Tag: university
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Florida State Students Question University’s Integrity Amid Koch Contributions and President’s Departure
Students at Florida State University are telling Charles Koch to stop compromising academic integrity with multimillion dollar grants that come with strings attached. You may recall: Back in 2011, two FSU professors revealed that the Charles Koch Foundation was given inappropriate control over the professor hiring process in the economics department, where millions of dollars were granted from the Kansas…
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Action4Climate Video Contest Inspires 5 Day Filmmaking Journey
[Editor’s note: This video was submitted to the Action4Climate Video Competition. Vote for your favorite video today.] In just five short days, my Montgomery College sociology classmates and I made a video to promote awareness about climate change. Our inspirational professor, Dr. Leszek Sibilski, embedded this question in us: “How are you going to shape society?” [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovlCe516e6s[/embed] Unable to understand…
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Why the Millennial Generation Sees Keystone XL as More Than Just a Pipeline
The Keystone XL pipeline proposal has hit a Nebraska stop sign, but it has deeper problems than right-of-way issues across the U.S. After all, the controversial proposal for transporting Canada’s tar sands was never just about the pipeline. Just ask the thousand students who rallied in front of the White House recently, who were willing…
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Scientists Discover New Atmospheric Hole Reinforcing Ozone Depletion
Researchers have discovered a large opening in the Earth’s atmosphere that is enabling pollutants to rise into the stratosphere and destroy the ozone layer. [caption id="attachment_329642" align="alignnone" width="500"] Location and extent of low ozone concentrations and thus of the OH hole over the West Pacific. Graphic courtesy of Alfred Wegener Institute[/caption] The hole, which is in a…
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Clean Energy Breakthrough Uses Sun to Create Solar Materials
In a recent advance in solar energy, researchers have discovered a way to tap the sun not only as a source of power, but also to directly produce the solar energy materials that make this possible. [caption id="attachment_329453" align="alignnone" width="500"] The sun could almost be a “one-stop shop” that produces both the materials for solar…