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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Sep 02, 2011


MIT Creates New Center for Graphene Devices & Systems
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Until recently, most studies have focused on the basic physical properties of graphene. Work at the new Center will go beyond this research, exploring advanced technologies and strategies that will lead to graphene-based materials, devices and systems ...
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Science after 9/11: How Research Was Changed by the September 11 Terrorist Attacks
Scientific American
In biodefense, so much money poured into science that Judith Reppy, a science andtechnology studies expert at Cornell University, even considered whether (adapting the term coined by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1961) a ...
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Scientific American
Genetic Research of Zebrafish Helps Understanding of Human Disease
Marketwire (press release)
... $1.8 million in funding for nine research projects, including a project in the Faculty of Medicine that studies the genetic basis for disease using fish as experimental models. "Our government is investing in science and technology to create jobs, ...
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Air-quality researchers tackle health implications of ultra-fine particles
UC Davis
... three studies in the September special issue on aerosols and health of the journal AerosolScience and Technology. The three papers were selected for publication by Paul Solomon, seniorresearch scientist at the US Environmental Protection Agency. ...
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Return to Hydrate Ridge
New York Times (blog)
We're joined this time around by Greg Rouse and his group from Scripps, whichstudies marine invertebrates and is known for its stunning photography. About half of those on the 24-member science team were involved last year, and the new spate of ...
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New York Times (blog)
Perry's social agenda is sometimes at odds with Texas business
Austin American-Statesman
Rick Perry last year, donates heavily to Perry's campaign, though his advice onscience studies went unheeded. As part of a technology change, commenting will not be available on some articles for a number of months. Read more about the change here. ...
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Austin American-Statesman
Space Junk Problem Is More Threatening Than Ever, Report Warns
Fox News
It was sponsored by NASA, and conducted by the National Research Council, a nonprofit science policy organization. Space debris — an accumulation of broken satellites, spent rocket stages and other junk in orbit — is dangerous because it could hit ...
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Fox News
STEM Academy offers science students a place to thrive in Kannapolis
Salisbury Post
Garay hopes to add one with a background in cell biology and the other to teach international studies. The $8.1 million STEM Academy is designed to mimic the Core Lab Building at the North Carolina Research Campus. Each floor of the four-story facility ...
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Salisbury Post
Stable fish oil emulsions possible, says study
NutraIngredients.com
The study, published in the European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology, reports a method to prepare stable emulsions with up to 70% fish oil by adding whey protein as the emulsifying agent at a specific pH. The research team, led by Charlotte ...
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NV Energy donates for grad studies
UNLV The Rebel Yell
“[NV Energy is] developing a workforce that's going to support this field into the future,” said Tom Piechota, assistant vice president for interdisciplinary research at UNLV. Piechota administers the funding from NV Energy. NV Energy seeks to sponsor ...
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Lodi's Julie Fukunaga receives national recognition
Lodi News-Sentinel
After placing first in the California State Science Fair, Julie Fukunaga has been honored nationally as two of 300 Middle School Semifinalists in the National Broadcom MASTERS — Math, AppliedScience, Technology and Engineering Competition. ...
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How Meditation Might Relieve Pain
Forbes
Here at Forbes, I focus on futurism, cutting edge technology, and breaking research. Follow me on Facebook and Twitter. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. There have been a number of studies over the ...
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Science Teachers should to be innovative-Prof. Addai
Ghana News Agency
He said thousands of students were turned out in science related studies whilst many researchreports on science were being kept on shelves, thus little was being done on practicalizing findings identified. To address some of the nagging problems, ...
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'Very small' risk from bisphenol A, says Japanese national research body
FoodProductionDaily.com
The Research Institute of Science for Safety and Sustainability (RISS), part of the country's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science andTechnology, said it had reached its conclusions after examining a range of concerns relating to the ...
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FoodProductionDaily.com
UBC gains $2.9 million for research infrastructure
University of British Columbia
The funding awarded to UBC researchers was part of $53 million in new funds for 207 projects at 42 institutions across Canada, announced today by Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science andTechnology), in Winnipeg. “Support from the Canada ...
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Talks on to borrow Nuals/Cusat faculties for IMU
IBNLive.com
KOCHI: The Indian Maritime University will soon reach an understanding with either the National University of Advanced Legal Studies or the Cochin University of Science and Technology for faculty-sharing to offer LLM course in Maritime Law. ...
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Lab to work on suborbital vehicles
Boulder County Business Report
SwRI's space studies and space operations divisions have research facilities in downtown Boulder, where the research and engineering work for the project will take place. About 80 people work in the facilities, said Dr. Alan Stern, associate vice ...
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Text of Perlman's address
Lincoln Journal Star
We are uniquely positioned to achieve these objectives with ongoing research initiatives that form the foundation for our past success, in areas like material science, laser applications, virology, plant transformation, redox biology, ...
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Closing in on Personalized Medicine
Laboratory Equipment
Genetic screening studies are of particular importance in cancer research and immunology. Fundamentally, cancer is a product of genetic failure—mutations in cell cycle regulation are commonly found in tumor samples. The immune system sits in a state ...
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Laboratory Equipment
Science must embrace the humanities to regain its Victorian glory | Timothy ...
The Guardian
Now that God is gone and science has been separated from art, technology is functional and dull. Whereas the Victorians strove outwards into the realms of nature and the supernatural, modern research has turned inwards to the atom and the molecule. ...
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The Guardian
Chaparral students get laptop computers for new technology core program
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Core teachers will use the new laptops in all their subject areas. These include science, language arts, social studies and math. An EL instructor will also use the computers. "All our teachers are very passionate about technology," Alcazar said. ...
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NASA Selects Contractor For Icesat-2 Spacecraft
IEWY News
The mission was recommended by the National Research Council in its 2007 decadal survey of NASA Earth science research priorities. ICESat-2 supports NASA's Earth science program by helping scientists develop a better scientific understanding of the ...
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Critics indicate flaws in India's new vaccine policy
SciDev.net
... and assumes that all new vaccines are good for the Indian population and should be introduced in Indian UIP,” Madhavi Yennapu, scientist at the National Institute ofScience, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi, told SciDev.Net. ...
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SciDev.net
University hosts forum about proposed School of Education
Iowa State Daily
... social sciences with a noted emphasis in leadership and science, technology, engineering and mathematics." Lissa Place, graduate student in educational leadership and policy studies, asked if social justice would be separate from higher education. ...
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What's new at local schools
The Almanac Online
An increased focus on math, science and technology was a common theme. Below are highlights from local public high schools (reporting by Dave Boyce) and elementary and middle schools (reporting by Kate Daly). For the coming school year, Woodside High ...
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Is There a Second Life for Virtual Worlds?
Campus Technology
Daniel Jack Livingstone, a lecturer and researcher in game technology and computer science at the University of the West of Scotland (UK) strikes a similar tone of caution, noting that adopting virtual worlds without looking carefully at their ...
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Age bias in IT: The reality behind the rumors
IDG News Service
She holds an MBA from the Florida Institute of Technology and an MS in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, and she's currently working toward a Ph.D. in information systems. Beyond that, Henning has taken care to invest in her career on her ...
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AdMU installs new president
Manila Bulletin
At the end of his studies, his work also won for him the school's Best Graduate Student ResearchAward. Fr. Jett was awarded National Outstanding Young Scientist in 2000 by the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST). ...
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STEM ready to go at elementary schools
Winona Daily News
The five teachers, one for each of the school's kindergarten through fourth grades, have spent the summer preparing to bring STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) curriculum to Winona Area Public Schools, said Mathew Nelson, ...
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Global Incentives Seek to Buoy Innovation
Genetic Engineering News
In addition, the state provides funds through the Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) and the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund. Of the $71.4 million allocated, more than $50 million has been committed for peer-reviewed stem cell ...
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AKU to hold affiliation meet today
Times of India
"As far as we know, the HRD will issue the gazette notification regarding simultaneous de-affiliation and affiliation either this week or early next week," said science and technology department director Bhagwan Singh on Thursday. ...
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Sul Ross to phase out low-producing programs
Alpine Avalanche
Two programs - bachelor of science in environmental studies-chemistry and master of business administration-international trade - were phased out effective Aug. 31. Three others, associate of applied science programs in meat technology, ...
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McLean Student Named 'Top 10 High School Inventor'
Virginia Connection Newspapers
He has been studying the technology since he was 15, and last year was awarded a $10000 scholarship from the Davidson Institute for Talent Development. "I was really shocked when I found out about being in Popular Science, I had no idea such an award ...
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Corsham School GCSE results
This is Wiltshire.co.uk
Key: AAS Additional Applied Science; AB Accounts/Book-keeping; AC Arabic; AG Agriculture; AH Ancient History; AM Applied Maths; AR Art (including Fine Art, Art History, Art and Design, 3D Art, Art and Craft, Art and Technology); ARCH Archaeology; ...
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Inauguration Week activities
University at Buffalo Reporter
This playful exhibition will feature work by 11 alumni of the Visual Studies Master of Fine Arts Program. Using the tropes of GPS technology and “Gulliver's Travels,” guest curator Bill Maynes of New York City's Bill Maynes Gallery will introduce art ...
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University at Buffalo Reporter
New Software Adding Value, Opportunities To Digital Signage
CRN
Comparisons between the AIM Suite capabilities and the recognition technology in the Tom Cruisescience fiction film "Minority Report" are unfounded, says Colson. "Our technology wouldn't know who Tom [Cruise] was. We would know he was male and we ...
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PROF RECEIVES GRANT FOR INNER-CITY RESEARCH
Canada First Perspective
She is working closely with the Institute of Urban Studies to open the new Centre for Inner-CityResearch, Community Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), to be housed on the third floor of the new Richardson College for the Environment and Science Complex ...
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TERI to launch DNA Club mentoring schools
Assam Tribune
The programme is being implemented in all the eight north-eastern States by TERI in collaboration with partner institutions such as Arunachal Pradesh State Council of Science & Technology; North-East Institute of Science & Technology, Imphal substation ...
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Palace admits gov't broadband network under study
ABS CBN News
by Jorge Cariño, ABS-CBN News MANILA, Philippines - Presidential Communications Office Secretary Ricky Carandang admitted on Friday that the Department of Science and Technology(DOST) is studying the possibility of having a government broadband ...
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What Is Wrong With High-Skill Immigration Policy?
ScienceCareers.org
But Ronil Hira, associate professor of public policy at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and a licensed professional engineer, described their plight, focusing on the high unemployment rate among American STEM (science, technology, ...
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LSCC to offer bachelor programs
Daily Commercial
Elise Veremakis, department chair in the health science department at Lake Tech, praised LSCC plans to offer bachelor's in nursing. She expects many Lake Techstudents will want to further their nursing studies at LSCC to become registered nurses, ...
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Daily Commercial
Strength in numbers
ITWeb (blog)
Sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology and managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the Atlas consists of an electronic geographical information system continually updated by local researchers in various ...
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ITWeb (blog)
JCPenney churns out an outrageously sexist shirt
The Virginian-Pilot
I was a Women's Studies minor in college, and after I graduated I sort of figured I would always have an appreciation for what it took to pass the 19 th Amendment, Manifesta and bell hooks, but had come to the conclusion that I just wasn't as easily ...
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The Virginian-Pilot
People Watching
HeraldNet
22 to recognize outstanding Hispanic professionals in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. LYNNWOOD — Susan Loreen has been appointed interim vice president of workforce development and training at Edmonds Community College. ...
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SCA Promotions Expands Sales Team with Four New Hires
Insurance News Net (press release)
A native of Corpus Christi, Texas , Poche holds a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studiesfrom Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi where she focused her studies on business. An Ohio Native, Riley joins SCA Promotions with a Master of ...
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Calvert, St. Mary's and Charles County
Bay Net
He didn't have Wille's passion for nuclear energy, but he did have an interest in science. After coming to the US 10 years ago, Douglas earned an engineering technology degree from CSM. He began the NET program last fall with no apprehension on ...
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Dunedin middle schoolers will learn with iPads
Tampabay.com
Nan Hong, sixth-grade social studies and technology teacher, said that she, other teachers and the students will work together this year to incorporate an increasing amount of iPad functionality into everyday learning. "I have to say that this was my ...
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Tampabay.com
Biology Ecology Environmental Science - Science, Technology ...
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Coordinator, Research Experiences for Undergraduates Organization for Tropical Studies - Posted in Biology Ecology Environmental Science - Science Jobs, Postdoc Fellowships, Events - Published by TheScienceJobs.com.
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ESRC Genomics Network - Latest news - Science and Technology ...
Science and Technology Studies (STS) in Food Security at Cesagen ... focus on programmes and develop research aimed at increasing their own economic ...
www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/.../news/.../title,25074,en.html

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