Mayo Medical School awarded AMA grant to create new model of undergraduate education

Published on June 15, 2013 at 4:53 AM Mayo Medical School has been awarded a grant from the American Medical Association’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education program to develop a curriculum to better prepare students for the fast-changing world of health care. The medical school, with operations at Mayo Clinic campuses in Minnesota, Arizona and Florida, will receive $1 million from the AMA program over five years Continue reading

Copper, Gold Explorer Liberty Star Receives Updated ZTEM Bid

TUCSON, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. (Liberty Star or the Company)(LBSR: OTCQB) is pleased to announce receipt of a new bid for ZTEM electromagnetic (EM) geophysical studies from Geotech Ltd. Continue reading

Liberty Star’s Hay Mountain Project Update: ZTEM

TUCSON, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. (Liberty Star or the Company) (OTCQB: LBSR) is pleased to announce geophysical contractor Geotech Ltd.(Geotech) has proposed a money saving program of fixed wing aircraft (vs helicopter) borne ZTEM geophysical surveys over the Hay Mountain target and the Tombstone Super Project in Cochise County, Arizona. Geotech geophysicists are currently adjusting flight lines and preparing a new bid for the ZTEM survey which the Company hopes to fly as soon as possible, possibly by the end of the month Continue reading

NASA moon craft spots Ebb and Flow crash sites

LOS ANGELES (AP) When NASAs twin spacecraft Ebb and Flow crashed into the moon last year, scientists did not count on seeing the aftermath. On Tuesday, the space agency released before-and-after pictures of the lunar north pole where Ebb and Flow came to rest. Continue reading

Graves of Twin Moon Probes Spotted by NASA Spacecraft

An eagle-eyed NASA spacecraft has spotted the tiny craters two moon probes created when they crashed intentionally into the lunar surface last year. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) snapped a series of photographs of the two 16.5-foot-wide (5 meters) craters, which mark where the space agency’stwin Grail probesended their gravity-mapping mission, and their operational lives, on Dec. 17 Continue reading

International space station plays host to innovative infectious disease research

Public release date: 18-Feb-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Joe Caspermeyer joseph.caspermeyer@asu.edu 480-727-0369 Arizona State University Performing sensitive biological experiments is always a delicate affair. Few researchers, however, contend with the challenges faced by Cheryl Nickerson, whose working laboratory aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is located hundreds of miles above the Earth, traveling at some 17,000 miles per hour. Continue reading

NASA’s LRO Reveals "Incredible Shrinking Moon" [HD] – Video




NASA's LRO Reveals “Incredible Shrinking Moon” [HD] Newly discovered cliffs in the lunar crust indicate the moon shrank globally in the geologically recent past and might still be shrinking today, according to a team analyzing new images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. The results provide important clues to the moon's recent geologic and tectonic evolution Continue reading

Justin Huang/ Global awareness on a college campus/ Ignite @ ASU #6 – Video




Justin Huang/ Global awareness on a college campus/ Ignite @ ASU #6 Justin is an Arizona State alumni with degrees in Biology and Anthropology. He continually helps with the ASU chapter of Global Brigades due to his passion for international development. After medical school, he hopes to continue development work overseas Continue reading

3D Crime Scenes – Time Machines and Technology Innovation – The Tomorrow Project – Video




3D Crime Scenes – Time Machines and Technology Innovation – The Tomorrow Project 3D Crime Scenes and Technology Innovation: Intel futurist, Brian David Johnson, speaks with Mitzi Montoya, College of Technology and Innovation, Arizona State University, about a technology developed at ASU which creates 3D crime scenes from evidence and various other bits of data found at the scene of the crime.From:channelintelViews:129 4ratingsTime:07:52More inPeople Blogs Continue reading

Moon bounce | Bad Astronomy

Of all the amazing pictures returned from the moon by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and I may include the Apollo landing sites among them I think my favorites are the ones showing boulders that rolled down slopes. Did I say rolled? I mean bounced! [Click to enselenate.] This shot from LRO shows the floor of crater Shuckburgh E, an impact crater about 9 km (~6 miles) across. Continue reading

Request for Cootinator for Plaentary Astronomy Concepts With a Future 2.4-meter Telescope

NASA is exploring the use of a 2.4-m mirror system recently gifted to them by the National Reconnaissance Office; this system could be the nucleus of a new ultraviolet-optical (UVO) space telescope. Information is available at the website of a recent Princeton meeting: http://www.princeton.edu/astro/news-events/public-events /new-telescope-meeting/ including a program with links to the presented talks. The first letter of intent to use this system focuses on astrophysics applications Continue reading

Advanced genetic screening method may speed vaccine development

Public release date: 9-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Joseph Caspermeyer Joseph.Caspermeyer@asu.edu Arizona State University Infectious diseasesboth old and newcontinue to exact a devastating toll, causing some 13 million fatalities per year around the world. Vaccines remain the best line of defense against deadly pathogens and now Kathryn Sykes and Stephen Johnston, researchers at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, along with co-author Michael McGuire from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center are using clever functional screening methods to attempt to speed new vaccines into production that are both safer and more potent. Continue reading

Innovators in Pediatric Cancer to Share Progress on Ground-Breaking Personalized Medicine Clinical Trial

Dell: WHAT The team of parents, genetic and translational medicine scientists and pediatric oncologists trailblazing personalized medicine in the treatment of deadly pediatric cancers is convening in Austin to discuss the status of the worlds first personalized medicine clinical trial for pediatric cancer and plan next steps at the NMTRC Symposium 2012. Neuroblastoma affects 1 in 100,000 children and is responsible for 1 in 7 pediatric cancer deaths. Continue reading