 July 2023 Announcement & Interview Notification By Faculty Tick
Indian Maritime University Interview For Selection to The Post of Faculty (Marine Engineering) On Contract
Applications are invited from excellent academic record and relevant work experience for recruitment to the Faculty post
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Applications are invited from excellent academic record and relevant work experience for recruitment to the Assistant Professor/ Placement Officer/ HR cum Placement Officer/ Laboratory Assistant / Typist & Office Clerk post
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Best junior colleges in Mumbai 2023-2024
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Junior colleges in Mumbai offer education to students who have finished their 10th grade and educate them in 11 and 12 standards. These schools are affiliated to the state board for Maharashtra's higher secondary education.The list of junior colleges in Mumbai is the best in the country and offers courses such as science, commerce, arts, and vocational education. Students can choose their stream as per their preferences and career.The students who choose to study in the junior colleges in Mumbai have many options for choosing the medium of instruction, such as English, Marathi, Hindi, and other languages.We present here the list of junior colleges in Mumbai that have experienced and well-qualified teaching faculties who are dedicated to working till the bitter end and educating students to be very successful in their lives.They also offer extracurricular activities like sports, arts, debates, community service programmes, and other cultural activities to aid students at all levels of education. Some modern junior colleges may offer other new activities, such as coding, artificial intelligence, and others, to equip students with present knowledge.
The capital city Mumbai is the financial hub of Maharashtra and has a lengthy history in the nation. It is the most populous city in the country and contributes significantly to the Indian economy. The city is home to numerous excellent educational institutions, including many of the best junior colleges in Mumbai that give excellent education and assist students in pursuing higher education. The junior colleges in Mumbai are well-known for their offerings in areas such as science, arts, commerce, and other vocational studies. Let us now look at some of the junior colleges in Mumbai and evaluate their academics, infrastructure, and other aspects.
1.St. Xavier’s College
St. Xavier's College is a famous educational school in the heart of Mumbai, India. In October 2007, the institution applied for academic autonomy. After a review group from the University Grants Commission visited the college in early April 2010, the Commission evaluated the application at its meeting on May 4, 2010. The UGC granted clearance for autonomous status in early June, and the University of Mumbai subsequently recognised the college as autonomous for five years, commencing with the 2010–11 academic year.
2.Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College
Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College was founded in 1938 to meet the educational requirements of the Hindi-speak
ing community. It began as a small primary school, then grew into a full-fledged secondary school, and eventually became one of the best junior colleges in Mumbai. With its strong academic standards, the Hindi Power School has earned a niche among prominent secondary schools in Mumbai and among educational institutions giving Hindi teaching throughout Maharashtra.
3.Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics
Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics is also known as NM College. It was established in 1964 with the affiliation of Mumbai University and offers courses in commerce and economics. NM College is recognised as one of the best junior colleges in Mumbai for its excellent contribution to education. Its experienced faculties and well-designed curriculum provides students with overall development in their lives.
4.Jai Hind College
Jai Hind College, Churchgate, Mumbai, was founded in 1948 by a group of former D.J. Sind College, Karachi, professors and other eminent educationists under the registered name 'Sind Educationists Association' for the educational rehabilitation of the Sindhi community. Starting as a modest two-room institution offering the arts, it quickly expanded to include science in 1949, followed by commerce in 1980. Following the year 2000, the institution began various self-financed and vocational courses and was named one of the best junior colleges in Mumbai.
5.Kishinchand Chellaram College
KC College was founded in 1954 by the Hyderabad (Sindh) National Collegiate Board. The NAAC has reaccredited the college with an A rating in three consecutive cycles. In 2015, the University of Mumbai named it the Best College (Urban Area). The Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, awarded the college Star College Status and the Star Scheme in 2019. The college is supported by the DST (Department of Science and Technology) of the Government of India through the acclaimed FIST programme.
6.H.R. College of Commerce and Economics
HR College has been affiliated with the University of Mumbai since its foundation in 1960 by the HSNC Board. It has been named one of the best junior colleges in Mumbai and has evolved into a fine school of higher learning, notably in commerce. Its renown has spread far and wide, and its students have achieved remarkable success in industry, society, culture, and politics, leaving a distinct mark and presence.
7.Ramnivas Ruia Junior College
Ramnivas Ruia Junior College is one of the branches of Ramnarain Ruia Autonomous College, founded in June 1937 by Pune's Shikshana Prasaraka Mandali. It was the first educational institution administered by a private educational organisation in Mumbai. On December 3, 1937, H.E. Sir Roger Lumley, the then-Governor of Bombay, declared the college formally open. The college, which offers science, arts, and commerce, encourages students to research and innovate. The university offers a variety of activities to provide a holistic education to all students and assist them in becoming caring citizens.
8.K. J. Somaiya College of Arts and Commerce
K.J. Somaiya College is one of the most prestigious colleges on the Somaiya Vidyavihar campus. It is a school for linguistic minorities that is always affiliated with the University of Mumbai. The college is well-known among the best junior colleges in Mumbai for its high educational standards. It features an excellent faculty committed to passing on their skills and knowledge to their pupils. The college offers extracurricular activities such as sports, arts, and cultural events.
9.Wilson College
Wilson College, established in 1832 in Mumbai, is one of the oldest colleges in India. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council gave it an A rating in 2005. The college offers several subjects, such as arts, science, and commerce, and has exceptional faculty with extensive experience in their respective fields. It boasts excellent laboratories, a library, and other facilities, and anyone looking for the best education should consider this college.
The best junior colleges in Mumbai mentioned above have a lengthy history in education and are well-known for other reasons. They all have outstanding faculty, infrastructure, and a positive learning environment. They assist you in your growth and allow pupils to explore their hobbies and skills. Junior colleges also offer a variety of extracurricular activities such as athletics, the arts, and other related activities to help students grow in all aspects. Parents and students can select junior colleges based on their needs and preferences. For more information, go to edustoke.com.
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jcmarchi · 8 months ago
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Fostering research, careers, and community in materials science
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Fostering research, careers, and community in materials science
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Gabrielle Wood, a junior at Howard University majoring in chemical engineering, is on a mission to improve the sustainability and life cycles of natural resources and materials. Her work in the Materials Initiative for Comprehensive Research Opportunity (MICRO) program has given her hands-on experience with many different aspects of research, including MATLAB programming, experimental design, data analysis, figure-making, and scientific writing.
Wood is also one of 10 undergraduates from 10 universities around the United States to participate in the first MICRO Summit earlier this year. The internship program, developed by the MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), first launched in fall 2021. Now in its third year, the program continues to grow, providing even more opportunities for non-MIT undergraduate students — including the MICRO Summit and the program’s expansion to include Northwestern University.
“I think one of the most valuable aspects of the MICRO program is the ability to do research long term with an experienced professor in materials science and engineering,” says Wood. “My school has limited opportunities for undergraduate research in sustainable polymers, so the MICRO program allowed me to gain valuable experience in this field, which I would not otherwise have.”
Like Wood, Griheydi Garcia, a senior chemistry major at Manhattan College, values the exposure to materials science, especially since she is not able to learn as much about it at her home institution.
“I learned a lot about crystallography and defects in materials through the MICRO curriculum, especially through videos,” says Garcia. “The research itself is very valuable, as well, because we get to apply what we’ve learned through the videos in the research we do remotely.”
Expanding research opportunities
From the beginning, the MICRO program was designed as a fully remote, rigorous education and mentoring program targeted toward students from underserved backgrounds interested in pursuing graduate school in materials science or related fields. Interns are matched with faculty to work on their specific research interests.
Jessica Sandland ’99, PhD ’05, principal lecturer in DMSE and co-founder of MICRO, says that research projects for the interns are designed to be work that they can do remotely, such as developing a machine-learning algorithm or a data analysis approach.
“It’s important to note that it’s not just about what the program and faculty are bringing to the student interns,” says Sandland, a member of the MIT Digital Learning Lab, a joint program between MIT Open Learning and the Institute’s academic departments. “The students are doing real research and work, and creating things of real value. It’s very much an exchange.”
Cécile Chazot PhD ’22, now an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University, had helped to establish MICRO at MIT from the very beginning. Once at Northwestern, she quickly realized that expanding MICRO to Northwestern would offer even more research opportunities to interns than by relying on MIT alone — leveraging the university’s strong materials science and engineering department, as well as offering resources for biomaterials research through Northwestern’s medical school. The program received funding from 3M and officially launched at Northwestern in fall 2023. Approximately half of the MICRO interns are now in the program with MIT and half are with Northwestern. Wood and Garcia both participate in the program via Northwestern.
“By expanding to another school, we’ve been able to have interns work with a much broader range of research projects,” says Chazot. “It has become easier for us to place students with faculty and research that match their interests.”
Building community
The MICRO program received a Higher Education Innovation grant from the Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab, part of MIT Open Learning, to develop an in-person summit. In January 2024, interns visited MIT for three days of presentations, workshops, and campus tours — including a tour of the MIT.nano building — as well as various community-building activities.
“A big part of MICRO is the community,” says Chazot. “A highlight of the summit was just seeing the students come together.”
The summit also included panel discussions that allowed interns to gain insights and advice from graduate students and professionals. The graduate panel discussion included MIT graduate students Sam Figueroa (mechanical engineering), Isabella Caruso (DMSE), and Eliana Feygin (DMSE). The career panel was led by Chazot and included Jatin Patil PhD ’23, head of product at SiTration; Maureen Reitman ’90, ScD ’93, group vice president and principal engineer at Exponent; Lucas Caretta PhD ’19, assistant professor of engineering at Brown University; Raquel D’Oyen ’90, who holds a PhD from Northwestern University and is a senior engineer at Raytheon; and Ashley Kaiser MS ’19, PhD ’21, senior process engineer at 6K.
Students also had an opportunity to share their work with each other through research presentations. Their presentations covered a wide range of topics, including: developing a computer program to calculate solubility parameters for polymers used in textile manufacturing; performing a life-cycle analysis of a photonic chip and evaluating its environmental impact in comparison to a standard silicon microchip; and applying machine learning algorithms to scanning transmission electron microscopy images of CrSBr, a two-dimensional magnetic material. 
“The summit was wonderful and the best academic experience I have had as a first-year college student,” says MICRO intern Gabriella La Cour, who is pursuing a major in chemistry and dual degree biomedical engineering at Spelman College and participates in MICRO through MIT. “I got to meet so many students who were all in grades above me … and I learned a little about how to navigate college as an upperclassman.” 
“I actually have an extremely close friendship with one of the students, and we keep in touch regularly,” adds La Cour. “Professor Chazot gave valuable advice about applications and recommendation letters that will be useful when I apply to REUs [Research Experiences for Undergraduates] and graduate schools.”
Looking to the future, MICRO organizers hope to continue to grow the program’s reach.
“We would love to see other schools taking on this model,” says Sandland. “There are a lot of opportunities out there. The more departments, research groups, and mentors that get involved with this program, the more impact it can have.”
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cruz-regina-d-journal · 4 years ago
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07: Goal Digger
When we are talking about goals we usually think of something we want only for ourselves. It’s exciting to think of what you can be in the future and what you will have as well, but sometimes some people tend to forget that we still need to make an action before we get something we want. We keep on saying that we want this and that but we don’t even make a move on how to get it. Honestly, the past “Regina” was like that. My mind focuses only on my desires, and we can relate this to Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory which are the id, ego, and superego. Our id says “I want it now!” as our superego says “You still can’t have it because you don’t have money yet”, they battle around our mind until our ego says “Okay, kids, let’s study well, find work, earn money and buy what we want”. In every goal we have, there is always a process that we need to get into. We can’t have anything in an instant! Even at opening our phone, we still need to wait and do something in order to open it, and that is to press the power button. In life we also have actions like opening the power button, but the thing is we need to open ourselves. We need to step out of our comfort zone and find ways on how to achieve our goals.
Since I was a kid, my parents buy me planners and notebooks because I love writing, drawing and putting my goals in it. I have this one perpetual planner that I still update whenever I want or got something, and it always gives me this wonderful feeling at any time my plans worked or have gotten well than I expected it to be. And today it really took me a long time to know what I want to have; maybe because I feel down due to this pandemic and my family experienced a huge deal of a problem related to this year’s stumbling block which made me worry about my future. Nevertheless, I’m glad that we’re now okay and I finally conquered those mind-boggling thoughts. The pictures here  show my short and long term goals that I’ve been thinking since June 2020. I’m sharing this things to you because I think I will be needing your support and guidance 😁 Let’s bring each other to the top!
SHORT TERM GOALS
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OBJECTIVE 1: Grow a Plant
TIME FRAME: August 28, 2020-October 5, 2020
RESOURCES: Shovel, seed, pot, healthy soil and water
TASKS: 
Choose the right container for your plant and put the healthy soil in it.
Plant the see at the proper depth and water it with a room-temperature water.
Maintain a consistent moisture and keep the soil warm.
Apply fertilizer every week, give the plant enough sunlight and circulate air.
SUCCESS CRITERIA: Be patient and don’t forget your tasks! 
REASON: I’ve been trying to grow a plant since I was in elementary, but I don’t know why they always wilt. I love plants but I don’t think they love me 😢
OBJECTIVE 2: Bond with my Friends and Family
TIME FRAME: March 2020-July 2020
RESOURCES: Love, happiness, understanding and self
TASKS:
Focus your time with them.
Don’t use phones, engage with them through personal interactions
Make them feel loved/important and laugh with them
Always listen to their stories and respond appropriately
Treasure the moment
SUCCESS CRITERIA: Make time with them and don’t forget to enjoy it!
REASON: As I entered college I noticed that I rarely bond with my other friends and my family because I’m studying at Manila during weekdays. I don’t have a free time whenever I go home to Cavite because I use my weekends for doing my school works and sleeping to regain the energy I’ve used during school days. I feel sad that I failed to divide my time for academics and for enjoying life. And now that it’s finally over, I think that this is a great opportunity to recoup my scantiness.
OBJECTIVE 3: Eat Eggs 5x a month
TIME FRAME: August 13, 2020-October 13,2020
RESOURCES: Eggs, pan, plate and utensils
TASKS:
Eat egg once every week.
Ask your family to not cook eggs for you when you’ve eaten once that week.
Avoid eating soft-cooked eggs.
Find an alternative food when tempted.
SUCCESS CRITERIA: Self-regulation
REASON: My asthma will kick me when I eat too much eggs! 😢 I have an allergy for excessive food, and I want to practice myself to eat egg once a week so that I can restrain myself without any trouble or some kind of temptation.
OBJECTIVE 4: Be a Reading Volunteer
TIME FRAME: September 2020-November 2020
RESOURCES: Book, camera and other gadgets
TASKS:
Pick books that have good life lessons
Look for the age recommendation and mention this
Record yourself reading 
Let people see the book you’re currently reading
Put emotions as you read, let your audience feel what the characters in the book are feeling
Engage with them even in a recorded video (ex. asking questions)
Think of a line that will make a great impact to your audience regarding the lesson of the story 
SUCCESS CRITERIA: Enjoy and engage with your audience
REASON: I am a member of PNU Reading Society and I want to officially become a reading volunteer to help students with their lifelong literacy skills that will empower their learning and also to support those people who are falling behind about reading. 
OBJECTIVE 5: Buy new Optical Glasses
TIME FRAME: January 10, 2020: 1:00PM-3:00PM
RESOURCES: Money, optical frame and receipt
TASKS:
Go to Starfinder Optical Shop at SM
Go to SoYou section and look if there’s a discount (if there is)
Choose an optical frame. Keep in mind the shape of the lens you wat and need, and also its weight
Give the chosen frame to the sales rep. and get your waiting number
Wait for your ophthalmologist to call you before you go in the room
When called, sit properly and let the ophthalmologist check you eyes
Perform the said activities
Observe the weight of the lenses 
Make sure that you picked the right graded lenses
Wait for your optical glasses for 1 hour (and so) 
Present your receipt to the sales rep. and wait for him/her to give your glasses with free case
Wear your glasses to see if it’s okay and check if there’s any damages before leaving
Note: Don’t forget to say thank you!
SUCCESS CRITERIA: Be patient, honest and critical thinker
REASON: I need new glasses because my current one is kind of dirty and is not accurate anymore as months pass by. Inaccurate graded lenses will make me suffer to headaches and dizziness making me hard to study and move.
LONG TERM GOALS
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OBJECTIVE 1: Graduate from College
TIME FRAME: July 2019-November 2023
RESOURCES: Perseverance, Time Management and Patience
TASKS: 
Always listen to your professor/speaker
Engage with people around you
Do your tasks correctly as instructed and submit it as soon as possible
Make a to-do list 
Take important notes and organize them all
When there’s an exam, review 2 weeks ahead the test day
Ask questions for clarifications
Join organizations and seminars 
Grab once in a lifetime opportunities
Cry but stand up again when you fail
Believe in yourself 
Dedicate yourself to your course 
SUCCESS CRITERIA: Grit
REASON: Honestly, I want to graduate with latin honors but something struck me and thought that to graduate from college should be my main goal. Honor rolls are just bonuses of your hard work. It is obvious that I want to graduate from college to help my family and give them things that they need and want as well. I want to give them a thank you gift for providing me everything that I needed for years.
OBJECTIVE 2: Open a Business
TIME FRAME: January 2025-January 2029
RESOURCES: Money(Capital), manpower, product/service, promotion, patience, determination and connections
TASKS: 
Think of a business that is unique where many customers will be attracted
Create a solid business plan with your chosen strategy
Make a website or Facebook/Instagram Page about your business
Be approachable to gain customers
Advertise your product/service
When the business grew bigger, register your business name at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
Register with Barangay and present valid IDs
Register your business to your city mayor’s office (LGU)
Register with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)
Remember to always check your financial status
SUCCESS CRITERIA: Patience, Analytical skill, Accounting, Problem Solving and Communication & Negotiation
REASON: I was an ABM student before and I want to make use of my skills to help my family and those people who need financial assistance. Opening a business was also part of my dreams. Not only that it will help me to gain more money for my post-graduate, but I want to invest my small money from my teaching profession to something that I can make use to the present and future. Nevertheless, having a business will not stop me from teaching.
OBJECTIVE 3: Become a Doctor
TIME FRAME: August 2024-November 2028
RESOURCES: Money, grit, school supplies, experiences and books
TASKS:
Look for a medical school (preferably: De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute)
Take the MCAT (Medical College Application Test)
Focus on your studies to be a Psychiatrist
Earn a Doctor of Medicine and complete your residency
SUCCESS CRITERIA: Patience, Empathy, Focus, Practical & Decision-Making Skills and Time Management 
REASON: I had this late bloomer moment. Before entering college I was confused on what I really want to be. Not that I am boasting but I had this mindset before that any courses will do because I thought I can do everything. My top choices are Architecture, Accountancy, Teaching, and Medical. I chose teaching since there’s a time that I became super inspired of my Senior High School professor and I noticed that from the past few years of my life, I never experienced a class with an excellent Filipino teacher who really took a course of Filipino, and that’s why I want to became one. As I became a BFE Student, I still want to pursue my medical dream. I want to be more useful to my people even if it will take me thousand years to be a 100%.
OBJECTIVE 4: Buy a New House
TIME FRAME: July 2024-July 2026
RESOURCES: Money and communication
TASKS:
Know your budget for your house and stick to it. DON’T EXCEED TO YOUR ESTIMATION!
Research subdivisions or areas that are accessible to buy your needs and public transportation
Get prequalified and preapproved for credit for your mortgage
Find a nice and approachable real estate agent
Start touring to subdivisions or areas that you already searched (Make sure to check every detail of the house especially the water and electrical system and always consider the people who will live with you)
Make an offer
After building the house, get a home inspection and check if there are structural damages before transferring (if there are, contact your real estate agent)
Make sure to pay your monthly bill and coordinate your paperwork
SUCCESS CRITERIA: Hard working, Critical Thinking, Observance and Patience
REASON: I don’t want to be dependent of my family’s money and belongings. I want to buy my own place for my family, and if blessed, I am glad to share my payments with my partner to build our new life together. If my parents want to stay with me, I will let them stay there as well, but if they prefer to stay at our old house, then I’ll support for the renovation of our old house. 
OBJECTIVE 5: Live a Healthy Life
TIME FRAME: August 2020-August 2025
RESOURCES: Healthy food and balanced diet
TASKS: 
Be physically active
Eat a healthy rich diet
Drink vitamins
Do yoga and exercises
Make time with friends and focus in the present
SUCCESS CRITERIA: Self-regulation and willingness
REASON: I have a weak body and I want to practice a healthy life until I get used to it and became my normal habit. I am not a fan of junk food but I still think that I’m not living a healthy life today because I refuse to exercise. But now that I noticed that it is important to take care of yourself and we need these kind of things to prevent us from being sick, I finally told myself that I have to change this kind of lifestyle and start to be healthy; not only physically but also mentally.
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