By Gary Jacobs SAN DIEGO–As many of you know by now High Tech High International (HTHI) is one of the top six finalists in the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge put on by the White House. Teams of students had to submit essays and videos on why their school is exemplary. Our students […]
By Donald H. Harrison SANTEE, California, April 6 – I don’t drive an electric car, or even a hybrid, but I can be proud, in a green, tikkun olam sort of way, about my tires. They’re filled with nitrogen, so I’m at least doing something about that global warming. A fellow at a tire shop here explained
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – Grossmont Community College is a study in fiscal contrasts. On the one hand, work is being completed on a new student center and administration complex, the last in a series of shiny and modern buildings and additions paid for by bonds that voters approved in 2002. The
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & EducationSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–the fruition of several educators’ work was realized March 24 when three San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) high school students took home top honors at the 2011 Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair by winning the prestigious Sweepstakes Award. In addition, two of the six available invitations to the Intel Science
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Board of Education on Tuesday, March 29, formally approved a sister-school agreement between Cabrillo Elementary School here and the Grundschule of Neuhaus-an-der-Oste, Germany, thereby making partners of schools in the hometown of Louis Rose and his adopted home in San Diego. Rose, an entrepreneur who
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — A chance encounter led me to the offices of IMPACT, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education, where I was able to learn about their work and see for myself the fruits of their labour from its acting director, psychologist Shelley Elkayam. Situated in
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California—Chaim Peri spent nearly three decades as the headmaster of a unique residential and educational complex near Haifa, Israel, known as Yemin Orde. Typically, 500 students live and go to school there, with 150 graduating each year. The high school was located a five-minute walk from the residential village
JERUSALEM (Press Release)– A $500,000 grant from the Polonsky Foundation of London will enable the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to digitize its Albert Einstein Archives and make it available online to researchers and students everywhere. The announcement was made on Einstein’s birthday and also on Israel National Science Day, both falling on March 14. The
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)– Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have shown that a significant number of patients with benign prostate enlargement (BPE) may have Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), which may be the reason for their night awakenings and urination. This study compared men between the ages of 55 and 75 who were randomly
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—An effort is underway to create a sister school partnership in the cities of Louis Rose’s birth and of his death. Rose, the first Jewish settler in San Diego, was a pioneer civic official, businessman and developer who helped to steer San Diego’s course between 1850, when he arrived
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & EducationBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)– Elderly drivers are half as likely to see pedestrians on the sidewalk due to a limited field of view, and compensate in part by driving more slowly, according to a study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers. In the online edition of Accident Analysis and Prevention, the study compared
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Science, Medicine, & EducationJERUSALEM (Press Release)– A pathway whereby bacteria communicate with each other has been discovered by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The discovery has important implications for efforts to cope with the spread of harmful bacteria in the body. Bacteria are known to communicate in nature primarily via the secretion and receipt of extracellular signalling molecules, said
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Science, Medicine, & EducationJERUSALEM (Press Release)– Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the US have discovered the mechanism whereby dangerous mercury eventually finds its way into the fish we eat from the open seas and oceans. The researchers, Prof. Menachem Luria from the Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University and
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Science, Medicine, & EducationHAIFA (Press Release)–Immunological research at the University of Haifa, Israel, has made a new breakthrough, revealing a critical component in the “decision-making” process of white blood cells that play a role in the healing process from bacterial inflammation. “The process that we have discovered can assist in the development of drugs that are based on
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