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SCIENCE News, Discoveries, Inventions, Technology , Jun 27, 2011

Siouxland People
Sioux City Journal
Magna Cum Laude; Luis Ramirez, Sioux City, BA in Communication Studies; Brittney Switzer, Sioux City, BA in History; Leah Tran from Sioux City, BA in Exercise Science; Kathleen Vondrak, Sioux City, BA in Exercise Science; Korey Wiemold, Cleghorn, ...
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New! GameUpTop Offerings from Leading Educational Games Publishers, Live on...
PR Newswire (press release)
Included topics span Science, Math, Social Studies, and Technology, for elementary, middle, and high school. Based on educator feedback at ISTE, GameUp will be further enriched for the 2011-2012 school year, and will continue to grow via community ...
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Smith County schools show gains in TAKS scores
KYTX
Seventy percent of students have to pass the reading/English language arts, writing and socialstudies tests. That's the same as last year. Tyler ISD students showed districtwide gains in math, social studies and science for the 2010-11 school year. ...
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Experts take dinosaur body temperature
Press TV
A team led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology who analyzed fossil teeth from two sauropods found that they were about as warm as most modern mammals, but cooler than what experts expected from animals of such gigantic size....
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Learning new ways to manage the environment
The Nation
Rungtip was among around 40 students attending a class at the Salaya campus conducted by one of the three researchers, Prof K Baskaran, associate dean of Deakin University's Faculty of Science and Technology. His topic was entitled "Integrated Water ...
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High schoolers grab college credit
Palladium-Item
In Christopher Davison's computer science courses at Ivy Tech, students build and take apart computers in a cardboard box to simulate real-world situations, like when a hard drive crashes, or how advances in technology simplify computer-operation ...
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Women In Power: Ann Marie Sastry Races to Create Next-Gen Batteries -- Khosla ...
Huffington Post (blog)
When asked about the underrepresentation of women in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) fields, she says, "We, as a culture, as an academic community, and as an industrial community need to make the opportunity clear to all groups. ...
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When Matter Melts
RedOrbit
Luo, Ritter, and Xu are with Berkeley Lab's Nuclear Science Division. Luo is also with the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, and Xu is also with the Central China Normal University in Wuhan. This work was supported by the Indian ...
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University seeks novel ways for human-machine interaction
Malta Independent Online
The IoL will be offering the new degree course (Bachelor of Science in Human LanguageTechnology) as from next October. The development of this degree programme is expected to bring with it new research opportunities. One of the purposes of future ...
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Mobile Phone: A Blessing Or A Curse?
GhanaWeb
The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer has now tied mobile phone radiation to an increased risk for “glioma brain tumors”. Thirty one scientists from 14 countries, including the United States, spent a week poring over existing studies of ...
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Aiding baby boomers, new online education company addresses employment needs
Imperial Valley News
Among the foundation's initiatives is the EnCorps Teachers Program, founded by Lansing to retrain retirees from the technology sector to serve as California public middle and high school science and math teachers. Another SLF initiative is PrimeTime ...
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Drug firm's wooing made whistleblower suspicious
San Antonio Express
It's really yes or no,†said Holcomb, a retired colonel who heads the Center for Translational InjuryResearch at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. “You have a lot of people bleeding to death in Iraq.†The Justice ...
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Ripley schools rated 'effective'
Georgetown News Democrat
The RULH junior class met the state standard of 85-percent in reading (87.5 percent) and writing (87.5 percent), but failed to meet the state standard of 85 percent in mathematics (82.5 percent), social studies (81 percent) and science (78.8 percent). ...
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Technology playing greater role in inappropriate student-teacher relationships
Fort Worth Star Telegram
While there have been no national studies on whether social media have contributed to an increase in inappropriate relationships between teachers and students, a 2004 report showed that about 10 percent of students said they have been the target of ...
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Engineers question meaning of nuclear power in wake of Fukushima crisis
Mainichi Daily News
Most of the 15 members of the University of Tokyo's first class of nuclear engineering students -- including Hiroto Ishida, a former administrative vice minister at the Scienceand Technology Agency, and Shinzo Saito, a former president of the Atomic ...
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Parkview, Mountain View students shine in economics education
Gwinnettdailypost.com
Jade Gillispie was Fowler's teacher during the 2010-11 school year in the Healthcare ScienceProgram at Maxwell High School of Technology. After walking across the stage last month to receive their high school diplomas, Gwinnett County Public Schools' ...
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Growing pains and gains for local preteens
The Columbian
Clark County fourth-graders today turn to Google, not encyclopedias, to conduct research; give presentations using PowerPoint, not posters; and type, rather than handwrite, papers. The trade-off to acquiring this tech savvy is that spelling and ...
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Friends in high ACES
Aspen Daily News
by Chad Abraham, Aspen Daily News Columnist In the summer of 2008, the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies welcomed EO Wilson for an informal lunch at Hallam Lake. The famed naturalist was in town for the Aspen Ideas Festival and was persuaded to ...
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Singapore to host South Asian Diaspora Convention
The Hindu
Pleased at this prospect, Gopinath Pillai, Chairman of the Singapore-based Institute of South AsianStudies (ISAS), said in a conversation with The Hindu that the project was an exercise in translating into reality a proposal by the City-State's ...
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Penn State University graduates
Chambersburg Public Opinion
Waynesboro -- Brendan Kotlanger, electrical engineering; Jeffrey Mohn, structural design and construction engineering technology; Frank Sacco, information sciences and technology; Daniel Shriver, information sciences and technology; and Helle Tychsen, ...
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John Kelly: Politics won't stop space innovation
Florida Today
The web is abuzz with news from science fiction, movie and space buff websites that the space shuttle Discovery gets a prominent cameo in the upcoming “Transformers 3” movie. You may recall scenes were shot at the Kennedy Space Center and we captured ...
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Getting games from good to great with Bungie's Rick Lico
GeekWire
Would you say that what you do really does involve art and science, then? “Very much so, yes! Having an understanding of science and technology, and understanding the tools at hand, makes crafting the art easier, and more focused on the creative. ...
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Holistic programme
Malaysia Star
It helped that Sivran was enjoying the subjects taught in school, namely SocialStudies, Information Technology, Mathematics and Languages. “The HTML webpage building topic was very useful to develop the promotion pages on the Internet,” said Sivran. ...
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Where to Find Work for Teens This Summer
Wall Street Journal
For example, kids who excel at math, science or computer technology could start a tutoring or website-development business. With more competition for fewer jobs, career experts say it's important for teens to look and act professional during an ...
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Grading Our Schools: Hazleton Area students behind Pa. peers
Standard Speaker
According to the data, Hazleton Area third-grade students did meet or exceed average state scores in both math and reading, and fourth-grade students hit the average in science but failed in math and reading. Fifth-grade students met or exceeded the ...
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The best is yet come Grads say the future is bright for Class of 2011
The Hudson Reporter
Despite this three-year project Patel said, “I don't want to go into research and just do studies my whole life. I plan to also study psychology and I want to work with patients after [attending] medical school.” Patel's classmate Shanny Li, ...
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