May 17, 2021
Tyler Kerr, makerspace coordinator in the Innovation Wyrkshop, recently was named UW staff employee of the year. (UW Photo)
Tyler Kerr, the University of Wyoming makerspace coordinator in the Innovation Wyrkshop, recently was named UW staff employee of the year.
Because of COVID-19 concerns, this year’s in-person Staff Recognition Day was canceled. The annual event honors the hard-working staff of UW. It provides an opportunity to show all staff members how much they are appreciated for everything they do to keep the main UW campus, and throughout the state, functioning and providing a top-notch educational experience to thousands of students.
Women were hunters, athletes, and important political figures, among other things.
May 14, 2021
A reconstruction of a Wilamaya Patjxa vicuña hunt by artist Matthew Verdolivo, UC Davis IET Academic Technology Services. Courtesy Randall Haas.
We like to think we know what our ancient female forebears were like. Yet a spate of recent discoveries confirms the truth: that we really have no idea.
Clues from ancient texts and archaeological studies can give us a succinct picture of the important roles women have always played (and almost always without applause). So to give them their due, we rounded up a list of the major achievements of ancient women, the original revolutionaries subverting the gender roles we have in place today.
Cathryn MacCallum
Cathryn MacCallum began her career in development as a cheese-maker on a coconut plantation in Tanzania. Passionate about rural development (North and South) she became involved in the development education movement. She has more than 20 years experience of working as a research and programme manager in international development and development education, she has co-written a number of textbooks aimed at secondary school students on learning for sustainable living for the Zanzibar Government and Welsh Curriculum.
She is currently a Director of Sazani Associates, a small international NGO based in Wales (with offices in Zanzibar and Belize) that supports sustainable livelihoods through participatory approaches to rural development. In 2009 she was put on the WGgreen list for her work in international sustainable development and sits on the UNESCO UK Committee. She also lectures on an MA in Development Education at the Institute of Education where her doctoral rese
Baylor using technology to measure occupancy
Baylor University is making sure its students no longer have to worry about a building being too crowded without knowing beforehand with the tech product, Occuspace. Author: Matt Lively Updated: 11:39 AM CST March 8, 2021
WACO, Texas Students at Baylor University no longer have to worry about long waits in packed areas. The school has been using a new technology called Occuspace since September 2020.
The device plugs into a wall outlet in a building such as a library and reads different Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals in the area to determine how many people are occupying that space. The information from those readings are relayed to a mobile app that tells students the wait time for a building, how crowded it is and reads patterns to determine busy hours.
All are fascinating. Here’s a roundup of what we learned.
Egyptian Minister of Antiquities and Tourism Khaled El Anany. Photo: Mohammed Fouad/dpa via Getty Images.
But the biggest news in Egyptian archaeology this year was undoubtedly the excavation of over 100 painted sarcophagi in Saqqara, an ancient burial ground south of Cairo.
Stonehenge. Photo courtesy of English Heritage.
Now, thanks to a core sample drilled during a mid-century repair job the 90-year-old who did the job recently returned it to the UK experts have determined that the ancient monument’s outer ring of sarsens, which weigh as much as 30 tons, come from chalk hills of Marlborough Downs, 15 miles away.