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Common calendar, Packet papers, January 8 Common calendar, Packet papers, January 8 Ongoing While decorating for the holidays is a tradition, too often strings of burnt out or damaged holiday lights end up being tossed out with household garbage. There is a greener way to properly dispose of these decorations. Instead of discarding non-working lights in the trash, the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders want residents to give them a second life by bringing them to the county’s Reso...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine developed millifluidic perfusion cassettes (mPCs) that mimic conditions in the intestines to evaluate infections like those that cause diarrhea. The devices... view more  Credit: Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine HOUSTON - (Jan. 7, 2021) - Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found a way to mimic conditions in intestines, giving them a mechanical model for the real-time gro...

Q&A: Stanford’s engagement with the community The leaders of Stanford’s Office of Community Engagement, Megan Swezey Fogarty and Preeti Hehmeyer, discuss the vision for the new office, the university’s engagement with its neighbors and the office’s initial work. By Joel Berman When Megan Swezey Fogarty was appointed Stanford’s first associate vice president for community engagement on March 1, she could not have foreseen how local, national and global events would shape...

Common calendar, Packet papers, January 1 Common calendar, Packet papers, January 1 Ongoing While decorating for the holidays is a tradition, too often strings of burnt out or damaged holiday lights end up being tossed out with household garbage. There is a greener way to properly dispose of these decorations. Instead of discarding non-working lights in the trash, the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders want residents to give them a second life by bringing them to the county’s Reso...

Images capture campus in motion amid coronavirus pandemic, coursing swiftly behind masks Norwich University Staff Photographer Mark Collier has seen scores of students experience college day-to-day in his 7½ years on campus. He’s captured them in class, on the march, gathered for meals, readying for life’s coming steps. This year, as the university adjusted to the coronavirus pandemic and new health and safety protocols, Collier said he frequently saw resilience in students as they minded ...

Common calendar, Packet papers, December 25 Common calendar, Packet papers, December 25 Ongoing While decorating for the holidays is a tradition, too often strings of burnt out or damaged holiday lights end up being tossed out with household garbage. There is a greener way to properly dispose of these decorations. Instead of discarding non-working lights in the trash, the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders want residents to give them a second life by bringing them to the county’s ...

Light flips genetic switch in bacteria inside transparent worms HOUSTON - (Dec. 22, 2020) - Baylor College of Medicine researcher Meng Wang had already shown that bacteria that make a metabolite called colanic acid (CA) could extend the lifespan of worms in her lab by as much as 50%, but her collaboration with Rice University synthetic biologist Jeffrey Tabor is providing tools to answer the bigger question of how the metabolite imparts longer life. In a study published in eLife, Wang, Tabor an...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Rice University scientists coupled gold nanoparticles with soft polymers that pull energy from the golds plasmonic response to light. That energy can then be used to potentially catalyze chemical reactions.... view more  Credit: Emily Searles/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 22, 2020) - Bigger is not always better, but heres something that starts small and gets better as it gets bigger. Just light it up and see. A team led by Rice University chemists Christy Landes and S...

Registration open for new medical cannabis training class at Mercer County Community College × Mercer County Community College is accepting registration for its new Medical Cannabis Training Course.PHOTO COURTESY OF VALLEY WELLNESS Mercer County Community College (MCCC) is accepting students for its new health-professions program: “Medical Cannabis Training.” The 15-hour non-credit class will run Monday evenings, Jan. 25 through Feb. 22, from 6-9 p.m. via Zoom. Anyone from the publ...

New leader, new courses and programs start, Denver satellite office construction finishes amid busy year 2020 has been quite a year that we’ve all endured! We’ve faced unprecedented challenges and are now entering an unusual holiday season. Despite the obstacles and turns, we are grateful for the tremendous successes this year has brought. On Norwich Pro℠ and Norwich University Online, we’ve been recounting, celebrating and sharing many stories and successes from the year. We’re glad ...