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Open-heart surgery

Our hospital partners provide many opportunities for students to witness procedures, but can usually accommodate only 15 students at a time. Here's a video for sharing with everyone.

Drawing circles

Inherit the Wind - Georgetown University

Short notice, there's a student production of Inherit the Wind, the Lawrence and Lee play inspired by the Scopes trial of 1925, at Georgetown University.

Performances are taking place at October 16-18, 2:00 p.m., October 19, and 8:00 p.m. October 22-25, at Stage III of Poulton Hall.  1421 37th St. NW in Washington DC. 

Tickets are $12 for the general public, $8 for students. For further
information, visit:
http://georgetownvoice.com/2014/10/16/mask-bauble-calls-inherit-the-wind-to-the-stand-delivers-expert-testimony/

http://performingarts.georgetown.edu/

New Report: STEM Education Supporting Food & Agriculture

A new report released today identifies a growing gap between the supply of new graduates trained in agriculture-related STEM fields and the demand for young professionals in related roles by global food and agriculture employers. 

The report recommends that the food and agriculture industries work closely with educational institutions on closing the employment gap necessary to sustainably feed an expected global population of nine billion people by 2050. The report, released today at the World Food Prize 2014 Borlaug Dialogue, includes a detailed analysis of university enrollment and workforce trends in six agriculture fields: agricultural business and management, agriculture mechanization and engineering, animal sciences, plant and soil science, food science and technology and other life sciences. 

2015-2016 VCCS STEM Scholarships

Community College STEM Bridge Scholarship Opportunity  2015 – 2016

As part of the STEM Takes Flight at Virginia’s Community Colleges initiative, Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) is offering a competitive scholarship opportunity for community college students majoring in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) disciplines at any campus in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). These $5,000 scholarships are competitive awards based on academic merit.

The Community College STEM Bridge Scholar (CCBS) award will provide students with $2,000 in their freshman year (spring semester 2015) and then an additional $3,000 in their sophomore year as long as the student maintains at least a 2.7 GPA and meets other requirements of the award. This scholarship is based on academic merit and potential for a successful career in a STEM field. CCBS will help bridge students to next steps in higher education or employment through coaching and mentoring by VSGC staff, four-year college faculty, and by upper classmen. A series of virtual meetings and attendance at the Consortium’s annual Student Research Conference in April are also award requirements.

The VSGC strongly supports students engaged in scientific and technical career pathways who are seeking associates’ degrees as well as those preparing to transfer to four-year institutions of higher learning while developing the essential skills for a competitive global workforce.

Underrepresented minorities, females, and students with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Google Sheets - Smart Autofill

Smart Autofill - Harnessing the predictive power of Machine Learning in Google Sheets

Much of Google’s work on language, speech, translation, and visual processing relies on machine learning, where we construct and apply learning algorithms that make use of labeled data in order to make predictions for new data. What if you could leverage machine learning algorithms to learn patterns in your spreadsheet data, automatically build a model, and infer unknown values?

You can now use machine learning to make predictions in Google Sheets with the newly launched Smart Autofill Add-on (http://goo.gl/dghCQs). Smart Autofill uses Google's cloud-based machine learning service Prediction API (http://goo.gl/WmHyAa), which trains several linear as well as non-linear classification and regression models to predict the missing values of a partially filled column in your spreadsheet by using the data of other related columns.

For more information and a tutorial, head over to the Google Research Blog.

Smart Autofill - Harnessing the Predictive Power of Machine Learning in Google Sheets

googleresearch.blogspot.com