09/07/2008
New tuition tradition (Sun-Sentinel)
Web site offers microloan matches for college students, private lenders Her name is Larisa, a biology major attending Auburn University. She wants to become a dentist, but must come up with $17,000 to continue her education. Thanks to a $7,800 pledge from one lender, she is halfway there.
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09/07/2008
Principal has proud passion for helping students to read (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Ask Kathy Harrington what the most important room in the Pine-Richland Middle School is and she won't say a science classroom where students study biology, ...
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09/04/2008
Future of biology rests in harnessing data avalanche (PhysOrg)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like most sciences, biology is inundated with data. However, a group of researchers warns in a Nature feature that the avalanche of biological information is at the point where the discipline may be unable to reach its full potential without improvements for curating data into on-line databases. The commentary appears in the September 4, issue of the journal and outlines ...
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09/07/2008
Creek teacher joins seabird research expedition in Alaska (The Bay Area Citizen)
A biology and anatomy teacher from Clear Creek High School spent part of her summer on a research trip to Alaska.
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09/07/2008
Education a ticket out of poverty in India (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)
HUNTINGTON -- Hari Satya Shankar Addagarla is a 29-year-old Marshall University graduate student, working to finish his master's degree in biology. His path to America was not easy, he said. Education in his native India required hard work and plenty of studying, with little time spent on sports, games and activities. But life in India is such for most students, who must choose between a life ...
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09/06/2008
Blending race, biology balancing act for parents (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Brad and Angelina, meet the Remillards and the Sears.
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09/04/2008
Nanotechnology? Synthetic Biology? Hey, What's That? (Medical News Today)
Nanotechnology and synthetic biology are two of the most exciting fields in science. They are the focus of venture capitalists, government and university laboratories, major corporations, and startup companies.
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09/06/2008
Discovery Challenges Fundamental Tenet Of Cancer Biology (Medical News Today)
Yale researchers have identified an unusual molecular process in normal tissues that causes RNA molecules produced from separate genes to be clipped and stitched together.
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09/06/2008
Martin: Plants that eat (Midland Daily News)
Think back to your elementary school days when you were learning about the food chain. Remember between shooting spit balls at your fellow classmates and passing notes to your girlfriend you learned the terms producers and consumers in biology class. As a refresher, plants are at the bottom of the food chain and are producers. Animals, which can not produce food, are termed consumers.
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09/06/2008
Today: H 22 /L 11 (Guelph Mercury)
A University of Guelph professor has been elected a fellow of one of Canada's most prestigious scholarly organizations. Dr. Arend Bonen, of the department of human biology and nutrition sciences, has been honoured by the Royal Society of Canada's Academy of Arts, Humanities and Sciences.
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