The Grizzly, March 21, 2002

Wynton Marsalis Brings Down the House at Ursinus • The True History of St. Patrick\u27s Day • Music Series set for Berman Museum • Ursinus Women\u27s History Month Dedicated to Late Professor • Meistersingers to Perform at Ursinus College • Berman Museum of Art to Feature Hans Moller Retrospective • SERV and Campus Safety to the Rescue • The New Fad Drug that Might be a Thinly Veiled Disaster • Girls Lacrosse Starts out Strong after a Productive Southern Swinghttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1510/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, September 30, 2004

USGA has Second Thoughts • Campus Philly Kick-off Week • Lights Out at UC • Where Will You go? UC Study Abroad Programs • Andrew Sullivan to Speak at Ursinus • Easy Access to Social Security Numbers Causes Some Concerns • The Aid Game • Why Study Abroad? • Opinions: Appealing to a Younger Demographic; Experiencing the Miss America Pageant Live; MTV Generation of Choosers and Losers; Ready Maim Fire • Baseball Preview • Women\u27s Soccer Defeats Immaculata • Women\u27s Rugby Claws way to Victoryhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1566/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, February 28, 2002

Doug Farah Pays a Visit to Ursinus • Ursinus Students in Who\u27s Who List • Mysterious Rash Hits School Children Across the Country • Welcome to the Real World • Xanax Abuse • Controversy in the World of Figure Skating • Opinions: Spring Break; Sprinklers: Where are They?; Italy for a Semester • Experience the Beauty of Spring at the Philadelphia Flower Show • Marisol: A Different but Successful Performance at Ursinus College • Some Hot Tips for an Exciting and Safe Spring Break in Sunny Mexico • Track Team\u27s Results from Haverford • Men\u27s Basketball Falls Short at F&M • Men\u27s Rugby Team Admitted to Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union • Kings of the Court • Aivazian says Bye, Bye, Bye to the Division I Competition at UPenn • UC Swimmers Turn Up the Heat in the Water at the 2002 CC Championship Meethttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1509/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, January 31, 2002

Ursinus Professors Weigh in on Latest Enron Scandal • Back Again: New Member Education is in Full Swing at Ursinus • Snell Symposium: Teaching Equality in Sports • Internet Misconceptions on Campus • September 11: Will the Attacks Affect Security at the 2002 Olympics? • Opinions: Weighing the Choices of New Member Education; Where\u27s my Winter?; Effects of Kazaa and Bonza Buddy • Maggiano\u27s Little Italy: Save Your Money and Eat at Home • Great Events Sponsored by CAB • Sharing Worlds: New Column on Campus Diversity • Rushing • Swimmers Give it Their All Against The Terrors • Watson Qualifies for Indoor CC Championships • Women\u27s B-ball Downed by Muhlenberg and Johns Hopkins in Second Half of Season • Ursinus Wresting Shows the Centennial Conference They\u27ve Come to Fight • Gymnastics Sweeps MIT and Rhode Island College • Big Win Over Muhlenberg Highlights Week for Men\u27s Basketball • All Star Jazz Sextet to Perform • Ursinus College Film Festival to Present Uranushttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1505/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, December 2, 2004

UC Students Opposed to Drunk Driving • Post-election Blues Give Rise to New Interest Group on Campus • Behind Closed Doors: Secret Places on Campus • Wheelchair Basketball Rolls in the Money • Upcoming Choir Concert • Interview with the President: Strassburger Shares Plans for Ursinus • Dance Company Concert a Success • Holly Singh Presents Mistaken Identity: Sikhs in America at Unity House • Major Highlight: Gender and Women\u27s Studies • Opinions: Enjoy Your Carbs this Holiday Season; Freedom on the Line • Pro Athletes Brawling with Fans • Men\u27s Basketball Season Heating Uphttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1573/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, November 4, 2004

Leadership Students Experience the Sounds of Halloween • Bourbon Street & Beads: Homecoming Dance Preview • Chris Heinz Visits Ursinus • Four Ursinus Students Finalists for Watson Fellowship • New Office Provides Extended Opportunities for Altruism • Ursinus Students Remain Divided on Iraq • Career Services Keeps Post-Graduate Success High • Opinions: When Sex Ends with Whoops!; Ur-whine-us; In Drugs we Should not Trust • Field Hockey Team Enters CC Playoffs with a 17-1 Overall Record • Winter Sports Predictions • Swim Team Looks to Make a Splash this Seasonhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1570/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, October 28, 2004

Don\u27t Let Wismer Food Scare You; DSAC is Here to Help! • Senior Halloween Party Coming to a Barn Near You • RHA Halloween Decorating Contest Returns • Halloween not for Everyone • Omwake, a Haunted House for the Community • Cheap, Last-minute Costumes Down the Road • It\u27s a Witch! • Hobson Ghosts: Past and Present • Eastern State Penitentiary: Does it Frighten You? • Opinions: Are Halloween Costumes Just for Fun, or Can They be Offensive?; How Old is Too Old to Trick or Treat?; Halloween Hijinks • The Thompson-Gay Era and the Gym Named in Their Honor • Nightmares on Broad Streethttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1569/thumbnail.jp

ICDP workshop on the Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project: a late Miocene–present record of climate, rifting, and ecosystem evolution from the world's oldest tropical lake

The Neogene and Quaternary are characterized by enormous changes in global climate and environments, including global cooling and the establishment of northern high-latitude glaciers. These changes reshaped global ecosystems, including the emergence of tropical dry forests and savannahs that are found in Africa today, which in turn may have influenced the evolution of humans and their ancestors. However, despite decades of research we lack long, continuous, well-resolved records of tropical climate, ecosystem changes, and surface processes necessary to understand their interactions and influences on evolutionary processes. Lake Tanganyika, Africa, contains the most continuous, long continental climate record from the mid-Miocene (∼10 Ma) to the present anywhere in the tropics and has long been recognized as a top-priority site for scientific drilling. The lake is surrounded by the Miombo woodlands, part of the largest dry tropical biome on Earth. Lake Tanganyika also harbors incredibly diverse endemic biota and an entirely unexplored deep microbial biosphere, and it provides textbook examples of rift segmentation, fault behavior, and associated surface processes. To evaluate the interdisciplinary scientific opportunities that an ICDP drilling program at Lake Tanganyika could offer, more than 70 scientists representing 12 countries and a variety of scientific disciplines met in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in June 2019. The team developed key research objectives in basin evolution, source-to-sink sedimentology, organismal evolution, geomicrobiology, paleoclimatology, paleolimnology, terrestrial paleoecology, paleoanthropology, and geochronology to be addressed through scientific drilling on Lake Tanganyika. They also identified drilling targets and strategies, logistical challenges, and education and capacity building programs to be carried out through the project. Participants concluded that a drilling program at Lake Tanganyika would produce the first continuous Miocene–present record from the tropics, transforming our understanding of global environmental change, the environmental context of human origins in Africa, and providing a detailed window into the dynamics, tempo and mode of biological diversification and adaptive radiations.© Author(s) 2020. This open access article is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

BACKGROUND: Detailed assessments of mortality patterns, particularly age-specific mortality, represent a crucial input that enables health systems to target interventions to specific populations. Understanding how all-cause mortality has changed with respect to development status can identify exemplars for best practice. To accomplish this, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) estimated age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality between 1970 and 2016 for 195 countries and territories and at the subnational level for the five countries with a population greater than 200 million in 2016. METHODS: We have evaluated how well civil registration systems captured deaths using a set of demographic methods called death distribution methods for adults and from consideration of survey and census data for children younger than 5 years. We generated an overall assessment of completeness of registration of deaths by dividing registered deaths in each location-year by our estimate of all-age deaths generated from our overall estimation process. For 163 locations, including subnational units in countries with a population greater than 200 million with complete vital registration (VR) systems, our estimates were largely driven by the observed data, with corrections for small fluctuations in numbers and estimation for recent years where there were lags in data reporting (lags were variable by location, generally between 1 year and 6 years). For other locations, we took advantage of different data sources available to measure under-5 mortality rates (U5MR) using complete birth histories, summary birth histories, and incomplete VR with adjustments; we measured adult mortality rate (the probability of death in individuals aged 15-60 years) using adjusted incomplete VR, sibling histories, and household death recall. We used the U5MR and adult mortality rate, together with crude death rate due to HIV in the GBD model life table system, to estimate age-specific and sex-specific death rates for each location-year. Using various international databases, we identified fatal discontinuities, which we defined as increases in the death rate of more than one death per million, resulting from conflict and terrorism, natural disasters, major transport or technological accidents, and a subset of epidemic infectious diseases; these were added to estimates in the relevant years. In 47 countries with an identified peak adult prevalence for HIV/AIDS of more than 0·5% and where VR systems were less than 65% complete, we informed our estimates of age-sex-specific mortality using the Estimation and Projection Package (EPP)-Spectrum model fitted to national HIV/AIDS prevalence surveys and antenatal clinic serosurveillance systems. We estimated stillbirths, early neonatal, late neonatal, and childhood mortality using both survey and VR data in spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression models. We estimated abridged life tables for all location-years using age-specific death rates. We grouped locations into development quintiles based on the Socio-demographic Index (SDI) and analysed mortality trends by quintile. Using spline regression, we estimated the expected mortality rate for each age-sex group as a function of SDI. We identified countries with higher life expectancy than expected by comparing observed life expectancy to anticipated life expectancy on the basis of development status alone. FINDINGS: Completeness in the registration of deaths increased from 28% in 1970 to a peak of 45% in 2013; completeness was lower after 2013 because of lags in reporting. Total deaths in children younger than 5 years decreased from 1970 to 2016, and slower decreases occurred at ages 5-24 years. By contrast, numbers of adult deaths increased in each 5-year age bracket above the age of 25 years. The distribution of annualised rates of change in age-specific mortality rate differed over the period 2000 to 2016 compared with earlier decades: increasing annualised rates of change were less frequent, although rising annualised rates of change still occurred in some locations, particularly for adolescent and younger adult age groups. Rates of stillbirths and under-5 mortality both decreased globally from 1970. Evidence for global convergence of death rates was mixed; although the absolute difference between age-standardised death rates narrowed between countries at the lowest and highest levels of SDI, the ratio of these death rates-a measure of relative inequality-increased slightly. There was a strong shift between 1970 and 2016 toward higher life expectancy, most noticeably at higher levels of SDI. Among countries with populations greater than 1 million in 2016, life expectancy at birth was highest for women in Japan, at 86·9 years (95% UI 86·7-87·2), and for men in Singapore, at 81·3 years (78·8-83·7) in 2016. Male life expectancy was generally lower than female life expectancy between 1970 and 2016, an