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‘Life as Research Scientist’: Jo Varner, Biologist

By BlogArenaJanuary 16, 2014Education, Interview, Media, Natureamerican pikas, c elegans, cancer genes, climate change, columbia river gorge, high elevation habitats, jo varner, mammals like pikas, new zealand, organic farms, warming climate

Jo Varner, University of Utah biology doctoral student, is currently conducting research on how small mammals like Pikas are coping with Earth’s warming climate. Her study is concentrated on Pikas in the Columbia River Gorge area in the U.S, which is an unusual habitat for this species. Recently we had the opportunity to talk to Miss Varner about her research, why it is important and how life as a research scientist is. Here is what we learned from Miss Jo Varner: (more…)

A Norwegian defense

By Guest PostJanuary 10, 2014Education, Science19th century, atlantic, brain cancer, characterization, christopher columbus, deni galileo, egil johnson, finland, glioblastoma cells, glioblastoma multiforme, iver langmoen, joel glover, juha jaaskelainen, kuopio university, mrinal joel, newark, norway, norwegian capital, norwegian defense, norwegians discovered america, oslo, ph d defense, small viking ships, stem cell, university of delaware, viking ship museum, xenotypic tissue environments

Brain cancer researcher travels to Oslo for dissertation defense

As winter weather hit Newark, Del., on Sunday, Dec. 8, a University of Delaware brain cancer researcher escaped the storm by traveling to Oslo, Norway, of all places.

The Norwegian capital also received its first snow of the season that day, but it only accumulated to about three inches, according to Deni Galileo, associate professor of biological sciences at UD. He traveled to Oslo to take part in the Ph.D. defense of Mrinal Joel, a University of Oslo doctoral student who, like Galileo, is working on the most lethal type of brain cancer, Glioblastoma multiforme. (more…)

The future of research universities

By Guest PostDecember 24, 2013Education, Science21st century, maryland, merit based system, moocs, patrick harker, problem based learning, research universities, time to innovation, united states, university of delaware, university system, usm, william kirwan

Maryland chancellor shares ideas to enhance effectiveness of America’s research universities

For research universities to produce the ideas and talent the United States needs in order to lead in the 21st century, they “must make a steady and persistent movement to adapt to the times,” according to William (Brit) Kirwan, chancellor of the University System of Maryland (USM).

Kirwan spoke on the future of research universities on Wednesday, Dec. 11, at the University of Delaware. The talk, presented to a group of UD faculty and administrators, was designed to help set the scene and percolate new ideas as UD considers the next phase of its Path to Prominencestrategic plan, a process that will begin in the new year. (more…)

IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives within Five Years

By Guest PostDecember 17, 2013Education, Science, Technologyattack the cancer, big data analytics, breakthroughs, cancer treatment plans, change our lives, cloud computing, cognitive experience lab, cognitive systems, computing, dario gil, digital guardian, DNA, five innovations, ibm, ibm scientists, incidence of cancer, learning technologies, new era, stolen identity, uganda, unicef, vital information, within five years

IBM Predicts – in Five Years Everything will Learn

ARMONK, N.Y. – 17 Dec 2013: Today IBM unveiled the eighth annual “IBM 5 in 5“ (#ibm5in5) – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.

This year’s IBM 5 in 5 explores the idea that everything will learn – driven by a new era of cognitive systems where machines will learn, reason and engage with us in a more natural and personalized way. These innovations are beginning to emerge enabled by cloud computing, big data analytics and learning technologies all coming together, with the appropriate privacy and security considerations, for consumers, citizens, students and patients. (more…)

Creative classroom: In ‘books of secrets,’ historian’s students find an unexpected past

By Guest PostDecember 16, 2013Educationbeinecke library, books of secrets, closets of secrets, creative classroom, elusive knowledge, voynich manuscript

One afternoon Nell Meosky ’14 was sitting at a table in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library with her classmates in the undergraduate seminar “Spies, Secrets, and Science.” She eagerly began to leaf through pages of a late medieval text, when an exclamation of “Wait!” by her professor, Paola Bertucci, made her take pause. (more…)

‘Hackathon’ teaches Chicago high school students the social power of Big Data

By Guest PostNovember 28, 2013Education, Scienceanonymity, big data, campaign, Chicago, chicago data portal, city, commuting patterns, complex data, creative use, data, data scientist, Eric Schmidt, google chairman, high school hackathon, kenwood academy, nina henderson, obama for america, public policy, rayid ghani, shaz rasul, statistics, tom plagge, university of chicago, urban problems, william woods

Like urban bike-sharing programs everywhere, Chicago’s Divvy must contend with a key problem: due to commuting patterns, some bike stations empty out fast while others fill up quickly, leaving no space for more drop-offs.

But such urban problems can be addressed with socially minded computer science, as a group of 50 Chicago high school students learned recently during a daylong conference at the University of Chicago. (more…)

Technology in the Classroom

By Guest PostNovember 26, 2013Education, Technologyalexander brown, anuradha sivaraman, class participation, classroom, common hashtag, increase, re tweeting, social media service, Technology, tweets, Twitter, twitter feed, university of delaware

UD faculty use Twitter to enhance classroom experience

The University of Delaware’s Alexander Brown, instructor of business administration, and Anuradha Sivaraman, assistant professor of business administration, believe that using Twitter for their courses helps keep the classroom discussions contemporary and increases class participation.

“It’s a good way to source material for classroom discussions,” Brown explains. “If you run a class where you want to engage students with current content and keep things contemporary, Twitter is the way to go.” (more…)

Study: Catholic schools not superior to public schools

By Guest PostNovember 17, 2013Educationcatholic primary schooling, catholic schools, catholic students, journal, michigan state university, public schools, socioeconomic status, todd elder, united states, urban economics

A national study led by a Michigan State University economist suggests Catholic schools are not superior to public schools after all.

Math scores for Catholic students dropped between kindergarten and eighth grade, while math scores for public school students increased slightly. In addition, Catholic students saw no significant increase in reading scores or better behavioral outcomes between kindergarten and eighth grade. (more…)

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