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W.I.S.E. telescope offers new view of universe

(John Hollenhorst, Deseret News) -- An instrument designed and built in Utah is about to give astronomers, and the general public, an entirely new view of the universe. NASA has just released more than a million images captured by the W.I.S.E. satellite telescope. W.I.S.E., the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, was born in the Space Dynamics Laboratory...

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Conference shows Utah girls that science is a great career path

(Brian Maffly, Salt Lake Tribune) -- Orem • To get students interested in biology, Jamie Jensen subjects them to the peroxide challenge. In this exercise, you put a food item in a test tube and douse it with hydrogen peroxide. “Awesome, eh,” the Utah Valley University assistant professor of biology told a roomful of girls Saturday. The peroxide bubbled...

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The Case for the Virtual Classroom

Information technology is radically changing our students’ learning styles, the ability to deliver education differently and opportunity to reduce costs for providing educational programming. In fact, one of the five action plan categories in our new HigherEdUtah 2020 plan contains priority recommendations for the next year in which technology...

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A unique approach to shaping the future vision of higher education

(Jennifer Brady, UMassonlineblog.com) - An interesting story by Lisa Schencker of The Salt Lake Tribune caught my eye the other day. It is entitled, New website seeks input on higher ed’s future. Basically, higher education officials in Utah, struggling to shape the future of education to produce the kind of educated labor force they foresee...

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