Biologist Scott McRobert, Ph.D., professor of biology at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pa., developed “Fish Cam,” an online site for students of all ages to research shoaling (grouping) behavior in fish.

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Lights, Camera, Action: Cue the Goldfish (Newswise)

While many students who were admitted to the University last spring are buried in books, Andrew Finkelstein ’14 is building a cow shelter in India. Finkelstein is one of 20 participants in the University’s pilot Bridge Year Program, which began in August 2009.

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Building bridges abroad (Daily Princetonian)

Adelphi University is pleased to host the “Patterns and Shadows” installation of artist Marcia Widenor’s hand-dyed and knitted linen thread work.

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Fiber Artist To Exhibit “Patterns and Shadows” (Garden City News)

Msnbc.com science editor to explain why Pluto was downgraded as a planet when he gives a public lecture Wednesday at Beckman Center in Irvine. Free lecture starts at 7 p.m.

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Author to’explain case’ for Pluto as planet in Irvine talk (Orange County Register)

Many people with back pain do not know what is causing it and they do not receive effective treatment, but learning to move in a more integrated way makes a big difference, reveals research from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Smooth and integrated movement patterns can help individuals with back pain (EurekAlert!)

A group of protein theorists at Rice University have worked with protein experimentalists to experimentally corroborate the theory of protein folding for a large, multi-subunit protein.

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Theorists, Experimentalists Form Uncommon Pact and Corroborate Protein-Folding Theory (GenomeWeb News)

The Preemie Project — started by Coralville resident Laura Aker in 2005 — uses the skills of volunteers to crochet, sew and knit items for babies in the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics’ neonatal and pediatric intensive care units.

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Blanket sleeper project helps preemiesA (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)

The University of Nevada, Reno’s Small Business Development Center is offering monthly seminars to Northern Nevada businesses that will demonstrate how to reduce energy use and lower operating costs. The seminars are free and take place every third Thursday of the month at the NV Energy building in south Reno.

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Small business center offers monthly seminars (The Record-Courier)

The University of Colorado will phase out its 14 “academic-support resident” positions in the dorms next year and instead hire more resident advisers to live among on-campus students.

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CU-Boulder to phase out academic-support resident position (Colorado Daily)

The University of Colorado will phase out its 14 “academic-support resident” positions in the dorms next year and instead hire more resident advisers to live among on-campus students.

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CU-Boulder to phase out academic-support resident position (Boulder Daily Camera)