• NASA Modifies Launch Service Contract To Add Delta II Rocket
  NASA Modifies Launch Service Contract To Add Delta II Rocket
• NASA Awards Protective Services Contract At Kennedy
  NASA Awards Protective Services Contract At Kennedy

• NASA Spacecraft Revealing More Details About Planet Mercury
  NASA Spacecraft Revealing More Details About Planet Mercury
• NASA Selects Science Investigations For Concept Studies
  NASA has selected 11 science proposals for evaluation as potential future science missions. The proposals outline prospective missions to study the Earth’s atmosphere, the sun, the Milky Way galaxy, and Earth-like planets around nearby stars.

(University of California – San Francisco) Brain tumor specimens taken from neurosurgery cases at the University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center has given scientists a new window on the transformation that occurs as healthy brain cells begin to form tumors.

(New Jersey Institute of Technology) Tian Tian, a teaching assistant in the department of Computer Science at NJIT, has received the award of Excellence in Instruction by a Teaching Assistant at NJIT’s University Convocation.

(American Geological Institute) The American Geological Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce Dr. Ian D. MacGregor as the 2011 recipient of the William B. Heroy Jr. Award for Distinguished Service to AGI. The Distinguished Service Award is presented in honor of William B. Heroy, Jr., who advanced the use of geophysics in petroleum exploration and in geologic research worldwide. Recipients of this award are measured against his exemplary career and in recognition of outstanding service to the Institute and to the geoscience profession.

(University of Missouri-Columbia) The National Survey of Children’s Health indicates 31 percent of Missouri children are overweight or obese; yet, the state lacks physical activity requirements for students and nutritional standards for school meals beyond those recommended by the USDA. A new study from the University of Missouri shows Jump Into Action (JIA), a school-based physical activity program, is effective in changing unhealthy youth behaviors

(American Sociological Association) The company an adolescent keeps affects his or her behavior — particularly when these friends engage in illicit activities and are indifferent to education — right? Well, that all depends, according to a new Northwestern University study, “Being in ‘Bad’ Company: Power Dependence and Status in Adolescent Susceptibility to Peer Influence,” which appears in the September issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.

(Elhuyar Fundazioa) There are no journalists specialized in immigration, neither is there any specific training to this end, nor any thought given to how the media influence public opinion in this matter. Lecturer and journalist Alberto Durana has undertaken a thesis in which he is critical both of the Faculties of Journalism and news desks.

(University of Missouri School of Medicine) An innovative program at the University of Missouri School of Medicine could help states deal with a dilemma in Washington, D.C. If deficit-reduction measures cut billions of dollars for training physicians who are already in short supply, who will care for the more than 30 million newly insured patients entering the health-care system?

(Public Library of Science) Autism spectrum disorders, including Asperger syndrome, have generally been associated with uneven intellectual profiles and impairment, but according to a new study of Asperger individuals published in the online journal PLoS ONE, this may not be the case — as long as intelligence is evaluated by the right test.