Stony Brook University president begins tenure (Newsday)
Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr. was wandering down a quiet hallway in Stony Brook University's newest research center Wednesday when a man walked by, stopped and did a double take. "Hey, you're the new president," said 2005 graduate Tal Eidelberg, pumping Stanley's hand as he launched into the story of his start-up software company, Intrigma, which was moving into an office nearby. (Newsday, Jul 2, 2009 - 12:39:18 PM)
Climate Change Report: Warming Causes Rain (ABC World News)
U.S. Goverment says extreme weather and global warming linked. (Malcolm Bowman, Professor of Oceanography and Distinguished Service Professor, SBU School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS)comments.) (ABC World News with Charles Gibson, Jun 24, 2009 - 8:41:08 AM)
Red Watch Band drinking program keeps growing (Northwest Arkansas Times)
She wanted some information. Nothing more. Nothing less. The intent of Mindy Campbell was not to officially register the University of Arkansas with the Red Watch Band, a national drinking education program - but that's what happened about three weeks ago. (Northwest Arkansas Times, Jun 15, 2009 - 7:45:08 AM)
Red Watch Band friends don't let friends get too drunk (USA Today)
When Suzanne Fields' son died of an alcohol overdose last year, a few days after completing his first year of college, she decided she wanted to keep other students from suffering the same fate. "I thought at the time my son died that his death was preventable, that I wanted to do something to prevent other students from dying the way he did," she says. (USA Today, Jun 15, 2009 - 7:39:01 AM)
Opinion: Reinventing science at Brookhaven National Laboratory (Newsday)
Laboratories, like many cultural institutions, periodically have to reinvent themselves to stay vital. New discoveries and social needs constantly threaten to render labs that stick to the same path obsolete. One remarkable reinvention is being commemorated on Monday, when Brookhaven National Laboratory is celebrating the start of construction of a new energy research facility, the $1 billion National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II).
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