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Students discover 11,000 year old remains of Irish Elk

A group of history students have discovered the antler of an Irish Elk in cliffs near Kirk Michael on the Isle of Man. Although the exact age of the antler has yet to be determined, the position of the remains indicates that the elk (Megaloceros giganteus) lived around 11,000 years ago. The giant deer roamed the open tundra landscape that was widespread in northern Europe at the end of th...

Students invent protective pouch to enhance cell therapy

Johns Hopkins undergraduates have invented a device to improve cell therapy for diabetes patients by anchoring transplanted insulin-producing cells inside a major blood vessel. A team of five seniors and two freshmen, working with Johns Hopkins doctors and engineers, devised a protective "pouch" that should fit inside the portal vein, which feeds into the liver. This pouch would keep micr...

College students who pull 'all-nighters' and get no sleep more likely to have a lower GPA

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Silver linings in the cloud: America's dearth of STEM students

It's even more impressive that their competitors were seasoned college students. Led by instructor Timothy Jump, students from the Mi...

Wisconsin students test well on ACT, but relatively few are ready for college rigors

, a major college preparedness test. With an average score of 22.2 on a 36-point scale, Wisconsin ranked second nationally among states that depend on the ACT, falling only one-tenth of one percent...

Website targets college students nationwide

But graduate student Matt Stamerjohn thought that students were being ripped off. He saw students regularly selling used books back to the...

Nanotech Students Offer High End Surface Analysis

Nanoscience Technology students at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Eau Claire are offering up to eight hours of nano- and micro-level surface analysis to firms or organizations with an economic interest in nanotechnology projects. Instructor Hans Mikelson says three students will comprise each of five teams with project completion by December 15, 2005. Mikelson believes that firms...

Gates displays software's future to UW-Madison students

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NBE to conduct test for medical students from abroad

National Board of Examinations has decided to conduct tests for any Indian doctor having graduated abroad avid of starting a practice in the country, to ensure a higher standards amongst doctors, the government has made it compulsory from //the 15th of next month official sources said today. The new regulations, which were published in the Indian Gazzette yesterday, specify that...

Exposure to Pesticides in Schools Produces Illnesses Among Employees, Students

The number of school children getting affected by illnesses due to exposure to //pesticides have increased significantly, from the figures of 1998 to 2002, reports a research in the recent issue of JAMA. “Exposure to pesticides in the school environment is a health risk facing children and school employees,” background information in the article states. Pesticides continue to be used b...

Pharma Companies May Influence The Decisions Of Medical Students

According to a report in the latest issue of JAMA, which deals with medical education as a theme, the third year medical students of US medical schools receive on an average one gift or attend one //event sponsored by a drug company per week and often feel that sponsored educational events are biased. Medical students are entering an environment with progressively fewer boundaries betw...

Students Involved In Bullying And Victims Were Equally Stressed

Study shows that both victims of bully and children’s involved in bullying are equally stressed. Researchers from University of Washington reported in the Journal Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine that psychologically both the group of children’s was stressed//. The study was conducted in 3,350 students studying in three, four and five students and grouped them in to 4 gr...

A Comparative Study On Dietary Habits In Middle School Students And Increase In Weight

A recent study in Chicago compares the dietary habits and increased weight in the middle school students reports that due to regular intake of high calorie diet and employment of food as motivation resulted in an increase in the weight of the students//. Other factors such as selling food and organizing fund raising programs with food as a sole aim all point out to the increased body weight. Abou...

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