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Come to Creveling Lounge at 8:15pm on Wed. Nov. 14th for FREE DESSERT, and stay to learn something! Renowned Chemist, Dr. Jaqueline Barton, will be giving a talk on DNA signaling. Free to all Natural Science students! Email [email protected] for more information.
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After months of learning, research, and planning, the Aquaponics students leaders were finally able to begin the building! They spent their weekend putting together their plans to grow their first Aquaponics grow system. With their great teamwork and positive attitudes, the system finally began to take shape and come to life. Up next? It’s Grow Time!
You can see their work outside of SV-23!
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Have you ever operated a power tool? For the majority of the Aquaponics student leaders, the answer was no. However, that didn’t stop them. After a quick training on how to safely operate the tools, the students revved up and got to work. Slicing and dicing, the Aquaponics leaders had no problem getting comfortable and enjoying the tools’ speed and power.
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Dung beetles can use balls of poo much like air-conditioning units to cool themselves, researchers say.
Dung beetles roll up nutritiousballs of excrement up to 50 times heavier than their own bodies to feed their young. They roll the balls walking backward, with their heads near the ground. The ancient Egyptians envisioned that the sun was rolled around the sky in much the same way, making the dung (or scarab) beetle an important symbol in ancient Egyptian religion.
Past research showed these insects routinely dance in circles on top of their feasts of dung to help navigate away from rival beetles as quickly as possible. As scientists looked for this dancing, they noticed the beetles climbed onto the excrement balls most often during the midday heat.
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Aquaponics student leaders spent their weekend in PCC’s Science Village to begin the building of their first Aquaponics growing system. After weeks of research and meeting, the group took their knowledge outside and began the preliminary plans. Together they thought, discussed, and planned how the system would look and what steps they would take to get there. Their close attention to detail and thoughtful planning process will surely pay off during building time!
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PCC students make it to Newsletter of the Geo2YC division of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, click here to download…
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The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Northwestern University offers a 9-week, paid summer research experience for undergraduates. The students are paired up with some of the leading research professors in science and engineering fields. Research areas include ceramics, polymers, nanocomposites, photonics, nanoparticles, molecular electronics and biomaterials. While there are many REU programs, the NU-MRSEC stands out in offering students an interdisciplinary research experience.Students currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in science or engineering who are US citizens or permanent residents are eligible. The program dates this year are June 24 to August 23, 2013; Applications are due Feb. 15, 2013. Participants are paid a $4500 stipend, a travel allowance, and on-campus housing is provided. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.mrsec.northwestern.
If you have any questions, please contact Ashley Walter at [email protected] or call 847-467-0470.
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An interesting read about where art and science meet…
Last fall RISD STEAM began at the student club fair with just a table, a poster and a promise to expose students to entirely new ideas. Sarah Pease 13 FD, founder and current leader of the club, sat in her folding chair and explainedSTEM to STEAM to curious students, letting them know that it’s a RISD-led initiative advocate for adding art and design thinking to the current federal emphasis on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education and research (STEM + Art = STEAM).
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In Science Village, Science Happens. Be one of the first 50 to stop by the STEM Center (SV-25) and get your very own science happens sticker.
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