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    May 10, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  1. USC steals 2 star brain researchers from UCLA

    In a major case of academic poaching involving crosstown rivals, USC has lured away two prominent neuroscientists from UCLA with a promise to expand their internationally renowned lab that uses brain imaging techniques to study Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, autism and other disorders.
    In a major case of academic poaching involving crosstown rivals, USC has lured away two prominent neuroscientists from UCLA with a promise to expand their internationally renowned lab that uses brain imaging techniques to study Alzheimer's disease,...

    Tags: Schizophrenia, European Union, Science and Technology, National Institutes of Health, Finance

  2. Feb 20, 2013 | Los Angeles Times
  3. Online education groups add colleges from U.S. and overseas

    L.A. NOW
    Two of the emerging providers of online college classes, Coursera and edX, are announcing significant expansions in the numbers of campuses that will join their organizations and offer free courses. The high-powered competitors, both founded last year,...
  4. Jan 28, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  5. Timbuktu: Experts fear for ancient papers in historic city

    As the Malian military tried to retake the storied city of Timbuktu from Islamic extremists, scholars feared for the fate of ancient artifacts and mosques that testify to its historic grandeur.
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    As the Malian military tried to retake the storied city of Timbuktu from Islamic extremists, scholars feared for the fate of ancient artifacts and mosques that testify to its historic grandeur. Timbuktu has been threatened for months: The city was...

    Tags: The Pennsylvania State University, UNESCO, Religion and Belief, Africa, Western Africa

  6. Jan 18, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. Wylie W. Vale Jr. dies at 70; researcher helped discover stress hormone

    Wylie W. Vale Jr., a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla and an internationally renowned expert on brain hormones who led a team of Salk researchers that discovered the brain hormone that triggers the body's reaction to stress, has died. He was 70.
    Wylie W. Vale Jr., a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla and an internationally renowned expert on brain hormones who led a team of Salk researchers that discovered the brain hormone that triggers the body's reaction to...

    Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Safety at School, Human Body, Nobel Prize Awards, Science

  8. May 20, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  9. Aggie jumps into 3-D printing start-up business

    The Eagle, Bryan, Texas
    It took less than an hour Sunday for Mike Mehlman to print -- yes, print -- a keychain while sitting in his College Station living room. Mehlman started the process by spreading a special glue over a piece of glass used as the platform on which to print...

    Tags: Education, New Products, Colleges and Universities

  10. May 14, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  11. News Sentinel's Top 20 Scholars 2013

    Knoxville News Sentinel
    Today the News Sentinel announces its second annual Top 20 Scholars Awards, naming our picks for the brightest and best students in our region. These students have received one or more national-level honors such as acing ACT (36) or SAT (2400) tests,...

    Tags: U.S. Foreign Service, Electronics, Science and Technology, Entertainment, Technology

  12. Apr 29, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  13. Albuquerque Journal, N.M., Tech Bytes Kevin Robinson-Avila column

    Albuquerque Journal
    MBA student Nathaniel Tafoya said the biggest thing he learned in the University of New Mexico's Technology Business Plan Competition this year is just how hard it is to start a company. Tafoya and his partner in the competition, serial entrepreneur Tom...

    Tags: Students, Newspaper and Magazine, Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning, Business

  14. Apr 21, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  15. Falmouth Academy founder called 'violent fugitive'

    Cape Cod Times, Hyannis, Mass.
    After more than 20 years on the run after his indictment on child rape charges, Falmouth Academy's founder made the state police's 10 most wanted list. Richard S. Haugh is on the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section, the same...

    Tags: Trials

  16. Nov 14, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  17. From Sun Magazine: 'Genius' pair rewrite rules of organ transplants, among other interests

    Think of Dorry Segev and Sommer Gentry as intellectual magpies.
    Think of Dorry Segev and Sommer Gentry as intellectual magpies. The glittery ideas they filch from fields as diverse as swing dancing, systems analysis, water skiing and medicine seemingly have little in common. But Segev and Gentry weave them together...

    Tags: Numb3rs (tv program), Electronics, Entertainment, Science and Technology, Technology

  18. Oct 3, 2012 |Story| Daily American
  19. Breast Cancer Moonshot

    AP Chief Medical Writer
    The nation's largest cancer center is launching a massive "moonshot" effort against eight specific forms of the disease, similar to the all-out push for space exploration 50 years ago.  The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston expects...

    Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Leukemia, Science and Technology, Health and Safety at School, Skin Cancer

  20. Jul 13, 2012 |Story| KIAH-LTV
  21. Rice graduate tries making U.S. Olympic long jump team

    Funmi Jimoh is no stranger to international track & field competition.
    KIAH
    Funmi Jimoh is no stranger to international track & field competition. "My PR [personal record] in the long jump is 6.96m/22-11 and I did that in Qatar at Doha in 2009," said Jimoh, who attended Dulles High School in Sugar Land, Texas. "She...

    Tags: Healthy Diet, Hayward Field, Track and Field

  22. Jun 27, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  23. Head of the Class: Local students earn honors and accolades

    The following students have earned accolades, degrees and honors at colleges and universities: Alex Vanko, of Towson, graduated magnum cum laude from the College of Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio, with a Bachelor of Arts in biology and a minor in philosophy....

    Tags: Colchester, Science and Technology, Technology, Scranton, Arlington (Staten Island, New York)

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