SENECA Students of Seneca Grade Schools South Campus held their Science Fair on Feb. 20.

After months of work, designing, testing and reporting on their chosen topics, students submitted 24 projects for judging, according to a news release from the school.

The results were announced after parents viewed the projects and enjoyed refreshments.

Previous winners, Krista Eikleberry and Jennie Paulsen, spoke of their memorable science club experiences, and the student council Voices students helped present the awards.

The winners of the science fair were honored with prizes donated by local businesses: grand prize, sponsored by Cargill, to How Much Can You Learn by Jacob Ursua; second place, sponsored by Fergarias: The Pitch and Efficiency of Wind Turbines by Amber Vroman, and Renewable Wind Energy by Luke Sangston; and third place, sponsored by Joseph Herrera: Wind Power Energy by Brandon Applebee and Harley Wayne, and The Human Mind, by Krista Eikleberry.

Special awards also were given for a variety of categories, including Most Creative Display Board, sponsored by Family Video, to Following the Rain by Reese Sanburg and Maggie Carpenter; Most Original Project, sponsored by Roxy Theater to The Guppy Games by Meagan Potter; Best in Category, Life/Behavioral Science, sponsored by Jimmy Johns to Gender Wars by Ava Terry; Best in Category, Chemistry, sponsored by Papa Johns Pizza to Sticky Science by Lily Saager; Best in Category, Consumer Science, sponsored by Sams Pizza to Big Name Bust by Riley Johnson; Best in Category, Environmental Science, sponsored by Wendys to Battle of the Fertilizers, by Justine Ursua and Brooke Roseland, and Best in Category, Physical Science, sponsored by Jimmy Johns to Electric Pickle by CJ Wignes and Austin Marshall.

Six students, Jennie Paulsen, Isaiah Swon, Jacob Ursua, Garrett Granby, Meagan Potter, and Krista Eikleberry, will be advancing to the Regional Science Fair at Northern Illinois University in March.

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Mesa Colleges new Social and Behavioral Science Building. Photo credit: Alexander Nguyen

A $40.5 million, three-story classroom building opened at San Diego Mesa College on Tuesdayfor social and behavioral science courses.

The nearly 74,000-square-foot structure, funded by the San Diego Community College Districts $1.6 billion in construction bonds, is one of several new facilities to open in the last several years at Mesa, City and Miramar colleges.

It is inspiring to watch the transformation of Mesa College. As they have with the opening of each new building, the students have taken over the Social and Behavioral Sciences Building and made it their own, said college President Pamela Luster.

To watch the interaction between faculty and students, and to see the true educational benefits that these facilities bring, underscores the return on investment that the voters of San Diego have made to education and to Mesa College, she said.

In addition to classrooms, the building provides laboratory space for the psychology, anthropology and geography programs.

The two bonds, one approved by voters in 2002 and the other in 2006, have also provided the Clairemont Mesacampus with a health facility, a 45,000-square-foot humanities building and a 206,000-square-foot math and science complex. A new commons and an exercise science building are under construction.

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By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on February 16, 2015 ~ 1 min read

New research finds that short-term cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) dramatically reduces suicide attempts among at-risk military personnel.

Investigators from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio led the two-year study on 152 active-duty soldiers who had either attempted suicide or had been determined to be at high risk for suicide. All soldiers were stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado.

They found that soldiers receiving CBT were 60 percent less likely to make a suicide attempt during the 24-month follow-up than those receiving standard treatment.

The results have been published online by The American Journal of Psychiatry.

The findings are particularly encouraging, given that rates of active-duty service members receiving psychiatric diagnoses increased by more than 60 percent during a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Rates of suicides and suicide attempts rose in comparable numbers.

The significant increase in military suicides over the past decade is a national tragedy, said Alan Peterson, Ph.D., a co-investigator on the study.

The Department of Defense has responded by investing significant resources into military suicide research, and the findings from this study may be the most important and most hopeful to date.To see a 60 percent reduction in suicide attempts among at-risk active-duty soldiers after a brief intervention is truly exciting, Peterson said.

Other University of Texas Health Science Center investigators included Stacey Young-McCaughan, RN, Ph.D., and Jim Mintz, Ph.D.

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