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SPORTS, Athletics News, Jul 13, 2011

Nate Webber to be inducted into the Nottingham High School AthleticHall of Fame
Bucks Local News
Dempster went on to be head coach in five different sports at Nottingham – boyssoccer, girls soccer, baseball, wrestling and golf. During that time, Dempster won five Coach of the Year honors in three different sports. Dempster also served as athletic ...
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Appleton West names new soccer coach
Appleton Post Crescent
Winneconne athletic director Todd Schroeder said that Maranell has played a major role in the resurgence of the football program in recent years. In another move, Schroeder announced that Kraig Western will replace Dennis Kempken as girls' and boys' ...
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ASU's Jodie Smith to speak at AHSAA clinic
The Huntsville Times - al.com
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Alabama State University soccer coach Jodie Smith, will be a presenter at the 15th Annual Alabama High School Athletic Directors and Coaches Association. His speech/clinic will be held Wednesday, July 13 at 1 pm at the ...
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Managing Liability for Athletic Trainers
InjuryBoard.com
Over 300000 sports- related traumatic brain injuries occur annually in the United States. In addition tofootball-related concussions, there is significant risk for concussions for athletes in other sports, including soccer. In fact, female athletes ...
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NCAA Football 12 Hits Shelves Today
MarketWatch (press release)
EA SPORTS delivers experiences that ignite the emotions of sport through industry-leading sportssimulation videogames, including Madden NFL football, FIFA Soccer, NHL(R) hockey, NBA ELITE basketball, NCAA(R) Football and NCAA Basketball, ...
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South Korean Soccer Players to Undergo Polygraph Tests
WTMA
Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) -- In an effort to combat athletic scandals and match-fixing, the South Korean soccer league is introducing lie-detector tests. Prosecutors allege that some of K-League's (Korea Professional Football ...
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NJCAA honors AACC athletes
Annapolis Capital
Jenny Ashurst of Greenbelt, a two-sport athlete in women's lacrosse and women's soccer who earned a 3.62 GPA. The architecture and interior design major also was co-recipient in May of the AACC Dr. Andrew G. Truxal Award for outstanding female ...
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Change to Park Regulations Would Require Permits for Groups of More Than 20 ...
Patch.com
While the regulation governs all FCPA and NVRPA fields, the discussion has focused on soccer. The Fairfax County Athletic Council voted July 21, 2010, to reduce the gathering requiring a permit to 10, "primarily based on a Fairfax County Soccer Council ...
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Commentary: Not a soccer fan? You should still appreciate Americans' win over ...
Patriot-News (blog)
Don't hold it against the sport of soccer. Or women's athletics. In particular, if you're a casual fan. But especially, don't begrudge the women getting a little piece of glory. They've earned it. I'd suggest first just searching out the clip of that ...
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Kean Places 60 Student-Athletes on NJAC All-Academic Teams
Kean University Athletics
PITMAN, NJ (7/12/11) – The Kean University Department of Athletics recently had 60 student-athletes named to the New Jersey Athletic Conference All-Academic Teams. Seniors Sarah Hamm (Softball) and Chris Robinson (Men's Soccer) were named NJAC ...
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Fall sports schedules announced
Gant Daily
Women's volleyball, men's soccer and coed golf at Penn State New Kensington open their fall seasons in August. Volleyball's 19-game schedule includes six home dates in the Athletics Center. Second-year coach Dave McGeary returns five starters from last ...
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History of British Football Magazines
FootballFanCast.com (blog)
Finally in the 1950's we had what a modern reader would recognise as a football magazine. The firstsport based newspaper was the Athletic News established in Manchester in 1875 as a “weekly journal of amateur sport”. In 1886 James A. Catton began to ...
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'Bad Boys Of Abridgement' Reduce World Of Sports
NPR
Now, they're tackling sports. The Complete World of Sports (Abridged) aims to reduce every sportever played in the entire history of the world. While familiar favorites such as basketball, football andsoccer figure into their bits, so too do more ...
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Austin U17 soccer team lives on defense
Austin Herald
To do so, all they have to do is win one game at Shakopee on Sunday at 11 am Joe Montes of the Austin U17 boys soccer team runs through a drill at the WescottAthletic Complex Monday. -- Rocky Hulne/sports@austindailyherald.com “We'll probably be ...
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Nicole Imbrogno Added to Athletics Department Staff
Duquesne University - Official Athletic Site
While earning a master of science in sport and leisure commerce, she was the primary marketing contact for baseball, volleyball and men's and women's soccer and assisted with game day needs for football and men's and women's basketball. ...
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360 Architecture lands stadium work in Iraq
Kansas City Business Journal
360 Architecture is stepping into the international sports arena, starting with a network of Iraqiathletic venues. The Kansas City-based company said Tuesday that it had been selected to design two soccer stadiums and a multi-use sports site with two ...
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Future Bucs Three-Town Athletic Program Expands to Include Girls' Volley Ball
Atlantic Highlands Herald
Both basketball and indoor soccer wrap up their "seasons" with championship games at RBR in the fieldhouse. There is no cost associated with the volleyball program, and only a $20 fee for t-shirts and referees for the other sports. ...
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Wildcats QB Newton grabbing reins of team
Cincinnati.com
THOMAS MORE: Men's and women's track and field will be elevated to varsity status for the 2011-2012 academic year, athletic director Terry Connor said. Thomas More now sponsors eight men'ssports (baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, ...
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Summer of confusion at Niagara-Wheatfield
Niagara Gazette
... NIAGARA FALLS — As the summer days pass and the start of fall sports practices loom, Niagara-Wheatfield is still without a head football coach and several coaches in other sports are uncertain about the future of the Falcons' athletics program. ...
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Sports Notes: Northeast Michigan Baseball League hosting reunion
The Bay City Times - MLive.com
PREP SPORTS: The Bay City Central athletic department is hosting a blood drive on Tuesday, July 12 from 1-6:00 pm in the high school cafeteria. Walk-ins are welcome or reserve a time by e-mailing Morley Fraser at fraserm@bcschools.net. FOOTBALL: Bay ...
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On the Mark: Amid league lock outs, give soccer a try
LSU The Reveille
I know what you're thinking – the NFL lockout is on the verge of ending, plus college athletics can hold you over. Think again — college football ends in January, the NFL in February and college basketball in March. Soccer is essentially on year-round ...
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Timbers Community Update: The Timbers Army aren't just soccer supporters
OregonLive.com (blog)
AC Portland hopes to engage youth in the classroom and on the pitch by promoting the benefits ofathletics and academics. The Timbers Army will be partnering with the Portland Timbers, adidas America, the US Soccer Federation, and Oregon Sports ...
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Ben's Top Ten: Giants in first at All-Star break
Martinez News-Gazette
The Oakland Athletics fought their way to the end of the first half of the baseball season, but in the last week, they managed to go just 1-6. They fell 2-1 on July 4 at home to Seattle. The Mariners scored a run in both the sixth and seventh innings ...
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Hope Solo gains not-so-secret admirers
Yahoo! Sports
Sports. “She shows that you can be feminine and athletic and the best in your chosensport. I saw during the last game that a fan had written a banner which proposed marriage so I am going to do the same, except that mine will be bigger and better. ...
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Roberts Wesleyan Moving to NCAA Division II Athletics
13WHAM-TV
Including the brand new men's and women's lacrosse teams that begin play this fall, Roberts offers 14 intercollegiate sports as a member of the American Mideast Conference. The other teams are: men's and women's soccer, men's and women's cross country, ...
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Utah State Athletics Announces Contract Extensions For Four Head Coaches
The Statesman
Utah State University Director of Athletics Scott Barnes announced Friday that four head coaches – Heather Cairns (Women's Soccer), Grayson DuBose (Volleyball), Gregg Gensel (Track & Field/Cross Country) and Jeff Richards (Gymnastics) – have received ...
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John Feinstein (Remember Him?) Doesn't Think Soccer Is A Sport
SB Nation (blog)
But does regular-season soccer count as a sport? There are no shootouts, after all, in the vast majority of soccer leagues' regular seasons. I'm guessing he doesn't consider an athletic event that allows for ties a sport, either. ...
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Tuesday Sports Newsstand
Greensboro News & Record
... high school athletic directors and principals, Leon Mack said weather reports for this week call for a heat index of 104 or higher through Thursday with air quality alerts all four days. Story. US victory can't win me over to soccer (Tom Sorensen, ...
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Gatorade Athlete of the Year race is wide open
MaxPreps
Track and field athletes could give traditional sport stars run for their money at tonight's annual glitzy affair in Hollywood. HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – In the city where dreams are made and shattered, two high school athletic stars will be crowned the best ...
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Local optometrist focused on job, youth soccer
Palestine Herald Press
The second is the upcoming soccer camp, taking place from Aug. 15-18. “All the money from both events goes to improve the soccer fields,” Absy said. In addition to coaching his preferred sport,soccer, Absy also coaches basketball and football through ...
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Bears Take Soccer Camp off Campus
13WMAZ
The Mercer Bears athletic department has a busy summer schedule, featuring 19 different camps. Of the numerous sessions in various sports only one takes place away from Mercer University Drive. For the second year men's soccer coach Brad Ruzzo is ...
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Madison joins Western North Carolina schools with turf
Asheville Citizen-Times
Since then, over one-third of the 32 WNC high schools with a football program have said goodbye to grass. “I think for any athletic program, it's one of the safest, one economical things you can do,” Madison athletic director/football coach Mark ...
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Sports conditioning camp
News 10NBC
Haag isn't getting in to football shape but over all sports shape. University Sports Medicine has put on a sports performance enhancement camp for the past several years. Athletic Trainer Todd Peterson says the concept of over all conditioning is ...
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Brevard AD Pate takes job in Illinois
BlueRidgeNow.com
Brevard College also announced that Juan Mascaro, the associate athletic director and men'ssoccer coach, will serve as interim athletic director until the next president of the college begins his/her work. Mascaro came to Brevard in 2007 from Campbell ...
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Coach Offers Advice for Sports Tryouts
Patch.com
After 11 years as a high school administrator and activities director, he now oversees 25 teams at RUHS, including baseball, football, soccer, golf, tennis and cross country. Half of the teams, including baseball, are broken into three levels: varsity, ...
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Northridge Vikings sports on track for fall season
The Newark Advocate
Indications are good for football, boys golf and girls volleyball. Signs for boys and girls cross country are hopeful. Boys soccer still is up in the air. In the meantime, coaches of the individual sports are working to defray the costs of the $500 ...
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All kinds of athletes suffer concussions
Indianapolis Star (blog)
According to a 2000 study of 1000 former football players, more than 60 percent had sustained a concussion at sometime in their careers. But concussions aren't limited to football players. They happen in all sorts of sports including soccer, ...
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TRACK AND FIELD Hohrath putting it all together
Houston Chronicle
She is excited to work with Lehigh head coach Matt Utesch and his staff. "I had a great high school career," said Hohrath, who was also involved in cross country and soccer at Awty. "Track and field is my No. 1 sport and I feel like I can continue to ...
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Sports digest: WAC expected to add University of Texas-Arlington to conference
San Jose Mercury News
AP The University of Texas-Arlington is expected to join the Western Athletic Conference as a non-football-playing member, according to a source. The move should become official Thursday, with the Mavericks starting WAC competition next summer. ...
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Megan Minnix & Darius Law Named A-10 Scholar-Athletes Of The Year
Atlantic 10 Official Athletic Site
Track and Field standout Darius Law and defender Megan Minnix of Charlotte have been named the Atlantic 10 Conference male and female Scholar-Athletes of the Year, respectively, in voting conducted among the Conference's director of athletics. ...
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Syracuse Announces Athletic Director's Honor Roll
SUAthletics.com
Achieving honors consecutively across all semesters at Syracuse University were eight seniors, including Lindsey Conrad , field hockey, Catherine DeSarle , track and field, Marjory Elwell , soccer, Rachel Helman , softball, Jacquelyn Lee, rowing, ...
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Sun Belt Conference Honors 100 FIU Student-Athletes - FIU Athletics
Football led all sports with 13 student-athletes on the honor roll. Swimming & diving placed 11 Panthers on this year's academic honor roll. In all, the football team leads all FIU squads with 16 honorees, while swimming & diving produced 15. Women's soccer rounds out the top three with 12 academic award winners. Below is a listing of this year's FIU Sun Belt Academic honorees. 2010-11 Sun Belt Commissioner's List (FIU) - 3.5 GPA or higher (34 student-athletes) ...
FIU Athletics Headline News
Football 101 - ESPN RISE High School Football - ESPN RISE | HIGH ...
NATIONAL BOYS SOCCER NEWSPA Classics take group lead at the U15/16 Academy Finals ....All High School Sports Forum, GirlTalk High School Sports Forum ...
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BYU Sports Now | BYU soccer takes on Southern California foes from ...
Thursday July 7th, 2011 | 03:16pm | Brigham Young University Athletics ... After a week of runningsoccer camps in Provo, the Cougars fly to Southern California ... BYU Football: Independence Day Is Finally Here for the Cougars ... One Click Sports Now is an unofficial independent network ofnews and information ...
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Men's Soccer Announces 2011 Schedule – Michigan State Athletics ...
Michigan State Athletics Michigan State men's soccer coach Damon Rensing believes ... Filed under Men's Soccer News. You can follow any responses to this entry ... Sponsorship – Kia Supports Red Bulls; Football League Renews Mitre as ...
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SPACE, Astronomy News, Jul 13, 2011


After Hubble: Will Budget Woes Kill NASA's Next Great Telescope?
TIME
And with every one of those leaps, astronomers discovered something unexpected and astonishing — massive black holes spewing blasts of energy into space, tiny neutron stars spinning a thousand times a second, dark matter pushing galaxies around like ...
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Happy birthday, planet Neptune
Examiner.com
Astronomy being a weather-allowing pursuit, be sure to keep an eye on the Cleveland weather forecast and, for hour-by-hour cloud predictions, the Cleveland Clear Sky Clock. The good news is that tonight and tomorrow are looking very good for astronomy, ...
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W.Va. research helped Russian space project
Charleston Gazette
The RadioAstron project is now the top science priority of the Roscosmos, the Russian spaceagency. The physicists and astronomers were, among other things, working on the interferometry technique of radio astronomy, which involves linking telescopes ...
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Grand Opening of the Pacific Planetarium
PR Newswire (press release)
The Pacific Planetarium is an astronomy education and educational research facility operated by Digitalis Education Solutions, Inc. Its mission is to increase astronomy and science literacy, research and evaluate related education methods, and showcase ...
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Astronomers probe matter in early universe
Science News
Other experiments will soon start hunting for lensing in polarized light coming from the Big Bang afterglow. When combined with data from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite, cosmologists will have even more discoveries to chew over, says Das. ...
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Colleges reach out to teach youngsters through summer camps
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Openings remain for the following three weeks dealing with physics/astronomy, math and spaceadventure. "We live in a world of technology. It is not going to go away," said Behi, professor of electrical, computer, software & systems engineering. ...
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Stratford youth had inside look at last shuttle launch
Ct Post
Severn was just 10 years old when his parents took him to the observatory at Boothe Park in the summer of 2001 to see noted astronomer John Dobson host one of his famous "sidewalkastronomy" lectures. And after Dobson's talk, Severn lined up, ...
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Solar Wind Changes Atmospheric Pressure over South Korea
MIT Technology Review (blog)
Today, Il-Hyun Cho and buddies at the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute in Daejeon, say they have the first evidence that the solar wind can influence the sea-level atmospheric pressure at mid latitudes. These guys searched through space ...
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Astronomer Tom Gehrels, 1925-2011
UA News (press release)
He also founded the highly respected Space Science Series, still published by theUniversity of Arizona Press, and served as general editor for the first 30 volumes. In 2007, the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences presented...
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ESA builds billion-pixel digital camera to map the Milky Way
ZDNet (blog)
So why the disclaimer of “for a space mission” tacked onto “the largest digital camera ever built” phrase? Possibly because the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy already has a bigger digital camera working in its Panoramic Survey Telescope ...
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News in Brief: Atom & Cosmos
Science News
Astronomers used Europe's Very Large Telescope to image the supergiant and reported the results online June 23 in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Betelgeuse is the second-brightest star in the constellation Orion and has a radius equal to the distance ...
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Video: Concentrating photovoltaics inspired by telescope design
SPIE Newsroom
... space sunshade to cool the Earth. He has designed telescopes to image and search for primitive life on Earth-like planets orbiting nearby stars and first used optical fibers in astronomy to obtain astronomical spectra, now a widely used technique. ...
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Book Review: Ben Mezrich's 'Sex on the Moon'
Boston magazine's Boston Daily (blog)
After all, I was an astronomy buff as a kid and have always been enraptured by the Apollo lunar missions. (Memo to all moon nerds like me: Read Andrew Chaikin's definitive Apollo history, A Man on the Moon, and buy–not rent–the beautiful documentary ...
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Celebrate Science with SETI this Summer
QUEST (blog)
by Laura Khalil • July 12th, 2011 Photo by Tama Leaver via FlickrI had the pleasure of attending SETIcon last year, a weekend in mid-August focused both on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, astronomy and modern day science fiction. ...
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Neptune Completes Its First Orbit
The Epoch Times
"Cloudy with a chance of methane" is the general weather forecast, says planetary scientist Heidi Hammel of the Association of the Universities of Research in Astronomy (Aura), according to the BBC. And winds that go up to 1930 kilometers (1200 miles) ...
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ET, Phone the Bay Area
Huffington Post (blog)
Today, this idea has been refined with better technology and a suppler knowledge of astronomy. In the 1970s, a small group of scientists and engineers at NASA Ames Research Center in the South Bay, considered the feasibility of building radio equipment ...
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Scientists model physics of a key dark-energy probe
EurekAlert (press release)
"It brought together professionals in the fields of physics, astronomy and computational science to produce impressive results that might not otherwise have come together for many years. OSC is proud to have contributed to these achievements. ...
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Engineering student makes it to international astronomy camp
Pune Newsline
“The camp will basically focus on the varied aspects of astronomy and astrophysics like deep space astronomy. We will also work in their own research lab and even use the high sensitive sensor cameras to photograph the night sky,” says Vora, adding, ...
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Transformers 3: Silver Screen Saucers review
UFODigest
Because the aforementioned “Team Ame-robot: World Police” sequence is preceded by a rather more intriguing one: it's 1961, and the Very Large Array (VLA) radioastronomy observatory in New Mexico is tracking an unidentified object as it ploughs into ...
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Dealing with space hazards : Space and Astronomy news daily ...
By Jonathan Nally
But in 2009, European Space Agency member states asked the Agency to embark on a new programme, known as Space Situational Awareness, or SSA. Now in its initial phase, SSA aims to develop Europe's own scanning, detection and warning ...
Space and Astronomy news daily...
Astronomers react to plans to cancel James Webb Space Telescope ...
By Space.com
Astronomers are up in arms over proposed congressional budget cuts that would cancel an ambitious but over-budget space observatory that has been pegged as the successor to NASA's Hubble SpaceTelescope. ... "This is a perfect example of NASA revealing the unknown and reaching for new heights," Lori Garver told reporters at a July 7 news briefing from the Kennedy Space Center inFlorida. "It was a scratch program; we developed technologies. We will be prepared to lay out ...
Earth Matters News
Space Shuttle's Greatest Feat: Redefining the 'Right Stuff' - Topix
Astronomy. News · Forums & Polls. Space Shuttle's Great. ... NASA's planned Friday launch of the space shuttle Atlantis will be the 135th and final liftoff ...
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Space And Astronomy Mattters - Jul 1 2011 - Stunning Noctilucent ...
Europe's Proba-2 satellite had a ring-side seat to the partial solar eclipse of July 1. on July 1 FromSPACE.com in Space And Astronomy News ...
space-and-astronomy.mattters.com/.../stunning-noctilucent-clo...
Astronomy Directory (Stars, Objects, Universe, Galaxies ...
Offers information on astronomy and space science including news, events, blogs, images, videos and links to other sites. It is written and compiled by ...
www.launchbase.net/science/astronomy/directory.htm

SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jul 13, 2011

U.S. universities seek industry help for wind energy research
High Performance Composites
The University of Massachusetts and the University of Texas are seeking industry partners to become members of a proposed US National Science Foundation Industry/University CooperativeResearch Center dedicated to wind energy research. ...
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Agriscience Awards Honor Innovators
Farm Bureau News
Prather is a distinguished professor of reproductive biotechnology in the Division of Animal Scienceat the University of Missouri. His research focuses on genetic improvement of swine and cattle to reduce pregnancy loss. He also studies the use of ...
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Renewal of Agreement between Ipsen and the Salk Institute Supports Cutting ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The Ipsen Life Sciences Program led by the Salk Institute's Inder Verma, Ph.D., Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Science will for a period of three years, sponsor four research programs through targeted and innovation grants. ...
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Honors and Other Things
UPENN Almanac
The Science Center supports technology commercialization and technology-based economic development on its campus and in the Greater Philadelphia region. Dr. Camille Charles, director of the Center for Africana Studies and Kahn Professor in the Social ...
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Recreating human livers, in mice
MIT News
If successful, that could make the drug development process more efficient and reduce the number of mice needed for drug studies, Chen says. Inder Verma, a professor of molecular biology at the Salk Institute, says the new technology is not only an ...
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University of Minnesota researchers find new way to generate geothermal energy
Finance and Commerce
Runar Nygaard, assistant professor of petroleum engineering at Missouri University ofScience and Technology, said such a cap-and-trade program would improve the commercial potential he sees in the U's system. “That can truly be a game changer for...
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Challenger Center Honors Shuttle Legacy With Expanded Commitment to Space ...
Space Ref (press release)
Working with NASA, private space industry leaders, its network of 48 Challenger Learning Centers, the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) community, and schools nationally, Challenger Center will increase the impact of its ...
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Religion and Technology in view of Allameh Jafari
ABNA.ir
The forum on “Religion and Technology” was held on July 10 in the Research Center for Human Sciences and Cultural Studies with the presence of Abdullah Nasri, Mohammad Reza Asadi, Hamid Reza Ayatollahi and Bijan Abdul-Karimi presenting their speeches ...
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Tartu Breeds Lawyers, Tallinn Politicians and Businesses
ERR News
The law school's Tartu branch (there is also one in Tallinn) has received 630 applications. Kaja Karro from the Tartu admissions office said interest toward science and technology has also increased, with an average of four students competing for one ...
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Does The United States Still Care About Space Leadership?
Forbes (blog)
In China, strong math and science backgrounds are prerequisites for admittance to the best universities or to be hired by foreign corporations operating there. The Microsoftresearch center in Beijing is one of the most sought-after places there, ...
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How Dangerous is Your Cell Phone?
Christian Post
Recently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a component of the World Health Organization, has classified radiofrequency fields as “possibly carcinogenic to humans.” Several international studies show that there is a link between ...
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PH losing out on IP revenues
ABS CBN News
... of science and technology professionals, and encouraging students to pursue R&D studies. But to ensure the worthiness of R&D projects, Opena said in the forum on Monday the direction should be market-to-research and not research-to-market. ...
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Government of Canada Investments Promote Science and Engineering to Canada's Youth
Marketwire (press release)
The Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and Minister for the AtlanticGateway, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science and Technology), made the announcement at the University of New Brunswick. ...
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Startups Making Do with Fewer Workers, Kauffman Study Shows
Xconomy
“And one of the most prominent places you see that is in the tech sector.” The new findings have nationwide significance because previous studies by the Kauffman Foundation, which specializes inresearch about the entrepreneurial sector, ...
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Australia drafts framework for medical research review
Pharma Times
Since then, Butler has been consulting with organisations such as the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes, the Australian Academy of Science, Universities Australia and the trade association for research-based pharmaceutical companies ...
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Koch Institute Partners with HighRes Biosolutions to Build State-of-the-Art ...
Business Wire (press release)
“We are excited to have some of the best cancer researchers in the world working with our systems,” explains Chris Pacheco, Director of Life Science Technologies at HighRes Biosolutions. “I truly believe this group of biologists will be able to fully ...
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Clamour for Ministry of IT, ICT: Who
Nigeria Daily Independent
Charles Uwadia is a professor of the department of Computer Sciences, University of Lagos and he is currently the Director for the Centre of Information Technology Studies, University of Lagos. He is equally the President of Nigeria Computer Society ...
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Schools, libraries fight 'summer slide' of students' academic skills
TCPalm
The free program offers reading, math and science, art, physical educaton and music and runs 8 to 11:30 am Monday through Thursday through July 26. GRAYSON HOFFMAN/SPECIAL TOTREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Courtney Grissman, 9, (left) reads to her ...
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Euthanasia research, education needs more attention
Feedstuffs
She pointed out that there are relatively few studies providing empirical data about on-farm swine euthanasia. Millman said specific calls for research proposals recently have been issued for swine euthanasia, and several novel technologies are ...
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Four professors earn Citations for Meritorious Teaching
UH System Current News
HONOLULU — Four University of Hawai'i at Mānoa faculty members—Steven Businger of meteorology in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Alison Conner of the William S. Richardson School of Law, Charles Fletcher of geology and ...
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Meet the female tech pioneers
StartupSmart
I believe that the amazing ability of technology to help and assist a wide variety of individuals and communities is not getting through – the intersection of science and technology, the positive impacts technology has and can have on health, ...
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IRRI Bulletin
IRRI news (press release)
Science Symposium, Plant Breeding Strategy to Prepare for Climate Change, held at Muju, South Korea, on 7-8 July 2011. The papers were presented by Youngjun Mo (left), a visiting researchfellow, and Yoo Jin Lee (below, right), a scholar—both from ...
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Pesky water plant could treat cancer, SFA researchers say
KTRE
A thorn in the side of area boating enthusiasts may provide a ray of hope for some cancer patients, according to recent research findings at Stephen F. Austin State University's National Center for Pharmaceutical Crops. Researchers at the center have ...
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Too much sitting may be bad for your health
EurekAlert (press release)
The collection is particularly noteworthy because it: Represents a major advance in collecting and analyzing current research on sedentary behavior, especially the relevant behavioral science that must be better understood if such behaviors are to ...
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Present but non-existing ICT in Ethiopia – Part II
Anyuak Media
... Communication Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Technology, ComputerScience and Educational Sciences. Not surprisingly, foreign professionals such as Takewuchi[10] , were able to do a research on case studies of these projects. ...
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Young Maori Excel in Hutt Valley
Voxy
Expectations are high and students are put through their paces through strong role-modelling by staff, who are very focused on students doing well in their tertiary studies. A variety of approaches are put into practice including: encouraging students ...
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