28 research outputs found
Keys under doormats - mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications
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Twenty years ago, law enforcement organizations lobbied to require data and communication services to engineer their products to guarantee law enforcement access to all data. After lengthy debate and vigorous predictions of enforcement channels “going dark,” these attempts to regulate the emerging Internet were abandoned. In the intervening years, innovation on the Internet flourished, and law enforcement agencies found new and more effective means of accessing vastly larger quantities of data. Today we are again hearing calls for regulation to mandate the provision of exceptional access mechanisms. In this report, a group of computer scientists and security experts, many of whom participated in a 1997 study of these same topics, has convened to explore the likely effects of imposing extraordinary access mandates.
We have found that the damage that could be caused by law enforcement exceptional access requirements would be even greater today than it would have been 20 years ago. In the wake of the growing economic and social cost of the fundamental insecurity of today’s Internet environment, any proposals that alter the security dynamics online should be approached with caution. Exceptional access would force Internet system developers to reverse “forward secrecy” design practices that seek to minimize the impact on user privacy when systems are breached.
The complexity of today’s Internet environment, with millions of apps and globally connected services, means that new law enforcement requirements are likely to introduce unanticipated, hard to detect security flaws. Beyond these and other technical vulnerabilities, the prospect of globally deployed exceptional access systems raises difficult problems about how such an environment would be governed and how to ensure that such systems would respect human rights and the rule of law
Copyright and the Future of the Entertainment Industry
No full textPanelists will discuss the intersection of copyright law and arts, entertainment, and sports law and recent legislation proposed by Congress to curb copyright infringement on the Internet. Questions posed to the panelists will include: Do copyright laws adequately protect creators in industries so heavily dominated by consumer interest? Is consumer innovation and subversion of the copyright laws forcing companies to rethink their copyright policies, as well as their business models? Is illegal activity to credit for such new developments such as the licensing regimes of Netflix and Spotify, and would it have been better to adjust copyright laws earlier in order to incentivize such moves in the market place earlier, rather than criminalizing hoards of consumers? What does the recent SOPA legislation add to this discussion?
PANELISTS:
Andrew Bridges is a Partner at Fenwick & West LLP, specializing in intellectual property. He has worked on some of the most influential copyright cases of the last decaded, including Grokster, Napster, Perfect 10, and RIAA v. Diamond.
Michael Carrier is a Professor at Rutgers School of Law - Camden, specializing in intellectual property, innovation, antitrust, and copyright matters. He has recently published an Article with the Journal, titled An Anitrtust Framework for Climate Change.
Greg Kot is a music critic for the Chicago Tribune, a host of NPR\u27s Sound Opinions, and the author of such books as Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music. His journalism focuses not only on music criticism but also music-related social, political and business matters.
Nicole Reifman is a Partner at McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP, specializing in intellectual property issues. Her practice focuses on patents and trademarks, including industries such as telecommunications, mechanical engineering, and medical devices.
Matthew Sag is an Associate Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago. His recent research focuses on copyright fair use issues and copyright/technology intersections and conflicts
The effectiveness of interventions to treat severe acute malnutrition in young children: a systematic review
No full textSevere acute malnutrition (SAM) arises as a consequence of a sudden period of food shortage and is associated with loss of a person’s body fat and wasting of their skeletal muscle. Many of those affected are already undernourished and are often susceptible to disease. Infants and young children are the most vulnerable as they require extra nutrition for growth and development, have comparatively limited energy reserves and depend on others. Undernutrition can have drastic and wide-ranging consequences for the child’s development and survival in the short and long term. Despite efforts made to treat SAM through different interventions and programmes, it continues to cause unacceptably high levels of mortality and morbidity. Uncertainty remains as to the most effective methods to treat severe acute malnutrition in young children.ObjectivesTo evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to treat infants and children aged < 5 years who have SAM.Data sourcesEight databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, CAB Abstracts Ovid, Bioline, Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, EconLit EBSCO and The Cochrane Library) were searched to 2010. Bibliographies of included articles and grey literature sources were also searched. The project expert advisory group was asked to identify additional published and unpublished references.Review methodsPrior to the systematic review, a Delphi process involving international experts prioritised the research questions. Searches were conducted and two reviewers independently screened titles and abstracts for eligibility. Inclusion criteria were applied to the full texts of retrieved papers by one reviewer and checked independently by a second. Included studies were mapped to the research questions. Data extraction and quality assessment were undertaken by one reviewer and checked by a second reviewer. Differences in opinion were resolved through discussion at each stage. Studies were synthesised through a narrative review with tabulation of the results.ResultsA total of 8954 records were screened, 224 full-text articles were retrieved, and 74 articles (describing 68 studies) met the inclusion criteria and were mapped. No evidence focused on treatment of children with SAM who were human immunodeficiency virus sero-positive, and no good-quality or adequately reported studies assessed treatments for SAM among infants < 6 months old. One randomised controlled trial investigated fluid resuscitation solutions for shock, with none adequately treating shock. Children with acute diarrhoea benefited from the use of hypo-osmolar oral rehydration solution (H-ORS) compared with the standard World Health Organization-oral rehydration solution (WHO-ORS). WHO-ORS was not significantly different from rehydration solution for malnutrition (ReSoMal), but the safety of ReSoMal was uncertain. A rice-based ORS was more beneficial than glucose-based ORSs, and provision of zinc plus a WHO-ORS had a favourable impact on diarrhoea and need for ORS. Comparisons of different diets in children with persistent diarrhoea produced conflicting findings. For treating infection, comparison of amoxicillin with ceftriaxone during inpatient therapy, and routine provision of antibiotics for 7 days versus no antibiotics during outpatient therapy of uncomplicated SAM, found that neither had a significant effect on recovery at the end of follow-up. No evidence mapped to the next three questions on factors that affect sustainability of programmes, long-term survival and readmission rates, the clinical effectiveness of management strategies for treating children with comorbidities such as tuberculosis and Helicobacter pylori infection and the factors that limit the full implementation of treatment programmes. Comparison of treatment for SAM in different settings showed that children receiving inpatient care appear to do as well as those in ambulatory or home settings on anthropometric measures and response time to treatment. Longer-term follow-up showed limited differences between the different settings. The majority of evidence on methods for correcting micronutrient deficiencies considered zinc supplements; however, trials were heterogeneous and a firm conclusion about zinc was not reached. There was limited evidence on either supplementary potassium or nicotinic acid (each produced some benefits), and nucleotides (not associated with benefits). Evidence was identified for four of the five remaining questions, but not assessed because of resource limitation.LimitationsThe systematic review focused on key questions prioritised through a Delphi study and, as a consequence, did not encompass all elements in the management of SAM. In focusing on evidence from controlled studies with the most rigorous designs that were published in the English language, the systematic review may have excluded other forms of evidence. The systematic review identified several limitations in the evidence base for assessing the effectiveness of interventions for treating young children with severe acute malnutrition, including a lack of studies assessing the different interventions; limited details of study methods used; short follow-up post intervention or discharge; and heterogeneity in participants, interventions, settings, and outcome measures affecting generalisability.ConclusionsFor many of the most highly ranked questions evidence was lacking or inconclusive. More research is needed on a range of topic areas concerning the treatment of infants and children with SAM. Further research is required on most aspects of the management of SAM in children < 5 years, including intravenous resuscitation regimens for shock, management of subgroups (e.g. infants < 6 months old, infants and children with SAM who are human immunodeficiency virus sero-positive) and on the use of antibiotics.FundingThe National Institute for Health Research Technology Assessment programme.<br/
Patent Assertion and Non-Practicing Entities Panel
No full textPlease join us for a panel covering all aspects of patent assertion and non-practicing entities and their effect on the patent industry. Our distinguished panelists are as follows:
Michael D. Friedman is Managing Director at Ocean Tomo, overseeing its Investments practice, which is composed of Investment Banking, Asset Management and Investment Research.
Ocean Tomo’s Investment Banking practice brings IP financing, monetization and capital markets solutions to corporations and other intellectual property owners. Recent notable transactions include the leveraged buyout of Mosaid Technologies and the sale of MIPS Technologies’ IP portfolio. Ocean Tomo Asset Management, where Mr. Friedman serves as Chief Investment Officer, engages in public equity, special situations and private equity investing where intellectual property insight drives alpha creation. Investment Research works in parallel with institutional investors, hedge funds and private equity funds advising them on capital allocations to IP-themed investments.
Mr. Friedman holds a JD from the University of Chicago Law School, where he worked as Research Editor of the University of Chicago Legal Forum. He also holds a BS in marine engineering and nautical science from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Mr. Friedman is a member of the board of directors of the Intellectual Property Exchange International, the world’s first IP-focused financial exchange, and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Jay P. Kesan is a Professor at the University of Illinois, College of Lawwhere he is H. Ross & Helen Workman Research Scholar and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. Professor Kesan received his J.D. summa cum laude from Georgetown University, where he received several awards including Order of the Coif and served as associate editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Prior to attending law school, Jay Kesan – who also holds a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin – worked as a research scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. He is a registered patent attorney and practiced at the former firm of Pennie & Edmonds LLP in the areas of patent litigation and patent prosecution. In addition, he has published numerous scientific papers, and he has obtained several patents in the U.S. and abroad. His recent publications can be found on SSRN (Social Science Research Network) at http://www.ssrn.com. At the University of Illinois, Professor Kesan is appointed in the College of Law, the Institute of Genomic Biology, the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, the Information Trust Institute, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the College of Business, and the Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics. Professor Kesan continues to be professionally active in the areas of patent litigation and technology entrepreneurship. He has served as a special master in patent litigations, and has served as a technical and legal expert and/or counsel in patent matters. He also serves on the boards of directors/advisors of start-up technology companies.
Matthew Levy is Patent Counsel at the Computer and Communications Industry Association, where he handles legal, policy advocacy, and regulatory matters related to patents and is lead blogger for CCIA’s Patent Progress.
Matt joined the CCIA in 2013 from the IP boutique Cloudigy Law, PLLC. He has also been an associate at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett, & Dunner, LLP and at Hogan & Hartson LLP. He got first-hand experience in both patent prosecution and patent litigation, including defending clients against patent trolls.
Matt graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center magna cum laude with the Order of the Coif, winning the ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in Intellectual Property. He received a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky, where he won the Presidential Fellowship twice. His research at UK was in computational complexity theory and artificial intelligence. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern Maine.
Before law school, Matt was a software engineer at IBM in Lexington, KY, as part of the team that developed and maintained Lotus Sametime, IBM’s real-time messaging and conferencing product. He is co-inventor on U.S. Patent No. 8,521,830.
Matt is still a software developer in his spare time. He developed an app for the iPad, Federal Local Rules, which is available on the App Store.
Laura Beth Miller is a shareholder at Brinks Gilson & Lione, where she co-chairs the firm’s practice before the U.S. International Trade Commission (“ITC”). With over two decades of trial and arbitration experience, Ms. Miller has handled substantial first and second chair responsibilities. She focuses her practice on patent, trade secret and trademark issues, as well as client counseling on complex commercial issues, including licensing, anti-trust and contract issues affecting business operations, product services and technology. In addition to representing major Fortune 500 companies, she is an adjunct professor at The John Marshall Law School, in Chicago, Illinois. She is a frequent speaker on intellectual property issues both in the United States and abroad, and has written a number of articles on intellectual property topics.
Ms. Miller received her B.A. from the University of Virginia and her J.D. from The College of William and Mary Marshall Wythe School of Law. She is licensed to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Illinois, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and numerous federal courts. She has been recognized as one of Illinois\u27 leading intellectual property lawyers by Chambers USA, and has been named a Leading Intellectual Property Lawyer and one of the Top 50 Women Business Litigation Lawyers in Illinois by the Leading Lawyers Network. She also serves on the management teams at Brinks Gilson & Lione.
K. McNeill Taylor, Jr., is General Counsel at Round Rock Research, LLC. Neill Taylor joined Round Rock in 2012 as Vice President Law and General Counsel responsible for supervising and administering all legal affairs for the company.
Before joining Round Rock, Neill was Corporate Vice President and Chief IP Counsel of Motorola Mobility, Inc., responsible for the intellectual property law and litigation functions. He managed the offensive and defensive patent litigation in support of MMI’s Android smart phones, and the preparation, prosecution and legal support for MMI’s patent portfolio of approximately 24,000 patents and applications worldwide. Neill had a leading role in setting the strategy for and negotiating MMI’s 4B acquisition by Motorola in January 2007.
Prior to joining Motorola, Neill served as vice president, general counsel and assistant secretary of Corning Cable Systems and Siecor Corp. Before that he held patent counsel positions with Corning Inc. and Schlumberger Ltd., and began his patent law career as an associate with Fish & Neave, a patent litigation firm in New York.
Neill received his law degree from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in physics and philosophy from Duke University, where he graduated magna cum laude and was an Angier B. Duke scholar.
Andrew W. Williams is a partner with McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP. Dr. Williams\u27 practice primarily consists of patent litigation, prosecution, and opinion work in the areas of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and chemistry. Dr. Williams is a contributing author to the Patent Docs weblog, a site focusing on biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent law. Dr. Williams earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. He earned his J.D. from George Washington University Law School with highest honors, and was Managing Editor of the law review
Bluegrass Renaissance: The History and Culture of Central Kentucky, 1792-1852
No full textOriginally established in 1775 the town of Lexington, Kentucky grew quickly into a national cultural center amongst the rolling green hills of the Bluegrass Region. Nicknamed the “Athens of the West,” Lexington and the surrounding area became a leader in higher education, visual arts, architecture, and music, and the center of the horse breeding and racing industries. The national impact of the Bluegrass was further confirmed by prominent Kentucky figures such as Henry Clay and John C. Breckinridge.
Bluegrass Renaissance chronicles Lexington’s development as one of the most important educational and cultural centers in America during the first half of the nineteenth century. Editors Daniel Rowland and James C. Klotter gather leading scholars to examine the successes and failures of Central Kentuckians from statehood to the death of Henry Clay, in an investigation of the area’s cultural and economic development and national influence. Bluegrass Renaissance is an interdisciplinary study of the evolution of Lexington’s status as antebellum Kentucky’s cultural metropolis.
Daniel Rowland is associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky and has published numerous articles on art, architecture, and political culture in early modern Russia as well as contributing to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History.
James C. Klotter is professor of history at Georgetown College and the State Historian of Kentucky. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including A Concise History of Kentucky and A New History of Kentucky.
This excellent collection of essays seeks to address an important, but understudied, time priod in Kentucky history during which Lexington and its surrounding areas were at their zenith both culturally and economically. This is a highly readable volume that should appeal to any person interested in the state\u27s history, that should become the standard \u27go-to\u27 text on this era in Kentucky for many years to come. --Anne Marshall, author of Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State
The essays well testify to the breadth and high quality of work being undertaken on early Kentucky. -- Matthew G. Schoenbachler, author of Murder and Madness: The Myth of the Kentucky Tragedy
Stephen Aron is professor of history at UCLA and chair of the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center. He is the author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay (1996) and American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State (2006) and co-author of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (2011, 3d edition). Shearer Davis Bowman received his Ph. D. at the University of California at Berkeley and subsequently taught at Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Texas at Austin, Berea College, and the University of Kentucky before his death in 2009. He authored two well-received comparative studies, Masters and Lords: Mid-19th Century US Planters and Prussian Junkers (1993) and At the Precipice: Americans North and South During the Secession Crisis (2010), as well as numerous articles and reviews. Matthew F. Clarke is a Master’s candidate in Architecture and Urban Policy at Princeton University. His senior thesis as a Gaines Fellow at the University of Kentucky, Voices of Home in Bluegrass-Aspendale (2007), traced the shifting role of the Bluegrass-Aspendale housing project in Lexington’s social fabric. Currently he is researching the economic development of Vieques, Puerto Rico, and the regional infrastructure of New Jersey. Mollie Eblen is the public relations associate at Transylvania University in Lexington. She holds degrees in English and library science from the University of Kentucky. Tom Eblen is a columnist and former managing editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader. A Lexington native, he previously was a writer and editor for the Associated Press and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Randolph Hollingsworth is Assistant Professor in the Office of Undergraduate Education at the University of Kentucky. She also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the History Department, and is a faculty affiliate with Gender and Women’s Studies at U.K. While much of her research has focused on conservative thought and U.S. Women’s history in the South, her most recent work has focused on contemporary issues regarding open educational resources and Kentucky women’s history in the civil rights era. She is currently working on manuscript on the history of women in Kentucky. James C. Klotter, the State Historian of Kentucky and Professor of History at Georgetown College, is the author or editor of some dozen and a half books. They include The Breckinridges of Kentucky (1986) and Kentucky Justice, Southern Honor, and American Manhood, Southern Biography Series (2003). Previously he served as the Executive Director of the Kentucky Historical Society. Nikos Pappas of Lexington, Ky., has a wide range of musical interests both as a performer and as a scholar. A Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kentucky, he has been involved in documentary film scores, the creation of a traditional music archive, and work for presidential libraries and projects, including James Monroe and Abraham Lincoln. His research has garnered awards from the American Musicological Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Bibliographic Society. Estill Curtis Pennington has served in curatorial capacities for the Archives of American Art, the National Portrait Gallery, the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Morris Museum of Art. His publications include Kentucky: The Master Painters from the Frontier Era to the Great Depression and Lessons in Likeness: Portrait Painters in Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley, 1802-1920 (2011). Gerald L. Smith is associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of A Black Educator in the Segregated South: Kentucky\u27s Rufus B. Atwood (1988). He is currently working on a general history of African Americans in Kentucky and serving as the general co-edtior of the Kentucky African American enycyclopedia. Patrick Snadon is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Interior Design at the University of Cincinnati. He has authored and coauthored articles and books on American architecture and interiors, including The Domestic Architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (2006, with Michael Fazio), which received the 2008 Hitchcock Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. He has engaged in historic preservation work for many years, including assisting in the restorations of two Latrobe buildings, the Pope Villa in Lexington, and Decatur House in Washington, D.C. He is currently researching Modernism in Cincinnati and has coauthored a guidebook, 50 from the 50s: Modern Architecture and Interiors in Cincinnati (2008). John R. Thelin is a Professor at the University of Kentucky. He is author of A History of American Higher Education (2004). In 2005, John teamed up with Sharon Thelin on a Kenucky Humanities Council project dealing with “Town and Gown in Kentucky: Campus and Community in the Commonwealth.” He is the co-author, with Amy E. Wells, of “Universities of the South” in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Maryjean Wall, Ph.D., is author of How Kentucky Became Southern: A Tale of Outlaws, Horse Thieves, Gamblers, and Breeders (2010). She was the longtime horse racing writer for the Lexington Herald-Leader and teaches American history at the university level. She has won multiple awards for her writing. Mark Wetherington was born in Tifton, Georgia. Earning his Ph.D. in history in 1985 at the University of Tennessee, he served as director of the East Tennessee Historical Society, the South Carolina Historical Society in Charleston, and presently is director of The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky. His first book The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910 (1994) won the American Historical Association’s Herbert Feis book award in 1995. His second book Plain Folk’s Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia appeared in 2005. He has also served as an adjunct history professor at the University of Tennessee and the University of Louisville.
These excellent essays now comprise the most comprehensive view of Lexington’s golden age in all its many facets while extorting the individuals who molded it into something great. In the end one understands why Lexington had a Latrobe house—the most sophisticated house designed in federal America—for it symbolized an earned preeminence. In time its preeminence faded but in these essays Lexington continues to teach us by revealing its strengths and weaknesses its success and failures which speak to our own. -- John E. Kleber, editor of The Kentucky Encyclopedia and The Encyclopedia of Louisville
Winner of the Clay Lancaster Heritage Education Award given by the Bluegrass Trust for Historic Preservation
Recipient of Clay Lancaster Herritage Education Award for their service in researching and disseminating information about Central Kentucky. -- Lexington Herald-Leader
Taken as a whole, the collection is a treasure trove of references for the student of Kentucky history, and it introduces new fields of research and reflection. It is a great addition to the historiography and a welcome complement to earlier edited collections published by the University Press of Kentucky. -- Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
[. . .] The well-crafted and well-researched essays illuminate the unique culture that flourished in the Central Bluegrass region during the antebellum era. Individuals who research and teach Kentucky history in the state’s universities and public schools will find in these chapters a wealth of information and insight to share with their classes. Bluegrass Renaissance is an exemplary book, a credit to its publisher. The essays within its covers add to our understanding of the antebellum cultural milieu that made the Bluegrass frontier an exciting and unique region. -- Indiana Magazine of Historyhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_united_states_history/1157/thumbnail.jp
Systematic review and economic modelling of the relative clinical benefit and cost-effectiveness of laparoscopic surgery and robotic surgery for removal of the prostate in men with localised prostate cancer
No full textPMID: 23127367 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free full text Funding for this study was provided by the Health Technology Assessment programme of the National Institute for Health Research.Peer reviewe
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Session C1: Prioritizing Barrier Removals in Great Lakes Tributaries: Balancing Tradeoffs Between Native and Invasive Fish Species
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Jesse O’Hanley is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK. He obtained a B.S. in Biological Sciences and an M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research both from Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy & Management from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Kent, Dr. O’Hanley worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford on the prediction of biodiversity impacts of climate change. Dr. O’Hanley’s research focuses on the development of decision support tools for environmental planning and management. Recent and current lines of inquiry include river infrastructure mitigation and placement, nature reserve network design, and species distribution modeling. He has worked closely over a number of years with government agencies and NGOs on the development and application of optimization based approaches for river infrastructure mitigation and placement. He has long-term research and consultancy projects spanning California, Oregon, Alaska, Maine, the Great Lakes region and the UK.Abstract Tributaries to the Great Lakes are highly fragmented by dams and road crossings that act as potential barriers to migratory fishes, restricting their access to historical riverine spawning grounds. There is growing investment in removing or modifying barriers to restore native fish migrations and ecosystem function, but these efforts may also increase available habitat for invasive sea lamprey. The restoration community lacks a systematic method for comparing these costs and benefits to assess which barrier removal projects would offer the greatest return on investment. To address this problem, we developed a basin-scale mathematical optimization model to prioritize barriers for removal on the basis of upstream breeding habitat for both native and invasive fishes. We parameterized the model using an extensive database of dams and road crossings; economic models of projected barrier removal and lampricide application costs; and historical data describing distributions of native and invasive species. We describe trade-offs resulting from increased habitat access for native migratory fishes and sea lamprey that would accompany different barrier removal scenarios. We further discuss the sensitivity of the model to uncertainty in estimates of tributary suitability for native and invasive species and investigate the benefit of simultaneously planning barrier removal and lamprey management actions
Renowned experts featured in Spring 2019 Signature Lectures, law school Sibley Lecturer included
No full textRenowned experts featured in Spring 2019 Signature Lectures, law school Sibley Lecturer included Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Renowned experts featured in Spring 2019 Signature Lectures
Athens, Ga. – Notable scholars and national leaders in politics, business, higher education and several other fields will visit the University of Georgia this semester as part of the Signature Lecture series.
“We have an outstanding lineup of Signature Lecturers this spring,” said Meg Amstutz, associate provost for academic programs, whose office designates Signature Lectures at the beginning of each semester. “I hope people on campus and in the community will mark their calendars for these talks.”
Signature Lectures denote campus talks by speakers with broad, multidisciplinary appeal and compelling bodies of work. Many of the lectures are supported by endowments, while others honor notable figures and milestones in the university’s history.
All Signature Lectures are free and open to the public, and students are encouraged to attend. For more information and updates on Signature Lectures, see https://provost.uga.edu/news-events/events/signature-lectures/2018-2019.
W. Craig Fugate, former administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency; chief emergency management officer, One Concern College of Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series: “Seven Deadly Sins of Emergency Management” Jan. 25, 12:20 p.m., Coverdell Center, Room 175 Fugate served as President Barack Obama’s FEMA administrator and previously served as emergency management director in Florida. Fugate led FEMA through multiple record-breaking disaster years and oversaw the federal government’s response to major events such as the tornado in Joplin, Missouri, Hurricane Sandy and Hurricane Matthew. Sponsored by the College of Engineering and the Institute for Resilient Infrastructure Systems.
Freda Scott Giles, associate professor emerita of theatre and film studies and African American studies, UGA Founders Day Lecture: “W.E.B. Du Bois: Dramatist” Jan. 28, 1:30 p.m., Chapel Giles is a specialist in African American theatre, directing and acting who recently retired from UGA. She taught theatre courses, directed a number of University Theatre productions and served as associate director for the Institute for African American Studies and as an affiliate faculty member of the African Studies Institute and the Institute for Women’s Studies. Sponsored by the Office of the President, UGA Alumni Association and Emeriti Scholars.
Monica Kaufman Pearson, former journalist and broadcaster Holmes-Hunter Lecture Feb. 7, 2 p.m., Chapel After almost 40 years as a news anchor for WSB-TV, Pearson retired in 2012 and now hosts a weekly radio show on KISS 104.1 FM. During her retirement, she earned a master’s degree in journalism and mass communication magna cum laude from UGA and has since lectured at UGA, along with other colleges across the state. Sponsored by the Office of the President.
Stephanie McCurry, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Columbia University Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture and Willson Center Global Georgia Initiative: “Reconstructing: A Georgia Woman\u27s Life Amidst the Ruins” Feb. 22, 5:30 p.m., Seney-Stovall Chapel McCurry specializes in the 19th century American history, the American South, the American Civil War and the history of women and gender. Current interests include American history in the immediate post-Civil War moment, the history of postwar societies and processes of reconstruction in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the matter of marriage, politics and the state in the modern period. Sponsored by the department of history and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
Charles Stewart III, Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology George S. Parthemos Lecture: “American Elections since 2000: Getting Better, but Not Feeling Better About It” March 7, 3:30 p.m., Baldwin Hall, Room 480 Stewart is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research and teaching areas include congressional politics, elections and American political development. His current research about Congress touches on the historical development of committees, origins of partisan polarization and Senate elections. Co-sponsored by the department of political science and the School of Public and International Affairs.
Roger Hunter, program manager, NASA Small Spacecraft Technology Program Charter Lecture: “NASA’s Kepler Mission and Small Spacecraft Technologies: Today and Beyond” March 20, 2:30 p.m., Chapel On the day of his graduation from UGA with a degree in mathematics in 1978, Hunter was commissioned as an officer in the Air Force, where he served for 22 years. He joined NASA in 2008 and served as project manager for NASA’s Kepler Mission, the first mission capable of finding potentially habitable planets in the Milky Way Galaxy. He currently serves as associate director of the NASA Ames Research Center. Sponsored by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.
Robert Michael Franklin Jr., James T. and Berta R. Laney Professor in Moral Leadership, Emory University Donald L. Hollowell Lecture: “The Vocation of Moral Leadership” March 21, 3 p.m., UGA Center for Continuing Education & Hotel, Mahler Hall Franklin served as president of Morehouse College from 2007 to 2012. An ordained minister and an insightful speaker, he provides commentary for the National Public Radio program “All Things Considered” and the Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasting Television. In addition to authoring three books, he has served as program officer in Human Rights and Social Justice at the Ford Foundation. Sponsored by School of Social Work; the Center for Social Justice, Human and Civil Rights; and the Thomas M. Parham Professorship.
Gene L. Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States Getzen Lecture on Government Accountability: “Dimensions of Accountability: GAO’s Mission for Congress and the Nation” March 25, 2 p.m., Chapel Dodaro became the eighth comptroller general of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office in 2010, when he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Dodaro has testified before Congress dozens of times on important national issues, including the nation’s long-term fiscal outlook and efforts to reduce and eliminate overlap and duplication across the federal government. In addition, Dodaro has led efforts to fulfill GAO’s new audit responsibilities under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Sponsored by the department of public administration and policy and the School of Public and International Affairs.
Christopher Emdin, associate professor, director of the science education program and associate director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Columbia University Mary Frances Early Lecture: “Teaching and Learning from the Students’ Standpoint” March 26, 3 p.m., Georgia Center, Mahler Hall Emdin is a social critic, public intellectual and science advocate whose commentary on issues of race, culture, inequality and education have appeared in dozens of influential periodicals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. Sponsored by the Graduate School.
John M. Turner, president and CEO, Regions Financial Corporation Terry Leadership Speaker Series March 27, 10:10 a.m., Chapel Turner, a 1989 graduate of the Terry College of Business, joined Regions in 2011 as president of the South region, leading banking operations in Alabama, Mississippi, south Louisiana and the Florida panhandle. In December 2017, he was named president, and in July 2018 became the chief executive officer and was appointed to Regions’ board of directors. Sponsored by the Institute for Leadership Advancement in the Terry College of Business.
Eric Deggans, television critic, National Public Radio Peabody-Smithgall Lecture: “Decoding Media’s Coverage of Race, Gender and Differences” April 3, 4 p.m., Chapel Deggans is one of the most prominent media critics working today. As NPR’s first full-time television critic, his stories are regularly broadcast on “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered.” In addition to his work with NPR, Deggans also contributes to various national media outlets. Deggans chairs the Peabody Board of Jurors, which he has served on since 2013. Sponsored by the Peabody Awards.
David A. Strauss, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law and faculty director of the Jenner & Block Supreme Court and Appellate Clinic, University of Chicago John A. Sibley Endowed Lecture: “Are Supreme Court Decisions the Law of the Land?” April 12, noon, Hirsch Hall, Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom Strauss is a highly regarded constitutional law scholar whose many publications include “The Living Constitution” (Oxford University Press, 2010). A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the board of directors of the American Constitution Society, Strauss previously served as attorney-adviser in the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General, and special counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Sponsored by the School of Law.
Susan Herbst, president, University of Connecticut Louise McBee Lecture: “Division, Incivility and Fear in American Political Culture: What Does It Mean for the Future of Higher Education?” April 25, 11 a.m., Chapel Herbst is the 15th president of the University of Connecticut and the first woman to be selected as president since the school’s founding in 1881. She oversees a university system that includes 10 schools and colleges at the Storrs campus, separate schools of law and social work in Hartford, four regional campuses and the schools of medicine and dental medicine at UConn Health in Farmington. A specialist in political science, Herbst is the author of many scholarly journal articles and books, including her most recent book about incivility in American politics, “Rude Democracy.” Sponsored by the Institute of Higher Education.
Requests for accommodations for those with disabilities should be made as soon as possible but at least seven days prior to the scheduled lecture. Requests should be made to Katie Fite in the Office of Academic Programs at 706-542-0383 or at [email protected].
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The view from the backbench : Irish Nationalist MPs and their work, 1910-1914
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