July 25th, 2011 by Ryan Windeyer | Tags: Health, Mental Health
No longer a social stigma, college mental health centers are overwhelmed with students. Heres how some are coping with the demand. To handle the influx of students seeking mental health services, more and more college counseling centers are using computerized questionnaires that can help flag serious problems more quickly than traditional paper-and-pencil evaluations. The Counseling [...]
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July 25th, 2011 by Ryan Windeyer | Tags: Church, Forest Hills
Eight years ago, Forest Hills Baptist Church put on its first Back to School Outreach. Ninety kids showed up. Each received a new backpack, school supplies and a session with a hairstylist. Last summer, more than 700 kids were served, and, in addition to backpack, supplies and hair care, each returned home with clothing to [...]
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July 25th, 2011 by Kiara Zox | Tags: Conditioning Drills, Drills, Isaiah Laurencin
As powerful on the field as he was popular off it — that’s how stunned fellow students described Isaiah Laurencin, a Miramar High School football player who collapsed during conditioning drills and later died. The 6-foot-3, 286-pound guard was two weeks shy of his 17th birthday. A senior offensive lineman, Laurencin crumpled to the ground [...]
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July 25th, 2011 by Ryan Windeyer | Tags: Scores, Test Scores
State education officials are investigating Mastery Test scores submitted by a Waterbury elementary school. The Republican-American newspaper reports that a preliminary review of scores submitted from Hopeville Elementary School students showed a significant number of wrong answers had been erased and corrected. The newspaper reports the same answer sheets had very few changes from right [...]
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July 24th, 2011 by Lachlan Feez | Tags: Use, Use Efficiency
PULLMAN, Wash.— A collaborative Washington State University study of how nitrogen and water availability vary within Palouse wheat fields will ultimately help farmers better manage nitrogen fertilizer application on their croplands and reduce one of Earth’s top four greenhouse gases, nitrous oxide. U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a [...]
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