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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,...
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Online education groups add colleges from U.S. and overseas
L.A. NOWTwo 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,... -
Timbuktu: Experts fear for ancient papers in historic city
This post has been updated and corrected. Please see the notes below.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
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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...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Health and Safety at School, Human Body, Nobel Prize Awards, Science
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Aggie jumps into 3-D printing start-up business
The Eagle, Bryan, TexasIt 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
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News Sentinel's Top 20 Scholars 2013
Knoxville News SentinelToday 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
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Albuquerque Journal, N.M., Tech Bytes Kevin Robinson-Avila column
Albuquerque JournalMBA 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
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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
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From Sun Magazine: 'Genius' pair rewrite rules of organ transplants, among other interests
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...
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Breast Cancer Moonshot
AP Chief Medical WriterThe 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
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Rice graduate tries making U.S. Olympic long jump team
KIAHFunmi 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
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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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