Penn's White Coat Ceremony 2011
On August 12, J. Larry Jameson, the newly inaugurated executive vice president of the University for the Health System and dean of the Perelman School of Medicine, helped launch the medical school careers of 170 first-year students as they donned their first white coats and marked the beginning of their journey into the art and science of healing.
During the ceremony, each student was presented with a white clinician's' coat, a vivid symbol of their entry into the medical profession. The studen
Bombs Away!
Students will design and build a device to protect and accurately deliver a dropped egg. The device and its contents represent a care package that must be safely delivered to people in a disaster area with no road access. In a similar fashion to a team of design engineers, students will design their devices using a number of design constraints including limited supplies. The activity emphasizes the change from potential energy to kinetic energy of the device and its contents and the energy trans
Metamorphosis
This illustrated guide is designed to help students understand and learn the difference between simple and complete metamorphosis. The Web page, which can be easily printed for use at field sites, illustrates: complete metamorphosis for lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) simple metamorphosis for thysanura (silverfish) simple metamorphosis for heteroptera (true bugs). In addition, the guide discusses the following additional terms: nymph larva pupa egg.
On the Road: Making the Dreams of Young Musical Artists a Reality
The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus takes the band out of the garage and on the road. Just imagine.A behemoth sky-blue bus bearing a larger-than-life iconic sketch of John Lennon rolls into town. If you're one of the lucky few to gain entry, you'll find the most tricked-out recording and multimedia studio on wheels ever to hit the likes of Orlando, Denver, or San Diego: a one-of-a-kind roving "playing" station, rigged with the finest high-quality instruments and high tech equipment, fit fo
Out of Work [Mises Daily, 1998] Not many Americans have heard of Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway, but maybe more should. They are the authors of Author(s):
No help expected from the Fed
Aug 22 - Business economists don't expect another round of monetary stimulus from the Federal Reserve. They're cutting their economic growth forecasts, according to a policy survey from the National Association of Business Economists. Bobbi Rebell reports.
Advanced Audio Blog S3 #8 - Comida de la selva: Food of the Rainforest
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Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! If you ever get lost in the Peruvian jungle, don’t panic! You will not have to worry much about food, it seems. While there are undoubtedly endless sources of fruits and berries, you won’t be able to subsist on bananas alone, so you’ll need to find some fauna. Of course, you [...]
Out of This World: Students Take an Eco-Friendly Field Trip to Mars
A focus on energy conservation brings the sciences to life in an art class at Redwood Middle School, in Napa, California. Sharon Campbell remembers sleeping out under the stars and watching Sputnik go overhead. Back then, she wanted to be the first astronaut. Instead, she became an educator. She has been teaching art now for twenty-one years at Redwood Middle School, in Napa, California, but she visits space on a regular basis, via a very special classroom.It began when Campbell
The Met: A Passion for Learning
Clarence Wells fires up a throaty, rusting Dodge while classmate Chiem Saechao buffs a candy-apple-red '54 Volvo inside the sprawling garage that serves as their classroom two days a week. As interns at Gallant Racing Supply, in Oakland, California, they get one-on-one mentoring and discover real-world applications for the academic subjects they study the rest of the week at nearby MetWest High School, part of Oakland's school district. (7:44)
Lesson 267: Carnival — News coverage Gold posts biggest drop since 1980 Corey Taylor - 2011 Cascades Distinguished Student Award Recipient Stills of the Polar Visible Aurora from July 16, 2000 Sea Surface Temperature around the Americas from TRMM: January 1998 through July 1998 Behind The Scenes: 2011 NCAA Spot - Cater Lawn Group Hug Teaching the Authors Purpose What is Author’s Purpose? Typhoon Bilis from TRMM: August 22, 2000 The Influence of Western Painting and Genre Painting on the Films of John Ford Communication Across Borders Auburn University and Auburn City Schools educators fly in NASA's "Weightless Wonder"
In this lesson I´m going to give you a news coverage of what happened in carnival. You´ll learn the most important vocab and the latest news about the event.
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Aug. 24 - Business summary: Gold futures fall $104 an ounce in one day, Strong durable goods orders ease concern about another recession; Americans watching Hurricane Irene; Wall Street rallies for a third day. Carmen Roberts reports.
In 2011, 13 OSU Cascades students were honored with a Distinguished Student Award. Corey Taylor talks about his OSU Cascades experience.
Polar Visible Aurora from July 16, 2000
Sea surface temperature around the Americas as measured by the TMI instrument on TRMM for the period January 1998 through July 1998
With commentary from Jim Jackson and Kevin Fichtner
Most writing is intended to inform or explain, persuade, entertain, or describe. Critical readers can identify the author’s reasons for writing text and adjust their reading method to match the author’s purpose.
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William Howze
This dissertation demonstrates John Ford’s use of images from a wide range of sources in many of his films. In particular, it examines Ford’s use of images based on the conventions of American […]
Dr. Eileen Borris, adjunct professor at Thunderbird School of Global Management, describes the difference between communication and cross-cultural communication. http://online.thunderbird.edu
Educators from Auburn University and Auburn City Schools floated like astronauts during a once-in-a-lifetime flight on NASA's "Weightless Wonder" aircraft. The team of six educators call themselves the "Flying Tigers," and as they floated, they conducted experiments that were set up in a clear plastic box to see how various objects and scientific concepts would alter under a reduced gravity environment. According to the team, words cannot accurately describe the feeling of being weightless.
