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Tired? Take a Nap

13.05.2008 23:13    newsnet.byu.edu
Most students have dealt with either sporadic or sustained sleep deprivation at some point but may cope with it in different ways.


Industrial Design Students Work to Improve Wheelchairs

13.05.2008 23:13    newsnet.byu.edu
The students had to get a feeling of the utility and the comfort a wheelchair provides to those who use it on a daily basis and come up with ideas to improve the use of electric wheelchairs.

Five Cougars Named to All-MWC Softball Team

13.05.2008 21:49    newsnet.byu.edu
Five BYU Cougars were named to the Mountain West All-Conference softball team today, including Kristin Delahoussaye, who was named Freshman of the Year.
Utah    Sports

Talley Traded in Exchange for Draft Picks

13.05.2008 21:49    newsnet.byu.edu
Real Salt Lake announced a trade Friday to send three-year veteran Carey Talley to L.A. -based Chivas USA in exchange for a conditional second round selection in the 2010 or 2011 MLS SuperDraft.
Utah    Sports

BYU Women's Softball Heads East to Tackls UNC

13.05.2008 21:49    newsnet.byu.edu
The BYU women's softball team (41-18) will make their fourth-straight NCAA Regional Tournament appearance Thursday in the Chapel Hill Regional.
Utah    Sports

BYU Running Back Ruled Academically Ineligable

13.05.2008 21:49    newsnet.byu.edu
The BYU football team announced Monday that running back Manase Tonga has been deemed academically ineligible and will miss the entire 2008 football season after being suspended from the university.
Utah    Sports

First Look: May 13, 2008

13.05.2008 17:02    hbswk.hbs.edu
Buy-side firm analysts make more optimistic and less accurate forecasts than their counterparts on the sell-side, according to new research by Harvard Business School's Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, and Craig James Chapman. Their study is described in a forthcoming

Why We Do the Things We Do

13.05.2008 17:01    dukemagazine.duke.edu
According to behavioral economist Dan Ariely, our lives are a series of ill-considered choices; his quest is to figure out the forces that make us, time after time, irrational decision-makers

In Search of Music's Biological Roots

13.05.2008 17:01    dukemagazine.duke.edu
Seeking to understand the universal appeal of music, neuroscientist Dale Purves has discovered surprising similarities between the twelve-note chromatic scale and the universal tones found in speech.

Everyone Wanted an El Greco

13.05.2008 17:01    dukemagazine.duke.edu
Art historian Sarah Schroth tracks down the lost collection of a powerful nobleman, reclaims a forgotten chapter in seventeenth-century spanish art, and helps launch an exhibit of astonishing power-the nasher museum of art's first blockbuster.

Speaking Libertarian Lingua Franca

13.05.2008 17:01    dukemagazine.duke.edu
Ron Paul engaged voters in ways no other Republican dared and no Libertarian had thought to try. Will Paul's campaign mark the end of a revolution or just the beginning?

Students' advice places them top of the supply chain

13.05.2008 12:04    rgu.ac.uk
Postgraduate Business Administration students from RGU have been working with the Inverurie-based offshore accommodation specialists, Ferguson Modular, on a live case study of the firm?s supply chain...

Scanning Survey to Record Aberdeenshire's Historic Buildings

13.05.2008 12:04    rgu.ac.uk
A joint venture between RGU?s Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and the Built Environment and Dr Nick Brown of NB Planning and Architecture in Cullen aims to record some of the north east?s most...

Ho'opi'i and Edmonson Earn All-PCSC Honors

The Pacific Coast Softball Conference announced its 2008 all-conference team Monday and Santa Clara student athletes Noelani Ho'opi'i and Amanda Edmonson received All-PCSC Honorable Mention. The teams were voted on by the conferences six head coaches, and coaches could not
Ho'opi'i and Edmonson Earn All-PCSC Honors

Broncos Fall 15-4 To No. 14 Cardinal

The Santa Clara baseball team faced a hard-fought 15-4 loss to No. 14 Stanford to close out the 2008 Monday Meeting series. The Broncos jumped to a quick lead but could not hold off the Cardinal as they rallied from
Broncos Fall 15-4 To No. 14 Cardinal

University Medal finalists find inspiration and life lessons at Berkeley

13.05.2008 05:45    berkeley.edu
This year, five students - Matthew Johnson, Julia Malkina, Samuel Pittman, Anitha Sivasankaran, and Angelica Zen - were finalists for the University Medal. While they were finishing their semesters and anticipating commencement, they agreed to submit to a questionnaire to

Genealogy by the numbers

13.05.2008 05:44    berkeley.edu
There are about six billion base pairs in the human genome, and our family tree includes about six billion living humans. Such enormous numbers mean that, although DNA sequencing begins in a laboratory, it requires the work of people like

Rockin' the law: Josh Keesan turns course work into tunes

13.05.2008 05:44    berkeley.edu
Of all the terms law students use to describe their first-year classes, "musically inspiring" rarely makes the list. But Josh Keesan is a rare breed, someone who has used his talent for music and affinity for humor to create a

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