Parents Need To Know More About Study Drug Use In Teens
[ Watch the Video: One in Ten Teens Using Study Drugs ] Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online While the signs and dangers of recreational drug use such as painkillers or LSD are well-known to teens and their parents, a new...
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Comcast Leaders and Achievers® Scholarship Program Recognizes New Jersey Students for their Academic Achievement and Community Service TRENTON, N.J., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Comcast Foundation, founded in 1999 to provide charitable support to its local communities and to empower and enrich lives, is awarding 73 New Jersey high school seniors scholarships through its annual Leaders and Achievers(®) Scholarship Program. The program, one of the Comcast Foundation's signature...
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RED BANK, N.J., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Plymouth Rock Assurance -- Teachers' Insurance Plan of NJ and Discovery Education came together on May 10 and 11 to present 'Discovery Days' to educators at two New Jersey Quotes for Cash(®) partner school districts. As the finale to the Teachers' Insurance Professional Growth Academy program, winning districts Beverly City and Pittsgrove were each awarded a day-long professional development seminar presented by Discovery Education. The...
ST. LOUIS, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just as in 1929 when Parks Air College was awarded Certificate No. 1, making it the first federally certificated pilot training school in the nation, Saint Louis University's Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology continues to lead the way internationally in aviation. On Saturday, May 18, the University conferred the first Ph.D. in Aviation in the United States and the world to Damon Lercel. This historic international...
DALLAS, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cambium Learning Group (NASDAQ: ABCD), a leading educational solutions and services company committed to helping all students reach their full potential by providing evidence-based solutions and expert professional services, announced today that three of its innovative learning products won SIIA CODiE Awards on May 7, 2013. The ExploreLearning business unit earned one award, and Learning A-Z received two of these prestigious prizes--honoring the...
Frameworks for six general education courses now freely available through Canvas by Instructure PORTLAND, Oregon and SALT LAKE CITY, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen Learning and Instructure broke new ground for open education today with the introduction of six open course frameworks that make teaching with open content easier and more effective than ever before. Now freely available for anyone to access through the Canvas platform, these frameworks serve as blueprints instructors...
MOOCs span STEM, history, sociology, and Shakespeare WELLESLEY, Mass., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wellesley College, the first liberal arts college to join the Harvard-MIT free online learning collaborative edX, announced its initial courses: Introduction to Human Evolution (Fall 2013, taught by Adam Van Arsdale); Was Alexander Great? The Life, Leadership, and Legacies of History's Greatest Warrior (Spring 2014, taught by Guy MacLean Rogers); Introduction to Global...
Celebration hosted by Soledad O'Brien NEW YORK, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ArtsConnection, one of New York City's largest and most comprehensive arts-in-education organizations, will host its annual spring benefit at Tribeca Rooftop on Thursday, May 30, 2013. The benefit will be co-chaired by Lisa and Richard Plepler and Emily and Harold Ford, Jr. and will honor hip-hop pioneer and entrepreneur Russell Simmons and Popular Community Bank's Chief Operating Officer Manuel...
Comprehensive Free, Online Expert Resource About Learning Difficulties and Disabilities Created in Collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners NEW YORK, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) today announced the launch of the LD Navigator, a free comprehensive, online resource guide about learning difficulties and disabilities for pediatric healthcare professionals. As...
Ceremony includes video messages from First Lady Michelle Obama and Scholastic Awards alumna Lena Dunham NEW YORK, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Friday, May 31 at Carnegie Hall, actress and arts advocate Sarah Jessica Parker and fashion designer Zac Posen will share the spotlight with the talented teens who received national honors in the 90(th) annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. More than 800 teens from 47 states, along with their families and teachers, are expected to...
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Martin Joseph Fettman was selected as a Payload Specialist candidate by NASA in December of 1991 because of his life’s dedication to pathology. He continues today with his dedication by bringing awareness to science in space to many public forums. Fettman was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 31, 1965. He attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York and graduated in 1973. He went on to further his academics at Cornell University. His focus was animal nutrition and in 1976, he...
The Central European Journal of Mathematics (CEJM) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 2003 and published bimonthly by Versita and Springer Science+Business Media. As of June 2012, the editor-in-chief is Fedor Bogomolov (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences). CEJM publishes research results in all fields pertaining to mathematics. Aiming to become the premier source of high quality research from Central and Eastern Europe, the journal provides a natural home for a...
Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry is a series of three journals covering inorganic, bioinorganic, organic, bioorganic and physical chemistry. All three journals are published annually by the Royal Society of Chemistry and are indexed in MEDLINE. ARPC Section A is a compilation of review articles on inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. The journal’s editor-in-chief is Sarah Ruthven. Every year, the important research achievements of the prominent research scholars are reviewed...
Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry is a series of three journals covering inorganic, bioinorganic, organic, bioorganic and physical chemistry. All three journals are published annually by the Royal Society of Chemistry and are indexed in MEDLINE. ARPC Section A is a compilation of review articles on inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. The journal’s editor-in-chief is Sarah Ruthven. Every year, the important research achievements of the prominent research scholars are reviewed...
Annual Reports on the Progress of Chemistry is a series of three journals covering inorganic, bioinorganic, organic, bioorganic and physical chemistry. All three journals are published annually by the Royal Society of Chemistry and are indexed in MEDLINE. ARPC Section A is a compilation of review articles on inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. The journal’s editor-in-chief is Sarah Ruthven. Every year, the important research achievements of the prominent research scholars are reviewed...
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