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Encountering the Possibilities

July 13, 2010 – In 2008, a U.S. Department of Education progress report cited California African-American 8th grade math proficiency scores in the bottom 18% nationwide. In an effort to turn that statistic around, parents, educators and business leaders in the Inland Empire and
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Cell Mechanics “Bridge” the Gap

July 12, 2010 – Cells share several traits with mechanical structures. Both incorporate tubes, rods and cables; both exert push-and-pull forces; and both adhere to a substrate of some type. Biomedical engineering professor William Tang is using those similarities as a way to bet
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IT’s Role in Environmental Sustainability

July 02, 2010 – Climate disruption, biodiversity loss, rising sea levels, pollution and exploding populations portend possibly devastating global consequences. But CALIT2 affiliate Bill Tomlinson, author of the recently published book “Greening through IT: Information Technology
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Visitors Marvel at Research Collaboration

June 30, 2010 – Fourteen graduate students studying nanomaterials at England’s Imperial College London are sufficiently acquainted with the scientific aspects of their field. What they are not as familiar with is the emphasis on multidisciplinary research they witnessed during a
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