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Pleasant Grove High School student journalists won the top national awards in the Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) Crown Ceremony. The awards were presented virtually from Columbia University on March 19, 2021. The 2020 editions of The Hawk yearbook and the Edge newspaper received the Gold Crown award, the most prestigious award given by the CSPA with more than 852 publications entering the competition. This was the ninth consecutive year The Hawk has won the Gold Crown.Read Full StoryJournalismThe CrownPhotographyNational AwardsColumbia UniversityDigital CrownCSPAGold CrownCrown CeremonyCrown ConsiderationStudent PublishingRachel HemphillDelia TuttlebeeChosenPresley HargroveKathryn DavisAlex Norton

HARRISBURG, PA — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced recently it’s revamped the Green Energy Loan Fund (GELF) to make it easier for commercial property owners to get low-interest loans for large-scale, high-impact energy efficiency projects. Approximately $1.8 million is currently available in funding. “For commercial building owners...Read Full StoryLoan ApplicationSolar Water HeatingGreenhouse Gas EmissionsEnergy SavingsSolar ProjectsFinancingEnergy SystemsCommonwealthGELFEnvironmental JusticePennsylvaniansDEP And Reinvestment FundU.S. Department Of EnergyEsperanza CollegeDrexel UniversityPatrick Mcdonnell

If you're tired of cancel culture and censorship subscribe to Reclaim The Net. We recently reported about an Aberdeen University student who received a two-week ban from the university’s student association premises for saying “Rule Britannia” in a virtual debate about demilitarizing the campus. We’ve now been informed that she has also been kicked out of the Politics and International Relations Society.Read Full StoryStudent UnionWebchatRule BritanniaInternational PoliticsInternational StudentsFreedom StudentsConservative PoliticsCensorshipReclaim The NetAberdeen UniversityThe British NavyOnline StudentsRadical LeftistsAlleged CommentsConservative Views

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Three students have filed class-action lawsuits against Oregon’s two largest colleges saying they were charged full-price for online classes of poorer quality than in-person classes. When the University of Oregon and Oregon State University closed their campuses because of the coronavirus pandemic, they didn't offer to...Read Full StoryOregon State UniversityThe University Of OregonOnline StudentsCollege StudentsOnline ClassesOnline EducationRefundsAPThe Oregonian/OregonLiveOSUOnline LearningRefund PortionsRemote StudentsIn-person ClassesInstructionSteve Clark

In the month that both Judas and the Black Messiah and The Trial of the Chicago 7 have racked up multiple Oscar nominations, it’s another film, one well outside the Hollywood awards circuit, that’s bringing us up to date on the struggle for Black liberation. Unapologetic is an independently made documentary, following two young activists during four of the most tumultuous years in recent Chicago politics, as community anger mounted over the fatal police shootings of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd and 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Director Ashley O’Shay was herself just 22 and fresh out of film school when she moved to the city and began filming: “Like, if you were in Chicago in the fall of 2015, you must have been living under a rock if you were not aware of what young, Black folks were doing.”Read Full StoryBlack PeopleChicago MayorRacial InjusticeMoviesActivismQueer StoriesQueer FilmBlack HistorySocial MovementsBlack Youth ProjectO'ShayGambrellChicago PDBoratUnapologetic ChallengesRahm EmanuelFred Hampton

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Chicago White Sox left fielder Eloy Jiménez hurt his left shoulder when he tried to make a leaping grab at the wall on Sean Murphy’s solo homer for Oakland in the second inning of their exhibition game on Wednesday. Jiménez’s left arm barely moved as he...Read Full StoryMlbChicago White SoxSean MurphyBaseballLeft FieldRbisOaklandAPThe White SoxAL MVPLF EloyLeft Shoulder DiscomfortAt-batsJosé AbreuRBIsEloy JiménezHomer

Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 4696 (2021) Cite this article. In recent times, research attention is focusing on harnessing agricultural wastes for the production of value-added products. In this study, the valorization of Carica papaya (Pawpaw) fruit peels was evaluated for the production of quality organic fertilizer via anaerobic digestion (AD) while the effects of the fertilizer on maize crop were also assessed. Pawpaw peel was first pretreated by thermo-alkaline methods before AD and analyses were carried out using standard methods. The resulting digestate was rich in nutrients and was dewatered to form solid organic fertilizer rich in microbes and soil nutrients. When applied to maize plants, organic fertilizer showed a better effect on plant traits than NPK 15–15–15 fertilizer and without fertilizer application. These were more pronounced at mid to high organic fertilizer applications (30-to-60-kg nitrogen/hectare (kg N/ha)) rate. Comparison between the values obtained from the field experiments reveals that the organic fertilizer showed better performance in all parameters such as the number of leaves, leaf area, plant height, stem girth, total shoot, and root biomass, and length of the root. However, the chemical fertilizer outperformed all the organic fertilizer applied rates in the average highest size of the corn ear by 1.4%. After harvesting, nutrient elements were found to have bioaccumulated in plant organs (leaves, stem, and root) with the highest values being 29.7 mg/L for nitrogen in the leaf and this value was reported from the experiment with 50 kg N/ha. For phosphorus and potassium, the highest concentrations of 7.05 and 8.4 mg/L were recorded in the plant’ stem of the experiment with 50 kg N/ha. All the treated soils recorded an increase in values of all nutrient elements over the control with the highest values recorded in the experiment with 60 kg N/ha. In soil with 60 kg N/ha, the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium increased by 28, 40, and 22% respectively over the chemical fertilizer applied experiment while different levels of increases were also recorded for all other macro and microelements in all the experiments. Thus, agricultural practices by using anaerobic digestates as organic fertilizers is a sustainable method to overcome the dependence on inorganic fertilizers high rate.Read Full StorySoil MicrobiologyOrganic FertilizerSoil ErosionSoil FertilityOrganic SoilClimateOsun StateUniversity Of FloridaBowen UniversityNickel-Electro Ltd.GoogleLandmark University FarmsP. & MurphyBioMerieuxCovenant UniversityMa

This morning, Interim Provost Ira Katznelson updated the community on the University’s perspective and proposals regarding the ongoing graduate student strike. The union, the GWC-UAW, calls it a “step in the right direction,” but demands further assurances of neutrality in the process. Earlier today, Interim Provost Ira Katznelson sent an...Read Full StoryUnion WorkersLocal UnionAffirmative ActionEmployment DiscriminationPolitical ActionDemandsStrike ActionEOAAThe GWC-UAWGWCCPW-UAWUnion SecurityBargainingUniversity EmployeesWorkplace Protections

The parents of a 20-year-old college student who died earlier this month after an alleged hazing incident are calling for further action. Cory and Shari Foltz, whose son Stone died on March 7 following an alleged fraternity hazing event at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, told Good Morning America Wednesday that losing their son was 'unimaginable.'Read Full StoryHazingFraternityCollege StudentUniversity PoliceState PoliceKappaDrinking AlcoholGood Morning AmericaProMedica Toledo HospitalGMACoryWTOL-TVAlleged Hazing ActivityHusbandAuthorities

An ancient Egyptian pharaoh that may be King Tut's father has a new face, with regal features and a serene expression shaped by digital reconstruction. Though this is the most accurate reconstruction of the man to date, long-standing questions about his identity remain unanswered. His remains were found in 1907...Read Full StoryKing TutArchaeologyAustraliaThe Forensic Anthropology3DFacebookThe FAPAB Research CenterFlinders UniversityLive ScienceDepartment Of HistoryJAMAOhio State UniversityKingsDigital ReconstructionEgyptian MummiesAkhenatenKiyaAmenhotep IiiNefertiti