This undated image provided by Caltech shows new Caltech president-elect Thomas F. Rosenbaum, who is currently the provost and John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. Caltech said Thursday Oct. 24, 2013, that the 58-year-old Rosenbaum will succeed Jean-Lou Chameau, who served as president from 2006 to 2013.(AP Photo/Caltech)
This undated image provided by Caltech shows new Caltech president-elect Thomas F. Rosenbaum, who is currently the provost and John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. Caltech said Thursday Oct. 24, 2013, that the 58-year-old Rosenbaum will succeed Jean-Lou Chameau, who served as president from 2006 to 2013.(AP Photo/Caltech)
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The California Institute of Technology has announced the appointment of physicist Thomas F. Rosenbaum as its new president.
Rosenbaum is currently the provost and John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago.
Caltech said Thursday that the 58-year-old Rosenbaum will succeed Jean-Lou Chameau, who served as president from 2006 to 2013.
Rosenbaum is an expert on condensed matter physics. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University and both a master's degree and doctorate in physics from Princeton University.
Rosenbaum will take over at Caltech on July 1, 2014, from interim president and provost Edward Stolper.
Rosenbaum's spouse, Katherine T. Faber, will join the Caltech faculty. She's currently the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University.
Though, it can't have been recently since APPARENTLY the two Twilight stars just spent the night together!
Unless, of course, the email is what caused the reunion!?!
Sources said:
“[Kristen] wasn’t happy…that Rob’s been dating other girls so soon after they split. She told him he was cheapening everything they’d had between them.”
WHOA! So she decides to send him an angry email?? Why not just call him up and tell him? Or… you know… move on… since you guys are broken up?
Just sayin'!!
Other sources, however, are reporting that all of these reunion rumors are "not true" which makes us wonder what is ACTUALLY happening!
These two are so up and down we can barely keep up!
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama called on Congress Thursday to finish work on an immigration overhaul by the end of the year, a lofty goal that will be difficult to meet given the staunch opposition of many House Republicans.
While immigration remains one of Obama's top second term priorities, the issue has been overshadowed for months, most recently by the 16-day partial government shutdown. The president's shift to a greater focus on immigration came as the White House was seeking to shift the conversation away from the deeply problematic rollout of Obama's health care law.
During remarks at the White House, Obama insisted that Congress has the necessary time to finish an immigration bill by the end of the year. The Senate passed sweeping legislation this summer that would provide an eventual path to citizenship for some 11 million immigrants living here illegally and would tighten border security. But the measure has languished in the GOP-led House.
"It doesn't get easier to put it off," Obama said, during an event in the East Room.
The White House was buoyed by comments this week from House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who said he was optimistic his chamber could act on immigration by year's end. But Boehner has long had trouble rallying support from the conservative wing of his caucus and it's unclear whether he can get their backing for the comprehensive bill Obama is seeking.
Most House Republicans have said they prefer a piecemeal approach to fixing the nation's fractured immigration system.
Immediately following Obama's remarks, a spokesman said Boehner was opposed to "massive" legislation that no one understands.
"The House is committed to a common sense, step-by-step approach that gives Americans confidence that reform is done the right way," spokesman Brendan Buck said. "We hope that the president will work with us — not against us — as we pursue this deliberate approach."
Obama, along with some Republican leaders, had hoped that the growing political power of Hispanics would clear the way for an immigration overhaul, a goal that has long eluded Washington. No sweeping immigration legislation has been passed since a bill co-sponsored by Wyoming Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, more recently co-chairman of the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission, was enacted in 1986.
Obama won an overwhelming majority of Hispanic voters in the 2012 presidential election and some political analysts believe that the country's shifting demographics will make it difficult for Republicans to win the White House without boosting their appeal to the Latino community.
But most tea party-backed Republicans oppose measures that would grant legal status to people already in the country illegally, even with the fines and long waiting period that would be imposed by the Senate measure. The recent shutdown and debt ceiling fight also fueled deeper resentment toward Obama among those lawmakers, who got virtually nothing out of the deal that was reached to reopen the government and lift the borrowing limit.
In the wake of that messy stretch for Congress, Obama urged lawmakers to see immigration has an opportunity to show the public that government can work.
"Rather than create problems, let's prove to the American people that Washington can actually solve some problems," Obama said.
NPR's correspondents in Shanghai and New Delhi, Frank Langfitt and Julie McCarthy, talk with Steve Inskeep about a recent summit between Indian and Chinese leaders. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang signed an agreement on border cooperation, but had little else of significance to show at the end of their meeting.
And now let's turn to the world's two giants: China and India. China is the world's most populous country. India is projected to become the most populous country before long. Yesterday, their leaders met in Beijing and signed an agreement to ease tensions on the long border that they share. That agreement comes after an incident this spring when India accused Chinese soldiers of crossing the border.
We're going to hear now from both sides of the border. NPR's Frank Langfitt is on the line from Shanghai. Hi, Frank.
FRANK LANGFITT, BYLINE: Good morning, Steve.
INSKEEP: And NPR's Julie McCarthy is in New Delhi. Hi, Julie.
JULIE MCCARTHY, BYLINE: Hi there.
INSKEEP: And Julie, let's start with you. What do Indians think about when they peer across the 2500-mile border?
MCCARTHY: Well, it's changed rather dramatically in recent years. The recent polling shows that Indians have shifted their attitude, and see China really as a potential security threat, even more so than Pakistan. And so that is a significant difference.
That said, I think the Indian government doesn't consider China as a friend. It doesn't look to it as a friend, but nor does it want it as a rival, Steve, so there needs to be this fine balance that you have to strike here and all that, you know, so you've got economics and how they're going to finesse India's yawning trade imbalance with China.
You've got water wars about rivers being dammed in China. You've got the Chinese diplomatic embrace of Pakistan, which is all very troubling to them. So there's a lot on their plate as they move forward and increasingly they're wary.
INSKEEP: Okay. The two largest countries in the world and a lot of complex issues. And Frank Langfitt, do the Chinese see India in any way as a threat?
LANGFITT: To some extent, yeah. I mean since we're talking polls, there was a Pew poll last year that saw a rise in which about a quarter people in China saw India as their - the growth of their economy as a bad thing. But you know, you've got to remember, the gap between these countries is really big. We often talk of them maybe in the same sentence, but China's the world's second largest economy. India is the 10th largest. China more than four times the size of India's economy. Also, India has a growing trade deficit with China. It's now over $40 billion. And I know we often harp on this, but the infrastructure difference between the two countries is really staggering. I routinely now report by bullet train, and certainly when I have some Indian friends who come to visit, they see a huge difference.
INSKEEP: You mentioned Indian friends coming to visit. How much traffic is there going back and forth? How much tourism? How much business between the two countries?
LANGFITT: There's not that much, but I - when I talk to Indian friends, they often ask me a lot about China and they always make comparisons. And they despair, frankly, that in China the infrastructure is pretty extraordinary, as you know. And they still feel that India is lagging behind.
INSKEEP: Julie McCarthy, is that part of the reason that India would see China as a threat? Its economy is more advanced at this point.
MCCARTHY: Well, you know, it's interesting. I often encounter Indians who believe very fervently that India is on par in just about every arena with China, and then you ask them if they've been there. And the answer is invariably no. So there is this huge disconnect between what people see as themselves and how they project themselves and what really is a rather stark difference between the two.
INSKEEP: This 2,500 mile border, can you give me a picture of it? It's mostly in the mountains, is that right?
MCCARTHY: Well, it's the Himalayas, so yes. A great deal of it is in mountainous regions and other conflicting areas where you've got rivers that the two countries share, and then you have a whole issue of damming water. So along the border there are these very tricky places, and you know, since 1962, where there was a small war between the two, you get these incursions and disputed territory and a disputed border that still needs to be settled.
INSKEEP: Can I just ask, Frank Langfitt, because the United States has sometimes seen India as an ally and a potential counterweight to China in Asia. Does the United States have anything to worry about when India and China get together and sign cooperation agreements as they've done here?
LANGFITT: China is definitely concerned that India can be a counterweight to China in terms of its relationship with the U.S. India isn't entirely convinced that the U.S. can be counted on. There's a concern that because the economic between China and the U.S. is so strong that push comes to shove, actually the U.S. will throw in with China.
So everybody, as they look across this region, they're kind of hedging. They're watching. They're trying to put chips on different parts of the table to try to cover themselves, depending on how things turn out.
INSKEEP: Frank, thanks very much.
LANGFITT: Happy to do it, Steve.
INSKEEP: That's NPR's Frank Langfitt in Shanghai. NPR's Julie McCarthy is in New Delhi. Julie, thanks to you.
MCCARTHY: You're welcome.
INSKEEP: And you hear both of them right here on MORNING EDITION from NPR News.
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Lessons from the treatment battlefield and new research
New York, New YorkThe Neuropsychoanalysis Association (NPSA) is hosting a conference for researchers and clinicians on depression, "Towards a Real Understanding of Depression: Lessons from the Treatment Battlefeld and New Research," on Friday, November 1, 2013 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Bonnie and Kenneth Davis Auditorium, 1470 Madison Avenue (between 101st and 102nd Streets) in New York City. Recent meta-analyses have indicated that SSRIs, although extremely effective for some, have not fulfilled their original promise of being a broadly successful anti-depressant. This full day program will be an interdisciplinary event focusing on pioneering work in biological psychiatry, basic neuroscience and other fields aimed at discovering new treatments for depression, including what have we learned so far, future directions; and how to use the data from new treatment research to hone in on the core pathophysiology of depression and models of brain organization which underlie approaches to treatment.
Featured keynote speakers include Steven Paul (Cornell), "Why we need new and better antidepressants: lessons from the treatment and clinical research battlefield;" and Jaak Panksepp (Washington State University), "Pre-clinical affective neuroscience modelling of depression, and evaluation of three new antidepressant strategies."
WHAT: Towards a Real Understanding of Depression: Lessons from the Treatment Battlefield and New Research
WHEN: Friday, November 1, 2013
9:00 am 6:00 pm
WHERE: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Bonnie and Kenneth Davis Auditorium
1470 Madison Avenue (between 101st and 102nd Streets), NYC
REGISTRATION: Addavail Coslett, Associate Dir. Programming & Development acoslett@npsafoundation.org or 212-572-3693
PROGRAM SPEAKERS:
Maggie Zellner, The Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation
Ronald Duman (Yale), Neurobiology of stress, depression and antidepressants: Remodeling synaptic connections
James Murrough (Mt Sinai), Ketamine as a fast-acting antidepressant
Elizabeth Fitelson (Columbia), Estrogen and other hormones in depression
Dan Javitt, (Columbia), Depression from a glutamatergic perspective: the interaction of neuromodulation and brain glutamatergic systems
Wayne Goodman (Mt. Sinai), DBS treatment for depression
Dan Iosifescu (Mt. Sinai School of Medicine), Non-invasive neurostimulation for the treatment of major depression
Cori Bargmann (Rockefeller), The BRAIN Initiative: Understanding brain circuits as a foundation for accelerating human neuroscience
Baruch Fishman (New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell), CBT perspectives on depression and treatment
Mark Solms (University of Cape Town), Psychoanalytic perspectives on depression and the panic-shutdown hypothesis
Andrew Gerber (Columbia), Empirical outcome studies of psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapies, and brain effects of treatment
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Bringing the brain and mind sciences together, the Neuropsychoanalysis Association has been working to bridge the gap between neuroscience and the psychotherapeutic approaches to mental health for over two decades. Fostering discussion, funding new research and making crucial scientific and theoretical connections, this interdisciplinary alliance plays an essential role in advancing our understanding of the human psyche. For more information visit http://www.npsafoundation.org/
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Lessons from the treatment battlefield and new research
New York, New YorkThe Neuropsychoanalysis Association (NPSA) is hosting a conference for researchers and clinicians on depression, "Towards a Real Understanding of Depression: Lessons from the Treatment Battlefeld and New Research," on Friday, November 1, 2013 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, The Bonnie and Kenneth Davis Auditorium, 1470 Madison Avenue (between 101st and 102nd Streets) in New York City. Recent meta-analyses have indicated that SSRIs, although extremely effective for some, have not fulfilled their original promise of being a broadly successful anti-depressant. This full day program will be an interdisciplinary event focusing on pioneering work in biological psychiatry, basic neuroscience and other fields aimed at discovering new treatments for depression, including what have we learned so far, future directions; and how to use the data from new treatment research to hone in on the core pathophysiology of depression and models of brain organization which underlie approaches to treatment.
Featured keynote speakers include Steven Paul (Cornell), "Why we need new and better antidepressants: lessons from the treatment and clinical research battlefield;" and Jaak Panksepp (Washington State University), "Pre-clinical affective neuroscience modelling of depression, and evaluation of three new antidepressant strategies."
WHAT: Towards a Real Understanding of Depression: Lessons from the Treatment Battlefield and New Research
WHEN: Friday, November 1, 2013
9:00 am 6:00 pm
WHERE: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Bonnie and Kenneth Davis Auditorium
1470 Madison Avenue (between 101st and 102nd Streets), NYC
REGISTRATION: Addavail Coslett, Associate Dir. Programming & Development acoslett@npsafoundation.org or 212-572-3693
PROGRAM SPEAKERS:
Maggie Zellner, The Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation
Ronald Duman (Yale), Neurobiology of stress, depression and antidepressants: Remodeling synaptic connections
James Murrough (Mt Sinai), Ketamine as a fast-acting antidepressant
Elizabeth Fitelson (Columbia), Estrogen and other hormones in depression
Dan Javitt, (Columbia), Depression from a glutamatergic perspective: the interaction of neuromodulation and brain glutamatergic systems
Wayne Goodman (Mt. Sinai), DBS treatment for depression
Dan Iosifescu (Mt. Sinai School of Medicine), Non-invasive neurostimulation for the treatment of major depression
Cori Bargmann (Rockefeller), The BRAIN Initiative: Understanding brain circuits as a foundation for accelerating human neuroscience
Baruch Fishman (New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell), CBT perspectives on depression and treatment
Mark Solms (University of Cape Town), Psychoanalytic perspectives on depression and the panic-shutdown hypothesis
Andrew Gerber (Columbia), Empirical outcome studies of psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapies, and brain effects of treatment
###
The Neuropsychoanalysis Association (NPSA)
Bringing the brain and mind sciences together, the Neuropsychoanalysis Association has been working to bridge the gap between neuroscience and the psychotherapeutic approaches to mental health for over two decades. Fostering discussion, funding new research and making crucial scientific and theoretical connections, this interdisciplinary alliance plays an essential role in advancing our understanding of the human psyche. For more information visit http://www.npsafoundation.org/
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