| NAU, SMCC partner to expand higher ed opportunities in South Phoenix | | Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 1:12:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | FLAGSTAFF, AZ (Jan. 31, 2007)—Northern Arizona University and South Mountain Community College broke ground Jan. 29 on a new building that will allow South Phoenix residents to earn a four-year degree from NAU. The 3,000-square-foot facility on the SMCC campus will house three classrooms and faculty offices. The building is expected to be completed in November. The 21st century is centered on a knowledge-based economy, NAU President John Haeger told the group of about 100 attending the groundbreaking ceremony. "So, if communities are going to grow economically," Haeger continued, "they have to have the (educational) infrastructure that you're building here today, and we are very much glad to be a part of it." "We are very excited to see this partnership develop, allowing students to get a four-year degree on our campus for the first time," said SMCC President Ken Atwater.... | |
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| | | Spartans Outlast Mocs 67-57 | | Posted Sunday, January 14, 2007 3:33:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | GREENSBORO, N.C. - Kendall Toneys 17 points gave the University of North Carolina Greensboro the balance they needed to go with Kyle Hines16 points and eight rebounds as the Spartans used a 12-2 run late in the second half to claim a 67-57 win over the UTC Mocs. A Marcus Watts lay-in tied the game at 48-48 with 9:41 to play before UNCG commenced the game-clinching run. The Spartan defense was the key to the run, getting four blocked shots during the 5:45 stretch which saw the lead grow to double-figures. Three of those blocks sparked the transition game and led to a UNCG score. The Mocs (8-11, 1-6 SoCon) held Hines to only four field goals and below his season marks in both scoring and rebounding. Kendall Toney, who made a school-record eight 3-pointers against NC State, made five from behind the arc.... | |
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| | | University of Phoenix offers new MA degree | | Posted Saturday, December 09, 2006 1:17:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | The University of Phoenix is now offering a new master of arts degree in education-curriculum and instruction to Memphis residents. The program includes the study of curricular planning and development with an integration of technology; assessment and evaluation practices; and strategies for effective classroom instruction for a variety of learners. .... | |
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| | | How we became a desert metropolis Water brought ancient farmers 4,000 years ago; the rest is history | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:12:19 AM by Blog57 Team | | That's how you go from a few hundred souls hunkered down near the river to a metropolis of 1 million and counting. We came for the protection. We came for the climate. And we came for the money to be made off of each other. But in the beginning, we came for the water. Written records show humans living in what we now call Tucson 4,000 years ago. They killed small game, fished in the sometimes-flowing Santa Cruz River and farmed. "It was an agrarian group living at the base of 'A' Mountain," says Jim Turner, historian with the Arizona Historical Society. "They were the earliest known tobacco farmers in North America. And they grew the earliest corn in North America." After them came the Hohokam, here from about A.D.... | |
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| | | Lawrence leads Phoenix over Eagles | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:45:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | The only thing that really mattered in the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's exhibition finale against UW- La Crosse on Wednesday night was that Josh Lawrence didn't get his tender head knocked around. What happened in the process was that the senior forward reminded the 3,007 fans at the Resch Center in Ashwaubenon just how important he is to the Phoenix. In merely 15 minutes of game action, Lawrence's impact was noticeable. He scored 12 points, grabbed six rebounds and made four of his six shots in UWGB's 75-53 victory over the Eagles. What's more, Lawrence didn't show any unwillingness to throw his body around while chasing after loose balls or sticking his nose in defensively. That's a good sign for a guy who missed 2 months of UWGB's off-season program because of a concussion sustained in the Horizon League tournament last March and then missed another six weeks plus last week's exhibition opener against St.... | |
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| | | Plans For the Bye Weekend | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:14:28 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Arizona Cardinals held there final practice of the week Thursday morning and ffter a tough eight weeks, the Cardinals will have the opportunity to rest and heal durign their bye weekend before kicking off the second half of the season on November 12th against Dallas at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale. Check out how some of your favorite Cardinals players will be spending their bye week. Fullback Obafemi Ayanbadejo "My plan is to go see my kids. I got a twelve-week old that just started smiling two weeks ago, so I gotta go see that. I also have a 23 month old who is saying, "Daddy win," which is pretty awesome. I am going to workout a little bit and hit some weights." Safety/Special Teams Hanik Milligan "I am just going to get some rest and try to see what I can do to get better for the second half of the season.... | |
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| | | AP Interview: University of Phoenix leader talks about industry | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:35:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Bill Pepicello was recently appointed president of the University of Phoenix, the largest accredited private university in the country. Owned by Apollo Group, Inc. _ a Phoenix-based public company _ the for-profit chain of schools enrolls just under 300,000 students and operates in 39 states and online. The Associated Press sat down with Pepicello while he was in Boston this week to talk about the university's mission, plans and the landscape of for-profit higher education. His responses are excerpted. ___ AP: The University of Phoenix recently said it would pay $154.5 million over the next 20 years for naming rights to the Arizona Cardinals' new football stadium. Why? Pepicello: If you go to any given state, our presence is actually pretty modest.... | |
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| | | Stones 1st concert at Cards' stadium | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 11:18:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | Several generations of rock fans will converge on Glendale on Wednesday as the Rolling Stones christen University of Phoenix Stadium with the venue's first big-time concert. Already, the stadium's roll-out field is retracted and a steel stage is going up south of the 50-yard line. More than 70 trucks will roll down Cardinals Drive on Tuesday with the Stones' stage gear. .... | |
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| | | University of Phoenix, San Juan College reach agreement | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 11:55:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | San Juan College in Farmington has reached an agreement with the University of Phoenix that will help students who have earned an associate's degree through the community college transfer into University of Phoenix four-year degree programs. All credits from San Juan associate degrees, including vocational degrees, will transfer to the University of Phoenix, which will take pre-applications from students who are within 12 months of completing an associate's degree. .... | |
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| | | Phoenix rising: Scientists resuscitate a 5 million-year-old retrovirus | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:17:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | VILLEJUIF, France (Tues., Oct. 31, 2006) -- A team of scientists has reconstructed the DNA sequence of a 5-million-year-old retrovirus and shown that it is able to produce infectious particles. The retrovirus--named Phoenix--is the ancestor of a large family of mobile DNA elements, some of which may play a role in cancer. The study, which is the first to generate an infectious retrovirus from a mobile element in the human genome, is considered a breakthrough for the field of retrovirus research. The findings are reported in Genome Research. "Phoenix became frozen in time after it integrated into the human genome about 5 million years ago," explains Dr. Thierry Heidmann, lead investigator on the project. "In our study, we've recovered this ancestral state and shown that it has the potential for infectivity." Retroviruses, whose genomes consist of RNA, can create DNA "copies" of the RNA genomes and incorporate them into the genomes of their hosts.... | |
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