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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Oct 08, 2011


Expanding Danforth Plant Science Center hires scientists
STLtoday.com
The scientists, who recently received $16 million in grant funding from federal research organizations and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will work in next-generation biofuels, computational biology and new technologies. ...
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LCWU approves Rs 830m budget
The Nation, Pakistan
Reconstitution of six-member search committee, nomination of members of Academic Council, Advanced Studies, Research Board and all recommendations forwarded by the selection boards were also approved. The 43rd meeting of LCWU syndicate was held under ...
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GLOBAL: How to create a world-class university
University World News
For example, the authors show that in late 2007, Saudi Arabia announced plans for a new US$10 billion graduate research university; Pakistan plans to spend $750 million for each of its new universities of engineering, science, and technology during the ...
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University World News
Behind a visionary: The science of Steve Jobs
msnbc.com
People who sign up for her research group's studies on psilocybin, the hallucinogen in mushrooms, tend to be more open than the general population already. Young Jobs was likely the same way. "I think he's a classic example of someone who was very high ...
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Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day
Scientific American (blog)
As a result, she is regarded as the World's First Computer Programmer and an inspiration to women interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, an Mathematics (STEM). Ada Lovelace Day is a worldwide celebration of her contribution to STEM and society ...
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Scientific American (blog)
CSUCI, Oxnard College grants to encourage math, science studies
Ventura County Star
A research class and summer internship also helped Afausto Astillero, 47, decide he wanted tostudy chemical engineering after changing his focus several times in three years at Oxnard College. "It helped me decide on a hard science major instead of ...
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Beat the Traffic to Participate in $1.2 Million 'Eco-Driving' Research Project
PR Web (press release)
Beat the Traffic®, a leading provider of real-time traffic information for broadcast media and mobile devices, is pleased to announce its participation in a $1.2 million research project to study and evaluate technologies that help people drive smarter ...
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NASA finds 'unprecedented' ozone loss in North Pole
GMANews.TV
Other institutions participating in the study included Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and MarineResearch, Potsdam, Germany; NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.; Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De BiltThe Netherlands; ...
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Newly deployed wind-assessment buoy in Muskegon Lake joins advancements for ...
MLive.com
The $3.3 million project called for construction of the buoy, installation of the wind-testing technology, financial support for three years of research and other lake-relatedstudies. Initially, most of the funding was set to come from a $1.4 million ...
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MLive.com
Science & Tech: Researchers study link between diesel fumes and destruction of ...
Scottish Daily Record
Chemical ecologist Dr Robbie Girling said: "The diesel fumes may have a dual affect in that they may be mopping up flower smells in the air, making it harder for the bees to find their food sources." Recent research has revealed more about the effects ...
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$42M in a month: Researchers show OSU the money
KVAL
The funding is vital to pushing the boundaries of research forward, and OSU plays an integral role in that regard. Faculty in some of its most prominent areas – the College of Agricultural Science, for instance – find their work cited by other ...
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Czech Republic Launches $267M Life Sciences and Materials Research Center
GenomeWeb Daily News
The research will involve a wide range of studies of human molecular medicine, plant biology, and animal health and diseases. "Our ambition is to become a European Silicon Valley in the fields ofscience and research and the CEITEC center surely ...
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Movial Rides Embedded Systems Wave, Sees Increase in Demand for its Experience ...
MarketWatch (press release)
This increase in demand is in line with today's findings on embedded software use as announced by ETLA,The Research Insititute of the Finnish Economy as well as other recent studies showing that embedded systems are being used to enable exciting, ...
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Don't forget the combustion engine
Washington Post
So now might be a good time to remember an advanced technology that is often forgotten, the combustion engine, and the promise it still holds for helping the United States meet its short-term objectives regarding oil consumption. Studies have ...
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Santa Monica College Awarded $5.8 Million Federal Grant
Classes2Careers News
by Sandra Kelly on October 7, 2011 Santa Monica College, along with UCLA, has been awarded a $5.8 million federal grant to help the school recruit, educate, and give guidance to underrepresented minority students into the fields of science, technology,...
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Lok Virsa educates youth about cultural heritage
Pakistan Daily Times
... Sialkot, Hussain Public School, Sialkot, National University of Science & Technology (NUST),Lahore, Fauji Foundation School, Rawalpindi, NFC Institute of Engineering and Fertilizer Research,Faisalabad, Gift Education System, Gujranwala, ...
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The business of cooling the planet
Fortune
In 2004, Comer agreed to finance a startup called Global Research Technologies to study air capture. GRT set up shop in Tucson, hired a CEO, and developed a device called an air extractor after testing various materials to see which would most ...
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NCCU gets final approval for new Ph.D. program
Durham Herald Sun
The program, housed in the College of Science and Technology, will draw also on the resources of NCCU's Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute, the BiomanufacturingResearch Institute and Technology Enterprise and the School of ...
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Danforth Center Announces Five New Investigators, New Director of the ...
CisionWire (press release)
Founded in 1998, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center is a not-for-profit research institute with a mission to improve the human condition through plant science. Research at the Danforth Center will feed the hungry and improve human health, ...
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Studies Suggest Brain Stem Cells Could Represent Autologous Transplant Therapy ...
Genetic Engineering News
Reporting in EMBO Molecular Medicine, the team, led by Makoto Asashima, Ph.D., and Tomoko Kuwabara, at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Scienceand Technology (AIST), claim the technique didn't need the introduction of any inductive ...
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Genetic Engineering News
Raising "Good" Cholesterol Levels Reduces Heart Attack & Stroke Risk in ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Our study adds to the growing body of evidence that raising HDL levels may be an important strategy for reducing heart attack risk," said study lead author Gregory Nichols, PhD, senior investigator with the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research ...
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Possible contraception link to HIV spread in Africa
Catholic News Agency
Green, an anthropologist and former director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, said the New Paradigm Fund grew out of the Harvard project. His organization has “strong views” on AIDS ...
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Catholic News Agency
Tulane alum, entrepreneur returns with unconventional style
The Hullabaloo Online
Ivey now works as an adjunct professor at the university, teaching a class with Professor Thomas Langston called "Science, Technology and Public Policy." Though Ivey was interested in computerscience and knew how to program computers, he did not study ...
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TLR7 Implicated as Potential Target for Enhancing Immunity to Retroviruses
Genetic Engineering News
A series of experiments by Edward P. Browne, Ph.D., at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, indicates that the vertebrate immune system detects retroviruses in vivo via TLR7 and that this ...
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Name change reflects focus on future technology
Northside Sun
As a student at Harvard in 1976, I was one of 50 students chosen to be in a special honors program, called Social Studies - “Soc Stud” in the Harvard vernacular. One of the rewards of being in Soc Stud was the privilege of getting to read every single ...
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Scholarships: PTDF Scholarship 2012/2013 For MSc, PhD and Undergraduates
Information Nigeria
Our mission is to train Nigerians to qualify as graduates, professionals, technicians and craftsmen in the field of engineering, geology, science and management in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria or abroad. We have a vision to serve not only as a ...
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