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Presently, there are several man-made phenomena (wars) in the Middle East, and nature ones (earthquakes) in Venezuela and Colombia, razing cities. And there are forest fires in Canada, the US and Europe, ravaging thousands of wooded hectares. To provide some help, we present below several engineering ...

Recently, Gaza, Beirut, Tehran and Khartoum, among other cities, were ravaged by man-made wars, and Caracas, by an earthquake; nomads in Africa's Sahel region move from Oasis to Oasis, seeking grounds to feed their flocks, often ignoring arbitrary boundaries imposed by colonialists; Lake Onondaga, in ...

Dr. María Alejandra Sorto, (https://faculty.txst.edu/profile/1922552). Mathematics, College of Science and Engineering, Texas State U., is the 2025 Educator of the Year Awardee of JLM International Education Project (https://web.cortland.edu/matresearch/). Dr. Sorto, a Honduran-born, holds a Ph.D. in ...

This is a call for action from faculty like me: senior professionals who came from Third World (today, the Global South) countries, to complete graduate degrees in the US. Many stayed and made a career here, but kept in contact with the Old Country. Now, arriving to our retirement age, we have adequate ...

A good first step would be to convince engineering departments to teach more graduate statistics, which would provide a necessary basis. I have taught statistics in engineering, for years. Usually, graduate students get two semesters: one with probability, followed by another of stats (distributions, ...