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SPORTS, Athletics News, Jun 25, 2011

Higher eduction: A focus on growth
Monroe Evening News
2011 11:33AM Adrian College has built several new athletic fields and facilities, including this entrance to the stadium that houses the football, soccer and lacrosse teams. ADRIAN – Every day, Michael Duffy can look outside his office at the Merillat ...
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Herd's D'Antoni, Pennington to lead fundraising charge
Daily Mail - Charleston
The campaign, which is the first for Herd sports, will benefit the athletics facilities plan announced in April. Included in those plans are a state-of-the-art indoor practice facility and a soccer complex. The facility will benefit all 16 of the ...
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Football is the Long Pole in PCA's Athletic Tent
Patch.com
Football is the long-awaited centerpiece in an already successful athletic program at Providence. From the Lilburn school's 1991 beginning with 354 students to today's 24-acre facility for more than 800, sports have been paramount. ...
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Soccer family hopes Cook Tract scores athletic fields
Patch.com
Pronczak says this proposal is a “win-win” situation for the township because it does not have funds to create athletic fields. The family took a break from fixing damage done by a burst water heater, to meet at the library and talk about something ...
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St. Thomas Aquinas named nation's top athletic program
MaxPreps
While some schools rack up numerous state titles, they may not have a team that challenges for a top spot in the national rankings for sports like football, volleyball, basketball, baseball or softball. Then there are the schools that always seem to be ...
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Geis Memorial Golf Classic swings into Belle Fourche
Black Hills Pioneer
BELLE FOURCHE — Thanks to the inception of the Geis Memorial Golf Classic, $64000 has been donated to support Belle Fourche athletics. Whether it's basketball, baseball, softball, football orsoccer or anything else, area youth have benefited in some ...
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Kennesaw's new AD has full plate, including football
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Amid the whirlwind, the conversation always seems to return to football. Williams, 41, formerly an associate athletic director at Connecticut, arrived at KSU with Georgia's third largest university well on its way toward launching a football program. ...
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Stanford women win Capital One Cup
NCAA.com
“Thank you to Capital One and its affiliated companies for their support of collegiate athletics.” Highlighted by second-place finishes in soccer, tennis and rowing, the Cardinal women's athleticsprogram earned a total of 121 points in the race for ...
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CMS finds money to save some middle school sports
Charlotte Observer
On Thursday, interim Athletic Director Sue Doran said the pay-to-play system CMS launched in 2010-11 ended with a surplus that will be used to save a scaled-back roster of middle school sports:football, basketball, track, volleyball and cheerleading. ...
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Rec Meetings and Notices
Carroll County Times
Program offerings include: soccer, lacrosse, football and sports mix. Classes run 30 minutes; cost for 8-week session is $25/member, $35/non-member. For information, call Megan Spencer at 410-848-3660, ext. 227. --The Y of Central Maryland is taking ...
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2010-11 Athletic Year One To Remember For Texas A&M
I Am the 12th Man
by Beergut on Jun 24, 2011 2:46 AM CDT in Texas Aggies Football I was just going back and looking at the results of the 2010-11 school year/athletic year, and it was one to remember for Texas A&M. Aggie soccer won another Big 12 Championship, ...
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Richvale athletic fields, water park open Saturday
YorkRegion.com
Residents are encouraged to be check out the new soccer fields, enjoy a burger and then get sprayed with water by a giant pink salmon. It's all happening Saturday at the Richvale athletic fields. A grand re-opening celebration for the community park ...
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Association names FGCU athletic director president
The News-Press
FGCU athletic director Ken Kavanagh was named president of the Division l-AAA Athletic Directors Association for the 2011-12 year. DI-AAA is for DI schools without football programs. Kavanagh was a founding member of the D1-AAA association while at ...
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YACS continues to grow in athletics
Rockdale Citizen
The Eagles now compete in 10 sports with the addition of boys and girls soccer, baseball, and cross country, the elimination of softball and a move to tackle football. It's all part of the growth processathletics director Steve Vineyard. ...
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It's Germany's Cup to Lose
Wall Street Journal
Niels Barnhofer, a spokesman for the German Football Association, declined to say how much the federation spends each year on women's soccer, but there are nearly 20 full-time employees dedicated to the task. As part of its Talentförderprogramm system, ...
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Stevens Finishes Most Successful Year in Program History Ranked 13th in the ...
RedOrbit
The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) released the final LearfieldSports Division III Directors' Cup standings on Friday, and Stevens Institute of Technology finished the year at No. 13 – 25 spots higher than the ...
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New varsity coaches for NHS
Adobe Press
Girls volleyball, girls and boys swimming, girls soccer, girls basketball and girls tennis each needed a new head coach. “High school athletics is very fluid. You just never know when you're going to transition coaches in and out,” Decker said. ...
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Matt English of Concordia University Named Cascade Collegiate Conference ...
OregonLive.com (blog)
English also helped secure more than $1.8 million in funding during the past year to fund a new on-campus athletic complex. The 140000 square foot facility, featuring synthetic turf and lights, will serve as the home competition field for the soccer ...
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Greenwood excited to coach John Jay girls soccer team
Poughkeepsie Journal
Greenwood grew up playing youth soccer with fellow John Jay graduates Sullivan and Wappingers assistant athletic coordinator Dave Seipp. "I'm looking forward to following in Darryl Sullivan's footsteps and making Dave Seipp proud in his position," said ...
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A splendid addiction to speed
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
By HOWARD SENZELL, When Sarah Hallas was cut from the Ursuline High freshman soccer team in 1984, she could have decided on a sedentary lifestyle. Instead, the Petaluma resident decided to experiment in hopes of finding a sport in which she could be ...
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Sudlow wins West's Athletic Spirit Award
Northumberland Today
Not my favourite sport, but the memories were exceptional." Sudlow has also been known and seen to help as a scorekeeper in sports like basketball and run the sidelines with the flag for soccer. "He's always going hard. He didn't know how to turn it ...
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Man for all seasons
Centre Daily Times
He has played three sports since elementary school, beginning with soccer, wrestling and baseball. He ditched soccer for football in seventh grade. Hoffman followed his older brothers, Kyle and Caleb, into sports. The pull of representing his school ...
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Nado Natterings
Coronado Eagle and Journal
The duality of academics and athletics recurs throughout Mayfield's life. A star football running back at Cleveland's Holy Name High School, Mayfield attended the school on a scholarship. “We lived on the west side of Cleveland and I had to take two ...
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Pia Halbig Named Toyo Tires Scholar-Athlete
Cal Athletics
The athletic accomplishments of the nominees are a consideration in the voting for the award. A Scholar-Athlete of the Year was named in each of the Pac-10's 22 sponsoredsports: baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, men's cross country, ...
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TV-Radio notebook: Berman celebrates 25th anniversary
Houston Chronicle
The English-language broadcast of US-Panama on Fox Soccer, by comparison, drew about 6000 viewers in Houston. The national broadcast on Univision of Mexico-Honduras had 10.9 million total viewers and is the third most-watched sports telecast in the ...
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Manhattan Reveals 2011 Women's Soccer Schedule
Manhattan College Athletics
9 at 7 pm Manhattan's lineup also consists of opponents from the Patriot League, Ivy League, America East and Northeast Conference, in addition to the always challenging Metro AtlanticAthletic Conference slate. The 2011 MAAC Women's Soccer ...
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Vandals setting fires at Batavia park
Chicago Sun-Times
It is considered the newest of the “athletic parks” in the system. The community park was designed in cooperation with the Batavia School District, Batavia Youth Baseball and the Tri-Cities SoccerAssociation. Lacher said the park district has reached ...
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Manchester claims a share of PAC-7 All-Sports Trophy
SportsInk.com
Moreover, they never gave up when the sports year had been deemed to be completely over. Buoyed by the fact the football team won the league championship and the boys soccer squad finished second, Manchester accumulated 32 all-sports points in the fall ...
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Sign-ups & More
Times-Standard
The Eureka Youth Soccer Club has teamed up with Challenger Sports to host a week-long “BritishSoccer Camp” in August. Set to be held August 1-5 at Redwood Fields in Eureka, the camp is divided into three age groups (3-4; 4-5; 6-14) and provides ...
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Established Coaches Take on New Roles
Patch.com
Coaches and alumni Steve Scifres and Natasha Capretta were chosen to take new positions within the school's athletic program. Steve Scifres brings a plethora of knowledge and accolades to his new job as the Boys Varsity basketball head coach. ...
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Norton United U8 Boys Soccer Completes Successful Run
Patch.com
We knew the kids were athletic and talented. We just wanted them to jell as a team.” The 11-member team of second graders consisted of Mauricio Acosta, Benjamin Charboneau, Matthew Castano, Colin Landry, Andrew Kubinski, Edward Abouzeid, Jack O'Brien, ...
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Tompkins Cortland CC athletic director honored
Ithaca Journal
... of intercollegiate athletics and recreation at TC3, McDaniel also coaches the women's soccerteam. During his tenure he has also coached the men's soccer, and men's and women's golf teams. He is the founder and director of the TC3 Sports Camps. ...
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Senior Showcase: Tyler Dibble
Catskill Daily Mail
Despite Dibble's wide array of talents on the athletic courts and fields he is pursuing basketball at Elmira College next school year where he plans on majoring in History Education. Dibble said he is inspired to become a history professor because of ...
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ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: Murray sets the gold standard
Lahontan Valley News
Maddie Murray's rise to athletic stardom started at an early age when her parents, Michael and Barbara, sent her to the soccer field to keep her busy. Murray also played basketball, volleyball, tennis and one season of golf. Not only did Murray excel ...
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Wheaton College Athletics - Coaches Giuliano and Griffiths Help ...
Wheaton College Athletics. Skip Navigation Links ... The International Sport Connection FootballCoach Training/Exchange Program was made aided by ...
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Campbell, Stanley named PING all-Southeast Region by GCAA ...
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Cal Sports Now | W. Soccer. Hassett, Morgan Set for World Cup Play ...
One Click Sports Now Network: ... [complete story]. MORE: Cal Athletics News · W . Soccer. Hassett, Morgan Set for World Cup Play ... Cal Football: 10 Off-the- Wall Predictions for the Golden Bears in 2011. 06.03.11 - Bleacher Report ...
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UAE Sport: Coaches from Manchester United Soccer Schools Abu Dhabi ...
Coaches from Manchester United Soccer Schools Abu Dhabi announce the latest top 10 skills challenge ... UAE Sport Guide Associates. Sport News. Athletics News ... Ball Related Sports. Cricket News in the UAE · Football News in the UAE ...
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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jun 25, 2011

Radiology's Beauty on Display at American Museum of Natural History
Diagnostic Imaging
The images in Picturing Science were taken as part of current research at the Museum, includingstudies of evolving supernovas, long-buried ancient villages, microscopic hairs on wasp antennae, biological fluorescence, and more. ...
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CU appoints groups to examine new communication college
Boulder Weekly
5 - This group will discuss journalism science, the environment and related issues (Tom Yulsman of journalism, Alan Townsend of environmental studies, Len Ackland of journalism and Sandra Fish of journalism). Group No. 6 – This group will discuss arts, ...
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Raising the Temperature on Cold-Blooded Dinosaurs
New York Times
Robert Eagle, an evolutionary biologist at the California Institute of Technology, and colleagues analyzed 11 dinosaur teeth from sauropods. The researchers report their findings in the current issue of the journal Science. ...
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Singapore scientists discover how to control fate of stem cells
PhysOrg.com
Scientists from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), an institute of the Agency for Science,Technology and Research (A*STAR), in collaboration with the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI), have discovered how the body uses a single ...
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Science News Corner introduces nanotechnology
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
The exhibition, with content provided by the research teams of the Hong Kong University of Scienceand Technology (HKUST), introduces the insights gained from research on nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, which studies how to manipulate matter at the ...
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'Media needs to focus more on science'
Gulf Today
“There are no proper research or studies in science in this part of the world. Science is being studied only to become a science teacher and not for any research purposes,” Khatib pointed out. “For example, our people did not differentiate between a ...
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Ankeny school district updates science curriculum
DesMoinesRegister.com
The final round of reviews - social studies and music - will be during the upcoming school year. Health and physical education programs were reviewed during the 2010-11 year along with science. The board is expected to approve the updates at its July ...
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High energy approach to renewable power
Irish Times
DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: THE DUBLIN Energy Lab (DEL) at the Dublin Institute of Technology is a unique energy research centre in terms of the breadth of its work, which takes in everything from energy generation to systems to marketing and...
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BHS Seniors Garner Awards, Honors
Housatonic Times
English Department—Public Speaking: Mary Mitchell; Science Fiction: Mark Koh; Visual Literature: Stefan Roeder; Gender Studies: Kayla Norkowski; English IV- Honors: Peter George Baumgartel; Literature: advanced placement: Matthew Goodrich. ...
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Jolley: Five minutes with the AMI's Dr. Betsy Booren and E. coli
CattleNetwork.com
This annual biggest gathering of meat science professionals takes a serious look at the issues that affect meat science and event organizers devoted hours of time to reviewing the latest findings about E. coli and discussing what new studies need to be ...
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China aims to draw more EU scientists
China Daily
"Europe understands the huge potential for scientific research and is keen on working closely with nations that are important in the area of science and technology. In this regard there has been an increase in the level of research in China, ...
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'Now You See It'
Inside Higher Ed
Q: Your doctorate is in English, while your faculty positions are in English and "interdisciplinary studies." How did you end up writing a book on "the brain science of attention"? A: I was a math geek as a kid, and diverted from my first love of AI ...
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Getting Serious About Male Grooming
Bernama
Lastly, metabolomics studies how changes in genes and proteins impact biochemical processes within the cell. John Oblong, a PhD scientist working to identify breakthrough skin-caretechnologies for Procter & Gamble, which aspires to be the world's ...
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RNAi-based Genetic Screening: Past, Present & Future
The New York Academy of Sciences
The successful application of these technologies in various areas of biology and translationalscience such as vesicular transport, cancer, and infectious diseases was a focus of this meeting. Norbert Perrimon, from Harvard Medical School and Howard ...
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CIO Finance Summit Welcomes Novarica Head of Banking Research as Master of...
PR.com (press release)
Madhavi Mantha is the Head of Banking Research at Novarica. Since joining the firm, she has worked closely with the CIO members of the rapidly growing Novarica Banking Technology Research Council, exploring a wide range of issues ranging from channel ...
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Brookhaven Lab's Joanna Fowler receives Distinguished Women in Chemistry Award
PhysOrg.com (press release)
The honorees were chosen based on their exceptional accomplishments in basic or appliedresearch, teaching or education, or demonstrated leadership/managerial excellence in an organization within the chemical sciences. Brookhaven Women in Science ...
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South African PhD Student to Bring Hope Home
Newswise (press release)
Then she heard about the American-based Fulbright scholarships available to outstanding international students to pursue graduate studies in the US. She applied and received a Fulbright to attend Michigan Tech. Through the Fulbright network, ...
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The Future in Nano Miniatures?
InTechWeb Blog
“The primary goal of NMNT is to publish research manuscripts that include cutting-edge studies on nanoscale science and technology, bringing together the science and applications of nanoscale and nanostructured materials” underlines Dr. Prete. ...
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Dinosaurs were hot-blooded creatures, claim scientists who measured their body ...
Daily Mail
The research, reported in the journal Science, involved analysing 11 teeth from Brachiosaurus and Camarasaurus, two giant sauropods that lived more than 150million years ago. Mineral formation in tooth enamel is influenced by temperature. ...
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Static electricity shocks researchers
ABC Science Online
Hair raising research Research that will make your hair stand on end shows many of the assumptions about static electricity are incorrect. In a paper, published online in today's Science Express, Professor Bartosz Grzybowski and colleagues from ...
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Up Front: Introducing The Mechanic Muse
New York Times
Today, the field of writers, technology and science is newly charged, and newly vexed. The e-book has upended the business of publishing and the act of reading; vast databases confront literary scholars with novel answers and novel questions; ...
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NASA's Next-Generation Spacecraft to Land at Tallahassee Challenger Learning ...
Space Ref (press release)
The non-profit Challenger Center for Space Science Education is the nation's premier provider ofscience education and career inspiration and plays an essential leadership role in STEM (science,technology, engineering, and mathematics) education. ...
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Timothy Faust: Junk science
Summit Daily News
I am certainly no advocate of long-term dependency on nuclear power, but I am less of a fan of junkscience, which his letter clearly was. First, has to do with the lethality of plutonium. Most studieshave put the LD50 dose (the amount of a substance ...
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Being human
Financial Times
Such institutions should support citizens in making autonomous choices, they argue, in which case they are optimistic that new developments in science and technologycan “empower the creative individual”. Which is a view shared by Brian Christian in ...
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Agriculture is still risky sector of economics
The Voice of Russia
Interview with Rajeshwari Reina, economist and researcher with the National Institute ofScience, Technology and Development Studies and the Center for Policy Studies in New Deli, India. I think that there are two major trends partly since 1980s when ...
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Waldman-Brown, fulbright scholarship winner, to spend next year in Ghana
MIT News
Anna Waldman-Brown demonstrates hands-on science using a bicycle gyroscope at Takorardi Technical Institute. What do the science of chocolate, the construction of small-scale wind turbines, negotiating with the CEO of a petroleum company, ...
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Blaine High School graduates, class of 2011
All Point Bulletin
At the Blaine high school recognition night she was selected as the outstanding senior for social studies. She was also on the Blaine high school tennis team. For three of her four years in high school Hanna was active in the Imagine Tomorrow science ...
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Which Brand of Flosser Will Save Your Life? We'll Tell You!
Village Voice (blog)
24 2011 at 9:43 AM ​Each week, Death by Science kicks down science andtechnology's door and demands to see where they're hiding the primo goods. Often terrifying, sometimes humbling, our discoveries will make you run to the nearest 7-11 and stock up ...
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The UD wind turbine in Lewes has generated research funding and also energy ...
University of Delaware
Students are also taking advantage of the educational and research opportunities afforded by the turbine. The turbine is probably the most coastally placed wind turbine in the mid-Atlantic, making it ideal for studies that can inform the wind industry, ...
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Texas A&M Selected To Partner In National Study Of STEM Master's Degree Programs
Texas A&M University
WASHINGTON, DC, June 24, 2011 — Texas A&M University has been selected by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) as one of five institutions to partner in a national study on completion and attrition in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) ...
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Biotech billionaire
The Daily Deal
His legal studies weren't his only interest. Kirk says he learned language assembly programming on a single-board computer that allowed him to write and play his own music -- this was the late 1970s, when personal computers were still in their infancy. ...
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Study finds single photons cannot exceed the speed of light
PhysOrg.com
The physicists, led by Professor Shengwang Du from The Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology in Hong Kong, China, have published their study on the ultimate speed of a single photon in a recent issue of Physical Review Letters. ...
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NIH awards $64 million grant to Mayo Clinic
Post-Bulletin
According to Mayo, during the past five years, the CTSA has aided 30 discoveries that improved medical practice, cut average study approval time in half and increased Clinical Research Unitstudies 20 percent. Rizza said the center's job is to speed up ...
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National Geographic honors four at inaugural 'Evening of Exploration' celebration
PhysOrg.com (press release)
Broad is a professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and director of the University of Miami's Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for EcosystemScience and Policy. He also co-directs the Center for Research on Environmental ...
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Fox Panel Teams Up To Promote A Bushel Of Misinformation On Health Care Reform
Media Matters for America
Floyd Fowler, "a Senior ResearchFellow at the Center for Survey Research at University of Massachusetts, Boston, and author of the book Survey Research Methods," said of the McKinsey survey: "There is no doubt that the answers one would get after ...
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Researchers Use Gold Nanoparticles to Diagnose Early-Stage Liver Tumor
AZoNano.com
By Cameron Chai A Brown University-led research team has made use of gold nanoparticles coated with a charged polymer ring and an X-ray scatter imagingtechnology to detect tumor-like masses as small as 5 mm. The American Chemical Society's Nano ...
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Diamond-Graphite Sandwiches for Electronic Devices
Russia-InfoCenter
This technology is a result of long-term studies of microphysics of diamond graphitization – first order phase transition in solid state of matter. Diamond and graphite are in fact very simple substances, made of carbon”, one of the authors of the ...
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New Research selected by LSE Library: Social Science sites of the week
By Heather Dawson
Social Science sites of the week. Archives portal Europe. A project of the participants of the APEnet project supported by the European Commission. Currently in Beta testing. Providing information on archives from 17 European countries. ... a free open map of facilities and providing news services. For local citizens and community actiivists. The blog provides descriptions of the implementation of the project which discusses the uses and promotion of mapping technology. ...
New Research selected by LSE Library
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TECHNOLOGY News, Jun 25, 2011

Has Renren suffered enough from China stocks phobia?
Fri,24 Jun 2011 05:21 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoNEW YORK (Reuters) - Renren Inc was hyped as the "Facebook" ofChina, a company that had access to the world's largest Internet market, and a good way to ride the buzz surrounding social media IPOs -- but investors who believed the story are nursing big wounds.
Hackers target Brazilian statistics agency
Fri,24 Jun 2011 03:54 PM PDT
Reuters - RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Hackers broke into the website of Brazil's statistics agency on Friday, the latest in a series of attacks on the South American nation's government sites. Full Story1

Foursquare raises $50 million in new round
Fri,24 Jun 2011 03:06 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mobile location based start-up Foursquare raised $50 million in a round of financing lead by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, the company said on Friday. Full Story1

Kleiner Perkins weighing fund targeting the cloud
Fri,24 Jun 2011 12:43 PM PDT
Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is considering creating a specialized fund that focuses on cloud-based technologies.Full Story1

Hackers attack Electronic Arts website
Fri,24 Jun 2011 11:38 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cyber hackers have breached an Electronic Arts Incwebsite and may have taken user information such as birth dates, phone numbers and mailing addresses, the company said on its website on Friday. Full Story1

Proxy advisor urges RIM CEO/chairman roles be split
Fri,24 Jun 2011 11:28 AM PDT
Reuters -
photoTORONTO (Reuters) - Shareholders in Research In Motion should vote to split the roles of chief executive and chairman of the board at the BlackBerry maker's annual meeting next month, proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis said on Friday.

Factbox: Key legal battles in wireless industry
Fri,24 Jun 2011 10:37 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - The mobile telecoms industry has seen a wave of legal battles in recent years as long-established incumbents try to protect their position against newcomers like Google, the front-runner with a $900 million offer in an auction for Nortel's massive patent portfolio. Full Story1

KKR, Silver Lake in talks for GoDaddy.com: sources
Fri,24 Jun 2011 08:02 AM PDT
Reuters -
photoNEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firms KKR and Silver Lake are in talks to buy Internet domain site GoDaddy.com and a deal could be more than $2 billion, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

Slow Finnish phone sales may explain Nokia's woes
Fri,24 Jun 2011 07:23 AM PDT
Reuters -
photoNEW YORK (Reuters) - Should Finland, Nokia's home base, take some of the blame for the one-time market leader's recent struggles to compete in smartphones?

Exclusive: Forget Spy Kids, try kiddie hacker conference
Thu,23 Jun 2011 06:26 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoBOSTON (Reuters) - Children as young as eight years old are invited to Las Vegas this summer to learn that it's cool to be a hacker -- provided they don't cheat, steal or commit other crimes.

Instant view: Oracle shares drop after earnings report
Thu,23 Jun 2011 03:08 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oracle Corp reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Thursday, but that failed to calm investor fears that spending on technology software and hardware could be in jeopardy. Full Story1


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Viacom sues Cablevision over iPad streaming
Thu,23 Jun 2011 12:46 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom Inc sued Cablevision Systems Corp to halt what it called the unauthorized streaming of its programing on devices such as Apple Inc's iPad.Full Story1

Hacker pleads guilty over AT&T-iPad breach
Thu,23 Jun 2011 12:31 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoNEW YORK (Reuters) - A computer hacker pleaded guilty to helping write malicious code that let him breach AT&T Inc servers and steal personal data belonging to 120,000 Apple Inc iPad subscribers, U.S. prosecutors said.

GPS worry prompts call for more LightSquared tests
Thu,23 Jun 2011 12:14 PM PDT
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government officials called for more testing of hedge fund manager Philip Falcone's satellite broadband start-up to address interference issues with global positioning systems, but showed interest in finding a solution rather than shutting the venture down. Full Story1
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