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Remember when Varsity Blues became public two years ago? There were vast sums of money involved. And the students faked either their backgrounds (pretending to be athletes) or had their SAT or ACT scores faked by having proctors paid to correct their exams. Most colleges to which the students were applying were oblivious to being duped. And most of the accused admitted their guilt.
Welcome to a new admission scandal. This one involved international students, who paid for help on everything. Prosecutors last week indicted Yi Chen and Yixin Li, who live in Southern California, for running businesses the students paid for guaranteed admission to college. In return, the students received essays, doctored transcripts of their high school or college records, someone else to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language or the SAT, and help with their student visa applications.
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VIDEO: A group of ring-tailed lemurs at the Lemur Conservation Foundation detect the smell of cantaloupe and track the aroma to the container of hidden cantaloupe. Two lemurs initially turn to. view more
Credit: Laura Stalter, Lemur Conservation Foundation
Lemurs can use their sense of smell to locate fruit hidden more than 50 feet away in the forest but only when the wind blows the fruit s aroma toward them, according to a study published in the
American Journal of Physical Anthropology. This is the first time research has demonstrated that primates can track a distant smell carried by the wind, said anthropologist Elena Cunningham, a clinical associate professor of molecular pathobiology at NYU College of Dentistry and the study s lead author.
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Zohair is from Aurora, Ill., part of the greater Chicago area. Growing up he was often reading books as well as science magazines and had the opportunity to visit the museums in the Chicago area, particularly the Museum of Science and Industry.
“I remember science exhibits and demos that were sometimes related to the things I’d read,” said Zohair. “That started my interest in science, and it carried forward as I went through school.”
For his undergraduate studies, Zohair attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with the intention of majoring in biology but found that he was more interested in his courses pertaining to materials science and engineering (MSE). This, coupled with the research opportunities available in MSE, led Zohair to switch majors. He completed his B.S. in MSE in 2018 and then went to Vanderbilt University of pursue a Ph.D. in interdiscplinary materials science.
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