09/04/2008
NSF funds new center to bring together biologists, mathematicians (EurekAlert!)
( National Science Foundation ) Biologists and mathematicians from around the world will take part in a new institute dedicated to bringing top researchers together to find creative solutions to pressing problems in both scientific fields.
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09/06/2008
Local prof's art adds up to German honors (Miami Herald)
Lun-Yi Tsai, visual artist and math professor at Miami Dade College's Wolfson campus, has been named Germany's ''Mathmaker of the Week.'' Tsai, who spent four months in Berlin doing an artist residency at the Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft of the University of Art Berlin (Universitaet der Kuenste Berlin), was chosen from a group of 700 mathematicians vying for the title in celebration of Germany's Year ...
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09/07/2008
TEACHING OF MATHS AND SCIENCE IN ENGLISH: Study reveals policy's flaws (The New Straits Times)
TANJUNG MALIM: Five years after schools began teaching Mathematics and Science in English, tests on thousands of students have revealed poor scores in these subjects.
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09/04/2008
Cornell Gets $10 Million NSF Grant to Establish New Institute That Applies Computer Power to Sustainability (Newswise)
Could a computer model help stabilize the tuna population? Can we compute how to transition to ethanol fuel without jeopardizing food production? Those and other questions will be tackled by computer scientists, applied mathematicians, economists, biologists and environmental scientists affiliated with Cornell University's new Institute for Computational Sustainability, being launched with a $10 ...
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09/05/2008
Genetic Institute Gets $400 Million Gift (New York Times)
Eli and Edythe Broad, who are giving away a multibillion-dollar fortune made in real estate and insurance, announced on Thursday their biggest gift so far, a $400 million donation to the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, The New York Times’ Stephanie Strom reported.
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09/04/2008
Cornell gets $10 million NSF grant to establish new sustainability institute (EurekAlert!)
( Cornell University Communications ) Could a computer model help stabilize the tuna population? Can we compute how to transition to ethanol fuel without jeopardizing food production?Those and other questions will be tackled by computer scientists, applied mathematicians, economists, biologists and environmental scientists affiliated with Cornell University's new Institute for Computational ...
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09/03/2008
UT Knoxville wins $16M NSF mathematics and biology center (EurekAlert!)
( University of Tennessee at Knoxville ) Mathematicians and biologists from around the world will converge on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to take part in a new institute dedicated to finding creative solutions to pressing problems from animal disease to wildfire control.The National Science Foundation has awarded UT Knoxville $16 million to begin the National Institute for ...
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09/03/2008
UT Knoxville Wins $16M Mathematics and Biology Center (WVLT-TV Knoxville)
Mathematicians and biologists from around the world will converge on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to take part in a new institute dedicated to finding creative solutions to pressing problems from animal disease to wildfire control.
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09/05/2008
FedEx Cup rewards mediocrity (Austin American-Statesman)
This year's version of the FedEx Cup was supposed to be about volatility.
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09/04/2008
$400 Million Gift to Genetic Institute (New York Times)
The gift to the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard was the biggest so far from Eli and Edythe Broad, who are giving away a multibillion-dollar.
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