12/03/2008
Books cause stir at USM (Hattiesburg American)
Requiring customized textbooks enriches the coffers at some academic departments at the University of Southern Mississippi, but leaves many students poorer because they can't sell the books back.
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12/05/2008
Happiness is a collective -- not just individual -- phenomenon (EurekAlert!)
( Harvard Medical School ) Happiness spreads through social networks like an emotional contagion, according to a study that looked at nearly 5,000 individuals over a period of 20 years. When an individual becomes happy, the network effect can be measured up to three degrees. One person's happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only his friends, but his friends' friends, and his ...
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12/05/2008
Happiness Is a Collective--Not Just Individual--Phenomenon (Newswise)
Happiness spreads through social networks like an emotional contagion, according to a study that looked at nearly 5,000 individuals over a period of 20 years. When an individual becomes happy, the network effect can be measured up to three degrees. One person's happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only his friends, but his friends' friends, and his friends' friends' friends. The ...
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12/03/2008
Novel bioreactor enhances interleukin-12 production in genetically-modified tobacco plants (EurekAlert!)
In a study published in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, a team of scientists at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the Arkansas Bioscience Institute at Arkansas State University report that they have found a way to produce significant quantities of murine interleukin-12, a naturally occurring protein essential for the proper functioning of the human immune system, from the hairy ...
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12/03/2008
Am-Po student attends future ag leaders conference (The Express-Star)
Dakota Miller of Blanchard, a student at Amber-Pocasset High School, attended the 12th Annual Future Agricultural Leaders Conference Nov. 14-16 at Oklahoma State University sponsored by the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Agricultural Ambassadors and the Oklahoma Farm Bureau.
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12/03/2008
Institute For Food, Nutrition And Health To Be Established At Rutgers Using $10 From Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Medical News Today)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has received a four-year, $10 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to establish the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health, on its George H. Cook Campus. Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick announced his intention to establish the new institute during his Annual Address to the University Community on Sept. 19.
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12/03/2008
College textbook racket unnecessary expense (Hattiesburg American)
University administrators around the country talk a good game about keeping tuition and fees more affordable as they bemoan their ever-increasing costs.
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12/03/2008
Winter intersession classes provide opportunity for students, incentives for professors (The Ohio University Post)
For many Ohio University students, the winter break is an opportunity to make some spending money, but for Katie Moorehead, the six-week intersession will earn her four credit hours in addition to some extra cash.
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12/02/2008
Rutgers receives $10 million to study obesity (The Record)
Rutgers University announced today that it has received a $10 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to establish an interdisciplinary institute that will focus on obesity.
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12/03/2008
UNL to look for cuts in hiring, utilities (Lincoln Journal Star)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman has taken to turning off his computer every time he leaves his office for more than two hours.
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