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she told the Montana Kaimin Sandy Plashkes co-owns and is vice president of content for OwnersBox, an Ontariobased sports tech company that produces an online fantasy sports platform. Following new provincial regulations on daily fantasy sports, OwnersBox is one of only two companies still legally providing such services. “Our prize pools are probably 10 to 15 percent of what a DraftKings or FanDuel would offer,” Sandy told the legalbetting news site Sports Handle “We’re a smaller company, but these are the biggest prize pools we’ve done. It’s exciting.”...

Louisa Woodhouse published a two-part blog on the New America site spotlighting a Univ. of Michigan scholarship initiative that has attracted high-achieving, low-income students in the state. The HAIL program, she writes, counters flagship public universities’ focus on out-of-state recruitment as a way to boost institutional income and prestige. HAIL succeeds, first, by making clear that in-state recipients “often receive the equivalent of a full ride” in tuition and expenses; and second, by reaching out to prospective applicants in the fall of their senior year, thereby telling “these students that they are wanted.” Louisa is a master’s candidate in public policy at Michigan and a research assistant in an education policy program at the Poverty & Inequality Research Lab.

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Shoukat is head of product and a researcher focused on policy implementation and social reform at Pakistan Agriculture Research. He co-authored an op-ed in a December edition of Pakistan’s Express Tribune about declining wheat production. “There is a huge scope to increase this yield through relatively simple changes in the production system,” noted Muhammad and Daud Khan, as well as a large potential to reduce losses through improved harvesting, handling, and storage.…Bence Szechenyi was selected to receive a Budapest Fellowship, a fully funded study opportunity in Hungary’s capital. A Brooklyn resident, Bence will be hosted in Budapest by the Migration Research Institute and will investigate migrant integration into the EU, specifically Central Europe. His family’s story of migration between Hungary and the U.S. gave him a lifelong interest in immigration and migration.