The bulletin board on Dupre 2 exemplifies scenarios of Christian privilege. ResLife is requiring that all residence hall bulletin boards cover issues pertaining to religion and spirituality this semester in the hopes that more students will openly discuss these topics.
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As western wildfires continue to make headlines, a fascinating new image from space has emerged of one of those fires.
An astronaut onboard the International Space Station took a picture of smoke from a wildfire at night along the Texas and Mexico border.
According the web site ouramazingplanet.com, the smoke likely comes from the Whitewater-Baldy fire, which is the largest in New Mexico's history. The U.S. Forest Service believes the 465 square mile fire was ignited by lightning back in May. The fire is now 87 percent contained.
Winds have carried haze from the Whitewater-Baldy fire and other wildfire smoke as far as the east coast.
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Expedition 32 Crew
Pictured from the left are Flight Engineers Akihiko Hoshide, Yuri Malenchenko, Sunita Williams and Joe Acaba, Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin.
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams (right), Expedition 32 flight engineer and Expedition 33 commander; along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (left) and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, both Expedition 32/33 flight engineers, attired in Russian Sokol launch and entry suits, take a break from training in Star City, Russia to pose for a portrait. This image was released on Feb. 22, 2012.
Expedition 31/32/33 crew members pose for a group photo in an International Space Station mock-up/trainer in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. This image was released on Jan. 17, 2012.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, Expedition 32/33 flight engineer; and NASA astronaut Sunita Williams (mostly obscured), Expedition 32 flight engineer and Expedition 33 commander, attired in training versions of their Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuits, are submerged in the waters of the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) near NASA's Johnson Space Center. This image was released on March 15, 2012.
Flight Crew participate in a space station EVA planning and preparation session in an International Space Station mock-up/trainer in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. This image was taken March 13, 2012.
The prime and backup crew members for Expedition 32 attend ceremonies outside their Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan July 4, 2012 following the raising of U.S., Russian, Japanese and Kazakh flags outside their crew quarters as part of the prelaunch activities leading up to the launch of the next crew to the International Space Station. This image was released on July 4, 2012.
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 32 Flight Engineer Sunita Williams (left) of NASA, Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko (center) and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency take a moment to pose for photos July 3, 2012 in front of their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft during a suited "fit check" of the vehicle.
NASA astronaut Joe Acaba, Expedition 31/32 flight engineer, poses for a photo with Robonaut 2 humanoid robot in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station in June 2012.
A Soyuz rocket launches on May 15, 2012, carrying Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka (spacecraft commander) and Sergei Revin (spacecraft flight engineer) and US astronaut Joseph Acaba (flight engineer-2 of the spacecraft) on the Expedition 31/32 mission.
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The 1st Annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference provided updates on science and technology accomplishments, offering potential users information and avenues for sending their investigations to the space station. The conference took place June 26-28, 2012 in Denver, Colo.
Roughly 400 scientists, engineers, students, industry leaders and business representatives gathered last week to participate in the 1st Annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference, organized by the American Astronautical Society and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space Inc., or CASIS, in cooperation with NASA.
The event took place June 26-28 in Denver, Colo., showcasing the full breadth of research and technology development on the space station; past, present and future. Because most scientific conferences focus on one discipline, this was a highly anticipated opportunity for attendees to hear results from multidisciplinary space station studies in the areas of physical sciences, life sciences, Earth and space sciences, and spacecraft technology.
Space station crew members Don Pettit and Joe Acaba kicked off the conference with a video message from on orbit, describing the unique microgravity environment and research capabilities of this remarkable laboratory.
Opening remarks and keynote speakers included NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations William Gerstenmaier, NASA Chief Scientist Waleed Abdalati, and International Space Station Program Manager Michael Suffredini. Their presentations echoed the three major themes of new knowledge resulting from space station research. Those themes include benefits to life on Earth, benefits to future space exploration, and basic discovery.
Throughout the conference, 19 parallel technical sessions provided investigators an opportunity to share the results of their space station experiments and update attendees on significant accomplishments in their field to date. These sessions kept the community informed on findings, while also providing inspiration for future areas of research.
International Space Station Program Scientist Julie Robinson moderated a discussion panel that highlighted some of the top research and technology results from the assembly and early utilization phases of the station. Varied topics discussed included protein crystallography that has led to potential drug therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, mechanisms and treatments of infectious diseases such as salmonella, hyperspectral remote sensing of Earth, spacecraft fluid management via capillary flow and recent developments in astronaut vision health.
Astronaut Mike Fincke and cosmonaut Sergey Adveev entertained attendees with their first-hand accounts of living and working in space. Fincke concluded with an inspiring message for the audience, "Do something amazing!" A little over a year ago, Fincke helped to install the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the outside of the space station during the STS-134 space shuttle mission. One of the featured speakers at the conference presented a status on results from the first 18 billion cosmic rays that have been detected by AMS.
In a panel discussion entitled: "Enabling Exploration Beyond Earth Orbit," moderated by International Space Station Technology Demonstration Manager George Nelson, presenters described exploration technologies in development and testing on space station, such as the Robotic Refueling Mission, which is paving the way for robotic refueling and repair of satellites and vehicles. Other presentations included spacecraft life support technologies and testing of new modes of communication between Earth and space station using lasers.
Panels also discussed upcoming space station research opportunities through both NASA and CASIS U.S. National Laboratory research programs that will enable researchers from all over the world to put their talents to work on innovative experiments that could not be done anywhere else.
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GREENBELT, Md., July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Director Chris Scolese today announced he has named Dr. Colleen Hartman to the position of deputy director for science, operations and program performance at Goddard in Greenbelt, Md.
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Peter Cornish is the first at MU to be named a Pew Scholar.
By Brent Pearson
Published July 10, 2012
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Peter Cornish was recognized as a 2012 Pew Scholar in biomedical sciences. The Biochemistry assistant professor came to MU in 2010.
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Finding a treatment to HIV or cancer might not be far away for one MU professor.
Peter Cornish, a biochemistry assistant professor in the MU School of Medicine, became the first MU recipient of the Pew Scholar Award.
The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health, the Pew Charitable Trusts website stated.
Cornish graduated from Graceland University with bachelor's degrees in biology, chemistry and mathematics in 2000. He received his doctorate in biochemistry from Texas Tech University in 2005. After five years of working in a post-doctoral program at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Cornish arrived at MU in 2010, where he has conducted research on disrupting protein factories inside bacteria and viruses throughout the body.
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10-07-2012 07:52 Nasa combines 817 images taken during the winter by its rover, Opportunity, to create a panoramic view of the red planet.
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NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, VA solicits interest from companies interested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market the following technology. License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis and may include specific fields of use.
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NASA Langley's chemists have synthesized a class of novel diamines for epoxy resins that possess both aromatic and aliphatic characteristics. These molecules have been shown useful in two unrelated areas. First, the diamines have been demonstrated to aid in the dispersion of carbon nanotubes into polymer matrices. Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) have countless applications, but their utilization has been somewhat impeded due to their inability to interface with polymers and due to the bundling of the tubes. The diamine molecules enable SWNT to be dispersed in a polymer and inhibit nanotubes bundling. Secondly, composite materials containing the diamines possess the ability to provide both structural and radiation-shielding functions. Because the diamines are both aliphatic and aromatic, they are endowed with the dual properties of high hydrogen content and high strength, which are particularly well suited to neutron radiation-shielding applications.
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"Arsenic life" researcher Felisa Wolfe-Simon is flanked by Mary Voytek, director of NASA's Astrobiology Program, as well as chemist Steven Benner and astrobiologist Pamela Conrad during a NASA news conference on Dec. 2, 2010. Many of the claims made during that briefing have now been refuted in peer-reviewed research.
By Alan Boyle
Nineteen months ago, NASA's experts on astrobiology hailed the initial report about arsenic-eating microbes as a "huge deal," but with the publication of two peer-reviewed papers that have refuted that report, the space agency now says the picture is "as yet incomplete."
The statement from Michael H. New, astrobiology discipline scientist at NASA Headquarters' Planetary Science Division, runs counter to the instant reaction that the "arsenic-life" controversy is finished. Since Sunday's online release of the two papers by the journal Science, a lot of folks have been talking about FAILs and nails (as in last nails in the coffin).
New took a different tack:
"NASA supports robust and continuous peer review of any scientific finding, especially discoveries with wide-ranging implications. It was expected that the 2010 Wolfe-Simon et al. Sciencepaper would not be exempt from such standard scientific practices, and in fact, was anticipated to generate significant scientific attention given the surprising results in that paper. The two new papers published in Scienceon the microorganism GFAJ-1 exemplify this process and provide important new insights. Though these new papers challenge some of the conclusions of the original paper, neither paper invalidates the 2010 observations of a remarkable microorganism that can survive in a highly phosphate-poor and arsenic-rich environment toxic to many other microorganisms. What has emerged from these three papers is an as yet incomplete picture of GFAJ-1 that clearly calls for additional research."
University of British Columbia microbiologist Rosie Redfield, one of the authors of one of the newly published papers, said in a blog posting that NASA's response was "cowardly."
"I'm at a loss for words," she wrote.
It's easy to find commentaries on the Web indicting NASA as well as the authors of the original paper, scientific reviewers, the journal Science and journalists for their part in the arsenic-life controversy. Just as some folks scrambled to trumpet the news that evidence of life had been discovered on Titan, now there's a scramble to assign blame. But scientific sagas don't move as quickly as a Twitter stream, and it's a good bet that this particular saga isn't over quite yet.
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NASA Langley researchers have developed a wireless, open-circuit SansEC [Sans Electrical Connections] sensor that can be used for pharmaceutical applications without the need for physical contact. Many attributes of a container can be monitored, such as liquid or powder levels, temperature of contents, and changes caused by spoilage. Tampering can also be detected. The unique design of this thin-film sensor allows many of these properties to be measured with the sensor external to the container/package. Fill levels can be measured without the need to open the container. At the core of the technology is the NASA award-winning SansEC sensor, which is damage resilient and environmentally friendly to manufacture and use. The sensors use a magnetic field response measurement acquisition device to provide power to the sensors and to acquire physical property measurements from them.
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NASA Langley has developed a miniaturized light detection and ranging (LIDAR) velocimetry sensor to analyze high velocity and boundary layer flows in real-world conditions. Using Rayleigh scattering, as opposed to the more common particle scattering, the patent pending NASA sensors provide multiple flow parameters without the need for particle-seeded flows. The compact fiber optic sensor design can be embedded directly in a test surface and allows for a variety of near-surface measurement formats enabling real-time three-component flow velocity mapping, composition, gas density, and temperature data. The versatility of the NASA Micro-LIDAR sensor platform offers broad utility in advanced aerodynamic and fluid dynamic applications requiring boundary layer, unseeded flow measurements.
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[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 132 (Tuesday, July 10, 2012)] [Notices] [Pages 40646-40647] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2012-16781]
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
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NASA Advisory Council; Technology and Innovation Committee; Meeting Amendment
AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
Reference: Notice 12-054, published in the Federal Register on Thursday, June 28, 2012 (Vol. 77, No. 125, page 38678). SUMMARY: This is an amendment of Federal Register Notice 12-054 published on June 28, 2012, to provide additional information. In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces a meeting of the Technology and Innovation Committee of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC).
DATES: Tuesday, July 24, 2012, 8:00 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. Local Time.
ADDRESSES: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Building 8, Management Conference Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Mike Green, Office of the Chief Technologist, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546, (202) 358-4710, fax (202) 358-4078, or g.m.green@nasa.gov.
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It is the last 78 miles of a NASA rover's 154 million-mile journey to Mars that concerns Ravi Prakash the most.
That's because this is the first time that NASA - or anyone else - has ever tried to land something nearly so big as the 1-ton Curiosity rover on Mars, and because so much is riding on this particular mission.
"We've got to go from five times as fast as a speeding bullet - 13,000 mph - all the way to a screeching halt in seven minutes," said Prakash, a Texas City native who now works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the rover's lander team.
Five times the size of the Spirit and Opportunity rovers already on Mars, Curiosity is packed with scientific equipment: HD-resolution cameras that can also capture video; a laser than can ignite a spark on rocks 20 feet away to determine what they're made of; and other high-tech tools including an X-ray diffraction setup, a mass spectrometer, and a gas chromatograph.
With these devices the six-wheeled rover will be able to sample hundreds of layers of sedimentary rock, allowing scientists to understand how the surface of Mars changed over time, and providing a detailed history of the Red Planet and clues to whether life could have flourished there.
But it's got to get there safely at first.
Adding to the pressure is that NASA is not currently planning or building a next generation rover to go to Mars. More than 200 scientists attended a NASA meeting earlier this year in Houston to discuss plans for follow-up missions, but none has been chosen.
Nail-biting time
So Curiosity, itself a decade in the works, is it for a long time.
"With no sense of how or when we will follow this up, and without knowing which direction our tools and techniques are evolving - yes, landing successfully is a big deal," said Mark Lemmon, a Texas A&M University planetary scientist who will help operate the rover on Mars.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Caption Sara Ramirez attends Greys Anatomy: The Songs Beneath The Show after party hosted by Remy Martin VSOP, Los Angeles, on March 18, 2012Greys Anatomy star Sara Ramirez has gotten hitched.
On July 4, 2012, after a yearlong engagement, Sara Ramirez and Ryan Debolt were married in an intimate ceremony in New York. The private event was attended by close family and friends, a rep for the actress told E! News.
Sara, who plays Dr. Callie Torres on Greys, first confirmed news of her engagement in June 2011.
Ryan, Saras longtime love, first popped the question while the couple was in Paris, France that same month.
A rep for Sara did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Access Hollywood about the wedding news.
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Nanotechnology impacts most industries, including electronics, natural resources, energy, clean technology and life sciences.
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New research report "Sports Medicine Implants Market - Global Pipeline Analysis, Competitive Landscape and Market Forecasts to 2018" developed by GlobalData has been recently published by Market Publishers Ltd. The report suggests that the major growing segments of the overall sports medicine implants market are suture anchors, interference screws and meniscal fixation implants.London, UK (PRWEB ...
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NEW YORK, July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
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* Decision made after 18-month review
* Project would have cost "a lot more" than $1.5 bln
* Liberty project has history of delays, problems
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska July 9 (Reuters) - BP has indefinitely suspended a $1.5 billion offshore oil project in Alaska due to cost overruns and technical setbacks, a company spokeswoman said on Monday.
An 18-month company review concluded that the Liberty project, a field with about 100 million barrels of recoverable oil, should not go forward as planned, said Dawn Patience with BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.
"We are not going to pursue Liberty in its present form," said Patience. "The project, as it's designed right now, doesn't meet BP's standards."
Under plans submitted five years ago to regulators, Liberty would have been the first oil field located entirely in Federal waters offshore Alaska. Back then, BP expected production to begin in 2011.
A BP review found that Liberty -- slated to produce 40,000 barrels a day -- would have cost "a lot more" than the $1.5 billion BP had planned to spend there and would have taken several additional years to begin production, Patience said.
BP may still try to develop Liberty later.
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The Libertys season is almost half over but unless there is significant improvement, this team could be finished sooner rather than later.
New York (6-10) remains mired in fifth place in the Eastern Conference as it heads into todays game at Indiana (9-6). The Fever are 5-2 home.
The last time New York played at Indianapolis, it took a 91-68 beating, one of the worst in franchise history. This is the second of a three-game stretch before the Olympic break. The Liberty got drilled at home Sunday, 94-81 by the San Antonio Silver Stars.
We didnt have a good outing defensively, Liberty coach John Whisenant told reporters after the game. Weve had a couple of good defensive outings against Seattle and more recently Chicago, and we never got control of this one.
The defense, which hasnt been good all season, wasnt the biggest problem against San Antonio. The Liberty were inconsistent offensively.
After scoring 28 points in the first quarter they scored just half of that (14) in the second. New York regained some mojo at halftime and scored 27 points in the third quarter. But the Liberty couldnt maintain it and scored just 12 in the fourth quarter.
Injuries have taken a toll. Power forward Plenette Pierson, one of the best all-around pros in the WNBA, is expected to miss her seventh straight game with a strained left knee. Center Kia Vaughn, the teams leading rebounder, is expected to sit out her third straight game with a concussion.
The Liberty are 1 1/2 games behind the Atlanta Dream for the last playoff spot in the East. They lead the Washington Mystics by 1 1/2 games. The Liberty end the first half of the season with a home game against Washington on Friday.
If nothing else, the month long break will give New York a chance to heal.
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Before the sub-prime caught the world economy off-guard, Dubai was planning several mega-projects, including The World, an artificial archipelago of various small islands constructed in the rough shape of a world map, located four kilometres off the coast of the emirate.
The World islands are composed mainly of sand dredged from Dubai's shallow coastal waters, and are one of several artificial island developments in Dubai. The developer of the project is Nakheel Properties.
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