Life News (Education)

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The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) and CanolaInfo announced the winner of the Heart-Healthy Product Development Competition at the Institute of Food Technologists’ (IFT) Wellness 12 held in Rosemont, Ill. The winning student team from the food science program at Cornell University developed Hummus+, a nutritionally enhanced hummus product made from chickpeas, sweet potato and butternut squash.

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Beans, pulses and legumes can be classified as either vegetables or proteins under the new USDA dietary guidelines, giving them an important role in a person’s daily diet, an expert panel said at the Institute of Food Technologists’ Wellness 12 meeting.

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Salisbury University Geographic Information Systems students were recently dubbed “rock stars” by some Maryland legislators. They created large, full-color maps of land use in each new state legislative district.

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The Misericordia University Center for Adult and Continuing Education is introducing an 18-credit certificate program in Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) Administration with the fall semester in August. The certificate program prepares students to take the Certified Imaging Informatics Professional examination.

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How can higher ed prepare students for life after college and what can be done to ensure success? From April 11-13, Wake Forest University will host Rethinking Success, a national conference to examine issues related to the relevance and value of a liberal arts education to the workforce today.

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A study of a contract grading system where freshmen college students chose their coursework from a variety of assignments which were graded pass/fail, and were required to master 85% of the material to receive a passing grade, produced positive results supporting the use of contract grading in contemporary college classrooms.

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Better World Books and the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) announced that library programs in Columbus, Ohio; Providence, R.I., and Salinas, Calif., have won the annual Better World Books/NCFL Libraries and Families Award. Each library program will receive a $10,000 award.

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Stony Brook University School of Journalism announced that the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded a $285,000 grant to the Center for News Literacy to fund the creation and delivery of digital materials demanded by the rapid spread of News Literacy courses.

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Shari Brown, a Lenoir, N.C.., educator, received the national 2012 Toyota Teacher of the Year award at the National Conference on Family Literacy in San Diego. The Caldwell County Family Literacy Program that Brown serves will receive $20,000.

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Mississippi State University President Mark Keenum's statement from a 10 a.m., Sunday, March 25, press conference regarding a Saturday night shooting

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AERA Executive Director Felice J. Levine testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies today. Her testimony supported the proposed FY 2013 budget for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR).

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Misericordia University has been named by the Corporation for National and Community Service to the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, recognizing the university as one of the nation's leading colleges and universities for commitment to bettering their communities through community service and service learning.

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University of Rochester bullying expert Katy Allen offers her views on New York State's "Dignity for All Students Act," which takes effect this summer, and how schools and parents can help combat issues of social conflict, aggression, and drama—not just with The Dignity Act but in general—before they escalate and become serious bullying violations.

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University of the Sciences’ board of trustees has named Dr. Helen F. Giles-Gee the University’s 22nd president. Dr. Giles-Gee, who has served as president of Keene State College in Keene, N.H., since 2005, will begin her presidency at USciences on July 16, 2012.

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The 21st National Conference on Family Literacy will feature best-selling authors and national education leaders as it convenes March 25-27 in San Diego. National education experts also will lead in-depth sessions on parent engagement, financial literacy and other critical education issues.

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The American Education Research Association (AERA) will hold its 93rd Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The AERA Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of experts in the field and features the latest news and discoveries from scholarly and scientific education research.

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A new study by researchers from The iSchool at Drexel University suggests that teachers are molding Twitter from its common perception as a social medium for sharing personal information and observations, to a conduit for disseminating educational resources and connecting with distant colleagues.

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The amount of time spent in bilingual education programs could predict long-term academic success of English Language Learners.

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Moving patients suspected to have malignant hyperthermia to a hospital is just one of the topics discussed at the March 26 online live presentation for ambulatory surgical center healthcare professionals and administrative staff hosted by MHAUS and presented by Ronald S. Litman, MD of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and MH Hotline Consultant.

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The Georgia Institute of Technology has been selected to host the launch of the STAY WITH IT™ campaign as part of the national Day of Engineering on March 14 in collaboration with the White House, Intel, Facebook and other university partners.