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Graduations can be a real handful
Present diploma. Smile. Shake hands. Repeat — 528 times. Over and over, Occidental College President Jonathan Veitch handed a diploma to a graduate and shook a hand. Some walked quickly across the stage while others moseyed — creating an...
Tags: Staphylococcal Infection , Graduation, Teaching and Learning, Education, White House
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Marge Brumis, 1925-2013
A volunteer at Brookfield Zoo for nearly three decades, Marge Brumis often went the extra mile in her role as one of about 300 docents that engage visitors in conservation education by interpreting animal exhibits. "She was a remarkable woman and...
Tags: Loyola University Chicago, Brookfield Zoo, Allentown
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What college students should be doing during summer break
CareerBuilderIf you’re a college student, there’s no better feeling than taking that last exam, packing up your dorm room and heading home for the summer. Summertime means a break from days spent in classrooms and nights spent studying at libraries. Yet if...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Colleges and Universities, Business Enterprises
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READER SUBMITTED: West Hartford Resident Elected Chair Of Connecticut Convention And Sports Bureau
West HartfordPeter J. Berry, CAE, has been elected the chair of the Connecticut Convention and Sports Bureau (CTCSB). He will replace Robert F. Flynn, who will complete three years of leadership in that position on June 30. "Peter Berry has been a tremendous advocate...Tags: Oxford (New Haven, Connecticut), West Hartford, White House, Environmental Issues, Waterbury
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List of scholar athletes for Broward County schools
Archbishop McCarthy AMANDA SAXTON: Top 10 percent; FSU; Maverick Scholar Athlete, National Honors Society; track, cross country Boyd Anderson KALI DAVIS-WHITE: Class rank 123; FSU; volleyball, cross country, state track champion Calvary Christian...Tags: Dartmouth College, Government, Teaching and Learning, Students, Special Olympics
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To scale up learning, higher ed systems in 10 states range of partnerships with Coursera
AP Education WriterThe movement of "Massive Open Online Courses," which began with elite universities making their courses available online to the masses, is rapidly moving into the trenches of public higher education. On Thursday, 10 large public university systems &#...Tags: University of Georgia, University of Houston, West Virginia University, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Conservative speakers need not apply
Los Angeles TimesWe have once again entered the college commencement season, which means we'll soon be reading about uplifting graduation speeches delivered by prominent Americans. Or at least by prominent liberal Americans. It's becoming increasingly apparent that...Tags: Government, World Bank Group, Lindsey O. Graham, Karl Rove, Wars and Interventions
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READER SUBMITTED: Mercy High School Announces Valedictorian
MiddletownSr. Mary A. McCarthy, RSM, president of Mercy High School and Mrs. Melissa Bullock, principal of Mercy High School have announced that Alexandra Femc is the 2013 Valedictorian, having attained the highest academic average in her class. Alexandra is the...Tags: Science and Technology, Middletown, High Schools, Gymnastics Clubs, Human Interest
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World science map grim for Latin America
The highly respected Nature Scientific Reports journal has just published a map of the world's leading science cities, and it looks pretty bad for emerging countries: It shows the planet's northern hemisphere full of lights, and the south almost solidly...Tags: Science, Italy, United Kingdom, Science and Technology, Engineering
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Did brotherly bond play role in Boston bombings?
NEW YORK (AP) — It's a vexing puzzle about the Boston Marathon bombings: The younger of the two accused brothers hardly seemed headed for a monumental act of violence. How could he team up with his older brother to do this? Nobody knows for sure,...
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Research
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College Town Shuttered: Not Easy For Students Locked Down In Boston
The Hartford CourantSpring is the high season of college life in Boston, with Frisbee on the Common and sun-bathing on the Esplanade, but students were finding it a very different place Friday as they stared out their windows from the dormitories where they were locked down....Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Teaching and Learning, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Students, Shootings
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Spring heat rises in Baltimore, and so does city violence
As record heat baked Baltimore, a wave of violence unfurled across the city: six shootings and eight people wounded over a period of less than eight hours. The first shots were fired around dinnertime Wednesday, and the violence continued until after...
Tags: Florida International University, Arts and Culture, Kennedy Krieger Institute, National Weather Service, Iowa State University
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