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| Seeing the Light | |||||
| Scientists see things differently. We can't all be da Vincis, but we can give students a clearer understanding of the world around them. TTU's Oakley STEM Center is correcting common misunderstandings about how things work with a new way to teach physics. FULL STORY (PDF) | |||||
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* Have a heart (PDF) |
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If absence makes the heart grow fonder, then knowledge could make it grow stronger. That might have been the guiding philosophy of Dr. Phyllis Miller, chemistry, '70, after being elected president of the Tennessee Medical Association -- the first woman to hold that position.
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| * In the groove (PDF) | |||||
Alumnus Richard Ruge tackled the world's toughest bicycle race -- the grueling 3,043 mile trek from the Atlantic to the Pacific -- in just seven days, four hours and nine minutes. But who's counting?
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| * Where the enemy fell and one man became a hero (PDF) | |||||
| Eighty-eight years after Cpl. Alvin C. York catapulted to fame for almost single-handedly capturing 132 German troops in the Argonne Forest of France, a team of Tennessee historians believes it has found the site of the historic World War I firefight. | |||||
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