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Nazarbayev University is a newly established institution of higher education in Astana, Kazakhstan, It opened its doors in 2011, as a Western style, English-speaking university with a predominant foreign academic staff. It provides undergraduate programs in Science and Technology, Social Sciences & Humanities and Engineering. The School of Engineering features a 4-year BEng curriculum, with majors in Mechanical, Civil, Electrical & Electronic and Chemical Engineering. University College London is the partner university of the School. The School is investing heavily in its teaching and learning infrastructure, has started preparations to set up graduate programs, and is breaking ground to build a new research facility and extend the teaching facilities. The academic staff is rapidly increasing in size.

The Department of Chemical Engineering invites applications for an associate or full professor position in materials science and engineering, with an emphasis on complex functional materials and nano materials. We are looking for a dynamic and motivated person with an excellent research record, who is able to develop curriculum and deliver high quality courses related to the development of engineering materials, especially in the graduate program of Materials Science and Engineering.

Required Qualifications: Ph.D. degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering, or a closely related field, with a proven background in teaching, research and service. For an associate and full professor position, at least 5, respectively 10 years of full time research and teaching experience are required. Experience in supervision of PhD students and research assistants is required.

An attractive salary and reward package, including rent-free accommodation, child education and personal shipment allowance, vacation allowance and no-cost international health insurance is offered.

Applicants should send a cover letter, CV, the names and contact details of three referees, and supporting materials to Professor Alfred Bliek, Dean of the Nazarbayev University School of Engineering at hiring-engineering@nu.edu.kz. For additional information about the School and the position job description, please visit our website (http://seng.nu.edu.kz/seng/Careers). Review of applications will begin immediately.

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Spaser Technology Could Make A Printable Smartphone Possible

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April 25, 2014

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According to a new report in the journal ACS Nano, a team of Australian engineers have modelled a kind of laser called a spaser that would allow for the creation of smartphones so small and flexible they could be printed on a t-shirt.

Simply put, spasers are nanoscale lasers that emit a beam of light via the vibration of free electrons, as opposed to the relatively space-consuming beam of a traditional laser. While spasers, short for surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, have been made before the new spaser described in the report would be made from carbon.

Other spasers designed to date are made of gold or silver nanoparticles and semiconductor quantum dots while our device would be comprised of a graphene resonator and a carbon nanotube gain element, study author Chanaka Rupasinghe, an engineering postgraduate student at Australias Monash University, said in a recent statement.

The use of carbon means our spaser would be more robust and flexible, would operate at high temperatures, and be eco-friendly, Chanaka said. Because of these properties, there is the possibility that in the future an extremely thin mobile phone could be printed on clothing.

Spaser-based gadgets would be a replacement for existing transistor-based device components including microprocessors, memory, and displays that would address current miniaturizing and bandwidth restrictions.

The scientists said their spaser would be built using graphene and carbon nanotubes, which are over a hundred times harder than steel and have superior heat and electricity conduction capabilities. They can also tolerate much higher temperatures.

The study team showed that graphene and carbon nanotubes can interrelate and transport energy to each other via light. These optical relationships are very quick and energy-efficient, making them suitable for computer processors and other uses.

Graphene and carbon nanotubes can be used in applications where you need strong, lightweight, conducting, and thermally stable materials due to their outstanding mechanical, electrical and optical properties, Chanaka said. They have been tested as nanoscale antennas, electric conductors and waveguides.

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IBM 3D Prints World's Smallest Magazine Cover

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By Lance Ulanoff2014-04-25 13:30:33 UTC

At the intersection of nano technology and 3D printing lies IBM's Microscopic 3D Printer, which now holds the distinction of printing the smallest magazine cover in the world.

IBM and National Geographic Kids unveiled the cover, which is small enough to fit on a single grain of salt 2,000 times, at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., where The Guinness Book of World Records officially proclaimed it as the world's smallest magazine cover.

The gray-scale duplication of NatGeo Kids' cover is actually invisible to the naked eye. Dr. Colin Rawlings, a physicist at IBM Research, said that even with a microscope, you'd only be able to make our a blurry image. To see it in full, you need an electron microscope.

The National Geographic Kids nano-printed cover (left) alongside the original.

IBM used a special kind of nano-printer which, unlike traditional 3D printers that print layer-by-layer, removes material to create its work. The silicon tip of the nano-printer reaches 1,000 degrees Celsius and literally vaporizes the material in this case, a polymer to create indents of varying depths, depending on the light qualities of each pixel in the original scanned image. Put simply, the nano tip, which is many thousands of times smaller than the tip of a pencil, carves away at the surface to create the final 3D product. It took about 10 minutes to print the black and white replica of the National Geographic Kids cover.

The tiny cover is a fun demonstration of the micro 3D printers capabilities, but its true purpose lies elsewhere. Rawlings said that the printer, which is now being used commercially at the University of McGill in Canada, is a perfect tool for rapid prototyping.

"Scientists make a lot of mistakes so being able to prototype things quickly and accurately is really important and thats what this lets you do," he said.

Ultimately, the printer could be used to work out the pathways for future processors. IBM's own newly introduced high-end mainframe processor the Power8, uses a 22 nanometer production process. The micro printer can go as low as 8 nanometers. Ostensibly, this means, the printer is ready to prototype a road map for the future of processors.

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AMSSM Announces 2014 International Sports Medicine Traveling Fellows

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Newswise LEAWOOD, Kan. The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) has selected Chad Asplund, MD and Irfan Asif, MD as the first two Junior Traveling Fellows for AMSSMs new International Traveling Fellowship program tour to Australia. Drs. Asplund and Asif will join AMSSM Founder Jim Puffer, MD, who will serve as the first Senior Traveling Fellow for the July 9-23, 2014 tour.

The Traveling Fellowship program is an academic exchange and clinical immersion initiative for sports medicine physicians to teach and learn sports medicine on a global level. The purpose of the program is to encourage academic interchange, share research and explore common clinical interests amongst international sports medicine leaders.

I am very much looking forward to the ability to represent AMSSM, the chance to meet and observe such great international colleagues, and the once and a lifetime opportunity to travel Down Under, said Dr. Asplund, who serves as medical director of Student Health Services and associate professor at Georgia Regents. He is the team physician for Georgia Regents, Paine College and the Augusta Greenjackets baseball team.

The Traveling Fellowship tour will include stops in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney.

"I am humbled and honored to receive this opportunity to be one of the first traveling fellows for AMSSM, said Dr. Asif. The collaborative relationships that we build from this fellowship will help to expand our organization's presence and I look forward to sharing my experiences with our membership in the near future." Dr. Asif serves as director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship Program and assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Department Of Family Medicine.

This program was made possible by the generous support the AMSSM Foundation received from DJO Global. AMSSM wishes to thank DJO Global for its educational support of this exchange of ideas and knowledge by world leaders in sports medicine.

About the AMSSM: AMSSM is a multi-disciplinary organization of 2,500 sports medicine physicians dedicated to education, research, advocacy and the care of athletes of all ages. The majority of AMSSM members are primary care physicians with fellowship training and added qualification in sports medicine who then combine their practice of sports medicine with their primary specialty. AMSSM includes members who specialize solely in non-surgical sports medicine and serve as team physicians at the youth level, NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA, WNBA, MLS and NHL, as well as with Olympic teams. By nature of their training and experience, sports medicine physicians are ideally suited to provide comprehensive medical care for athletes, sports teams or active individuals who are simply looking to maintain a healthy lifestyle. http://www.amssm.org

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WSU bullish on building its own medical school

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Washington State University decided to explore building its own medical school because the University of Washington wasnt moving fast enough to expand its medical program, WSU President Elson Floyd said Thursday.

In a meeting before The Seattle Times editorial board, Floyd said the state has an urgent need to graduate more doctors and encourage them to practice primary medicine in rural areas particularly on the east side of the state. A WSU-run medical school, located in Spokane, could make that happen.

How much longer do we need to wait for the UW to expand, asked Floyd, noting that hundreds of Washington students are turned away from the UW program because it doesnt have enough room.Theres an urgency other states are outpacing the state of Washington.

But UW officials say the university is already on track to grow its medical-school program in Spokane, which it runs jointly with WSU. If it gets money from the Legislature next year to double the number studying there, Spokane will eventually have a medical program with about 320 students, said Margaret Shepherd, director of state relations for the UW.

We are effectively proposing a four-year medical school in Spokane, with all of the benefits and none of the added administrative costs, she said. The expansion would cost $1 million the first year and eventually require about $6 million of additional annual funding.

The UW has operated the sole public medical-school program in a five-state region for decades, bringing students here from Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho to study with Washington students in Seattle. The program is called WWAMI an acronym formed by the first letter of the five states. Out-of-state medical students spend some of their time studying at the UW, then return to their home states to finish their training.

(Washington also has a private, nonprofit osteopathic medical school in Yakima, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences.)

In Spokane, the UW has been working in partnership with WSU to expand the WWAMI program so that a class of 40 Eastern Washington students can do all of their medical training in Spokane. The number of students whose training takes place entirely in Spokane would grow to 80 students per year if a legislative request is approved next year, Shepherd said.

Medical school takes four years to complete, so if the request was approved, 320 students would eventually do all of their training in Spokane.

Earlier this year, WSU commissioned a privately funded study to see whether it made sense for WSU to create its own medical school. The report is due at the end of June.

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Unchartered territory: Dueling petitions for Antioch medical high school draws wide attention

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ANTIOCH -- In a case being closely followed by charter school advocates and education administrators throughout the state, a Contra Costa Superior Court judge is expected to soon decide the fate of dueling efforts for control of Dozier-Libbey Medical High School.

The decision could reverberate far beyond Antioch, changing the playing field in how districts respond to efforts to turn their schools into charters.

Antioch Unified officials threw a monkey wrench into the typical process last month when it filed its own charter petition for the medical-themed magnet school to thwart a teacher-led petition to convert it into an independent charter -- a novel move for California that has befuddled and concerned many who have followed charter school-related efforts for years.

"I've never seen such a case where a district is explicitly countering with a bid to take over a school and with such a deep and rigid line in the sand," said Bruce Fuller, a public policy and education professor at UC Berkeley.

The school district, concerned that its rejection of the teachers' charter petition will be overturned on appeal, is proposing to turn Dozier-Libbey into a dependent charter. Under that scenario, the school would establish an advisory committee and receive a dedicated funding stream, as is the case with traditional charters, but continue to be governed by the school district. Student-athletes could also continue to compete on athletic teams at the district's other high schools, as is currently the case.

If the teachers prevail with their conversion effort, the new charter school would take control of its own operations with no district input.

The two sides will be in court Monday morning.

Judge Laurel Brady is being asked to determine the legality of the district's petition and a request from proponents of the independent charter for a temporary restraining order to "maintain the status quo which preceded the controversy," including using the school logo, facilities and curriculum.

The district filed a response to the injunction request, saying it must prepare for the next school year, and has already taken several steps toward converting the school into a dependent charter.

Charter advocates worry about what will happen if Antioch Unified's strategy succeeds, with some saying it could serve as a blueprint on how to thwart charter petitions and undercut state law.

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Lakeland student at odds with school over medical marijuana article

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LAKELAND, Fla.

A Lakeland High School student is at odds with her school over an article on medical marijuana that she wants to write and include in a school publication.

Channel Nine anchor Jorge Estevez talked with the student and found out how she plans on fighting her cause.

Abbey Laine said she loves to contribute articles for her school magazine in Lakeland.

"The more you do a story the more you know about that particular thing," Laine said.

But her recent idea for Lakeland High school's magazine, the Bagpipe, on medicinal marijuana was turned down by her teacher.

"(They said) it would be inappropriate and unacceptable," said Laine.

"To write that in the school newspaper," Estevez asked.

"Yes," she replied.

But writing the article that would have taken a look at the medicinal benefits of marijuana is personal. When Laine was 2-year-old she was diagnosed with cancer.

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