BIOLOGY News, May 22, 2012

BIOLOGY

Biologist passes along his fascination with metamorphosis North Country Public Radio His St. Lawrence University biology lab teems with frogs and fish in various stages of development. His enthusiasm for his subject sends him off campus to local grade schools. And at SLU, it attracts even English majors like our intern, Roger Miller. See all stories on this topic »

IGERT Online Video Competition Offers Public View Of Scientific Research And ... Sacramento Bee Through this competition, up-and-coming scientists use videos and posters to communicate their innovative, interdisciplinary research, which bridges traditional disciplines such as physics, engineering, nanotechnology, computer science, biology, ... See all stories on this topic »

With distinction Staunton News Leader Lettering Diplomas "With Distinction": Associate professor of biology and self-taught calligrapher Lundy Pentz has carefully penned honors onto college diplomas for Mary Baldwin College for the past 25 years. (Video by Mike Tripp/The News Leader) ... See all stories on this topic »

Video: Tackling environmental education creatively Great Lakes Echo Kristen Nelson, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota's Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, specializes in environmental change and its relationship with human systems. Sparking a child's early interest in ... See all stories on this topic »

Cure for common flu may come from video game KVUE It's even preferred that players don't know a lot about molecular biology. "What's more amazing is that people who don't know computer science or chemistry are actually the best at this," said UW's Zoran Popovic, Ph.D. Still, trial and error is par for ... See all stories on this topic »

Community Recap: Can't We All Just Get Along? Vulture Jeff aced his Biology final and was able to remain at Greendale for a little while longer. Pierce and Shirley finally opened their restaurant. Chang spied on City College, peeking at its plans to take out Greendale. Star-Burns read a book called The ... See all stories on this topic »

CAMPUS BRIEFS Durham Herald Sun DURHAM — Xinnian Dong of Duke University, a biologist who studies the immune system of plants, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United ... See all stories on this topic »

Community 3.20, 3.21 & 3.22 Recaps: Digital Estate Planning/The First Chang ... TVOvermind I mean, where else can you have an hour and a half of a video game parody, an Ocean's 11 homage, and a sandwich shop trial? Our first hour, “Digital Estate Planning,” introduced guest star Giancarlo Esposito as Pierce's half brother, Gilbert and threw ... See all stories on this topic » TVOvermind

NFA World: Students finish 6th in regional Ocean Sciences Bowl Norwich Bulletin NFA students have opportunities to pursue ocean-related study in marine biology, coastal studies and introduction to oceanography classes. Next year's classes will be complemented by participation in Project Oceanology, giving students full access to a ... See all stories on this topic »

Community Review: Back-to-Back Madness To End The Season Poptimal.com In his unique and ridiculous insanity, Pierce's dad has put together a video game experience that seven people can play and vie for what should rightfully be Pierce's inheritance. The group, for the most part want nothing to do with such an insane idea ... See all stories on this topic » Poptimal.com

Seaweed Scavenger Hunt comes to Montauk Newsday ... an expert in seaweed biology, leads a free Seaweed Scavenger Hunt starting at the Montauk Lighthouse parking lot at 11:30 am The hunt, sponsored by the Third House Nature Center and Concerned Citizens of Montauk, will focus on local seaweeds,. See all stories on this topic » Newsday

Whistleblower suspended for revealing exam mark mistakes Channel 4 News To view this video you will need to have Adobe Flash installed. A senior exam board supervisor has been suspended for exposing errors in the way last year's GCSE and A-level exams were marked. As part of an exclusive Channel 4 News investigation into ... See all stories on this topic » Channel 4 News

Museum's sex-ed exhibit offending some parents CTV.ca "There's an animated video of a boy and girl masturbating, questions that answered by a sexologist where he says anal sex can be fun," said parent Patrick Meagher, who saw a preview of the exhibit. The museum said it's gone a step beyond the ... See all stories on this topic »

Summerlin-area neighborhood news Las Vegas Review-Journal Access to video-assisted viewing of the night sky is available for those in wheelchairs. For more information, call Rob Lambert at 461-1390 or visit lvastronomy.com. The city of Las Vegas' Durango Hills Community Center YMCA, 3521 N. Durango Drive, ... See all stories on this topic »

Contact 13 Investigates You Paid For It: School textbooks bought and never used KTNV Las Vegas "We got a huge order of biology books while I was there -- and I saw the purchase order was worth thousands and thousands of dollars," Rodriguez said. In addition to what we found in about a dozen rolling cabinets, the room holds more than a hundred ... See all stories on this topic »

The Multi - Factorial Equations of ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology ... PR Newswire UK (press release) Peter Zsolt Nagy - from the Reproductive Biology Associates Assisted Fertilization Technology, Atlanta Usa - and Filippo Maria Ubaldi from the Centre for Reproductive Medicine GENERA, Rome, Italy are the scientific organizers of the event. See all stories on this topic »

Thomas Friedman: Come to the higher-education revolution Kansas.com So, for instance, a biomedical company looking for someone with programming and computationalbiology skills might ask us for students who did well in our courses on cloud computing and genomics. It is great for employers and employees – and it enables ... See all stories on this topic »

Provocative sex exhibit opens in Ottawa CTV.ca After receiving a number of complaints, museum officials were forced to pull an animated video on masturbation. They also raised the entry age requirement from 12 to 16. "We decided to remove the short clip that showed male and female masturbation. See all stories on this topic » CTV.ca

Does the mainstream media slant the truth about the HPV vaccines? Part 1 RenewAmerica "I cover science and medicine, and believe this is biology's century."(1) The first thing I noticed was what he said about what he does. He believes that "this is biology's century." That means better living through chemistry to me. See all stories on this topic »

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