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Economics' Sue Helper discusses improving productivity in manufacturing plants
When AI can’t replace a worker, it watches them instead WIRED: Sue Helper, a professor of economics at Weatherhead School of Management, weighed in on the practice of encouraging manufacturing workers, throughout a plant’s hierarchy, to participate in improving a plant’s operations—including…
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5 questions with...Laila Michel, Haitian national team swimmer and first-year student
By Eddie Kerekes, Class of 2020 When first-year swimmer Laila Michel’s father first told her the news, she thought he was joking. Michel, then in high school, could not believe she would be going to the Haitian embassy in Washington, D.C., to secure dual citizenship in Haiti and the United…
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"Using a Health Equity Framework to Improve Access to Healthy Food”
The Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods will host a seminar, “Using a Health Equity Framework to Improve Access to Healthy Food,” Wednesday, March 11, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the ground floor conference room of the BioEnterprise building. The seminar will be presented by Morgan…
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Peoplesoft Financials, PeopleSoft Human Capital Management, Student Information System, and Data Warehouse (Business Objects) unavailable the weekend of March 13
Because of scheduled maintenance, Peoplesoft Financials (FIN), PeopleSoft Financials Reporting (FIN Report), Peoplesoft Human Capital Management (HCM), Peoplesoft Student Information System (SIS), and the Data Warehouse (Business Objects) will be unavailable from Friday, March 13, at 5 p.m. until…
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Law's Erik Jensen breaks down issues facing the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
Erik Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor Emeritus of Law, weighed in on the proposed National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) that would allow signatory states to allocate their electoral votes to the candidate who wins a plurality (not a majority) of the national popular vote. Read…
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Doctoral candidate Udayan Dahr writes about the evolving impact of technology on human resources
Udayan Dahr, a PhD candidate in the Department of Organizational Behavior in the Weatherhead School of Management, wrote in The Manila Times about the role of management human resources given the development of disruptive technologies, such as artificial intelligence. Read Dahr's piece, "Creating…
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Law's Anat Alon-Beck says COVID-19 is an argument for stronger national initiatives against health risks
Anat Alon-Beck, assistant professor of law, wrote in Forbes that she sees a critical need to establish a nationwide, integrated public-health defense infrastructure, platform and services initiative to address threats such as COVID-19. Read Alon-Beck's piece, "Instead of panicking over the…
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Law's Jonathan Adler writes about the significance of a U.S. Court of Appeals judge's retirement announcement
Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, wrote an opinion piece in The National Review in which he pointed out that the retirement announcement of Judge Thomas Griffith, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, likely means that President Trump will make another…
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White Fragility book discussion group
Are you interested in having some in-depth conversations about a tough subject? How about challenging yourself to look at race issues from a different angle? Join a group discussion of the book White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo on Tuesday,…
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Seminar on Climate Change Adaptation for Infrastructure
David Dzombak, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, will give a seminar on Friday, March 6 on "Climate Change Adaptation for Infrastructure: A Grand Challenge for Civil and Environmental Engineering.” The seminar will take place from…