National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• DeVry University’s EDGE – Accelerating the Advancement of Women is being recognized by the 2023 Diversity Impact Awards as a Top 25 Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for its outstanding contributions to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
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  DeVry University’s EDGE – Accelerating the Advancement of Women is being recognized by the 2023 Diversity Impact Awards as a Top 25 Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for its outstanding contributions to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
• “We are honored with this recognition,” added Veronica Calderón, DeVry University’s chief inclusion, belonging, and equity officer.
• DeVry University will be recognized at the Diversity Impact Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., Oct 11-13, during the 2023 Global ERG Network Conference.

• Even a 1-degree difference in a forecast’s accuracy can be the difference between life and death, our research shows.
• As economists, we have studied how people use forecasts to manage weather risks.
• We found that when the forecasts underplayed the risk, even small forecast errors led to more deaths.

Forecasts that are too mild lead to more deaths

• We examined data on every day’s deaths, weather and National Weather Service forecast in every U.S county from 2005 to 2017 to analyze the impact of those forecasts on human survival.
• We then compared deaths in each county over the week following a day with accurate forecasts to deaths in the same county over the week following a day with inaccurate forecasts but the same weather.
• Both summer days that were hotter than forecast and winter days that were colder had more deaths.

People are paying attention

• People do pay attention to forecasts and adjust their activities.
• The American Time Use Survey, conducted continuously for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows what Americans across the country are doing on any given day.
• That could be due in part to having less flexibility to act on forecasts, or not having access to forecasts.

The value of better forecasts

• So, what is the value of accurate forecasts?
• We combined our theoretical model with federal cost-benefit estimates of how people value improvements in their chances of survival.
• From those, we estimated people’s willingness to pay for better forecasts.
• Past improvements have come from better models, better observations and better computers.

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  More than 15,000 workers took part in important technology upgrades and equipment maintenance during refueling outages at Constellation nuclear plants this spring.
• In 2022, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which provides a base level of support for nuclear energy nationwide.
• Both pieces of legislation are enabling the continued investment in and operation of Constellation’s nuclear fleet.
• With annual output that is nearly 90% carbon-free, our hydro, wind and solar facilities paired with the nation’s largest nuclear fleet have the generating capacity to power the equivalent of 15 million homes, providing around 10% of the nation’s clean energy.

• Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) announced today that Tom Whitmeyer , a long-tenured NASA senior executive, has joined the firm as an executive advisor in support of its space business.
• Before joining Booz Allen, Whitmeyer served as the NASA deputy associate administrator in its Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD).
• He provided executive leadership and cross-program integration of the Space Launch System (SLS), Orion, and Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) programs.
• He also led the overall systems integration, program planning and control, and mission operations of the enterprise—including overseeing the design development, production, and preparation for the Artemis I mission, which Booz Allen supported.