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The competition for students is intense. Colleges need to seem really attractive in order to get new kids to sign up for their particular institution. So they engage in fancy marketing efforts. Glossy mailings. Disney-like campus tours. Targeted Youtube videos.
Yes, we know this looks like a lot of money, they say, but we offer “generous financial aid” (mostly in the form of loans) and it’s really an “investment” in your future (though we’re not going to […]
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science-junkie:
Seahorse’s Armor Gives Engineers Insight Into Robotics Designs
The tail of a seahorse can be compressed to about half its size before permanent damage occurs, engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have found. The tail’s exceptional flexibility is due to its structure, made up of bony, armored plates, which slide past each other.
Researchers are hoping to use a similar structure to create a flexible robotic arm equipped with muscles made out of polymer, which
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Colleges often propose a series of “financial literacy” courses to help students manage their debt, pay bills on time, and generally be fiscally solvent adults, despite facing huge payments on college loans.
The University of South Carolina, for example, to address the average South Carolina borrower’s $21,157 of education debt, offers “counseling… a financial literacy program and altering the school’s University 101 course to include a section on financial […]
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Before BlueEyes was born I knew I wanted to give breastfeeding a
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Treatment of blood pressure and the brain 124- Treatment of presumed hypotension in very low birthweight neonates: effects on regional cerebral oxygenation – Garner and Burchfield Brain autoregulation 125- Regional differences in dynamic cerebral autoregulation in the healthy brain assessed by magnetic resonance imaging – Horsfield et al. Primary intracerebral hemorrhage and the brain 126- [...]
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The Public Library of Science, the Wellcome Trust, and Google recently announced the Accelerating Science Award Program. If you know someone who has applied or reused scientific research in an innovative way to advance science, medicine, or technology, you can nominate them for an ASAP award. The goal of ASAP is to reward people for their efforts and also to gather compelling use cases for open access.
This program has major support from publishers, funders, and the tech community and they […]
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I loved grad school. I have serious nostalgia for grad school. If I could be a grad student forever, that would rock. In fact, my job as a faculty member is a lot like being a grad student. I do research, I teach, I write grants, I write manuscripts, I work with students less experienced [...]
