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Robert Shaw, Emily Dickinson Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, has been awarded the 2013 Poets’ Prize for his book Aromatics.

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Tufts University School of Medicine has announced a new Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH). The DrPH program will draw from across the University’s distinguished graduate schools in medicine, nutrition, veterinary sciences, dentistry, engineering and international relations. Tufts will enroll its inaugural DrPH class in the fall of 2013.

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Media advisory on child abuse and prevention month.

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A group of some of the country’s top scholars in First Amendment law recently gathered at Washington University in St. Louis to discuss pressing challenges being faced by the first of our Bill of Rights. Three issues rose to the top of the list for Washington University’s first amendment experts: free expression in a digital age; impaired political debate; and weakened rights of groups.

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Barb and Greg Tresness have announced a commitment of $100,000 to the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University. The generous donation will fund the creation of Communication Hope through Assistive Technology (CHAT), a program to assist youth with disabilities that affect their verbal communication to open their voices to the world.

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Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology Heritage Studies (JEMAHS) is a new peer-reviewed journal devoted to traditional, anthropological, social, and applied archaeologies of the Eastern Mediterranean, encompassing both prehistoric and historic periods. The journal’s geographic range spans three continents and brings together, as no academic periodical has done before, the archaeologies of Greece and the Aegean, Anatolia, the Levant, Cyprus, Egypt and North Africa.

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Journal of General Education: A Curricular Commons of the Humanities and Sciences is devoted to the ideas and ideals of scholarship that enlighten the understanding of curriculum that reaches beyond disciplinary and professional concentrations to provide an undergraduate educational commons. The journal’s research, essays, forums and reviews engage academic communities and others in deliberations about general education experiments and innovation, as well as considerations of general education assessment, history, philosophy and theoretical perspective.

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Move over dancing bears, Ronan the sea lion really does know how to boogie to the beat.

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Surveillance is everywhere, from street corner cameras to the subject of books and movies. “We talk a lot about why surveillance is bad, but we don’t really know why,” says Neil Richards, JD, privacy law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “We only have a vague intuition about it, which is why courts don’t protect it. We know we don’t like it, and that it has something to do with privacy, but beyond that, the details can be fuzzy.” Richards’ new article on the topic, “The Danger of Surveillance,” will be published in the next issue of the Harvard Law Review.

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The U.S. should adopt mileage-based road user fees to raise revenue to build and maintain roads and bridges, say faculty members at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

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Las Vegas is appealing to average people around the world because it represents an escape from the mundane, everyday cares everyone faces, says Missouri University of Science and Technology historian Larry Gragg in his latest book.

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In keeping with a global trend toward making information open to all, the faculty at Amherst College voted this month overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution that will effectively offer their forthcoming scholarly articles online for free.

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The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) today released two new videos in their World Without Food Science series. The video, Special Foods, discusses how food science has played a critical role in contributing nutritious foods to people with unique nutritional needs like pregnant woman, new mothers, children, and people with dietary allergies and restrictions. The video, Nutrition, emphasizes how food science gives people access to different kinds of foods from all over the world at affordable prices and the process of fortifying foods with additional nutrients.

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Contemporary scholarship has conceptualized modern fame as an open system in which people continually move in and out of celebrity status. However, according to new research, “Only 15 Minutes? The Social Stratification of Fame in Printed Media,” published in the April issue of the American Sociological Review, researchers led by Arnout van de Rijt, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, reveal that most fame isn’t fleeting after all.

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While the public today is better educated and aware of the risks of brain injuries, March – also known as National Brain Injury Awareness Month - is a good time to educate ourselves and others that suspected head injuries, especially concussions, shouldn’t be ignored, say Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) experts.

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Data from a statewide survey of sixth-, eighth-, and 11th-grade Iowa students found an increased risk for alcohol use, binge drinking, and using marijuana and other illegal drugs, among children of deployed or recently returned military parents compared to children in non-military families.

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