Fourth-year Michael Baumer is among the 40 American recipients of a Gates Cambridge Scholarship this year. The scholarship, which the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation established in 2000, funds graduate study at the University of Cambridge for outstanding students worldwide.
Baumer, 20, a native of St. Louis, is majoring in both physics and mathematics at UChicago. He plans to pursue an MPhil in physics at Cambridge next year.
At Cambridges Cavendish Laboratory, he plans to continue research he conducted as an undergraduate at the Enrico Fermi Institute, working to close in on the Higgs boson. The elusive God particle is a crucialand as yet undiscoveredaspect of the Standard Model, the theory that explains the fundamental building blocks of matter.
Baumers senior thesis will focus on measurements of Standard Model background processes and tests of a technique called Quark/Gluon Tagging, which will help researchers determine whether they have seen hints of the Higgs, he said.
He came to UChicago intent on studying physics, and cultivated his passion for the field with summer internships at the Laboratory for Non-Equilibrium Materials in Chile and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland.
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Kentucky is putting off a change to its state testing program that would have cut back on the use of readers on reading tests for some students with disabilities.
The changes, approved by the state board of education last week, were to have taken effect in time for testing this spring, Rhonda L. Sims, the state director of support and research, said in an email Tuesday.
The changes would have banned the use of readers on state reading
comprehension tests, among other things. A reader can be another person or computer software that reads text aloud, and is an accommodation used by some students with disabilities, who may also use this kind of help in class every day. The switch was due to affect end-of-year state exams.
“Districts need to continue planning for the revised accommodation procedures in the new school year, particularly how districts will support teachers to ensure students become independent readers and are able to perform the required math computations without the aid of a calculator,” Ms.
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Most of us have been very familiar with military boarding school and other kinds of military-related schools. We’ve also been oriented as to what these army schools have done in order for the young generation to grow and develop into responsible citizens.
But how effective are these schools really? How are we going to attest it? Well, testimonials from parents who chose to let their children enrol to these schools will definitely serve as good evidence. Here are three of the various quoted testimonials that parents shared in a post. It was specifically detailing a definite military school to which some of you might have been interested to go to.
I really cannot believe what some people say about the MMA, It’s the most wonderful school environment ever. Our young men become well rounded and strong in all aspects of their world around them. My Hats off to the MMA. - Submitted by a parent
My son attended the summer camp program and he had an excellent experience. He worked hard, made good friends, had a lot of fun, got to feel an enormous sense of accomplishment running the obstacle courses and he even learned to make his bed and sweep the floor (lol). He was also in the aerospace elective so he now has knowledge and some experience flying small planes which is SUPER COOL! I am very satisfied with my decision to send him for a month this summer. It was an experience of a lifetime for him and he will take the memories and many of the lessons he learned with him. - Submitted by a parent
I hope the listed testimonials above served as your evaluator that indeed, military schools are worth enrolling to.
Miramar cornerback Tracy Howard and Palm Beach Gardens offensive lineman Avery Young were listed among Rivals.com’s update Top-100 prospects list, released today.
Both prospects are undecided on where they will play college football next year, among the 21 uncommitted players on the Top-100 list.
Howard is the top-ranked cornerback in the class of 2012, Young the 12th ranked offensive tackle. Howard is the 13th overall prospect on the list with Young coming in at No. 74.
Both players will make their college decisions soon. Howard will chose between LSU, USC and Florida, with Young choosing between Auburn and Georgia, with Miami making a late push to keep the 6-foot-7 star in South Florida.
Justin Yifu Lin, the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, will deliver the Leonard D. White Memorial Lecture in Political Science at noon on Friday, Jan. 6, in Assembly Hall at International House. He will be discussing his new book, Demystifying the Chinese Economy.
The event is free and open to the public and is part of a Global Voices Program co-sponsored by International House and the Department of Political Science.
Lin resided in International House while studying economics at UChicago, before receiving his PhD in 1986. He has been Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank since 2008.
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