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The month of April, writes Professor Lori Anne Ferrell in a commentary piece in the Los Angeles Times, offers us \”30 days to contemplate anew why this specific art of words holds a location within the collective heart that's unrivaled.\”

In accessory for being National Poetry Month, this April also marks the 25th anniversary from the Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Awards, which is presented Thursday, April 20, in the Los Angeles Public Library to this year's recipients, Vievee Francis and Phillip B. Williams. Ferrell considers this a perfect highpoint for the university as well as for National Poetry Month.

\”At my university we celebrate the month in grand style. We give out two generous poetry awards,\” Ferrell writes in her Times op-ed piece.

Poetry offers a respite, Ferrell continues: “For us, these awards at least start to ensure that, the status of federal funding for the arts and humanities notwithstanding, works of great American poetry will outlast their moment. They provide us the opportunity to recognize poetry at a time when language is being applied roughly and recklessly in public forums across media and the nation, when complicated arguments and crude insults have been reduced to 140-character parodies from the elegant concision and keen insights poetry is known for.”

Francis, the writer of Forest Primeval, has been chosen for the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Award, which recognizes a mid-career poet. For his volume Thief within the Interior, Williams continues to be chosen for that $10,000 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, which honors an emerging poet of promise. In their works, each poet embarks on the bold, vibrant search for race and identity in America. (More information on the winners.)

Ferrell, who can serve as the Tufts awards director, also told the Los Angeles Daily News the Tufts awards \”become a snapshot of where this culture reaches this exact moment.\”

This double coverage-in the pages from the Times and also the Daily News-kicked off a busy week of poetry.

In accessory for Thursday's ceremony in Los Angeles, this week's events include a reading on the CGU campus April 19 with Don Share, Elena Karina Byrne, and Brian Kim Stefans-all accomplished poets. The 3 also served as people in the ultimate judging committee for this year's Tufts awards.

On April 21, a Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry Marathon will be held in the Claremont Colleges' Honnold Library. The event is free of charge and open to the general public.

For a lot of this year's Tufts celebrations and events, visit the Kingsley & Kate Tufts Poetry website.

The federal government considered Mormons so dangerous throughout the late 1800s that Rutherford B. Hayes's administration urged the governments of Europe to avoid members of that religious group from entering america.

In the Twenty-first century, Donald Trump's administration considers Muslims such a \”dangerous threat\” that they are seeking to prevent individuals from the 3 Muslim countries from entering america.

While greater than a century separates these events, the similarities are extremely striking that Claremont Graduate University's Patrick Mason joined other scholars trying to influence a federal court likely to issue a ruling over President Trump's \”Muslim ban.\” Mason, who supports the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at CGU, says the nation's good reputation for discrimination and violence against members of the Church of Jesus of Latter-day Saints provides a cautionary tale at a time once the legitimacy of government action targeting a specific religion is being considered.

\”I don't think any reasonable American could be happy with how the nation treated its Mormon minority within the 19th century, and I for just one want us to pause before pursuing policies that our grandchildren will judge us unkindly for in regard to our treatment of religious minorities in the 21st century,\” said Mason, who also can serve as dean from the School of Arts & Humanities.

Mason is one of 19 scholars of Mormon history who filed a \”friend from the court\” brief this month within the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The court next month will hear arguments for and against Trump's current executive order suspending the admission of refugees and immigrants from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.

The scholars indicate historic cases of government action that targeted Mormons.

Mormons were driven using their homes and communities in multiple states, prompting Brigham Young to guide moving to Utah-then part of Mexican territory-because they deemed america wouldn't protect them like a minority, said Mason, the writer of The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South. In 1838, Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs issued a professional order requiring Mormons to depart the state or be \”exterminated.\” Joseph Smith, the religion's founding prophet, was murdered by an armed mob in 1844.

\”All Americans, no matter their religious or political orientation, ought to be troubled through the management of Latter-day Saints in the 1800s,\” Mason said.

From the 1860s through the 1880s, all three branches of the authorities pursued an organized group of policies designed to curb Mormon energy that eventually resulted in the seizure of the church's temples and other major assets, Mason said. In 1879, Hayes recommended to Congress that Mormons may be stripped from the \”rights and privileges of citizenship.\” That very same year, Secretary of State William Evarts asked several European governments to prevent Mormons from emigrating towards the Usa.

\”It would be a clear illustration of the us government seeking to restrict the immigration of a specific religious group it deemed undesirable and dangerous,\” said Mason, who has written extensively about Mormonism, American religious history, and religion, violence, and peacebuilding.

Mason said a scholarly understanding about Mormon history can inform the present national and international conversation about the current administration's efforts to pick out immigrants from certain Muslim-majority countries.

In January, Trump issued an order temporarily banning individuals from seven countries with largely Muslim populations. An order, which triggered a series of protests across the country, was blocked by a federal appeals court. A brand new, revised order seemed to be blocked by a judge. Judges say the ban violates individuals' First Amendment rights and the Establishment Clause, which prohibits the government from making laws targeting a specific religion.

The court brief has been covered this month by numerous media outlets, including the Washington Post and CNN.

Other scholars who signed the brief include Richard Bushman, a professor emeritus of American history at Columbia University and former CGU faculty; Nathan Oman, a professor of law at William & Mary School; and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning history professor at Harvard University.

\”We're under no delusion our brief would be the decisive element in the court's decision or even the administration's rethinking of their own policies,\” Mason said, \”but we all do need to make the courts, policymakers, and general public conscious that there is a historical precedent that people look back on. Perhaps this lesson from history will a minimum of provide us with pause in the current context before we proceed with policies that target a specific unpopular religious minority.\”

Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle, published in 1906, famously paints a horrific picture of the health violations and unsanitary symptom in the meatpacking industry, specifically in turn-of-the-century Chicago. It would be a sensation, and it catapulted Sinclair to instant celebrity.

But nearly Two decades following the book's publication, study regarding public health in the graduate level was still being in its infancy.

That situation resulted in the 1924 establishment of Delta Omega, the national honorary society for achievements in public health made to recognize outstanding work and promote graduate study within the field.

Delta Omega is definitely thought to be a leader in public health recognition, and with the end of the 2021 -2021 academic year, CGU's School of Community & Global Health (SCGH) inducted 14 sign ups into the prestigious society.

A recognition ceremony for SCGH's members was held in April in the CGU President's House. Welcoming remarks were provided by SCGH Professor Kim Reynolds, and the awards were presented to the 2010 recipients by Program Manager Bree Hemingway. In addition to three graduating students, this year’s inductees included alumni, faculty, and staff.

This year's inductees include Riverside County Executive Officer Jay Orr; professors Paula Palmer and Darleen Peterson; alumni Alicia Alvarado, Lizette Brenes, Alyssa Colunga, Walter Johnson, Yvonne Olivares-Maldonado, Neil Patel, Jonathan Rodriguez, and Jake Ryann Sumibcay (current Delta Omega – Delta Epsilon Chapter President); and current students Angela Lyons, Jordan Riddle, and Jacklyn Samano.

Delta Omega is associated with more than 80 universities around the world and recognizes inductees for his or her academic excellence, possibility of leadership in the field, and resolve for the of public health.

Will the technology that powers driverless cars make us safer-or usher inside a host of cyber threats? What role does attention participate in the quality of human life? How have economic barriers-and opportunities-changed within the rural Southwest in the last quarter-century?

Six Claremont Graduate University professors have been named recipients of prestigious grants which will support research seeking solutions to such pressing questions. The grants will even benefit two CGU students, who'll function as research assistants for one from the projects.

The grants were provided through the Fletcher Jones Foundation, which provided CGU with an endowment fund later to aid faculty research grants of $2,000 to $8,000. Nearly 200 grants happen to be awarded up to now, with four to six grants currently awarded annually.

The grants, alone or combined with other resources, are critical, said Dean Gerstein, vice provost, director of research, and research professor.

\”They have helped new faculty establish their scholarly footing,\” he said. \”They have enabled more established faculty, dealing with graduate research assistants, to open new lines of research. And they have allowed faculty and students whatsoever levels to develop preliminary findings necessary to strengthen the external grant proposals that support extensive research projects.\”

The grant recipients and project descriptions are:

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura
Division of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences
Attention and also the Quality of Human Life

Despite the long‐recognized importance of attentional structures, we still lack a built-in understanding of them. We are still learning, for example, how children develop attentional structures; how attentional structures, once established, influence an increasing child's behavior and future goals; how the allocation of attention determines the young adult's various employment, someone, along with a life-style; and how structures of attention change in adulthood and in old age. We've yet to completely understand how structures of attention bring about optimal functioning or undermine it; or how they change up the structures and institutions of society. In the proposed project, we intend to spend some time integrating existing knowledge on the topic of attention, broadly understood-its development, its neurophysiology, its pathologies, and its optimal deployment. With emerging understandings across disciplines, we hope to supply a solid conceptual base for any compelling transdisciplinary approach to the study and to the understanding of how attention shapes human lives directly, and indirectly through its material products, technological as well as symbolic. We will identify and summarize the literature bearing on the topic, collect qualitative and quantitative survey data to determine basic demographic variations in the formation of attentional structures, investigate how attentional structures connect with optimal human functioning, and model how attentional structures change or are maintained within the life span. Ultimately, we plan to prepare a monograph that synthesizes this conceptual and empirical focus on attention and the quality of human life.

Andrew Marx, Center for Computer & Technology
Melissa Rogers, Division of Politics & Economics
The Changing Role of Devote Rural Economic Mobility: Economic Opportunity and Barriers to Opportunity in the Southwest During the last 25 Years

The rural economic opportunity gap remains a significant economic, social, and political concern in the United States. Top quality jobs along with other economic resources still agglomerate in cities despite technologies that enable communication and collaboration across space. Our research seeks to understand the function of devote American economic mobility over the past 25 years. Specifically, we combine underutilized nightlight satellite imagery in the Defense Satellite Meteorological Program from 1992 to the current by having an integrated dataset of economic chance to describe at a 2.7-square-kilometer spatial resolution how zones of monetary opportunity and barriers to opportunity have changed, or otherwise changed, in Arizona and Boise state broncos. And a peer-reviewed article validating our analytic approach, our findings will be provided in an online spatiotemporal web map of monetary production and mobility in the Southwest.

Hovig Tchalian, Drucker School of Management, with Vern Glaser, University of Alberta, and Jeffrey Green, graduate student, University of Maryland.
Movers and Shapers: Placement, Mediation, and Influence within the Electric Vehicle Industry

The proposed project will complete the 2nd in a three-paper series how new ideas and innovations gain recognition and social acceptance. We address two related questions important to organizational and institutional theory: How can organizations overcome the functional cognitive barriers that chronically emergent categories pose? Are we able to tease out and trace the specific impacts of organizations' promotion efforts in the organic evolution from the categories themselves, regardless of how gradual? Our empirical setting may be the modern Electric Vehicle (EV). We look at two completely different automobile companies and launch strategies: General Motors (GM) and Tesla. Both faced similar, seemingly insurmountable adoption challenges. GM's stable, solidly innovative EV1 didn't meet expectations and was dropped, while Tesla's brash, wildly risky Roadster survived and eventually exceeded expectations, hailing a broader revival from the EV category. Why? We've built a distinctive dataset in excess of 110,000 news reports, trade magazine articles, and press releases regarding the EV category, GM, and Tesla spanning the 30 years from 1985 to 2021. We depend on long-standing Natural Language Processing tools designed for analyzing linguistic and associational patterns in texts, which we supplement with newly developed stochastic tools for analyzing latent themes, known as \”topic modeling.\” We make use of this method of model category creation, stability, and alter. Our approach permits us to trace the discursive \”signatures\” related to each organization, target the introduction and development of specific associational patterns, and develop three critical facets of our analysis: (1) topic similarity, which will help compare GM's strategy against Tesla's; (2) topic coherence, a powerful method for tracking the movement from category emergence to stability; and (3) extent of vertical category orientation, which will help chart the movement from hierarchical to more faceted categorization, which is central to our analysis and theoretical model.

Tamir Bechor with Hengwei Zhang, doctoral candidate, and Leonard Cruz, master's candidate, Center for Information Systems & Technology
Navigating Risks in the Era of Driverless Cars

Society is entering an automotive epoch that will be based on the emergence of self-driving vehicles. This paradigm shift brings both incredible capability and risk as the worlds from the internet and automobiles collide. Former Usa Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx estimated that driverless technology might have saved 25,000 deaths in 2021; but this technology could host another set of threats. This research will use design research methodology to synthesize data on governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) frameworks and apply it to standards, laws, regulations, compliance, and research all around the cyber security of autonomous vehicles. We have the next objectives: (a) map trends and commonalities of current research and regulations for autonomous cars; (b) offer an in-depth analysis of regulations associated with autonomous cars in the usa and also the Eu; (c) develop and validate a flexible GRC framework to guide making decisions to mitigate possible cyber security risks.

Running a huge city like La means asking plenty of questions: Does public art near public venues possess a measurable impact? How can LA monitor and enhance the way city streets are paved and maintained? If the finance department reconsider the actual way it audits business taxes?

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CISAT alumna Jeanne Holm '01, the senior technology advisor to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, created Los Angeles' Data Science Federation, an initiative that pairs universities with city departments thinking about using predictive models and analysis to help them address problems in the nation's second most-populous city.

This past spring, Professors Yan Li and Lorne Olfman and 21 students-all from CISAT aside from one in the Drucker School of Management and something from Keck Graduate Institute-analyzed city datasets on public art, street paving, and business tax audits to generate a series of recommendations and reports presented to Los Angeles managers.

\”The city officials were impressed with the reports and think that the findings will be useful,\” said Olfman, who also serves as CISAT's acting director. \”Plans have been in process to continue this partnership.\”

The students' projects were tied to CISAT's \”Data Analytics & Information Visualization\” course.

The work included:

\”This partnership allows students to apply the data they are understanding how to solve real organizational problems,” Olfman said. \”Moreover, the City of Los Angeles will offer you students opportunities for internships and employment.\”

The objective of LA's Data Science Federation is tackling \”tough city problems that can make a positive change in lots of areas and expand on early operate in data science and data-driven making decisions for city government.\”

The federation was launched by Holm, the deputy chief information officer for Los Angeles' Information Technology Agency. As NASA/JPL's chief knowledge architect, she created an award-winning NASA portal. She was also an evangelist for the White House open data initiative, assisting to build communities and introduce technology in partnership with the general public, educators, developers, and international and city governments.

Holm most recently caused the World Bank to create tech startup cultures and improve government practices in education, health, agriculture, and social justice in Sierra Leone and Uganda. She's a Fellow of the United Nations International Academy of Astronautics.

Although being a doctor, nurse, or health care professional requires many years of schooling, earning a degree, license, or certification is only the beginning. An effective medical education spans a job.

But within the hard-to-reach villages and rugged altitudes from the Himalayas, keeping up-to-date with the most recent medical developments can cause a challenge as imposing as climbing Everest: overcoming limited internet infrastructure and access.

The Center for Information Systems & Technology (CISAT) is developing solutions that may overcome this challenge in Nepal and elsewhere. CISAT Professor Yan Li and her students are testing new ways of delivering continuing medical education (CME) content-digital publications, programs, audio, video, along with other types of electronic materials that are designed to help medical professionals better serve patients and enhance their practice.

The methods include the utilization of a flash drive-like device as well as a cloud-based platform that allows individuals to access content through cellular devices.

\”CME development in Nepal faces the greatest challenge because resources are incredibly limited and infrastructure for that delivery of healthcare is fragile,\” said Li, who previously worked on a project to provide educational content without internet access to poor children in Haiti.

The Nepal project began to take root after Li been told by a retired doctor who periodically works in Nepal about the hurdles faced by physicians there-particularly those practicing in the most remote regions. Nepal is one of the poorest and least developed countries on the planet. Additionally, because doctors aren't mandated to carry on the amount, severe disparities in medical practices exist.

After recruiting students, securing a content provider, forging partnerships, and establishing contact with Nepalese officials, Li and students created two solutions: The very first was dubbed Continuing Medical Education on a Stick (CMES), a USB drive on the lanyard that functions just like a super-small computer-it only needs to be plugged into a desktop to show its content on the monitor and can be updated when internet access can be obtained. A more advanced option would be called CMES-Pi, a cloud-based, offline delivery system that allows doctors to gain access to constantly updated content via mobile devices without consistent internet connectivity.

This past June, Li and others helped with installing CMES-Pi in a hospital situated 12,600 feet above sea level in the village of Kunde, Nepal, that serves an estimated 8,000 patients. A total of 12 hospitals and something medical college in Nepal may take place, and also the idea (see cmesworld.org) might be applied to other underdeveloped countries in Africa and Latin America.

\”We are utilizing technology to create other's lives better,\” Li said.

With charter school advocates the majority on the La Unified School District Board of Education, what does the near future hold for the nation's second-largest school district? Does it become simpler to approve new charter schools? Will L.A.'s school system wind up dismantled?

Is this the end-or the continuation-of the Charter School War?

School of Educational Studies Professor Emeritus Charles Kerchner, inside a recent Los Angeles Times article, weighed in around the long-running, contentious issue.

\”If the charter school advocates' expectations will be to simply increase market share and create a deregulated environment on their own, they will be disappointed, plus they ought to be,\” he explained. \”The big issue is whether the brand new 'reform' board continues what I've called the Charter School War or ends the war and claims the large peace dividend.\”

Charter schools are a special class of public schools that are privately run and operated just like a nonprofit within a school district. Proponents say charters provide families with alternatives and allow these to select a school that matches their children's needs, among other benefits. Opponents cite accountability issues and argue that public funds that support charters could be put to better use in public schools.

Los Angeles has more charter schools and students than any other school system in the united states.

The debate continues in the wake of the election of Nick Melvoin and Kelly Gonez, both backed by charter school supporters and school district critics, to the board. Backers and opponents of Melvoin and Gonez-who, along with two charter-friendly incumbents around the board, form a majority-spent as many as $15 million throughout their campaigns with what is now considered the costliest school board election in Usa history.

And with the L.A. district capable of produce change, Kerchner suggested a new goal: \”How to design a twenty-first century school system instead of if the old system should be charter-friendly or not.\”

Testosterone Troubles

How much do hormones affect decision-making? A great deal, reports a brand new York Times article around the impact of testosterone levels on judgment and risk-taking. The content compares the connection between overconfidence and hormonal levels; particularly, that men’s “hubris might be associated with testosterone levels.”

The article also highlights the study of CGU alumnus Amos Nadler (PhD, Economics, 2021) and other neuroeconomists, including his mentor Professor Paul Zak, in examining the behaviour of stock traders and how testosterone levels affected their financial decisions in a simulation from the stock exchange. The end result? Bad.

“Men with boosted testosterone levels significantly overpriced assets … and … were slower to incorporate data about falling values into their trading decisions,” the article continues. Zak, who directs CGU’s Center for Neuroeconomics Studies, was thrilled to see coverage of his former student, whose intriguing research he proudly says “ended in my lab.”

Visit the Center’s web page to explore Zak’s work.

How many students in the La Unified School District go on to earn college degrees?

Only one in four, according to a major new study produced by scholars from Claremont Graduate University and UCLA together with the la Education Research Institute (LAERI).

The study, that is already drawing attention from media outlets across the Southland, such as the La Times, the Los Angeles Daily News, and KPCC radio, offers \”the first comprehensive analysis of college enrollment of La Unified School District graduates and available college readiness supports,\” according to a comment released earlier this week.

For Kyo Yamashiro, who directs CGU’s Urban Leadership doctoral program and co-led the effort that produced the two studies, these studies represents a \”necessary foundation understanding patterns of college access and success, along with the supports they have to get into and thru college.\” This research, she adds, also prompts many other questions that remain to be answered, including specific types of student support and preparation, and what kinds of supports will work perfect for those who work in need.

Key findings

As the nation’s second largest school district (the largest is New York City), LAUSD has a lot more than 600,000 students signed up for kindergarten through 12th grade. Although the data focuses specifically on LAUSD, Yamashiro points out that it could have wider applications.

\”While our partnership is centered on supporting LAUSD with disciplined inquiry on problems of practice that we jointly identify, we hope that the information from these studies might add a growing group of similar studies in other large, urban districts, to develop a broader, contextualized understanding of college-readiness issues,\” he explained.

\”And for many of the practitioner-scholar students that people teach in Urban Leadership, there might be some key implications that could inform improvements they are making in their own schools and districts around student academic preparation and college application supports, so that more students can choose college when the time comes.\”

Key study findings include:

Behind the Studies: A Team Effort

The creation of this study-which includes two reports on college readiness and college enrollment-was the result of collaboration by Yamashiro, UCLA’s Meredith Phillips (who co-directed the 2 reports with Yamashiro), and UCLA doctoral students Carrie Miller and Thomas Jacobson. Their collaboration took place through LAERI, that is a nonprofit research organization involved in a research-practice partnership with L.A. Unified.

Yamashiro and Phillips founded LAERI in 2011, and both new studies were made possible with a grant from the College Futures Foundation to LAERI and UCLA. The research work, which Yamashiro said took a little more than a year . 5 to complete, addresses the pressures and shifting landscape that lots of urban schools are experiencing today.

\”Districts and schools are increasingly feeling pressure to look beyond just getting students over the hurdle of senior high school graduation,\” she said. \”They’re feeling pressure also to prepare students for viable post-secondary futures. Our hope is that these research is a step within the right direction toward identifying some areas to prioritize for improvement in addressing this pressure.\”

Frances Gipson, who can serve as LAUSD’s chief academic officer, is a CGU alumna (PhD, Urban Leadership, 2012) and states that LAERI has provided all of them with \”the framework for an variety of strategies we are implementing to deal with the needs of students, families and schools.\”

Synergies between research and practice

Because educational leaders in urban landscapes face a host of specific challenges and circumstances, CGU created its Urban Leadership doctoral program, which offers innovative training made to meet those needs for educational leaders in urban settings.

In addition to Gipson, other alumni are now serving in superintendent along with other top leadership roles in school districts across Los angeles, including Downey Unified, Hacienda-La Puente Unified, Hemet Unified, Montebello Unified, and Romoland Unified.

For Yamashiro, who reached CGU two years ago to become the program’s director, Urban Leadership is an appealing route for a lot of education students since it \”takes a unique approach to training working experts,\” she explained. There is \”constant reflection, tension, and synergy between research and practice.\”

As in the case of her partnership with LAUSD through LAERI, that synergy she hopes can lead to information that solves real-world problems that might benefit students in their educational experiences.

\”The objective of our Urban Leadership jobs are to build up leaders who can constructively use research and evidence to see their decisions and approaches,\” she added.

More details about CGU’s Urban Leadership program is available online.

Math alumnus Jack Cuzick (PhD, '74), a pioneer in cancer prevention screening, isn't only person in CGU's math community taking math training out into the medical field.

Professor Marina Chugunova, who serves as the director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, is now collaborating with an important project associated with a life-saving type of pediatric surgery.

More than 40 years ago, the \”Fontan procedure\” was initially explained a French doctor as a surgical intervention to help infants who, as a result of birth defect, are born with only just one functional ventricle of the heart.

The Fontan procedure compensates for the lack of another ventricle chamber by diverting venous blood to the pulmonary arteries, and that helps the individual to recover and develop normally.

But a significant problem-and the reason behind Professor Chugunova's involvement in a new project-eventually develops as a result of the procedure.

The sole functioning ventricle must do twice the expected work, which results in these patients later experiencing heart failure in the third decade of their lives and requiring heart transplantation when the issue is detected in time. Too often, though, that detection happens past too far.

In collaboration using the Division of Vascular Surgery at Toronto General Hospital, Professor Chugunova and her colleagues at the University of Toronto and the Ukraine Academy of Science are modeling blood pressure level distribution following the surgical procedure. Their efforts will give you doctors with data on blood pressure that will help them detect the onset of heart failure prior to life-saving intervention.

Chugunova's involvement in this project came via her attendance of a math modeling workshop a year ago during which the Toronto doctors presented their problem to workshop attendees.

\”In the long term, doctors realize that the Fontan procedure leads to heart failure,\” explained Chugunova. \”But by modeling blood pressure distribution, we will produce data that may help anticipate these failures in the early stages. We are giving doctors information, and we are giving these patients something even more important: hope.\”

TRUMP’S PICK: The White House has announced President Trump's intention to appoint math alumnus Tomas J. Philipson to the Council of monetary Advisers, which was established some 70 years back to provide the united states president with key advice for economic policy.

Philipson, who supports the Daniel Levin Chair in Public Policy at the University of Chicago, holds a doctorate in mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania and received his master's in mathematics at CGU in 1986.

Philipson also serves as director of the Health Economics Program of the Becker Friedman Institute.