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FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:FLY) Announces Appointment of the Howard Group Inc. as Investor Relations …

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CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Aug. 21, 2012) - FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd. (FLY.V) (the "Company" or "FLYHT") is pleased to announce it has retained The Howard Group Inc. (the "Howard Group") as its investor relations advisor as of September 1, 2012.

The Howard Group has been retained by the Corporation for a period of twelve months, and will be responsible for, among other matters, online retail investor oriented programs, the dissemination of corporate information, investment community presentations and communications, assisting with management conference calls and managing shareholder inquiries.

"We are happy to have the Howard Group at the helm of our Investor Relations program," stated Bill Tempany, President & CEO of FLYHT. "They have the IR expertise, know our Company well and we believe they are the best organization to represent us and engage our shareholders."

Since 1988, the Howard Group has provided comprehensive investor and financial relations, business development solutions and in-depth strategic planning to public companies. The Howard Group is associated with the Insight Limited Partnership II, which invests in micro and small cap companies. The principals of the Howard Group, The Howard Group and the Insight II Limited Partnership own 3.39 million shares in FLYHT.

The Howard Group will receive remuneration in the amount of $7,000 per month and will be reimbursed for all approved expenses. The Agreement also provides for the issuance of 400,000 common share stock options of FLYHT to The Howard Group. The options expire three years after issued, and are exercisable at $0.25 per common share. Vesting provisions provide that 100,000 options vest (25% of the total amount issued) per quarter over the first one-year period. The Agreement can be cancelled with 60 days' notice in writing and all stock options that have not yet vested upon termination of the Agreement would immediately terminate.

The Howard Group will also maintain and distribute an ongoing investor commentary on behalf of FLYHT, at- http://www.howardgroupinsightnewsletter.blogspot.com.

This agreement is subject to regulatory and the TSX Venture Exchange approval.

About FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd.

FLYHT provides proprietary technological products and services designed to reduce costs and improve efficiencies in the airline industry. The Company has patented and commercialized three products and associated services currently marketed to airlines, manufacturers and maintenance organizations around the world. Its premier technology, AFIRS(TM) UpTime(TM), allows airlines to monitor and manage aircraft operations anywhere, anytime, in real time. If an aircraft encounters an emergency, FLYHT's triggered data streaming mode, FLYHTStream(TM), automatically streams vital data, normally secured in the black box, to designated sites on the ground in real-time. The Company has been publicly traded on the TSX Venture Exchange since 2003 and recently changed its trading symbol from AMA to FLY. Shareholders approved a Company name change from AeroMechanical Services Ltd. to FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd. in May 2012.

AFIRS, UpTime, FLYHT, FLYHTStream and AeroQ are trademarks of FLYHT Aerospace Solutions Ltd.

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Ball Aerospace Leads Green Propellant Technology Demonstration Mission for NASA

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BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a contract from NASA to lead a government-industry team in the demonstration of an alternative fuel option for future space vehicles.

The Ball team will develop and fly the Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) to demonstrate a high-performance, non-toxic fuel alternative to conventional hydrazine. The mission will demonstrate and characterize the functionality of an integrated propulsion system to bridge the gap between technology development and actual use of green propellant in space.

Ball Aerospace is the prime contractor for the GPIM along with team co-investigators from the Aerojet Corporation, the Glenn Research Center, and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory atEdwardsAir Force Base, with additional mission support from the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center at Kirkland Air Force Base and NASA's Kennedy Space Center. GPIM is a Technology Demonstration Mission under the leadership of NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT).

"Ball is well known for innovative technology solutions and proud to be in partnership with OCT to advance space technology," said David L. Taylor, Ball Aerospace president and CEO. "This mission brings together a government-industry team from multiple agencies to develop a fully domestic green propellant solution for the next generation of space flight."

The GPIM will be developed over the next three years and launched in 2015. The purpose of employing green fuel alternatives is to reduce environmental impact and operational hazards, and improve launch processing capabilities. While the current use of hydrazine is efficient, the fuel is highly toxic and dangerous to transport. The GPIM demonstration will provide the aerospace community with a new system-level capability for future missions using a green alternative.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. supports critical missions for national agencies such as the Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA and other U.S. government and commercial entities. The company develops and manufactures spacecraft, advanced instruments and sensors, components, data exploitation systems and RF solutions for strategic, tactical and scientific applications. For more information visit http://www.ballaerospace.com.

Ball Corporation (BLL) is a supplier of high quality packaging for beverage, food and household products customers, and of aerospace and other technologies and services, primarily for the U.S. government. Ball Corporation and its subsidiaries employ more than 14,500 people worldwide and reported 2011 sales of more than $8.6 billion. For the latest Ball news and for other company information, please visit http://www.ball.com.

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This release contains "forward-looking" statements concerning future events and financial performance. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "estimates" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Key risks and uncertainties are summarized in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Exhibit 99.2 in our Form 10-K, which are available on our website and at http://www.sec.gov. Factors that might affect our packaging segments include fluctuation in product demand and preferences; availability and cost of raw materials; competitive packaging availability, pricing and substitution; changes in climate and weather; crop yields; competitive activity; failure to achieve anticipated productivity improvements or production cost reductions; mandatory deposit or other restrictive packaging laws; changes in major customer or supplier contracts or loss of a major customer or supplier; political instability and sanctions; and changes in foreign exchange rates or tax rates. Factors that might affect our aerospace segment include: funding, authorization, availability and returns of government and commercial contracts; and delays, extensions and technical uncertainties affecting segment contracts. Factors that might affect the company as a whole include those listed plus: accounting changes; changes in senior management; the recent global recession and its effects on liquidity, credit risk, asset values and the economy; successful or unsuccessful acquisitions; regulatory action or laws including tax, environmental, health and workplace safety, including U.S. FDA and other actions affecting products filled in our containers, or chemicals or substances used in raw materials or in the manufacturing process; governmental investigations; technological developments and innovations; goodwill impairment; antitrust, patent and other litigation; strikes; labor cost changes; rates of return projected and earned on assets of the company's defined benefit retirement plans; pension changes; uncertainties surrounding the U.S. government budget and debt limit; reduced cash flow; interest rates affecting our debt; and changes to unaudited results due to statutory audits or other effects.

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'Avengers' Gag Reel – Best Moments

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Part of what made "The Avengers" so much fun was the chemistry between the cast. So often, that important spark goes unnoticed between performers, but anyone who pays close attention to film knows that chemistry is just as important as story, direction, or nowadays, special effects. On-set chemistry and a light atmosphere often generate positive results, as is clearly the case with Joss Whedon's "The Avengers."

The gag reel (recently taken down by Disney), seen on Youtube (via MTV Geek) is loaded with great laughs, from Agent Coulson's goofy demise to Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo's lab-related gaffs (the two previously shared the screen in David Fincher's "Zodiac"), the clip includes a few favorites:

Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow's Awkward Goodbye Kiss - The two have starred in both "Iron Man" films, and are both notoriously funny and affable folks, so goofing around on-set is surely something that happens often with them around.

Jeremy Renner's "Trek" Moment - Jeremy Renner, who plays Hawkeye on the film, during the pivotal battle for New York at the end, jokingly refers to feeling like he's on "Star Trek" with his communicating between heroes. He even goes so far as to potentially ask for the current stardate.

Costume Issues - Both Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans (playing Captain America) seem to struggle with their outfits at different points. Downey has issues with his Iron Man helmet, while Evans can't seem to get his parachute on, mid-flight.

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Mark Ruffalo - Mark Ruffalo has plenty of great moments in this clip, including knocking over props, having a tender moment with a stuntman in a motion capture suit and just generally joking around with cast mates. However; his funniest moment comes at the end of the clip, where he runs away from the final battle against the Chitauri invaders.

All in all, a funny gag reel that hopefully finds its way to the DVD and Blu-ray versions of the home release (due out on September 25, 2012).

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Baby Boomers are Flocking to Injectable Hormone Replacement Therapy

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Benjamin Franklin once said, the only thing certain is death and taxes. For all of us, there is no escape from aging, at least not yet. As it stands right now, there is no cure for aging, even though some futurists are saying stem cell and gene therapy research will lead to human immortality in the next 20 to 40 years. Stem cell and gene therapy are still in the clinical trial phases, and will likely not be available to the full mainstream for another 10 or more years. Right now however, there is Hormone Replacement Therapy, considered one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of our time. People who want to transform their lives, and reduce or even reverse the gathering accumulation of aging associated disease are turning to HGH or Sermorelin Injections and Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT). It is available right now and it's 100% legal to get it from a physician in the united states to treat hormone deficiency.

Let's Talk About Hormone Decline in Men and then Women

It doesn't matter how good you eat and how much you exercise, you can only slow down the aging process, not stop it, eventually no matter how much you go to the gym or eat right, every part of your body is degenerating at different speeds. A 50 year old who worked out his whole life, and could bench press 375lbs one day strained his his back and could no longer lift weights, he got and MRI and the doctor noticed degeneration in the spine. The patient asked the doctor how is it possible that the areas between his vertebrae degenerated when he ate right, took vitamins and worked out. The doctor told him the unfortunate news, eventually serious medical problems are coming, even for the rare people who live to be over 100 yeas old. The patient had blood tests done, sure enough, he was low in IGF-1 and testosterone, despite working out 4x a week for 90 minutes. The doctor prescribed him HGH and Testosterone within 3 months, the patient claimed he felt better than he did 20 years ago. If you are not feeling like you're old self, and are having serious problems with your health, get your hormone levels checked. It's a really easy blood test, if you live in the United States and want to schedule a blood test, take the first step: http://hghinjectable.org/hgh-blood-test/

Introduction to Andropause (Male Menopause) Low T, Low Testosterone and Hypogonadism

Millions of men in the United States are suffering from from different degrees of Andropause which is often centered around low testosterone (low T), medically called Hypogonadism. Sadly only a small number of men get treatment for it and even more sad, is that many doctors are not specialists in TRT - Testosterone Replacement Therapy. Fortunately there are Testosterone Clinics for men specializing in testosterone prescriptions. Weight gain and depression are not the only prominent symptoms of Low T (low testosterone), the lack of desire for sex and poor performance in bed can be one of the biggest problems for men in a relationship or seeking female companionship. Hormone decline and Low T can cause a man to have emotional and mood changes that are swift and unplanned, especially known as grumpy old man syndrome, getting angry or upset easily. Low T is also associated with memory loss, declining motivation, mental fatigue, weak heart, poor cardiovascular system, inability to do physical activities for a long period of time. Some studies indicate Testosterone has anti-inflammation properties as well, which could explain why some men experience inflammation as a result of low testosterone. One third of men who have heart attacks have low testosterone, which is not surprising, because testosterone is key to muscle strength, development and maintenance. Testosterone supplementation via injections or cream, can bring back the youthfulness of men who seek to treat testosterone deficiency.

Though testosterone is not the only deficiency in men, Human Growth Hormone deficiency can also plague men. Both of these hormones work fantastically together for men deficient in them, because the scientific medical approach behind hormone replacement therapy seeks to replace all hormone deficiency together, not just approaching the problem singularly with single hormones. Men who go on proper hormone replacement therapy programs have communicated astonishing changes in their quality of health. HGH injections with a testosterone program can do wonders for hormone deficient men.

Hormone Treatment for Women.

Men are not the only people affected by low hormone and deficiency, women suffer from the age related decline of hormones decades before menopause. Women experience very similar symptoms as men when hormone decline sets in from an expanding mid section, gain of cellulite around the thys and buttocks, to adipose (fat) deposits swelling around the lower abdomen area. Women can also experience the inability of the vagina to lubricate itself which can cause discomfort during sex. Experiencing "hot flashes" is a common symptom of hormone decline in women. Depression, fatigue, emotional mood swings, crying for no reason, bouts of anger or sadness without a reason, moodiness, getting upset easily, starting fights and rapid mood changes plague women with hormone deficiency.

To learn more about hormone deficiency visit Hormone Replacement Clinic for a Hormone Blood Deficiency Test.

Obesity, metabolic factors linked to faster cognitive decline

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Public release date: 20-Aug-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]

Contact: Rachel Seroka rseroka@aan.com 612-928-6129 American Academy of Neurology

MINNEAPOLIS People who are obese and also have high blood pressure and other risk factors called metabolic abnormalities may experience a faster decline in their cognitive skills over time than others, according to a study published in the August 21, 2012, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Metabolic abnormality was defined as having two or more of the following risk factors: high blood pressure or taking medication for it; low HDL or "good" cholesterol; high blood sugar or taking diabetes medication; and high triglycerides (a type of fat found in the blood) or taking medication to lower cholesterol.

The study involved 6,401 people with an average age 50 at the start of the study. Information on body mass index (BMI) and the risk factors was gathered at the beginning of the study. The participants took tests on memory and other cognitive skills three times over the next 10 years.

A total of 31 percent of the participants had two or more metabolic abnormalities. Nine percent were obese and 38 percent were overweight. Of the 582 obese people, 350, or 60 percent, met the criteria for metabolic abnormality. The metabolically normal obese individuals also experienced more rapid decline.

Over the 10 years of the study, people who were both obese and metabolically abnormal experienced a 22.5 percent faster decline on their cognitive test scores than those who were of normal weight without metabolic abnormalities.

"More research is needed to look at the effects of genetic factors and also to take into account how long people have been obese and how long they have had these metabolic risk factors and also to look at cognitive test scores spanning adulthood to give us a better understanding of the link between obesity and cognitive function, such as thinking, reasoning and memory," said study author Archana Singh-Manoux, PhD, of INSERM, the French research institute in Paris and University College London in England.

Singh-Manoux said the study also provides evidence against the concept of "metabolically healthy obesity" that has suggested that obese people without metabolic risk factors do not show negative cardiac and cognitive results compared to obese people with metabolic risk factors.

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U.S. Medical Students' Education Debt Level Holds Steady Three Years Running

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It's no secret that medical students pay a steep price for four years of education at a U.S. medical school. In fact, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), in 2011, 86 percent of medical school graduates owed a median amount of $162,000 in education debt, which breaks down to monthly payments of $1,500 to $2,100.

However, some people may be surprised to learn that education debt levels among U.S. medical school graduates held fairly steady between 2009 and 2011. Mean education debt amounts for those years were $156,500 in 2009, $157,900 in 2010 and $161,300 in 2011, according to a new analysis of trends in cost and debt at U.S. medical schools that was released by the AAMC in July. Those amounts represent a 1.2 percent, a 1.0 percent and a 2.1 percent increase, respectively, compared with the previous year.

According to the analysis, in July 2006, Stafford loan interest rates for graduate medical education were fixed at 6.8 percent; previously, interest rates were variable and at times fell to less than 3 percent. Thus, the graduating class of 2009 "was the first medical school class to face at least three years of a fixed 6.8 percent interest rate," and that was the same time the growth of debt levels began to slow.

The researchers pointed out that the costs associated with medical school attendance traditionally have been based on tuition and fees for first-year students without taking into account the living expenses those students incurred or the fact that medical students in their final two years of study often spend more on living expenses. Therefore, for the purposes of their research, the authors included four full years of medical school in calculating costs.

Notably, the authors compared costs in private versus public medical schools and noted that in 2009-10, the 75 public medical schools that participated in the study reported a combined $1.25 billion in gifts and endowment funds available to support medical student grants and scholarships; the 51 participating private schools reported double that amount, or $2.5 billion.

The authors concluded that more research is needed to identify additional factors -- aside from cost and interest rates -- that play a role in the medical school debt that students incur.

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University of California, Irvine Offers Online Medical School Course for Open Enrollment

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

In collaboration with UC Irvine Extension, the UC Irvine School of Medicine will offer a new fully online, first-year medical school course titled, Introduction to Medical Physiology from September 11, 2012 through March 11, 2013. The course is open to all participants interested in attending medical school, earning transferable UC graduate credits, or those seeking to enhance their resume with medical education experience. This is the first UC Irvine online medical course to be offered to the general public through open enrollment participants do not need to be admitted to UC Irvine to enroll.

Students have the rare opportunity to learn identical material and take the same exams presented to first year medical students at the prestigious UC Irvine School of Medicine, said Dr. Harry Haigler, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Basic Science Medical Education at UC Irvine School of Medicine. Course participants will also receive support and guidance from medical school faculty, compare their performance with other medical school students, and obtain an advantage by experiencing the rigorous medical school curriculum before admittance to medical school. We are very excited to be able to offer this medical training to the general public.

The online Introduction to Medical Physiology course will expose participants to the classical concepts of medical physiology with an emphasis on topics that are fundamental to the practice of clinical medicine. The first half of the course will address hemostasis, blood, neurophysiology and cardiovascular physiology. The second half of the course will address topics including gastrointestinal, renal, respiratory, acid/base, endocrine, exercise, temperature regulation and sexual physiology.

For more information or to register for the course, call 949-824-0697 or visit http://www.extension.uci.edu/premed.

About UC Irvine Extension: University of California, Irvine Extension is the continuing education arm of UC Irvine. Through thousands of courses and programs offered on campus, online and on site, UC Irvine Extension helps adult learners reach their career advancement and personal enrichment goals and is celebrating 50 years of providing universally accessible, university-level learning to local, regional, and global communities. Learn more at extension.uci.edu, or join us on Facebook at facebook.com/uciextension.

About UC Irvine School of Medicine: Ranked as one of the top 50 U.S. medical schools for research by U.S. News & World Report, University of California, Irvine's School of Medicine is dedicated to advancing medical knowledge and clinical practice through scholarly research, physician education and high-quality care. The medical school nurtures the development of medical students, resident physicians and scholars in the clinical and basic sciences and supports the dissemination of research advances for the benefit of society. For more information, visit http://www.som.uci.edu/index.asp.

About the University of California, Irvine: Founded in 1965, UC Irvine is a top-ranked university dedicated to research, scholarship and community service. Led by Chancellor Michael Drake since 2005, UC Irvine is among the most dynamic campuses in the University of California system, with nearly 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students, 1,100 faculty and 9,000 staff. Orange Countys largest employer, UC Irvine contributes an annual economic impact of $4.2 billion. For more UC Irvine news, visit http://www.today.uci.edu.

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Akin and Pregnancy: Yes, It Can Happen to Rape Victims

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When a viable sperm penetrates a viable egg inside a woman's reproductive tract, the result is a fertilized egg that can then implant in the uterus. That fact of life is consistent regardless of how that sperm and egg met up, including whether or not the sperm was ejaculated during rape.

That may be news to Rep. Todd Akin from Missouri who told a local television station, in explaining his stance that abortion should not be allowed even in the case of rape: "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

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"Physiologically, if the sperm is in the vagina, a pregnancy can occur, regardless of the circumstances of how that sperm got there," said Dr. Melisa Holmes, an ob-gyn and founder of Girlology, an organization that promotes healthy sexuality and communication in families.

And though the anti-abortion Republican says he "misspoke," Holmes says that Akin's remark also suggests that some rapes are not "legitimate," and this continues a harmful misconception about violence against women.

"A rape is a rape, and a woman has the same physical and emotional consequences whether she's raped by a stranger in a dark alley or someone she's known for five years," Holmes told LiveScience. "That's one of those misperceptions that gets perpetuated and unfortunately affects women in a bad way -- 'Were you really raped, or were you at fault for part of it?'"

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Perhaps Akin is correct in thinking it's not the easiest of tasks to get pregnant; that's why men don't ejaculate just one sperm and instead release nearly 100 million sperm. (Men who have fewer than 20 million sperm per milliliter of semen may have difficulty conceiving, according to a WebMD article.) That's because few sperm survive the grueling journey from the vagina to the fallopian tubes where they can meet up with an egg. Even for those that make it, only the healthiest will penetrate, and fertilize, the egg. (11 Odd Facts About the Pregnant Body)

Still, of the 6.7 million pregnancies in the United States every year, about half are unintended, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

The chance of getting pregnant from one event of unprotected sexual intercourse is 5 percent on average, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN).

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Shirley O. Corriher wins American Chemical Society's prestigious journalism award

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Contact: Michael Bernstein m_bernstein@acs.org 215-418-2056 (Philadelphia Press Center, Aug. 17-23) 202-872-6042

Michael Woods m_woods@acs.org 215-418-2056 (Philadelphia Press Center, Aug. 17-23) 202-872-6293 American Chemical Society

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 20, 2012 Nationally renowned author, speaker, TV personality and all-around "ambassador of chemistry" Shirley O. Corriher has been selected as recipient of the 2013 James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public.

The American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society, sponsors the award, and announced the winner here this week at its 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the ACS. The meeting, which features about 8,600 reports with an anticipated attendance of 14,000 scientists and others, continues here through Thursday.

One of the oldest and most prestigious accolades in science communication, the award dates to 1955 and consists of $3,000, a gold medallion and a bronze replica of the medallion. ACS named the award for James T. Grady and James H. Stack, former managers of the ACS News Service. Publisher of the Weekly PressPac, the News Service was established in 1919, making ACS one of the first scientific societies with a dedicated function of communicating and explaining science to the public.

ACS selected Corriher for work in bringing home the power and pleasure of chemistry through her highly popular books, articles and dynamic presentations on the chemistry of cooking. For more than 30 years, Corriher has served as an unofficial "ambassador of chemistry," delighting readers and audiences across the country.

A biochemist by training, Corriher is the author of two highly respected books: CookWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking, winner of a James Beard Foundation award, and BakeWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking. Cookwise is a popular "go-to" book for chemistry classes, test kitchens and home cooks across the country. Also known as a "food sleuth," Corriher has been approached by chefs, food writers and even Julia Child to find solutions to difficult conundrums encountered in the kitchen.

She has written numerous articles for newspapers, magazines and technical journals, and has appeared many times on the television show Good Eats with Alton Brown on The Food Network. In 2001, Bon Appetit magazine named her Best Cooking Teacher of the Year. Corriher also serves on the ACS Committee on Public Relations and Communications.

"Corriher is renowned for her enthusiasm and down-home, engaging style," said Harold McGee, Ph.D., author and columnist at the New York Times. He nominated Corriher for the award. "The Grady-Stack Award was created to reward outstanding reporting directly to the public. Shirley Corriher's life work fits that definition perfectly and thoroughly."

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NDSU Faculty Receives NSF Funding for Chemistry Research

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Newswise Sivaguru (Siva) Jayaraman, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at North Dakota State University, Fargo, has received a three-year, $429,500 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research outlined in his proposal titled Light Induced Enantiospecific Chiral Transfer in Solution. The funding also provides research opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students to develop environmentally benign, green strategies to perform chemical reactions.

The research program in Dr. Sivas group focuses on using light to transfer molecular chirality in photochemical reactions (reactions initiated by light) to produce molecules that are chiral (have two non-superimposable mirror images) and make only one of the two possible forms (a single enantiomer).

Based on the funding from the National Science Foundation, his research group will study light-induced enantiospecific chiral transfer in solution. One of the research goals is to gain a fundamental understanding of interaction of light with photoreactive substrates, coupled with an intricate control over molecular reactivity, dynamics and non-bonding interactions to enhance stereoselectivity in the photoproducts.

Synthesizing chiral compounds with high stereoselectivity during light-induced transformations provides an opportunity to develop sustainable strategies with minimal impact on the environment, said Dr. Jayaraman.

Students learn how modern chemical methods can be used for synthesizing compounds with minimal environmental impact. With this most recent NSF funding, students involved in the proposed investigations will learn both traditional techniques to characterize and evaluate asymmetric induction during enantiospecific phototransformations and modern spectroscopic methods and characterization techniques to assess excited state reactivity.

The award is a renewal grant of Dr. Jayaramans CAREER award, which includes research opportunities for NDSU students. His research also provides opportunities to area high school students through a program called PICNICS (Parents Involvement with Children, Nurturing Intellectual Curiosity in Science).

As part of the PICNICS program, top area high school students conduct a variety of research each summer alongside graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, NDSU, Fargo. The PICNICS program was developed by Dr. Jayaraman as an outreach component in his NSF CAREER award to engage high school students and their parents about recent science and technology advancements and to encourage high school juniors and seniors to consider science as a career path.

Dr. Sivaguru (Siva) Jayaraman joined the faculty at NDSU in 2006. He was promoted to associate professor in 2011. He previously received an NSF CAREER award in 2008, a Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize from the Swiss Chemical Society in 2010, a Young-investigator award from the Inter-American Photochemical Society (I-APS) in 2011, and a Young-investigator award from Sigma Xi in 2012.

At NDSU, Dr. Jayaraman received the 2010 Excellence in Research Award, 2011 Excellence in Teaching award and 2012 Peltier Award for Innovation in Teaching. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University, New York, N.Y., after receiving his Ph.D. from Tulane University, New Orleans, La. He received a masters degree in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and completed a bachelors degree in chemistry from St. Josephs College, Bharathidasan University, Trichy, India.

For more info regarding Dr. Sivaguru Jayaramans research, teaching and outreach visit http://sivagroup.chem.ndsu.nodak.edu/

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Sonic unveils record full year profit

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Pathology and radiology provider Sonic Healthcare says it expects to increase its earnings by up to 10 per cent after posting a record profit for the 2011/12 financial year.

Sonic, which operates in the United States and Australia, lifted its net profit by 7.3 per cent to $316 million in the year to June 30, from $294.5 million in 2010/11.

On a constant currency basis, the net profit result was $323.3 million.

Revenue rose eight per cent to $3.3 billion, from $3.1 billion.

Sonic's earnings benefited from strong organic revenue growth, cost cuts, operational improvements and better returns on invested capital.

In a statement, Sonic said it expected to grow its earnings by between five and 10 per cent, on a constant currency basis.

It also expects its net interest expenses to fall by between five and 10 per cent.

Chief executive Dr Colin Goldschmidt said Sonic had won market share from its rivals during the year and that its record net profit would have been even higher if it weren't for the impact of the strong Australian dollar.

He said the pathology and radiology divisions each increased their margins.

However, the pathology business struggled with constrained growth in the US and cost pressures in Australia as a result of the deregulation of collection centres.

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Nutrition program begins Sept. 17 at L+M

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NEW LONDON The next session of Healthier, Happier You, a nine-week nutrition and wellness program offered by Lawrence + Memorial Hospital, begins Sept. 17.

Each week, Mary Ann Nash, L+M nutritionist and a registered dietician, begins the program with a 45-minute presentation designed to increase nutritional knowledge. Then, Sal Argento, L+M executive chef, conducts a one-hour cooking class and demonstration.

Participants are then served dishes inspired by the days topic and based on the Mediterranean diet, a heart healthy menu based on the cuisine of countries near the Mediterranean Sea. Participants can also have their blood pressure monitored throughout the nine weeks of the program.

Classes meet each Monday from 5 to 7 p.m. in the hospitals Wave Caf classroom, adjacent to the main lobby.

Weekly program topics include: Guide to Healthy Weight and Defensive Eating; The Lion of Nutrition Carbohydrates; Building Step-by-Step Protein; The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Fats; Mom was Right: Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables; A Virtual Grocery Store Tour; To Your Health You are What You Drink; Be Flexible Moving Your Body Every Day; Getting Street Wise About Supplements.

The cost is $200 per person for the series. Registration and pre-payment is required prior to the first class. Space is limited. To register, or for more information, call 860-442-0711, ext. 3109.

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Creative Edge Nutrition, Inc., Acquires SCD Enterprises, LLC

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MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich., Aug. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative Edge Nutrition, Inc. (FITX), a nutritional supplement company focusing on active lifestyles, is announcing today that they have acquired SCD Enterprises, LLC. We will continue to aggressively grow and expand our presence in the sports nutrition marketplace through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions, as we move forward all details will be released.

In reference to this latest acquisition Bill Chaaban, Creative Edge Nutrition's CEO and President, stated: "We are glad to be able to announce this strategic development. The opportunity that this deal has provided to all parties is noteworthy."

About Creative Edge Nutrition, Inc.

Creative Edge Nutrition is a holding company and a Nutritional Supplement Company focused on developing innovative, high quality supplements. The company offers a broad spectrum of capsules, tablets, and powders, as well as science based products in the principal categories of weight management, nutrition challenges, energy and fitness. The Company manufactures under strict GMP guidelines at GMP Certified and/or FDA registered facilities. http://www.CenergyNutrition.com and http://www.facebook.com/pages/Creative-Edge-Nutrition-Inc/115224738609211

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Harvard scientists encode an entire book onto DNA

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Summary: A team of Harvard researchers have managed to encode a book onto DNA, paving the way for wider use of the technology as a storage medium.

Harvard researchers have succeeded in storing an entire book on DNA and reading the information back, paving the way for the use of the building block of life as a high-density storage medium.

The research was published in Science on Friday. The researchers used a combination of commercial tools for DNA synthesis and new methods of DNA sequencing to store a copy of lead researcher George Church's forthcoming book Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves in DNA onto DNA.

"The density is remarkably high," Church says in a video explaining the research. "We can store on the order of almost a zettabyte [of data] in a gram of DNA."

This method can store data at densities many orders of magnitude greater than current non-biological techniques. By comparison, Church's DNA method can store around 125TB of information in one cubic millimetre of DNA, while prototype heat-assisted magnetic recording technology from Seagate can store 125GB of information per square inch.

The team stored the information by encoding the book as binary code and using the base pairs of DNA for binary characters. A and C stood for zero, while T and G for one. The book was split into 96-bit data blocks which each had a 19-bit address to allow them to be reassembled. Each block was written as its unique DNA sequence, which the team sequenced 54,898 of to create the book.

In the future, Church imagines a world full of "very inexpensive [DNA-based] biological cameras" that record video footage for later analysis by big data technologies. However, the cost of the sequencing and encoding technology would need to dramatically come down for such a scenario to be possible.

The funding for the research came from the US office of Naval Research, Agilent Technologies and the Wyss Institute.

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The First Book To Be Encoded in DNA

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Two Harvard scientists have produced 70 billion copies of a book in DNA code --and it's smaller than the size of your thumbnail.

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In his lab at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, George Church, Harvard Medical School Genetics professor, shows DNA sequence data for Dr. John Halamka, chief information officer, following a news conference on Monday, Oct. 20, 2008 where a group of mostly scientists and researchers said they will post their medical records and DNA sequence of some of their own genes online for the sake of research. Both George Church and Dr. Halamka are part of the group that plan to post their medical and DNA sequence of some of their own genes online.

Despite the fact there are 70 billion copies of it in existence, very few people have actually read the book Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves in DNA, by George Church and Ed Regis. The reason? It is written in the basic building blocks of life: Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.

Church, along with his colleague Sriram Kosuri, both molecular geneticists from the Wyss Institute for Biomedical Engineering at Harvard, used the book to demonstrate a breakthrough in DNA data storage. By copying the 53,000 word book (alongside 11 jpeg images and a computer program) theyve managed to squeeze a thousand times more data than ever previously encoded into strands of DNA, as reported in the August 17 issue of the journal Science. (To give you some idea of how much information were talking about, 70 billion copies is morethan three times the total number of copies for the next 200 most popular books in the world combined.)

(MORE: The Meaning of Life According to Geneticist J. Craig Venter)

Part of DNAs genius is just how conspicuously small it is: so dense and energy efficient that one gram of the stuff can hold 455 billion gigabytes. Four grams could in theory hold ever scrap of data the entire world produces in a year. Couple this with a theoretical lifespan of 3.5 billion years and you have a revolution in data storage, with wide ranging implications for the amount of information we could record and store.

Dont expect your library to transform from paperbacks to vials of DNA anytime soon though. It took a decade to work out the next generation of reading and writing of DNA Ive been working on reading for 38 years, and writing since the 90s, Church tells TIME.

The actual work of encoding the book into DNA and then decoding it and copying it only took a couple weeks. I did it with my own two hands! says Dr. Church, which is very rare to have that kind of time to spend doing something like this. Church and Kosuri took a computer file of Regenesisand converted it into binary code strings of ones and zeroes. They then translated that code into the basic building blocks of DNA. The 1s stand for adenine (A) or cytosine (C) and the zero for guanine (G) and thymine (T), says Kosuri. Using a computer program, this translation was simple.

While the future implications and applications are not yet clear, the DNA storage industry is moving at an incredible speed. Classical electronic technology is moving forward something like 1.5 fold per year, says Dr. Church, whereas reading and writing DNA is improving roughly ten fold per year. Weve already had a million-fold improvement in the past few years, which is shocking.

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IntegenX Launches First RapidHIT Human DNA Identification System in Europe

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PLEASANTON, Calif. & THE HAGUE, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

IntegenX Inc., a leading developer of rapid human DNA identification technology, today launched its RapidHIT Human DNA Identification System to the European law enforcement and forensic communities at the 6th European Academy of Forensic Science (EAFS) Conference in The Hague, The Netherlands. Representatives from IntegenX are on site at the meeting to demonstrate the self-contained desktop system and share data produced by its first users.

The RapidHIT System automates and accelerates the process of producing standardized DNA profiles from cheek swabs and other human samples in about 90 minutes. Rapid DNA analysis is a transformative technology that promises to fundamentally change the way investigations are conducted by enabling law enforcement personnel to quickly and definitively link suspects to crimes while they are still in custody.

We have spent a great deal of time working closely with the law enforcement, forensic and judicial communities to understand their needs and priorities for DNA-based human identification, and are now confident that we are the partner of choice to help the international community to successfully deploy this important advance in crime solving, said Stevan Jovanovich, President and Chief Executive Officer of IntegenX. This is a very exciting time as we introduce the worlds first rapid DNA analysis system to the professionals who will be on the cutting edge of implementing it to identify offenders, clear innocent suspects quickly, and prevent future crimes.

Numerous international law enforcement and security agencies use DNA-based human identification to make informed decisions regarding the arrest, detention or release of suspects, as well as to analyze crime scene evidence. By integrating a multi-step, multi-system process, rapid DNA technology has the potential to accelerate and expand the use of proven DNA technologies to help the efforts of law enforcement, homeland security, and defense to create safer communities.

The RapidHIT System will be on display at EAFS in exhibit space #58. Technical marketing manager Keith Elliot will describe the instrument and early data from users in Real-time DNA Using the RapidHIT 200, Tuesday, August 21 at 11:00 AM, and IntegenX will contribute additional information at the Mobile DNA Technologies workshop on Wednesday, August 22 at 9:30 AM.

IntegenX will begin shipping early access RapidHIT systems this month. The company will launch the system to the U.S. market at the 119th Annual International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference and Law Enforcement Education and Technology Exposition in San Diego, California, September 29 October 3, 2012.

In celebration of this historic milestone in forensics, IntegenX has produced a short video that features leaders in law enforcement discussing the impact of rapid DNA in crime fighting. The video is available for download and distribution at http://integenx.com/video-rapid-dna-with-the-integenx-rapidhit-200/.

About IntegenX Inc.

IntegenX, headquartered in Pleasanton, California, is a leading developer of rapid human DNA identification technology, next-gen sequencing library preparation, and DNA/RNA ambient temperature stability and storage products. IntegenX technology platforms are the result of the integration of advanced fluidics, optics, and biochemistry capabilities to produce products for DNA-based human identity testing and forensics, next generation sequencing and biodefense applications. The companys expertise and extensive intellectual property includes its patented MOVe valve technology, patent-pending PrepX reagent kits for next generation sequencing library preparation, as well as a portfolio of patented reagents for DNA and RNA preservation including GenTegra for stabilization and storage of purified DNA and RNA, and GenPlate for storage of blood samples. For more information, please visit http://www.integenx.com.

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Harvard Stores 70 Billion Books Using DNA

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Harvard researchers have been able to use sequencing technology to store 70 billion copies of a yet-unpublished book in DNA binary code.

The results of the project by researchers at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University were published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Science.

"The total world's information, which is 1.8 zettabytes, [could be stored] in about four grams of DNA," said Sriram Kosuri, a senior scientist at the Wyss Institute and senior author of the paper, in a video presentation.

The researchers created the binary code through DNA markers to preserve the text of the book, Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves in DNA. The book was written by research team member George Church.

"We ... wanted something that represents modern digital, so we used an HTML version of a book," Church said in a video presentation.

"The HTML form -- let's say the web form -- includes digital images [and a] Java script programming language that performs something interactively with a person. So we encoded that into zeros and ones into DNA," Church added.

A DNA double helix in an undated artist's illustration released by the National Human Genome Research Institute. (Source: Reuters)Church, a professor of genetics at the Harvard Medical School, helped develop the first direct genomic sequencing method in 1984. He was also a member of the team that initiated the Human Genome Project that year as a scientist working at Biogen Inc.

The Harvard researchers stored 5.5 petabits, or 1 million gigabits, per cubic millimeter in the DNA storage medium. Because of the slow process for setting down the data, the researchers consider the DNA storage medium currently suitable only for data archive purposes.

"The information density and scale compare favorably with other experimental storage methods from biology and physics," Kosuri said.

The team also included Yuan Gao, a former Wyss postdoctoral scholar and now an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

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Rep. Todd Akin needs to take a course in female biology

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As soon as I read the comments that Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) made Sunday about how legitimate rapes dont result in pregnancy, my first thoughts were 1) what an insensitive ignoramus, and 2) its long past time that we require our politicians to take and pass a course in female biology. After all, if theyre going to be enacting laws that affect womens health and bodies, they should at least understand how the female body works.

Its clear that right now many of them simply dont have a clue.

Akin showed his ignorance while defending his no-exceptions stance on abortion during an interview on a local Missouri television station Sunday morning. It seems to me, first of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape is] really rare, he told KTVI-TV. If its a legitimate rape, the female has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

But lets assume that maybe that didnt work or something, he added. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist and not attacking the child.

Akins ridiculous idea that women have some kind of natural defense that somehow fights off conception during a legitimate rape isnt new to a particular wing of the political spectrum, as Garance Franke-Rute, a senior editor at the Atlantic, pointed out on Sunday afternoon:

Arguments like his have cropped up again and again on the right over the past quarter century and the idea that trauma is a form of birth control continues to be promulgated by anti-abortion forces that seek to outlaw all abortions, even in cases of rape or incest. The push for a no-exceptions anti-abortion policy has for decades gone hand in hand with efforts to downplay the frequency with which rape- or incest-related pregnancies occur, and even to deny that they happen, at all. In other words, it's not just Akin singing this tune.

Franke-Rute then quotes from a 1999 article written by Dr. John C. Willke, a past-president of the National Right to Life Committee and the current president of the ban-all-abortions Life Issues Institutes (and who may be one of those unnamed doctors that Akin referred to in his TV comments):

When pro-lifers speak of rape pregnancies, we should commonly use the phrase "forcible rape" or "assault rape," for that specifies what we're talking about. Rape can also be statutory. Depending upon your state law, statutory rape can be consensual, but we're not addressing that here .... Assault rape pregnancies are extremely rare.

.... What is certainly one of the most important reasons why a rape victim rarely gets pregnant, and that's physical trauma. Every woman is aware that stress and emotional factors can alter her menstrual cycle. To get and stay pregnant a woman's body must produce a very sophisticated mix of hormones. Hormone production is controlled by a part of the brain that is easily influenced by emotions. There's no greater emotional trauma that can be experienced by a woman than an assault rape. This can radically upset her possibility of ovulation, fertilization, implantation and even nurturing of a pregnancy. So what further percentage reduction in pregnancy will this cause? No one knows, but this factor certainly cuts this last figure by at least 50 percent and probably more.

Of course, Willke offers no scientific evidence to support this biologically bogus theory about rape, hormones and the menstrual cycle. And it is bogus. Although its difficult to truly know how many pregnancies result from rape because rapes are so underreported, a team of University of South Carolina researchers took a stab at it in 1996. They estimated that about 32,000 pregnancies resulted from rape each year in the United States.

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Forget Flying Ant Day … it's actually a month! 4,000 people join 'citizen survey' to pin-point outbreaks across the UK

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Survey led by University of Gloucestershire discovers there is no single day for swarming nuisance

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PUBLISHED: 04:36 EST, 20 August 2012 | UPDATED: 05:22 EST, 20 August 2012

One of the first major studies of 'Flying Ant Day' has revealed that the nuisance outbreaks can occur anytime in the space of a month.

The Society of Biology asked members of the public to cover their mouths and keep a record each time they saw the pesky insects take to the air in their annual battle to find a mate.

Adam Hart, an ecologist and insect expert at the University of Gloucestershire, led the call to arms, and discovered that the outbreaks could come anytime over the period of a month.

It was previously assumed the ants synchronised their swarms to increase their reproductive chances, but instead of the 'Friday night' approach, is appears there is a more complex pattern at play.

Swarming: The most common flying ants seen at the moment is the black garden ant, Lasius niger

More than 4,000 people responded to the survey across June and July, and their sightings reveal that even within a small town can have outbreaks on different days.

Hart told The Scientist: 'Its really too early to tell but even a casual glance at the data so far shows that flying ant emergence is a spatially and temporally complex event.

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NDSU Faculty Receives NSF Funding for Chemistry Research

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Newswise Sivaguru (Siva) Jayaraman, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at North Dakota State University, Fargo, has received a three-year, $429,500 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research outlined in his proposal titled Light Induced Enantiospecific Chiral Transfer in Solution. The funding also provides research opportunities to graduate and undergraduate students to develop environmentally benign, green strategies to perform chemical reactions.

The research program in Dr. Sivas group focuses on using light to transfer molecular chirality in photochemical reactions (reactions initiated by light) to produce molecules that are chiral (have two non-superimposable mirror images) and make only one of the two possible forms (a single enantiomer).

Based on the funding from the National Science Foundation, his research group will study light-induced enantiospecific chiral transfer in solution. One of the research goals is to gain a fundamental understanding of interaction of light with photoreactive substrates, coupled with an intricate control over molecular reactivity, dynamics and non-bonding interactions to enhance stereoselectivity in the photoproducts.

Synthesizing chiral compounds with high stereoselectivity during light-induced transformations provides an opportunity to develop sustainable strategies with minimal impact on the environment, said Dr. Jayaraman.

Students learn how modern chemical methods can be used for synthesizing compounds with minimal environmental impact. With this most recent NSF funding, students involved in the proposed investigations will learn both traditional techniques to characterize and evaluate asymmetric induction during enantiospecific phototransformations and modern spectroscopic methods and characterization techniques to assess excited state reactivity.

The award is a renewal grant of Dr. Jayaramans CAREER award, which includes research opportunities for NDSU students. His research also provides opportunities to area high school students through a program called PICNICS (Parents Involvement with Children, Nurturing Intellectual Curiosity in Science).

As part of the PICNICS program, top area high school students conduct a variety of research each summer alongside graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, NDSU, Fargo. The PICNICS program was developed by Dr. Jayaraman as an outreach component in his NSF CAREER award to engage high school students and their parents about recent science and technology advancements and to encourage high school juniors and seniors to consider science as a career path.

Dr. Sivaguru (Siva) Jayaraman joined the faculty at NDSU in 2006. He was promoted to associate professor in 2011. He previously received an NSF CAREER award in 2008, a Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize from the Swiss Chemical Society in 2010, a Young-investigator award from the Inter-American Photochemical Society (I-APS) in 2011, and a Young-investigator award from Sigma Xi in 2012.

At NDSU, Dr. Jayaraman received the 2010 Excellence in Research Award, 2011 Excellence in Teaching award and 2012 Peltier Award for Innovation in Teaching. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University, New York, N.Y., after receiving his Ph.D. from Tulane University, New Orleans, La. He received a masters degree in chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and completed a bachelors degree in chemistry from St. Josephs College, Bharathidasan University, Trichy, India.

For more info regarding Dr. Sivaguru Jayaramans research, teaching and outreach visit http://sivagroup.chem.ndsu.nodak.edu/

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