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The AI and Data Science Conversion Masters Scholarships will be awarded to more than 120 candidates beginning Masters study in 2023.

In addition to having either an unconditional or conditional offer for a place on a University of Birmingham Data Science or AI related Masters course, applicants will need to demonstrate that they are categorised under at least one of the 9 underrepresented groups as identified by the OfS.

Applications for scholarships will initially be reviewed using a points-based system. Priority for these awards will be given to applicants in the following categories:

Consideration will also be given to applicants who meet other underrepresented criteria in the following secondary categories:

All applications will be assessed and priority will be given to criteria 1-3. Applicants who do not meet any of the criteria above will not be considered for a scholarship.

Students must have not studied a STEM or a far-STEM degree subject before. You must be either:

You must not have studied:

The awards will be allocated on the basis of merit simply meeting the eligibility criteria will not guarantee that an application is successful. We will adopt a gathered field approach where decisions on the allocation of all 100 awards will be considered by a single scholarship selection panel.

Selection will be determined by a University scholarship panel based on the following criteria:

All applications will be assessed and priority scoring will be given to criteria 1-3.

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Drew Bracken| Correspondent

ZANESVILLE He has a talent with math and analytics and Zane State reaps the benefits.

Growing up, I always got good grades in school and really liked math and science, but I dont think I had any particular career direction I knew I wanted to go," remembered Andrew Morrison, I considered engineering or being a business professional, but I certainly didnt think Id be doing what I do now.

Today, Morrison is Director of Institutional Research at Zane State College.

My time is largely spent building reports, analyzing trends, and working with college employees and external stakeholders to get them the information they need, he explained, I love being able to take a large set of data and distill it down to see the overarching trends and insights. I also really enjoy the challenge of what I like to call data puzzles. Basically, we have a particular question were trying to answer, and we have to work through what data to use, how best to organize it, and what calculations need to be run in order to arrive at a solution.

Morrison holds a critical position at the school according to Joseph Keating, executive director of operations at Zane State College.

Andrews position requires a high level of analytical and technical skill to produce and analyze reports for the college that enables our administration to make data-driven decision that impact the lives of our students, faculty, and staff, Keating said. Andrew embraces technology, which supports his analytical skills, and our college reaps the benefits.

Morrison grew up in Philo, graduated from Philo High School in 1999, Zane State with a degree in electrical/electronics engineering, then Ohio University with a bachelors in business administration. He also earned an MBA from the University of Wisconsin and just recently a masters in data science from Eastern University.

During my time as a student at Zane State and later Ohio University Zanesville, he said, I was a student worker at the campus bookstore and loved every minute of it. The college staff were (and still are) amazing and just being in the environment always felt like home. After graduating with my bachelors degree, I worked for a couple of years in banking, but then the textbook manager job came open and I jumped at the chance to work at the college again.

When I started my career at Zane State, he continued, I was the textbook manager at the bookstore, which involved working with faculty to get their required textbooks and then ordering the right quantities to have them available for students. It was a great job and I enjoyed working with faculty and students in that role, but at the same time I found a real interest and passion for analyzing trends and making decisions based on sound data. For instance, I would take sales, enrollment, and inventory data and pull it all together in a spreadsheet to try to build more accurate sales forecasts.

Zane States mission of empowering people through education is an important one, he concluded. Even though I may not be teaching a class or advising students directly, I take pride in being able to do my part and help our employees further the colleges mission. At the end of the day, I love the work that we do and am proud to be a part of the good work Zane State is doing.

Zane State College is located at 1555 Newark Road. For more information, call 740-588-5000 or log on http://www.zanestate.edu.

Aces of Trades is a weekly series focusing on people and their jobs whether theyre unusual jobs, fun jobs or people who take ordinary jobs and make them extraordinary. If you have a suggestion for a future profile, let us know at trnews@zanesvilletimesrecorder.com.

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Could living underwater slow aging? One scientist aims to find out.

Joseph Dituri, a U.S. Navy diver for 28 years, will be 30 feet underwater at Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida, to conduct aging research.

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Throughout history, brilliant minds have tried to figure out the secret behind living longer. Much of the research has credited diet and exercise, but a group of scientists expanded on previous datato suggest another theory.

Researchersfrom Boston University and Tufts Medical Center found people who live to be 100 years old or older called centenarians may have a unique composition of immune cells thats highly protective against illnesses, according to a study published Friday in the peer-reviewed journal Lancet eBiomedicine.

Our data support the hypothesis that centenarians have protective factors that enable (them) to recover from disease and reach extreme old ages, said lead author Tanya Karagiannis, a senior bioinformatician at the Center for Quantitative Methods and Data Science, and Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center.

People with normal immune systems are exposed to infections, recover from them, and learnto adapt from future infections. While the immune systems ability to respond to infections declines with age, scientists hypothesized this may be different for centenarians.

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Researchers analyzed immune cells circulating in the blood taken from seven centenarian participants in North America and identified immune-specific patterns of aging and extreme human longevity.

They compared this information with other publicly available data that looked at immune cells from people ranging across the human lifespan and found centenarians immune profile did not follow trends associated with natural aging.

The findings provide support to the hypothesis that centenarians are enriched with protective factors that increase their ability to recover from infections, said senior author Paola Sebastiani,director of the Center for Quantitative Methods and Data Science, and Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center.

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It's unclear if this unique immunological ability is genetic, naturally occurring, or a confluence of outside factors, said senior author Stefano Monti,associate professor of medicine, biostatistics, and bioinformaticsat Boston University's school of medicine.

"The answerto what makes you live longer is a very complex one," he said. "There's multiplefactors, there's the genetics what you inherit from a parent, there's lifestyle, there's luck."

Study authors hopethe report'sfindings build on existing research that could help develop therapeutics for the worlds aging population.

Centenarians, and their exceptional longevity, provide a blueprint for how we might live more productive, healthful lives, said senior author George J. Murphy, associate professor of medicine at Boston Universitys school of medicine.

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Health and patient safety coverage at USA TODAY is made possible in part by a grant from the Masimo Foundation for Ethics, Innovation and Competition in Healthcare. The Masimo Foundation does not provide editorial input.

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By Emily InnesApril 3, 2023

Washington and Lee University senior Tanajia Moye-Green 23 has been awarded a Fulbright Master of Sciences Degree Award to the United Kingdom. At W&L, Moye-Green is majoring in sociology and anthropology with a minor in data science and poverty and human capability studies. A native of Bartow, Florida, she graduated from the International Baccalaureate Program at Bartow High School.

The Fulbright United Kingdom Partnership Awards allow students to pursue a graduate degree at an institution of higher learning in the United Kingdom. Moye-Green will study criminal justice and penal change at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, a socially progressive, internationally leading technological university.

Moye-Green believes the masters program at the University of Strathclyde will be valuable preparation for her future education and career plans.

I hope to eventually work at a think tank like the Vera Institute of Justice or the Brennan Center for Justice as a researcher, Moye-Green said. These positions require an extensive academic background in criminology and social science research and experience designing research projects, analyzing qualitative data, and devising creative solutions to complex challenges.

Moye-Greens research interests are primarily focused on criminal justice reform and investigating contemporary, racialized patterns within the criminal justice system. Off-campus, she serves on the board of the Community Anti-Racism Effort (CARE) of Rockbridge County.

I am convinced that Tanajia has something to say to the world in general and, most certainly, to us social science scholars, said Robin LeBlanc, professor of politics at W&L and vice president of CARE. She is the rare sort of person who manages to combine great ambition with the kind of balanced self-confidence that owns her faults and makes space for others. She is intellectually hungry and without a doubt, capable.

The support Moye-Green has received from W&L faculty members speaks to her dedication to pursuing opportunities that allow her to make a difference in the world. Her commitment to social justice and reform is evident in her academic pursuits and career ambitions, and she serves as an inspiration not just for her peers, but for her mentors.

Tanajia has impressed me greatly over the last several years, said Jon Eastwood, professor of sociology. She is a brilliant social thinker, has off-the-charts research skills, and consistently focuses her intellectual talents on questions closely connected to human wellbeing.

On campus, Moye-Green is involved in the Shepherd Program and the Office of Community-Based Learning, serves as a trip leader for Appalachian Adventure and a key staff member of the Outing Club, and works at the ITS Help Desk. Moye-Green has also partnered with W&Ls institutional history initiatives to conduct research on the role of past W&L administrators, faculty and students in criminal acts over the past two centuries. Working closely with Lynn Rainville, professor of anthropology and executive director of institutional history and museums, Moye-Green has documented dozens of court cases that involved African American residents in Lexington between 1865 and World War II; this work has involved detailed searches of local archives and newspaper accounts, as well as biographic profiles. She is currently finalizing an article that highlights examples of racist court judgments and unjust legal statutes.

Tanajia is one of the few students I have worked with who is deftly able to track between issues in the past and the present, and using this compelling approach, she has combined her historic research with her contemporary sociology project, Rainville said. She is a compassionate intellectual who is committed to using her research acumen to uncover overlooked and misunderstood aspects of American history and the role that systemic injustice and inequality have played in social and economic outcomes for many Black families.

Moye-Green attended the Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute Fellowship at Princeton Universitys Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in summer 2022, where she strengthened her quantitative, analytic and communication skills, as well as learned more about policy analysis, statistics and economics. Moye-Green also received a Beinecke Scholarship in 2022, which provides funds for post-graduate study to students of unusual promise.

With the Fulbright award, Moye-Green will depart in September 2023 for her 12-month program. Upon completion of her degree, she hopes to pursue a doctorate in sociology.

The Fulbright Program was established more than 75 years ago to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. Fulbright is the worlds largest and most diverse international educational exchange program. The primary source of funding for the Fulbright Program is an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Washington and Lee University is proud to be included on the list of U.S. colleges and universities that produced the most 2022-2023 Fulbright U.S. Students for the fifth consecutive year.

If you know a W&L student who has done great, accolade-worthy things, tell us about them! Nominate them for an accolade.

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