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Jeremy Pelt trumpets young talent at the Showcase
Major soloists play the Jazz Showcase all the time, but something special often happens when the star shares the stage with students. The latest example came Thursday night, as trumpeter Jeremy Pelt – who has made a strong impression leading his...
Tags: Louis Armstrong, Colleges and Universities, Music Industry, Music, Entertainment
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Volunteer of the Year juggles many cases
South Bend TribuneElsie Hummel was recently named Child and Parent Services’ “Marv Yoder Volunteer of the Year.” Elsie is a retired school teacher from Baugo Community Schools where she taught math at Jimtown High School for 43 years. She has been a...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, Libraries, Colleges and Universities
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Chicago Confidential: Impact Engine debuts Azadi and 6 other do-good startups
Ameet Mehta hooked his audience at the Chase Auditorium on Wednesday with this opening line: "We're two males in our early 20s starting a feminine hygiene business." With that, Mehta launched his "Shark Tank"-esque pitch to potential investors at Impact...
Tags: Menstruation, Auction Service, Arts and Culture, India
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Going to school on video game violence
The students filtered in. They smelled of cigarettes and cold. They dropped their backpacks and peeled off their Gore-Tex. Then Lisa Buscani, one of the five instructors who teaches Ethics in Computer Games and Cinema at DePaul University, after...
Tags: Ethics, Criminals, Rahm Emanuel, Teaching and Learning, National Rifle Association of America
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Chicagoan saves one dog at a time from rabies in Africa
NANGALE, Tanzania — Only about half the dogs Anna Czupryna is studying in Tanzania have names. Dogs are different here. They are foragers and night watchmen who are treated more like livestock than pets. But when the dogs of north-central Tanzania...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Preventative Medicine, Disease Prevention, Tanzania, Biology
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Bassist Matt Ulery's 'By a Little Light' breakthrough album is triumph of '12
What a year this has been for Chicago bassist-composer Matt Ulery. His breakthrough album, "By a Little Light" (Greenleaf Music), has been turning up on best-of-year lists, including NPR's and the Chicago Tribune's. He has taken this hauntingly...
Tags: Mayne Stage, Vocal Music (genre), Entertainment, Music, Millennium Park
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Barry Harris shares spotlight with Columbia College students
For many years, one of the highlights of each season at the Jazz Showcase has been the residency of the DePaul Jazz Ensemble with a star soloist under the direction of Bob Lark. On Thursday evening, the Jazz Showcase extended the practice by featuring an...
Tags: Students, Columbia College Chicago, Plymouth, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning
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Gaming grows up: A video game revolution
The video game is 40. Its exact birthday is arguable. Cultural historians likely would date its origins further back, roughly a decade or two; prototypes of arcade games flourished in university computer labs in the 1950s. But “Pong,” the...
Tags: North Center, Arts, Xbox, Animation (genre), Teaching and Learning
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Scholars fix gaze on changing racial landscape
Laura Kina, 39, is half Asian-American and half white. Her husband is Jewish, and her stepdaughter is half Hispanic. Her family, including her fair-skinned, blue-eyed biological daughter, lives near Devon Avenue in the heart of Chicago's Indian and...
Tags: Sesame Street (tv program), Jamaica, Religion and Belief, Teaching and Learning, Japan
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Carole Nolan, 1932-2012
Change of SubjectFormer WBEZ-FM 91.5 PR director Merillee Clark Redmond has sent over this remembrance Carole Nolan, who transformed the station from a sleepy, part-time classroom-of-the-air outlet to a full-service public radion station, died early this morning at age... -
Five questions with … Phil Bell, US Army veteran
TribLocal - Orland Park » NewsA: I was an infantryman, a ground soldier. After the main invasion in Iraq, we were dealing with insurgents. There were a few attacks on …... -
2 BHS students receive prestigious teaching scholarship
TribLocal - Barrington Area » NewsBarrington High School seniors Leslie Martin and Deena Davis, both 18, have always wanted to teach, and now their passion has landed them a prestigious …...
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