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Changemaker Spotlight: Shemitria Smith, Clark Atlanta University

sgEngage

is responsible for the overall advancement services at Clark Atlanta University as the senior director of advancement operations. With over 16 years of Raiser’s Edge NXT® experience at that time, the University had just switched over to Raiser’s Edge from Banner and was looking for an “expert”. Shemitria Smith, M.Ed.

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National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities

Ars Technica

These go to the universities and research institutes, covering the costs of providing and maintaining the lab space, heat and electricity, administrative and HR functions, and more. With no warning and no time to adjust to the change in policy, this will prove catastrophic for the budget of nearly every biomedical research institution.

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UniPi: Learning universal policies via text-guided video generation

Google Research AI blog

In “ Learning Universal Policies via Text-Guided Video Generation ”, we propose a Universal Policy (UniPi) that addresses environmental diversity and reward specification challenges. image sequences) as a universal interface for conveying action and observation behavior in different environments.

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These undergraduates left university to build Flux, a payments startup now in YC

TechCrunch

“We had to be compliant because of the CBN policy and our customers can’t really convert their crypto to fiat but can still transact their crypto. Eluan, Orukpe, Israel Akintunde (VP, Engineering) and Ayomide Lasaki (head of Marketing) — met in their freshman year at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) in Ile-Ife, Osun.

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Bill To Pull Tax Exemptions Headed Back To Congress

The NonProfit Times

Such a policy would disregard the Constitutional principle of due process, various nonprofit leaders told The NonProfit Times on background. Such a policy totally disregards the Constitutional principle of due process. Vice President-elect J.D.

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Jack Dorsey donates $5 million to Andrew Yang?s universal basic income and COVID-19 relief efforts

The Verge

“Not only will Jack’s donation directly impact tens of thousands of people in need during the current economic downturn, it will help Humanity Forward and our movement continue to make a case for Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the United States,” Yang said in a statement.

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How a university got itself banned from the Linux kernel

The Verge

The University of Minnesota’s path to banishment was long, turbulent, and full of emotion On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel. “I How did one email lead to a university-wide ban?