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Cancer-prevention pioneer
To clue into what makes Paul Talalay tick,
one only has to ask him to identify his favorite hobby. He might
offhandedly mention his amateur cabinet making, but it’s medical
science that is Talalay’s vocation and true pastime rolled into
one.
Want proof? Here is a man who delights in showing off a model of
his
favorite molecule, finds a calming comfort in science’s “logic
and
tidiness” and, at age 80, displays the bountiful enthusiasm of a
first-year intern. In fact, colleagues have likened Talalay to
baseball’s
Barry Bonds, an anomaly of sorts who, while undeniably productive
throughout
his career, appears to have saved his best for last.
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FUSE shifts to extended
mission
The scientists and engineers who operate FUSE, the
Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic
Explorer, will celebrate a special anniversary today as the
satellite-observatory-that-could
officially moves beyond its original mission time and into a
three-and-a-half
year mission extension granted by NASA last summer.
The party for FUSE begins at 3:15 p.m. in the lobby of the
Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy and will include
several
brief presentations in the adjoining Schafler Auditorium.
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MPT, JHU Launch Teachers' Web
Resource
Ask teachers what they need to improve their students'
experiences in the classroom, and you'll find that time
and online resources top their list. However, despite best
efforts, teachers say they find that combing the Web for
relevant, quality resources can be burdensome and
time-consuming.
Help is now readily available for the
K-12 education community and families with the debut of a
new Web site called Thinkport, developed through a
partnership between Maryland Public Television and the
Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in
Education, a program of SBPSBE's Graduate Division of
Education.
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