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College Cliffs Names the 10 Most Beautiful Stained Glass Art on College Campuses

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognizing the value of age-old history and visual masterpiece rolled into one, College Cliffs has cataloged the ten most stunning stained glass art found on college campuses in the United States.

Key Points: 
  • NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognizing the value of age-old history and visual masterpiece rolled into one, College Cliffs has cataloged the ten most stunning stained glass art found on college campuses in the United States.
  • Popular in Europe between the 1150s and 1500s, stained glass art made windows of beautiful antique churches even more exquisite.
  • Today, modern stained glass art is produced as intricate artwork in 3D sculptures, murals, and domed ceilings.
  • "However, more than this, stained glass windows showcased in college churches are created for spiritual reasons."

Black Londoners of Canada: Digital mapping reveals Ontario’s Black history and challenges myths

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Sunday, February 11, 2024

The archival traces of her life tell the story of a migration from one Black community with British and American affiliations to another with strong Caribbean influences.

Key Points: 
  • The archival traces of her life tell the story of a migration from one Black community with British and American affiliations to another with strong Caribbean influences.
  • As research associates on the Black Londoners Project at Western University, we are finding historical clues about people like Aurelia Jones and exploring the Black history of London, Ont., by using a digital mapping approach.
  • The migrations of Black individuals often reflect the geographic and cultural connections of Black communities across borders and further into the African diaspora.

Black geographies, Canadian myths

  • Scholars such as Katherine McKittrick, professor and Canada research chair in Black Studies, have highlighted how understanding Black history means being attentive to how geography, culture and race intersect in the formation of Black communities.
  • Such considerations challenge persistent myths of Canada’s past.
  • Read more:
    Meet the Black snowshoers who walked 1,000 kilometres across Canada in 1813

    Shifting the focus from nationalist discourse to migrations among Black communities helps us better understand everyday Black life.

Digital Black history projects

  • The Black Londoners Project approaches Black history geographically by supplementing the narratives of 16 Black refugees from slavery and racial oppression in the U.S. with archival evidence (among others, personal narratives, census information and newspaper articles) of their lives in London, Ont.
  • The website will also connect with other digital Black Canadian History projects:


The Black Press in 19th-century Canada and Beyond explores the history of journalism as intellectual activism in Black Canadian and international history. It is led by Boulou Ebanda de B'béri, research director and professor in the department of communication at University of Ottawa, and Nina Reid-Maroney, history professor at Huron University College;
Mapping Ontario’s Black Archives presents a map of museums and archives that house records of Black-centred histories and is led by Cheryl Thompson, associate professor of performance studies and director for the Laboratory for Black Creativity at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Black oral history, digital mapping

  • Digital mapping of Black migrations allows us to centre Black historical presence in public memory and examine Black oral narratives outside of their abolitionist framing.
  • The teacher and white abolitionist, Benjamin Drew, published narratives of Black refugees in Ontario in his 1856 anti-slavery report, The Refugee; or, A North-Side View of Slavery.
  • However, the attitude of many Black Canadians toward the potential of equality in Canada would change after the 1850s as, for example, access to education became increasingly segregated.
  • Many would move within Canada, to the U.S. and other places in search of support from and community with the African diaspora.

Aurelia Jones

  • B. Jones’s account, we learned of his spouse, Aurelia Jones (née Bonsor), in the marriage register of Upper Canada/Canada West.
  • Following A. B.’s death around 1860, there are few records of Aurelia living in London.
  • However, Aurelia reappears in Hutchinson’s Nova Scotia Directory of 1867 and in the 1881 Canada census for Nova Scotia, living in Halifax.
  • There, Aurelia lived on Creighton Street with a Black couple from Antigua and Jamaica.


Nova Scotia’s Black communities emerged from layers of migration; for example, Black Loyalists arrived during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83), and African Caribbean peoples came looking for work in the 19th and 20th centuries. Creighton Street was a centre of Black Haligonian life well into the 20th century.

Migrations, diasporic connections

  • We recognize the irony in writing this piece during Black History Month.
  • For Black communities as well as activists and scholars, remembering Black history happens every day of the year.
  • Visualizing Black geography asks us to think of more permanent, transnational ways of commemorating Black history and honouring lives like that of Aurelia Jones.
  • The Black Londoners Project receives funding from Western's Strategic Priorities Fund.
  • David Mitterauer works for Dr. Miranda Green-Barteet and Dr. Alyssa MacLean's Black Londoners Project at Western University.
  • Patrick Kinghan works for Dr. Miranda Green-Barteet and Dr. Alyssa MacLean's Black Londoners Project at Western University.

Black Londoners of Canada: Digital mapping reveals Ontario Black history and challenges myths

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Sunday, February 11, 2024

Aurelia Jones was a prominent member of the Black community in mid-19th century London, Ontario, Canada, and the spouse of Abel Bedford Jones, a Black entrepreneur and religious and political leader.

Key Points: 
  • Aurelia Jones was a prominent member of the Black community in mid-19th century London, Ontario, Canada, and the spouse of Abel Bedford Jones, a Black entrepreneur and religious and political leader.
  • As research associates on the Black Londoners Project at Western University, we are finding historical clues about people like Aurelia Jones and exploring the Black history of London, Ont., by using a digital mapping approach.
  • The migrations of Black individuals often reflect the geographic and cultural connections of Black communities across borders and further into the African diaspora.

Black geographies, Canadian myths

  • Scholars such as Katherine McKittrick, professor and Canada research chair in Black Studies, have highlighted how understanding Black history means being attentive to how geography, culture and race intersect in the formation of Black communities.
  • Such considerations challenge persistent myths of Canada’s past.
  • Read more:
    Meet the Black snowshoers who walked 1,000 kilometres across Canada in 1813

    Shifting the focus from nationalist discourse to migrations among Black communities helps us better understand everyday Black life.

Digital Black history projects

  • The Black Londoners Project approaches Black history geographically by supplementing the narratives of 16 Black refugees from slavery and racial oppression in the U.S. with archival evidence (among others, personal narratives, census information and newspaper articles) of their lives in London, Ont.
  • The website will also connect with other digital Black Canadian History projects:


The Black Press in 19th-century Canada and Beyond explores the history of journalism as intellectual activism in Black Canadian and international history. It is led by Boulou Ebanda de B'béri, research director and professor in the department of communication at University of Ottawa, and Nina Reid-Maroney, history professor at Huron University College;
Mapping Ontario’s Black Archives presents a map of museums and archives that house records of Black-centred histories and is led by Cheryl Thompson, associate professor of performance studies and director for the Laboratory for Black Creativity at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Black oral history, digital mapping

  • Digital mapping of Black migrations allows us to centre Black historical presence in public memory and examine Black oral narratives outside of their abolitionist framing.
  • The teacher and white abolitionist, Benjamin Drew, published narratives of Black refugees in Ontario in his 1856 anti-slavery report, The Refugee; or, A North-Side View of Slavery.
  • However, the attitude of many Black Canadians toward the potential of equality in Canada would change after the 1850s as, for example, access to education became increasingly segregated.
  • Many would move within Canada, to the U.S. and other places in search of support from and community with the African diaspora.

Aurelia Jones

  • B. Jones’s account, we learned of his spouse, Aurelia Jones (née Bonsor), in the marriage register of Upper Canada/Canada West.
  • Following A. B.’s death around 1860, there are few records of Aurelia living in London.
  • However, Aurelia reappears in Hutchinson’s Nova Scotia Directory of 1867 and in the 1881 Canada census for Nova Scotia, living in Halifax.
  • There, Aurelia lived on Creighton Street with a Black couple from Antigua and Jamaica.


Nova Scotia’s Black communities emerged from layers of migration; for example, Black Loyalists arrived during the American Revolutionary War (1775-83), and African Caribbean peoples came looking for work in the 19th and 20th centuries. Creighton Street was a centre of Black Haligonian life well into the 20th century.

Migrations, diasporic connections

  • We recognize the irony in writing this piece during Black History Month.
  • For Black communities as well as activists and scholars, remembering Black history happens every day of the year.
  • Visualizing Black geography asks us to think of more permanent, transnational ways of commemorating Black history and honouring lives like that of Aurelia Jones.
  • The Black Londoners Project receives funding from Western's Strategic Priorities Fund.
  • David Mitterauer works for Dr. Miranda Green-Barteet and Dr. Alyssa MacLean's Black Londoners Project at Western University.
  • Patrick Kinghan works for Dr. Miranda Green-Barteet and Dr. Alyssa MacLean's Black Londoners Project at Western University.

Morocco dinosaur discovery gives clues on why they went extinct

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Sunday, February 11, 2024

And that suggests their demise came suddenly, with the impact of a giant asteroid.

Key Points: 
  • And that suggests their demise came suddenly, with the impact of a giant asteroid.
  • The discovery of the 180km-wide Chixculub asteroid impact crater in Mexico suggested a sudden extinction of dinosaurs and other species, driven by the impact.
  • But others have argued that a long, slow decline in dinosaur diversity contributed to their extinction.
  • It’s not just that dinosaur fossils are so rare; the fossil record is also patchy.
  • Because it’s such a huge landmass, Africa probably had far more dinosaur species than North America.

What we’ve found

  • Dinosaurs may have swum out to islands searching for food, as deer and elephants do today, and some might have drowned.
  • Other dinosaurs might have been washed out to sea by floods or storms, or drowned in rivers that carried them downstream to the ocean.
  • And so, studying marine beds, and working over many years, we’ve slowly put together a picture of Africa’s last dinosaurs, bone by bone.
  • It was smaller than Chenanisaurus, about five metres long – small by dinosaur standards, but large compared to modern predators.
  • If so, that means dinosaurs were cut down in their prime; burning out rather than fading away.

What our findings show

  • For over 100 million years, they evolved and diversified, producing a remarkable range of species: predators, herbivores, aquatic species, even flying forms, the birds.
  • Then in a single, catastrophic moment, everything was wiped out in the months of darkness caused by dust and soot from the impact.


Nicholas R. Longrich does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Sharp HealthCare Launches Spatial Computing Center of Excellence Featuring Apple Vision Pro

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Friday, February 9, 2024

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- To bring the benefits of spatial computing to the field of medicine, Sharp HealthCare announced the creation of the Spatial Computing Center of Excellence, which will convene clinicians and technologists to establish new ways to enhance patient care using the newly launched Apple Vision Pro.

Key Points: 
  • SAN DIEGO, Feb. 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- To bring the benefits of spatial computing to the field of medicine, Sharp HealthCare announced the creation of the Spatial Computing Center of Excellence, which will convene clinicians and technologists to establish new ways to enhance patient care using the newly launched Apple Vision Pro.
  • Apple Vision Pro seamlessly blends digital content with the physical world and unlocks powerful spatial experiences.
  • Apple Vision Pro at the center of Sharp HealthCare's initiative to enhance patient care through spatial computing.
  • "Spatial computing will fundamentally change how doctors practice medicine," said Tommy Korn, MD, a board-certified ophthalmologist with Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group.

The war in Gaza is wiping out Palestine’s education and knowledge systems

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

In the past four months, all or parts of Gaza’s 12 universities have been bombed and mostly destroyed.

Key Points: 
  • In the past four months, all or parts of Gaza’s 12 universities have been bombed and mostly destroyed.
  • The Palestinian Ministry of Education has reported the deaths of over 4,327 students, 231 teachers and 94 professors.
  • Israel has a long record of targeted attacks on Palestinian institutions that produce knowledge and culture.

What is scholasticide?

  • Scholasticide describes the systemic destruction of Palestinian education within the context of Israel’s decades-long settler colonization and occupation of Palestine.
  • Scholasticide includes killing, causing bodily or mental harm, incarcerating, or systematically harassing educators, students and administrators.
  • It can also include using universities or schools as a military base (as was done with Al-Israa University).

The International Court of Justice

  • During the recent genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), South Africa argued that Palestinian academics were being intentionally assassinated.
  • Legal representative for South Africa, Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, told the court:
    “Almost 90,000 Palestinian university students cannot attend university in Gaza.
  • Over 60 per cent of schools, almost all universities and countless bookshops and libraries have been damaged and destroyed.

Attempting to eliminate Palestinian futures

  • It’s part of a colonial continuum of attacking and destroying a people’s educational life, knowledge systems and plundering material culture and cultural heritage.
  • Thousands of Palestinian books, manuscripts, libraries, archives, photographs, cultural artifacts and cultural property were looted, destroyed or damaged by Zionist militias.
  • In 1948, Palestinian schools were destroyed or damaged or later appropriated for use by the new Israeli state.

Resistance: Palestinian history and culture

  • Despite the ongoing attempts to erase Palestinian history, culture and memory, Palestinians have found ways to resist their erasure.
  • It helped to create infrastructures for the survival, mobilization and development of the Palestinian people and their national movement.
  • Palestinian education and culture form the backbone of the right to self-determination.
  • This is why Israel frequently targets Palestinian education and culture.
  • Cultural heritage has been annihilated, damaged or plundered in this war.
  • During the bombing of Al-Israa University in January, Israel also targeted the National Museum.
  • Licensed by the Ministry of Antiquities, the museum housed over 3,000 rare artifacts, which were looted.


Chandni Desai does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Roberts Markland LLP Welcomes Former United States District Judge Vanessa D. Gilmore to their Growing Team

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

HOUSTON, Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Roberts Markland LLP , a leading law firm renowned for its commitment to legal excellence and community engagement, proudly announces the addition of former United States District Judge Vanessa D. Gilmore to its talented team.

Key Points: 
  • HOUSTON, Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Roberts Markland LLP , a leading law firm renowned for its commitment to legal excellence and community engagement, proudly announces the addition of former United States District Judge Vanessa D. Gilmore to its talented team.
  • "Judge Gilmore joining Roberts Markland is a significant milestone for our firm," said Sean Roberts, Partner at Roberts Markland.
  • In 1994, when Judge Gilmore was sworn in, she became the youngest sitting federal judge in the nation.
  • Judge Gilmore's decision to join Roberts Markland is a testament to the firm's stellar reputation and commitment to making a difference.

Mouser Electronics Sponsors 2024 Engineers Week, Welcoming Students to the Future with Educational Activities

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

Mouser has been a major sponsor of this exciting annual event designed to increase public awareness and appreciation of engineers and their work for over a decade.

Key Points: 
  • Mouser has been a major sponsor of this exciting annual event designed to increase public awareness and appreciation of engineers and their work for over a decade.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240208099228/en/
    This year's theme, "Welcome to the Future," is about celebrating today's achievements and paving the way for a brighter and more diverse future in engineering.
  • During EWeek, Mouser aspires to spark the imagination of future design engineers while demonstrating some of the latest technologies affecting the world of tomorrow.
  • All Engineers Week activities are included with paid admission to the Museum of Science and History, located in Fort Worth's Cultural District.

Steven Green, President of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., to Receive 2024 Horatio Alger Award

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Inc., a nonprofit educational organization honoring the achievements of outstanding individuals and encouraging youth to pursue their dreams through higher education, today announced that Steven T. Green, President of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., has been selected for membership in this prestigious organization. Mr. Green joins 10 other exceptional business, civic and cultural leaders from across North America in receiving 2024 honors. For more than 75 years, the Horatio Alger Award has been annually bestowed upon esteemed individuals who have succeeded despite facing adversities, and who have remained committed to higher education and charitable efforts in their communities. 

Key Points: 
  • Mr. Green opted to enter the work force after high school graduation, beginning his remarkable decades-long career with Hobby Lobby.
  • "Steven Green is an exemplary business leader who is deeply committed to giving back to others," said Terrence J. Giroux, executive director, Horatio Alger Association.
  • "It is our utmost honor to present the Horatio Alger Award to these 11 outstanding leaders who have exemplified perseverance, passion and a deep appreciation for higher education," said James F. Dicke II, chairman, Horatio Alger Association and 2015 Horatio Alger Award recipient.
  • For more information about Horatio Alger Association and its Member Class of 2024, please visit www.horatioalger.org and follow the organization on Facebook , X, LinkedIn and Instagram .

THE HEART AND SOUL OF SAINT-HENRI February 8, 2024 to May 11, 2025 at Pointe-à-Callière

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

MONTRÉAL, Feb. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal’s archaeology and history complex, presents The Heart and Soul of Saint-Henri, an exhibition celebrating the singular history of this Montréal neighbourhood. Explore Saint-Henri over the years and through its iconic sites, while meeting the men and women who forged the neighbourhood’s soul. See it starting February 8, 2024!

Key Points: 
  • Explore Saint-Henri over the years and through its iconic sites, while meeting the men and women who forged the neighbourhood’s soul.
  • Did you know that Montréal’s iconic industrial neighbourhood of Saint-Henri was once the third most densely populated city in Québec*?
  • The exhibition takes a unique and extensive look back at the neighbourhood, showcasing its devoted community over the years.
  • The exhibition The Heart and Soul of Saint-Henri is produced by Pointe-à-Callière, Montréal’s archaeology and history complex.