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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Nov 23, 2011


Public Laboratory: Don't Just Report Science, Do It!
PBS MediaShift
At RISD, Sara teaches social theory and anthropology of science andtechnology to artists and designers in order to develop new "in practice" methods for Social Studies of Science. MediaShift's science journalism coverage is sponsored by the Columbia ...
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Qatar forum rewards outstanding research projects
gulfnews.com
"We were particularly impressed with the student research presented this year, and we want the students to know that we are personally recognizing each and every one of them for their advancements in science and technology," Haoudi said. ...
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Unfair Education for American Undergraduate Students
Huffington Post (blog)
New York City Development Corporation recently launched an initiative to start a new Applied Science and Engineering Campus in New York City focusing on graduate levelstudies, research, and entrepreneurship. The City will provide land, seed investment ...
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Coral research aided by human technology
Ninemsn
Researcher Joseph Pollock has applied human diagnostic technology to successfully identify infections in coral. The PhD student at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies said the technology could also be applied to gauge the general health ...
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Does Shopping Stress You Out Too Much?
Wall Street Journal
The technology used in the Shopper Sciences Black Friday Study grew out of an MIT Media Lab project to help understand the emotional responses of children with autism. In the last couple of years, the price for such biometric research technologies ...
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Allen Lin '11, MEng '11 named Marshall Scholar
MIT News
Up to 40 American students are selected each year for graduate study at British institutions. Lin will pursue a master's in technology policy at the University of Cambridge, followed by a master's in science and technology studies at the University of ...
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Genetic study confirms: First dogs came from East Asia
Science Codex
In separate research published recently in Ecology and Evolution, Savolainen, PhD student Arman Ardalan and Iranian and Turkish scientists conducted a comprehensivestudy of mitochondrial DNA , with a particular focus on the Middle East. ...
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Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in SA increases access to ...
ITWeb (blog)
* Researchers leverage expertise and technology from Dell/Cambridge University HPC Solution Centre to help solve some of the world's most challenging issues. * Council forScientific and Industrial Research in South Africa, Cambridge University, ...
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Smog-Killing Coating Wins Popular Science 2011 “Best of What's New” In Green Tech
Small Business Trends
These findings by Louisiana State University researchers will be released at the Transportation Research Board's annual meeting in January 2012 in Washington, DC. Internationally, PURETI presented its technology at Photocatalysis: Choose to Improve...
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Naomi Lede: TSU: Preparing Science and Technology Students to Compete in a ...
Huntsville Item
The STEM thrust began with a broad-based strategic plan for motivating students at the graduate and undergraduate levels to pursue studies in the STEM fields, including transportation training and research, technology, and engineering. ...
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Salmon Genome in Final Phases of Completion
MarketWatch (press release)
Genome British Columbia is a catalyst for the life sciences cluster on Canada's West Coast, and manages a cumulative portfolio of over $550M in research projects andtechnology platforms. Working with governments, academia and industry across sectors ...
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NASA's Mars Rover Well-Equipped for Studies
Clarksville Online
Twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity picked up the studies when they landed at two different places on Mars and began independent surveys. Both rovers were quite a bit larger than Sojourner and carried 11 pounds of scientific equipment. ...
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Molecules to Medicine: Pharma Trumps HIPAA?
Scientific American (blog)
Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) is part of The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, also known as the “stimulus package”), that provided $10 billion for “scientific research and facilities” ...
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Scientific American (blog)
Nanotechnology risks get minimal press coverage
Chemistry World
Three main narratives prevailed - runaway technology, science-based studies and regulation - and journalists most often covered health risks, followed by environmental and societal risk issues. Regulation coverage was less frequent but increased over ...
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Beating “Heart-on-a-Chip” May Revolutionize In Vitro Cardiac Studies
Medgadget.com
Despite this, a remaining challenge for cardiac research is the difficulty in measuring both the electrophysiological and contractile properties of heart tissue in vitro. Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science have ...
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Three Princeton seniors, two alumni awarded Marshall Scholarships
Princeton University
As a Marshall Scholar, Chang plans to build on the experiences of conducting scientific research while at Princeton. "I would like to spend my career working toward solutions to the global energy crisis," Chang wrote in her application. ...
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Week of Nov. 21, 2011: Pfizer, MIT Break Ground on New Research Units in ...
Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine
The fund will invest in technologies and life-science companies to enhance its platform capabilities. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America has appointed Richard I. Smith as executive vice-president of policy and research. ...
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HIV breakthrough
The Manitoban
Studies into HIV prevention technologies have come up with little success, and almost none of them deal with technologies that can be used and controlled by women. “Women bear the brunt of the HIV epidemic in southern Africa. Tenofovir gel is the first ...
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The Manitoban
Graphene Foam Detects Explosives, Emissions Better Than Today's Gas Sensors
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Results of the study were published today in the journal Nature ScientificReports. See the paper, titled “High Sensitivity Gas Detection Using a Macroscopic Three-Dimensional Graphene Foam Network,” at: http://www.nature.com/srep/2011/111123/ ...
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Researchers predict sprites on Venus, Saturn and Jupiter
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
The researchers presented their findings at the European PlanetaryScience Congress in Nantes in October. Researchers at CWI now succeeded in simulating parts of sprites on Venus for the first time. Results of this ongoing research are important for ...
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Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
Novel methods for assembling quantum dots
Nanowerk LLC
Co-authors include UD doctoral students Shilpa Sanwlani and Weiwen Liu and researchers from Kwangoon University of South Korea, the University of Arkansas and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Doty's work with quantum dot ...
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Nanowerk LLC
Innovation not just for rich countries -- report
BusinessWorld Online Edition
In high-income countries, studies have estimated that innovation accounts for as much as 80% of economy-wide growth in productivity,” WIPO said. Material technology for consumer products and manufacturing no longer dominate the innovation paradigm. ...
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Shaping the future of metal processing
PhysOrg.com (press release)
His six-month stay is being supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft-DFG), Germany's equivalent of the US National ScienceFoundation. In Dortmund, Misiolek is working with graduate students and advising Ph.D....
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Stakes High for Africa at Climate Change Summit
Voice of America
'Little Ice Age' ends Mayewski is a renowned explorer who's a veteran of 50 scientific research expeditions to the Arctic, Antarctica, the Tibetan Plateau and glacial regions in South America. He's witnessed the effects of climate change first hand and ...
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SU professor to present to NASA officials
The Greater Binghamton Business Journal
WiGIT, a collaboration of several universities, is funded by the National ScienceFoundation's Partnerships for Innovation program. The presentation to NASA is part of the Technology Showcase at the agency's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. ...
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FOOD PROCESSING BEGINS
Star of Mysore
He recalled various activities of the DFRL including research and development in foodscience & technology, studies in the development of convenience foods, preservation of foods, food safety, food packaging, studies in the spoilage of foods, ...
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Cambridge Enterprise company in collaboration with the National Cancer...
Science Business
Cambridge Enterprise portfolio company Horizon Discovery (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalised medicines, has entered into a three year TechnologyAccess Agreement with the National Cancer Institute ...
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Science Business
Should history be made compulsory at school?
WalesOnline
In England – while the percentage of pupils studying the subject is the same – it is the eighth most popular subject, behind design and technology, religious studies, English language, English literature, maths, science and additional science. ...
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PAREXEL Strengthens Late Phase and Observational Research Capabilities With ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Her research has focused on the design and analysis of observational studies, including in the infectious disease, oncology, metabolism/endocrine and musculoskeletal therapeutic areas. PAREXEL's PACE™ team provides customized strategic andscientific ...
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COMMENT: Islamic fundamentalism, post-modernism and science —Awais Masood
Pakistan Daily Times
On the other hand, these movements continue to appropriate modern symbols andtechnology to further their cause. Historically, fundamentalist movements vehemently opposed natural sciences and technology but that does not hold true anymore. ...
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Nanotechnology's future bright, but knowledge, research still lacking
ModernMedicine
"We wanted to know what their colleagues and patients knew about it; whether it should be funded for research; and what areas of nanotechnology would be beneficial for futurestudies." Results also showed that the majority of respondents (75 percent) ...
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President Peres warmly received in Vietnam
Jerusalem Post
"This is an opportunity to open a new chapter in our relationship," said Sang, who made it clear that Vietnam is eager to deepen cooperation with Israel in the fields oftechnology, science, energy, security, communications, infrastructure, ...
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Nanowrinkles, nanofolds yield strange hidden channels
EurekAlert (press release)
The National Science Foundation, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy of Korea, and the Ministry of Education, Science, andTechnology of Korea supported the research.
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Artificial molecules: Researchers explore novel methods for assembly of ...
PhysOrg.com
Co-authors include UD doctoral students Shilpa Sanwlani and Weiwen Liu and researchers from Kwangoon University of South Korea, the University of Arkansas and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. ...
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PhysOrg.com
UD students present at annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students
University of Delaware
The other UD representatives included Stacey Chambers, senior human development and family studies major and McNair Scholar; Michelle Francis, junior medicaltechnology major and NUCLEUS/INBRE student; Alexia Hay, junior exercise sciencemajor and ...
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Foiling the Plan of a Cyberbully
National Science Foundation (press release)
Campbell, an associate professor in the School of Learning and Professional Studies, Faculty of Education at Queensland University ofTechnology in Brisbane, Australia, says "school policies may be practically and legally ineffectual if the language ...
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National Science Foundation (press release)
In Focus: University expands diversity efforts schoolwide
Daily Northwestern
For ten years, the group looked specifically to hire more women in science,technology, engineering and mathematics, and more African-Americans and Hispanic Americans across the board. The University granted the committee $1 million to fund its...
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Education efforts
Manila Bulletin
... the said research won the Sibol Award or the Outstanding Student CreativeResearch for college category in the first Regional Invention Contest and Exhibits (RICE) spearheaded by the Regiuon-11 office of the Department of Science and Technology ...
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Cricketer Ian Bell collects honorary Coventry University degree
Coventry Observer
Classic FM founder Ralph Bernard CBE - Honorary Doctor of Technology (DTech) in recognition of his contribution to the radio industry and to broadcasting. Multi award-winning academic Professor Christopher Price – Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc) in ...
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China Science Report No. 697
... strategizing, pragmatic, scholarly excellence of extraordinary ability; studyresearch, Qian thought and education, Mr. educational practice, continue to create the scientificconcept of development education, science and technology more .... Alumni Association, chairman of the Guangdong Yue Ouyang Agriculture (776, Southern News Network president) to associations and wealth creation, for example, to encourage young alumni to fully rely on alumni networks, help their own ...
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New study finds that even the cleanest wastewater contributes to ...
Get science news via ... The study also suggests that standard wastewater treatmenttechnologies ... levels of bacteria are normally much higher than in the water studied in this research. ... The study is published in the most recent issue of EnvironmentalScience and Technology, a journal of the American Chemical Society. ...
esciencenews.com/.../new.study.finds.even.cleanest.wastewater...
Students advance in science competition and publish theoretical ...
PHYSorg Science News Wire : Students advance in science competition and publish theoretical physics study -- a press release is provided ... The nation's leading originalresearch competition in math, science and technology for high school ...
www.physorg.com/.../students-advance-in-science-competition...
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Computer Science, University of Victoria ... Why Study Computer Science at Uvic ? ...and identify new and emerging technology issues for academic research ...
www.csc.uvic.ca/News/100
Use of Technology-Rich Learning Environment Reveals Improved ...
Applied Science & Technology ... Health Sciences & Technology ... They were part of a study to determine how use of educational technology might enhance learning, ...Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology have found that use of a ... In thenew technology-rich environment, students viewed multimedia lectures ...
www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=48699
Scientists turn hydrogen into metal | ZME Science
For years and years scientists have tried to make hydrogen exhibit metal ... Walking through doorways causes forgetting, study suggests ... which helped the researchersobserved that the hydrogen sample began to cloud ... Latest Tech News ...
www.zmescience.com/.../scientists-turn-hydrogen-into-metal/
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