PhD graduate wins Outstanding Doctoral Research Award
Juliana, who recently completed her PhD in the Department of Management Science, has won the 2013 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Operations and Production Management category. The competition was open to students …
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Former Miss Perham on her way to a Ph.D. in biomedical research
Next month, she'll be triumphantly holding up her Ph.D. in biomedical research, the same way she used to hold up her derby trophies after hard-fought wins. Advertisement. Since graduating from Perham High School in 2004, Nicky has kept herself busy …
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News | PhD student lands £30k prize
David Shearing, a 30 year old PhD student, was among five artists last month who won the Sky Academy Arts prize. Through the use of video, light and sound design, the project looks to change the way that weather is experienced in a theatre. Shearing's …
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RSA debate The Economist

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RSA Economist Debate – Golden Age of the Internet later this week. This event is full, but you can listen to the podcast of the event page. www.rsa.org.uk/events/detail.asp?eventID=1791Les Suw Charman panelists, Danny Meadows-Klue, John Naughton, Karen Thomson, and Tom Standage.

Charter schools
OF 658 Chicago schools, charter schools are only 126 publicly funded but independently run and largely without union rules. Fifteen others are due to open this year. More significant, however, is that four of the most recently approved charters are …
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The situation is still out of control, Christian militia (photo) hunting …
Stubborn religious violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) binds Muslims out of the country en masse. Aid agencies are now warning that the exodus of Muslim traders and livestock could lead to catastrophic famine and economic …
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ESRI John Fitzgerald: “I’m an economist I do not do sex …”
“I’m an economist, I do not do sex and violence,” said “The Pat Kenny Show this morning, when the broadcaster asked how young people’s lives could be married to live at home in their 30s. Mr. Fitzgerald, chief economist at the Economic and …
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i got my phd results…

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i passed! so i gave myself a new haircut to celebrate new beginnings… (and to keep up the tradition i started when i finished my undergrad)

maybe i should go all the way?

Everyday people can experience PTSD nightmare
Karin Thompson, PhD, is director of the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Clinic Program at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston. The VA has had programs to … "That's one way PTSD can work. Through natural recovery after a traumatic …
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A Fresh Look at End-of-Life Care
"We don't always deal with the issues of death and dying very effectively in our culture," says Kathleen Potempa, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean of the University of Michigan School of Nursing. "When you have a very seriously ill person, a physician is trained to …
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Understanding Children's Emotions: The Importance of Pride and Shame
Discussions of children's motivations and behavior too often overlook the importance of feelings of pride and shame. A child's need to feel proud — and to avoid feelings of shame — is a fundamental motivation, and remains fundamental, throughout her …
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Privilege or Patsy?
By Loretta Redd, PhD on August 27, 2013 in Loretta Redd. Weekly Column by Loretta Redd. Jerry-Brown-AP Waiting for Governor Jerry Brown's … Especially as I witness countless numbers of my “peers,” for whom jury duty should be a privilege, use every …
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Accounting for everyone
“If you're going to do marketing, you'll need to understand the prices of goods, to see which you should market more or market less — you're using accounting. When you're in finance and you talk to investors about raising capital and investing …
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Jamie Bartram, PhD, “Mr. Water”

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Bartram was the University Day distinguished speaker this year (2012) in honor of UNC’s Water Institute, which you can read about here:

www.waterinstitute.unc.edu/

www.waterinstitute.unc.edu/newsletter20120917

The institute seeks to increase awareness of the critical importance of fresh water to human health in all parts of our world. Bartram was a wonderful and inspiring speaker.

Turn off that tap!!
Conserve, even if you "don’t have to pay for it". My water, for example, comes from a well and is "free". But no water is really free, and it behooves each of us to do our part to conserve that which exists on earth.

To my British friends: Dr. Bartram comes to us from good old England, Surrey, mainly. It was a big step, he says, but he’s happy in Chapel Hill!

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Journey “Full of Adventure, Full of Discovery” Leads Bowen to National …
Born in Cincinnati, Mr. Bowen completed his college degree at Denison University in Granville, Ohio in 1955 and earned his PhD in economics at Princeton only three years later. He joined the Princeton faculty as a labor economist, becoming a full …
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Scientists Discover Reality Consists Of 9 Dimensions, Not Just 4 Space-Time …
SEATTLE, July 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Edward R. Close, PhD, PE, and Vernon M. Neppe, MD, PhD, FRSSAf, have announced a profoundly important finding that affects the basic assumptions of physics and changes the way scientists understand …
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Simple steps for strategic businesses
Dr Wilfred Isak April holds a PhD (Entrepreneurship) and lectures on Organizational Behavior and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Namibia (Unam). Related Stories. AFRIKA: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN: …
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Legacy of Newtown: New Communities for Mental Health
It also should take the social isolation of the perpetrators of the Columbine and Boston Marathon tragedies to get us thinking about how, in our "bowling alone" culture, our faith-based communities can be more welcoming and inclusive to those coping …
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Rewriting our own Notion of Peace
I am a PhD student in Public International Law from the Sorbonne University and I formerly worked as a Research Officer at the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Paris. I currently write as a columnist, for the local newspaper Ceylon Today on …. In the longer …
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June 19, 2013 WWE NXT on Hulu Plus
Maddox called him a nerd, saying all he does is play video games, and Phillips put over that he was about to earn his PhD. When he got … He continues to be very likable with a calm intensity that should makes you want to root for him as a viewer. The …
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The bee keepers
Then he came to the United States for graduate school, first to Rutgers University and then to the University of Washington, where he got his PhD in environmental health. In the Pacific … Warchol can still remember the particulars of his victory. He …
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The unmentionables
A SENSE has emerged in the American media during President Obama's visit to Mexico on May 2nd and 3rd that he and his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Peña Nieto, are skirting the most controversial (read important) issue in the relationship: drugs and …
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The country has a promising new government—with a few exceptions
The finance minister, Henry Rotich, who has a decent reputation as an economist, has been promoted at high speed from the number three job at the treasury. He may find it hard to present a credible budget in short order. And some of those poached from …
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Surprise appointment
PUNTERS betting on accepted wisdom took a bath on May 2nd when Canada's Conservative government named Stephen Poloz as the successor to Mark Carney as governor of the central bank. That accepted wisdom had long ago handed the job to Tiff …
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I know all about broody men who long to be dads. I am one
Last week's study which found that childless men can be just as broody as women – and, indeed, are more prone to feeling depressed and angry about not having kids – was part of my PhD research project at Keele University. For it … I told him: "I want …
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Open Science, Open Data, Open Access
Thomas Reuters' program MetaCore, for example, providers its clients access to a “high-quality, manually-curated database” formed from “2,700 scientific journals, reviewed by PhD and M.D. level research professionals.” “We don't just look at the data …
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