Passing of Current Faculty Member Dr. Scott C. James, Associate Professor of Geosciences
Baylor University is mourning the passing of current faculty member, Scott C. James, Ph.D., associate professor of geosciences, who died May 2 while visiting family in California. (Photo courtesy of the Baylor Department of Geosciences)
May 6, 2021
WACO, Texas (May 6, 2021) - Baylor University is mourning the passing of current faculty member, Scott C. James, Ph.D., associate professor of geosciences, who died May 2, 2021, while visiting family in California.
His colleagues in the Department of Geosciences released the following statement about Dr. James and his impact on the University, his department and students over his seven years as a faculty member at Baylor.
Updated May 5 Two prominent Oregon public universities will now require students and staff to be vaccinated against COVID-19 this fall. Portland State University’s announcement came Wednesday, and Oregon State University announced it Tuesday evening. PSU president Stephen Percy sent out a letter stating that a personal exemption will be accepted, until one of the vaccines is fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration. One can opt out for medical or religious reasons as well. To help distribute more vaccines, both PSU and OSU are hosting clinics. “Widespread vaccination is our clearest and best path toward that future. The COVID-19 vaccines have been proven safe and effective in preventing the spread of the coronavirus, and PSU is committed to being a partner in the public health of our region,” Percy wrote.
U.S. News & World Report ranks Arkansas high schools
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The U.S. News & World Report yearly ranks high schools throughout the nation. This year, the organization ranked Haas Hall Academy in Fayetteville as the best high school in the state out of 294 Arkansas high schools. The outlet published its results April 27. Here s a list compiling how well high schools in the area did.
Greenwood
Ranked #16
At Greenwood High School, 35% of the students took at least one AP exam, and 21% of those students passed at least one test. The graduation rate at the school is greater than 95%, and the U.S News & World Report found the school s reading proficiency to be 53% and its mathematics proficiency to be 52%.
An entrepreneurship course that has proven its worth in the Kansas City area is coming to Topeka this summer.
Kira Cheree, owner of Entrepreneur Business Basics, recently announced she is bringing her 12-week entrepreneur course, which is designed to help business owners of color, to Topeka and there is still time to apply.
Cheree said she founded Entrepreneur Business Basics in 2014 and began her work by offering one-day workshops. It came out of a need to provide technical assistance to entrepreneurs of color, really just seeing the gaps and the deficit and the disparities, she said. African-American entrepreneurs really did not have the solid structure for their businesses to grow and sustain.
The Weekend in Scraps: UFC Fight Night 118, Bellator 185 and the Eddie Bravo Invitational
Every Monday, the Combat Press staff gathers its thoughts on the previous weekend’s fights and fight news. This feature isn’t a recap and it isn’t an editorial, but rather a bit of both worlds. We’ll scour the best from the combat-sports landscape and deliver it, with some commentary, right here. Let’s get started…
MMA
Although many will point to Darren Till’s first-round finish of Donald Cerrone at UFC Fight Night 118 as the biggest story of the weekend, there was something else that took place in Gdansk, Poland, that deserves some attention. Both the main and co-main event featured significant size discrepancies between the fighters in the cage. No, this isn’t a rant about the issues with weight-cutting (that’s for another time), but rather a plea for the UFC to adopt the additional weight classes that the ABC has approved as well as some of those that already exist wome