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Zahn Prize Competition Gives Undergraduates the Opportunity, Mentoring to Launch StartupsIt was standing room only at the grand opening of the Moxie Center for Undergraduate Entrepreneurship as 10 undergraduate student teams waited to see who among them would win one of three Zahn prizes, for a total of $10,000 in cash to help them bring their products to market. The room was filled with students, faculty, industry partners and investors as well as San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, University of California, San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla, and Juan C. Lasheras, interim dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. |
Released: 5/24/2013 5:00 PM EDT
University of California, San Diego |
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Free Band Concerts and Events Are Highlights at the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Planning your summer vacation? The National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., is offering special activities, all free of charge. For the first time, the museum will present outdoor band concerts and family events as well as special deals on theater tickets and simulator rides. |
Released: 5/24/2013 4:45 PM EDT
Smithsonian Institution |
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Endangered Languages Conference Set for SmithsonianOver half of the world’s languages are endangered. The Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages is working with Native Americans to revitalize their languages before they are gone forever. During a two-week program, participants will connect with libraries, archives and museums to support language learning and teaching. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History will host Breath of Life workshops June 9–21. |
Released: 5/24/2013 4:40 PM EDT
Smithsonian Institution |
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No Atheists in Foxholes - World War II Vets Remain ReligiousIn the heat of World War II, men who experienced intense combat were more than twice as likely to turn to prayer as those who did not, reports a Cornell University economist in the forthcoming June/July issue of Journal of Religion and Health. And the more that the veterans reported they disliked the war, the more religious they were 50 years after combat. |
Released: 5/24/2013 4:35 PM EDT
Cornell University |
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s 2013 Commencement to Feature Dr. Philip Ozuah of Montefiore Medical Center
Philip O. Ozuah, M.D., Ph.D., will deliver the keynote address at Albert Einstein College of Medicine’s 2013 commencement ceremony. |
Released: 5/24/2013 4:00 PM EDT
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University |
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Research Shows Students Perform Well Regardless of Reading Print or Digital BooksResearch by an Indiana State University doctoral student found that students did equally well on a test whether reading from a digital book or a printed one. |
Released: 5/24/2013 2:55 PM EDT
Indiana State University |
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Middle East Expert Mednicoff Named Lead Investigator for $1 Million Research Study
David Mednicoff, assistant professor of public policy and director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has been named the principal investigator on a $1.01 million grant to conduct interdisciplinary research on legal development and practices in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. |
Released: 5/24/2013 2:00 PM EDT
University of Massachusetts Amherst |
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WW II Vet’s Memorial Day Gift: His Diploma, FinallyWWII forced Arthur Ourieff to cut short his undergraduate education and leave Amherst College two years early. He didn’t attend his graduation, and never received his diploma. That will change on May 26, when the 89-year-old will be awarded his B.A. along with the 464 members of the Class of 2013. |
Released: 5/24/2013 1:00 PM EDT
Amherst College |
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Register for the String-Math Conference at The Simons Center
The Simons Center for Geometry and Physics is hosting the third annual String-Math Conference 2013 June 17 to June 21. The Conference brings together mathematicians and physicists who work on ideas related to string theory. |
Released: 5/24/2013 10:55 AM EDT
Stony Brook University |
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Investing in the Future: UC San Diego’s Federal Research Funding Among Top 10 in Nation Despite Campus’s Relative YouthA study by the National Science Foundation naming the top 10 universities receiving the most federal funding for research and development ranked UC San Diego in 8th place out of 896 colleges that received federal R&D money during the 2011 fiscal year. |
Released: 5/23/2013 4:00 PM EDT
University of California, San Diego |