Rocking her pregnant belly back and forth and dabbing her tears with a tissue, Brittainy Labberton said she wished she had not been so careless toward her young one as she stood before a King County Superior Court judge on Sept. 3.
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Bellevue couple gets 1-year suspended sentence for starving their baby
About 34% of regulatory affairs professionals are involved in comparative effectiveness research, health technology assessment, and reimbursement, compared with 25% just 2 years ago, according to a new survey released in August by the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS). The…
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Survey highlights state of regulatory affairs profession
Physician-scientist Peter Agre’s biggest research contribution to date is his discovery of aquaporins, the proteins that regulate and facilitate the transport of water molecules across cell membranes. Aquaporins are important in physiological processes such as kidney concentration and spinal fluid…
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From the Nobel Prize to Third World Medicine: An Interview With Peter Agre
Nature of Reseach : Program Evaluation of The Commonwealth Seminar, a Barr Foundation-funded program designed to provide legislative training, networking opportunities with top policymakers, and public service job opportunities for diverse leaders in Massachusetts.
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Program Evaluation of The Commonwealth Seminar-Undergraduate Opportunity
The Islam in the West Program of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies is looking for a graduate student (or an advanced undergraduate) to assist with data processing and analysis for a study of religion and politics. read more
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Data Processing and Analysis for a Study of Religion and Politics
By a vote of 2588 in favor to 121 opposed, the postdocs of the University of California’s ten campuses have approved the first contract negotiated between their union and the university. The union, PRO/UAW (formally known as Postdoctoral Researchers Organize/United…
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University of California postdocs ratify first union contract
With millions of Americans, including many with technical and scientific qualifications, struggling to find work in a brutal job market, readers of Information Week were surprised to learn of a program by their government’s US Agency for International Development that…
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Your tax dollars at work in Sri Lanka
Perhaps the longest-running soap opera in academic science ended early Saturday morning when PRO/UAW, the union representing the more than 5000 postdocs on the University of California’s ten campuses, reached a tentative agreement on a first contract with the University…
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Postdoc union reaches tentative contract agreement with University of California
A 60-year-old South Kitsap woman, Roni Gail Myers, was arrested Wednesday evening for animal cruelty in the first degree after neighbors complained of a horrible smell coming from her property. She was released Thursday morning on personal recognizance.
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Dead Horse leads to arrest of 60-year-old South Kitsap woman
Jonah Goldberg, editor of National Review Online, conservative author and political analyst, will be the featured speaker at the Salmon BBQ and Tea Party on July 31, 2-6 p.m., at the Big Red Barn, 1721 Cattle Point Road in Friday Harbor.
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Candidates scheduled for Tea Party gathering on San Juan Island July 31
Do you know an early-career scientist or engineer whose efforts to engage the public with science and technology exemplify excellence? Nominations are invited now through 15 October for the new AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science. Endowed…
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In 1961, just 4 years after Sputnik shocked the American science establishment and led policy makers to emphasize science as never before, the New York Yankees featured Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris; that’s the year both chased Babe Ruth’s single-season…
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If the ’61 Nobel Prize Winners Played the 2009 Nobel Prize Winners in a Seven-Game Series, Who Would Win?
Project Description : Testing the influences of home ownership on racially motivated voting: this is part of a larger project that has tested whether white voters living near public housing projects had their political behavior influenced by the presence of the African American residents of the projects.
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Undergraduate Researcher needed for Voting Project
As the practice of medicine and the delivery of health care over the last half-century has grown in complexity and content, training to be a practicing physician has gone from being analogous to a cross-country track event to a virtual…
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The M.D.-Ph.D. Track: The Triathlon of Medical Research Training
Seattle University celebrates the 75th anniversary of its College of Education with a focus on mental illness and with the appearance of the sister and nephew of award-winning actress Glenn Close.
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Seattle University celebrates it education college with a serious focus: mental illness
A 19-year-old woman arrested following a violent altercation with a Seattle police officer is facing misdemeanor charges as King County prosecutors consider whether to charge a teen punched in the face during the same incident.
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City attorney on jaywalking punch: ‘Our Police Department is capable of far better’
Canada’s Université de Montréal is recruiting businesses to supplement traditional government grants for cancer research on its campus. The university’s Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) models this program on a similar partnership that funded Canadian athletes for…
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Canadian University Enlists Businesses for Cancer Research Funding
Previously omitted hat-tip: @acidflask on Twitter.The News-Gazette of Central Illinois is reporting that Jayandran Palaniappan, 34, a postdoc at the University of Illiniois Champaign/Urbana, probably cast himself over Niagara Falls after learning that he lost his funding.
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His Funding Not Renewed, a UIUC Researcher May Have Jumped Niagara Falls
The number of online job advertisements for science and engineering staff increased in May 2010, but ads for related jobs in health care and education declined, according to data released Wednesday by The Conference Board. In April, the ratio of…
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Science, Engineering Job Ads Increase in May; Health, Education Jobs Falter
The following letter was submitted in response to Chelsea Wald’s article Scientists Embrace Openness. Open Results from Biomedical Research Projects: Where Are They? Maojo, V., Garcia-Remesal, M, Crespo, J., de la Calle, G., de la Iglesia, D
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Open Results from Biomedical Research Projects: Where Are They?