University of the Sciences will honor former Astronaut Dr. Guion ‘Guy’ Bluford, Jr., and former ASHP CEO Dr. Henri R. Manasse, Jr., at commencement on Wednesday, May 23, 2012, at 1 p.m.
Simple message ties the science of soil to everyday life, spreading education beyond the classroom.
Members of the student group Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have been hard at work transforming a used 20-foot steel shipping container into a safe, comfortable, and transportable bedroom for orphaned children in Haiti.
This fall, Drexel Environmental Science students will have a breadth of new research and academic opportunities locally and across the globe as a result of the University’s unique academic affiliation with the Academy of Natural Sciences. Out of the affiliation comes the Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science (BEES), where students will work and learn among some of the world’s leading scientists and have access to the Academy’s extensive natural science collections and community outreach programs.
Helping address “Weight of the Nation” concerns has been the mission of the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation for more than 20 years. Our expert staff, which include registered dietitians, along with an established network of 350+ nutrition and food safety academic and health experts, promote science-based and consumer-friendly strategies to help consumers lead more healthful lives.
Nora D. Volkow, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, and Nobel Prize recipient Peter Agre, M.D., are this year's featured guest speakers for the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Research Days.
The authors of the newly published Characteristics of Excellence in Undergraduate Research (COEUR)* will be coming to Washington to discuss this new document designed to assist institutions and agencies qualitatively evaluate their undergraduate research programs and provide a guide for strategic planning and resource allocation. Capitalizing on three decades of CUR experience fostering undergraduate research, COEUR identifies critical best practices. COEUR can be used as a guide for organizations that are striving to enhance learning experiences of students through examining the institutional environment for supportive research practices. It can also be used as a beacon for institutions that are in the beginning stages of developing an undergraduate research program, or for funding agencies seeking to better understand the qualities of excellent undergraduate research programs.
When thousands of citizens opposed to “fracking” present their case to legislators in Albany this spring, chances are that some of them will carry posters of a controversial billboard created by New York City College of Technology (City Tech) graduate Svetlana (Lana) Akhmadieva.
Computational mechanics expert Suvranu De has been named the new head of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering (MANE) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The appointment is effective June 1, 2012.
New York University School of Medicine will hold its 170th annual graduation at 10am, Thursday, May 17, 2012, at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan. Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, Sidney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine in Pennsylvania will deliver the keynote address entitled “Physician Advocacy in a Changing Health Care Environment.”
The No Child Left Behind Act has bolstered language test scores but done little to improve math and reading scores for students in rural Alabama schools, according to a new study by Auburn University and RTI International.
TTU engineering and business students have been working together to design packaging and marketing plans to launch a variety of Turkish products in the U.S. They will travel to Turkey this semester to discuss the feasibility of their work at a partner university.
Approximately 700 Baccalaureate degree candidates from Nova Southeastern University’s Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, the Abraham S. Fischler School of Education, and the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, will hear from several inspiring speakers during their Undergraduate Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 12.
Karl Pillemer is professor of human development at Cornell University and author of the recently published “30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans.” Based on surveys of over 1,200 of America’s elders, Pillemer uncovered their advice to the younger generation for living a happy, healthy and successful life. Their graduation advice includes: make the most of a bad job, choose excitement over money, use graduation gifts to travel, and take risks to avoid regret.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced the new Manufacturing Innovation Learning Lab (MILL). Focused on educating the next generation of manufacturing leaders and pioneers, MILL builds upon the many successes of its predecessor, the award-winning Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory (AML).
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Lester Gerhardt last month received the prestigious Benjamin Garver Lamme Award and Medal from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
A team of researchers from the Stony Brook University Department of Physics & Astronomy along with colleagues from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) in Spain, explain a puzzling water anomaly in a paper published in the May 9 edition of Physical Review Letters entitled, “Anomalous Nuclear Quantum Effects in Ice.” The work details an anomaly – a deviation from the common form – of water ice that has been largely neglected and never before explained.
Among California's persistently lowest-achieving schools, those that have implemented aggressive turnaround reforms mandated by the federal government are showing significant improvements just one year later, a new study finds.
University of Utah students in the American Indian Patient Experience Think Tank course at the University of Utah’s Honors College took an in-depth look at the complex issues surrounding American Indian healthcare.
Summer internships are beginning, and career-related research from Kansas State University is helping determine what can make those internships more meaningful for students. Kerri Day Keller, director of career and employment services, has studied internships as high-impact educational practices and identified eight themes that characterize effective internships.
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