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CP24 Partners with PMHF for ‘One Day’ to Change Face of Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Canada

CP24 has joined forces with The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation (PMHF) to help raise awareness for the ‘One Day’ breast cancer rapid diagnosis campaign. All day on Thursday, November 19, CP24 will broadcast from Princess Margaret Hospital featuring interviews with doctors and patients about one-day breast cancer diagnosis. The goal is to help secure the funding to help expand the program in order to diagnose more women and men.

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New Book Examines Impact of AIDS on American Politics

A new book by a University of Illinois at Chicago scholar examines how the AIDS epidemic impacted American politics in the 1980s and 1990s and argues that the era was not as politically conservative as it is often characterized.

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Linguist to Assist in Salvaging Remains of Comanche Language, Devising College Course

A Texas Tech University professor will work on project to document, revitalize and teach the Comanche language.

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Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) ‘Map Open Space’ Exhibit: Call for Entries

The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) 2010 is seeking entries for “Map Open Space,” the first of four online, juried competitions offered by FLEFF during its yearlong rollout of blogs, screenings and other online, user-generated events.

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Prof Writing Bio of Auschwitz Angel of Death's Mentor

A Clarkson University professor has received a $277K NSF grant to write the biography of Dr. Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer (1896-1969), a controversial human geneticist who worked during Germany's Nazi era. von Verschuer was arguably Germany’s most controversial 20th century human geneticist.

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International Conference “Migrations and Transnational Identities: Crossing Borders, Bridging Disciplines"

The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University, in collaboration with the Alfonse M. D’Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, presents an international conference, “Migrations and Transnational Identities: Crossing Borders, Bridging Disciplines.” The event will take place on the campus of Stony Brook University, in the Charles B. Wang Center and the Humanities Building on Thursday, November 12 from 1:00 to 5:30 p.m. and Friday, November 13 from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

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Radical Reappraisal of Mark Twain Nets Professor Award for Best Book on Southern Studies

Discovering overlooked or misinterpreted writings by Mark Twain -- including anonymous newspaper articles he penned -- helped an author reappraise the man who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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Opening of Confucius Institute Offers New Campus and Community Cultural, Language Opportunities

Binghamton University will officially open its latest global partnership initiative, the Confucius Institute of Chinese Opera, in an opening celebration scheduled for 8 p.m. Friday, November 6, in the Anderson Center for the Performing Arts. The festivities will be followed by an opera performance by a troupe from China’s prestigious National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts (NACTA).

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Losing Your Tongue

World’s top endangered language experts gather at University of Utah November 12 to 14 to take the first step in cataloguing endangered and dying languages in a comprehensive online database.

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Four Centuries of Baptist Voices

The Acts of the Apostles: Four Centuries of Baptist Interpretation presents Baptists’ historical views on the biblical book of Acts.

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