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Thursday, December 1, 2016

A Google Doodle across the US, Australia, India, and France is commemorating his contributions 158 years after he was born. The renowned scientist is regarded as the father of wireless communication.

Science

New evidence that Lucy, our most famous ancestor, had superstrong arms

Washington Post - ‎10 hours ago‎
In Ethiopia, she is known as “Dinkinesh” - Amharic for “you are marvelous.” It's an apt name for one of the most complete ancient hominid skeletons ever found, an assemblage of fossilized bones that has given scientists unprecedented insight into the ...

Experiments with embryos suggest ways to make 3-parent IVF safer for babies

Los Angeles Times - ‎9 hours ago‎
Nearly 800 children are born in the U.S. each year with genetic diseases caused by mutations in a type of DNA inherited directly from their mothers.

Gravitational-Wave Detector Resumes Hunt for Space-Time Ripples

Space.com - ‎12 hours ago‎
LIGO operates two detector sites: one near Hanford in eastern Washington, and another near Livingston, Louisiana. This photo shows the Livingston detector site.

Pluto's Heavy Heart Shaped Dwarf Planet's Landscape

Space.com - ‎14 hours ago‎
The left "lobe" of Pluto's heart-shaped feature is a 600-mile-wide (1,000 kilometers) ice plain known as Sputnik Planitia.

Private plan to send Moon rover to Apollo 17 site

BBC News - ‎13 hours ago‎
A proposed private space mission is planning to visit Apollo 17's landing site on the Moon. A German team wants to land a pair of rovers on the lunar surface to inspect the buggy left behind in 1972 on the last crewed mission to the Moon.

Saturn mission approaches tour finale

BBC News - ‎18 hours ago‎
The Cassini spacecraft is beginning the end phases of its mission to Saturn. Having spent 12 years flying around the ringed planet and its moons at a relatively safe distance, the probe is now about to undertake a series of daredevil manoeuvres.

Worried Scientists Urge Trump to Respect Their Work

NBCNews.com - ‎6 hours ago‎
More than 2,300 American scientists, including 22 Nobel Prize winners, issued an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump and Congress Wednesday, urging them to respect science.

Understanding the conditions that foster coral reefs' caretaker fishes

SFGate - ‎Nov 29, 2016‎
Adel Heenan, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Andrew Hoey, James Cook University; Gareth J. Williams, Bangor University, and Ivor D. Williams, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Climate Change This Week: Arctic Frying Disaster, Community Solar Is Competitive, and More!

Huffington Post - ‎10 hours ago‎
And the chances of Donald Trump's family and fortune surviving climate change are small, dwindling daily and irreversibly. 2016-11-30-1480540089-3163728-monkeyfacebizarreorchidsDraculasimiaPeruEcuadorSourcewww.

Is it time to think about how to prevent a space war?

Christian Science Monitor - ‎11 hours ago‎
With tensions rising between space-capable powers such as Russia, China, and the United States, the Pentagon is taking orbital threats to satellite systems more seriously.

Scientists Pinpoint How to Calm Oklahoma's Human-Made Quakes

Live Science - ‎10 hours ago‎
Human-induced earthquakes have rattled Oklahoma in recent years, a state known more for its wide-open plains than havoc-wreaking temblors.

Neutron Star May Reveal First Evidence of 80-Year-Old Quantum Prediction

Space.com - ‎15 hours ago‎
A strange quantum phenomenon predicted more than 80 years ago finally may have been observed in nature. In 1930, physicists Werner Heisenberg and Hans Heinrich Euler predicted that very strong magnetic fields could change the polarity of light waves ...

Scientists have long feared this 'feedback' to the climate system. Now they say it's happening

Washington Post - ‎14 hours ago‎
At a time when a huge pulse of uncertainty has been injected into the global project to stop the planet's warming, scientists have just raised the stakes even further.

The Man Who Stands Between Earth and Asteroid Armageddon

Bloomberg - ‎11 hours ago‎
Lindley Johnson spent 23 years in the U.S. Air Force keeping his eyes above the skies. He helped identify and tackle a growing risk to human space activity—the sheer volume of stuff orbiting the planet—in addition to helping manage and monitor ...

University of Arizona has role in observing smallest asteroid ever studied in detail

Arizona Daily Star - ‎4 hours ago‎
The Catalina Sky Survey telescope on Mount Lemmon detected a 6-foot-diameter space rock that is said to be “the smallest asteroid ever to be looked at in this detail.

Sea salps, slugs ... aliens? What are the pink squishy creatures washing up in Huntington Beach?

Los Angeles Times - ‎11 hours ago‎
Pink, gelatinous sea creatures washing up in Huntington Beach this week have beachgoers and officials scratching their heads. The small, pod-like critters, which slither and burrow into the sand, were seen along state and city beaches Monday and Tuesday.

Jagadish Chandra Bose, the Indian scientist who pioneered wireless communication in the 1890s

Quartz - ‎Nov 29, 2016‎
A Google Doodle across the US, Australia, India, and France is commemorating his contributions 158 years after he was born. The renowned scientist is regarded as the father of wireless communication.

InterContinental Miami Is Bringing Its Ice-Skating Rink Back to Downtown

Miami New Times - ‎13 hours ago‎
Get the most out of your experience with a personalized all-access pass to everything local on events, music, restaurants, news and more.

The Southeast Is Burning: Wildfires Feast on Hot, Dry Region

InsideClimate News - ‎12 hours ago‎
At least 15 major fires, including one threatening lives and property near Gatlinburg, Tenn., are scorching the drought-plagued region.

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Butler's 'Trumpism' course description draws backlash

Indianapolis Star - ‎9 hours ago‎
Butler University said it is reviewing its course description practices after it received backlash for a fall 2017 course offering that focused on the election of President Donald Trump.

Guidelines and Policy - Social Media at Your University

Inside Higher Ed (blog) - ‎9 hours ago‎
When you do an advanced Google search for social media policy and/or social media guidelines on either .edu or .ac.uk domains, a lot of results* appear.

Ex-UM health CEO named Oakland University president

The Detroit News - ‎15 hours ago‎
Rochester Hills - Oakland University has named Dr. Ora Hirsch Pescovitz as its seventh president, choosing a pharmaceutical company executive and former University of Michigan hospital leader who is a physician, researcher, administrator and fundraiser.

Congresswomen in Black Sorority Decry Racist Acts at American University

NBC4 Washington - ‎9 hours ago‎
The international president of the historically black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha spoke with News4 about the recent racist displays at American University. Jackie Bensen reports the unversity's security has been called into question due to poor ...

University Presses

New York Times - ‎11 hours ago‎
One of the lessons of NUMBERS AND THE MAKING OF US: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures (Harvard University, $27.95), a fascinating book by the anthropologist Caleb Everett, is that to exoticize the Pirahã (say, by likening them to Borges ...

Florida university to award degree to Trayvon Martin

CNN - ‎16 hours ago‎
The slain Florida teenager -- killed by George Zimmerman five years ago -- will be awarded a posthumous bachelor's degree in aeronautical science from Florida Memorial University. Martin's parents, Sabrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, will accept the ...

University of Akron bans all smoking including e-cigarettes

fox8.com - ‎10 hours ago‎
AKRON, Ohio-- Students at the University of Akron are being reminded that as of July 1, smoking of any kind will not be permitted on campus or at any off-campus university activity. The school will begin enforcing a ban that not only includes ...

Tuition hike proposed for some University of Montana students

The Missoulian - ‎7 hours ago‎
Tuition and fees for students at the University of Montana would jump 13 percent for resident freshmen and sophomores, but those costs at UM also would be equal to Montana State University, unlike the current setup. And, the total annual cost of ...

Baylor University Frat Suspended For “Mexican-Themed” Party

PEOPLE.com - ‎10 hours ago‎
The members of the Kappa Sigma fraternity at Baylor University faced repercussions for throwing a “Mexican-themed” party for Cinco de Mayo.

University of Iowa must pay $1.4 million to Jane Meyer

The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines - ‎11 hours ago‎
Finding the University of Iowa discriminated against a former athletics administrator based on her gender and sexual orientation, a Polk County jury Thursday awarded Jane Meyer $1.43 million, according to her legal team.

University of Texas stabbing victim asked student to call his mom

New York Daily News - ‎13 hours ago‎
The victim of a stabbing spree at the University of Texas asked a student he didn't know to call his mom before he died Monday.

University of Arizona seniors behind viral red swimsuit giveaway

AZCentral.com - ‎7 hours ago‎
The company's founders, University of Arizona seniors Alan Alchalel and Brady Silverwood, now seem to be scrambling to figure out how to make the deal happen.

A Public University Acquires A Big For-Profit, And Raises Big Questions

NPR - ‎22 hours ago‎
In a move that's being called "bold" and "out of the blue," Indiana's Purdue University is acquiring the for-profit Kaplan University. In announcing the deal last week, Purdue President Mitch Daniels said it was designed to open the university up to a ...

Carlow University students mourn freshman who died in fall from balcony

Tribune-Review - ‎8 hours ago‎
A somber mood permeated Carlow University's Oakland campus Thursday, a day after the death of freshman Dalton Bacco. On the sidewalk outside the student center, bouquets of yellow, pink and blue flowers propped up alongside a few candles served as ...

Noose Found Inside University of Maryland Fraternity House

U.S. News & World Report - ‎18 hours ago‎
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - Authorities at the University of Maryland are investigating a noose discovered in a fraternity house.

Potemkin Universities

National Review - ‎May 3, 2017‎
The university faces crises almost everywhere of student debt, university finances, free expression, and the very quality and value of a university education. Take free speech. Without freedom of expression, there can be no university. But if the ...

Student comes up with 'ingenious' way to cheat in university exams

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎12 hours ago‎
It may sound like something used by one of Harry Potter's wayward classmates at Hogwarts, but “invisible ink” has now been revealed by the university ombudsman as the latest university exam scam. According to the latest annual report by the Office of ...

Student Arrested After Crawling Into a Duct to Steal an Exam

New York Times - ‎12 hours ago‎
The Multidisciplinary Science Building at the University of Kentucky, where officials said two students tried to steal an exam from an instructor's office.

Salaries of 245 senior university staff are leaked

Devon Live - ‎1 hour ago‎
"The Information Commissioner was satisfied with the steps taken by the university to address the unauthorised disclosure and took no further action.

Arizona House OKs university bonding, Senate up next

ABC15 Arizona - ‎4 hours ago‎
The focus immediately returned to the Senate, where deal-cutting to gain support from conservative Republicans for the $1 billion university bonding program is yet to be tested with a vote. But it was clear the Legislature was moving closer to passing