Macalester Board Elects Two New Members
Posted On Saturday, July 6, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MINNESOTA Tags: Aukse Jurkute, Dr. Patricia Elizabeth, Dr. Patricia Elizabeth Hume, Macalester College Board of Trustees, Minn, St. Paul, University of California
St. Paul, Minn. – The Macalester College Board of Trustees has elected two new trustees: Dr. Patricia Elizabeth Hume, a physician at the San Francisco Free Clinic in San Francisco, Calif., and Aukse Jurkute, an investment banker for Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, England. Both have been elected ...
Davis Takes ‘CoolCalifornia’ Prize as Cities Rally to Cut Carbon Emissions
Posted On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 By USA Education News. Under CALIFORNIA Tags: California Air Resources Board, Chris Jones, Coolest California City, Energy Dan Kammen, University of California
BERKELEY — The City of Davis today (Thursday, June 27) was officially named the “Coolest California City,” outscoring seven other cities who lowered their greenhouse gas emissions in a statewide competition run by the University of California, Berkeley, for the California Air Resources Board.
But UC Berkeley researchers say there were ...
Resistance Gene Found Against Ug99 Wheat Stem Rust Pathogen
Posted On Sunday, June 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under KANSAS Tags: Eduard Akhunov, fungal pathogen, Jorge Dubcovsky, Ug99 race, University of California
MANHATTAN -- The world's food supply got a little more plentiful thanks to a scientific breakthrough.
Eduard Akhunov, associate professor of plant pathology at Kansas State University, and his colleague, Jorge Dubcovsky from the University of California-Davis, led a research project that identified a gene that gives wheat plants resistance to ...
Down the Wrong Path: Book Details Psychiatry’s Lack of Objective Science
Posted On Monday, June 24, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FLORIDA Tags: College of Social Work, Florida State University, Mad Science, Stuart A. Kirk, Transaction Publishers, University of California
Psychiatry — which uses well-intentioned coercion, unscientific diagnoses and psychoactive drugs that do as much harm as good — is a science that is off course, according to a new book co-written by Tomi Gomory, an associate professor in the Florida State University College of Social Work.
In “Mad Science: Psychiatric ...
A New and Surprising Gene for Migraine
Posted On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under VERMONT Tags: Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome, Neurological Sciences, Robert Shapiro, Science Translational Medicine, University of California
A team co-led by Robert E. Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurological sciences at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, has discovered a new gene for migraine. Migraine is a highly disabling headache disorder which affects up to 60 million Americans each year. While migraine often runs in families, only ...
2013 Club Award Banquet Recognizes Leaders, Advisors And Clubs On Campus
Posted On Thursday, May 9, 2013 By USA Education News. Under NEVADA Tags: ASUN, Award Banquet, Outstanding Community Service, University of California, University of Nevada
The Clubs and Organizations Award Banquet was recently held to honor and celebrate the accomplishments made by students in organizations at the University of Nevada, Reno. Nearly 60 clubs and individuals of the Associated Students of the University (ASUN) were nominated for six possible awards including Outstanding Advisor of the ...
More Colleges Seek to Boost Enrollment at Summer School
Posted On Friday, April 26, 2013 By USA Education News. Under GUAM Tags: improve graduation rates, Montclair State University, seek to boost, University of California, University of Iowa
A growing number of colleges, under pressure to improve graduation rates, seek to boost summer enrollments by slashing tuition, expanding course options and offering other perks.
The University of Iowa recently announced that this fall's freshman class will be able to take summer classes for free starting in 2014. Dominican University ...
Lindsley Honored For Impact On Medicinal Chemistry Field
Posted On Saturday, March 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under TENNESSEE Tags: ACS Chemical Neuroscience, Craig Lindsley, Harvard University, Santa Barbara, University of California
Vanderbilt University’s Craig Lindsley, Ph.D., is the 2013 recipient of the Philip S. Portoghese Lectureship, awarded jointly by the Journal of Medicinal Chemistryand the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Medicinal Chemistry.
The award, named for the journal’s former editor-in-chief, honors individuals who have had a “major impact” on medicinal chemistry ...
Gender And Sports Expert to Speak at Honolulu CC
Posted On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under HAWAII Tags: Dr. Mike Messner, Honolulu CC, Honolulu Community College, Loui Conference Center, Mike Messner, University of California
Honolulu Community College is proud to host Dr. Mike Messner, one of the biggest names in the study of masculinities to date, to share a free public presentation on “Forty Years of Title IX: Where Are the Boys in Youth Sports?”
His presentation will take place on Friday, Feb. 15, 1 ...
