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The People’s Scientist: Dr. Esther Ngumbi Makes Science Accessible
As a child in rural Kenya, Dr. Esther Ngumbi helped her parents farm each day, watching as their crops sprouted from the soil, hopeful and green. But then, “insects would come and go through our crops, and sometimes what insects hadn’t taken away, drought would,” says Ngumbi, now an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From a young age, Ngumbi wanted to know what the insects were and how farmers could control them. She wanted a career that could help her community grow plentiful food amid challenging circumstances and a changing climate.
April 8, 2021
COVID-19
Report: 40% of Contingent and Adjunct Faculty Have Trouble Affording Basic Expenses
As much as 40% of adjunct and contingent faculty at two- and four-year colleges and universities have trouble affording basic household expenses, says a new report that surveyed more than 3,000 such instructors in May-June last year. The report by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), released Monday, further said that a third of survey […]
April 20, 2020
News Roundup
Brown University Implements New Measures to Improve Food Security
Brown University will provide meals to students during spring break at no additional cost starting in the 2019-20 academic year, and require all sophomores to enroll in a meal plan in order to strengthen food security across the campus. The new measures at Brown – developed from recommendations of a working group launched by provost […]
May 24, 2019
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