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NASA Names Astrophysics Fellowship for Iconic Woman Astronomer

MarketWatch (press release)

18, early-career researchers may submit proposals for one-year concept studies for the development of new astrophysics technologies. Following a NASA review of the proposals, three to six applicants will be chosen for one-year fellowships to develop ...

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Pupils return to tough GCSEs after introduction of 'EBacc'

Telegraph.co.uk

It has had a significant effect on the study of key disciplines at college and university and led to a critical shortage of graduates with skills in science, technology, engineering, maths and foreign languages, which are seen as vital to the economy. ...

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Telegraph.co.uk
Science faculty looks forward to new building, state-of-art technology

TribLocal

The new building will also have more room for nanoscience studies. Students training for medical jobs, another burgeoning occupation, will benefit from cadaver viewing rooms in the new building, said Denise Anastasio, the college's' dean of biological ...

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TribLocal
Stout receives grant to help students with disabilities

Pierce County Herald

... adding, “Jobs in science, technology, engineering and math are the jobs of the future. It is essential that we continue to support these studies. “I'm pleased to see this specific funding for continued research in STEM studies and the ways in which ...

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American Society of Agronomy Presents 2011 Class of Fellows

Newswise (press release)

Dr. Richardson has served as editor for Applied Turfgrass Science, associate editor of CropScience, and board member for CSSA. Kirk Scheckel – USEPA. Kirk Scheckel is a Research Soil Scientist in the National Risk Management Research Laboratory of the ...

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More R&D spending key to moving up rankings

The Nation

By Business Reporters An increase in spending on research and development for science andtechnology is crucial, and the research must be utilised commercially if Thailand wants to improve its global competitiveness ranking to 15th by 2015 as targeted, ...

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Updated technology hitting local classrooms

Daily Press

Newport News participated in a state pilot of them in 2010-2011, using about 90 in select socialstudies classrooms as textbook replacements. Students can also use online digital resources and applications (apps) to research information, ...

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NuGEN Announces Exclusive Partnership with Advanced Liquid Logic to Co-Develop ...

MarketWatch (press release)

"NuGEN's focus is to provide transformative technology that enables discovery and advancesscience," said Elizabeth Hutt, CEO of NuGEN. "NuGEN has demonstrated unique capabilities in enabling researchers to work with very small amounts of starting ...

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NIH launches Medical Research Scholars Program

National Institutes of Health (press release)

The program will offer research experiences with intramural investigators from across NIH in basicscience laboratories, and in clinical and translational research conducted at the NIH Clinical Center, the world's largest hospital dedicated to ...

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Research traces bacteria in salmonella outbreaks

ECNmag.com

"The data generated by this paper can be used to rapidly identify salmonella outbreak strains by their genome sequence," said Martin Wiedmann, professor and director of graduate studies in foodscience and technology at Cornell and the paper's senior ...

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Coming attractions for fall: movements, masterpieces, Mother Earth and more

UC Berkeley

Sherry Turkle, professor of the social studies of science and technology at MIT, investigates how the Internet — combined with other 21st-century technologies such as psychopharmacology, robotics, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, biotechnology and ...

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UC Berkeley
GRI funds added GoM oil spill research consortia

Offshore Oil and Gas Magazine

Consortium for Advanced Research of Hydrocarbon Transport in the Environment (CARTHE) 7. TheScience and Technology of Dispersants as Relevant to Deep Sea Oil Releases 8. Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf (ECOGIG). ...

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Sweat meter could alert diabetes patients about low blood sugar

News-Medical.net

He noted that more studies have to be done before the sweat meter can be used. Electrical resistance in tissues. Professor Martinsen's research group leads the world in knowledge of the electrical properties of the skin. Together with Sverre Grimnes, ...

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Feature: Dark matter of the genome

Australian Life Scientist

In recent years he's turned his attention to the latest technology for exploring heritability, genome-wide association studies (GWAS), in an attempt to delve deeper into the genetic underpinnings of complex traits and diseases. ...

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Minorities getting smaller share of grants is only one facet of the problem

Austin American-Statesman

Not in the form of having their research studies funded more often, but at the very roots — in having access to excellent public education that will prepare them for careers in science, technology and math fields. With that in place, and a community ...

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Closing The Technological Divide at School

NBC 29 News

Every fifth grader at Crozet Elementary School in Albemarle County uses an iPod Touch for classes including math, social studies, and science. Paula White is the Technology Lead teacher and said last year, the class used them for a scavenger hunt. ...

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Government of Canada Investments Promote Science and Engineering to Canada's Youth

Marketwire (press release)

30, 2011) - Young Edmontonians will have additional opportunities to learn about science and engineering thanks to a new federal investment. The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology) made the announcement while ...

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Written by Mike Buetow

Printed Circuit Design & Fab

We have opportunities through the strengths of the membership to effectively help these businesses and product lines improve system reliability through focused engineering and science studies. Another example resides in rare earth metals. ...

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Invest Hong Kong and Guangzhou Government promote mutual business success to ...

7thSpace Interactive (press release)

... Principal Consultant (Taipei), Invest Hong Kong, Mr KW Lam; Representative of Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology and Information Bureau, Dr Zhao Xiaoxi; and General Manager, Taiwan, Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Mr Perry Fung. ...

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Storm over fracking in the Karoo

Independent Online

Academic studies showing some of the dangers of fracking are criticised as unscientific by industry representatives, while government agencies are powerless to evaluate the arguments. Research on shale gas gets one-sided responses from ...

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Independent Online
Small Business Innovation Research Program Provides Grants to Further R&D at ...

Southsider Magazine

In addition, customKYnetics was awarded another four grants from Kentucky's state matching grants program, administered by the Kentucky Science and Technology Corporation (KSTC). SBIR awardees from Kentucky, and out-of-state companies that win SBIR ...

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Special American Chemical Society symposium on communicating science to the public

PhysOrg.com (press release)

Carolyn "Cary" Funk, senior researcher at the Pew Research Center and lead author of the forthcoming Science and Engineering Indicators 2012 chapter on public attitudes and understanding about science and technology, will discuss where the public turns ...

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SouthWest NanoTechnologies' founder and chief scientist, Daniel Resasco, to ...

Nanotechnology News (press release)

The workshop will evaluate new process technologies such as photochemical, electrochemical, or reforming for generating hydrogen to meet the growing demand at bio-refineries and will present casestudies of successful projects that deploy renewable and ...

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Leadership Crawford County class of 2012

The City Wire

He graduated from Lamphere Madison Heights High School and earned his Bachelor of Sciencedegree in Medical Technology from Michigan State University. Lee is a proven business leader with the growth of his company Continental Poultry. ...

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Suspended Edison State dean returns to work

The News-Press

“Myers joined Edison in 1995 as an adjunct and was selected as a Professor of Computer Sciencein 1997, serving as Lead Faculty in Professional and Technical Studies Division from 2005-2007. In 2008, Myers was named Associate Dean, eLearning and she ...

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Future of regenerative medicine

Malaysia Star

This randomised clinical trial was partially funded with just over RM2mil by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI). As the government funding is insufficient, Dr Saw says, KLSMC, a one-stop private hospital for sports injuries, ...

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Malaysia Star
CA city, tribe, ecologists fight proposed quarry

San Jose Mercury News

A cluster of cameras snap shots of the Santa Margarita River for research overseen by San Diego State University. "You can't get it back," said Pablo Bryant, the reserve's research technologymanager. "We can't rebuild it. Does the need for aggregate ...

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The pancreas as we've never seen it before

European Hospital

Professor Ulf Ahlgren and associates at UmeÃ¥ University in Sweden are a leadingresearch team in the world in the development of optical projection tomography. With the aid of this imaging technology, they have now described aspects of how the pancreas ...

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European Hospital
MEDIA ALERT: Cloud9 to Host Customer Summit and Several Breakout Sessions at ...

MarketWatch (press release)

"At Cloud9, our customers are leaders in their industries - from technology to science, energy to manufacturing. Our Customer Summit is a strategic networking event for Cloud9 customers including Avaya, BMC Software, Computer Associates, Informatica, ...

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Meshing technology and eagles

The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)

The transmitter project also is an appropriate use of technology. It can help connect the dots for today's researchers. And it can attract young students who will turn their curiosity into sciencedegrees and tomorrow's discoveries about eagles or ...

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NIH-Oxford Gene Atlas of Mouse Cortex Offers Key Insights

Medscape

"Previous studies have shown that long noncoding RNAs also exist and have important molecular functions in humans, and we are keen to determine the similarities and differences in how these noncoding RNAs are used in the brains of both species. ...

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Overhauled school awaits Waterville students

Morning Sentinel

MOVING BACK: Waterville Senior High School social studies teachers Nancy Lamontagne and Don Ashton move items inside Ashton's new claasroom at the renovated school on Tuesday. A $6.5 million renovation project has transformed the school into what looks ...

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Morning Sentinel
Ebooks challenge textbooks

Texas A&M The Battalion

Public Interest Research Group studies show that 75 percent of students still prefer print textbooks, while 25 percent prefer digital. "The digital format itself has tremendous potential to reduce costs, but what our research has uncovered is that the ...

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Dr. Fu-Shiang Chia: 1931 – 2011 | Passages

Journal of the San Jaun Islands

He taught in the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada for 24 years, during five of which he was chairman of zoology and 10 of which he was the dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies andResearch. He served on numerous national and international ...

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Area schools struggle to sustain programs they say help kids

Danbury News Times

The district also eliminated a team of four core teachers -- math, science, social studies and English -- at the middle school. It means the number of students in the clusters will be larger. Miller said the decision did take advantage of declining ...

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PhD Research Fellowship in Science and Technology Studies at ...

By Shilpi

Scholarship Description: The Centre wishes to recruit a Ph.D. candidate with extensive knowledge ofscience & technology studies/STS, demonstrated research capabilities, and strong interest in the development of STS research, theoretically ...

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Computer Science - Science, Technology & Engineering Careers ...

By GenoXan

Research Associate/Fellow in Television Studies - Posted in Computer Science - Science Jobs, Postdoc Fellowships, Events - Published by TheScienceJobs.com.

TheScienceJobs.com
Achievements: UI faculty, staff making news | fyi - News for Faculty ...

By University Communication and Marketing

Bennett WD; Park S, teaching and learning: an article, “Epistemological syncretism in a biology classroom: A case study,” Journal of Science Education & Technology 20, 2011. Brennan RL, psychological and quantitative foundations: an ...

News for Faculty and Staff


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