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Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics Sara Jamshidi is offering a graduate-level Statistical Learning course. Coursera is an online learning platform featuring courses, degrees, certificate programs, and tutorials in a wide range of subjects. The platform partners with leading universities and companies to provide instruction.
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1 year ago Read more at Lake Forest College

Jackson School’s new Climate System Science Bachelor’s Degree Debuting in Fall 2024. This is the first bachelor’s degree program in the state, and one of few in the country, that emphasizes a scientific study of the climate system. Students will learn about the Earth’s climate from its oceans to its atmosphere, and will develop the research and computational skills needed to collect, analyze and predict climate data.
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1 year ago Read more at Jackson School of Geosciences

The crabs are being held at each temperature for about a week. We are measuring their stress, lactate levels, protein serum levels, and doing respirometry. All of the crabs have survived, but as water temperatures climb and corresponding oxygen levels drop, the animals struggle.
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1 year ago Read more at Eckerd College News

Society for Science has been led by a female Editor in Chief since 1995. Science News has also had a long history of trailblazing female journalists. This March lets look back nearly thirty years and celebrate a few of the women who have made the Society what it is today.
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1 year ago Read more at Science News for Students

Video sent in by Kristi Williams and Nina Delaney shows the turtle upside down, then right-side up after they turned it back over. Another clip shows Volusia County Beach Safety picking up the limp turtle and taking it away for medical treatment at the science center’s sea turtle hospital. The science center is reportedly doing the best it can to treat the tired and sickly turtle.
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1 year ago Read more at WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando

The Carnegie Science Center is inviting guests to enter Pixar's world in its upcoming Science Behind. Guests get the chance to dive into the minds of the artists and computer scientists who help bring PiXar’s films to the big screen. Kids have a chance to test their STEM skills by taking on fun challenges throughout the 2-story, 12,000-square-foot playground.
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1 year ago Read more at WTRF

If you want to do a day-of-eclipse project that is not yet available, pick a second one that you can practice with anytime as a practice project for yourself. Read the project website, complete the preparation or training materials, and do the task enough to get a sense for what’s involved, what’’s tricky, and what's fun or satisfying about it. When you introduce the project to your learners, emphasize that this is a real chance to do scientific research alongside other interested people around
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1 year ago Read more at Science@NASA

State grant will support PNW Education students in preparing for Science of Reading-based instruction March 27, 2024 Up to 85 Purdue University Northwest (PNW) students will be supported through a $38,000 grant from the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) the synchronous coursework will allow qualifying Education students to deepen their understanding of the science of Reading’s standardized approach to learning best practices for instilling phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension for young Hoosiers.
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Feedback is inspired by new research suggesting that the decision-making of referees at baseball games was influenced by criticism from spectators Berate the refs. That evidence appears in the study “Verbal aggressions against Major League Baseball umpires affect their decision making” by Jol Guérette, Caroline Blais and Daniel Fiset. They found what they call “a two-sided benefit of resorting to verbal abuse” after being severely criticised.
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1 year ago Read more at New Scientist

The new immunotherapy works by disrupting a natural process by which the immune system becomes biased towards making one type of cell as it ages. The mouse study is an 'important" proof-of-concept, but it's currently difficult to gauge the significance of the findings, Dr. Janko. The authors injected the therapy into mice aged 18 to 24 months, or roughly the equivalent of being between 56 and 69 years old as a human. This means we can&
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1 year ago Read more at Livescience.com