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A National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that, for the first time, will bring an international, interdisciplinary team together to address a significant regional problem with global change implications, was awarded to Hamilton College, a member of the Council on Undergraduate Research. This is the only planned Antarctic expedition of its kind that combines this breadth of disciplines on one vessel.

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A Valparaiso University biochemistry student has helped make a key discovery in a class of proteins that could play a critical role in designing better treatments for diseases associated with disrupted circadian rhythm "“ the roughly 24-hour cycle a person's body goes through.

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Valpariso University will unveil an updated online map of nearly 200 bias-motivated incidents that have taken place in Northwest Indiana since 1990 at a summit. The summit, will highlight the work of undergraduate students working with the campus Community Research and Service Center in tracking bias-motivated incidents.

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Two University of Wisconsin-Stout students have developed a warm-weather garment lining for pants that can be removed without removing the wearer's pants or shoes.

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A Valparaiso University chemistry professor and his students are working to develop an improved method of synthesizing carbon rings that are essential components of thousands of organic molecules used by humans.

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Six undergraduate women students from the University of Arizona have been selected to present the results of their work at Experimental Biology 2008, a meeting that brings together professional research societies and associations as well as 13,000 scientists from around the world.

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Nearly eighty college students from across the nation will visit Capitol Hill today to share impressive and varied research projects, which were supported by federal funds, with Members of Congress, their peers, federal agency representatives and others. The Council for Undergraduate Research (CUR) will welcome these students"”chosen from hundreds of applicants"”at their annual "Posters on the Hill" event.

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A research team from Valparaiso University's College of Engineering will take a solar reactor they've designed and built from scratch to Switzerland next month to begin a series of tests at one of the world' premier solar energy research institutes. Valparaiso is a member of the Council on Undergraduate Research.

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Research by a Valparaiso University geography professor and his students lends support to evidence the first humans to settle the Americas came from Europe, rather than crossing a Bering Strait land-ice bridge. Valparaiso's research shows the Kankakee Sand Islands "“ a series of hundreds of small dunes in the Kankakee River area of Northwest Indiana and northeastern Illinois "“ were created 14,500 to 15,000 years ago and that the region could not have been covered by ice as previously thought.

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A Valparaiso University biology major and his faculty adviser will discuss how native wildflowers may be able to survive the onslaught of a poisonous invasive weed during a presentation at the annual conference of the Ecological Society of America in August. Valparaiso is a member of the Council on Undergraduate Research.