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TCU Hosts Texas Tribune Panel Conversation on 2027 Legislative Agenda
FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 10 -- Texas Christian University issued the following news:
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TCU Hosts Texas Tribune Panel Conversation on 2027 Legislative Agenda
October 09, 2026
With the 2027 Texas legislative session quickly approaching, TCU welcomed The Texas Tribune, Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker and a panel of current and former state lawmakers for two conversations about upcoming legislative priorities.
The event, presented by the Episcopal Health Foundation and moderated by Tribune editor-in-chief Matthew Watkins, drew elected officials, community leaders and TCU students to campus Oct.
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FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 10 -- Texas Christian University issued the following news:
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TCU Hosts Texas Tribune Panel Conversation on 2027 Legislative Agenda
October 09, 2026
With the 2027 Texas legislative session quickly approaching, TCU welcomed The Texas Tribune, Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker and a panel of current and former state lawmakers for two conversations about upcoming legislative priorities.
The event, presented by the Episcopal Health Foundation and moderated by Tribune editor-in-chief Matthew Watkins, drew elected officials, community leaders and TCU students to campus Oct.7. Over two panels, speakers returned again and again to one question: How can Fort Worth and the state work together on the issues Texans feel most in their daily lives?
Chancellor Daniel W. Pullin opened the morning by pointing to the partnership between the university and the city it has called home for more than a century.
"I can't point to a more productive, constructive, collaborative town and gown relationship than what we enjoy right here at Texas Christian University and the city of Fort Worth," Pullin said. "What's been good for Fort Worth has been good for TCU, and vice versa."
Pullin said universities have a responsibility to host conversations like this one.
"I think we have the obligation to host them here, where we bring different types of people with different lived experiences together, different perspectives to challenge the status quo and see if we can make tomorrow even better," he said.
Lawmakers Look Ahead
The first panel featured State Rep. Nicole Collier; former State Rep. Jason Villalba, chair and CEO of the Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation; and Tribune reporter Renzo Downey. The group discussed the political landscape heading into the session and the policy debates likely to define it, with property taxes and data centers at the top of the list.
Villalba said property taxes will remain a priority because the issue matters to voters in both parties. Panelists also agreed the state needs clear rules on how data centers use water and power. Collier said residents have real questions about how the facilities affect their communities and deserve clear information.
"These are things that people want to know, and it's about educating," she said.
The data center discussion carried into the second conversation when Parker took the stage.
Parker Makes the Case for Fort Worth
In her conversation with Watkins, Parker said Fort Worth needs to do a better job telling its story to state leaders, from its rapid growth to the areas where it needs help.
"Who is Fort Worth, Texas, and what are we doing as a city that you, even if you don't live here, as a statewide leader would be proud of?" Parker said.
TCU came up often as Parker described the city's work. A commission chaired by Mike Slattery, director of TCU's Institute of Environmental Studies, is preparing recommendations on data centers for the Fort Worth City Council to consider before the session begins.
"Special thanks to TCU and Dr. Mike Slattery," Parker said. "He put community members on this commission with him in hopes they can make recommendations to the council sometime in November."
She also pointed to TCU's film program as part of the workforce behind the city's growing film and television industry and credited the university as an early partner in the North Texas Maternal Health Accelerator, a regional effort to improve outcomes for mothers and babies and
"This university was the first partner to say whatever it takes," Parker said of the maternal health work.
Asked what she would accomplish in the session if she could pick one thing, Parker chose maternal health. She closed with a call for lawmakers to return to the kind of bipartisan consensus-building she saw as a legislative staffer earlier in her career.
"We are the eighth-largest economy in the world. We should act like it," Parker said. "We should come up with really big solutions that work for all Texans."
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Original text here: https://www.tcu.edu/news/2026/tcu-hosts-texas-tribune-panel-conversation-on-2027-legislative-agenda.php
Stockholm University: Mark Klamberg - This Year's Peace Prize a Recognition of a Life's Work
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 10 -- Stockholm University issued the following news:
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Mark Klamberg: This year's Peace Prize a recognition of a life's work
"This award does not mean that international justice has arrived, it means that the world still believes that those who have devoted their lives to pursue it deserve to be noticed," said Mark Klamberg, professor and subject director of the area of international law at the Department of Law.
Mark Klamberg worked in the same department as Navanethem "NAvi" Pillay when he was active at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2006.
"As a scientist,
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 10 -- Stockholm University issued the following news:
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Mark Klamberg: This year's Peace Prize a recognition of a life's work
"This award does not mean that international justice has arrived, it means that the world still believes that those who have devoted their lives to pursue it deserve to be noticed," said Mark Klamberg, professor and subject director of the area of international law at the Department of Law.
Mark Klamberg worked in the same department as Navanethem "NAvi" Pillay when he was active at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2006.
"As a scientist,I see this award as a recognition of a life's work rather than an individual breakthrough. Navi Pillay has for several decades shaped the development of international criminal law, from her pioneering role in the Akayesu case at the ICTR, where rape was first recognized as a genocide act, to her time as a judge and president of the ICC and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
"The prize can be read as a tribute to the personal endurance required to drive international justice forward, even when the systems around them are flawed.
"She is amazing."
Navi Pillay is awesome! Throughout her career, she has worked to ensure fairness in the encounter with extensive structural abuse of power," says Sally Longworth, senior lecturer in international law at Stockholm University.
From her work as a lawyer and judge in South Africa during the apartheid era to her time as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, President of the UN Investigation Commission on Occupied Palestinian Territories, including East Jerusalem and Israel, and as a judge of the International Rwanda Tribunal and the International Criminal Court. For me, she's a great source of inspiration.
Sally Longworth's research focuses on freedom of expression during war, international peace and security law, the legal situation in military operations, armed conflict and humanitarian law.
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Background
Navi Pillay was a judge in the Akeyesus case, a historic trial in the International Rwanda Tribunal (ICTR) in 1998 against Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of the Taba municipality in Rwanda.
It was the first time an international court ruled someone from genocide. There was a panel of three judges. In addition to Navi Pillay, Lennart Aspegren was also included in the panel, a Swedish judge who is also an honorary doctor at Stockholm University. Lennart Aspegren passed away in 2026.
Read more about Navi Pillay (https://www.icc-cpi.int/judges/judge-navanethem-pillay)
Read more about Mark Klamberg's research and his book Folkmurd from 2025, which among other things deals with the Akeyesus target (https://www.su.se/enheter/juridiska-institutionen/nyheter/nyhetsartiklar/2025-11-18-mot-fakultetens-nya-prodekan-for-utbildning-mark-klamberg)
Read more about Sally Longworhts research (https://www.su.se/profiles/s/slong)
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Original text here: https://www.su.se/nyheter/nyhetsartiklar/2026-10-09-mark-klamberg-arets-fredspris-ett-erkannande-av-en-livsgarning
SLSU Advances Patent Drafting Capacity Through Second Training Session
SOGOD, Philippines, Oct. 10 -- Southern Leyte State University issued the following news:
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08 Oct 2026
SLSU advances Patent Drafting Capacity through second training session
The Southern Leyte State University (SLSU), through its Intellectual Property and Technology Support Office (ITSO), successfully conducted the second session of the Patent Drafter Capacity Building Program on October 6, 2026, at the RIPE Building, SLSU Sogod Campus.
Building on the knowledge gained during the first phase held on August 11-13, the program continues to equip selected personnel with essential competencies
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SOGOD, Philippines, Oct. 10 -- Southern Leyte State University issued the following news:
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08 Oct 2026
SLSU advances Patent Drafting Capacity through second training session
The Southern Leyte State University (SLSU), through its Intellectual Property and Technology Support Office (ITSO), successfully conducted the second session of the Patent Drafter Capacity Building Program on October 6, 2026, at the RIPE Building, SLSU Sogod Campus.
Building on the knowledge gained during the first phase held on August 11-13, the program continues to equip selected personnel with essential competenciesin patent drafting, prior art searching, IP evaluation, patent filing, copyright registration, and intellectual property management. This initiative reflects SLSU's commitment to developing a strong institutional pool of patent drafters who will help safeguard and advance the University's innovations and research outputs.
Dr. Jannie Fleur V. Orano, Research and Innovation Director, delivered the opening remarks and presented an overview of the training objectives and expected outputs. She welcomed the participants, introduced the purpose of the activity, and outlined the expected outcomes of the second session of the Patent Drafter Capacity Building Program.
Engr. Khorina A. Tablada, Chief of the Innovation and Assets Management and Transfer Unit, led an interactive discussion on the SLSU Intellectual Property Policy. Participants raised questions and sought clarification on the policy's provisions and their application in handling intellectual property concerns within the University.
Ms. Rio Katrina C. Avila, Head of ITSO, discussed the SLSU intellectual property application process, including the revised application forms and documentary requirements. The session allowed participants to clarify the procedures and requirements involved in processing intellectual property applications.
The second session built on the participants' initial training by focusing on University-level policies, procedures, and documentary requirements related to intellectual property protection. These topics formed part of the second phase of the Patent Drafter Capacity Building Program.
The continuing program supports SLSU's efforts to strengthen its internal capacity to protect, manage, and commercialize research and innovation outputs while providing technical support to inventors across its campuses.
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Original text here: https://southernleytestateu.edu.ph/index.php/en/menu-page-home/4441-slsu-advances-patent-drafting-capacity-through-second-training-session
Penn College Food Ranks No. 4 in Pennsylvania
WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania, Oct. 10 -- The Pennsylvania College of Technology issued the following news:
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Penn College food ranks No. 4 in Pennsylvania
October 9, 2026
Penn College Dining Services provides some of the best college food in Pennsylvania, according to Niche, a college search website that provides profiles on every college in the U.S., as well as reviews and ratings.
Penn College ranked fourth in the state on the site's 2027 Best College Food list. The ranking is based on meal plan costs and student reviews.
According to Niche, the top-ranked colleges offer outstanding on-campus
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WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania, Oct. 10 -- The Pennsylvania College of Technology issued the following news:
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Penn College food ranks No. 4 in Pennsylvania
October 9, 2026
Penn College Dining Services provides some of the best college food in Pennsylvania, according to Niche, a college search website that provides profiles on every college in the U.S., as well as reviews and ratings.
Penn College ranked fourth in the state on the site's 2027 Best College Food list. The ranking is based on meal plan costs and student reviews.
According to Niche, the top-ranked colleges offer outstanding on-campusdining, with access to healthy, quality food across a wide range of cuisines and dietary preferences.
Penn College's nine dining units offer variety, too, with options for grab-and-go, made-to-order and buffet-style meals - plus the Wildcat Express convenience store.
Dining Services also operates The Cupboard, an on-campus food pantry for students experiencing food insecurity.
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Original text here: https://www.pct.edu/news/articles/2026/10/09/penn-college-food-ranks-no-4-in-pennsylvania
Landmark College: Education Professor Discusses Teaching Challenges on MacMillan Podcast
PUTNEY, Vermont, Oct. 10 -- Landmark College issued the following news:
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October 9, 2026
Education Professor Discusses Teaching Challenges on MacMillan Podcast
Landmark College Professor of Education Rebecca Matte appeared on the Sept. 30, 2026, episode of The What and Who of EDU podcast, joining nine of her peers to discuss the topic of "Teaching Challenges No One Trained You For."
Matte drew on her more than 30 years of experience teaching neurodivergent learners to share the challenge of teaching students who don't know why they're in college.
"The one thing that you're really not
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PUTNEY, Vermont, Oct. 10 -- Landmark College issued the following news:
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October 9, 2026
Education Professor Discusses Teaching Challenges on MacMillan Podcast
Landmark College Professor of Education Rebecca Matte appeared on the Sept. 30, 2026, episode of The What and Who of EDU podcast, joining nine of her peers to discuss the topic of "Teaching Challenges No One Trained You For."
Matte drew on her more than 30 years of experience teaching neurodivergent learners to share the challenge of teaching students who don't know why they're in college.
"The one thing that you're really nottaught how to work with is when a student feels like they have a lack of purpose or meaning for being there," Matte shared on the episode. "'I don't know what makes me happy' is the hardest, hardest thing to help them discover."
The What & Who of EDU is an education-focused podcast and video series produced by Macmillan Learning that brings together thought leaders, educators, and experts to explore the latest trends, innovations, and best practices shaping education today.
Listen to the podcast episode (https://e69f2d88-be8f-424f-85e7-49f634dc418d.libsyn.com/10-teaching-challenges-no-one-trained-you-for)
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Original text here: https://www.landmark.edu/about/news/education-professor-discusses-teaching-challenges-on-macmillian-podcast
Is the Yale SOM Master's in Asset Management Right for You?
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 10 -- Yale School of Management issued the following news:
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Is the Yale SOM Master's in Asset Management Right for You?
October 9, 2026
Diana Economy, director of Master's in Asset Management admissions, offers advice for aspiring asset managers exploring educational options.
Prospective students often ask us how to discern if a master's in asset management is the right degree for them.
Before you think about test scores, recommendations, or essays, I'd encourage you to start by considering that question.
Yale SOM's Master's in Asset Management is a specialized,
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 10 -- Yale School of Management issued the following news:
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Is the Yale SOM Master's in Asset Management Right for You?
October 9, 2026
Diana Economy, director of Master's in Asset Management admissions, offers advice for aspiring asset managers exploring educational options.
Prospective students often ask us how to discern if a master's in asset management is the right degree for them.
Before you think about test scores, recommendations, or essays, I'd encourage you to start by considering that question.
Yale SOM's Master's in Asset Management is a specialized,nine-month program designed for students who want to build the knowledge and skills to pursue careers in investing. But there is no single type of student we're looking for, and you don't need to have followed one particular academic or professional path to get here.
Here are a few smaller questions that might help you answer the big one.
Are you genuinely interested in investing?
You don't need to know exactly what job you want for the rest of your career. In fact, we expect many of our students' interests to evolve as they learn more about the field. But you should be able to identify what draws you to investing and asset management.
Maybe you're interested in researching companies and making investment decisions. Or you might be fascinated by markets, portfolio construction, quantitative investing, private markets, or the way institutional investors allocate capital. Perhaps an internship, class, student investment fund, research project, or personal experience first sparked your interest. You don't need a perfectly polished answer yet. Curiosity is a good place to start.
Do you have the "right" academic background?
There is no required undergraduate major for this program. Our students come to us with different academic backgrounds, and we welcome that diversity of perspective.
What does matter is being prepared for a rigorous curriculum. The program is quantitatively intense, which is why we ask applicants about their exposure to subjects such as calculus, linear algebra, statistics, economics, and programming.
Those subjects are recommended preparation, not admission requirements. We regularly admit candidates who have not taken all of them. We're interested in understanding the preparation you have and whether there are areas you might want to strengthen before you arrive. So if you didn't major in finance or math but are still interested in investing, don't rule yourself out.
Do you need to have worked in investing?
You do not need to have completed a finance or investing internship to be a strong candidate for the Master's in Asset Management.
We know that students discover their interest in investing in many different ways, and we don't expect everyone to arrive at the program via the same path. Some applicants have had an internship in finance or asset management, while others have worked in a different industry, conducted research, held a part-time job, or developed relevant skills and interests through activities outside the classroom.
When we say this is an early-career program, we mean that our students are just embarking on their asset management careers. Prior experience in another industry can be valuable, too. The ability to analyze problems, think strategically, communicate clearly, work with others, and bring perspective from other disciplines matters in investing.
If you're still in college, we certainly don't expect you to have years of professional experience. Internships, research, student organizations, leadership roles, part-time work, and other applied experiences all help us understand what you've explored, what you've learned, and the perspective you would bring to the SOM community.
Is nine months enough time?
This is an important question to ask yourself, because the Master's in Asset Management is intentionally intensive.
Nine months goes quickly. But you'll spend that time deeply focused on investing--building your technical and analytical skills, learning from faculty and practitioners, applying what you learn through the program's Practical Experience component, and preparing for your next career step. You should come into the program ready to engage from the beginning in academics, career exploration, and recruiting.
For the right student, the concentrated format is an essential feature of the program: You can build specialized expertise and return to the workforce in less than a year.
How is this degree different from an MBA or a more traditional master's in finance?
An MBA offers broad management education across functions, while a master's in finance typically provides preparation across finance functions. SOM's Master's in Asset Management is more specialized: It is built specifically around investing and the management of assets.
If you already know that investing is where you want to focus, that specialization may be appealing. If you are a college senior considering Yale SOM and are also interested in immediately pursuing an MBA, you may want to explore our Silver Scholars program as well. The important question isn't which program is "better." It's which program best matches what you want to learn, your career stage, and where you hope to go next.
So, is the program right for you?
You may still be exploring which area of investing interests you. You may have quantitative coursework you'd like to strengthen. You may not have had a traditional finance internship. Those things don't necessarily mean the program isn't for you.
Instead, I'd focus on a few bigger questions: Am I excited enough about investing that I want to spend nine intensive months studying it? Am I prepared, or willing to prepare, for a rigorous academic experience? And does specialized training in asset management make sense for where I want to go next?
If your answer is yes--or even "I think so, but I want to learn more"--I encourage you to get to know us.
Attend an admissions event or watch one of our admissions webinars. Talk with a student ambassador. View our most recent class profile and explore the curriculum and career paths our graduates pursue. Hear from our faculty and practitioners. And reach out to the admissions team.
You don't have to decide whether SOM is right for you before you start a conversation with us. Figuring that out is part of the process.
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Original text here: https://som.yale.edu/story/2026/yale-som-masters-asset-management-right-you
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering: Building Powerful, Efficient and Reliable AI at the Edge
DURHAM, North Carolina, Oct. 10 -- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering issued the following news:
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Building Powerful, Efficient and Reliable AI at the Edge
Yiran Chen
10/9/26
In the Duke Engineering Physical AI series, Yiran Chen explains what it will take to make robots and other smart machines powerful, efficient and trustworthy enough to operate without relying on the cloud.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming incredibly capable, but many of its most important future applications will not take place in data centers; they will take place in homes, vehicles, factories,
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DURHAM, North Carolina, Oct. 10 -- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering issued the following news:
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Building Powerful, Efficient and Reliable AI at the Edge
Yiran Chen
10/9/26
In the Duke Engineering Physical AI series, Yiran Chen explains what it will take to make robots and other smart machines powerful, efficient and trustworthy enough to operate without relying on the cloud.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming incredibly capable, but many of its most important future applications will not take place in data centers; they will take place in homes, vehicles, factories,hospitals, farms and other physical environments. When embedded within robots, drones and wearable devices, Physical AI systems must often perceive their surroundings and make decisions in real time, even when their connection to the cloud is unreliable or untrustworthy.
This is the central challenge of edge AI: How can we build systems that are both efficient and powerful enough to operate on resource-constrained devices while supporting complex decision-making reliably?
The answer is a full-stack research problem that must not simply shrink a cloud-based model and deploy it on a device. Instead, researchers must rethink the interactions among algorithms, software, hardware, networks and physical environments.
The first requirement is efficiency. Edge devices imbued with Physical AI typically have limited computing and physical budgets. To address these constraints, researchers are developing methods such as model compression, quantization, efficient attention mechanisms, adaptive and speculative inference, and hardware-software co-design to reduce the cost of AI computation. These techniques allow advanced models to run with lower latency and energy consumption while preserving the capabilities needed for real-world tasks.
Efficiency, however, cannot come at the expense of functionality. An autonomous robot may need to combine information from cameras, radar, LiDAR, and other sensors; understand changing conditions; plan a sequence of actions; and coordinate with other machines or people. These challenges require advances in multimodal and causal learning, world models, retrieval-augmented systems, and agentic AI. These approaches help edge systems move beyond recognizing isolated objects toward understanding situations and acting purposefully.
A third requirement is adaptability. Physical environments are unpredictable, and edge platforms are a cornucopia of different devices. A model operating on a drone may face different resources and conditions from one running on a ground robot or an augmented-reality headset. Physical AI systems must be able to adjust their models, workloads and communication patterns as energy, network bandwidth, sensing quality, and computational resources change. Rather than assuming a fixed connection to a powerful cloud, the system should decide what must be handled locally, what can be shared with nearby devices and what can safely be deferred.
Trustworthiness is equally essential. When an AI system controls a physical machine, an incorrect or delayed decision can have serious consequences. Edge AI can improve privacy by keeping sensitive data near its source, but it must also be robust to faulty sensors, adversarial attacks, uncertain observations and compromised collaborators.
Led by Duke, the NSF AI Institute for Edge Computing and Systems (Athena) approaches all of these challenges with a comprehensive vision of "Immersive AI in the Physical World." We work to create intelligence that is woven into the environments where people live and work. Our multi-institutional collaborators are developing long-lived, cloud-independent AI agents for robots, drones and sensors, as well as edge AI technologies for emerging applications such as fault-tolerant quantum computing. These systems will be evaluated not only by accuracy, but also by latency, energy use, reliability, recovery, privacy and safety.
The future of AI will not be defined solely by the size of models in the cloud (a.k.a., scaling law). It will also depend on our ability to create intelligent systems that can sense, reason and act locally, responsibly and continuously. Athena's work on edge AI offers a path toward that future--powerful enough to control machines, efficient enough to operate anywhere, and trustworthy enough to become part of the physical world.
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Original text here: https://pratt.duke.edu/news/physical-ai-yiran-chen/
