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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jun 14, 2011

'Shallows': Nicholas Carr on information overload
San Francisco Chronicle
It surveys the latest scientific research into the question of how the Internet is changing the way we process information, results that deserve more than reflexive ridicule from an industry that otherwise prides itself on being data-driven. Studies ...
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Obama Admin Launches Campaign to Help States, Utilities Deploy Smart Grid Projects
New York Times
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, head the administration officials at today's conference. Unlike in 2009, when the American Recovery ...
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IBM spends $6 billion to keep industry lead
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
This isn't the stuff of science fiction, but the innovations IBM is aiming for in the coming years. The Armonk-based provider of computer services reportedly spent $6 billion on research, development and engineering in 2010. In its 100-year history, ...
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Global Harvest Initiative: Embracing Science-Based Technologies Critical To ...
PR Newswire (press release)
WASHINGTON, June 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Harvest Initiative (GHI) today published a new policy issue brief which highlights the importance of science-based technologies in sustainably addressing the mounting challenges of global hunger and ...
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Scripps Researchers Secure Three Defense Instrumentation Grants
Scripps Oceanography News
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego, is one of the oldest, largest and most important centers for global science research and education in the world. Now in its second century of discovery, the scientific scope of ...
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Studies Evaluate Criteria For Detecting Potentially Inappropriate Medications ...
Medical News Today (press release)
Some of the authors of this paper received support from the VA Clinical Science Research and Development Service; the National Institutes of Health; the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System; and the National ...
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Rider University Faculty Serve as Advisors to Lawrence High School's New ...
Patch.com
In addition to taking language arts, mathematics, science, social studies and health, safety and physical education courses, Lawrence High students in their junior and senior years will have the opportunity to take the special elective courses through ...
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Brian Peacock '12 Receives Third National Honor for Environmental Research
Lafayette College Campus News
He also worked with Kney; Laurie Caslake, associate professor and head of biology; and engineeringstudies major Andrea Mikol '13 (Wind Gap, Pa.) to develop a biofilm to use as a tool for water and wastewater treatment technologies. ...
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Board approves appointments of 19 new faculty members
Princeton University
A specialist in theoretical computer science, he is currently an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, where he earned his Ph.D. His undergraduate degree is from the Israel Institute ofTechnology. In operations research and financial ...
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FameLab: Rising stars of science communication
New Scientist (blog)
Another jumped on a chair and performed pirouettes to animate his arcane research on spinning electrons. A third confessed that her props had been confiscated by customs and went on to threaten me with a gun that fires needles ("Yes, it could have been ...
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When Golfers Overthink: The Science Behind the Choke
New York Times (blog)
As Beilock details in “Choke,” one of her early studies involved a number of LPGA players who while hooked up to fMRI technology were asked to hit shots to a flagstick 100 yards away. The fMRItechnology immediately noticed that players with only a few ...
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From diseases to drugs, Wailoo explores nexus of health and society
Princeton University
His research and teaching tackle issues at the nexus of health and society, with particular attention to race and identity. "I've always been drawn to study science andtechnology as a way of understanding issues of progress, conflict and the impact of ...
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Taurine may inhibit acrylamide formation: Study
FoodNavigator-USA.com
Researchers from China Agricultural University report their findings in the International Journal of FoodScience & Technology. Taurine, a derivative of the amino acid cysteine, if found naturally in foods including seafood and meat. ...
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Addressing Race and Genetics
Center For American Progress
Michael Rugnetta was formerly the research assistant for Science Progress's bioethics program, and is now a student at Boston University School of Law. Khusboo Desai was formerly a Science Progress bioethics intern and is currently a student at Union ...
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Building Small
Chemical & Engineering News
“Our research group has found some creative ways to make the particles in such a way to realize the seeding effect,” he says. Specifically, the researchers developed some polymer technology to keep the nanocrystals from fusing together when dispersed ...
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Chemists In Training
Chemical & Engineering News
I really believe that education, and specifically science education, created all the opportunities and the success that I've enjoyed over my professional career.” Students 2 Science's volunteers share Winslow's vision for improving science, technology, ...
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Using Robots to Train the Surgeons of Tomorrow
IEEE Spectrum
Gregory D. Hager, an IEEE Fellow, is a professor in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins University, where his research interests include computer vision, robotics, medical devices, and human-machine systems. He directs the Computational ...
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Annapolis Capital
Sauve, the son of Stephen and Shirley Sauve, received a four-year ROTC scholarship in 2007 to attend McDaniel College, where he earned a degree in psychology and political science and international studies. Madison Dickson of Arnold, a senior majoring ...
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Health Science Center researcher picked for national science policy fellowship
Bizjournals.com
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has selected San Antonio pharmacologist Andrea Giuffrida to participate in an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship. Giuffrida is an associate professor of pharmacology at the University ...
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Cambridge academics recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours
Cambridge Network
He is Co-Director of the Science and Technology Research Centre at the American University in Cairo, Egypt that he co-founded in 2003. In recognition of his work with India, Sir Mark was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences...
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University of Basque Country geologists undertake oceanic survey in the river Oka
Basque Research
Jointly with the Southampton University Oceanographic Centre in Britain and the University of Sardinia (Italy), geologists from the Science and Technology Faculty at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) are carrying out an oceanographic ...
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Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology
ScienceBlogs (blog)
Between the two studies I mentioned--and, again, they're not bad in terms of the science--there are over 1800 E. coli isolates in those two papers alone (and the field of water management generates many thousands of such isolates every year). ...
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Researchers harness greenhouse gases with good microbes, chemistry and attitude
PhysOrg.com (press release)
In addition to supporting greenhouse gas-reducing innovation, CMC is also funding social science research to inform policy-makers and industry preparing to put new technologies into action. “The big problem, especially in the Western world, ...
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Candymaker Nestle Invests Billions to Decode Our Digestive Systems
ABC News
Metabolomics, or the study of the chemical processes of the human metabolism, is a relatively new field of science. It has only been around for about 10 years, according to Nestle researcher Alastair Ross. Using artificial body parts, scientists test ...
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Good for You, Martin County, June 12
TCPalm
She earned a bachelor's of general studies degree in education. The Treasure Coast Wildlife Center surprised golfers at its annual Golf for Wildlife tournament on May 20 with the release of two young screech owls. The release kicked off the tournament ...
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Watts studying fish response to chemical dispersant
UAB News
BP has released $450 million for additional Gulf research, and Watts is working in concert with investigators from Texas A&M, LSU, West Florida and South Florida to assemble a consortium to do long-term studies on animals that live on the ocean floor....
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Film Students Power Video-Production Business
Education Week News
Because of that disappointment, Ms. Villa says she is considering transferring to another college, but she would make sure that her next school has the technologyshe's looking for. For Science Leadership Academy senior Ms. Thomas, making sure her ...
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Bringing US Manufacturing Back; Part 1 of 5, Who is Professor Matthew Lieber?
AXcess News
I think university studies in the US seem to push students in two opposite directions. Some have a great deal of faith in one or another ideology, whether liberalism, the United Nations, free markets, or science and technology. ...
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Frontline soldiers not eating enough
The Australian
A study by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation has tried to work out why soldiers on military operations were not finishing the contents of their ration packs, which contain ready-to-eat meals and snacks that are designed to be eaten hot or ...
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Students help NASA developing asteroid space habitats
Your Houston News
At the end, NASA will pick a winner, which will participate in its annual Desert Research andTechnology Studies field test in September. It will be tested as part of a simulated astronaut mission to an asteroid. OSU aerospace engineering Professor ...
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Masters programme to close skills gap
Siliconrepublic.com
Not only will they achieve an MSc and additional technical training, but work experience, an allowance for the duration of the programme or ability to retain social welfare payments, and then at the end of their studies, a job as a software engineer...
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Shorewood students to get iPads
KOMO News
Students in certain English, Social Studies and Science classes at both Shorewood and Shorecrest tested out iPads last year. The devices are not only cheaper, but offer longer battery life, portability, number and low cost of apps and e-Book reader, ...
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America's Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help
Forbes (blog)
More programs to support basic science and research. Over the past decade, there has been an exodus of scientific and technical expertise from the DoD (Dept of Defense) and academic community, with basic research dropping from a high of 26% in the ...
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Trial by fire
Times of India
The team led by Prof VPN Nampoori, former director of the International School of Photonics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, observed its effects on the environment with sophisticated scientific instruments.Their conclusion: The yagna ...
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Science News Daily || Red-light cameras critical to public safety ...
Daily coverage of the most popular science and technology news ... Evaluation of numerous automated traffic studies indicate safety benefits outweigh ... New research from the University of Missouri says the safety benefits of automated ...
www.sciencenewsdaily.org/engineering.../cluster100232884/
New Process Integrates Cancer Lab Studies ... - Science Business
Your support will help Science Business continue to provide science news for business people ....Alliance for Science and Technology Research in America ...
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Master of Science in Information and Communication Technology (By
Student PortalAccess to Student Portal; News ArticlesNews Articles ... Field of study: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ... Utilize scientific research methods to acquire, interpret and extend knowledge in the field of ICT ...
www.mediu.edu.my/admissions/programs.../msict-ft.html
ESOCITE PARTICIPANTS JOINT 4S/ESOCITE PRE-MEETING, BUENOS AIRES ...
(Latin American Journal devoted to Social Studies of Science and Technology). Pablo's currentresearch topics are devoted to study the development of ...
www.4sonline.org/BiosESOCITE.pdf

 
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