IBM hopes to build students skills in quantum computing while increasing diversity and inclusion in the workforce. Author: Devin Johnson Updated: 7:33 PM EST February 24, 2021
ORANGEBURG, S.C. The IBM-HBCU Quantum Center is a multi-year investment of resources to develop HBCU students at HBCU across the nation to create a more diverse quantum-ready workforce. These courses that IBM has made available to us allow SC State to enhance all of the offerings we already had, said South Carolina State University President James E. Clark.
For SC State University Students like Ramon Lavender, the partnership gives him access to IBM quantum computers on the cloud and more career opportunities.
In the pandemic classroom, less proved more except when it didn’t.
Dr. Joel Stake, senior lecturer in Louisiana Tech’s School of Biological Sciences, shared early in winter quarter his experience concerning the challenges and successes of teaching in a virtual classroom during the pandemic.
A takeoff on a song by The Offspring, his webinar was titled “The Kids Are Not Alright: Applying Lessons Learned from Fall 2020.” His goal in the presentation was a challenging one: how faculty can convey a Virtual Presence or how to effectively engage and influence students in an online course.
He presented through Top Hat at the invitation of Kelly Cronin, Manager of Faculty Engagement Programs for the student engagement platform professors use both inside and outside the classroom. Top Hat provides a lecture tool that tracks attendance, asks questions, features interactive slides, and manages classroom discussions. Outside the classroom the platform features an interactive Text pla
BRIDGETOWN The Caribbean is a multicultural, multiethnic, multi-religious, multilingual region.
The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM-1973) was initially a group of former British colonies. Today, CARICOM is a grouping of 20 countries: 15 member states and five associate members.
The islands of St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas remained under Danish rule until 1917. They were then purchased by the United States and became the U.S. Virgin Islands, a territory of the United States.
The majority black population of approximately 110,000 people mirrors that of most of the former British CARICOM countries, blended with a Puerto Rican and Hispanic cultural influence. There are diasporic linkages on the U.S. mainland and strong family ties between the people of CARICOM, the wider Caribbean, and the people of the USVI.
February 21, 2021
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by Dr. Basil Springer
The Caribbean is a multicultural, multiethnic, multireligious, multilingual region.
The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM-1973) was initially a group of former British colonies.
Today, CARICOM’s membership and associate membership includes Suriname, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.
The islands of St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas remained under Danish rule until 1917. They were then purchased by the United States and became the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI), a territory of the United States.