Educators in Texas and Massachusetts earn top 2005 mentoring awards from AAAS
...ientists and community leaders. In addition to her collegiate activities, Dr. Browne mentors two dozen students through the New England Board of Higher Education's Science and Engineering Academic Support Network. The AAAS Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement honors members of the Association who have mentored...Summer research programs for undergraduates evaluated nationally
...e to look for differences and similarities between collegiate and university summer internship programs. Through the online survey results, Elgin and colleagues have determined that the quality of mentoring at both types of institutions is similar. Moreover, males and females as well as minorities all have si...Poor athletic performance linked to vitamin deficiency
...yzed the athletic performance of several elite and collegiate athletes in her research, as well as less competitive individuals. The stress on the body's energy producing pathways during exercise, the changes in the body's tissues resulting from training, an increase in the loss of nutrients in sweat, urine and...Study finds surfing safer than soccer
...surfers and found they are less prone to harm than collegiate soccer or basketball players. Led by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown Medical School, the findings of the study are published in the January 2007 issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine. "We found that competitive surfing has......ortive to me as a woman scientist. There is a very collegiate and inclusive atmosphere." It is the sort of environment that is not as common as it should be in Higher Education, she says. Professor Leyser came to York in 1994 and has noticed a palpable change in the department of Biology, not least because of...