Smoking Policies Tighten in Halls of Academe As the fall 2012 semester gets under way, at least 744 U.S. colleges and universities have made their campuses completely smoke free, indoors and out, and nearly threequarters of those have banned all forms of tobacco on campus. Ty Patterson, executive director of the National Center for Tobacco Policy, told the Christian Science Monitor that many co...

Xuefeng Duan College of Mathematics and Computational Science, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, P.R. China Guangxi Colleges and Universities Key Laboratory of Data Analysis and Computation, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, P.R. China Email: [email protected] Zhuling Jiang College of Mathematics and Computational Science, Guilin University of ...

Janis L. Dickinson,a Çağlar Akçay,b Elise Ferree,c and Caitlin Sternd aCornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA, bDepartment of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Derring Hall, 1405 Perry Street, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA, cKeck Science Department, Claremont-McKenna, Scripps and Pitzer Colleges, Keck Science Center, 925 North MMills Avenue, Claremont, CA 9171...

COLLEGE SCIENCE TEACHING Many colleges and universities across the United States are facing an extremely important educational challenge—a low number of highachieving minority undergraduates (African American, Hispanic American, and Native American) who successfully persist in premedical and science-based courses of study. This situation poses particular challenges at major research institution...

To promote science and engineering, colleges universities carry out joint efforts to cultivate undergraduate course graduation thesis (design) schemes based on the reference of a variety foreign integrated models education as background. Using water conservancy engineering an example in this paper, model specific methods, results, experiences provides new ideas for Chinese undergraduates' integ...

This paper describes a summit on Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape organized by a committee of the National Research Council (NRC) and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and held at the Carnegie Institution for Science on December 15, 2011. This summit followed a similar event organized by Dr. Jill Biden, spouse of the Vice President, and held at the White House...