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Hackensack, NJ
News
Brown Shooting Suspect Found Dead By Suicide, ID'd As 48-Year-Old Former Student: Cops Brown Shooting Suspect Found Dead By Suicide, ID'd As 48-Year-Old Former Student: Cops
Brown Shooting Suspect Found Dead By Suicide, ID'd As 48-Year-Old Former Student: Cops The suspect in both the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor has been found dead by suicide, officials announced Thursday night, Dec. 18.  He was identified in an affidavit (attached at the bottom of this news article), and signed Thursday in Rhode Island as Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown University student and a national of Portugal, whose last known address was in Miami, Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said at a press conference. His body was found in a storage unit in New Hampshire, the New York Times reports, citi…

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by Cecilia Levine
Princeton, NJ
News
Princeton Professor Awarded Nobel Prize For AI Research That 'Fundamentally Changed' World Princeton Professor Awarded Nobel Prize For AI Research That 'Fundamentally Changed' World
Princeton Professor Awarded Nobel Prize For AI Research That 'Fundamentally Changed' World A Princeton University professor has received a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research that helped in the development of artificial intelligence. John Hopfield was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday, Oct. 8, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. The professor emeritus of molecular biology shared the prize with University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton. Hopfield and Hinton were honored for their AI-based research in "foundational discoveries and inventions" that train computers to learn similarly to how the human brain operates. "In an artific…

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by Chris Spiker
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
Schools
Ramapo-Indian Hills' New Superintendent Comes With 2 Doctorates, Plans For Vocational Programs Ramapo-Indian Hills' New Superintendent Comes With 2 Doctorates, Plans For Vocational Programs
Ramapo-Indian Hills' New Superintendent Comes With 2 Doctorates, Plans For Vocational Programs Ramapo-lndian Hills Regional High School has hired a new superintendent. In a unanimous vote on Tuesday, May 28, the RIH Board of Education voted 9-0 in favor of approving Dr. Ronnie Tarchichi's contract, which goes into effect July 1. The board also voted 7-0 with two abstentions to terminate the contract of interim superintendent Dr. James Baker. When asked about the sudden termination of Baker's contract, the BOE declined to comment on personnel matters. The board also voted 5-4 in favor of appointing Dr. Melissa Quackenbush, the district's director of curriculum, to acting su…

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by Cecilia Levine
West Chester, PA
Obituaries
School Was 'Second Home' For Late Chesco High School Teacher, Loved Ones Say School Was 'Second Home' For Late Chesco High School Teacher, Loved Ones Say
School Was 'Second Home' For Late Chesco High School Teacher, Loved Ones Say The Downingtown West High School community is in mourning after long-time physics teacher David Kirk Seagers passed away early this month.  Seagers, known to friends and loved ones as Kirk, died unexpectedly on Monday, June 12, his daughter Kirsten Seagers Szalapski said on a GoFundMe campaign page. "For the past 12 years, Mr. Seagers was a dynamic, energetic physics teacher at Downingtown West High School," she wrote. "He was a loving father to me and devoted husband to his wife, Shelly." "The school was his second home, and the staff and students meant the world to him. He trul…

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by Mac Bullock
Towson, MD
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Elementary Student Honored By Johns Hopkins After Exceptional ACT, SAT Scores Elementary Student Honored By Johns Hopkins After Exceptional ACT, SAT Scores
Elementary Student Honored By Johns Hopkins After Exceptional ACT, SAT Scores An elementary student from Ellicott City has just been honored for being one of the brightest students in the world by Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), officials say. Niveditha Baskar, a student at Deeprun Elementary School, received the honor after exceptional performance on the SAT and ACT. The young student took the tests as a part of the CTY Talent Search. Baskar was one of less than 27 percent of 15,300 students from across the world who received high or grand honors based on their test scores, according to CTY. "This is not just recognition of our students' success on o…

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by Annie DeVoe
Newark, NJ
Obituaries
North Jersey Dad Doug Perkowski 'Taught Us Importance Of Living Life To The Fullest' North Jersey Dad Doug Perkowski 'Taught Us Importance Of Living Life To The Fullest'
North Jersey Dad Doug Perkowski 'Taught Us Importance Of Living Life To The Fullest' Beloved North Jersey father John Douglas “Doug” Perkowski died at his Montclair home following a valiant cancer battle on Sunday, Jan. 15. He was 44. Born in Whitehouse, Doug was raised in New York City, where he went to the Buckley School, his obituary says. Doug studied Mandarin Chinese and played center on the varsity football team at his high school, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He spent the summer of 1995 backpacking across China in an impressive trip that “culminated in a thirty-two-hour ‘hard seat’ train ride from Beijing to Urumqi,” his memorial says. Doug later atte…

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by Valerie Musson
Brentwood, NY
Schools
Stony Brook Professor Shares $3M Breakthrough Prize Stony Brook Professor Shares $3M Breakthrough Prize
Stony Brook Professor Shares $3M Breakthrough Prize A Stony Brook University professor will share a $3 million breakthrough physics prize. Professor of physics Peter van Nieuwenhuizen is one of three recipients of the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He is recognized along with Sergio Ferrara of CERN and Daniel Z. Freedman of MIT and Stanford University for their “invention of supergravity, in which quantum variables are part of the description of the geometry of spacetime," according to Stony Brook University. Freedman was on the university faculty at the time of the 1976 discovery. The theorists are architects of superg…

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by Donna Christopher