Over-Age, Under-Credited Students and Public Charter Schools: An Exploration of Successes, Strategies, and Opportunities For Expansion

This report examines how public charter schools are effectively serving students who have fallen behind in school or dropped out all together. The report released by OPP, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools  and SIATech, offers examples of successes and key policy recommendations to better serve these students, often called over-age, under-credited (or OU) youth

Interview with Bob Thompson - OH 547

In his June 29, 2017 interview with Alex Windham, Bob Thompson detailed his thoughts and memories of his time at the Rock Hill Printing and Finishing Company referred to locals as the Bleachery. Thompson spoke of the time of the 1970s through 2017 and on the follow topics: Public relations, Springs buyout of the Bleachery, Springs perspective on the closing of the Bleachery, reasons for the decline of the textile industry and his ideas on the future of the Bleachery as University Center of Knowledge Park.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/1624/thumbnail.jp

The Science Performance of JWST as Characterized in Commissioning

This paper characterizes the actual science performance of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), as determined from the six month commissioning period. We summarize the performance of the spacecraft, telescope, science instruments, and ground system, with an emphasis on differences from pre-launch expectations. Commissioning has made clear that JWST is fully capable of achieving the discoveries for which it was built. Moreover, almost across the board, the science performance of JWST is better than expected; in most cases, JWST will go deeper faster than expected. The telescope and instrument suite have demonstrated the sensitivity, stability, image quality, and spectral range that are necessary to transform our understanding of the cosmos through observations spanning from near-earth asteroids to the most distant galaxies.Comment: 5th version as accepted to PASP; 31 pages, 18 figures; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/acb29

The James Webb Space Telescope Mission

Twenty-six years ago a small committee report, building on earlier studies, expounded a compelling and poetic vision for the future of astronomy, calling for an infrared-optimized space telescope with an aperture of at least $4m$. With the support of their governments in the US, Europe, and Canada, 20,000 people realized that vision as the $6.5m$ James Webb Space Telescope. A generation of astronomers will celebrate their accomplishments for the life of the mission, potentially as long as 20 years, and beyond. This report and the scientific discoveries that follow are extended thank-you notes to the 20,000 team members. The telescope is working perfectly, with much better image quality than expected. In this and accompanying papers, we give a brief history, describe the observatory, outline its objectives and current observing program, and discuss the inventions and people who made it possible. We cite detailed reports on the design and the measured performance on orbit.Comment: Accepted by PASP for the special issue on The James Webb Space Telescope Overview, 29 pages, 4 figure

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

Oh I was married up in the air way up above in the clouds [first line of chorus]

Performance Medium: Piano, Voice and Chord

Oil and Gas Tax Policy Roundtable

TU College of Law, the TCBA Energy & Mineral Law Section, Apache, and the Future Leaders Advisory Council of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association (OIPA) are proud to host a roundtable panel discussion for attorneys, law students, and energy program students interested in the energy industry

Oil and Gas Tax Policy Roundtable

TU College of Law, the TCBA Energy & Mineral Law Section, Apache, and the Future Leaders Advisory Council of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association (OIPA) are proud to host a roundtable panel discussion for attorneys, law students, and energy program students interested in the energy industry

Tears are not enough

Gift of Dr. Mary Jane Esplen.Title by Bob Rock and Paul Hyde, French verse by Rachel Paiement [note]"Tears Are Not Enough" is a 1985 charity single recorded by a supergroup of Canadian artists, under the name Northern Lights, to raise funds for relief of the 1983?85 famine in Ethiopia. --Wikipedia 27-09-17 [note]Piano vocal guitar [instrumentation]As ev'ry day goes by [first line]We can bridge the distance [first line of chorus]D flat [key]Moderately, with feeling [tempo]Popular song [form/genre]Group of Canadian artist performing in the studio [illustration]French verse by: Rachel Paiement [note