Pedia

His contributions advance the knowledge of space UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY - With his feet planted firmly on the ground, William R. Ward, Ph.D., looked up at the stars and saw potential. Ward graduated from UMKC in 1968 with dual degrees in physics and mathematics from the College of Arts & Sciences with the goal of becoming a planetary scientist. But, he didn’t initially come to UMKC with this direction in mind. In fact, he began his studies with the intention of studying business.

The University of North Dakota Department of Music is pleased to announce the opera performances of Orpheus in the Underworld April 17-19 on campus. Orpheus in the Underworld will be sung in English with super-titles Friday through Sunday, April 17-19, at the Josephine Campbell Recital Hall, Hughes Fine Arts Center on campus. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for a 7 p.m. performance Friday and Saturday; show begins at 3 p.m. Sunday, with doors open at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the door only; cost is $6 for adults, $3 for students/seniors, and $12 for a family pass (two adults, two students).

  UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The Nittany Lions will wrap up spring drills on Saturday afternoon at the annual Blue-White Game Presented by AAA inside Beaver Stadium, marking the culmination of a productive spring practice season. The game will kick at 4 p.m. with live television coverage from BTN. Both parking and admission are free.

Whatever you need, you can get it online. That can make shopping for health products a little bit, shall we say, sketchy. “The people selling certain products to you don’t care about your health and just want money. With greed comes a lot of fraud,” says Josephine Dlugopolski-Gach, assistant professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at Loyola University Health System. While you have to be careful with whatever you buy, these four products below can run you into a lot of trouble—and harm:

University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) encourages Executives, Staff and Students to join the march to mobilize society against Xenophobia #NoToXenophobia

In general, our financial lives follow a pattern of spending and saving described by a time-honored model that economists call the life-cycle hypothesis. Most people begin their younger years strapped for cash, earning little money while also investing heavily in skills and education. As the years go by, career advances result in higher income, which can be used to pay off debts incurred early on and to save for retirement. Indeed everyone is well aware that later in life earnings will drop and spending will outpace savings.

BLACKSBURG, Va., April 15, 2015 – Emily McCloud of Richmond, Virginia, a senior majoring in mathematics in the College of Science, has served Relay For Life at Virginia Tech from behind the scenes for the last three years. This year, for the first time, she will walk the track, hear the speakers, experience the sense of community, and witness the spirit of Ut Prosim (That I May Serve) as thousands within the Virginia Tech community come to raise money for cancer research. Relay For Life at Virginia Tech starts at 5 p.m. April 24 on the Drillfield and continues through the night until 5 a.m.

Research Suggests Brain's Melatonin May Trigger Sleep If you walk into your local drug store and ask for a supplement to help you sleep, you might be directed to a bottle labeled "melatonin." The hormone supplement's use as a sleep aid is supported by anecdotal evidence and even some reputable research studies. However, our bodies also make melatonin naturally, and until a recent Caltech study using zebrafish, no one knew how—or even if—this melatonin contributed to our natural sleep. The new work suggests that even in the absence of a supplement, naturally occurring melatonin may help us fall and stay asleep.

LONDON, Ont. – The Western Mustangs women's volleyball team is pleased to announce the additions of Tia Miric, Kaleigh Matheson, and Emma Somerville to the team's roster for the 2015-16 season.   "We are excited to announce Tia, Kaleigh and Emma as the newest additions to the Mustangs women's volleyball program," said Mustangs head coach Melissa Bartlett. "Each of them brings top level club experience, strong academic backgrounds and they all chose to attend Western because they want to compete for a school that will be successful at the provincial and national level. That is our goal as a program - and these three players are a step in that direction for our team." 

Sure, Kanye West has a massive ego. The hip hop superstar even has a song titled "I Am a God." But even West wouldn't have thought to go this far. There's a new version of The Holy Bible that replaces every mention of God with Kanye West. "The Book of Yeezus," a nod to one of West's albums, was created by fans and claims to be "a Bible for the modern day."

YSN faculty members Linda Pellico, PhD, MSN, CNS-BC, RN, Phil Martinez, MSN, APRN-BC, and Deborah Fahs, DNP, MSN, FNP-C, RN, have been working with Yale School of Medicine Professor Eve Colson, MD, MHPE, FAAP, on an interprofessional clinical program for medical, nursing and physician assistant students. Now in its pilot phases, the program promises to be an exciting change in the coming years! Pellico has been advocating for and leading the development of an interprofessional program for 10 years, and Martinez and Fahs have been actively working on the interprofessional program for two years now.

The University of New Hampshire would like to invite you to the Annual Graduate Research Conference (GRC). The GRC is a celebration of academic excellence at the University of New Hampshire. In 2015, the GRC celebrates its 12th year during a two-day long symposium, running April 14-15, 2015. Over 200 UNH graduate students, from all academic disciplines, will present at the GRC over the course of those two days, or during their program’s research symposia. The presentations showcase the results of their scholarly, engaged, and creative research in multiple venues at both UNH's Durham and Manchester campuses. All events are free and open to the public.

A new study found that there is a link between strenuous exercise and failing to meet weight loss goals. Researchers say that this may be because some people think that after a hard workout they deserve rewards or treats. For the study, the Weight Loss and Health Institute asked more than 1,000 Australians about their exercise and weight loss methods. 53 percent admitted that they actually eat more after exercising, with 41 percent indulging with sugary foods.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Isaac Folorunso Adewole, has restated the commitment of the University to the strategic goal of focusing more on postgraduate studies, stating that the institution has the professional and academic personnel that would make the feat achievable.

The University of Zambia School of Medicine  has established MMed Anaesthesia Programme in response to the national priority of improving the care we give to patients undergoing surgery or who are critically ill. Anaesthesia specialists worldwide have always been at the forefront in advancing medical science and have become essential to the practice of advanced surgical techniques and intensive care medicine. It is a dynamic and forward looking specialty that touches on virtually every clinical discipline, and involves all kinds of patients through the entire age range.

Vaccinating boys against the human papillomavirus (HPV) might be cost effective over their lifetimes to prevent a type of throat and mouth cancer, new Canadian modelling suggests. The HPV vaccine is covered for girls to prevent cervical cancer. The vaccine also reduces anal cancer in both genders as well as some cancers of the penis and oropharyngeal cancer, which starts at the back of the throat and mouth, and involves the tonsils and base of the tongue.

CNN - In medicine, finding a substance that attacks cancerous tumors without destroying the healthy tissue around it has long been the Holy Grail. From targeted remedies such as monoclonal antibodies to surgery, cancer has still managed to elude a treatment that discretely and separately attacks it alone. Nanotechnologies, however - the manipulation of matter at a molecular and even atomic scale to penetrate living cells -- are holding out the promise of opening a new front against deadly conditions from cancer to Ebola.

Harvard’s 1912 baseball team. Wingate (front at left, holding cap) was Fenway’s first batter. Photograph courtesy of the Harvard University Archives FENWAY’S FIRST FAITHFUL shivered as a wicked wind whipped down Jersey Street. Though it was early April, the freezing temperatures and snow flurries were better suited for football. But nothing could deter the hard-core baseball fans huddled outside the ticket windows from getting their initial glimpse of the 1912 Boston Red Sox and their new, state-of-the-art ballpark.

Cheer and Dance at Moritz Plaza for FREE DONUTS.

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University will award more than 6 300 certificates, diplomas and degrees at 13 graduation ceremonies in Port Elizabeth and George from 10 to 20 April 2015, an increase of close to 14% since its first graduation a decade ago.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA -  One in five college women and one in 16 college men will experience completed or attempted sexual assault during their college career. Up to one in three dating relationships will experience some sort of abuse. One in four women and one in 10 men will experience stalking.

Six New York University professors and instructors have been awarded 2015 Guggenheim Fellowships, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced this week. This year’s 175 recipients were chosen from more than 3,100 applicants.

Static fire engine test completed today in advance of Monday's launch attempt to the International Space Station. The CRS-6 launch will be broadcast live at www.spacex.com/webcast beginning at 4:15pm ET. Liftoff is targeted for 4:33pm ET.

Dozens of alumni of the all-male a cappella group Last Call sing "Lean On Me" on the Statler Hall Auditorium stage Saturday night as special guests for the group's 20th anniversary concert, “Straight Up XX."

A team of engineering students at  UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI ( UC) Berkeley will race through the streets of Detroit this weekend in a car that uses very little gas.