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Improving women’s participation in the public discourse
Research shows that female academic experts are seriously under-represented in the media, and this means that readers often lack a broader perspective on an issue, says a former journalist who monitors and studies female representation in the media.

Poet Elizabeth Alexander to appear at the University of Minnesota
Who : Poet Elizabeth Alexander What: Eighth Annual NOMMO African American Authors Series When : Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. Where : Cowles Auditorium, Hubert H. Humphrey

Penn Professor Timothy Corrigan’s ’The Essay Film’ Wins 2012 SCMS Kovács Book Award

Designing in the human context

Qi wins prestigious American Diabetes Association award

Penn Mathematicians Win 2012 Chauvenet Prize

Fels Institute at Penn Kicks Off 75th Year Anniversary by Examining Intersection of Transportation and Fiscal Crisis

Executive Doctorate in Higher Ed Management Celebrates 10th Year

Femtosecond laser research wins SPIE Green Photonics Award

Abstracts wanted for Pediatric Research Day
Pediatric Research Day, sponsored by Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital , will be held from noon to 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 5, at the Hershey Lodge, and abstracts are needed.

Berkeley Lab’s Ashok Gadgil Wins Zayed Future Energy Prize’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Hosang Yoon and Kitty Yeung win 2012 Analog Devices design award

Penn Launches Commemorative Symposium on Social Change Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

Record Number of Tritons Selected for National Soccer Coaches Association of America Team
Sarah McTigue earned NSCAA All-America Third Team honors, it was announced on November 9. Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications UC San Diego has placed a school-record six players on the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Division II All-West Region Team.

Computer scientist Margo Seltzer named 2011 ACM Fellow

ILR’s Givan to receive Labor and Employment Relations Association award

Capasso awarded honorary doctorate from Université Paris Diderot

Meteorologists Wyngaard, Thompson receive high honors
A Message from President Rodney Erickson: Moving Forward Penn State Shenango to hold vigil for victims of child abuse Nov.

Creative ’Storm’ Set to Hit UC San Diego
"The Storm," a drama by 19th-century Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky, is not a common choice in American regional theatre seasons.

Rady Professor Ayelet Gneezy Receives Robert B. Cialdini Award
The UC San Diego Rady School of Management today announced that Professor Ayelet Gneezy is the recipient of this year's Robert B. Cialdini Award for excellence in a published field study.

The public face of science at McGill gets a major boost
$5.5-million gift from Lorne Trottier secures the future of high-profile science outreach initiatives Does the idea of science make you think of complicated equations, test tubes and isolated laboratories?

"Double Take: Series, Multiples and Prints" to Be at Penn’s Arthur Ross Gallery
PHILADELPHIA - " Double Take: Series, Multiples and Prints " opens at the University of Pennsylvania's Arthur Ross Gallery on Nov.

UC San Diego Health System Receives Prestigious Quality Award from Integrated Healthcare Association
UC San Diego Health System has been recognized by the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) as a top performing hospital in California.

Skolkovo Foundation and MIT to collaborate on developing the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Graduate research university part of new innovation center outside Moscow CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

Stanford’s John McCarthy, seminal figure of artificial intelligence, dies at 84
McCarthy created the term "artificial intelligence" and was a towering figure in computer science at Stanford most of his professional life.

Acclaimed novelist and poet to headline NOMMO African American Authors Series at U of M

National Academy of Engineering Honors JPL Director

Research Station at UMore Park Oct. 25 with ceremonial 'flip of the switch'
Wind energy consortium is one of only three in the nation Media Note: A special media tour of the wind turbine is available upon request from 11 a.m. to noon Monday, Oct.

Poll: Americans Believe U.S. Headed in Wrong Direction on Energy
AUSTIN, Texas — A poll released today by The University of Texas at Austin found less than 14 percent of Americans think the country is headed in the right direction on energy. Of more than 3,400 consumers surveyed, 84 percent were worried about U.S. consumption of oil from foreign sources and 76 percent about a lack of progress in developing better ways to use energy efficiently and develop renewable sources.

Climate scientist Zhiming Kuang wins Meisinger Award
Honor by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) recognizes young, promising atmospheric scientists who have shown outstanding ability Zhiming Kuang, Associate Professor of Climate Science in

A grateful president and provost thank Stanford faculty and staff for all they do

Epidemiologist notes oral health challenges in Asia at Dentistry’s annual Research Day
Nearly half of all 6-year-olds had never brushed their teeth. That snippet from a study in Cambodia helped make up a stark picture of Southeast Asian oral health challenges outlined in a leading Thai epidemiologist's keynote talk at the School of Dentistry's annual Research Day on Sept.

Saul Perlmutter awarded 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
Saul Perlmutter, who led one of two teams that simultaneously discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe, has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, to be shared with two members of the rival team.

Berkeley Lab’s Saul Perlmutter wins Nobel Prize in Physics
BERKELEY, CA — Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California at Ber

NASA Mars Rovers Win Popular Mechanics ’Breakthrough’ Award
October 03, 2011 More than seven years after completing their three-month prime missions on opposite sides of Mars, NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity have been selected for lifetime achievement award honors as part of the Breakthrough Awards presented by Popular Mechanics magazine.

Obama names Stanford physicist Benjamin Lev for honor
Benjamin Lev, who studies the behavior of quantum matter, will attend an Oct. 14 awards ceremony in Washington D.C. for early-career scientists.

’Fallen Star’ to Land on Campus This Fall
California is not known for tornados. But this fall, it might look like one tore through the University of California, San Diego and - mysteriously leaving everything else intact - deposited an entire small building on top of another, seven stories up.

Tech Industry Visionaries Foresee "Internet of Everything" at Marconi Symposium
The "Internet of everything" has arrived, and according to a panel of prominent experts who assembled at the University of California, San Diego earlier this month for the 2011 Marconi Society Sympos

Three U-M faculty members receive presidential awards
Sept. 27, 2011 Three U-M faculty members receive presidential awards ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Three University of Michigan researchers have received the nation's highest honor for professionals at the outset of their independent research careers, the White House has announced.

Two Berkeley Lab Scientists Win 2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
The White House today announced that President Obama has named two researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) as winners of this year's Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Federico Capasso awarded the 2011 Jan Czochralski Award
Applied physicist recognized for his lifetime achievements in the field of advanced materials science Federico Capasso, Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Sen

Two SEAS affiliates win NIH Director’s Awards

Stanford welcomes the Class of 2015

University of Minnesota to inaugurate Eric Kaler as the 16th president Sept. 22

Artists bring the art of Chinese kite-building to U-M
Sept. 13, 2011 Artists bring the art of Chinese kite-building to U-M ANN ARBOR, Mich.—He gave them a big machete-like knife, a bunch of bamboo strips and a box of Band-Aids.

Awareness of ethnicity-based stigma found to start as early as second grade
Now, in a new report, researchers from UCLA show that youths from a range of ethnic-minority backgrounds have an added burden to contend with: ethnicity-based stigmatization. Even elementary school–aged children are aware of such stigmatization and, like older youths, they feel more anxious about school as a result.

CS undergrad wins Grace Hopper scholarship from Facebook