U.S. Universities

Alabama A&M University

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About AAMU
Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University reflects the uniqueness of the traditional land-grant institution which combines professional, vocational and liberal arts pursuits. The University provides baccalaureate and graduate studies that are compatible with the times to all qualified, capable individuals who are interested in further developing their technical, professional, and scholastic skills and competencies. It operates in the three-fold function of teaching, research, and public service, including extension. A center of substance and excellence, Alabama A&M University provides a setting for the emergence of scholars, leaders, thinkers, and other contributors to society. Specifically, the University is committed to:

Excellence in education and a scholarly environment in which inquiring and discriminating minds may be nourished.
The education of students for effective participation in local, state, regional, national, and international societies.
The search for new knowledge through research and its applications.
The provision of a comprehensive outreach program designed to meet the changing needs of the larger community.
Programs necessary to adequately address the major needs and problems of capable students who have experienced limited access to education.
Integration of state-of-the-art technology into all aspects of University functions.

Alabama A&M University, in cooperation with businesses, industrial and governmental agencies, and other institutions, provides a laboratory where theory is put into practice in a productive environment.

Air Force Institute of Technology

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Air University, headquartered at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., is a key component of Air Education and Training Command, and is the Air Force's center for professional military education.

Mission

Air University provides the full spectrum of Air Force education, from pre-commissioning to the highest levels of professional military education, including degree granting and professional continuing education for officers, enlisted and civilian personnel throughout their careers. AU's PME programs educate Airmen on the capabilities of air and space power and its role in national security. These programs focus on the knowledge and abilities needed to develop, employ, command, and support air, space and cyberspace power at the highest levels. Specialized professional continuing educational programs provide scientific, technological, managerial and other professional expertise to meet the needs of the Air Force. AU conducts research in air, space and cyberspace power, education, leadership and management. AU also provides citizenship programs and contributes to the development and testing of Air Force doctrine, concepts and strategy.

Personnel and Resources

Air University's primary operating locations are concentrated on three main installations. Most AU programs are at Maxwell AFB in northwest Montgomery, Ala.; some are across town at Maxwell's Gunter Annex; and one is located at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Although AU draws students from throughout the Department of Defense and from the military forces of other nations, its mission is more easily described in terms of the two main groups it's primarily organized to serve: U.S. Air Force commissioned officers and enlisted members. For each Airman, educational opportunities begin before they enter active service and follow them throughout their careers.

History

The Wright Brothers established the first U.S. civilian flying school in Montgomery in 1910. By the 1920s, Montgomery became an important link in the growing system of aerial mail service. In the early 1930s the Army Air Corps Tactical School moved to Maxwell and Montgomery became the country's intellectual center for airpower education.

Air University, established in 1946, continues the proud tradition of educating tomorrow's planners and leaders, in air, space and cyberspace power for the Air Force, other branches of the U.S. armed forces, federal government civilians and international organizations. Today, Air University's reach spans not only the globe, but the careers of every Air Force member.
AETC Mission
Air Education and Training Command, with headquarters at Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas, was established July 1, 1993, with the realignment of Air Training Command and Air University. AETC's role makes it the first command to touch the life of almost every Air Force member.

AETC's mission is to develop America's Airmen today... for tomorrow.

Air Force Institute of Technology

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About AFIT

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The Air Force Institute of Technology, or AFIT, is the Air Force’s graduate school of engineering and management as well as its institution for technical professional continuing education. A component of Air University and Air Education and Training Command, AFIT is committed to providing defense-focused graduate and professional continuing education and research to sustain the technological supremacy of America’s air and space forces.

AFIT accomplishes this mission through three resident schools: the Graduate School of Engineering and Management, the School of Systems and Logistics, and the Civil Engineer and Services School. Through its Civilian Institution Programs, AFIT also manages the educational programs of officers enrolled in civilian universities, research centers, hospitals, and industrial organizations. Since resident degrees were first granted in 1956, more than 16,000 graduate and 350 doctor of philosophy degrees have been awarded. In addition, Air Force students attending civilian institutions have earned more than 12,000 undergraduate and graduate degrees in the past twenty years.

AFIT's Mission
Advance air, space, and cyberspace power for the Nation, its partners, and our armed forces by providing relevant defense-focused technical graduate and continuing education, research, and consultation

AFIT's Vision
Be the internationally recognized leader for defense-focused technical graduate and continuing education, research, and consultation

AIB College of Business

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Register now for AIB ‘Dance Mania’ for Special Olympics

You could be dancing – from noon to midnight – Saturday, May 5, at “Dancing Through the Decades” Dance Mania, a dance marathon sponsored by the Hospitality Travel Management Association (HTMA) at AIB College of Business. The event at AIB’s Activities Center, 2500 Fleur Drive, benefits Special Olympics Iowa.

Here’s what to do: Go to www.firstgiving.com/soiowa/aib2012dancemania and create a page to register in advance. The registration fee is $30 per person, and teams of two are required to dance.

Then enlist sponsors to support your effort, and start planning what to wear – costumes will be judged, so come dressed in attire from your favorite decade. Prizes will be awarded for best costume and a variety of other categories – including top fundraiser.

Check-in starts at 11 a.m., with a rules briefing at 11:45 a.m. Dancing begins at noon, and a meal will be served at 6 p.m. for registered participants.

Agnes Scott College

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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Acclaimed Authors Speaking, Teaching at 41st Annual Writers’ Festival

Friday, March 02, 2012
Professor Receives Accolades for Debut Novel

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
ASC Achieves Silver in National Sustainability Program

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Agnes Scott Again Named a Best Value

Friday, February 24, 2012
Lilly Ledbetter to Speak at ASC

Monday, January 30, 2012
ASC to Host Softball Tournament in Honor of Lauren Giddings

Friday, January 20, 2012
Faith and Learning Lecture: Agreeing to Disagree

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Liberal Arts the Topic of This Year’s Founder’s Day Convocation

Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Highly-Skilled Immigrants Create Jobs for Americans, According to Study

Monday, December 19, 2011
Record Number of Entries for Writers’ Festival Contest

Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Amber Dermont Awarded NEA Literature Fellowship

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Grant Bolsters Undergrad Research Outside the Lab

Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Author John Green to Speak at Agnes Scott

Friday, November 18, 2011
Agnes Scott Now Diverts 73% of Waste from Landfills

Monday, October 31, 2011
Kiplinger Again Ranks ASC a Best Value Private College

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Author of The Phantom Tollbooth to Speak at Agnes Scott

Friday, October 21, 2011
ASC One of Handful of Liberal Arts Colleges to Offer Undergrad Public Health Major

Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Agnes Scott Joins Launch of $1 Billion Green Challenge

Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Waqas Khwaja to Discuss Contributions of Sir William Jones

Monday, November 07, 2011
Ethics Lecture: Assisting the Poor in Non-Poor Countries

Friday, October 07, 2011
Olympic Medalist Joins ASC as Head Basketball Coach

Friday, September 30, 2011
Agnes Scott Receives Record Number of Fall Applications

Thursday, September 22, 2011
ASC Partners to Pilot Green Home Renovation Program

Tuesday, September 13, 2011
U.S. News Again Ranks Agnes Scott a Great School at a Great Price

Thursday, September 08, 2011
Student Chosen as One of Glamour’s “Top 10 College Women”

Adrian College

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Adrian College is your path to...

EXPERIENCE
Adrian College offers coursework relevant to the real world, exceptional study abroad opportunities, and effective career preparation.

MENTORS
With small, interactive classes, our expert faculty will share their wealth of knowledge, focus on your personal goals & interests, and provide strong academic advising.

LEADERSHIP
Be a leader on the playing field, in the classroom, or with numerous campus organizations. Many of our students are active volunteers in the community.

VICTORY
As a member of the MIAA, the nation's oldest athletic association, Adrian College has a history of academic & athletic All-Americans. Currently, we have 22 varsity teams and 5 club sports. Learn more at adrianbulldogs.com.

SUCCESS
Adrian College students have an enviable placement rate into desired careers and graduate school programs. While at Adrian you will develop confidence and experience personal growth in a small-college environment. And our liberal arts foundation contributes to your long-term marketability in the changing career world.

Adler School of Professional Psychology

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Welcome
Welcome to the website for the Adler School of Professional Psychology. Here, you’ll find information about our academic programs, talented faculty, and social justice initiatives, as well as gain access to services and resources. You’ll also find ways to support our work.
The Adler School is founded on an important idea: our health resides in our community life and connections. This notion, which Alfred Adler called gemeinschaftsgefuhl, or social interest, was revolutionary when he proposed it in turn-of-the-century Vienna, and it remains so today. Our ground-breaking and far-reaching curricula, our commitment to community engagement, and even the design of our new website all spring from this guiding idea.
Our world faces extraordinary challenges. Much of the conflict and disease that threatens our communities is rooted in an inability to see others as people like ourselves, worthy of respect and opportunity. At the Adler School, we educate socially responsible practitioners to lead the way in healing these divisions within and beyond Chicago and Vancouver. Socially responsible practitioners are prepared to meet the needs of a complex and changing world.
We work with students who are courageous enough to want to change the world. To prepare them for the challenges they will face, we offer demanding curricula and hands-on experiences. This blend of theory, science, and practice results in graduates who have the knowledge, skills, and values to be effective personal and social change agents in the pursuit of justice.
Our faculty are practitioners who bring a range of experiences and perspectives to the classroom. They regularly rethink and improve our pedagogy, and they build new academic programs to meet emerging social needs. For example, in September 2011, our Chicago campus began offering two new tracks within the Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology program: a Military Clinical Psychology Track and a Child & Adolescent Psychology Track. The Chicago campus has also been approved to launch a Master of Arts in Criminology program in fall 2012 – the Adler School’s first 100% online program. In Vancouver, the School now offers a Master of Arts in Community Psychology to prepare leaders in the government and community agency sectors.
Outside my office is a quotation from Alfred Adler that reads: “The school must not regard itself as an end in itself and must keep in mind that the individual must be trained for society and not the school.” This quote focuses my attention on our responsibility to our Adlerian legacy, to our students, and to our need to innovate and grow the Adler School in service to the world.
After careful planning, hard work, and incredible growth, we are poised to make the coming years a historic and transformational era for the Adler School. In our recently published strategic plan, we identify the achievements we will secure by 2015. I look forward to collaborating with our extended community—students, alumni, faculty, staff, trustees, partners, and supporters—as we continue on a path of success and excellence.
Please enjoy the information, ideas, and images on this site. I hope this visit is the first of many you will make to the Adler School.
Raymond E. Crossman, Ph.D.
President

Adler Graduate School

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Directory of Staff at AGS

Director of Admissions and Student Services:
Evelyn Haas
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 103
E-mail: ev@alfredadler.edu

Director of Financial Aid, Registrar:
Jeanette Maynard Nelson
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 102
E-mail: jeanette@alfredadler.edu

Business Operations Director:
Leslie Rohde
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 101
E-mail: leslie@alfredadler.edu

President:
Daniel A. Haugen, PhD
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 107
E-mail: haugen@alfredadler.edu

Academic Vice President:
David J. Mathieu
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 106
E-mail: david.mathieu@alfredadler.edu

Assistant to the President:
Margie McGovern
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 100
E-mail: margie@alfredadler.edu

Media Center Coordinator:
Earl Heinrich, BA
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 114
Email: earl@alfredadler.edu, eheinr007@aol.com

Staff Accountant :
Ray Li
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 101
E-mail: ray@alfredadler.edu

Administrative Assistant:
Barbara Bedell
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 105
E-mail: barb@alfredadler.edu

Network and Computer Systems Associate:
Paul Kaiser
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 110
Email: p.kaiser@mail.alfredadler.edu

Director of Clinical Licensing Programs and Adlerian Studies:
Roger Ballou, PhD, LMFT, LPCC
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 109
Email: balloura@aol.com

Director for Internship and Clinical Leadership Development:
Herb Laube, PhD, LP, LMFT
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 113
E-mail: herblaube@aol.com

Assistant Academic Vice President & School Counseling Program Director:
Chris Helgestad, MA
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 108
E-mail: chris.helgestad@alfredadler.edu

School Counseling Program Associate:
Amy Wojciechowski, MA
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 118
E-Mail: amy@mail.alfredadler.edu

Institutional Review and Assessment Director:
William J. Premo, PhD
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 111
E-mail: William.Premo@alfredadler.edu

Art Therapy Program Director:
Craig Balfany
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 115
E-mail: crgbalf@aol.com

Professional Life Coaching Coordinator:
Paula Hemming, MA, PCC
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 112
E-mail: coachpaula@earthlink.net

Director for Online Education and Special Projects:
Marina Bluvshtein, PhD, LP
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 117
E-mail: drb@soulinmotion.us or online@alfredadler.edu

Project Manager:
Deb Velasco
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 120
E-mail: Debbie.Velasco@mail.alfredadler.edu

Building Manager/Custodian:
Jim Jagodzinski
Phone: (612) 861-7554 ext. 119
E-mail: jim.jagodzinski@mail.alfredadler.edu

Adelphi University

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The Adelphi Timeline

1893
Charles H. Levermore becomes the Principal of Adelphi Academy, a private preparatory school located at 412 Adelphi Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Levermore's goal is to expand the academy, known for its innovative curriculum, into a four-year, coeducational liberal arts college.

1894
Timothy L. Woodruff becomes President of the Board of Trustees of Adelphi Academy and petitions the Board of Regents of the State of New York to establish a liberal arts college in the city of Brooklyn. Woodruff would later serve three terms as the Lieutenant Governor for the State of New York.

1896
Levermore's dream becomes a reality. The Charter for Adelphi College is granted on June 24, 1896—one of the earliest granted to a coeducational college by the Board of Regents. Charles H. Levermore becomes the first president of Adelphi College. Classes begin in September with 57 students and 16 instructors.

1908
Timothy L. Woodruff steps down as president of the board of trustees, but remains a member until 1913. James H. Post, philanthropist and sugar magnate, succeeds him.

1912
Adelphi had been known since its inception as a premier school for women. In 1912, the Board votes to make Adelphi a college exclusively for women.

1915
Frank D. Blodgett receives unanimous Board approval to become the second president of Adelphi, succeeding Charles H. Levermore.

1922
Faced with increasing enrollment, Adelphi seeks to raise $1 million to expand the facilities.

1925
The College severs all financial and academic ties with Adelphi Academy. The monogram in the school seal is changed from "AA" to "AC" and the founding date is changed from 1869 to 1896.

1928
Enrollment surges. 652 students are attending classes in a building designed to accommodate 560 students. Looking ahead to the future, President Blodgett and a committee of trustees search for a new site for the college. The committee selects 68 acres in Garden City, Long Island. On October 8, 1928, the cornerstone of the first new college building is laid.

1929
Classes begin on Monday, September 30 on Adelphi's new Garden City campus in three buildings designed by the renowned architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White.

1937
In the midst of the Depression, Adelphi is forced into receivership. A new president, Paul Dawson Eddy is faced with the task of saving the College. He redesigns the curriculum to include practical and vocational skills, adds prominent Long Island businessmen to the Board of Trustees and reduces the size of the faculty. Eddy's strategy of meeting the demands of the community will dominate Adelphi's development for the next half century.

1938
Internationally renowned choreographer and dancer Ruth St. Denis becomes the head of the first dance department at an American college.

1943
Under the direction of Mildred Montag, Adelphi establishes the first Central Collegiate School of Nursing and the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in New York State. Created in response to the need for nurses after the United States' entry into World War II, the Nursing School extends Adelphi leadership in professional education.

1944
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt dedicates Harvey and Alumnae, two new dormitories financed by the Federal Works Agency needed to house the increasing number of nursing students.

1946
After the end of World War II, Adelphi again opens it doors to men, giving an opportunity to the many veterans seeking to further their education under the GI Bill.

1947
The post-war period is marked by expansion into new areas relating to business. The admission of men spurs the creation of basketball, football, swimming, wrestling, baseball, and track teams.

1949
School of Social Work is founded.

1952
Adelphi's program in clinical psychology is formally organized.

1955
The College marks its 60th anniversary with a three-day series of lectures and cultural events.

Enrollment hits 3,667.

A Ford Foundation grant for $407,000 supports increasing faculty salaries.

1963
Adelphi is granted university status by the Board of Regents of the State of New York.

The Leon A. Swirbul Library opens, named for Adelphi trustee and Grumman Corporation founder.

The faculty grows to 209, and the campus expands from the original three buildings to 16 on 70 acres of land.

1964
The Board of Regents establishes the School of Business Administration (now the School of Business) as a distinct unit, conferring baccalaureate and master's degrees.

1965
Arthur Brown named president of Adelphi following Paul Dawson Eddy's retirement.

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is established.

1966
The Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies (since rededicated as the Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies) becomes the world's first university-based professional program in clinical psychology.

1967
Robert Olmsted, a member of the board of trustees, is appointed interim president.

1969
Charles Vevier is appointed president.

1971
Trustee Randall McIntyre becomes acting president.

1972
Timothy Costello is named president of Adelphi.

The Ruth S. Harley University Center is dedicated. Harley's association with Adelphi would span over eight decades as a student, professor, Registrar, and Dean of Women (later Dean of Students), a post she held from 1942 to 1970, and distinguished alumna. Following her retirement in 1970, she was appointed Dean Emeritus, a scholarship fund and student center were named in her honor, and the Ruth Stratton Harley Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award was established in 2004. She died July 4, 2005 at the age of 103.

1973
University College establishes ABLE (Adult Baccalaureate Learning Experience), one of the earliest adult education baccalaureate programs.

Adelphi's School of Social Work opens a satellite program in Poughkeepsie, New York.

1979
President Tim Costello establishes an Honors Program in Liberal Studies.

1980
The Adelphi New York Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program is established.

1984
The Institute for Teaching and Education Studies is created.

1985
Peter Diamandopoulos is selected as president.

1990
The University establishes a core curriculum, an interdisciplinary approach to general education. Required courses are taken throughout the four-year course of study to provide the context in which knowledge advances understanding.

The Institute for Teaching and Education Studies is reorganized as the School of Education.

1993
The Society of Mentors is established to provide every freshman and sophomore with a distinguished faculty adviser to enhance their University experience and guide them beyond the requirements of the curriculum.

1995
The Honors College is established to educate American leaders. The rigorous course of study includes small classes, a specially selected faculty, and co-curricular and extracurricular activities.

1999
Steven L. Isenberg is named interim president.

2000
Dr. Robert Allyn Scott is inaugurated as Adelphi's ninth President.

Adelphi celebrates 25 years of Performing Arts in the Olmsted Theatre.

2002
Adelphi's Hauppauge Center opens in Suffolk County.

A ceremonial ground breaking for a new residence hall is held.

Adelphi joins the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta and its 75-acre Garden City campus is designated the Arboretum at Adelphi.

2003
The building that houses Adelphi's School of Business is dedicated as the Hagedorn Hall of Enterprise.

Adelphi honors Mildred Montag and the 60th anniversary of its School of Nursing.

The Honors College celebrates 25 years at Adelphi.

2004
Adelphi celebrates its 75th anniversary in Garden City.

University Professor of Music Paul Moravec is awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Music.

The Women’s Lacrosse team wins the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II Championship, the first national title for a women’s program at Adelphi.

Women’s Soccer advances to the NCAA Championship Game for the first time since 1992. The Panthers finish as National Runners-up.

AU Men’s Soccer turns 50.

2005
The visual arts at Adelphi are given a new home, with the construction of a new state-of-the-art Fine Arts and Facilities Building, later named the Adele and Herbert J. Klapper Center for Fine Arts.

Swirbul Library gets a makeover, thanks to an extensive interior renovation.

A $1 million gift from Amy and Horace Hagedorn paves the way for Adelphi’s new Early Learning Center.

Adelphi celebrates 30 years of women’s athletics.

Adelphi receives the “Leadership in Higher Education” award from Long Island Works Coalition.

President Robert A. Scott is named one of Long Island's 100 most influential Long Islanders by Long Island Business News.

2006
The School of Education is renamed the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, in honor of alumna Ruth S. Ammon ’42, mother of Carol A. Ammon M.B.A. ’79, Adelphi Trustee and benefactor.

Adelphi University receives a $5 million grant from New York State, the largest public grant in its 110-year history, which will help fund the construction of the new Performing Arts Center.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers the University’s 110th Commencement address at Nassau Coliseum.

Adelphi is recognized as a “Best Buy” in the Fiske Guide to Colleges.

New multiple-building instructional, performing arts, and sports complexes, slated for 2008-2009 completion, will enhance Adelphi’s academic, artistic, athletic, and recreational programs.

Adelphi becomes the only university on Long Island, and one of a handful in New York State, to offer a Ph.D. in nursing.

New York Times reporter Bruce Lambert chronicles Adelphi’s recent success in an article in the Metro Section.

Women’s Lacrosse repeats as NCAA Division II National Champions.

Women’s Soccer celebrates 25 Years at Adelphi.

2007
The Ruth S. Ammon School of Education is awarded National Accreditation by National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the premier accrediting body in the field.

Adelphi’s School of Business earns accreditation by AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the longest serving and largest global accrediting body for business schools that offer undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in business and accounting.
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Adams State College

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About Adams State

“Great Stories Begin Here” is not simply a slogan at Adams State College. Student success is the result of our caring campus culture. Our highly qualified faculty focus on teaching and excellence within their disciplines.
Transformation & Growth
Adams State has entered a new era of growth, recording an all-time high enrollment of 3,701 in fall 2011. The campus has been transformed, with $65 million worth of improvements nearly complete. An intimate campus with treed-lined walkways, state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories, supportive programs, and vibrant student life await Adams State students.
Founded in 1921 as a teachers' college, Adams State is now a comprehensive liberal arts college offering 16 undergraduate majors with 28 minors and emphases, as well as 8 master’s degree programs – most offered online. New academic programs are developed to address student and societal need.
Expanding Opportunity
As the Regional Education Provider for southern Colorado, Adams State is crucial to enhancing the area’s educational opportunity, economic development, and cultural enrichment. Adams State emphasizes its historic commitment to underserved populations, including underrepresented minorities, first-generation, and low-income students.
Adams State was Colorado’s first higher education institution to be federally designated a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Since 2000, the college has been awarded a total of $14.1 million in Title V grants designed to strengthen HSIs. Two five-year grants totaling $6.1 million are currently underway.
Colorado’s premier small college
Adams State is distinguished by caring professors, small classes, and a diverse, yet close-knit community. This environment fosters student engagement, and individual attention helps students achieve their best.

Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin

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AOMA Mission Statement
The mission of AOMA is to transform lives and communities through graduate education in Oriental medicine by:

Providing excellent and innovative teaching of acupuncture and Oriental medicine to learners while developing knowledge, skills, and attitudes that lead to intellectual and personal growth
Delivering high quality acupuncture and Oriental medical healthcare to our patients
Providing leadership for the development of acupuncture and Oriental medicine professionals
Vision
AOMA’s vision is to be a leader in Oriental medicine education by engaging our communities and by preparing compassionate and skilled practitioners who embody the art and spirit of healing.

Our Core Values
We recognize that the outcomes we produce result from the collective activities that are consistent with the following core values:

Sustainability: Our programs and community engagements are sustainable and effective.
Integrity: We do what we say we will do. In our communication we are honest and complete.
Inspiration: We are called into action by a spirit of purposeful aliveness.
Flexibility and openness: We conscientiously choose our actions in consideration of all the parties involved.
Professionalism: In all that we do, we are impeccable, clear and complete.
Compassion and Service: In word and action, we look for opportunities to benefit others.
AOMA Educational Objectives
Graduates of the AOMA master degree program will:

Have the knowledge base necessary to enter the profession
Practice professional behaviors and values
Provide patient centered care
Incorporate evidence and experience based practices
Participate in collaborative patient care

Academy of Art University

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The Academy of Art University works hard to keep up with industry standards, and we recruit top faculty who often have limited availability. Courses are added to the schedule continuously, and course schedules do change. To view the most up-to-date course schedules and course offerings, please use the online course schedule above. If you have not yet graduated from high school, the Academy of Art University Pre-College Program is an intensive program for high school students, allowing them to explore art and design, and prepare themselves for art school.

Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

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Involved in all phases of campus life, Jessica Still from Blakely loves being a student at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. The journalism and mass media major appreciates the college and the people that make ABAC such a quality learning institution.
“People here are very friendly and full of Southern hospitality,” Still said. “Everywhere you turn there is a possibility to make a new friend.”
Still is active in the ABAC Ambassadors, FFA, The Stallion newspaper, and serves as a tutor in the Writing Center of the Academic Assistance Center. Between her academics and her campus involvement, she has learned a valuable lesson at ABAC.
“I’ve learned a lot about time management,” Still said. “I used to be a procrastinator. Since being at ABAC I have learned to manage my time more effectively and how to prioritize."
Once her academic career at ABAC has come to a close, Still plans to attend the University of Georgia to major in broadcast journalism. Her goal is to become a news anchor.
Still says her favorite words to live by come from Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Abilene Christian University

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A.T. Still University of Health Sciences

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Home of the world’s first osteopathic medical school, established in 1892, A.T. Still University is recognized around the world as a renowned, multidisciplinary healthcare educator. ATSU instills in students the compassion and hands-on experience needed to address the needs of the whole person. The University has a rich history of providing leadership for comprehensive healthcare education and research and is consistently ranked in U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools” guide.

Princeton University

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Dean of the College (609) 258-3040
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President's Office
(609) 258-6101
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University of South Alabama

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NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer Helps Confirm Nature of Dark Energy

2012-03-02T00:43:00.008-08:00

PASADENA, Calif. -- A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerating speeds. The survey used data from NASA's space-based Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Anglo-Australian Telescope on Siding Spring Mountain in Australia.

The findings offer new support for the favored theory of how dark energy works -- as a constant force, uniformly affecting the universe and propelling its runaway expansion. They contradict an alternate theory, where gravity, not dark energy, is the force pushing space apart. According to this alternate theory, with which the new survey results are not consistent, Albert Einstein's concept of gravity is wrong, and gravity becomes repulsive instead of attractive when acting at great distances.

"The action of dark energy is as if you threw a ball up in the air, and it kept speeding upward into the sky faster and faster," said Chris Blake of the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Blake is lead author of two papers describing the results that appeared in recent issues of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. "The results tell us that dark energy is a cosmological constant, as Einstein proposed. If gravity were the culprit, then we wouldn't be seeing these constant effects of dark energy throughout time."

Dark energy is thought to dominate our universe, making up about 74 percent of it. Dark matter, a slightly less mysterious substance, accounts for 22 percent. So-called normal matter, anything with atoms, or the stuff that makes up living creatures, planets and stars, is only approximately four percent of the cosmos.

The idea of dark energy was proposed during the previous decade, based on studies of distant exploding stars called supernovae. Supernovae emit constant, measurable light, making them so-called "standard candles," which allows calculation of their distance from Earth. Observations revealed dark energy was flinging the objects out at accelerating speeds.

Dark energy is in a tug-of-war contest with gravity. In the early universe, gravity took the lead, dominating dark energy. At about 8 billion years after the Big Bang, as space expanded and matter became diluted, gravitational attractions weakened and dark energy gained the upper hand. Billions of years from now, dark energy will be even more dominant. Astronomers predict our universe will be a cosmic wasteland, with galaxies spread apart so far that any intelligent beings living inside them wouldn't be able to see other galaxies.

The new survey provides two separate methods for independently checking the supernovae results. This is the first time astronomers performed these checks across the whole cosmic timespan dominated by dark energy. The team began by assembling the largest three-dimensional map of galaxies in the distant universe, spotted by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The ultraviolet-sensing telescope has scanned about three-quarters of the sky, observing hundreds of millions of galaxies.

"The Galaxy Evolution Explorer helped identify bright, young galaxies, which are ideal for this type of study," said Christopher Martin, principal investigator for the mission at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "It provided the scaffolding for this enormous 3-D map."

The astronomers acquired detailed information about the light for each galaxy using the Anglo-Australian Telescope and studied the pattern of distance between them. Sound waves from the very early universe left imprints in the patterns of galaxies, causing pairs of galaxies to be separated by approximately 500 million light-years.

This "standard ruler" was used to determine the distance from the galaxy pairs to Earth -- the closer a galaxy pair is to us, the farther apart the galaxies will appear from each other on the sky. As with the supernovae studies, this distance data were combined with information about the speeds at which the pairs are moving away from us, revealing, yet again, the fabric of space is stretching apart faster and faster.

The team also used the galaxy map to study how clusters of galaxies grow over time like cities, eventually containing many thousands of galaxies. The clusters attract new galaxies through gravity, but dark energy tugs the clusters apart. It slows down the process, allowing scientists to measure dark energy's repulsive force.

"Observations by astronomers over the last 15 years have produced one of the most startling discoveries in physical science; the expansion of the universe, triggered by the Big Bang, is speeding up," said Jon Morse, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Using entirely independent methods, data from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer have helped increase our confidence in the existence of dark energy."

Caltech leads the Galaxy Evolution Explorer mission and is responsible for science operations and data analysis. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, manages the mission and built the science instrument. The mission was developed under NASA's Explorers Program managed by the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Researchers sponsored by Yonsei University in South Korea and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) in France collaborated on this mission. Caltech manages JPL for NASA

Gliese 581d: A Habitable Exoplanet?

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Gliese 581d: A Habitable Exoplanet?
Source: CNRS press release

Alien Life
Posted: 05/20/11
Summary: A new computer model that simulates possible exoplanet climates indicates that the planet Gliese 581d might be warm enough to have oceans, clouds and rainfall. Gliese 581d is likely to be a rocky planet with a mass at least seven times that of Earth.

Schematic of the global climate model used to study Gliese 581d. Red / blue shading indicate hot / cold surface temperatures, while the arrows show wind velocities at 2 km height in the atmosphere. © LMD/CNRS Are there other planets inhabited like the Earth, or at least habitable? The discovery of the first habitable planet has become a quest for many astrophysicists who look for rocky planets in the “habitable zone” around stars, the range of distances in which planets are neither too cold nor too hot for life to flourish.

In this quest, the red dwarf star Gliese 581 has already received a huge amount of attention. In 2007, scientists reported the detection of two planets orbiting not far from the inner and outer edge of its habitable zone (Gliese 581d and Gliese 581c). While the more distant planet, Gliese 581d, was initially judged to be too cold for life, the closer-in planet, Gliese 581c, was thought to be potentially habitable by its discoverers. However, later analysis by atmospheric experts showed that if it had liquid oceans like Earth, they would rapidly evaporate in a 'runaway greenhouse' effect similar to that which gave Venus the hot, inhospitable climate it has today.

A new possibility emerged late in 2010, when a team of observers led by Steven Vogt at the University of California, Santa Cruz, announced that they had discovered a new planet, which they dubbed Gliese 581g, or 'Zarmina's World'. This planet, they claimed, had a mass similar to that of Earth and was close to the centre of the habitable zone. For several months, the discovery of the first potential Earth twin outside the Solar System seemed to have been achieved. Unfortunately, later analysis by independent teams has raised serious doubts on this extremely difficult detection. Many now believe that Gliese 581g may not exist at all. Instead, it may simply be a result of noise in the ultra-fine measurements of stellar 'wobble' needed to detect exoplanets in this system.

Surface temperature maps for simulations of Gliese 581d assuming an atmosphere of 20 bars of CO2 and varying rotation rates. It is currently unknown whether the planet rotates slowly or has permanent day and night sides. In all cases, the temperatures allow for the presence of liquid water on the surface. © LMD/CNRS It is Gliese 581g's big brother – the larger and more distant Gliese 581d - which has been shown to be the confirmed potentially habitable exoplanet by Robin Wordsworth, François Forget and co-workers from Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (CNRS/UPMC/ENS/Ecole Polytechnique) at the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace in Paris, in collaboration with a researcher from the Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Bordeaux (CNRS/Université Bordeaux 1). Although it is likely to be a rocky planet, it has a mass at least seven times that of Earth, and is estimated to be about twice its size.

At first glance, Gliese 581d is a pretty poor candidate in the hunt for life: it receives less than a third of the stellar energy Earth does and may be tidally locked, with a permanent day and night side. After its discovery, it was generally believed that any atmosphere thick enough to keep the planet warm would become cold enough on the night side to freeze out entirely, ruining any prospects for a habitable climate.

To test whether this intuition was correct, Wordsworth and colleagues developed a new kind of computer model capable of accurately simulating possible exoplanet climates. The model simulates a planet's atmosphere and surface in three dimensions, rather like those used to study climate change on Earth. However, it is based on more fundamental physical principles, allowing the simulation of a much wider range of conditions than would otherwise be possible, including any atmospheric cocktail of gases, clouds and aerosols.

To their surprise, they found that with a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere - a likely scenario on such a large planet - the climate of Gliese 581d is not only stable against collapse, but warm enough to have oceans, clouds and rainfall. One of the key factors in their results was Rayleigh scattering, the phenomenon that makes the sky blue on Earth.

In the Solar System, Rayleigh scattering limits the amount of sunlight a thick atmosphere can absorb, because a large portion of the scattered blue light is immediately reflected back to space. However, as the starlight from Gliese 581 is red, it is almost unaffected. This means that it can penetrate much deeper into the atmosphere, where it heats the planet effectively due to the greenhouse effect of the CO2 atmosphere, combined with that of the carbon dioxide ice clouds predicted to form at high altitudes. Furthermore, the 3D circulation simulations showed that the daylight heating was efficiently redistributed across the planet by the atmosphere, preventing atmospheric collapse on the night side or at the poles.

This artist's concept illustrates a young, red dwarf star surrounded by three planets. Such stars are dimmer and smaller than yellow stars like our sun. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists are particularly excited by the fact that at 20 light years from Earth, Gliese 581d is one of our closest galactic neighbours. For now, this is of limited use for budding interstellar colonists – the furthest-travelled man-made spacecraft, Voyager 1, would still take over 300,000 years to arrive there. However, it does mean that in the future telescopes will be able to detect the planet's atmosphere directly.

While Gliese 581d may be habitable there are other possibilities; it could have kept some atmospheric hydrogen, like Uranus and Neptune, or the fierce wind from its star during its infancy could even have torn its atmosphere away entirely. To distinguish between these different scenarios, Wordsworth and co-workers came up with several simple tests that observers will be able to perform in future with a sufficiently powerful telescope.

If Gliese 581d does turn out to be habitable, it would still be a pretty strange place to visit – the denser air and thick clouds would keep the surface in a perpetual murky red twilight, and its large mass means that surface gravity would be around double that on Earth. But the diversity of planetary climates in the galaxy is likely to be far wider than the few examples we are used to from the Solar System. In the long run, the most important implication of these results may be the idea that life-supporting planets do not in fact need to be particularly like the Earth at all.

Local Scientists Produce First Aerogel in Space

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First Space-Produced Aerogel Made on Space Sciences Laboratory Rocket Flight
June 19, 1996: Aerogel is the lightest solid known to mankind, with only three times the density of air. A block the size of a human weighs less than a pound. Because of its amazing insulating properties, an inch-thick slab can safely shield the human hand from the heat of a blowtorch. A sugar-cubed size portion of the material has the internal surface area of a basketball court. As the only known transparent insulator, Aerogel is a supercritically dried gel sometimes referred to as "frozen smoke".

On April 3, 1996, the first space-produced samples of aerogels were produced by NASA on a flight of a starfire rocket. The production of such materials in space is interesting because of the strong influence of gravity on how a gel is formed. Comparison of gels manufactured in space and on the ground have shown large differences, and the production of gels in space can provide a higher-quality product with a more uniform structure.

Chemical Engineering Progress (June 1995, p 14) described "the holy grail of aerogel applications has been developing invisible insulation for use between window panes." The production of insulating and transparent windows through aerogel manufacturing in space can develop into a substantial market for residential and commercial applications. The excellent thermal properties and transparent nature of silica aerogel make it an obvious choice for super-insulating windows, skylights, solar collector covers, and specialty windows.

Space Sciences Laboratory Hosts Bill Nye, the Science Guy

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October 16, 1996

This week, the Marshall Space Flight Center and the Space Sciences Laboratory are hosting Bill Nye, The Science Guy, as their crew from Seattle films for an upcoming episode of the PBS television series. Taping in SSL will occur on Wednesday, October 16 and Thursday, October 17.
Areas of science from the laboratory that will be featured on an upcoming episode of Bill Nye include Aerogel, "cool telescopes" such as BATSE and the AXAF Calibration Facility, the SSL Solar Vector Magnetograph, and the 105-meter drop tube for microgravity experimentation.
The program will also feature a dive in the Marshall Neutral Buoyancy Simulator, the large tank in which the Hubble Space Telescope repair missions are rehearsed by as

First Space-Produced Aerogel Made on Space Sciences Laboratory Rocket Flight

2012-03-02T00:42:00.006-08:00

October 8, 1996: Results are now beginning to become available from the April 3, 1996 rocket flight to produce the first space-made Aerogel. As described in the June 19, 1996 Aerogel Headline , Aerogel is the lightest solid known to mankind, with only three times the density of air. Aerogel, because of its appearence is sometimes referred to as "frozen smoke". Aerogel produced on the ground typically displays a blue haze or has a slight cloudiness to its appearence. This feature is believed to be caused by impurities and variations in the size of small pores in the Aerogel material. Scientists are trying to eliminate this haze so that the insulator might be used in window panes and other applications where transparency is important.

The Aerogel made aboard the flight of the Starfire Rocket in April has indicated that gravity effects in samples of the material made on the ground may be responsible for the adverse pore sizes and thus account for the lack of transparency. Both the diameter and volume of the pores in the space-made Aerogel appear to be between 4 and 5 times better than otherwise identically formulated ground samples. Because Aerogels are the only known transparent insulator, with typical heat conduction properties that are five times better than the next best alternative, a number of novel applications are foreseen in high performance Aerogels.

Fall Science Meeting Highlights Tethered Satellite Results

2012-03-02T00:42:00.003-08:00

October 15, 1996

Scientists attending the Fall 1996 meeting of the American Geophysical Union will be treated to three special sessions covering scientific results obtained from the reflight of the Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1R). The conference will take place on December 18 and 19 in San Francisco, California.
The TSS-1R science mission was conducted on space shuttle flight STS-75 at the end of February 1996. During the flight, the Tethered Satellite was deployed to a distance of 12.3 miles (19.7 km) and science data was collected aboard the satellite, the space-shuttle orbiter, and from a network of ground stations monitoring the earth's ionosphere.
Five hours of tethered operation yielded a rich scientific data set. These data include tether current and voltage measurements, plasma particle and wave measurements, and visual observations for a variety of pre-planned science objectives. During the flight the conducting tether connecting the Orbiter to the satellite was severed, and large currents were observed to be flowing between the satellite and the Orbiter during the break event.
Further scientific data were obtained from the instruments on the satellite after the break, when the science and NASA support teams were able to capture telemetry from the satellite during the overflight of NASA tracking stations.
One important finding from TSS-1R has been the high level of current collected by the satellite at relatively low voltage throughout the deployed phase of the mission. Surprisingly large currents were also observed during the tether break and gas releases, indicating important new physics at play. The three Tethered Satellite sessions at the AGU meeting will cover the results of data analysis from the mission, important supporting physics insights from laboratory experiments, theoretical and numerical modeling of current collection during the mission, and the conclusions of recent studies on the future use of tethers for science in space.

Unique telescope to open the X(-ray) Files

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Artist's concept of AXAF in orbit., The nested mirrors are at center behind the dotted circles.
The finest set of mirrors ever built for X-ray astronomy has arrived at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center for several weeks of calibration before being assembled into a telescope for launch in late 1998.

The High-Resolution Mirror Assembly (HRMA), as it is known, will be the heart of the Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) which is managed by Marshall Space Flight Center. HRMA was built by Eastman Kodak and Hughes Danbury Optical Systems. In 1997-98, they will be assembled by TRW Defense and Space Systems into the AXAF spacecraft. AXAF is designed to give astronomers as clear a view of the universe in X-rays as they now have in visible light through the Hubble Space Telescope.

Indeed, one of the Hubble's recent discoveries may move near the top of the list of things to do for AXAF. Hubble recently discovered that some quasars reside within quite ordinary galaxies. Quasars (quasi-stellar objects) are unusually energetic objects which emit up to 1,000 times as much energy as an entire galaxy, but from a volume about the size of our solar system.

More clues to what is happening inside quasars may lie in the X-rays emitted by the most violent forces in the universe.

Before AXAF can embark on that mission, though, its mirrors must be measured with great precision so astronomers will know the exact shape and quality of the mirrors. Then, once the telescope is in space, they will be able to tell when they discover unusual objects, and be able to measure exactly how unusual.

These measurements will be done in Marshall's X-ray Calibration Facility, the world's largest, over the next few weeks.

AXAF will use four sets of mirrors, each set nested inside the other, to focus X-rays by grazing incidence reflection, the same principle that makes sunlight glare off clear windshields. AXAF's smallest mirror - 63 cm (24.8 in.) in diameter - is larger than the biggest - 58 cm (22.8 in.) flown on the Einstein observatory (HEAO-2) in 1978-81.

Mapping the details of the mirror will start with an X-ray source pretty much like what a dentist uses to check your teeth. But that's next week's story.