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From Neanderthals to alien life: Q&A with Carl Zimmer

By Guest PostMarch 18, 2013Educationalien life, carl zimmer, environmental studies program, neanderthals, yale, yale university, yale university tumblr

Science writer and blogger Carl Zimmer ’87, a lecturer in Yale’s Environmental Studies Program, answers questions submitted by the public via the Yale University Tumblr. *Source: Yale University

A Better Walk to a Brighter Future for Tanzania’s Youngest

By Guest PostMarch 15, 2013Education, Generalaga khan foundation, brighter future, dar es salaam, diane ruonavaara, gabrielle kleber, jeff riedinger, michigan state university, milola, milola children, new york, ngwenya, own vision, project, sub village, tag philanthropic foundation, Tanzania, tanzanian children, university

In January, 60 young Tanzanian children began attending school for the first time, thanks to a project led by Michigan State University.

MSU and its partners in the Tanzanian Partnership Program built a new school on 100 acres donated by two village elders in a sub-village of Milola known as Ngwenya. Construction funds were provided by the TAG Philanthropic Foundation, based in New York. (more…)

Children’s Books

By Guest PostMarch 5, 2013Culture, Educationacting cool, backpack, books, character issues, children, early childhood, invitation slip up, magnolia elementary school, reading specialist, stephanie guzman, sticky fins, university of delaware, young daughter

UD alumna, educator writes books to help children deal with challenges

After Stephanie Guzman graduated from the University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development in 2001 as an early childhood education major, her first position was as a second grade teacher at a Title I school.

While Title I schools are designed to improve the academic proficiency for children from disadvantaged areas, Guzman found her students had character issues that needed to be addressed as well. (more…)

Boys’ Lack of Effort in School Tied to College Gender Gap

By Guest PostMarch 5, 2013Educationbachelors degrees, better job, blue collar, boy friendly, claudia buchmann, college education, columbia university, education gender gap, gender gap, lower class families, men, middle class families, narrow notions, proportion of men, receiving college degrees, single sex education, sociologists, sociology, thomas diprete, united states, working class fathers

New Book Examines Why Women Succeed More in College

COLUMBUS, Ohio – When it comes to college education, men are falling behind by standing still.

The proportion of men receiving college degrees has stagnated, while women have thrived under the new economic and social realities in the United States and elsewhere, according to two sociologists who have written a new book on the subject. (more…)

Global Education

By Guest PostMarch 3, 2013Educationabuja, african studies, anthropology, basic ingredient, benin, california state university, cameroon, chelsea rozanski, ghana, global education, Kenya, mune duniya, native hausa language, necessary resources, niger, nigerian translator, nigerian village, phillips elisha, regional chadic language, rice, sacramento, school curriculum, serrena carlucci, spices, Tanzania, tomatoes, ukyau, university of delaware, village care international, volunteer, west african culinary

UD student helps provide children in Nigeria a schoolhouse of their own

In the Nigerian village of Ukya’u, the children have a teacher and sit on benches in a church room, but there are no desks, no separate classes and no school building to call their own.

Chelsea Rozanski, a University of Delaware sophomore who is majoring in anthropology with a minor in African Studies, is working to change that situation. (more…)

Student Loans Help Women More than Men in Reaching Graduation

By Guest PostMarch 2, 2013Economy, Educationaccount, chances of graduation, debt, demographic factors, ethnicity, graduation from college, laura mccloud, parental household income, probability of graduation, race, rachel dwyer, randy hodson, student loans, women, young americans

Women Need College Degree More to Get Good Job

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Student loans provide more help to women than they do for men in encouraging graduation from college, a new nationwide study reveals.

Findings showed that, on average, taking out loans actually makes graduation more likely for all students. But at a certain point – which is about $2,000 lower for men than for women – debt has diminishing returns and becomes less effective at boosting chances of graduation. (more…)

A Humanitarian and A Scholar

By Guest PostFebruary 22, 2013Educationanatomy lab course, certified, community college, emergency medical technician, emt, ethical implications, fulbright scholar experience, human biology, humanitarian, humanitarian work, iowa, lesa nord, life sciences, linguistics, Mexico, north hennepin, scholar, school biology, spanish, twin cities campus, united kingdom, university of manchester, visible heart lab

U alum Lesa Nord talks about her Fulbright Scholar experience

Lesa Nord was one of two U students on the Twin Cities campus to receive a highly competitive Fulbright Scholarship this year to the United Kingdom, where she is completing an interdisciplinary degree in humanitarianism and conflict response at the University of Manchester.

Nord began her college education at North Hennepin Community College before transferring to the U and receiving a bachelor of individualized studies with high distinction from the College of Liberal Arts. Along the way she has become a certified Emergency Medical Technician, and she’s already served as a volunteer interpreter and technician on medical mission trips in developing countries. (more…)

Higgs Boson Discussion Launches UChicago Discovery Series

By Guest PostFebruary 20, 2013Education, Science17 miles, accelerator, aircraft, argonne physicist, atlas, calibrate, cern physics laboratory, circumference, critical mass, david logan center, detector, donald levy, elementary particles, fermi, gigantic machines, higgs boson, high energy physics, internet, Large Hadron Collider, lch, lightening arresters, louis block professor, marcela carena, mark oreglia, mass, national accelerator laboratory, particle, particle beams, patricia mcbride, physics, protocol for communicating, sterilize milk cartons, switzerland, theoretical physicists, time, tom lecompte, toroidal lhc apparatus, uchicago discovery series, universe, university of chicago, virtual audience, young kee kim

The long-sought Higgs boson—the particle that endows all elementary particles in the universe with mass—was elusive no longer when scientists at the CERN physics laboratory in Switzerland, discovered it last summer.

The July 4, 2012 announcement of the discovery appealed to both the general public and the media: Fifty-five media organizations and more than one billion television viewers made it an event that couldn’t be missed. Time even dubbed the Higgs boson “Particle of the Year.” (more…)

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