Student wins $20K Coca-Cola scholarship
Pacific Ridge School senior Nick Simpson has been named a 2021 Coca-Cola Scholar, receiving a $20,000 college scholarship. He was among 150 high school seniors chosen from an initial pool of nearly 100,000 applicants nationwide. As a member of the 33rd class of Coca-Cola Scholars, Nick exemplifies superior leadership, service and academics. He was also one of five Scholars this year chosen to receive a surprise celebration from the foundation. After volleyball practice, Nick was met with a Coca-Cola truck emblazoned with his name, the official Coca-Cola Bear mascot, a giant check for $20,000 and family members and faculty. The Coca-Cola Scholars Program is a joint effort of Coca-Cola bottlers across the country and The Coca Cola Company. With the 2021 class, the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation will have provided more than $75 million in scholarships over 33 years.
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IMAGE: Interactions of a single driver for each determinant of a risk, namely hazard, vulnerability, exposure, and response to climate change. view more
Credit: Simpson et al. 2021
A team of researchers from the Africa Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) led a global team of 21 climate risk scholars to better understand and inform decision making around climate change risks in Africa and globally by examining how the drivers of risk interact.
Their work extends on existing risk frameworks with the hope that this research could help decision makers, managers and researchers understand the inherent complexity of climate change. Understanding the interactions among risks holds potential to change the way we respond to the risks. This is important because policy makers may worry about the risk of implementing a response as much, or more so, than the risk the response aims to reduce. This can lead to inaction at the very time when we need to be most active
Over a week after he was tested for the novel coronavirus, Lawrence resident Justin Thomas learned his results were positive, but the process of getting that response was more challenging than he and his spouse ever imagined.
âWhat you need to worry about right now is hygiene, not because the coronavirus is a big threat here in Lawrence, but because ordinary colds and flus are,â said Sheree Willis, executive director of the KU Confucius Institute, at the âFact vs. Fictionâ event.
In less than a month, however, the world of KU students â like the rest of the world â took a dramatic turn that few expected but that all would feel. The year of COVID-19 began, changing life in ways that no one could have imagined but that nearly all continue to endure.
Breaking new ground: Will Linley, chairman of Linley & Simpson; Niall McTurk, founder, and Stuart Wilson, branch manager, of Sinclair Properties; and Nick Simpson, chief executive, Linley & Simpson. YORK s longest-established specialist student lettings agency has been sold. Sinclair Properties in York, which was founded in 2000, will retain its name, branding, team of staff, and brace of campus-handy offices on Lord Mayor’s Walk and Main Street, Heslington, as part of the agreement. Linley & Simpson has bought the company, marking its first dedicated venture into the student lettings market. This latest acquisition for the residential lettings agency is breaking new ground in its 24-year history.
YORKSHIRE residential letting specialists Linley & Simpson has added more than 600 homes to its portfolio after another major acquisition following the unsolicited approach and subsequent purchase of the residential lettings and management division of Dacre, Son & Hartley, the 200-year-old fellow independent Yorkshire estate agent which operates a network of 20 branches. The deal will now see Dacre, Son & Hartley strengthen its key focus on residential sales, as well as a raft of other property services including land and new homes, commercial agency and property management, its nationally-active healthcare investment business and agricultural division. The deal, completed for an undisclosed sum, is the seventh struck by Leeds-headquartered Linley & Simpson since the outbreak of COVID-19.