Summer bridge programs are designed to improve retention and academic success among at-risk populations in postsecondary education by focusing on successful skills, behaviors, and high impact practices that promote academic performance. Recent research on these programs has focused primarily on how students’ incoming demographics and prior academic performance predict academic performance at th...

One of the hardest but also most exciting experiences ever for a capacity planner and performance specialist is having the possibility of working in the middle of a financial crisis. In the summer of 2002 I was in charge of the capacity planning and performance office of a major American bank in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and I was in the eye of the storm during the entire crisis. This session is...

We outline and summarize the work completed in Cundiff Group during the summer of 2011 in the process of developing an aparatus to test the symmetry properties of the cuprate family of high temperature superconductors. We describe the theory this experiment is based in, purposed experimental setup, and progress toward its completion as well as future work on the project.

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Abstract Globally, extreme weather events are occurring more often, with increased intensity due to anthropogenic climate change. For example, in July 2022, monthly average temperature Spain was 2.7 C above average, and UK has recorded temperatures 40 degrees for the first time. It been proven that implementation of green spaces cities helps address environmental, social, even economic problems...