Category Archives: Program activities

On Wednesday evening, UTRGV students celebrate their victory in the ASL Lotería activity of the American Sign Language Interpretation Program. The activity was one of many activities organized as part of National Deaf Awareness Week, September 20-24, at the Edinburgh campus. The week includes various activities to promote positivity, inclusion and understanding of deafness. (UTRGV […]

JACKSONVILLE, NC (WITN) – A second heat advisory was issued in the state of North Carolina for Friday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. It comes after Thursday’s heat index fell between 105 and 109 degrees. Weather experts are urging people to avoid going outside during the hottest times of the day as much as […]

School may be out (or nearly over) for the summer, but that doesn’t mean kids should take a break from reading. That’s why the Burlington Public Library is once again offering its eight-week summer reading program, a seasonal library staple since at least the 1940s. “Our theme this year is ‘Read the Colors of Your […]

Syracuse, NY – Syracuse University has entered a ‘hiatus’ phase for its men’s basketball program, following the announcement Sunday night that Jim Boeheim and another person in the program have tested positive for Covid- 19. What this break means is not entirely clear at the moment. The League cannot, for the foreseeable future, practice together […]

THE CONTEXT As of May 1, 2020, the country’s epidemiological situation for COVID-19 showed 7,006 cases and 214 deaths in 26 departments, 5 districts and 222 communes. At the end of the month, there were 29,383 cases and 939 deaths, a significant increase and a geographical distribution that had extended to 31 departments, 5 districts […]

From “Snow White” to “Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There” and even the Harry Potter series, many children’s stories feature mirrors. The latest installation at the Beatrice Public Library’s Vette Cultural Arts Center allows people to reflect on these stories, as well as imagine their own. “It’s quite fascinating to me what […]

Anxiety and fear rushed through me when I was invited to join the Fairmont Fit Retreat, an exclusive health retreat program hosted by the Fairmont Jakarta Hotel in Senayan, Jakarta. Considering myself a plus size with almost no daily physical activity (I walk from the office to a Transjakarta bus stop, just 700 meters away), […]

Cha Tae-hyun (left), Kim Jun-ho (center) and Jung Joon-young (right) [Yonhap Photo] SEOUL – Two TV celebrities – actor Cha Taehyun and comedian Kim Jun-ho – have quit all TV shows following allegations they played while playing golf. The two were the latest victims in an expanded police investigation into a sex and corruption scandal […]

MIT’s Solve program today announced its preliminary schedule of activities for fall 2016 and spring 2017. Solve is a series of live meetings whose mission is to cultivate a community to discover, assess and advance technological solutions to global problems. MIT President L. Rafael Reif announced Solve in 2014, and the series first met last […]

Kangaroos at Chehaw Sophia Nestor, a Chehaw intern from Scotland Jayme Jones, Education Specialist One of the rhinos you can feed on weekends ALBANY, GA (WALB) – Visiting Chehaw Park Zoo is a fun way to learn about exotic animals and those native to Georgia. “When you take out a bird like this it’s so […]