Breaking News – 322nd Year Anniversary of Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake/Tsunami

2022-02-26T21:39:05+00:00

Breaking News - 322nd Year Anniversary of Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake/Tsunami   By Nancy Aird January 26, 1700, at 9:00 pm, the last Cascadia Subduction Zone megathrust earthquake (CSZ) was estimated at magnitude 8 or 9, and the subsequent tsunami devastated the Pacific Northwest. How are we able to estimate the magnitude of the fault slippage, date, and devastation without modern seismic data? Indigenous knowledge, geo-forensics, and written history from other parts of the world provided clues. YouTube.com, “Tsunami Preparedness Oral History of the Hoh,” features Hoh elder Viola Rieke telling the story of Thunderbird and Whale roles in tsunamis. [...]

Breaking News – 322nd Year Anniversary of Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake/Tsunami2022-02-26T21:39:05+00:00

Education Journey – Brick and Mortar or Online or…?

2022-02-26T21:29:47+00:00

Education Journey - Brick and Mortar or Online or...? By Nancy Aird Human Rights Watch, hrw.org, report “Years Don’t Wait for Them – Increased Inequalities in Children’s Right to Education Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic”. Bede Shepard, Hye Jung Han, and Elin Martinez, May 17, 2021. By April, 190 countries worldwide shut out 1.4 billion students from pre-primary through secondary schools. This is roughly 90% of the world’s school-aged children’s education disrupted. As a California middle school teacher summed up in the report, “A lot of these problems that we are facing with distance learning are problems that we deal [...]

Education Journey – Brick and Mortar or Online or…?2022-02-26T21:29:47+00:00

Interview with Jason Petrait

2022-02-26T20:58:30+00:00

Interview with Jason Petrait - CoE Aerospace and Advanced Manufacturing Director By Kellie Hale Kellie: Tell us about yourself? What is your educational and professional background? Jason: I’m a Northwest native and I found my passion for getting people good jobs when I lucked into work at South Seattle College (SSC). Like a lot of adult job seekers, I’d bounced around without a real career path. Then I got to SSC, started working with manufacturing students, and found that everything from resume building to administering classes to working with teachers felt right. I’d always loved helping people get jobs. It [...]

Interview with Jason Petrait2022-02-26T20:58:30+00:00

RAIN Presents: Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter discussion and celebration of Black History Month

2022-02-09T10:58:10+00:00

The RAIN employee business resource group will be hosting a special guest speaker to celebrate Black History Month. Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter is the Scott Waugh endowed chair in the Division of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at UCLA, coined the term #BlackLivesMatter, and author of four books. His research, activism and commentary have been featured in various journals, social media platforms, and news media. Join us as we have a conversation with Dr. Hunter as he discusses the quest for systemic racial equality in America. Auto live captions will be enabled and ASL services provided for this [...]

RAIN Presents: Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter discussion and celebration of Black History Month2022-02-09T10:58:10+00:00
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