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ELMIRA, NY -- The Elmira College Board of Trustees recently approved moving ahead with a plan to invest $2.5 million in a multi-sport turf field on the College's main campus. The project will increase the College's athletic offerings, support enrollment and retention efforts, and support mental and physical well-being on campus as identified in the College's 2023-2028 Strategic Plan. "We are excited to move forward with this investment, which impacts our entire student experience and has far-reaching benefits," said Dr. Charles Lindsay, Elmira College President. "The new field expands our intercollegiate athletic offerings while supporting our enrollment goals, academic programs, and on-campus recreation and activities. Also, with the field located on our main campus, we envision an increase in spectators patronizing area restaurants and shops while in Elmira." The turf installation project, which includes spectator bleachers and a press box, will replace the current natural turf on EC's Campus Field located on the southwest side of campus. That field is currently home to the EC men's and women's soccer teams. The transition to turf will provide an enhanced practice and playing experience for the soccer teams as well as enable EC to reinstate both its intercollegiate men's and women's lacrosse programs. This means an initial overall enrollment increase of 25-30 students with more projected as the programs grow. Provided the project phases move ahead as expected, lacrosse competitions will begin in the Spring of 2025. Additionally, the Soaring Eagles' field hockey team will relocate from the Murray Athletic Center (MAC) to the turf field for all competitions beginning with the Fall 2024 season. The closer proximity to academic buildings and student resident halls will make it easier for the campus community to attend games. Beyond athletics, the new field will enhance on-campus recreation and campus-life opportunities like EC's Lawnsay Games and Term III softball games. Additionally, the turf field will provide a space for activities and events related to academic programs such as the pre-athletic training minor. "We are excited and thrilled to be moving forward with the investment into a turf field," said Rhonda Faunce, Director of Athletics. "The building of the field will ultimately provide a better quality of experience for our students whether they are athletes or not. It will bring a great deal of energy and activity to campus because it allows many of our outdoor teams to practice and play on-site. Additionally, student recruitment will be further enhanced by the turf field, with the addition of camps and clinics put on by our athletic programs, along with increased intramural initiatives for all students. This is a win for the entire EC community." The next phase of the project is to begin the official permitting process with the City of Elmira, which is expected to take 2-4 months. Once permitting is complete, the construction phase could begin as early as March or April 2024, with the project completed by the summer of 2024. The design and construction firm of Clark Companies, based out of Delhi, New York, provided design services for the turf facility. Financing for the $2.5 million project has been secured by the College and philanthropic efforts will support initial start-up costs for the turf field project.

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This image contains the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays, a result that may explain how some of the first supermassive black holes in the universe formed. This discovery was made using X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (purple) and infrared data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (red, green, blue). The extremely distant black hole is located in the galaxy UHZ1 in the direction of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744. The galaxy cluster is about 3.5 billion light-years from Earth. Webb data, however, reveal that UHZ1 is much farther away than Abell 2744. At some 13.2 billion light-years away, UHZ1 is seen when the universe was only 3% of its current age.

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Another person was hit by a car last night on Clemens Center Parkway. ( Read the report here. ) In light of the many car vs pedestrian crashes that have happened on this stretch of roadway, some are putting the blame on cars driving too fast. Others say it's unsafe pedestrian behavior. Others say there needs to be changes made to the parkway, better lighting, stoplight cameras, etc. What do you think? Is it the drivers, the pedestrians? Do you think there needs to be changes to the parkway or to how people are using it?

If traveling into the past is possible, one way to do it might be sending people through tunnels in space. by raggio5 via Pixabay Note: While this was written for kids, it's still pretty interesting reading. by Adi Foord, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Have you ever dreamed of traveling through time, like characters do in science fiction movies? For centuries, the concept of time travel has captivated people’s imaginations. Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time, just like you move between different places. In movies, you might have seen characters using special machines, magical devices or even hopping into a futuristic car to travel backward or forward in time. But is this just a fun idea for movies, or could it really happen? The question of whether time is reversible remains one of the biggest unresolved questions in science. If the universe follows the laws of thermodynamics, it may not be possible. The second law of thermodynamics states that things in the universe can either remain the same or become more disordered over time. It’s a bit like saying you can’t unscramble eggs once they’ve been cooked. According to this law, the universe can never go back exactly to how it was before. Time can only go forward, like a one-way street. Time is relative However, physicist Albert Einstein’s theory of special relativity suggests that time passes at different rates for different people. Someone speeding along on a spaceship moving close to the speed of light – 671 million miles per hour! – will experience time slower than a person on Earth. People have yet to build spaceships that can move at speeds anywhere near as fast as light, but astronauts who visit the International Space Station orbit around the Earth at speeds close to 17,500 mph. Astronaut Scott Kelly has spent 520 days at the International Space Station, and as a result has aged a little more slowly than his twin brother – and fellow astronaut – Mark Kelly. Scott used to be 6 minutes younger than his twin brother. Now, because Scott was traveling so much faster than Mark and for so many days, he is 6 minutes and 5 milliseconds younger. Time isn’t the same everywhere. Some scientists are exploring other ideas that could theoretically allow time travel. One concept involves wormholes, or hypothetical tunnels in space that could create shortcuts for journeys across the universe. If someone could build a wormhole and then figure out a way to move one end at close to the speed of light – like the hypothetical spaceship mentioned above – the moving end would age more slowly than the stationary end. Someone who entered the moving end and exited the wormhole through the stationary end would come out in their past. However, wormholes remain theoretical: Scientists have yet to spot one. It also looks like it would be incredibly challenging to send humans through a wormhole space tunnel. Paradoxes and failed dinner parties There are also paradoxes associated with time travel. The famous “grandfather paradox” is a hypothetical problem that could arise if someone traveled back in time and accidentally prevented their grandparents from meeting. This would create a paradox where you were never born, which raises the question: How could you have traveled back in time in the first place? It’s a mind-boggling puzzle that adds to the mystery of time travel. Famously, physicist Stephen Hawking tested the possibility of time travel by throwing a dinner party where invitations noting the date, time and coordinates were not sent out until after it had happened. His hope was that his invitation would be read by someone living in the future, who had capabilities to travel back in time. But no one showed up. As he pointed out: “The best evidence we have that time travel is not possible, and never will be, is that we have not been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.” Telescopes are time machines Interestingly, astrophysicists armed with powerful telescopes possess a unique form of time travel. As they peer into the vast expanse of the cosmos, they gaze into the past universe. Light from all galaxies and stars takes time to travel, and these beams of light carry information from the distant past. When astrophysicists observe a star or a galaxy through a telescope, they are not seeing it as it is in the present, but as it existed when the light began its journey to Earth millions to billions of years ago. Telescopes are a kind of time machine – they let you peer into the past. NASA’s newest space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, is peering at galaxies that were formed at the very beginning of the Big Bang, about 13.7 billion years ago. While we aren’t likely to have time machines like the ones in movies anytime soon, scientists are actively researching and exploring new ideas. But for now, we’ll have to enjoy the idea of time travel in our favorite books, movies and dreams. Adi Foord is Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of Maryland, Baltimore County This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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The Fisher Price Corn Popper has taken its place in the hall of fame along with baseball cards, NERF toys, and Cabbage Patch Kid dolls. Source