First Lady Michelle Obama to honor the 2015 class of the National Student Poets Program
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Washington, DC - The First Lady will honor the 2015 class of the National Student Poets Program (NSPP), the nation’s highest honor for youth poets. This award celebrates the exceptional creativity, dedication to craft, and promise of this generation of leaders. As honorary chairman of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, the First Lady will celebrate the honorees and host a reading of their original work.
Secretary Kerry and UN Special Envoy Bloomberg Welcome International Mayors for Our Cities, Our Climate
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Washington, DC - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Michael R. Bloomberg, U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, will welcome mayors from major global cities to the State Department at 12:30 p.m. on October 8 for the “Our Cities, Our Climate” working sessions and luncheon.
Scientists grow organic semiconductor crystals vertically for first time
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Los Angeles, California - Our smartphones, tablets, computers and biosensors all have improved because of the rapidly increasing efficiency of semiconductors.
Food Tank's 2015 Fall Reading List
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Chicago Illinois - From the California estuaries to the research labs of the United States military, the 22 books we’re highlighting will take you on a journey to learn about where food comes from, where the food system is heading, and how we can find ways to make the food and agriculture system more sustainable. The farmers, journalists, chefs, and researchers featured in these books teach us first-hand about the struggles of dealing with climate change and the how to battle it through innovation. Additionally, readers will learn not only how to buy and cook seasonal foods, but also what happens to the molecules in an egg when it is fried.
Professor solves 140-year fluid mechanics enigma
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West Lafayette, Indiana - A Purdue University researcher has solved a 140-year-old enigma in fluid mechanics: Why does a simple formula describe the seemingly complex physics for the behavior of elliptical particles moving through fluid?
Asteroid impact, volcanism were one-two punch for dinosaurs
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Berkeley, California - Berkeley geologists have uncovered compelling evidence that an asteroid impact on Earth 66 million years ago accelerated the eruptions of volcanoes in India for hundreds of thousands of years, and that together these planet-wide catastrophes caused the extinction of many land and marine animals, including the dinosaurs.
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