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Ants’ Ecosystem Role is ‘Key’

By Guest PostFebruary 4, 2011Natureant workers, ants, black garden ants, collembola, common red ants, density, dirk sanders, diversity, ecosystem engineers, Environment, Europe, food chain, frank van veen, grassland food web, lasius niger, myrmica rubra, nest building activity, nutrients, positive influence, predation, predators, sermany, soil, soil nutrient, uk, university of exeter

Research by the University of Exeter has revealed that ants have a big impact on their local environment as a result of their activity as ‘ecosystem engineers’ and predators.

The study, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, found that ants have two distinct effects on their local environment. (more…)

All Nine Women in Brown University Computer Science Class Intern at Microsoft

By Guest PostAugust 14, 20104 commentsTechnologyalex schultz, apple, avitabile, brown university, computer science, david hasselhoff, diversity, Google, macbu, macintosh business unit, megan hugdahl, Microsoft, nell elliott, parkinson, recruiters, redmond, summer working, women, yin lu

*After spending a summer working in Redmond, the junior class women of Brown University’s computer science department find new confidence.*

REDMOND, Wash. — This summer, all of the junior class women of Brown University’s computer science department found themselves interning at Microsoft.

They can field their own baseball team, with nine women in all — a group small enough to fit around a large lunch table at The Commons, but large enough to make for vibrant conversation. But baseball isn’t what these nine women all have in common – it’s computer science.

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