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Title: Jewish studies
Subject: Kabbalah, List of Jewish Kabbalists, Jewish culture, Sociology of Jewry, Wissenschaft des Judentums
Collection: Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Judaic Studies in Academia, Middle Eastern Studies
Jewish studies (or Judaic studies) is an academic discipline centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is interdisciplinary and combines aspects of history (especially Jewish history), Middle Eastern studies, Asian studies, Oriental studies, religious studies, archeology, sociology, languages (Jewish languages), political science, area studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies. Jewish studies as a distinct field is mainly present at colleges and universities in North America.
Related fields include Holocaust research and Israel Studies, and in Israel, Jewish Thought.
Colleges that offer Jewish Studies 2
Albany, State University of New York 2.1
American Jewish University 2.2
University of California-Berkeley 2.3
Binghamton University 2.4
Brandeis University 2.5
Brown University 2.6
Columbia University 2.7
Cornell University 2.8
Fairfield University 2.9
The George Washington University 2.10
Harvard University 2.11
Indiana University 2.12
Jewish Theological Seminary of America 2.13
Miami University (of Ohio) 2.14
University of Michigan 2.15
Michigan Jewish Institute 2.16
New York University 2.17
Northwestern University 2.18
Portland State University 2.19
University of Oklahoma 2.20
University of Pennsylvania 2.21
Princeton University 2.22
Rutgers University 2.23
San Diego State University 2.24
Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership 2.25
Syracuse University 2.26
University of California-San Diego 2.27
Tel Aviv University 2.28
The University of Texas at Austin 2.29
Touro College 2.30
University College London 2.31
University of Virginia 2.32
University of Washington 2.33
Yeshiva University 2.34
Oxford University 2.35
Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2.36
Birobidzhan Jewish National University 2.37
Bar-Ilan University 2.38
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The Jewish tradition generally places a high value on learning and study, especially of religious texts. Torah study (study of the Torah and more broadly of the entire Hebrew Bible as well as Rabbinic literature such as the Talmud and Midrash) is considered a religious obligation.
Since the Renaissance and the growth of higher education, many people, including people not of the Jewish faith, have chosen to study Jews and Judaism as a means of understanding the Jewish religion, heritage, and Jewish history.
Religious instruction specifically for Jews, especially for those who wish to join the rabbinate, is taught at Jewish seminaries (and in Orthodox Judaism, yeshivas). Among the most prominent are the Conservative Jewish Theological Seminary and the Reform Hebrew Union College. For the majority of Jewish students attending regular academic colleges and universities there is a growing choice of Jewish studies courses and even degrees available at many institutions.
The subject of antisemitism and the Holocaust, as well as the establishment of the modern State of Israel and the revival of the Hebrew language have all stimulated unusual interest in greater in-depth academic study, research, reading and lecturing about these core areas of knowledge related to current events. In the United States, the unique position that Jewish Americans have held within the nation's complex social structure has created substantial scholarship, especially with regards to topics such as interfaith marriage, political activism, and influence on popular culture.
The political situation in the Middle East, especially the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has raised the profile of Jews, Judaism, and Zionism on campuses, spurring many on to study this subject for non-degree as well as for credits in obtaining a Bachelor of Arts or Master of Arts degree. A growing number of mature students are even obtaining Ph.D.s in Jewish studies judging by the quantity of courses and programs available. Many hope to obtain employment in the field of Jewish education or in Jewish communal service agencies.
Some Christians search for an understanding of the Jewish background for Jesus Christ and Christianity and for the source of monotheism that sprang from Judaism. There are those who are seeking an understanding of the complex and volatile relationship between Islam and Judaism. Others are searching for spirituality and philosophy and therefore seek classes in Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism) and Jewish philosophy. There are also those who have a genuine concern and attachment to modern Israel as Christian Zionists and therefore seek to learn more about the subjects related to their beliefs.
Jewish studies have been offered at universities around the world.[1] The following are only a few significant examples of places where Jewish studies are offered and flourish in an academic setting:
Colleges that offer Jewish Studies
Several colleges in the United States and Israel offer Jewish Studies or Judaic Studies as a major.
Albany, State University of New York
The Judaic Studies (JST) department[2] at UAlbany[3] offers undergraduate courses at elementary and advanced levels in Jewish history and culture, as well as Hebrew. Both a major and a minor in Judaic Studies are offered, as well as a minor in Hebrew[2]
Courses range from basic introductory courses on particular topics in Judaic studies to more advanced seminars where students can explore questions and ideas in more depth. Many of the courses, both upper- and lower-level courses, are cross-listed with other departments, providing students with exposure to different disciplinary methods. There are also opportunities for students to earn independent study credit through which they can work on an idea or question particular to their own interests, while also gaining valuable research and writing experience. Practicum credit may also be earned by assisting a professor in a course, and Internship credit is available through community service[4]
Qualified students also have the option of enrolling in the Honors Program to be considered for a BA in Judaic Studies with Honors upon successful completion of an honors thesis.[5]
Hebrew language classes are also available at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels, and for students who are advanced in their language studies, Practicum and Independent study credit may also be earned.[6]
The Center for Jewish Studies, which is affiliated with the Judaic Studies department, sponsor several talks each semester, which are open to both the local, as well as academic communities, and include lectures and discussions by Jewish Studies scholars and writers.[7]
SUNY offers their students an opportunity to study abroad, including in Israel, which is overseen by the Judaic Studies department and is open to everyone.[8]
The American Jewish University, formerly the separate institutions University of Judaism and Brandeis-Bardin Institute, is a Jewish, non-denominational and highly eclectic institution. Its largest component is its Whizin Center for Continuing Education in which 12,000 students are enrolled annually in non-credit granting courses. A prominent program of the Center is the university's annual speaker series. AJU's academic division includes the College of Arts and Sciences, leading to a B.A. degree in majors such as Bioethics (pre-med), Business, Communication Arts & Advocacy, Jewish Studies, Political Science and Psychology. In addition, AJU offers graduate degrees through the Fingerhut School of Education, The David L. Lieber Graduate School, and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, a Conservative Jewish rabbinical seminary. AJU is host to two "think tanks," the Center for Israel Studies (CIS) and the Sigi Ziering Institute: Exploring the Ethical and Religious Implications of the Holocaust. Through the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, the University has oversight over Camps Ramah, Alonim, and Gan Alonim.
The University of California-Berkeley offers the Joint Doctoral Program in Jewish Studies (JDP) in collaboration with the Graduate Theological Union. Graduate Students in this interdisciplinary program pick one major and one minor period as well as a discipline. The JDP includes classes in Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Rabbinics, cultural studies and critical theory. Professors and Graduate students with scholarly interest in Jewish Studies can be found across the Humanities.
Binghamton University (SUNY) offers a major and a minor in Judaic Studies (JUST). The department offers two concentrations: 1) Jewish history and culture and 2) Hebrew language and literature. There are a wide variety of courses offered. Internship credits are available.[9] It also is home to a new Center For Israel Studies.[10]
The Lown School of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies is a comprehensive center for Judaic studies. It houses the department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, the Steinhardt Social Research Institute, the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, the Jacob and Libby Goodman Institute for the Study of Zionism, the Bernard G. and Rhoda G. Sarnat Center for the Study of Anti-Jewishness, and the Benjamin S. Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service. The National Center for Jewish Film and the American Jewish Historical Society are associated with the Lown School.[11]
Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island offers an interdisciplinary Judaic Studies program that includes an undergraduate concentration and graduate MA and PhD degrees. Faculty areas of focus include the Hebrew Language, Jewish Thought, Modern Hebrew and Jewish Literature, Ancient Judaism, Modern Jewish History, Biblical Studies, Rabbinics and Early Judaism, and Latin American Jewish Literature.[12]
The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University in New York City[13] is supported by access to rare books and over 35,000 Hebrew and Yiddish titles in Columbia's Library.[14] Columbia offers a joint undergraduate degree with the Jewish Theological Seminary. Columbia offers graduate programs in Jewish history, Yiddish studies, Talmud and Judaism.
The Program of Jewish Studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York is an interdisciplinary program. The scope of the Jewish Studies curriculum covers Jewish civilization from its ancient Near Eastern origins through its contemporary history and culture in Israel and the diaspora communities around the world. Instruction is offered in Semitic languages; the Hebrew Bible; medieval and modern Hebrew literature; ancient, medieval, and modern Jewish history; and Holocaust studies.[15]
The Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies at Fairfield University in Connecticut was founded in 1994 with an initial endowment of $1.5 million from Carl and Dorothy Bennett. The Bennett Center's goal is to provide Fairfield University students exposure to and contact with Jewish ideas, culture, and thinking through lectures and other events.[16]
Fairfield University also offers a minor in Judaic Studies within the Religion Department. Courses cover the Jewish faith, history, and culture. It seeks to integrate Judaic Studies into the curriculum of the Fairfield College of Arts and Sciences.[17]
Through the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the Judaic Studies Program at American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Embassy of Israel in Washington, the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are not only easily accessible but also very common.
The Gelman Library also hosts the I. Edward Kiev Collection, one of the largest Jewish academic archives on the East Coast.[19]
The Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University is the focal point for the study and teaching of Judaica through publications, fellowships, lectures, and symposia on topics of interest to scholars and to the general public. The Center sponsors visiting scholars and post-doctoral research fellows and coordinates undergraduate and graduate studies on an interdisciplinary basis. The Center does not offer degrees but degrees focusing on Judaic Studies are available in various departments.[20]
The Borns Jewish Studies Program offers an undergraduate major (with a Jewish sacred music curriculum in conjunction with the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University); a certificate (8 courses); a minor in Hebrew; an undergraduate and graduate minor in Yiddish Studies (via the Department of Germanic Studies); a master's degree; and a PhD minor.[21] A series of free lectures by visiting scholars are available online for streaming or downloading on the website.[22]
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
The Jewish Theological Seminary of America is a graduate school which describes itself as offering "the most extensive academic program in advanced Judaic studies in North America."[23] The school grants MA, DHL, and PhD degrees in the areas of: ancient Judaism; Bible and ancient Semitic languages; interdepartmental studies; Jewish art and visual culture; Jewish history; Jewish literature; Jewish philosophy; Jewish studies and public administration; Jewish studies and Social Work; *Jewish women's studies; Jewish liturgy; medieval Jewish studies; Midrash; modern Jewish studies; and Talmud and Rabbinics. In addition to its graduate school, JTS also runs the Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies (which is affiliated with Columbia University and offers joint/double bachelor's degree programs with both Columbia and Barnard College); the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education; the H. L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music; and the Rabbinical School. The school's library "contains 425,000 volumes, making it the largest and most extensive collection of Hebraic and Judaic material in the Western Hemisphere." [24]
Miami University (of Ohio)
The Jewish Studies Program at Miami University offers students a minor, which requires 18 credit hours, and a thematic sequence . The minor requires a balance of pre-modern and modern courses.[25] At Miami, thematic sequence typically consists of three related courses designed with an intellectual or pedagogical progression. Undergraduates must take a thematic sequence outside the department(s) in which they major, according to the Global Miami Plan for Liberal Education.[26]
Miami's program began in 2000, with the support of Thomas Idinopulos (d. 2010[27]) and Karl Mattox.[28] The proposal for Miami's Jewish Studies Program was developed partly by Prof. Allan Winkler.[29] In 2006 and 2007, Miami University received grants from the Posen Foundation for the study of secular Judaism. Professor Sven-Erik Rose
The Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan was formed as an independent program under the leadership of Jehuda Reinharz in 1976 and expanded into its current model in 1988. A strong faculty with a variety of expertise has allowed the interdisciplinary program to grow significantly in recent years. Areas of special interest include numerous faculty with strengths in Rabbinics, Yiddish literature and modern Jewish history. The current director, Dr. Deborah Dash Moore, is the author of GI Jews, chronicling the role of Jews in the United States military and co-editor of the two-volume Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Other leading faculty members include Zvi Gitelman, Todd Endelman, Anita Norich, Madeline Kochen, Mikhail Krutikov, Elliot Ginsburg, Scott Spector and Julian Levinson. Recent arrivals include Ryan Szpiech (Spanish, Sephardic Culture, Medieval Iberia) and Rachel Neis (Rabbinics, Late Antique Judaism).[30]
Michigan Jewish Institute
Michigan Jewish Institute provides academic baccalaureate and other degree granting programs that combine an arts and sciences foundation with concentrations in Education, Leadership and General Judaic Studies for career development in applied Judaic disciplines. The Institute is part of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.[31]
The Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies offers one of the most comprehensive Jewish Studies programs in North America, encompassing Hebrew language and literature as well as all facets of Jewish history and culture, from the ancient through the medieval to the modern. Courses are taught by faculty whose specialties include ancient Judaism, medieval Jewish history, modern Jewish history, Biblical studies, Middle Eastern studies, Postbiblical and Talmudic literature, Jewish mysticism, Jewish philosophy, and related fields.[32] The school will grant eight elective credits to students who score 75 or more on the Jerusalam Exam [33] [34] Students may also receive credits for approved classes taken at NYU Tel Aviv.[35]
Northwestern University is home to the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies, which offers both a minor and major in Jewish studies. The center consists of faculty across various departments, and offers courses in Hebrew, Yiddish, Jewish history, rabbinics, Jewish literature, and political science. Notable faculty include Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Irwin Weil, Jacob Lassner, Beverly Mortensen and Elie Rekhess.[36]
The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies[37] at Portland State University (PSU) is located in Portland, Oregon. The Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies offers both a Bachelor of Arts major and minor in Judaic Studies. Majors may choose one of five areas of concentration: Jews in Antiquity; Israel Studies; Judaism; Literature, Culture, and the Arts; or Modern Jewish History.[38] Hebrew language instruction is also available.
The University of Oklahoma offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Judaic Studies and minors in Judaic Studies[39] and Hebrew. It also offers fellowships to students pursuing graduate degrees in history. The University is home to the Schusterman Center in Judaic and Israel Studies[40] which began in 1993 as the Schusterman Program in Judaic and Israel Studies with the establishment of a Chairmanship by the Schusterman Family Foundation as a memorial to Sam Schusterman and Harold Josey.[41] The program expanded to include a major in 2009.[42] Classes include Hebrew, Jewish Literature, Jewish Mysticism, Israel, the Shoah, and Jewish History. Students can find other Jewish learning opportunities at the OU Hillel.[43]
The Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is the only institution in the world devoted exclusively to post-doctoral research on Jewish civilization in all its historical and cultural manifestations.The Center was created in the fall of 1993 by the merger of the Annenberg Research Institute and the University of Pennsylvania.[44] The library contains vast holdings of Judaica.[45] There are several online exhibits as well.[46]
University of Pennsylvania students can major or minor in Jewish studies in different departments.[47]
Other resources are available at the Weigle Judaica and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (JANES) Reading Room (in the Van Pelt Library). It contains about 6,000 non-circulating resources for study including "...the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (CAD); Biblical and multi-lingual dictionaries; grammars; important facsimiles and transcriptions of Sumerian and Northwest Semitic primary sources; critical Biblical editions and commentaries; Tannaitic, Amoraic, Midrashic, Geonic, and Responsa literatures; sixty-nine scholarly journals, including thirty-nine currently received periodicals."[48] The Freedman Jewish Sound Archive contains over 4,000 Yiddish and Hebrew sound recordings and sheet music.[49]
The Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University offers a certificate program. It includes a mandatory course called Great Books of the Jewish Tradition. and four other classes.[50]
Rutgers University has the largest Department of Jewish Studies[51] among public research universities in the U.S. The Department serves as the academic home of seven full-time faculty members, who are supported by a dozen associated faculty members from other academic departments, Hebrew and Yiddish language instructors, and visiting fellows sponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life[52] Students pursuing a B.A. degree[53] may major or minor in Jewish Studies. In addition, the Department offers two specialized minors, one in Modern Hebrew Language and one in the Language and Culture of Ancient Israel.
The M.A. degree in Jewish Studies[54] is designed for those seeking to advance their knowledge at the graduate level to prepare for doctoral-level work in Jewish Studies or other careers. The Department also offers a Certificate in Jewish Studies[55] to graduate students at Rutgers pursuing master's level or doctoral level work.
The program offers six free non-credit online courses in Jewish Studies. Topics include Zionism, Rabbinic literature, Bible History, Jews under Islam and more.[56]
The Jewish Studies Program[57] at San Diego State University (SDSU), located in San Diego, California, is an interdisciplinary program serving the students of SDSU as well as the greater San Diego community. SDSU offers a Major in Modern Jewish Studies and a Minor in Jewish Studies and are teaching a broad range of topics related to Jewish history, religion and culture from the biblical through the modern period.[58] SDSU also offers a minor in Hebrew language within SDSU's Department of Linguistics, Asian/Middle Eastern Languages program[59] In addition, SDSU hosts the Archives of the Jewish Historical Society of San Diego[60] as well as The Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies. SDSU is ranked #28 in the country in public universities for Jewish students.[61] SDSU has the largest Jewish student population in San Diego, and the fourth (4th) largest in California.[58]
Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership
Previously Chicago's College of Jewish Studies, the predecessor of Spertus Institute, was founded in 1924.[62] In its first year it offered three courses: Jewish history, religion, and language. By 1948, a Department of Graduate Studies offering bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees had been initiated. Today Spertus Institute offers accredited master's degree programs in Jewish Studies, Jewish Professional Studies, and Doctoral degree programs in Jewish Studies.[63] Distance learning options serve students in 38 U.S. states and nine foreign countries.
The Judaic Studies Program [64] at Syracuse University offers an Undergraduate Major in Modern Jewish Studies and a minor in Jewish Studies. Additionally, the School of Education[65] offers a minor in Jewish Education to "better prepare SU undergraduates to teach in Jewish congregational schools, camps, community centers, youth organizations." Syracuse University also offers classes in the Hebrew language.
University of California-San Diego
The Judaic Studies Program [66] at UC San Diego offers an Undergraduate Major in Judaic Studies, a minor in Judaic Studies, and a minor in Hebrew Language and Literature. Additionally, the History Department[67] offers a master's degree in Judaic Studies and a Ph.D. in ancient history with relevant major fields including the history of Israel in the biblical period and the history of the Jewish people in antiquity. The Anthropology Department, in conjunction with the Judaic Studies Program, offers graduate training in Near Eastern archaeology with a focus on Israel and Jordan. The school is also involved with the USC Shoah Foundation/The Visual History Archive an academic "authority on the study of genocide and personal testimony." [68] Many free interviews and videos may be accessed online or at a partner site.[69][70]
Tel Aviv University's Department of Hebrew Culture Studies is the single largest integrative Jewish Studies department in the world today. It covers a wide range of periods, methodologies, and scholarly interests. The Jewish Studies International MA provides tools and skills for further graduate studies in Jewish Studies and other fields involving text work. It attracts Humanities graduates from all over the world. Its graduates are equipped for work in many branches of education, in Jewish and other communities, Jewish cultural institutions, synagogues and churches and charities.[71]
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British Association for Jewish Studies
Menachem Cohen (scholar)
Gender and Judaism
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Hebrew College
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Reconstructionist Rabbinical College
Rohr Jewish Learning Institute
Sociology of Jewry
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. Aren Maier under the auspices of Prof. Philistines of the Gath the excavations of the site of biblical [101] and the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project,[100]
In recent years, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast has grown interested in its Jewish roots. Students study Hebrew and Yiddish at a Jewish school and Birobidzhan Jewish National University. In 1989, the Jewish center founded its Sunday school, where children studyYiddish, learn Jewish folk dance, and learn about the history of Israel. The Israeli government helps fund the program.[95]
The Birobidzhan Jewish National University, a Russian university, works in cooperation with the local Jewish community of Birobidzhan. The university is unique in the Russian Far East. The basis of the training course is study of the Hebrew language, history and classic Jewish texts.[94]
Birobidzhan Jewish National University
The Institute of Jewish Studies of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem was established in 1924, a few months before the official opening of the university.[86] Widely considered to be the world's premier center of Jewish studies, the institute has includes eight teaching departments and 18 research institutes, oversees the publication of a wide variety of journals and periodicals and has student body of over 1200 students pursuing undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees in Jewish studies. In addition, the university has several institutes dedicated to specific subjects of Jewish studies, such as the Institute of Contemporary Jewry,[87] the Institute for Research in Jewish Law,[88] the Institute of Archaeology,[89] the Center for Jewish Art,[90] the Jewish Music Research Center,[91] the Center for Jewish Education,[92] and the Department of Jewish Thought.[93] The Jewish National and University Library, which serves as the library of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, houses the world's largest collection of Hebraica and Judaica. The university also benefits from Jerusalem's unparalleled concentration of resources, which include: some 50 museums, most of which are dedicated to, or contain significant exhibits pertinent to, Jewish studies; dozens of independent research institutes and libraries dedicated to Jewish studies; over 100 rabbinical colleges representing all streams of Judaism; and the city of Jerusalem itself, the ancient and modern center of Jewish life, thought and study.
A nine-month course at Oxford University offers a chance to study Judaism at many different stages in its history - from its roots as the religion of the Israelites to the 20th century - as well as the opportunity to develop skills in a language important to the knowledge, understanding, practice and interpretation of the Jewish faith (or learn a language from scratch).[85]
Yeshiva University in New York City has one of the largest departments of Jewish studies outside Israel and is the home of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, the leading modern-orthodox rabbinical college in the United States. Its Jewish studies library contains over 300,000 volumes. It also houses the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. Prominent Jewish Studies faculty members include Richard C Steiner, Barry Eichler, Debra Kaplan, Haym Soloveitchik, Ephraim Kanarfogel, David Berger, Mordechai Z. Cohen, Shalom Carmy, Steven Fine, Adam Zachary Newton, and Jeffrey S. Gurock.
The Stroum Center's web presence at jewishstudies.washington.edu is a national model for creative online engagement with academic Jewish Studies. Our new Sephardic Studies Program is positioning itself as a leader in the field as it creates the world's first Digital Library and Museum housing hundreds of Ladino artifacts.[82] The Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship builds intellectual community for the scholars of the future,[83] while we empower undergraduate leaders through the Jewish Studies Student Committee.[84]
The University of Washington's Stroum Center for Jewish Studies offers cutting-edge approaches to the study of Jewish life. At the same time, our classes address universal questions about identity, community, and cultural adaptation over time. Jewish Studies at UW began in the 1970s[79] and today includes two dozen faculty members.[80] Pillars of the program include the Stroum Lecture Series, the Hazel D. Cole Fellowship,[81] and a strong commitment to public scholarship. Being part of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies helps to situate our program in an interdisciplinary global framework.
Jewish Studies at the University of Virginia allows students to focus on the history, languages, and literature of the Jewish people; the beliefs and practices of Judaism; and the enduring contributions of Jewish wisdom to human civilization. Courses in Biblical and Modern Hebrew, Yiddish, Bible, Rabbinic literature, Jewish ancient and modern history, Jewish literature and culture, Holocaust studies, Jewish theology, and Jewish communities and cultures worldwide. Study abroad in Israel or in other centers of Jewry beyond North America.[78]
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May this site be a place where you are without doubt encouraged in your faith. On this blog you will find many of poems, touching souls pieces I share on the weekly radio program "Food for your Soul", words of encouragement and also just things that happen to me in my day-to-day life. Yet again, it all will be written with the intention to give you that which is of Godly substance.
Therefore, thank you in advance for taking the time to visit my site and please do share on some of these blogs with your written thoughts.


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SRC AND PARTNERS JOINS TOGETHER TO ENHANCE SERVICES DURING FESTIVE SEASON
December 7, 2022 December 10, 2022 / By Sheryl Barra
To increase efficiency during the peak festive season, the Seaport and Airport Cargo Section respectively of the Seychelles Revenue Commission's (SRC) Customs Division, have this December started to extend their opening hours to meet the expected increase in cargo demand and clearance.
With the support of Land Marine Limited and the Seychelles Ports Authority (SPA), effective immediately until Thursday 29 December 2022, the SRC Seaport operations will remain open from 8am to 3.45am for processing of bills of entry, cashier service and clearance of cargo; and will also be extended to Saturdays until 17 December and on Friday 23 and 30 December respectively from 8am to midday.
The revised opening hours is expected to facilitate the clearance of all consignments routed in the Green, Red, Yellow and Blue channel, whilst all consignments routed in the Red channel will be based on an appointment basis only.
Importers are thus advised to contact the Customs Examination Unit on 4293789, 2804821, 2823018 or email seaportexamination@src.gov.sc to book their appointment for break bulk or groupage cargo in the shed provided every 15 minutes, clearance of 20ft containers set every 1 to 3 hours and 40ft containers every 1 to 6 hours. Importers and clearing agents will be notified via an SMS text message of the date and time of their appointment once confirmed by the Seaport Operations team. For clearance of one or two line items on the Bill of Entry, the importer will be contacted directly by Customs.
In regards to services offered at the Airport Cargo Terminal, since 1 December 2022, SRC offices including cashier service have been operating during lunchtime and until 3.30pm on weekdays to facilitate clearance of cargo. The offices including cashier service at this location will also remain open on Saturday 10 and 17 December 2022 and on Friday 23 and 30 December respectively as from 8.15am until 11.30am to cater for the expected increase in cargo arrivals.
Importers and clearing agents are being urged to make use of the pre-lodgment services for bill of entry and the prepayment facility, in addition to ensuring all necessary documents such as the landing and import permit amongst others are in order to avoid any inconveniences. Importers are also requested to have adequate transportation on site to remove all cargo in one go once released.
The Seychelles Revenue Commission, Land Marine Limited, Seychelles Ports Authority (SPA) and Air Seychelles count on the support of all importers in adhering to the mentioned procedures and timelines of operations during this busy period for a faster and seamless service.
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Life is hard. That's just what we signed up for. At least, that's what I believe. We go through our lives almost absent-mindedly, searching for something that we don't really know, unable to really put our finger on exactly what we're searching for. I remember, years ago, I sat on the front porch with my mom in the summer while the sprinklers ran, and we watched in silence for a few minutes. Then I said something.
She told me that she was happy with that, proud of me, and would aid me in my 'quest'. That was when I was nineteen and told that I was in Congestive Heart Failure and not only needed a heart transplant but a liver transplant as well. Multiple organ transplant survivors are relatively unheard of, and the ones with my specific condition…let's just say there is a zero percent margin of life after the transplant happens. But I didn't look at it as the end of my life. Sure, I was pretty immature at nineteen, but I had realized after a lot of crying and facing one of my deepest fears that I was on a quest. Perhaps it is to obtain something. Perhaps it is to help someone I haven't met yet. It's four years later and I still haven't figured it out. But I think it's important for us to be on these quests, journeys, and such because we need to be moving in someway, otherwise we stay where we are and become stagnant.
Ever since that day, I've accepted that I'm a free soul who looks at the trees at twenty-three years of age in the summer and imagines being a little fairy with red hair and a dress, sitting on the branch, playing a flute made from a piece of grass and singing with the birds. Or, while my mom drives, I imagine myself flying through the cloudless sky with wings like a bird. When I see parks with children playing, I imagine running through the grass barefoot, and feeling the earth against my skin. It has been these little daydreams that have kept me going during the harsh realities of my life.
In the last four years since I've needed a transplant (I still technically need one but I'm not on the list because my health is significantly better) I have faced countless of my deepest fears, and I've begun to wonder if I'll face all of my greatest and deepest fears before I die. If so, I've accepted it. I'm okay facing my deepest fears, because I have really matured. Even since getting my foot run over by a car tire that wasn't even a week ago, I've changed. Some of my deepest fears that I've faced is betrayal from lifelong friends, being alone, facing suicide, facing transplant, sending my mom to the Emergency Department knowing good and well that I may never see her again, speaking my darkest secrets and facing my deepest pain from the depths of my mind that have popped up since the pain of that tire running over my foot. I've learned a lot about myself. I've learned that once I get injured, it all comes back. I can pretend it doesn't exist for long, but once I get injured or sick, it all comes back.
First of all, I had a wonderful childhood. I was a happy and free child that ran in the grass, ate worms, and gorged on chicken nuggets at McDonald's. But my childhood was far from perfect. I have faced so much violence in my life, and some memories of that violence had been long buried deep beneath my everyday thoughts. In short, I forced myself to forget. I remember being chased by someone I love who had a screwdriver and slamming my door against them, trying not to get hurt. I remember that same person pulling a scarf tight around my throat so I couldn't breathe (I don't wear scarves anymore; I don't care how cold it is). I remember a 'friend' preying on me when I was eleven years old and he was sixteen. Thankfully that type of abuse didn't go further than inappropriate topics and him crossing my boundaries, but it was still scarring. All of these things have come back to me since my foot got ran over, and I face the reality that I need to go to therapy when I can to try and understand these things that happened to me, and why they happened to me.
I remember hating everyone. I hated every single person on this planet and trusted no one – save for my mother. She is the only one I have always – and will always – trust and love. The hatred is gone now, but I still think about that day outside, watching the water sparkle in the grass in the sunlight and telling my mom about my quest. I still wonder what that quest is. But I find myself to be a free spirit who loves fantasy and children's books, and I know that whatever this quest is, I'll discover it someday, and I'll make it. Though I'm tired, I still fight and I still try. But sometimes exhaustion can beat a person to their knees. That's why I pray. When life beats you to your knees, pray. That's my little piece of advice.
So, in this long-winded and jumbled up message, I hope that I made sense. I'm still on that quest, and I'm finding out more about myself, little by little, every single day. I love who I am, and I wouldn't change myself for the world.


Citycon cordially invites you to the company's Capital Markets Day for investors, analysts and media on Thursday, 12 September in Stockholm. The presentations will include a strategy, finance and operational update. Management will also be presenting Citycon's view of the Swedish market and the recent acquisition of Kista Galleria in Stockholm.
The event will be started off with a dinner on Wednesday evening 11 September in Stockholm. Detailed programme is attached to this release.
Please register latest by 2 September 2013 by sending an e-mail to: tiina.tahkolahti@citycon.com or calling Tiina at +358 50 5471196. If needed, she provides also further information on transportation and hotels. The conference can also be viewed as a live webcast through the internet pages at www.citycon.com.


March 2, 2006 -- The opening reception for "horizons," the spring show at the Bradbury Gallery in Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive, on the campus of Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, will be Thursday, March 9, at 5 p.m.
The exhibition, which continues through Saturday, April 15, will feature numerous works of art that depict or make reference to the horizon line.
As one artist, Leslie Furlong, states, "Located where the earth and sky meet, the horizon is seen as a variable constant." This is especially true in this exhibition as all works of art will be hung, placed or projected onto a continuous line that rings the gallery.
Included in the exhibition are 26 regionally, nationally and internationally-recognized artists. Four of these artists, Roger Carlisle, Tom Chaffee, Gayle Pendergrass and John Salvest, all professors at ASU, live and work in Jonesboro. Additional works by artists such as Janine Antoni, Will Barnet, Federico Castellon, Donna Conlon, Ralston Crawford, Leslie Furlong and Keith Jacobshagen promise a diverse exhibition consisting of a wide range of techniques and styles.
Antoni's large projection depicts the artist tightrope walking along the horizon line of a beach in her home town in the Bahamas. Antoni creates an interesting tension by performing the stressful action of the tightrope walk over the bucolic environment of the rolling waves. Conversely, the rhythm of the waves create a movement that is at once soothing and distracting as it throws off the balance of the tightrope walker.
Castellon became engaged in the study of modern artists after he had gained a mastery of realism. Evident in the work is an influence by the Surrealist and Modernist movement of the 1920s and 1930s. He knew the work of its exponents and leaders, especially, Salvador Dali.
Conlon's Espectros Urbanos (Urban Phantoms) was included in the 2005 Venice Bienniale. It begins with a view of the skyline of the wealthy sector of Panamá City, as seen over a concrete post on a sidewalk. One at a time, small pieces of garbage, such as plastic and metal soda caps, matchboxes, and gum boxes, stack up on the concrete base, building a new colorful skyline, which mimics and obstructs the actual one.
Jacobshagen has been painting the light and space of the Midwestern plains for 32 years. Since moving to Nebraska in 1968 he has concentrated on the landscape within a 60-mile radius of Lincoln. Working partly in the field and partly in the studio, he paints images that visually define the vastness and light that are a part of the flatlanders' spirit and experience.
The exhibition was organized by the Bradbury Gallery. Assistance with the exhibition was provided by David Lusk Gallery in Memphis, Rudolph Projects in Houston, Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City and Kiechel Fine Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska. Major assistance was provided by the Arkansas Arts Center and Thom Hall.
Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and 2 - 5 p.m. on Sundays. The exhibition is admission-free and open to the public. The exhibition will be closed during ASU Spring Break, March 18 - 26.
For more details, please contact the Bradbury Gallery at 870-972-3471 or Les Christensen at 870-972-3471 or at lchristensen@astate.edu.


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A petroleum geologist, donated a 309-acre site on Lake Houston to Harris County in 1956. The site was converted into a public park and named the Alexander Deussen Park.
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Tel Aviv University physics professor Eshel Ben-Jacob creates psychedelic works of art by dying colonies of adaptive bacteria and photographing them. "Science and art both present to the world a model of nature, but when I study bacteria as a scientist, all my experiments must be reproducible," Ben-Jacob explains in an interview with Fast Co. Design. "When I do it as art, I have the freedom to come up with all kinds of conditions without having to worry about another scientist needing to verify my work. But the art can help inspire the science, and vice versa." More of the colorful, trippy bacteria art can be viewed at Fast Co. Design and Ben-Jacob's website.


The total market value of shares in the country has increased from Nu 28B in mid June to Nu 31.29B today, up by over Nu 3B in a period of about two months.
Market capitalisation, which is the total worth of shares at prevailing market price, has touched record high. This also means that the stocks of 21 listed companies are worth Nu 31.29B, according to the figures from the Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan.
This is attributed to improvement of share trading in the secondary market. Share market has two components including the primary market where the initial public offering (IPO) takes place and the secondary market where existing shares are traded. When the existing shares are traded in the market, the price at which the transaction takes place becomes the new market price of a share.
For the market capitalisation to increase, either the market price of shares has to go up or more shares should be issued.
However, there were no new IPOs floated from the previous year till date, meaning the volume of share did not increase significantly. Some of the listed companies have issued bonus shares and rights that contributed to trivial increase in volume.
According to the RSEB, share trading in the secondary market has increased by about 300 percent in the first five months this year compared with the same period in 2017.
Record show that as of May this year, shares worth Nu 125M was traded in the secondary market. Last five years data (as on May for each year) revealed that there is a huge improvement in transaction pattern in the secondary market.
This transaction in the secondary market has driven the market price of shares. For instance, the face value of Druk PNB share is Nu 10 per share but the current market price is Nu 31. In mid-June the company's market price of shares was recorded at Nu 28. This is because of the trading in the secondary market. However, there are also instances when market price goes down. After the last trading day on August 15, BNB shares went down by Nu 9. The current market price stands at Nu 31.
According to the officials from RSEB, the improvement in the secondary market could be due to change in the trading process from continuous to call market, which discouraged the negotiated trade as practiced earlier.
The stock exchange developed an online platform last year, wherein the buyers of shares can place order with a preferred price and sellers can quote the price. The whole process is visible in the RSEB website at a real time and such transaction leads to discovering new market price of shares of individual companies.
As of August 15, the live market revealed that there was a demand of 627,298 shares of the listed companies, which meant a buying order had been placed. However, the supply or sellers put only 284,895 shares for sale. Transaction could not take place because the price quoted by the buyers and sellers did not match.


Very clever people have been able to develop computer programs that can recreate physical, three-dimensional surround sound, using only a pair of headphones. While there are a fair few programs out there that achieve this (It is also as of 2016 an available option in 360 Youtube videos), the people at New Audio Technology in Germany have developed their product called The Spatial Sound Card, which uses their own proprietary sound spatialisation technology that - in my opinion - is the most realistic 3d surround sound recreation for headphones that I've heard.
You don't need any special hardware to use it. Just open it up and enjoy convincing surround sound in your headphones! And it only costs $10!
The immediate applications are of course cinematic movies and also games, however the tantalising combination with virtual reality is something that I'm sure we'll see as standard within the next ten or fifteen years.
» You can demo the product directly on their website here.
If you'd like a little clarification on what sound spatialisation is and therefore why this technology is so impressive, keep reading below.
Sound spatialisation is the science of placing sound around the listener in order to create a more immersive listening experience. This has for a long time been the way we listen to the audio in movie cinemas, the common format being 5.1 channel surround sound. This basically means six individual channels of audio, typically being output by six individual speakers (five surrounding us and one sub-woofer). Channel counts of surround sound systems can reach dizzying heights, particularly when we enter into the realm of Ambisonics, which simply put is the implementation of complex mathematical formulas to spatialise sound not just on the horizontal plane (like cinema 5.1/7.1/11.1/etc), but also on the vertical plane.
Virtual diagram of an Ambisonic listening setup.
The basic premiss of all surround sound formats is that they try to recreate a natural listening environment, where by sounds are projected into our ears from different directions at different times and with varying harmonic content that is filtered and affected by the physical material in our environment - including our ears themselves. This is how we locate sound in space.
For example, if a sound is directly in front of us, it will enter into our ears at the same time, the outer ear helping by refracting sound into the inner ear. If a sound is directly behind us, it will also enter into our ears at the same time however this same sound will have its high frequencies filtered (in other words, the high frequencies are made quieter) by the skin and cartilage of our ears. This is one of the fundamental ways we determine sound being behind us and not in front. It is also why bass frequencies are omni-directional, because bass frequencies pass through most material without much loss in power.
The roll of the ear in sound spatialisation.
So, in conclusion, what sound spatialisation software like The Spacial Sound Card essentially does, is mathematically process information from audio streams, manipulating and sculpting their sonic character to follow the natural behaviour of sound in space, and hence localising them in a virtual sonic space.
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Managing your tasks can often be more work than the tasks themselves. The problem is that you typically manage your tasks in one place and do the actual work in another – but the two are inextricably tied. Tasks are the product of meetings, decisions, project planning, and all the other content you create with your team. Keeping tasks together with the actual work or people they correspond to is the key to being productive.
Confluence 5.5 introduces a new way to keep yourself and your team accountable and on track. Instead of siloing your tasks somewhere else, track them alongside the rest of your work in Confluence. Now your team can stay transparent and accountable, and most importantly, stay in one place: Confluence.
Most of the work you do is collaborative, and your tasks should reflect that. Keep everyone accountable for their individual work with due dates. Use @mentions to assign your task in any page, and the new date picker to select a date you want it accomplished by. When you save the page, Confluence will give you a visual reminder of when it's due.
The most important part of managing your tasks is being able to quickly see all your tasks along with their due dates. The task view in Confluence allows you to see all of your upcoming tasks, when they're due, and where they're located. You can also filter to see tasks you've assigned to others, as well as those you've already completed. You finally have one place to see everything that needs to be done.
Transparency is the key to success for every project and people manager. You want to be able to see and report the progress of your team and projects, and make sure you are moving forward. The Task Report Blueprint makes it easy to create a quick wrap-up of all the tasks assigned to specific users or projects. You can see exactly what's on your team's plate, or what needs to get done for your project to reach the finish line.
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ABSOLUTELY STUNNING VERY LARGE ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS "The Music of the Night- Phantom of the Opera"!
This sensational new Goodman painting captures the story of the tragic Phantom of the Opera. The Phantom of the Opera is the story of Christine Daae, pictured in the boat! Christine takes a position at the famous Paris Opera house. Her dying father had told her that he would send the Angel of Music to her to comfort her.
Christine one night hears beautiful singing and believes it to be the Angel of the night. She is actually hearing the singing of the disfigured genius Erik who lives alone far below in the vaults of the opera house cellars. Erik falls in love with Christine so plans to marry her and take her to his home in the catacombs (that actually exist deep below Paris today!!) The story ends when Christine kisses the deformed Erik and he releases her so she can marry her true love Raoul.
The painting captures much from the story. If you look far left you can see the toy wind-up monkey with the brass cymbals. This monkey was the lonely Erik's only salvation and company in the depths of his despair.
Erik sings the Opera's famous "Music of the Night" to the entranced Christine !! Her eyes interestingly follow the paintings viewer wherever they are !!!!


Amico Tours is a family owned travel agency from Dubrovnik, Croatia. We have an individual approach to every tour and create unforgettable experiences for our guests. As each person is unique, so is every trip you take with Amico Tours.
Our tours are designed for smaller groups, so we can attend to you personally when you need. We provide a relaxed, fun trip, and take you to places off the beaten path so you can make new discoveries and enjoy natural beauties.
With many years of experience, we always aim to take an ordinary day and turn it into an extraordinary one.
Client, when purchasing tour ticket, has accepted rulles and regulations. In case of ticket cancellation after ticketing has been done, cancellation policy is next: 48hours prior full refund. 24hours half of amount is refunded, on the day of trip no refund.
Please make sure that all the information given is correct and precise. The name in the passanger´s passport should match with the name on the ticket; otherwise the ticket is not valid for travelling. Clients guarantee that all the information provided about themselves and other passangers are corect and precise. Clients are responsible for any data change and are bound to cover any expenses caused by change of travelling date, name or destination.
Tickets have to be used in correct sequence as shown in itinerary. In case you do not used it, regarding to terms and conditions of Amico Tours ticket can be cancelled, losing all the payment.
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Traveler must note all requirements about travelling , show all immigration and emigration documents required. Passport must be valid at last 6 months after leaving the country of it´s issue.Travelers obligation is to make sure about visa necessity. Infants and children are also required to have a passport for leaving the country. In case children are travelling alone or with a person that is not one of their parents or legal quardians, or the name of children is not written in parents passport, a permit approved by notary public and a copy of birth certificate are required. Please ask your notary public our agency for additional documents.
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Nina Nguyen Hui, MFA Fashion Design, was born and raised in Da Nang, Vietnam. While studying at Academy of Art University, she interned atwon a competition to intern in BCBG Max Azria where she created samples using macramé and other craft techniques.
Her looks were featured in the "Celebrating 30 Years of Hervé Léger" Collection at the 2015 Graduation Fashion Show. Her thesis collection is inspired by sea corals and the organic nature of their patterns. Sea coral can be fierce and unforgiving but also exhibit a soft beauty that is both powerful and fragile. Her interest in learning various techniques shows throughout her designs that feature elaborate tambour beading, embroidery, and laser cutting.
The accessory de rigueur are the acrylic eyewear designed and created by Yolanda Chiu, MFA Jewelry and Metal Art.


The first in a three-part series about a central Romney jobs proposal.
The Romney campaign has made much of the former governor's business and job-creation acumen. A central component of Romney's job creation proposals is the Personal Reemployment Account (PRA), a plan to redesign publicly funded training and reemployment services for unemployed workers. But do they work? Fortunately, much research has been done on PRAs, and we understand how their design affects labor market behavior, program participation, and job uptake. The research tells us that the PRA design advanced by Gov. Romney is neither cost effective nor particularly successful in properly training and reemploying workers. In this blog series, I'll lay out the research evidence and offer recommendations for revising and improving PRAs.
In his book Believe in America: Mitt Romney's Plan for Jobs and Economic Growth, Gov. Romney proposes consolidating all training programs into a single program run by states and funded through a block grant. Romney encourages states to deliver training through PRAs, giving select unemployed workers a personal account to pay for training, reemployment services, or a reemployment bonus. Unemployed workers can spend from the account as they see fit. As a retraining voucher they can make purchases from community colleges, private vocational courses, state-run training, etc. Romney's PRA design follows that of the 2003 model developed by R. Glenn Hubbard, a Columbia University professor and one of Romney's economic advisors. Under his proposal, unemployed workers receive $3,000 for reemployment and training services, as well as supportive services such as transportation and child care. Recipients can purchase job counseling services to help them decide how to spend their training funds, but are not required to do so. Alternatively, as an incentive to find work quickly, PRAs also act as a reemployment bonus. Recipients who find a job within 13 weeks can keep whatever funds are left in their account—60 percent upon securing a job and 40 percent after being on the job for six months.
PRAs attempt to reform public workforce programs based on the free-market principles of choice and personal financial incentives. Melding training vouchers and reemployment bonuses and giving workers ownership over personal accounts appears to be an attractive market-oriented package, but the two program components have different goals that are, to some extent, at odds. Training vouchers aim not only to get unemployed workers into jobs, but also to improve their job skills and pave the way for more productive, better-paying employment.
The reemployment bonus, however, aims to speed up job searches, encouraging workers to look immediately for jobs that use their current skills. As a result, the reemployment bonus is likely to discourage participation in training.
What's more, the proposal doesn't meet the criteria for cost-effective and successful training vouchers or reemployment bonuses, according to research on both components. In my next blog posts, I'll describe what the research reveals about PRAs and discuss the proposal's five major flaws.


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Meet the Chancellor
Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center chancellor, is advocate for transforming higher education, academic medicine and health care.
UNMC leaders are creating a more vibrant academic health science center and a stronger economy for all Nebraskans.
UNMC creates an environment of diversity, equity and inclusion for all our faculty, staff and students.
UNMC, we work from core values to achieve our strategic goals and vision for transforming the health of Nebraska and beyond.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center has campuses across Nebraska, bonded through a shared culture and in real time, by distance-learning technology.
The UNMC Department of Public Safety works to provide a safe environment for those who work on, learn at and visit our campuses, as well as lost and found.
Maps and directions to the University of Nebraska Medical Center campuses.
Find a quick overview of numbers and key information about UNMC.
As the only public academic health science center in the state, so we embrace the responsibility to reach out across Nebraska and beyond.
Statewide Impact
UNMC's work extends to each region of Nebraska, as we bring the latest breakthroughs to all citizens, from the smallest communities to the largest cities.
UNMC's innovative educational engagement programs raise awareness as we help shape the future of health care and recruit the future health care workforce
The Healing Arts program at UNMC and Nebraska Medicine aims to transform the health care experience by connecting people with the power of art.
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The University of Nebraska Medical Center uses a strategic planning process to adjust strategies each year for achieving eight goals.
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Home — Newsroom — Dr. Schiller's research aims to aid nation's military
Dr. Schiller's research aims to aid nation's military
Written by John Keenan
Alicia Schiller, PhD
Alicia Schiller, PhD, knew her work with the Department of Defense would be important to her from the day of her first interview — her first time on a military base.
Feeling a bit overwhelmed as she headed to her 7 a.m. meeting after lengthy security protocols, she saw a soldier walking into the military hospital with his pregnant wife.
"He was a double amputee, holding her hand with a prosthetic hook," she recalled. "At that moment, I realized what I could be doing there — truly saving lives; helping brave men and women come home to their families."
This focus on the practical use of research for the military struck a chord with her and stuck.
"In academics, your research isn't necessarily in the hospital," she said. "There can be a separation. In a military hospital, there isn't. Every day, you walk past the people who will be deployed with something you have been working on. You eat lunch with them and get to interact with everybody."
Following that first interview, Dr. Schiller stayed in San Antonio for several years, becoming well-versed in the military's way of doing things. She now serves as the director of combat casualty care at UNMC, lending her expertise to the anesthesiology department and pursuing two key lines of research:
Investigation of the dynamic relationship between arterial blood pressure and flow to quantify vascular control
Assessment of the acquisition of procedural skills, such as intraosseous line and chest tube placement, especially in military populations
This wasn't a career path Dr. Schiller had planned. Early on as a physiologist, she always had trouble explaining to people — her mother, for example — exactly what she did. She wasn't a medical doctor. She didn't see patients. The daily ins and outs of the job were complicated.
It wasn't until her post-doctoral studies that she found a perfect way to explain it, on a plaque given to her: "Alicia Schiller, Research Scientist."
"I thought, whoa, when did that happen? I became a scientist," she said.
Even her mother could understand that.
Part of what makes Dr. Schiller's work complicated to explain is that it combines several disciplines. So, she chooses explanations to fit the audience.
To other researchers, she's a cardiovascular and renal physiologist. To friends and family, she studies how the brain controls the heart and kidneys. Within the DOD for combat care, she is a problem solver who helps protect the nation's warfighters.
"What I love about working in the DOD system is that I can say I'm a scientist, and I'm good at solving problems and methodology," she said.
In academia, she explained, your area of expertise drives what you do. In defense, specific needs drive the work.
Recently, Dr. Schiller's work took on aspects of both academia and defense in a project shepherded by NSRI in conjunction with the respected Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii. The team is developing sophisticated, actionable training tools for low-frequency, high-value medical procedures such as intraosseous line and chest tube placement. These procedures are not often performed, but when they are, they are very important to get right.
The $142,000 12-month project uses novel medical simulation techniques involving visual recording, evaluation software and 3D printing of training apparatus.
Previous medical training tools for these types of procedures didn't give medical professionals a realistic idea of real-life situations, Dr. Schiller explained.
"It can be a problem when a life is on the line, and you don't have firsthand experience," she said.
One reason previous tools were inadequate was that developing them is not financially lucrative. Private companies tend to focus on projects that turn a profit.
"The military doesn't care about making money," she said. "Of course, they want things to be cost-effective, but before that, they want it to work well."
Dr. Schiller said she was thankful to NSRI for bridging the gap between academia and military organizations such as Tripler.
"Honestly, if the University of Nebraska hadn't had the UARC, we 100 percent could not have done this project," she said. "Because of NSRI's status as a DOD-designated University Affiliated Research Center, Tripler was able to transfer funds, equipment and personnel. Without NSRI, none of those things could have happened. As a trusted partner to the DOD, NSRI is a critical conduit for this type of work."
Maj. Gen. USAF (Ret.) Richard Evans, NSRI executive director, holds up Dr. Schiller as an exemplary research partner who is helping the institute support U.S. Strategic Command, its UARC sponsor, and other federal government agencies working for our warfighters' safety.
"Dr. Schiller is an academic leader putting her skills and passion to work on tough challenges faced by our warfighters," he said. "I liken her work with training medical personnel to aviators going through Navy TOPGUN or Air Force Weapons School. The goal is to give these medical professionals focused training in a peacetime setting that will ensure their success when they encounter it for real down the road. We're proud to have Dr. Schiller on our NSRI team doing great work for the Army."
Kaleb Michaud says:
Great to see your important work highlighted here, Dr. Schiller – congrats again!
Alëna Balasanova says:
Congratulations on this amazing feature Alicia! Those of us who got to work with you in iLEAD were truly lucky!
Karsten Bartels says:
Congrats, Alicia!
Kristi Horeis says:
Thank you for your work with our Military
Paula Turpen says:
Great to hear about the success of your work! Congratulations!
Terri says:
Congratulations! So proud of you!
Dr. Sheritta Strong says:
Emily McElroy says:
Complex projects require expertise from various fields, and resources from both academia and the military are essential. In addition to Dr. Schiller, the project team includes Nick Markin, MD, a UNMC anesthesiologist and 3D printing expert who developed the medical trainers from an idea he had to help train residents, and Priscila Rodriguez Armijo, MD, of the UNMC Department of Surgery. On the military side, the team works closely with Tripler researchers.
Learn more about Dr. Schiller's project.
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MILAN, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Italian fashion house Moncler posted better than expected third-quarter revenue but held back from providing a forecast for the important last quarter of the year because of surging coronavirus infections.
The reopening of shops in most regions during the summer helped sales to pick up strongly in China and South Korea and register "significant improvement" in the United States since August, though Europe remained weak because of a lack of tourists, the company said.
"We ended the third quarter with better results than we expected ... The signs we are seeing in October are encouraging, but we know we have challenging weeks ahead of us, made even more uncertain by the current global economic and health situation," Chairman and Chief Executive Remo Ruffini said in a statement.
In the months between July and September revenue dropped 15% year on year at current exchange rates to 361.8 million euros ($428 million). That compared with an analyst consensus of 340.7 million euros.
Moncler has become one of the best-performing luxury groups in the sector after a makeover under Ruffini.
But with shoppers confined to home during lockdowns in its main markets, sales were down by about 50% in the second quarter after an 18% drop in the first quarter. ($1 = 0.8461 euros) (Reporting by Claudia Cristoferi Editing by David Goodman)
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The £120 million Oxford flood alleviation scheme, which will reduce flood risk to homes, businesses, and transport in the surrounding area, has moved a step closer, reports the Environment Agency.
The Oxford project partnership has just announced that it has secured the funding for the scheme, which will include at least 5 hectares of new habitat creation, 7 new bridges and 2.6 kilometers of new flood defenses.
More than £65m in funding has already been committed by Government. A record amount of partnership funding totaling over £55m has now been given by a wide range of partners. Investment has been secured from Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership, Thames Regional Flood and Coastal Committee, Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford City Council, Thames Water Utilities and the University of Oxford.
According to the EA, they will submit the planning application for the Oxford flood alleviation scheme in March. It will take approximately 3 years to build the scheme, which is designed to work with the natural floodplain west of Oxford.
Posted on February 9, 2018 with tags Environment Agency, flood defenses, Oxford.


The Supreme Court is to consider whether prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba can go to US courts for their first taste of a legal process.
Beginning on Tuesday, the high court will also examine President George Bush's policies in the "war on terrorism".
At issue is whether American courts have jurisdiction. Judges will not consider the conditions of confinement or the extent of the prisoners' legal rights.
Three cases are to be heard over the next two weeks.
They could result in the most important rulings in more than 50 years on the role of the American judiciary in reviewing government policies during wartime.
The high court is set to weigh civil liberties concerns against national security arguments as the government makes a broad assertion of presidential power.
Steven Shapiro, the American Civil Liberties Union's legal director, said: "These cases raise fundamental questions about the role of the courts in preserving civil liberties."
The justices scheduled 60 minutes of arguments on whether American courts can hear challenges to the legality of the detention of foreign nationals captured abroad.
About 595 foreign nationals, who have been designated "enemy combatants," remain at the base as suspected al Qaida members or Taliban fighters.
"These cases raise fundamental questions about the role of the courts in preserving civil liberties"
Most were seized during the US-led campaign against the Taliban government in Afghanistan. The first detainees arrived at Guantanamo in January of 2002.
Only two of the detainees have been charged and face military commissions while four have been given lawyers.
The rest are being held without charges, without access to lawyers and without access to courts or a proceeding of any kind.
John Gibbons, a retired US appeals court judge who was appointed to the bench by Republican President Richard Nixon in 1970, will argue on behalf of the detainees.
In written briefs, lawyers for the detainees said the US constitution does not allow the creation of a prison beyond the reach of the judiciary.
Especially a prision reserved for foreign nationals who may be held "on mere executive fiat".
The administration's position will be argued by Solicitor General Theodore Olson, the government's chief advocate before the Supreme Court.
His wife, Barbara Olson, was among the passengers killed on the hijacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon on 11 September 2001.


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Here I have the a form I created in rhino. I started with a taurus and manipulated it using control points to create this form. I liked the continuity and flowing lines, as well as the subtle variations in the surface of the form. I created a file for serial slicing and sent it to the laser scanner.
I assembled the wooden pieces using wood glue and screws every few layers to give the piece a more sturdy hold. I grinded down the piece and sanded it. The above photo is after the assembly and sanding and in the process of applying the finish which was graphite powder.
This final photo is of the finished piece on display for critique. With the graphite powder coating it gives the feel of something very earthy. I placed some colored wires along the inside curve to invite the viewer to take a look at the piece from a different perspective and engage the eye from many different angles. I enjoyed this process and taking a form from a computer model to completion through the method of serial slicing was a great learning experience and something I wish to explore further with different pieces.