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The scanner is in a College of Engineering building. Peering into the innards of animals is just one use of it.
UF’s Florida Museum of Natural History is home to a collaborative endeavor called iDigBio, which was awarded a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to boost digitizing specimen collections.
A network of sites in the country with CT scanners are part of iDigBio. An estimated 1 billion species are in collections nationwide, and the goal is to digitize all of them.
Images are available to researchers, teachers and the public. The wizardry of some software can magnify details in the images, isolate anatomical parts for close inspection and perform other manipulations to learn more about the creatures.
After resuming updates last week, the Bell County Health Districtâs COVID-19 dashboard now shows 18 new deaths locally.
The countyâs data now shows a total of 466 deaths in the county from the virus as of Friday â 18 more than the 448 shown by the state dashboard last week.
State data has fallen behind local reporting during the pandemic. The Texas Department of State Health Services updated their dashboard Sunday to show the county as having 450 deaths from the virus â still a 16-death difference compared to local reporting.
Nikki Morrow, interim director for the district, said that the deaths are not a part of a spike, but have been accumulating over time since May when the district stopped reporting numbers. She said the district saw 13 deaths between May 8 and 28, and eight in June.
Bell County officials seeing uptick in COVID-19 cases
Officials say a majority of the new cases are among people between the ages of 20 and 40. Author: Bary Roy Updated: 9:42 PM CDT July 7, 2021
BELL COUNTY, Texas Bell County healthcare leaders said that have noticed a recent uptick in COVID-19 cases as they continue to closely follow cases and hospitalizations in the county.
Over the past several weeks, the county’s incidence rate has hovered between 25 and 30 new cases per 100,000 population. However, last week’s total was 154 active cases.
“The increased volumes are more evidence that we are not out of COVID just yet,” Patrick Swindle, Chief Executive Officer of Seton Medical Center in Harker Heights, said. “Staying diligent with masking and appropriate hand-hygiene is still important. However, the most effective route is getting vaccinated. I urge the public to take the necessary steps to get vaccinated wherever offered.”
As local elections near this year, Bell County is once again searching for a new elections administrator.
At their weekly meeting Tuesday, Commissioners unanimously approved an agreement with SGR Executive Recruitment Services to search for a new elections administrator for the county. The agreement comes as the current administrator Matthew Dutton told officials of his wish to return to his former job as the assistant administrator.
Commissioners set an amount not to exceed $24,900 for the organizationâs services.
County Judge David Blackburn said that the Bell County Elections Commission, which chooses the elections administrator, decided to go with a professional company for the search this time. He said the use of this firm is different from the normal procedure of posting the job that the county normally does.