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| Area residents make Tech's dean's list Staunton News Leader ... a sophomore majoring in political science in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences » Cody M. Bowen, a freshman majoring in university studies at Virginia Tech » Jill E. Cook, a sophomore majoring in human development in the College of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Time travel possibility rejected by scientists Toronto Star It seems that time travel via photons — a packet of energy associated with electromagnetic radiation — is not a viable option, according to research from a group of physicists at the Hong Kong University of Technology and Science. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cracked sewers bleed fecal germs Science News In both instances, two other bacterial indicators of human feces accompanied the dye, the California scientists reported online July 25 in Environmental Science & Technology. In a third system, where the apparently leaky sewage pipes lay below storm ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Decoding shoe science Livemint The science behind shoes is on a par with any other industry's today, using space-age materials and spending billions on research and development. But does it really matter? Ali Irani, president of the Indian Association of Physiotherapists and former ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Diploma studies suspended after students torched university building Sudan Tribune "A group of students insisted on obstructing studies by forcing sit-ins that on Sunday escalated into subversion and arson," said a statement from the university's director of Science and Technology, Ahmed al-Tayeb Ahmed. He added that "deliberately" ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Lab Notes: Dyslexia May Be Speech Processing Defect MedPage Today In contrast, people with dyslexia frequently could not recognize the voice associated with a specific figure, as reported online in Science. The exercise was repeated, except the voices spoke in a Chinese dialect unfamiliar to all of the study ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TASC Hosts Local Teachers to Promote STEM Content PR Newswire (press release) The goal of the program is to give teachers the opportunity to become familiar with the core knowledge and skills their students will need to be successful in the 21st century workforce, which is built on a strong foundation of science, technology, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Convergence in head and neck cancer Eureka! Science News Further studies will be necessary to define its role in prognosis, diagnosis, and/or treatment," said Nishant Agrawal, a head and neck surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins and a lead author of one of the Science papers. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Classroom Is Obsolete: It's Time for Something New Education Week News Yes, we will need enclosed spaces for direct instruction, but perhaps these could be adjacent to a visible and supervisable common space for teamwork, independent study, and Internet-basedresearch. Arts, science and technology, and performance could ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| New study outlines economic and environmental benefits to reducing nitrogen ... PhysOrg.com A new study co-authored by Columbia Engineering professor Kartik Chandran and recently published in the journal, Environmental Science & Technology, shows that reducing nitrogen pollution generated by wastewater treatment plants can come with "sizable" ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Grass Valley schools land $289000 tech grant The Union of Grass Valley Teachers already are brainstorming about how they can use them to teach English, history, scienceand social studies — turning a field trip into a news report, for example. “When students are able to share their work — creating projects and posting ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| news In detail Knowledgespeak RSC Publishing has announced that its acting managing director, Dr. James Milne, has responded to the UK Parliament's Science and Technology Committee report on peer review. The report is said to clearly highlight and confirm the essential role of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| STATEMENT BY PATRICK TAN – 29 July 2011 The Temasek Review During my studies, I also acquired experience in DNA microarray technology. The science behind this revolutionary scientific tool by Stanford scientists Drs Patrick Brown and Ron Davis was developed in 1995. With its applicability proven in 1997, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| It's Alive! Probiotics Are Growing for Food Processors Food Processing Science helped that. Before the 1970s, only a handful of studies looked at the health benefits of probiotics. Since then, thousands of such studies were done. Virtually all concluded probiotics provide healthful benefits. The research opened the door ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 'Federal disaster assistance budgeting: Are we weather-ready?' - Testimony by ... NOAA Today's services are built upon earlier investments in innovative science and technology as well as our highly-skilled workforce. Our capacity to collect and assimilate increasing amounts of data to improve model performance must increase to realize ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Real vs. Political Innovation FrontPage Magazine While advancing medicine and science, the “genomic revolution” is aiding development of renewable energy, industrial biotechnology, agricultural biosciences, veterinary science, environmental and forensic sciences, studies in ecology, and studies from ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| WASHTENAW COUNTY: Online learning increasingly replaces traditional face-to ... Heritage Newspapers 5, Monday through Friday, from 8:am to 11 am Students who receive a minimum of two "Ds" or an "E" in any core class (language arts, math, science, and social studies) must enroll in the summer JumpStart program. "JumpStart is a required program that is ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Mind over motion Bangalore Mirror A particular focus of this research is the use of the brain cap technology to help stroke victims whose brain injuries affect their motor-sensory control. “There is a big push in brain science to understand what exercise does in terms of motor learning ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Recognizing voices depends on language ability MIT News In a study appearing in Science on July 29, the researchers found just that. People with dyslexia had a much harder time recognizing voices than non-dyslexics. In fact, they fared just as poorly as they (and non-dyslexics) did when listening to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Reliability in the nanoworld Nanotechnology News In order to fund this research, we are operating in an unusual paradigm. We provide reliability services to industry and the proceeds from these services will be applied towards fundamentalstudies of the physics of failure mechanisms for any and all ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| FDA is urged to revamp its review process for medical devices Los Angeles Times "It is not technology, science, ingenuity or the economy that is standing in the way of success in developing new medical technologies. In my opinion, it is today the FDA," engineer Robert Fischell told a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Comcast awards $47k in scholarships to Connecticut students West Hartford News Lindsay Daniels, resident of Farmington and graduate of Farmington High School will be studying Political Science at the University of Scranton. Abigail Dunlap, resident of Old Saybrook and graduate of Old Saybrook Senior High School will be attending ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Sophie Klein, Jonathan Kelner New York Times The bride, 29, is a playwright and a Ph.D. candidate in classical studies at Boston University, where she received a master's in classical studies. Her plays include “The Spitting Image,” which ran from March 23 to April 2 at the Factory Theater in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Experts Complacent About Communication Network Attacks Eurasia Review The research team includes Lancaster University (led by Dr. Andreas Mauthe), University of Ulster (led by Professor Gerard Parr) and IIT Madras India (led by Professor Hema Murthy). The work falls under The India-UK Advanced Technology Centre (IU-ATC) ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Models of Education Innovation: What Else Should We Try? Huffington Post (blog) Models that include the example above and provide a broad, rich curriculum for all students starting in pre-school, including science, social studies, physical education, field-trips, during and/or after-school sports programs, arts programs, literacy, ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Call for Submissions: Book on Interdisciplinary Research Trends in ... Cases on Interdisciplinary Research Trends in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Studies on Urban Classrooms: ... cunyba.gc.cuny.edu/.../call-for-submissions-book-on-interdisc... |
