SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jun 12, 2011

Computer Studies Made Cool, on Film and Now on Campus
New York Times
Enrollment in computer science programs, and degrees from them, are rising after a decade of decreases, despite much handwringing about the decline of American competitiveness in technology and innovation from President Obama on down. ...
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New York Times

UGA Graduate Student Wins Scholarship for Technology to Change the World
TMC Net
As a participant in SU's intensive 10-week graduate studies program, held this summer at the NASA Ames Research Park, Warren will work with other graduate students from around the world who are proven leaders and entrepreneurs. ...
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New Chicago site enables the support of a variety of causes
Chicago Sun-Times
“Our kids are graduating at twice the rate of Chicago Public Schools students, and two-thirds are pursuing science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) degrees in college,” Lyon said. Project Exploration works each year with 250 middle- and ...
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New Scholarships And Awards Established Since 2010 Fall Convocation
Regina Leader-Post
... for her significant contribution to conservation of the environment through education, including the Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Science, Mathematics and Technology (1995) and the McDowell Foundation Award for Educational Research (1999). ...
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NUCLEAR CRISIS: HOW IT HAPPENED / Government, TEPCO brushed off warnings from ...
The Daily Yomiuri
Since 1990, Tohoku Electric Power Co., Tohoku University and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have researched the traces left by the Jogan Earthquake. Theirstudies have shown that the ancient tsunami was on the same ...
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NASA Solicitation: Complimentary Acquisitions Approach for Ames' Contracts
Space Ref (press release)
This acquisition will provide a sustained program and project management capability for missions, instruments, technology development efforts, collaborative science programs, ARC and NASA project offices, and mission and science operations. ...
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Queen's birthday honours list: GCB, DBE and CBE
The Guardian
For serv Science. Dr Melvyn Stuart Draper, Formerly hd, Non-Proliferation, Dept of Energy and Climate Change. Ms Jenny Edwards, Chief exec, Homeless Link. For serv Disadvantaged People. Prof Peter Elias, Prof of Employment Research, Univ of Warwick. ...
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Heywood '11, Yunger Halpern '11 named valedictorians
The Dartmouth
During her sophomore Spring, Yunger Halpern interned at the Dibner Library of the History ofScience and Technology, a Smithsonian Institution Library. She also worked on an Israeli archaeological dig last summer through Dartmouth's anthropology and ...
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Dubai Economic Council delegation visits China
AME Info
The visit covered a number of high-ranking Chinese decision-making circles, strategic studiescenters and academic institutions. Those include, among others: China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), People's Bank of China, ...
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Courts Should Follow the Law Not Determine Best Policy Re Funding of Stem Cell ...
First Things (blog)
“The incentives to use both types of cell in comparative studies are high because thescience behind iPS cells is still in its infancy,” Owen-Smith said. “As a result, induced pluripotent stem cells do not offer an easy solution to the difficult ...
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First Things (blog)

To circumvent sanctions, Iranian front companies are using Turkey.
Southeast European Times
By Aaron Stein for Southeast European Times in Istanbul – 11/06/11 Increased scrutiny and stringent sanctions have forced Iran to rely on a vast network of middlemen to supply technology for its nuclear, missile and conventional military programmes. ...
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George Berci, MD, FACS, Is Recipient of the 2011 Jacobson Innovation Award
Newswise (press release)
Dr. Berci was honored with the award in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the art andscience of endoscopy and laparoscopy for more than 50 years. His work has included the development—or promoting the development—of advances in optics, ...
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West's period of mastery may be on the wane
Irish Times
A RECENT item about the distribution of world languages in this newspaper's Science T oday page (April 21st) caught the imagination. Research by New Zealand biologist Quentin Atkinson, published in Science , shows language complexity diminished when ...
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Andrew Grant Joins KLSS Senior Management Team
PR.com (press release)
He is a 1981 graduate from the USAF Academy with a BS Computer Science and he also earned a MA degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University. While in the Air Force, Mr. Grant's initial assignments were in Washington, DC. ...
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Tools for Developing the Russian Arctic Shelf
Oil and Gas Industry Latest News
... levels of science and technology. To date, the results of those studies are open to geologists of the oil companies in the archives of AARI and other government agencies. However, for development of the Arctic shelf more research is needed. ...
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UOIT's enrolment confirmation increase highest in GTA
NorthumberlandView.ca
OSHAWA, ON - Statistics recently released by the Ontario Application Centre (OUAC) confirm that more students than ever are choosing the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) for their post-secondary studies. Year-over-year percentage ...
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Scholarships and recognitions from St. Peters
STLtoday.com
He plans to major in forensic science. LINDSAY DEFUSCO of St. Peters was named to the dean's list at Villanova University for the 2010 fall semester. BENJAMIN GUSTAVE KREMER of St. Peters was named to the dean's list at Washington University for the ...
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An uncertain future for space exploration
Journal Pioneer
He has been inspired by what he grew up seeing and hearing and reading, and now endeavours to add his influence to the body of knowledge through university studiesand the paths that may be opened. I trust that he will continue to keep others inspired...
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Journal Pioneer

Wind and waves getting stronger and bigger
New Zealand Herald
The results of the research programme, believed to be the most comprehensive of its kind undertaken, were recently published in the journal Science. It was conducted by former Swinburne University Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young, who this year ...
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MUST site still private land
Nation Online
Construction of the Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) on President Bingu wa Mutharika's Ndata Farm started in April this year before any documentation to make the land public. Officials in the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban ...
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Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School Top 10
Fall River Herald News
By Anonymous Valedictorian Melissa Arruda, the daughter of Steven and Karen Arruda of Westport, is a graduate of the Office Technology Program. Melissa has been the number one ranked student in the class of 2011 since her freshman year and has achieved ...
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Iowa Food Companies Will Have a Major Presence at 2011 Institute of Food ...
Bradenton Herald
Embria Health Sciences, headquartered in Ankeny, Iowa, combines science and nature to develop high-quality, research-based natural ingredients that are added to finished products. Embria's flagship ingredient, EpiCor®, is an all-natural product that ...
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West honours list
This is Somerset
Head of Science in Society, Science and Technology Facilities Council. For services to Science. (Swindon, Wiltshire) Mrs Kaye Franklin. For services to the Voluntary Sector in Swindon, Wiltshire. (Swindon, Wiltshire) Rodney Augustus Sidney Hodgman. ...
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Wise words for grads in uncertain times
National Post
Graduation marks a starting point, rather than the end of your academic studies. Sorry to be the one to break the news to you … You are the wired generation born at the dawn of the world wide web.Technology has never been foreign to you. ...
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Politics making ag sector scapegoat for lake's woes
Winnipeg Free Press
... more dynamic crop rotations and changing farming practices such as tillage and seedingtechnology, that recommendations for phosphorus use need to be reviewed. That takes research, however. While studies designed to reduce the amount of fertilizer ...
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Honors and plans of 2011 CHS graduates, AL
Corvallis Gazette Times
Anastasiya Victoria Berst: Diversity Club President, Green Club Secretary, Cross Country, Dale and Thomasina Trout Tuition Scholarship; plans to major in food science and technology at Oregon State University. Prachet Jayprakash Bhatt: Governor's ...
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Vice-President Xi signs 9 agreements in Chile
China Daily
"We have reached the consensus that we have to cooperate in areas includingtechnology, science and innovation and clean renewable energy. Those are our main priorities for the future," Pinera said. CASS' Sun agreed that the two countries need to...
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China Daily

Initiative Demonstrating Economic Benefits of Marine Conservation Named Winner...
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Blue Ventures' partner communities are trained in conservation science and empowered to develop, implement, and oversee community-owned marine conservation solutions that include marine and fisheries research, family planning and public health, ...
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Aberrant CpG Island Hypermethylation in Pediatric Gastric Mucosa in ...
TMC Net
This study was supported by grant M10750030001-08N5003- 00110 from the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation, funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST); by grant 2010-0007579 from the Basic Science Research Program through ...
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Rising above a handicap...
Gulf Daily News
"It would also help me with my studies at school, but unfortunately it will always remain only a dream for me, as it is way too expensive for me to buy." The grade seven student, who hopes to pursue a degree in Computer Science, believes that many ...
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Gulf Daily News

e-books transform today's libraries
gulfnews.com
About 15000 to 20000 books are in Arabic for courses such as Islamic studies and Sharia law, although the university uses English as a medium of instruction for all other programmes. Because the majority of these books are in electronic format, ...
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Hires and Promotions (June 11, 2011)
In-Forum
With bachelor degrees in computer science, mathematics and classical languages, Hanson Thurn has five years of experience in software development. He previously worked for Open Systems International where he worked on generation and distribution ...
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Classroom Notes
Arizona Daily Sun
While at West Point, he studied International History and Religious Studies and competed in cross country, and indoor and outdoor track. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Army within the Aviation branch and will report to Fort Eustis ...
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SOCIETY IN BRIEF 11/6
VietNamNet Bridge
Vo Chi Cong, professor of Thermoelectric Cooling Technology at Da Naêng University of Science and Technology, successfully studied the use of waterfalls and water current energy for refrigeration. This technology, applied in its daily ice-making ...
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VietNamNet Bridge

Scholarships and recognitions from St. Charles
STLtoday.com
WILLIAM T. DAVIS of St. Charles was named to the dean's list at Missouri University of Scienceand Technology for the fall 2010 semester. Davis was a sophomore engineering major. MICHAEL WITTICH of St. Charles was awarded a $1000 St. Johns Bank's 2011 ...
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Meet the Graduates: Janette Perez Jimenez
Patch.com
She is also a student of the Marine and Science Technology program at Newark Memorial in which students invite elementary-age students and teach them about astrology and marine biology. Her participation in that program and her volunteer work at Don ...
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Social scientists study impact of human adult stem cell research
ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news and science ... 161 of 574 or 28 percent of papers reported on studies of both cell technologies, ...
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Using Geospatial Technologies to Explore Geography in the Thousand ...
Sponsored Research Services · Research Relations Office · Research Computing ... Erin Kiselica, a fourth-year computer science major at RIT, explains the use of Global Positioning ... and hopefully see SUNY Geneseo students coming to RIT for graduate studies,” says Tomaszewski. ... News & Events Daily Subscription ...
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