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Wellesley Books Bedtime Story with the Author: 7 p.m. April 8. Free. For information: bit.ly/3cit1U7. Budding storyteller Holly Maddalena Marshall will join for a special Thursday edition of Bedtime Story with the Author to discuss her new book, “Princess Clara’s Royal Adventures: The Lily Pond at Rivers Hollow” online via Zoom.
Bedtime Story with the author: 7 p.m. April 9. Free. For information: https://bit.ly/3fvKni8. Kids, don your jammies and join for a Bedtime Story read by the author herself. Sita Singh will read “Birds of a Feather,” her picture book about a colorless peacock who learns to love himself in a jungle full of color.
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Gilda Barabino began her term as AAAS president-elect on Feb. 24. | Olin College of Engineering
Gilda Barabino, president of Olin College of Engineering, was selected by the membership of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to serve as AAAS president-elect.
Barabino began her term Feb. 24 and will serve as president-elect for one year. She will then serve for one year as AAAS president and one year as chair of the AAAS Board of Directors.
Members also selected two members of the AAAS Board of Directors during the election, held Feb. 8-22. Janine Austin Clayton, the associate director for research on women’s health at the National Institutes of Health and director of the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health, was newly elected to the board for a four-year term. Kaye Husbands Fealing, the dean of the Ivan College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology, was elected to a second four-year term.
Intelligent.com Announces Best Colleges In Massachusetts for 2021
Share Article SEATTLE (PRWEB) March 16, 2021 Intelligent.com, a trusted resource for online degree rankings and higher education planning, has announced the Top 49 Colleges In Massachusetts for 2021. The comprehensive research guide is based on an assessment of 199 accredited colleges and universities in the nation. Each program is evaluated based on curriculum quality, graduation rate, reputation, and post-graduate employment.
The 2021 rankings are calculated through a unique scoring system which includes student engagement, potential return on investment and leading third party evaluations. Intelligent.com analyzed 199 schools, on a scale of 0 to 100, with only 49 making it to the final list. The methodology also uses an algorithm which collects and analyzes multiple rankings into one score to easily compare each school.
“The president of the AAAS is one of the most prestigious positions in all of science. Author: David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 12:56 PM CST March 4, 2021 Updated: 5:47 PM CST March 4, 2021
NEW ORLEANS The world’s largest scientific society has named a Black woman from New Orleans and Xavier University graduate as its president-elect.
Gilda Barabino began her term as president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week. She will serve a year as president-elect, then a year as AAAS president and then a year as chairwoman of the association’s board of directors.
The AAAS is the world’s leading scientific professional organization and publishes the major scientific journal Science.