Zahn Prize Competition Gives Undergraduates the Opportunity, Mentoring to Launch Startups

It was standing room only at the grand opening of the Moxie Center for Undergraduate Entrepreneurship as 10 undergraduate student teams waited to see who among them would win one of three Zahn prizes, for a total of $10,000 in cash to help them bring their products to market. The room was filled with students, faculty, industry partners and investors as well as San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, University of California, San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla, and Juan C. Lasheras, interim dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

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Free Band Concerts and Events Are Highlights at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Planning your summer vacation? The National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., is offering special activities, all free of charge. For the first time, the museum will present outdoor band concerts and family events as well as special deals on theater tickets and simulator rides.

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Endangered Languages Conference Set for Smithsonian

Over half of the world’s languages are endangered. The Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages is working with Native Americans to revitalize their languages before they are gone forever. During a two-week program, participants will connect with libraries, archives and museums to support language learning and teaching. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will host Breath of Life workshops June 9–21.

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No Atheists in Foxholes - World War II Vets Remain Religious

In the heat of World War II, men who experienced intense combat were more than twice as likely to turn to prayer as those who did not, reports a Cornell University economist in the forthcoming June/July issue of Journal of Religion and Health. And the more that the veterans reported they disliked the war, the more religious they were 50 years after combat.

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s 2013 Commencement to Feature Dr. Philip Ozuah of Montefiore Medical Center

Philip O. Ozuah, M.D., Ph.D., will deliver the keynote address at Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s 2013 commencement ceremony.

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Newly Understood Circuits Add Finesse to Nerve Signals

An unusual kind of circuit fine-tunes the brain’s control over movement and incoming sensory information, and without relying on conventional nerve pathways. The work may provide insight into the design of drugs for autism and movement disorders.

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Understanding the Past and Predicting the Future by Looking Across Space and Time

In a new paper published this week (May 20) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and elsewhere validate a fundamental assumption at the very heart of a popular way to predict relationships between complex variables.

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Research Shows Students Perform Well Regardless of Reading Print or Digital Books

Research by an Indiana State University doctoral student found that students did equally well on a test whether reading from a digital book or a printed one.

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