Business Wire (press release)
"We are proud to honor these accomplished students by awarding them with scholarships to not only help them pursue their studies in the critical fields of science, technology, engineering or mathematics, but to follow their dreams. ...
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ASU's Archambault receives accolades for K-12 online education research
Arizona State University
The research conducted by Archambault and her team was the first of its kind to evaluate the specific practice of teaching online science classes with a laboratory component. Such research is the focus of Archambault's studies, centered around online ...
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Structural biologist wins $150K for 'membrane mimic' technology
PhysOrg.com (press release)
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researcher Dr Matthew Call has been awarded a $150000 Victorian Endowment for Science, Knowledge and Innovation (VESKI) Fellowship by the Victorian Government to continue his novel studies of immune cell receptors and ...
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Social Scientists Study Impact of Human Adult Stem Cell Research
National Science Foundation (press release)
New research says studying both adult and embryonic stem cells can benefit medicalscience, but banning the study of either type could harm studies of the other. Researchers from the University of Michigan, Stanford University and the Mayo Clinic in...
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National Science Foundation (press release)
IDBS Leads Stratified Medicine Consortium to Build UK-Wide Cancer Researchand ...
Marketwire (press release)
The innovative Acropolis (Advanced Collaborative Research for Oncology Platform for Improved Outcomes, Learnings, Insight and Science) platform will provide the essential cancer informatics infrastructure to support secure stratified medicine research ...
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Israeli, Arab researchers unite over shared ecosystem
Jerusalem Post
By SHARON UDASIN Graduate students from Israel, Lebanon and the PA unite for marine researchproject off the coast of Italy. Twelve marine and environmental studies graduate students from the Middle East and Europe are taking part in a two-week ...
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Science camp 'Inspire' begins at BHU
Times of India
Presiding over the inaugural session, BHU vice-chancellor DP Singh stressed the need to provide a platform to the bright students so that they could be encouraged to pursue higher studies andresearch in science. Efforts must be made to generate ...
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Learning Grant by SRP Awarded to JO Combs
SanTanValleyToday.com
In science, the iPads will be used for research projects. Cesar Chavez High School (Laveen) – $5000. The robotics team students will participate in the FIRST Tech Challenge (beginning level robotics engineering), FIRST Lego League (intermediate level ...
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Government of Canada Supports World-Leading Health Research To Benefit Canadians
Marketwire (press release)
Speaking at the University of Toronto, the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Scienceand Technology) announced that 17 universities will receive funding for state-of-the-art research that will lead to direct health benefits for Canadians, ...
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Drive to revive Arab Golden Age of Science
Gulf Times
... (director general, Research Council of Norway), Professor Low Teck Seng (managing director of A*STAR, Singapore) and Lucia Carvalho Pinto de Melo (president, Centre for Strategic Studies and Management in Science, Technology and Innovation, ...
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Enabling microRNA Discoveries - 250th Peer-Reviewed Publication Made Possible...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
LC Sciences, a life sciences company leading the development of innovative microRNA (miRNA) analysis and discovery technologies, announced today the publication of over 250 peer-reviewedstudies using the company's microarray service for analyzing ...
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David H. Murdock Research Institute Assumes Control of the Immune Tolerance ...
Gamut News
“Advancing immune science will lead to new approaches to investigate the biological mechanisms of disease and functional properties of foods to better determine and predict the efficacy and safety of emerging products. Such efforts have the potential ...
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Firm develops magnetic-pulse treatment for major depression
Philadelphia Inquirer
Still, the technology has enabled Neuronetics to get funding from Quaker BioVentures, a Philadelphia-based venture capital firm that invests in life-science companies. Quaker's current $700 million in committed capital is funding innovative treatments ...
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Blame China, not Obama, for high gas prices
Salon
The proper response to an attack on funding for research and development into renewable energy technology is to talk about the science. NREL doesn't make this easy. After digging around on the the lab's website, I followed a link to "Success Stories" ...
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Salon
Science doesn't back 'campaign of fear' on wind power, Sierra Club argues
Ottawa Citizen
While the report does not address specific wind installations or individual complaints, it says studiesand reviews have concluded that noise from turbines “is minimal and has no significant effect on the health of nearby residents.” “The science does ...
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Research Matters: 'Graduates with quantitive methods skills are increasingly ...
The Independent
Quantitive methods make possible large-scale social studies such as Understanding Society, which published its first findings earlier this year. Funded by the ESRC, and run by the Institute for Social and Economic Research( ISER), ...
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Using Geospatial Technologies to Explore Geography in the Thousand Islands
DirectionsMag.com (press release)
I would really like to continue this collaboration and hopefully see SUNY Geneseo students coming to RIT for graduate studies,” says Tomaszewski. “I normally look at geography from the technologyside because I am a computer science major,” says ...
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BOEMRE, NOAA and USGS Launch Maritime Science Expedition Off Mid-Atlantic...
NOAA
Commemorating 10 years of ocean exploration, NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration and Researchuses state-of-the-art technologies to explore the Earth's largely unknown ocean in all its dimensions for the purpose of discovery and the advancement of ...
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Energetic Design
R & D Magazine
The Industry Focus section of this issue continues the energy theme featuring reports on developments in energy research, descriptions of tools and technologies used in energy studies, and a case study on testing materials for batteries. ...
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24 Early Entrance Grads in CSULA's Class of 2011
TMC Net
Jillian Kwong (La Habra Heights), 21, political science major. Kwong, who will be graduating cum laude, is considering applying to a master's program in communication studies or to pursue a career as a human rights lawyer. Through the CSU International ...
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Babcock varsity turns out new graduates
Vanguard
A total of 149 Graduands were produced from the School of Education and Humanities; 159 in Law and Security Studies; 361 in Management and Social Sciences while 353 were from Science andTechnology. Forty-seven Graduands scored First Class; ...
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Lorenzo's Oil and the Rehabilitation of Gene Therapy
Psychiatric Times
We can be all these things, of course—research is a very human enterprise—but coming on the same day as the report of Jesse's death, it didn't feel like a very good day to be a scientist. Happily, gene therapy technologies have undergone a powerful ...
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Netanyahu: Israel should be a global cyber-power
Jerusalem Post
It has been organized by Tel Aviv University's Yuval Neeman Workshop for Science, Technologyand Security and the Institute for National Security Studies. "Although the field is not precise... we must enter it... and become a world cyber-power. ...
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Scientist of the Week: Nick Scroxton
Laboratory Equipment
Q: What new technologies did you use in your lab during your research? A: The analysis of single foraminifera, small surface dwelling organisms with calcium carbonate shells, is a novel technique only used in a couple of studies before. ...
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He's developing stealth tech for the Navy
EastBayRI.com
In engineering circles, Mr. Donovan has developed a technology so cutting-edge he received the 2010 Arthur S. Flemming Award for Applied Science, Engineering and Mathematics, presented for excellence in the federal service by the Arthur S. Flemming ...
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10 Questions for a Computational Scientist: Kerstin Kleese-Van Dam
Energy.gov (blog)
She recently spent some time to give us the download on her many initiatives and why her interests in Information Technology (IT) eventually led her to a scientific career. Question: What sparked your interest to pursue a career in science? ...
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Eleven Yale Faculty Members Honored by Connecticut Science Academy
ECNmag.com
The academy identifies and studies issues and technologies that concern the people of Connecticut. The institution is comprised of distinguished scientists and engineers from Connecticut, and is limited to 400 members. Charles H. Ahn, PhD, ...
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Community Pride - June 8
Your Houston News
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP's Kingwood Research and Technology Center has awarded its 2011-2012 Chevron Phillips Chemical Dependents' Scholarships to Samuel Gee, a recent graduate of Kingwood High School. The annual scholarship program offers ...
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Columbia University Researchers Interrogate Primary Cells using the IonFlux System
Business Wire (press release)
“This is an essential step forward for the validation of IonFlux technology,” said Steven Smith, Ph.D., Technical Director at Fluxion Biosciences. “Throughout life science and drug discovery research, there is a concerted move toward more ...
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Spaulding High School announces Top 10 list
Foster's Daily Democrat
He has also volunteered his time helping to instruct younger students in both lacrosse and hockey and participated annually in the Tour de Cure bike ride that raises money for Diabetes research. Brandon attended the St. Paul's Advanced Studies Program ...
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Holloway and Jones Named 2011 Spring ISD Teachers of the Year
The Paper Magazine
Lorie Jones has been teaching tenth through twelfth grade health science technologyat Carl Wunsche Sr. High School since 2007. Her subjects include health science, health science technology, dentistry, nutrition and wellness, medical law and ethics....
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The Paper Magazine
Sir Ratan Tata Scholarship 2011 for Indian Students to Study in UK or USA
E-Pao.net
... at the Masters' level for students who wish to study in the UK or two-year scholarships in the USA in the broad field of Development Studies, with special focus on Developmental Economics, Public Health or Science-Technology-Society (STS) Studies. ...
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Fear of Forgetting Now National Paranoia: Norma Roth Warns Against Jumping to ...
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)
According to increasing studies, that knowledge base can be accessed throughout your life: The power of the brain to continue to function well is wherescience is taking us. Not brain drain but brain power. Chapters in Aging Gracefully. ...
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UK university studies advanced energy-saving methods
Eetasia.com (subscription)
LEEDR, a 3.7-year and $3.11 million project, brings together social science, civil and building engineering, computer science, systems engineering, user interface and design technology. Researchers at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, ...
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Cameroon: United Nations Hailed At UB Symposium
AllAfrica.com
He did not only mention the rapid rise of women at the level of Assistant Professors as an encouraging phenomenon, but noted that the University of Buea is the first State University to have "Women and Gender Studies" right from its inception. ...
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Commentary: Greenpeace gets busted
Dairy Herd Management
It's important to note that the experimental trials were conducted by SEARCA (the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture), an organization established in 1966 to foster graduate studies in agriculture and to ...
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Orphan Diseases Often Caused By Essential-To-Survival Gene Mutations
Medical News Today
Previous studies on disease networks have not separated out these rare diseases, many of which are fatal while others induce chronic and debilitating illnesses." Study first co-author, Minlu Zhang and Cheng Zhu, from the Department of Computer Science ...
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Natural Gas — the Coming Shale Gale
The New American
Unfortunately, Ehrlich's collaborator John Holdren is now Director of the White House Office ofScience and Technology Policy, and his recent pronouncements would suggest he is still in step with his former comrade. The third group may appear to be ...
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Primal Transhumanism
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Sure, part of being a transhumanist involves the bringing about of a radical future, including scientificresearch and cheerleading. But it's also a lifestyle choice; transhumanists actively strive to exceed their body's nascent capacities, or, ...
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Britannica Publishes E-Books for Schools, Libraries; Titles On Hundreds of ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
They cover the full range of curriculum, including math, science, language arts, social studies and health. Each e-book contains the entire text of the print edition and illustrations - many of which are striking, high-definition and full-color. ...
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Hemisphere GPS Supplying TechGeo with Crescent GPS in Brazil
CNW Group (press release)
The company received the Master Award in Science and Technology from the Institute for Studiesand Research Quality (IEPQ) for its leading product performance and customer satisfaction. For more information about TechGeo, ...
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Davison teacher to get real-life astronaut training
The Flint Journal - MLive.com
“I can't wait to share my experiences with my students and learning from teachers from other countries,” said Parks, a science and social studies teacher in Hahn's 5th-6th grade program. Parks said she applied for the space camp on-line and also ...
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waste sites to stay after project's end
The Augusta Chronicle
Broun, who heads the House science and technology subcommittee on investigations and oversight, touted a new report released Wednesday as further evidence that halting the project was an inappropriate decision based solely on politics. ...
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Curtailing embryonic stem cell research would also ... - Science Codex
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Many of these researchers are publishing studies that directly compare hES cells with iPS cells, rather than focusing exclusively on one cell type. "Although we did see a very rapid uptake of iPS celltechnology during the first three ...
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Maryland Researchers Skeptical of Cell Phone Radiation Studies - News
Maryland Researchers Skeptical of Cell Phone Radiation Studies ... University of Maryland · Article: Yale lab tech gets 44 years for killing … ... Sprint.com/ Firsts · Advanced Computer Science UAT: Bachelor Computer Science--Learn, ...
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Japanese Scholars Visits SIST Proposing Collaboration
Ochi assumed that if his study could combine with SIST's forte in RF area, ... the two sides exchanged views on the way and research field of collaboration. ... (School of Information Scienceand Technology of USTC, News Center of USTC) ...
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