News tagged with academic calendar
Colleges expand summer sessions
Summer session -- once a relatively small piece of the academic calendar -- is now a full-blown term for most colleges and universities, with more offerings, more students and more of an expectation that you can't graduate ...
Jun 19, 2009 |
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Mexico road project sets up fight over ruins
(AP) -- When neighbors in the hills east of Mexico City saw backhoes ripping up pre-Hispanic relics for a highway, they did something unexpected in a country where building projects often bulldoze through ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 08, 2012 |
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UCSB scholar's reading of hieroglyphic verb alters understanding of Mayan ritual texts
By presenting a new interpretation of a Maya hieroglyphic verb, Gerardo Aldana, associate professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UC Santa Barbara, has revised the understanding of one of the longest-studied ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 21, 2011 |
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11/11/11: Anthropologist debunks doomsday myths
University of Kansas anthropologist and Maya scholar John Hoopes and his students are watching predicted doomsday dates such as 11/11/11 and Dec. 21, 2012, with considerable skepticism.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 03, 2011 |
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It's not the time spent in school, it's how it's used
In the past decade or more, the national debate about effective learning has centered on teacher quality. Now the discussion is turning to a second major resource in education: Time.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 05, 2011 |
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Social learning: Can Facebook and related tools improve educational outcomes?
Online social networking sites, such as Facebook, can help students become academically and socially integrated as well as improving learning outcomes, according to a study by researchers in China and Hong Kong. Writing in ...
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May 09, 2011 |
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Is there a 'Tiger Mother' effect?
It’s officially the “Year of the Rabbit” on the Chinese calendar. But 2011 might be better known as the “Year of the Tiger Mother.”
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 05, 2011 |
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How advanced genetic techniques can unravel complex human stories
Scholars from all over the world are gathering at the University of Cambridge today for a workshop entitled Studia Stemmatologica. They will be looking at novel ways of applying advanced genetic-mapping techniques ...
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Fasting 'feel-good' factor impacts stock markets
A new international study investigating the correlation between the Islamic holy month of Ramadan - which begins next week (August 11/12) - and stock markets has discovered that the average stock market returns in predominantly ...
Aug 10, 2010 |
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Isolated Australia at forefront of social networking craze
From the moment she wakes in inner-west Sydney, Danielle Warby is online. She checks Facebook, she reads Twitter. She blogs and Tweets during the day, in spare moments between her marketing job at Sydney University. ...
Feb 26, 2010 |
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Cell phones become handheld tools for global development
Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 29, 2009 |
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