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Medicine/Pharmacy 03.09.2010 NASA Sets Briefing About Assistance To Trapped Miners In Chile

Chemistry - Literature/linguistic 03.09.2010 Jazz Composers Hone Classical Chops at 'Boot Camp'

Computer Science/Telecom - Mathematics 03.09.2010 Computer Science Professor Helps Animate Hollywood

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 03.09.2010 Labor Day weekend at the State Fair shines spotlight on U of M science projects

Environmental sciences 03.09.2010 Next Mars Rover Stretches Robotic Arm

Physics/Astronomy - Environmental sciences 03.09.2010 ATHLETE Rover Steps Up to Long Desert Trek

Chemistry - Business/Economics 03.09.2010 MIT moves toward greener chemistry

Chemistry - Life sciences 03.09.2010 Missing Piece Inspires New Look at Mars Puzzle

Physics/Astronomy - Environmental sciences 03.09.2010 NASA Invites Media To Experience Future Of Human Space Exploration

Medicine/Pharmacy - Agronomy/Food Science 03.09.2010 Americans struggle with long-term weight loss

Environmental sciences - Agronomy/Food Science 02.09.2010 Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest, says Stanford researcher

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 NASA, Newseum Invite Media To Discover And Encounter Comets

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 NASA Selects Investigations For First Mission To Encounter The Sun

Business/Economics 02.09.2010 Lab to host second annual LDRD Day September 8

Administration and Government 02.09.2010 U of M Board of Regents to meet Wednesday, Sept. 8

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 Computer models explain patterns in bent crystals

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 02.09.2010 $3.3M in grants to improve soil, plant breeding in Africa

Physics/Astronomy - Life sciences 02.09.2010 Caltech Chemists Develop Simple Technique to Visualize Atomic-Scale Structures

Medicine/Pharmacy 02.09.2010 Social networks influence health behaviors

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of Asteroids

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 NASA Selects Investigations for First Sun Encounter Mission

Environmental sciences - Earth sciences 02.09.2010 NASA Hurricane Researchers Eye Earl’s Eye

Environmental sciences - Business/Economics 02.09.2010 University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment to host international bioenergy convention

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 New NASA HD App for iPad With Expanded Content Available Free

Chemistry - Life sciences 02.09.2010 Sculpture in chemistry lab bonds science and art

Business/Economics - Agronomy/Food Science 02.09.2010 UW-Madison researchers release Wisconsin Poverty Report: New measure tells new story

Medicine/Pharmacy - Chemistry 02.09.2010 Hormel Institute study reveals capsaicin can act as cocarcinogen

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 NASA and Its Partners Announce a New Space Station Crew

01.09.2010 U of M Board of Regents to act on proposed final Central Corridor agreement, easements on Sept. 8

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 01.09.2010 New study investigates use of soy-rich diet for preventing chronic pain after breast cancer surgery

Physics/Astronomy - Business/Economics 01.09.2010 Caltech Awards Distinguished International Aerospace Honor to Lockheed Visionary

Literature/linguistic 01.09.2010 Bancroft Library opens reading room to personal cameras

Literature/linguistic - Mathematics 01.09.2010 Lunch Poems series starts with rugby coach, French professor, among others

Environmental sciences 01.09.2010 NASA Selects University Finalists for Inflatable Loft Competition

Environmental sciences - Agronomy/Food Science 01.09.2010 Cornell leads fight against the invasive emerald ash borer

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 01.09.2010 Caltech Mineral Physicists Find New Scenery at Earth’s Core-Mantle Boundary

Physics/Astronomy - Business/Economics 01.09.2010 NASA Sets Media Deadlines For Next Space Shuttle Flight

Administration and Government 01.09.2010 NASA Accepting Applications For Aeronautics Scholarships

History/Philosophy 01.09.2010 Olmsted housing will improve Stanford’s recruiting of coaches

Administration and Government - Business/Economics 01.09.2010 Hennessy comments on Obama’s plans to change export regulations

History/Philosophy - Psychology 01.09.2010 Researcher Considers the Importance of Negative Emotions

Medicine/Pharmacy - Business/Economics 01.09.2010 New Program Strives to Bridge Rural Health Care Gap

Physics/Astronomy 01.09.2010 Herschel Finds Water in a Cosmic Desert

Environmental sciences - Earth sciences 01.09.2010 NASA Images Dissect Hurricane Earl

Computer Science/Telecom 01.09.2010 Laser-based missile defense for helicopters being developed

Computer Science/Telecom - Medicine/Pharmacy 01.09.2010 Grant could enable higher definition CT scans at lower radiation doses

Administration and Government - Business/Economics 01.09.2010 NASA Ranked Fifth In Best Places To Work In The Federal Government

Business/Economics - Agronomy/Food Science 01.09.2010 Robert J. Hauser to become dean of the College of ACES

01.09.2010 Q&A: Hoover’s Tom Henriksen on end of combat troops in Iraq

Physics/Astronomy 31.08.2010 Astronauts Linda Godwin and Scott Altman Leave NASA

Medicine/Pharmacy - Literature/linguistic 31.08.2010 Dawn M. Greene, Philanthropist and Columbia Donor, Passes Away

Law/forensics 31.08.2010 Lab obtains approval to begin design on new radioactive waste staging facility

Physics/Astronomy 31.08.2010 NASA Extends Contract With United Space Alliance

Physics/Astronomy 31.08.2010 Next International Space Station Crew Holds News Conference

Medicine/Pharmacy - Environmental sciences 31.08.2010 The U of M at the State Fair: Gopher athletes take center stage Sept. 1; parenting tips on Sept. 2

Computer Science/Telecom - Mathematics 31.08.2010 Supercomputing model helps analyze plate tectonics

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 31.08.2010 High-speed filter uses electrified nanostructures to purify water at low cost

Physics/Astronomy 31.08.2010 NASA and ATK Successfully Test Five-Segment Solid Rocket Motor

Environmental sciences 31.08.2010 Climate researcher McDowell receives Fulbright Scholar Award

Literature/linguistic - Administration and Government 31.08.2010 Columbia Community Moves to the Beat at 'Shall We Dance '

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 31.08.2010 Atmospheres of distant worlds probed with new technique

Pedagogy/Education science - Law/forensics 30.08.2010 Children raised by gay couples show good progress through school

Business/Economics 30.08.2010 NASA Selects Two Firms for Experimental Space Vehicle Test Flights

Computer Science/Telecom - Medicine/Pharmacy 30.08.2010 Cornell shares in $7.5 million grant to create safer Internet

Sport sciences 30.08.2010 In case of emergency: Sign up for WarnMe

Literature/linguistic - History/Philosophy 30.08.2010 Bancroft Library opens Mexico exhibit

Chemistry 30.08.2010 Listen up! U-M experiment records ultrafast chemical reaction with vibrational echoes

Environmental sciences 30.08.2010 Northeast sees record temps in spring and summer

Mathematics - Psychology 30.08.2010 The roots of gamblers' fallacies and other superstitions

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 30.08.2010 Technology Review Names Engineering Professor a Young Innovator

Computer Science/Telecom - Mathematics 30.08.2010 TACC secures $9 million for new Lonestar system

History/Philosophy - Literature/linguistic 30.08.2010 NASA, Internet Archive And Flickr Launch Historic Image Collection

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 30.08.2010 Research demonstrates benefits of medical cannabis as a treatment for chronic pain

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 30.08.2010 Campus sustainability efforts expand over summer

Medicine/Pharmacy - Chemistry 29.08.2010 From sponges, a potential cancer drug

Literature/linguistic - Business/Economics 29.08.2010 Coming attractions: A short list of the campus's enticing fall events

History/Philosophy - Medicine/Pharmacy 29.08.2010 Stanford preparing for Dalai Lama’s October visit

Medicine/Pharmacy 27.08.2010 NASA TV Airs Interview Excerpts About Assistance To Trapped Miners In Chile

Medicine/Pharmacy - Sport sciences 27.08.2010 The U of M at the State Fair this weekend

Medicine/Pharmacy - Psychology 27.08.2010 Moderate drinking helps older people live longer

Business/Economics 27.08.2010 NASA Receives Spirit Of Houston Award

Physics/Astronomy 27.08.2010 U2 And NASA Create Video To Celebrate Collaboration

Physics/Astronomy 27.08.2010 NASA TV Airs Interview With Twin Astronauts; Kelly Brothers Scheduled To Be In Space Together

Business/Economics - Mathematics 26.08.2010 Chancellor 'cautiously optimistic' about the year ahead

Earth sciences 26.08.2010 The BBC lands a helicopter at Memorial Stadium

Medicine/Pharmacy 26.08.2010 NASA Awards Facility Operating Services Contract Award Term Period 1

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 26.08.2010 How much smoking is safe The answer appears to be none

Computer Science/Telecom - Mathematics 26.08.2010 New View of Tectonic Plates

Medicine/Pharmacy 26.08.2010 McGill front and centre at 13th World Congress on Pain

Physics/Astronomy 26.08.2010 NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers two Planets Transiting Same Star

Environmental sciences - Chemistry 26.08.2010 GCEP awards $7.5 million for energy research programs

Business/Economics 26.08.2010 Men who earn less than their women are more likely to cheat

Environmental sciences - Physics/Astronomy 26.08.2010 Tracing the Big Picture of Mars’ Atmosphere

Medicine/Pharmacy 26.08.2010 Attention, couch potatoes! Walking boosts brain connectivity, function

Environmental sciences - Agronomy/Food Science 26.08.2010 Unusual feed supplement could ease greenhouse gassy cows

Physics/Astronomy 26.08.2010 NASA Announces High School Competition for Future Engineers: Teams to Design Software for Small Satellites on the International Space Station

Media sciences/Political sciences - Administration and Government 26.08.2010 Journalism Fellows Showcase the Many Dimensions of Aging in America

Medicine/Pharmacy - Chemistry 26.08.2010 Princeton builds research ties with historically black universities

Medicine/Pharmacy - Agronomy/Food Science 25.08.2010 Some vitamin supplements increase presence of the HIV virus in breast milk

Psychology - Mathematics 25.08.2010 Preschoolers use statistics to understand others

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 25.08.2010 NSF funds interdisciplinary team's grey water disinfection plan

Environmental sciences - Earth sciences 25.08.2010 Human-Environment Interactions Research Under Conditions of Climate Change

Life sciences 25.08.2010 Professor’s idea generates site for Latin American science

Medicine/Pharmacy - Administration and Government 25.08.2010 Linda Berglin, Tom Huntley named U of M Alumni Association 2010 Legislators of the Year

Business/Economics - Administration and Government 25.08.2010 University of Minnesota president Robert Bruininks to join Humphrey Institute

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 25.08.2010 U of M at the Minnesota State Fair: Schedule for Thursday, Aug. 26

Physics/Astronomy 25.08.2010 WISE Captures the Unicorn’s Rose

Life sciences - Chemistry 25.08.2010 First picture of genetic processes inside cell developed at Penn State

Earth sciences - Chemistry 25.08.2010 North American continent is a layer cake, scientists discover

Physics/Astronomy - Mechanical engineering/Mechanics 25.08.2010 Sunlight spawns many binary and "divorced" binary asteroids

History/Philosophy 25.08.2010 U of M Bell Museum of Natural History launches new monthly film series in beginning Thursday, Sept. 16

Environmental sciences - Business/Economics 25.08.2010 NASA/NOAA Study Finds El Ninos are Growing Stronger

Sport sciences 25.08.2010 Research on team loyalty yields new insight into die-hard fandom

Literature/linguistic - Earth sciences 25.08.2010 Saroyan Prize awards authors Galchen and Himelstein

Environmental sciences - Life sciences 25.08.2010 10 years after new plan, Dish now attracts 500,000 visitors annually

Architecture 25.08.2010 Researchers unveil autonomous oil-absorbing robot

Medicine/Pharmacy - Business/Economics 25.08.2010 Unique vehicle emissions testing lab puts Penn State in driver's seat

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 24.08.2010 Bacteria make thrift a habit, U-M researchers find

Chemistry - Media sciences/Political sciences 24.08.2010 Fixing Wiki: Wikipedia revision project teaches teamwork, communication, chemistry

Environmental sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 24.08.2010 On organic coffee farm, complex interactions keep pests under control

Life sciences - Mathematics 24.08.2010 Scientists Say Natural Selection Alone Can Explain Eusociality, Cooperative Social Structure in Many of Earth’s Dominant Species

Mathematics - Psychology 24.08.2010 Major moral decisions use general-purpose brain circuits to manage uncertainty

Environmental sciences - Earth sciences 24.08.2010 National Geographic Features UM Work on Bahamas Blue Holes as Cover Story

Business/Economics - Physics/Astronomy 24.08.2010 Penn State receives more than $129 million to lead energy team

Sport sciences - Law/forensics 24.08.2010 Campus, city police form joint safety patrol

Mathematics - Business/Economics 24.08.2010 University of Minnesota math institute receives $20.5 million NSF grant

Mechanical engineering/Mechanics - Chemistry 24.08.2010 Secrets of the gecko foot help robot climb

Physics/Astronomy 24.08.2010 "Avatar" Director And NASA Focus On Earth Science Exploration In Psa Campaign

Media sciences/Political sciences 24.08.2010 Bloggers are least trusted media, research shows

Social sciences - History/Philosophy 24.08.2010 Off the Shelf: Book reviews from the editors of Research/Penn State

Business/Economics - Administration and Government 24.08.2010 Smeal ranks No. 7 in real estate research, study finds

Medicine/Pharmacy - Life sciences 24.08.2010 Probing Question: What is a lucid dream?

Chemistry 23.08.2010 Smallest U-M logo demonstrates advanced display technology

Life sciences - Medicine/Pharmacy 23.08.2010 Plants give up some deep secrets of drought resistance

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 New project will use pulsars to detect gravitational waves

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 NASA To Announce Latest Findings By Kepler Spacecraft

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 Pulverized Planet Dust May Lie Around Double Stars

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 Pulverized Planet Dust Might Lie Around Double Stars

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 Vote for NASA Panels at South By Southwest

Physics/Astronomy - Medicine/Pharmacy 23.08.2010 The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements

Chemistry - Medicine/Pharmacy 23.08.2010 DNA puts Stanford chemists on scent of better artificial nose

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 Good Vibrations: new atom-scale products on horizon

Environmental sciences - Business/Economics 23.08.2010 Awards recognize outstanding LANL Tech Transfer

Medicine/Pharmacy - Agronomy/Food Science 23.08.2010 Polyphenol antioxidents inhibit iron absorbtion

Medicine/Pharmacy - Agronomy/Food Science 23.08.2010 Polyphenol antioxidants inhibit iron absorption

Physics/Astronomy 22.08.2010 Ralph W. Kavanagh, 86

Life sciences 22.08.2010 Fruit Flies Use Horizontal Landmarks for Altitude Control, Says Caltech Research Team

Pedagogy/Education science - Sport sciences 22.08.2010 Incoming freshmen on the move – from here, there, everywhere

Literature/linguistic - Arts and Design 22.08.2010 Fall semester offers bounty of free arts programs

Life sciences - Chemistry 22.08.2010 Researchers develop a better way to grow stem cells