Editorial Note: Welcome to Volume 21 and the year 2018

African Journal of Nephrology (AJN) has completed a full year of operation as a web-based journal. After addressing a few teething problems, the journal is now running smoothly. I wish to thank reviewers, readers and the members of the editorial board for having participated in this endeavour.On behalf of the editorial board, I wish to thank all colleagues who have chosen to submit their valuable work to our journal. A special welcome and thanks to contributors who have submitted their manuscript in French, with an English abstract. They ensure that AJN remains a representative vehicle for nephrology research output in Africa.Volume 20, for the year 2017, has now given way to Volume 21, which will include publications throughout the year 2018. As a tribute, I wish to summarize few highlights of Volume 20. The story of the African Association of Nephrology (AFRAN) by Prof Rashad Barsoum, the founding president of AFRAN, is a very good record of the development of nephrology in Africa. The review of renal physiology in patients with potassium disorders by Prof Mitch Halperin and the review of focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis by Prof John Feehally are excellent updates of the two topics. Original articles and case reports from contributors from various African regions are testament to the active production of nephrology knowledge in Africa.Finally, congress proceedings of the AFRAN Congress in March 2017 in Yaoundé (Cameroon) and of the Southern African Transplantation Society Congress in September 2017 in Durban (South Africa) are excellent records of high quality nephrology meetings in Africa.As we are continuing to digitize and preserve our past, I wish to invite everyone to read our archive of publications. I urge everyone who may have copies of old AJN issues or manuscripts that are missing in the archive, to forward them to us to ensure that we make all our past papers available online.In the beginning, AJN started as a newsletter, published by the late Prof Salma Suleiman of Sudan. To complete the AJN archive, we hope to include the past newsletters as a tribute to the late Prof Suleiman. We urge anyone having any copies of the newsletter to forward it to AJN.As in Volume 20 in 2017, Volume 21 will consist of a single issue and include all publications for 2018. They will be added throughout the year as they are accepted for publication. We should expect exciting reviews by experts as in our previous volumes as well as special articles. For our legacy project that was started by Prof Rashad Barsoum, first AFRAN President, we will request the subsequent AFRAN presidents to each submit a review of the period of their tenure. As in the past, we expect to publish original articles as well as interesting case reports, and we encourage regional and national societies to submit the abstracts from their conference proceedings for publication.Finally, I wish to take this opportunity to express my best wishes for the year 2018 to all contributors, reviewers and readers.Alain G AssoungaEditor-in-Chie

International conference on software engineering and knowledge engineering: Session chair

The Thirtieth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2018) will be held at the Hotel Pullman, San Francisco Bay, USA, from July 1 to July 3, 2018. SEKE2018 will also be dedicated in memory of Professor Lofti Zadeh, a great scholar, pioneer and leader in fuzzy sets theory and soft computing. The conference aims at bringing together experts in software engineering and knowledge engineering to discuss on relevant results in either software engineering or knowledge engineering or both. Special emphasis will be put on the transference of methods between both domains. The theme this year is soft computing in software engineering & knowledge engineering. Submission of papers and demos are both welcome

Personal Reflections / 8.20.18

Welcome to the 2018-2019 academic year! We begin the year with great energy fresh from a summer hosting the 14th Annual International Student Science Fair (ISSF 2018), Alumni Weekend, and youth camps on our campus in Aurora, as well as across Illinois in Belleville, Chicago, Springfield and South Holland. Our hosting of ISSF 2018 was the jewel in our crown this year, it being the first time the annual international event was held in the US. ISSF 2018 was a great success for all involved

Faculty Senate Minutes, September 10, 2018

Welcome 2018-2019 Faculty Senators & Alternates - Becki Lawver Faculty Senate Handbook - Becki Lawver EPC Report April 5, 2018 - Ed Reeve Koch Task Force Update - Becki Lawver Second Reading - Additional Events during the Year in which a Tenure Decision is to be Made (Code 405.11.4) - John Gilber

The Echo: August 24, 2018

Freshman Edition Largest class in Taylor history – Welcome Taylor University Class of 2022 – Grant County gives grants to grads – Starting off the school year on the right note – Life in the cornfields comes to the big screen – Welcome Weekend tips and tricks – Q&A with a new English Hall director – Meet the Opinions editor – Grant County grudge match teases rivalry – Trojan at the helmhttps://pillars.taylor.edu/echo-2018-2019/1000/thumbnail.jp

Reducing Childhood Obesity: Food Innovation Consultancy Challenge

The module accounted for a third of the students final year, and had a major impact on their overall degree classification. Students therefore committed over 20 hours per week to attend the seamless teaching and also significant individual and group work in their own time. They were responsible for managing the client, timekeeping, teamwork and peers alsomarked each other whichcontributed to the final grade. This was the first year the module has ran, student feedback from student voice and Module Evaluation Questionnaires has allowed the module team to improve further for next year. 2018 19 NSS Scores were 100% for Food Marketing Management and 97% for Food & Nutrition, the highest scores achieved in Sheffield Hallam University. 2019-20 has already welcomed Innocent Drinks, Taylors of Harrogate and Warburton’s to propose challenges to make a difference, and will include packaging reduction, and the changing consumer tastes to assisthealth benefits. We welcome the challenge

IMSA360: Fall 2017

Welcome to the 2017-2018 school year! It’s a special academic year in that we begin the school year with a full budget! Over the past three years, our colleagues in public schools (K-12), who are under the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), began their school year with a full budget while IMSA and the rest of the universities, which are under the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE), began and operated most of the past two years without a full budget. Excerpt: From the Presiden

2018 Academic Conference Program

Welcome to the Holy Cross Academic Conference 2018 sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Dean of the College. This annual event is a celebration of over 470 Holy Cross students and their independent work over the past year under the guidance of faculty members in the performing and visual arts, social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. These presentations required the collaboration between students and faculty advisors and reflect the creativity and hard work over the year

Completions 2018-19

Welcome to the IPEDS Completions survey component. The Completions component is one of several IPEDS components that is conducted during the Fall data collection period. It collects the number of degrees and certificates awarded by field of study, level of award, race/ethnicity, and gender. The reporting period for the Completions component is during the 12-month time period beginning July 1 of the previous calendar year and ending June 30 of the current calendar year; therefore, for this year’s Completions component, the reporting period is between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018. The Completions component is also collecting the number of students (e.g., completers) who earned awards between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018

Completions 2019-20

Welcome to the IPEDS Completions survey component. The Completions component is one of several IPEDS components that is conducted during the Fall data collection period. It collects the number of degrees and certificates awarded by field of study, level of award, race/ethnicity, and gender. The reporting period for the Completions component is during the 12-month time period beginning July 1 of the previous calendar year and ending June 30 of the current calendar year; therefore, for this year’s Completions component, the reporting period is between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019. The Completions component is also collecting the number of students (e.g., completers) who earned awards between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019