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Kristin Beale: Maximizing Reproduction: How Flowers Do It
This past Mother's Day, Americans spent approximately $18.6 billion on gifts for mom.
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Sanlikol is the director of DNYA, a nonprofit organization concerned with developing and learning about world music.
Frank Morgan: Math Now -- Commencement Can Wait
I've been spending the week before commencement, while my college officials decide which students get degrees and prizes, enjoying a week of mathematics events up and down the east coast.
Paralyzed woman uses mind to control robot arm
Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, researchers report in the latest advance in harnessing brain waves to help disabled people.
Watsonville High valedictorian and friend win Gates Millennium Scholarships
Numbers, even the ones in college-level pre-calculus, make sense to Edgar Garcia, 17, because they look the same in English and Spanish.
Brown University celebrates its 244th graduation
Brown graduates Arianna Ahiagbe, Ezinne Ihenachor, Tyler Rogers and Gavriel Cutipu-Zorn lead fellow graduates through the Van Wickle Gates during Sunday's commencement.
Congressman John Lewis honored by Brown University
Rep. John Lewis will receive the last of five prestigious honorary degrees Sunday, this one coming from Brown University.
Brown University to hand out over 2,400 degrees
Brown University is set to hand out more than 2,400 degrees at its last graduation ceremonies under the leadership of Ruth Simmons this weekend.
Academy Award-nominated actress Viola Davis was honored at Monday's Pell Awards at Trinity Repertory Company's Dowling Theater and Pell Chafee Performance Center in Providence, R.I. Davis received the 2012 Pell Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts.
Happy dance' greets arrival of coveted Gates scholarship
Fifteen DeKalb students will be going to college this fall on full ride Gates Millennium Scholarships amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
More than 1,300 students graduated from Essex County College yesterday during the school'sA 43rd annual commencement.
Paralyzed woman controls arm with her mind
Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, researchers report in the latest advance in harnessing brain waves to help disabled people.
Grape Sense: Literary major turns winery owner
It's a long path from Louisville, Ky., to Saint-Jean-de-Minervois in Southern France.
Paralyzed woman uses thoughts to move robotic arm
The woman is one of two patients in the ongoing trial of BrainGate neural interface, an experimental brain-computer interface technology that may one day give paralyzed individuals more mobility.
BCC to hold 45th commencement on June 2
Bristol Community College honors the work of more than 1,000 graduates at the 45th commencement ceremony, on Saturday, June 2, at 11 a.m. on the Elsbree Street Campus.
Many Westerville seniors bound for prestigious universities
Harvard University wasn't a top choice for Westerville Central High School senior Taylor Reneau.
Taking a ride to honor a Staten Island hero
After playing a variety of sports as a kid, Margiotta focused on football and starred at Monsignor Farrell High School, where he was a hard-blocking tight end, and Brown University, where he was an undersized nose guard, and later for the Fire Department team and in the Staten Island Touch Tackle League.
Jeffrey (Jeff) Frederick Harper, 60
Jeffrey Frederick Harper, 60, passed peacefully in the early morning of May 18, 2012 from complications of kidney cancer.
Actors Give Advice at Born for Broadway Benefit
On Monday, 30 performers from Broadway and television took the stage at American Airlines Theatre to participate in the third annual Born for Broadway benefit.
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