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Aug 1, 2011

SPORTS, Athletics News, Aug 01, 2011


High school athletes reap rewards of year-round participation in sports
Orlando Sentinel
The Amateur Athletic Union, with its national headquarters at ESPN's Wide World of Sports at Disneyi, offers national championships in baseball, basketball, lacrosse, softball, volleyball, soccer, wrestling, and track and field. ...
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Activity makes for busy summer at WSU
Dayton Daily News
Is WSU, they wondered, adding a football team? The field, which sits next to the Alumni Fieldsoccer stadium, is for multipurpose student use, and that includes the club football team. It is part of the Rinzler Student Sports Complex, which includes, ...
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OSU's athletic village 'starting to emerge '
Tahlequah Daily Press
Holder said he hopes the other athletic village projects will also be built, but they must be funded first. "We've never wavered in our commitment," he said, "and that's to build a championship venue in every sport."
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Area Prep Fall Sports Tryouts
TheHerald
1, 6 pm; Girls Golf: TBA; Cheerleading: Aug 1, 1:30 pm Football: started July 30; Boys Soccer: Aug. 1, 7 am; Volleyball: Aug. 1, 8 am; Cross Country: Aug. 8, after athletic contract signing; Girls Tennis: Aug. 1, 7:30 pm; Girls Golf: Aug. ...
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Traumatic Brain Injury A Higher Risk For Girls Than Boys
ThirdAge
A study in the Winter 2007-2008 edition of Journal of Athletic Training reports a number of surprising findings about girls and concussions: - Girls playing high schoolsoccer suffer concussions 68 percent more often than boys playing the same sport; ...
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ThirdAge
Utah Jazz nearly topped the world in average payroll
Salt Lake Tribune
Nick Harris' info shows that all 30 NBA organizations ranked in the top 87 in the world, while the league placed seven teams in the top 20 — more than any sport besides soccer (nine). In addition, the NBA paid about 420 players an average of $4.6 ...
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How athletic prowess is measured
Toronto Star
From a sprinter responding to the starter's pistol to a soccer player's movement once a ball is kicked toward them, reaction is key to most athletic performances. It's just not something that's been well-tested. But advances in technology that allow ...
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Delhiites show India's love for football
Express Buzz
By the time Delhi hosts another World Cup soccer fixture, it will be at least another four years. Another Commonwealth Games or Asian Games in Delhi may not take place for more than two decades at least, if at all. An invitational football or hockey ...
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Commentary: Even with ironing, wrinkles remain for Tar Heels
Burlington Times News
Shortly before the start of Thursday's news conference to discuss North Carolina's football program at the Friday Center, a couple of workers pulled out a steamer to iron the banner that would be the backdrop for chancellor Holden Thorp and athletics ...
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KU athletic director reviewing department's 6-figure salaries
Lawrence Journal World
One of the department's major donors, Dana Anderson, whose family's name is on the Anderson Family Football Complex next to Memorial Stadium, said many supporters want to see KU become competitive in football and other sports. ...
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A soccer tug-o-war: Breakers Academy club team rule could keep top...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Soccer has never been a strong suit for Americans. The United States' recent run in the Women's World Cup aside, it seems the sport of futbol most often takes a backseat to the sport of football or basketball or baseball - any sport in which the US can ...
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K-State Sports Article
Manhattan Mercury
A lot of sports at universities don't make a lot of money, they actually lose money so they take thatfootball money and they help with the rest of the programs to earn it back. You pay footballplayers, you gotta pay soccer players, softball players ...
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Women's club soccer team tries new ways to make the sport take root
Mainichi Daily News
(Mainichi) Of the 21 players selected to be on the Japanese women's national soccerteam for the FIFA Women's World Cup tournament in Germany earlier this month, seven of the players belong to the club soccer team International Athletic Club (INAC)...
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Mainichi Daily News
US Soccer: Top 6 Misconceptions About the Game by Soccer Haters
Bleacher Report
The MLS attendance is still contending for the #3 spot in American attendance rankings (Behind Football, Baseball) despite having two teams (San Jose and Kansas City) without 11k+ stadiums in the figures above. Not too shabby from the sport that ...
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Bleacher Report
Pioneer High girls ice hockey team deserves recognition as a school sport
AnnArbor.com
With Pioneer's $475000 anticipated in athletic department cuts, they are certainly not asking to become a costly varsity sport for the coming school year; just being recognized as a club sport, defined as "an athletic program sanctioned, ...
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More high school athletes spending summer on the practice field
Press of Atlantic City
Wildwood High School junior Kelsi Toland, of Wildwood, kicks a soccer ball to freshman Claudia Melchiorre of Wildwood on July 13. The Wildwood girls soccer team holds optional practices twice a week in the summer. The Holy Spirit High School football ...
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Just a Thought: My son, the 6-year-old blue chip prospect
Monterey County Herald
We have kept our distance from the personal trainers, and he isn't prepared to focus on just onesport. And we are not preaching scholarships. He's kind of feeling his way around the sports galaxy. Clearly, he's got some of dad's athletic track and ...
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Sports Shorts: York Little League falls in state finals
Seacoastonline.com
Traip Academy is seeking a JV boys soccer coach. If interested please contact athletic director Mike Roberge at (207) 439-1121 or e-mail him at mroberge@kitteryschools.com Seacoast United will host an adult 7-on-7 soccer tournament Aug. ...
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It's a new ballgame: Sports entice teens to Israel for Maccabi Games
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
But when the association decided to move its annual summertime American Jewish athleticcompetition to Israel for the first time, interest in going to Israel for the games soared -- after the JCC Association secured assurances from Birthright that ...
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Local bands perform to raise money for athletic fields
WREX-TV
Local bands rock out to promote the arts and benefit area sports teams. Families came out to Settlers Park for Rockin 4 Rockton, a fundraiser to develop baseball diamonds, football and soccerfields and a skate park in Rockton. ...
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Lacrosse players invade Greenport for annual tournament
The Suffolk Times
... cheering from coaches, family and friends as teams from throughout Suffolk and Nassau counties took over the fields on the eastern side of the street that are usually dominated by football, soccer, baseball and other sports during the school year. ...
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Seven sent
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
It was Avvisato's seventh gold medal of his scholastic athletic career. He also won three basketball gold medals The most decorated female athletes in the 101 years of Old Forge High School are, from left to right, Dana Bilski, Sarah Fish, ...
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Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
The Finalists
Napa Valley Register
Douma, who as a sophomore and junior played football and soccer and wrestled, has been accepted to UC Santa Cruz, where he said he will not play an organized sport but rather train to run a marathon. Kersting was a three-sport athlete for the fourth ...
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LOCAL brieFS
Port Huron Times Herald
St. Clair High School is hiring a varsity football offensive coordinator. Interested individuals can contact athletic director Jeff Cook at (810) 676-1716. Yale High School is looking to fill coaching positions for varsity soccer, varsity baseball ...
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Look for last year's young prep teams to rebound well
Napa Valley Register
Trinity Prep girls soccer should also be a favorite in the Sacramento Metropolitan Athletic League next spring. The Crusaders finished second in the SMAL with a 6-1-1 mark this year and graduated only four of their 22 players. ...
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Nadeshiko Japan show that a relaxed approach gets the best results
The Japan Times
In comments made during an interview on TV Asahi's "Front Line" last week, veteransports journalist Seijin Ninomiya said the Japan Football Association and, in turn, the media never actively promoted women's soccer. Did the media ignore women's soccer...
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The Japan Times
Sports briefs: Fresno Pacific unveils its Hall of Fame class of 2011
Fresno Bee
Fresno Pacific athletic director Dennis Janzen, the driving force behind the school's move from NAIA to NCAA Division II, will be one of five inductees into the Sunbirds' Athletic Hall of Fame. The banquet is Sept. 19 at the Special Events Center. ...
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Bishop England again tops overall in Class AA
Charleston Post Courier
Twenty-two sports are included in the accumulation of points to determine the most successfulathletic program for the year in each classification in the membership of the SC High School League. Bishop England won state championships in baseball, ...
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JANICE ANN'S JOURNAL: Panther moms unveil new website
Lufkin Daily News
The Lufkin Panthers Football Mother's Club has a new website at lpfmc.org. There you will find a variety of information about the activities of the Mother's Club. The first Mother's Club meeting will be at 6:30 pm Aug. 22 by the athletic office. ...
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Teams cope with loss of playing fields at GHS due to contamination
Greenwich Time
Contaminated soil has been found near the athletic fields at Greenwich High School, prompting the district on Friday to close all playing fields at the school. Photo: Bob Luckey / Greenwich Time | Buy This Photo But the head football coach at Greenwich ...
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Wilson's Mills cuts sports
TheHerald
Eventually, the association aims to add soccer and football. For now, games and practices will be at Wilson's Mills Elementary School, though the group hopes to buy land and build its own fields in future years. Getting kids back on fields without town ...
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Bulletin Board
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Lake-Lehman will hold will conduct athletic physicals for junior high boys playing a fall sport at 9 am Tuesday and for junior high girls at 9 am Thursday. Thursday will be the final day for physicals. Those students who missed the senior high ...
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If you want it made right ...
Chapel Hill News
It's thought to be the first line of athletic sport and support wear designed for exclusively for athletic girls ages 8-17. Gucciardi plunged into the business with more extensive experience than a lot of mothers. She'd worked for years overseas, ...
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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology.Aug 01, 2011


5-day INSPIRE camp concludes at KU
Kashmir Dispatch
He hoped that, having gone through such a beneficial exposure, a good number of young scholars would be attracted to pursue higher studies in the ever enlarging areas of science and technology. He wished them a bright future ahead. ...
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John H. Marburger, chief science adviser to George W. Bush, dies at 70
Washington Post
Dr. Marburger led the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and held the job of presidential science adviser for eight years, longer than anyone before him. (Tina Hager/WHITE HOUSE PHOTO OFFICE) - John H. “Jack” Marburger, 70, ...
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Senator says DOST needs to be revamped
Newsbytes Philippines
The chair of the S&T committee in the Senate has urged for the overhaul of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), saying the agency's organizational set-up is no longer working. Senator Edgardo J. Angara made the call in his keynote speech at ...
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Research for fellowship sends teacher to Alaska
Charlotte Observer
He's developing a curriculum to help them see the connection between the course of history andscience and technology. One focus, he said, could be the tension between Western science and traditional knowledge, as plants, berries and leaves are used ...
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NMSU Part of NSF Water infrastructure Engineering Research Center
Water World
The National Science Foundation has selected a multi-university team from Stanford University, New Mexico State University, ado School of Mines and University of California, Berkeley to implement a multi-year Engineering Research Center, ...
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Communicating and moving are now things to sniff at
Jerusalem Post
Four writing systems using inhaling and exhaling were given to four patients at the Ra'anana rehabilitation hospital, and the institute's Yeda Research and Development Ltd. is looking into marketing the technology Sniffing an object by inhaling and ...
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Chronic renal failure in NCP and arsenic: Science versus myth
Sunday Times.lk
This initiated a collaborative research programme with medical personnel involved. We visited the affected villages with the medical team comprising Dr. Tilak Abeyesekera and Dr. Nimmi Athureliye where positive CKDU patients were identified. ...
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Sunday Times.lk
Area students are making the grade
The Mercury
A volunteer for Relay for Life, Schmutz will begin studies in communications and public relations this fall at Bloomsburg University. Brittany Ward, Gilbertsville, is a spring graduate of Boyertown Area High School where she was president of the health ...
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L&T ECC Sharjah selects eight students from BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus
AME Info
The eighth batch of engineers graduating from BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus, the international campus of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, got attractive placements. Last week, L&T ECC, Sharjah, came for campus placements and ...
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Student Spotlights for July 31
The Olympian
And, although I'm not the math or science type, I enjoyed chemistry with Mr. Wayne Beeson because it was incredibly challenging, yet rewarding. Favorite book: One of my favorites is “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” by Tom Stoppard. ...
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Uranium-laced water in Nalgonda
Deccan Chronicle
Three different research teams collected and tested the ground water samples: the Health Physics Unit of Nuclear Fuel Complex in Hyderabad, the Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, ...
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6 Key Traits of Social Changemakers
Forbes (blog)
While completing my undergraduate studies at the University of Western Ontario, I put my web design and development skills to work for the university, becoming a part-time instructional technology consultant and managing the online web presence of ...
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Forbes (blog)
A Size That Fits All for the Science-and-Technology Pipeline
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
We found little in the way of overall change in students' pursuit of science-and-engineering studies or their entry into those careers over the past 30 years. We found that while a steady proportion of college students graduated in science and ...
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Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Harness energy, know-how to create Ky. wealth
Lexington Herald Leader
On the 2010 Milken Institute's State Technology and Science Index, which purportedly measures a state's capacity to harness and nurture its innovation assets, Kentucky ranks 47th. In terms of a more basic measure — business startups —the Kauffman ...
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eWorld Forum 2011 to start tomorrow
MSN India
... the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and InformationTechnology, Department of Telecommunications, National E Governance plan, IGNOU, the Centre for Science Development and Media Studies (CSDMS) and Elets Technomedia. ...
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Darkness and Enlightenment
Herald Scotland
THE National Museum in Edinburgh, home to a dazzling international collection of objects spanning world civilisations, modern science, technology and the natural world, has now completed its most significant and costly redevelopment in more than a ...
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Dead Media Beat: Emanuel Goldberg microfilm rapid selector
Wired (blog)
This method of intersecting {gekreuzten} filters has been frequently used, for example for the determination of the absorption curves of dyes, to measure the characteristic curves of photographic plates, meteorological studies, etc. The new technology ...
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The readers' editor… on bright ideas and bold claims
The Guardian
Readers would expect the technology pages to apply a certain degree of rigour to test the veracity of claims made in the name of medical science, yet while the interview said that "studies suggest that [the tape] does offer protection to injured ...
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Business people - July 31, 2011
Bismarck Tribune
He is earned a BS in interdisciplinary studies, health sciences from the University of North Dakota and will graduate in 2012 with his JD from the University of North Dakota. Rust is an accounts payable specialist intern with the Finance Group and will ...
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Lewis joins DeMoss Capital
Chattanooga Times Free Press
She holds a bachelor of science from Bethel College and a master of science in physician assistantstudies from Bethel College. Prior to coming to Chattanooga, Blasick served as a physician assistant for internal medicine practices in Jackson, ...
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Hi mam,I have done my Bca plz send me admission process to take admission for ...
Education Times
*List of Top Colleges:* Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research Institute of Business Management & Research University of Pune Deptt. of Computer Science Dr. DY Patil Pratishthan's Padmashree Dr. DY Patil Institute of MCA Vishwakarma ...
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TASER's CEO Discusses Q2 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
We understand that it has been a very painful experience that does not change our assessment that we believe in this case emotion overruled the science. I should caution that we shouldn't just assume that because we lost – that we won on the last round ...
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Abu Dhabi's vision of the future is well on the road to reality
The National
"We're trying to encourage our students and faculty to turn their outcomes of studiesinto real businesses. We're trying to get them to commercialise these ideas," Ms Shaban adds. Ms Seedo, who has taken information technology courses and is now...
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The National
No matter what your liking, city offers it all
LubbockOnline.com
The Science Spectrum and Omni Theater combines virtually all types of entertainment, leisure time pursuits, animal exhibits, and science studies in a variety of fields. James Nesmith, administrative manager, said the Science Spectrum's museum is set up ...
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Nashville People in Business
The Tennessean
The executive committee is made up of President-elect Jeri Hasselbring of the Adventure ScienceCenter, Treasurer Janice Overton of Apple and Co. Inc., Vice President of Development Donna Yurdin of Credo Management Consulting, Vice President of ...
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Our Children Our City: Area schools to see a year of change
Indianapolis Star
That's part of a new policy at Arlington that separates boys from girls for math, language arts,science and social studies classes. The idea is that there'll be less distraction in the classroom, and therefore better performance. ...
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Former student returns as departmental leader
New Bern Sun Journal
She completed an associate in applied science degree in 1998, and then went on to East Carolina University to study anthropology. Bellacero completed her doctorate from Florida State University in 2010 in that subject. Bellacero's decision to come back ...
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Northern Virginia leads U.Va., W&M admissions
Richmond Times Dispatch
The two schools with the highest number of acceptances are the state's premier governor's schools — Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria and Maggie Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies in ...
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Dissecting TCD's sacred spaces
Irish Medical Times
But novices benefit from a familiar and tangible starting point that gives a necessary context for what is to follow, so it makes sense that our medical students should begin their health science studies with anatomy. How it is taught is what is ...
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Irish Medical Times
US Senators push for skilled immigration reform
Workpermit.com
The Senate Judiciary Committee's immigration subcommittee is attempting to push through legislation that would expand the H-1B visa system and grant green card work permits to foreign students who graduate from US universities with a science, maths, ...
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School districts open new buildings
Monroe News Star
Ouachita Parish is looking forward to a year where it will open a new elementary school, reconfigure student demographics in two others and incorporate more technology districtwide. Webber said the district is ready to open the new Sterlington ...
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Legislator's Log – July 31, 2011
iSurf Muhlenberg.com
The General Assembly's emphasis on science, technology, engineering and math learning (or STEM subjects) has been well documented in recent sessions with the passage of legislation like 2009 Senate Bill 1, which creates more emphasis on students' core ...
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In this brave new world, girls disappear
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco internist Sunita Puri warns, "The technology moves faster than the discussion, and we have no data on the short- and long-term consequences of what we're doing." Puri is the lead author of a 2011 article in Social Science & Medicine that ...
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KY educators aide struggling Haiti with water
Westport-News
Mangum and the rest of the seventh-grade teacher team have used the water project to inspire their students in community fundraising efforts and in classroom science lessons, social studiesprojects, technology lessons and writing assignments. ...
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Recently Asked Questions
Education Times
If you like working in technology, then Masters is the best route to gain more in depth knowledge and expertise in your chosen area . However, if you are not satisfied with your current technicalstudies , then you could try to move to the business ...
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'Big Tent Digital Humanities,' a View From the Edge, Part 1
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
In his extemporaneous and highly motivational Zampolli Prize lecture, "Re-Imagining Digital Scholarship in the Digital Age," Chad Gaffield, president of the Social Scienceand Humanities Research Council of Canada, described the ways that DH is ...
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Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
New international major offered
Leader-Telegram
Students will take elective credits from upper-level international courses in a variety of disciplines as well, including anthropology, art history, communication and journalism, economics, geography, history, political science and religious studies. ...
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