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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a $325,043 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create a rich collection of digitized material integrated into a map-based website that tracks how urban renewal changed the City of Little Rock in the decades following the Central High School desegregation crisis.
The UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC) will lead the project, “Mapping Urban Fracture: Charting the Context and Consequence of the Little Rock Central High Crisis Project.” The center’s director, Dr. Deborah Baldwin, associate provost of collections and archives, will serve as the principal investigator for the three-year project that begins June 1.
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Remote care management platform Current Health has closed a $43 million Series B financing round. Northpond Ventures led the round, along with LRVHealth, OSF HealthCare, Section 32, Elements Health Ventures and existing investors.
In addition to the financing, Current Health is adding Andrea Jackson, Director at Northpond Ventures, and Tripp Peake, General Partner at LRVHealth, to its board of directors.
Current Health’s remote patient monitoring devices, paired with its platform, collect and monitor users vital signs to enable preventative care. The new capital will go towards company growth, according to Chris McCann, the CEO and cofounder of Current Health.
Elsevier Awards Portland State University the Karen Hunter Memorial Award
Portland State University s open access textbook publishing initiative supports student success
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / April 14, 2021 / Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, is pleased to announce Portland State University as the winner of the 3
rd Annual Karen Hunter Memorial Award. The Karen Hunter award recognizes and encourages collaborations that advance information dissemination via technology. Awardees receive US$5000 and support to attend 2021 ACRL Virtual Conference, where an award reception will be hosted.
The team at Portland State University Library demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the promotion and publication of openly licensed textbooks in order to save students money, increase student retention rates and improve student learning through the development of the PDXOpen initiative.
Graphic design by Victor Lowe/Ohio University Libraries
It has been a little over a year since Ohio University Libraries closed its buildings on March 17 due to the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic. Since then, the way we live, work, teach and learn have changed dramatically, but one constant remained throughout this tumultuous time: the dedication, enthusiasm and unceasing support of the Ohio University Libraries staff.
Many faculty turned to the Libraries for assistance as they transferred to teaching and working online. One example of innovation that was critical in ensuring that faculty needs were met during the pandemic was the Libraries’ new Content Request form.