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Cook visited a Foxconn plant in China last year.
Citing sources familiar with Cook's meeting, tech.ifeng.com reports the Apple executive met with China Telecom's senior leadership this week. As of this writing, the talks are supposedly over, though it is not known if Cook has returned to the U.S.
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Honoured: Alan Parker, a City public relations chief who has holidayed with the Prime Minister, was handed a knighthood
David Cameron was accused of 'cronyism' last night after handing gongs to friends, Tory donors and even the woman who runs his supper club.
Alan Parker, a City public relations chief who has holidayed with the Prime Minister, was handed a knighthood in the new year's honours list.
And at least two Tory donors and four people who have given money to the Liberal Democrats will get gongs – a move critics said 'discredits the honours system'. Peter Emerson Jones, who has given £41,000 to the Tories, including £31,000 to George Osborne's constituency party, wins an OBE.
The Cheshire property magnate, who has made seven donations to the Tatton Tories since 2008 – the most recent being £5,000 on August 12 – was rewarded for services to business in the North West.
Mr Cameron has been accused of running a Government of cronies and friends that is out of touch with the concerns of ordinary Britons.
He secured an MBE for Marion Dowding, the former deputy chairman of his West Oxfordshire Conservative Association, for voluntary political service. She is currently chairman of West Oxfordshire Conservative Association's supper club.
Trevor Mort, another Oxfordshire Tory and chairman of the Conservative Party disciplinary committee picks up an OBE. Carole Hyde, former chairman of the same committee, wins an MBE, also for voluntary political service.
Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott told the Mail: 'Honours should go to unsung heroes or heroines, not Cameron's cronies and Osborne's donors.
'It's low-level corruption compared with peddling peerages, but it still stinks.'
The decision to give a knighthood to Mr Parker, boss of the Brunswick PR company, raised eyebrows since he has sought to cultivate close relationships with politicians of all parties.
The son of former British Rail chief Sir Peter Parker, the PR man once employed Gordon Brown's wife Sarah and Mr Brown is godfather to his son William.
Karren Brady has been handed a CBE just two months after introducing George Osborne at the Tory Party conference.
The Conservatives are trying to persuade the Apprentice star, left, to become an MP or their candidate for mayor of London when Boris Johnson stands down in 2016.
Miss Brady, who spoke at the Tory conference on the subject of small enterprises, has been appointed by David Cameron as a business ambassador. She is also vice-chairman of West Ham United FC.
But as the Tories returned to political ascendancy he started to cultivate Mr Cameron too.
The pair holidayed together in South Africa in 2008 where they watched whales at Plettenberg Bay and were photographed together splashing in the surf.
No stranger to controversy, Mr Parker advised U.S. food giant Kraft in its £12billion hostile takeover of the British firm Cadbury.
Richard Ottaway (left), the former Conservative MP for Croydon South, was honoured along with fellow Tory Peter Luff (right)
Kevin Barron, MP for Rother Valley, was handed an honour
Three MPs won knighthoods – Tories Peter Luff and Richard Ottaway and Labour's Kevin Barron. Other political donors with awards include Lady Patricia Hobson, who receives an OBE for services to ballet and philanthropy.
She has made four donations to the Hendon Tory Party totalling £20,000.
Four Lib Dem donors receive gongs. Robert Brown, who was awarded a CBE for political service, has made four donations of between £1,125 and £1,560 to the Scottish Lib Dems. Robert Woodthorpe-Browne, of Liberal International, wins an MBE for political service.
He has handed £2,400 to West Worcestershire Lib Dems.
Lord Oakeshott said: 'Honours should go to unsung heroes or heroines, not Cameron's cronies and Osborne's donors'
And Peter Bennett Jones, who was given a CBE for services to the entertainment industry and charity, particularly through Comic Relief, has given Nick Clegg's party £37,500.
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"Erin Brockovich" is "Silkwood" (Meryl Streep fighting nuclear wastes) crossed with "A Civil Action" (John Travolta against pollution) plus Julia Roberts in a plunging neckline. Roberts plays a real-life heroine who helped uncover one of the biggest environmental crimes in history. But her performance upstages the story; this is always Roberts, not Brockovich, and unwise wardrobe decisions position her character somewhere between a caricature and a distraction.
I know all about the real Erin Brockovich because I saw her on "Oprah," where she cried at just the right moment in a filmed recap of her life. She was a divorced mom of three with few employment prospects who talked her way into a job at a law firm, began an investigation on her own initiative and played a key role in a pollution suit that cost Pacific Gas & Electric a $333 million settlement.
There is obviously a story here, but "Erin Brockovich" doesn't make it compelling. The film lacks focus and energy, the character development is facile and thin, and what about those necklines? I know that the real Brockovich liked to dress provocatively; that's her personal style and she's welcome to it. But the Hollywood version makes her look like a miniskirted hooker, with bras that peek cheerfully above her necklines.
Oh, the movie tries to deal with the clothes. "You might want to rethink your wardrobe a little," her boss (Albert Finney) tells her. She inelegantly replies, "I think I look nice, and as long as I have one ass instead of two, I'll wear what I like." Yeah, fine, after she's already lost her own personal injury suit by flashing cleavage on the witness stand and firing off four-letter words. When she dresses the same way to go door to door in a working-class neighborhood where industrial chemicals have caused illness, we have to wonder whether, in real life, she was hassled or mistrusted.
Whether she was or wasn't, the costume design sinks this movie. Roberts is a sensational-looking woman, and dressed so provocatively in every single scene, she upstages the material. If the medium is the message, the message in this movie is sex.
That's all the more true because the supporting characters are not vivid or convincing. Finney is one of the most robust and powerful actors in the movies, but here, as a personal injury lawyer named Ed Masry, he comes across like an office manager at H&R Block. He's dampened; there's no fire in his performance, and when he complains that the cost of the lawsuit may bankrupt him, all we can think about is the infinitely greater impact of John Travolta's similar dialogue in "A Civil Action." Erin has a kind of relationship with her next-door neighbor George, a Harley fan who becomes a baby-sitter for her children. George is played by Aaron Eckhart, who was so dominant in "In the Company of Men," but here, wearing a twerpy John Ritter beard that he doesn't seem comfortable with, he's a shallow cipher. The couple can't even have convincing arguments because there's not enough between them in the first place.
Seeing the details of Brockovich's home life, her relationship with her kids and friends, the way she talks, the way she postures, we're always aware that there's a performance going on. Streep was so much more convincing in the somewhat similar role of Karen Silkwood.
We understand that Pacific Gas & Electric has polluted ground water and is apparently responsible for death and disease, but it never emerges as much of a villain, and in the pallid confrontations with its attorneys, there's none of the juice that Robert Duvall's company attorney brought to "A Civil Action." Director Steven Soderbergh has blown a great opportunity to make the movie that the real Erin Brockovich calls for. Susannah Grant's by-the-numbers screenplay sees the characters as markers on a storyboard rather than flesh-and-blood humans. Scenes with members of the suffering families genuflect in the direction of pathos, but are cut and dried. It doesn't feel like we're seeing Erin Brockovich share the pain, but like we're seeing Julia Roberts paying a house call (again, we remember the power of "A Civil Action").
"Erin Brockovich" has a screenplay with the depth and insight of a cable-TV docudrama, and that won't do for a 126-minute "major production." Maybe it's not that the necklines are distracting. Maybe it's just that the movie gives us so little to focus on that they win by default.
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Hanna's presentation will recount Albert Einstein's first prediction of the existence of gravitational waves, made 100 years ago. He also will discuss what causes gravitational waves, how the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) searches for these faint signals, how the historic first detection of gravitational waves was achieved, and what the future holds for gravitational wave astronomy. Hanna is co-chair of one of LIGO's largest astrophysics working groups, the Compact Binary Coalescence group, which was instrumental in identifying the source of the historic recent first detection of gravitational waves.
"I was really happy when the announcement of this detection was made," said Chris Palma, senior lecturer in the Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. "Many of our students in our major and colleagues in our department and in the Penn State Department of Physics have worked for years to reach this point. It was great to see all of that work pay off with this amazing detection, and I can't wait to see what new things we will learn now that we have an entirely new window into the Universe."
In addition to his central leadership role in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Hanna is a member of the Penn State LIGO group, which is part of the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos directed by Abhay Ashtekar, Holder of the Eberly Family Chair in Physics. Hanna's research is focused on detecting gravitational waves emitted by pairs of very massive objects just before they merge -- either two neutron stars or two black holes. He was honored in 2015 with the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the foundation's most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholar through research, education, and the integration of education and research.
The Friedman Lecture Series in Astronomy is hosted by the Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and is funded largely by the Ronald M. and Susan J. Friedman Outreach Fund in Astronomy. Ronald Friedman is a member of the department's Board of Visitors.
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Anna Wing will graduate with a 4.0 grade point average and a B.S. degree in biochemistry and molecular biology with a minor in English. In addition to her academic classes, she participated in research in the laboratory of Professor Reese, where she investigated transcription-regulation proteins under stressed conditions and the response of cells to DNA damage. She received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service, which enabled her to perform research involving cells of the immune system in the laboratory of Kristina Schachtrup at the University of Freiburg in Germany during the summer of 2014. She also traveled to Tanzania to study ecology during the summer of 2013.
Penn State awards that Wing has received include Eberly College of Science Braddock Scholarships from 2012 through 2016, Schreyer Honors Scholarships from 2012 through 2016, the President's Freshman Award in 2013, the Women in Science and Engineering (WISER) Scholarship in 2013, the President Sparks Award in 2014, the Ronald Venezie Scholarship in Science for Honors Education in 2014, the Bayard D. Kunkle Scholarship in 2014, the Herko Family Scholarship in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2015, and the Evan Pugh Scholar Award in 2015 and 2016.
Her service contributions to Penn State include her participation in the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON) throughout her college years. During the 2016-2016 academic year, she served as administrative chair for Springfield -- a special-interest organization dedicated to supporting THON. She was a tutor for organic chemistry from 2014 through 2016, she was a volunteer at the Mt. Nittany Medical Center from 2013 through 2016, and she participated in the Penn State Presidential Leadership Academy from 2013 to 2016.
"I have gained such a strong family in my time at Penn State, from my work with professors in the classroom to the friends I have found in my clubs and extracurriculars," Wing said. "My own personal network of Penn State connections now reaches across the country, and the alumni network reaches around the world." After graduation, Wing will work in a cancer research lab at the University of Pennsylvania for one year, then she plans to attend medical school in the fall of 2017.
Wing is a graduate of the State College Area High School. She will be joined at commencement by her parents Karen and Scott Wing.
Joshua Bram will graduate with a 3.99 grade point average, a B.S. degree in biology with a focus on genetics and development, and a B.S. degree in immunology and infectious disease. In addition to his academic classes, he conducted research in the laboratory of Andrew Read, Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and Entomology and Eberly Professor of Biotechnology, where he studied the virulence of the malaria parasite and the evolution of drug resistance. He also served as a teaching assistant for a number of courses from 2013 through 2016.
The Penn State awards that Bram has received for his scholarship and research include Eberly College of Science Braddock Scholarships from 2012 through 2016; the Schreyer Academic Excellence Scholarship from 2012 through 2016; the President's Freshmen Award in 2013; Schreyer Ambassador Travel Grants in 2013, 2014, and 2015; Eberly College of Science Undergraduate Research Grants in 2013 and 2015; the Undergraduate Summer Discovery Grant in 2014; the Overall Life Science award in the Eberly College of Science Undergraduate Experiences Poster Session in 2014; the Bayard D. Kunkle Academic Achievement Scholarship in 2014; the Evan Pugh Junior Scholar Award in 2015; the Evan Pugh Senior Scholar Award in 2016; and the Eric A. Walker Award in 2016.
Bram also received an American Society of Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellowship in the summer of 2015. He became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 2015, Phi Kappa Phi Society in 2014, and Gamma Sigma Delta Society in 2014.
His service contributions to Penn State include serving as the Science Lion Pride alumni relations director in the 2013-2014 academic year, helping to organize the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON) during the 2014-2015 academic year, and serving as administrative chair during the 2015-2016 academic year for Springfield -- a special-interest organization dedicated to supporting THON. As part of the Penn State Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship Program, he traveled to Sierra Leone and Zambia in the summers of 2014 and 2015, respectively. He also traveled to Tanzania to study ecology during the summer of 2013. Bram was selected to be honored as a student representative on the Penn State Homecoming Court in the fall of 2015.
"As an alumnus, I will always be reminded of what I accomplished here, the opportunities provided to me as a student, and the great things that come out of Penn State every single day," Bram said. "With graduation on the horizon, I know that I could not have attended a better school or gotten more out of my experience. "The bright future ahead for our University will bring me back home to stand proud as a Penn State graduate for the rest of my life."
After graduation, Bram plans to attend the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania beginning later this year.
Bram is a graduate of the State College Area High School. He will be joined at commencement by his father, Barry Bram; his mother, Ann Taylor; his stepparents and family.
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"We have captured and characterized the structure of the protein, RlmN, at a key intermediate stage in its interaction with the RNA molecule," said Squire J. Booker, professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State University, an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and one of the leaders of the Penn State research team. "RlmN makes chemical modifications to RNA molecules that function to ensure that the bacteria can accurately synthesize new proteins. By having a picture of this intermediate step, we can learn a lot mechanistically about the protein's function."
The research team determined the three-dimensional structure of the RlmN protein from the bacterium, Escherichia coli. They took advantage of a mutation in the RlmN protein that results in a stable chemical bond between the protein and the RNA molecules it modifies. This approach allowed the researchers to capture and determine the structure of the protein during this normally transient event.
"RlmN is one of only two proteins that are known to make chemical modifications to at least two different kinds of RNA molecules. In fact, RlmN technically modifies seven RNAs -- it can modify a site on ribosomal RNA and six different transfer RNAs," said Booker. "RlmN is very closely related, both evolutionarily and functionally, to a protein that functions to confer antibiotic resistance in bacteria, Cfr. Because RlmN and Cfr function by very similar mechanisms, we can use our structure of RlmN bound to one of its substrates to understand better how Cfr confers antibiotic resistance. Ultimately, the structure may help design drug molecules to combat antibiotic resistance."
Until recently, the sole activity of the RlmN protein was believed to be modifications of ribosomal RNA -- the large RNA molecules that catalyze protein synthesis in the cell. Surprisingly, the researchers trapped a version of RlmN in the middle of its reaction cycle bound to another, much smaller type of RNA molecule. Their discovery occurred while they were attempting to capture the RlmN protein while it was modifying ribosomal RNA in E. coli cells. The researchers determined the structure of this protein/RNA complex and showed that the RlmN protein was bound to a molecule of transfer RNA. Transfer RNA also is involved in building proteins in the cell.
The researchers were able to refine the resolution of their structure of the RlmN protein bound to the transfer RNA by producing the complex in test tubes with purified protein and synthesized molecules of transfer RNA. Both structures show that, unlike other proteins that make chemical modifications to transfer RNA, RlmN interacts with the entire length of the transfer RNA molecule. An extended RNA interface may be linked to the ability of RlmN to modify a larger RNA substrate like ribosomal RNA in addition to the smaller transfer RNA molecules.
"Not many RNA modifying proteins can target different types of RNA, and RlmN is very different from the only other known protein that modifies both ribosomal and transfer RNAs. The difference is that RlmN does not recognize the sequence of the RNA molecules," said Amie Boal, assistant professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State and another leader of the research team. "RlmN instead recognizes the three-dimensional structure of its target RNA. In fact, the protein actually remodels the RNA dramatically to make it fit within the rigid structure of the protein's active site. This distinctive approach to substrate recognition is probably the key to how the protein targets two very different types of RNA molecules."
In addition to Booker and Boal, the research team included graduate students Erica L. Schwalm and Tyler L. Grove of Penn State.
The research was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (grant numbers GM100011 and GM101957), the Searle Scholars Program, and Tobacco Settlement Funds.
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The free public lectures, sponsored by the Penn State Eberly College of Science, include a lecture intended for a general audience, titled "Movie reconstruction from Brain Signals: 'Mind-Reading'" at 5:00 p.m. on Monday, April 25, in the Berg Auditorium, 100 Huck Life Sciences Building on the Penn State University Park Campus. The series also includes a lecture intended for scientists at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, titled "Unveiling the Mysteries in Spatial Gene Expression." For the event on Tuesday, Yu will speak in the University Conference Center on the Penn State Hershey Campus, and simultaneously her lecture will be teleconferenced to 108 Wartik Laboratory on the Penn State University Park Campus.
Yu's research group is engaged with scientists doing interdisciplinary research in genomics, neuroscience, and remote sensing. Her interests focus on statistics and machine learning theory, methodologies, and algorithms for solving high-dimensional data problems.
During the April 25 lecture for a general audience, Yu will describe a breakthrough at the intersection of neuroscience and statistics, in which a statistical method, Penalized Least Squares, was used to construct a "mind-reading" algorithm that reconstructs movies from brain signals obtained via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This achievement led to the development of the system that was selected as one of Time Magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2011.
Yu's April 26 lecture intended for scientists will explore how gene networks contribute to the development of normal and abnormal tissues in an organism, including how these networks must vary in different locations in an organism to give rise to different types of tissue. In her technical talk on April 26, Yu will discuss a new method of extracting meaningful information from spatial gene-expression data (staNMF). The resulting representation of spatial patterns can be used for prediction and categorizing gene-expression patterns. Yu will demonstrate the use of the method to analyze the results of experiments in fruit flies, in which the gene networks have been altered using the new crispr/cas9 technology.
Yu is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2006, and was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) in 2013-2014. She is a fellow of IMS, the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She has served on or is serving on many journal editorial boards including those of the Journal of Machine Learning Research, Annals of Statistics, and Journal of the American Statistical Association. She has served on the scientific advisory board of the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA and the board of trustees of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics at Brown University.
The Marker lectures were established in 1984 through a gift from Russell Earl Marker, professor emeritus of chemistry at Penn State, whose pioneering synthetic methods revolutionized the steroid-hormone industry and opened the door to the current era of hormone therapies, including the birth-control pill. The Marker endowment allows the Penn State Eberly College of Science to present annual Marker lectures in astronomy and astrophysics, the chemical sciences, evolutionary biology, genetic engineering, the mathematical sciences, the statistical sciences, and physics.
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"Climate change is not the biggest problem in the world," said Alley in the PBS series on climate changes, "EARTH: The Operators' Manual." "The biggest problem in the world is getting along with each other. But it's part of that because we're not going to get along with each other if we're not getting along with the planet. If we approach Earth as if we have an Operators' Manual, we can avoid climate catastrophes, improve energy security, and make millions of good jobs."
"Richard Alley explores the world and enlightens our understanding of that world with incredible creative energy, " said Bob Minard, Senior Lecturer, Emeritus in chemistry at Penn State. Alley has been recognized with numerous awards for his research including being elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and to the U.K. Royal Society. He received a "Focus on the Environment" Heinz Prize in 2011, the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2009, the Revelle Medal of the American Geophysical Union in 2007, the Seligman Crystal of the International Glaciological Society in 2005, a Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal in 1999, and others.
Alley also has been honored with awards for teaching and service, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science Public Engagement with Science Award, the Public Service Award of the Geological Society of America, the American Geological Institute Award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Understanding of the Geosciences, and the Schneider Award for Science Communication. Penn State has awarded him the Eisenhower Award (the highest University-wide teaching award), and the College of Earth and Mineral Science's Wilson Teaching Award, Mitchell Innovative Teaching Award, and Faculty Mentoring Award.
In 2014, the National Center for Science Education presented its first annual Friend of the Planet Award to Alley and Michael Mann, professor of atmospheric science at Penn State. Also in 2014, Alley taught the Coursera MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) "Energy, Environment, and Our Future." This spring, Alley presented a TEDxPSU talk at Penn State. Alley also has made several appearances on television. In April 2011, PBS debuted a three-part series on climate change titled "EARTH: The Operators' Manual," hosted by Alley.
The Frank Whitmore Lecture on Chemistry Education and Public Policy honors Frank C. Whitmore, who was Dean of the Penn State College of Chemistry and Physics from 1929 until his untimely death in 1947. Sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania Section of the American Chemical Society and hosted by the Penn State Department of Chemistry, this lecture honors Whitmore's service to the American Chemical Society, which began in the Central Pennsylvania Section and the Organic Division and culminated with his election as American Chemical Society president in 1938. The lecture also honors his service to chemistry as its chief public spokesman for over a decade and as one of three coordinators of the organic chemistry effort during World War II. Finally, it recognizes Whitmore's contributions as a teacher, educator, and formulator of policy in chemistry education and curriculum reform. For more information about this lecture, please contact Dan Sykes at 814-863-0796 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The genomes of two distinct strains of the virus that causes the common lip cold sore, herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), have been identified within an individual person -- an achievement that could be useful to forensic scientists for tracing a person's travel history. The research also opens the door to understanding how a patient's viruses influence the course of disease. The research by an international team led by Moriah L. Szpara, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State University, will be published in the May 2016 issue of the journal Virology.
Most people harbor HSV-1, frequently as a strain acquired from their mothers shortly after birth and carried for the rest of their lives. The new discovery was made with the help of a volunteer from the United States. The research revealed that one strain of the HSV-1 virus harbored by this individual is of a European/North American variety and the other is an Asian variety -- likely acquired during the volunteer's military service in the Korean War in the 1950s.
"It's possible that more people have their life history documented at the molecular level in the HSV-1 strains they carry," said Derek Gatherer, a lecturer in the Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and a member of the research team, which also includes scientists at Georgia State University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Princeton University.
Earlier research by the same team has demonstrated that the geographical origin of HSV-1 can be predicted, as well. Since Asian, African, and European/North American varieties of the virus exist, and the virus is often acquired early in life, the research implies that a personal strain of HSV-1 can reflect a person's origin. Another implication is that two individuals who have identical strains of HSV-1 are more likely to be related than those who have different strains.
"Using similar genetic fingerprinting of HSV-1 could help flesh out a person's life story, adding an extra layer of genetic information not provided by our genomes alone. Forensic virology could be on the way in the same way in which we use genetic fingerprinting of our human DNA to locate perpetrators at the scene of a crime and to help trace the relatives of unidentified bodies," Gatherer said.
"We're working on better ways to sequence viral genomes from ever-smaller amounts of starting material, to allow identification and comparison of samples from diverse sources," said Szpara, who also is affiliated with Penn State's Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. "Deep sequencing of viruses like HSV-1 will provide a better view of the viral genetic diversity that individuals harbor, and will provide valuable information about how that influences the course of disease."
In addition to Szpara and Gatherer, other members of the research team include Christopher D. Bowen, Daniel W. Renner, and Jacob T. Shreve at Penn State (Eberly College of Science and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences), Yolanda Tafuri at Princeton University, Kimberly M. Payne and Paul Kinchington at the University of Pittsburgh, and Richard D. Dix at Georgia State University and Emory University.
This research was supported by startup funds from Penn State University, along with funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Eye & Ear Institute of Pittsburgh, and Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.
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"Imagine throwing a pebble in a pond: the first ripple is small, but then you watch in awe as the ripples become larger and larger," said Neha Gupta, Penn State science student. "And just so is the impact of one person with an idea or mission that speaks to the heart."
Gupta is one of the rarest kinds of students. Balancing a premedicine honors curriculum, she also runs an international charity and acts as a spokesperson for Microsoft.
But she's eager to make the most of her time at Penn State, even with her busy schedule.
"The best part is the number of opportunities and resources that will prepare me to be a holistic healer," she said. "The professors are very knowledgeable and accessible to students. And I love my pre-med adviser who is a mentor to me."
The Schreyer Scholar and premedicine major created her charity, Empower Orphans, when she was just 9 years old. An annual trip to India to visit her grandparents always included a visit to a local orphanage.
"It was our way of giving back to the local community," Gupta explained.
Gupta, even at a young age, realized how little the children in the orphanage had in comparison to her own upbringing.
"By the time I was 9 years old, I was able to comprehend the implications and realities of these children's lives. And I realized that although these children and I were the same age, and even of the same ethnicity, we lived completely different lives."
Thus, Empower Orphans was born. Since its founding in 2005, Empower Orphans has helped more than 25,000 children, both in India and in the United States. While she was able to obtain some corporate donors, the majority of the charity's more than $1.6 million raised has come from Gupta's own efforts, by selling her toys or homemade wine charms or going door to door to raise money.
Through Empower Orphans, Gupta and the charity's volunteers have been able to build five libraries, four computer centers, a science laboratory, and a sewing center for underprivileged children. This is in addition to providing free health care clinics, building a well to provide clean water, and purchasing numerous school supplies, household items and clothing for these children.
While it may seem like an antiquated idea in the Western world, the sewing center in particular helps underprivileged children in India learn valuable skills that can help them earn a living. Gupta cites an example of a girl who learned to sew in the sewing center and now runs a successful tailoring business.
"She now exclusively supports her entire family," said Gupta. "She now mentors other young women on economic empowerment and how to seek control of their own destinies."
Gupta was surprised when she was awarded the International Children's Peace Prize in November 2014 for her work.
"When you do something you love, the work itself is the reward," said Gupta. "So naturally, I was shocked, humbled and ecstatic. Especially knowing that Malala Yousafzai won the award in 2013 made me feel privileged."
Microsoft was so inspired by Gupta's work and her commitment to inspire others to get involved that they chose her to be one of three students from around the country to be featured for their Collective Project — focused on "harnessing the power of the many to bring great ideas to life."
Gupta has now brought Empower Orphans to Penn State as a student organization. She also plans to study abroad in an underserved area to gain insight into global medicine.
"It has been incredible to see support from Penn State students and staff," said Gupta. "I feel blessed to have had such a positive response."
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A powerful conservative group is wading into Virginia's fight over Obamacare's Medicaid expansion.
In a new radio ad, Americans for Prosperity says new Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe's bid to expand the low-income insurance program is akin to forcing the Affordable Care Act on Virginia's citizens, and says the expansion would diminish the quality of care for residents of the commonwealth.
Further, the "Shutdown" ad blames supporters of the Medicaid expansion for the current budget impasse in the state Legislature.
"Lets face it: Medicaid expansion is Obamacare, and it's threatening the quality of health care for millions of Americans," says the ad's narrator. "In Virginia you could lose your health care, or your doctor. And some legislators might even shut down our state government over it."
While Koch groups claim they stayed out of the federal shutdown debate the last time around, they're injecting their opinion — and dollars — into the battle in Virginia.
"This is bad policy that will likely significantly reduce the quality of care for hundreds of thousands of Virginians, and it is irresponsible for some legislators in Richmond to put politics over people by holding the budget hostage and threatening a government shutdown over Obamacare," said AFP-Virginia State Director Sean Lansing.
Virginia briefly appeared poised to adopt its own version of Medicaid expansion, which would use federal funds to buy private plans on the insurance exchange for low-income individuals. A similar plan was approved and implemented in Arkansas, and the state's Legislature is currently debating its renewal. The Arkansas government is also at risk of a shutdown if members of the House cannot agree on a way forward.
Moderate Virginia state Sen. John Watkins, a Republican, proposed a bipartisan Medicaid expansion plan that would include provisions to make it more palatable to conservative members. The proposal would require unemployed coverage recipients to look for work, require a percentage of their wages in payment, and allow the state to back out in the future, according to The Washington Post. It would extend coverage to those below 138 percent of the poverty level and use $1.7 billion per year in federal taxes collected in Virginia under the health law to buy private plans.
However, disdain for Obamacare in any form remains too strong for some lawmakers, and the House decisively voted down the plan 67-32. Sixty-six of the 67 members of the House voted against it.
Each chamber has passed its own budget proposal, and neither seems prepared to budge on the issue of Medicaid expansion. The Virginia Legislature needs to pass a budget before March 8 or risk a special legislative session, and potentially a shutdown.
McAuliffe made Medicaid expansion a priority during his campaign, and is currently attempting to garner support and keep good on his promise.
The Virginia Chamber of Commerce and state business leaders have called on Republican representatives to accept the Medicaid funds, saying it would benefit the state's economy. Hospitals are pushing for expansion as well, as they face funding cuts as a result of the ACA.
"There's a battle in Virginia between President Obama, Governor McAuliffe, and those committed to quality health care," warns the AFP-Virginia ad.
Time is limited to find some kind of truce, and coverage for 400,000 Virginians is on the line.
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|By Fuat Kircaali
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|April 4, 2011 07:00 PM EDT
Yesterday (Sunday) AP reported that "State Dept. issued travel warning on Syria" and this morning (Monday) Reuters filed a follow-up report that "US offers free flights out for employees in Syria."
As of this morning, and since July 2010, my abducted daughter Sofia Kircaali, a US citizen, remains in Syria and in harm's way.
On Friday, I watched videos on the Internet showing violence inside a mosque one block away from where Sofia currently lives with her mother and grandmother.
Twitter updates on Sofia @FuatKircaali
I already wrote two blog posts on Sofia's status in Syria. Both posts were read by Washington, by our Embassy in Damascus, Syria, as well as the Syrian government both here in DC and in Damascus.
▸ Open Letter to the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad
▸ Open Letter to the First Lady of Syria Asma al-Assad
This morning, on Monday, Diane Macedo of Fox News published a detailed article on Sofia:
▸ Fox News On-camera Interview
▸ Fox News Story on Sofia's Abduction to Syria
Following the Syrian president's speech, the violence in Syria will escalate to new heights this week and will peak on Friday, April 8, 2011, in most major cities. The State Department must make a final effort to bring Sofia home as she appears to be the only American child left behind in this country today.
Twitter updates on Sofia @FuatKircaali
Mr. Barack Obama, The President of the United States
Mrs. Hilary Clinton, Secretary of State
Mrs. Sharon Anderholm Wiener, Outgoing Consul General to Istanbul, Turkey
Mr. Charles F. (Chuck) Hunter, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Damascus
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