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Classes will begin at the new Arapahoe Community College CastleRock Campus Oct. 10 at 4700 Castleton Way in Castle Rock.The Castle Rock Campus will be offering courses in fivecategories: associate of arts and associate of science transferprograms, career and technical education, workforce training,concurrent enrollment for high school students, and communityeducation. The Castle Rock Campus will    .. more …

When Christina Downey, Indiana University Kokomo assistantprofessor of psychology, assigned her General Psychology studentsto meet with and interview local veterans, she knew it was going tobe a rewarding experience. She just didn’t realize howrewarding.This summer, the Indiana Disabled American Veterans presentedDowney with the 2011 Community Service Award – one of its highesthonors for civilians    .. more …

In addition to an electrical program already scheduled to begin later this year, Salina Area Technical College will now offer industrial maintenance and a licensed practical nursing program.    .. more …

( University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management ) Finding it hard to get over a failed love interest? Just can’t get details of a bad financial move out of your head?A new study from the Rotman    .. more …

( University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management ) Fast food has become an industry that has widespread influence on what and how we eat. The original idea behind fast food is to increase    .. more …

( Association for Psychological Science ) Bonobos and chimpanzees that had been reared in socio-linguistically rich environments (i.e., lots of opportunities for complex communicative interactions with humans) performed significantly better in the pointing, vocalizing and pointing-and-vocalizing conditions of an object-choice task than did chimpanzees that had been reared in standard laboratory    .. more …

( Association for Psychological Science ) According to new findings, owning a video-game system may hamper academic development in some children. Boys who received a video-game system immediately had significantly lower reading and writing scores after four months than boys receiving a video-game system at the end of the experiment. Further analysis revealed that the time spent playing video …    .. more …

Is a happy life filled with trivial chatter or reflective and profound conversations? In a new study, the happiest participants had twice as many substantive conversations and one third as much small talk as the unhappiest participants. In addition, the happiest participants spent 25 percent less time alone and 70 percent more time talking than the unhappiest participants, suggesting that the …    .. more …

There is something about the rhythm and texture of early cinema that has a very different “feel” than modern films. But it’s hard to put one’s finger on just what that something is. New research may    .. more …

KINGSPORT — It’s not exactly buy one get one free, but students taking Carson-Newman College classes at the Kingsport Center for Higher Education this spring can save 33 percent to 50 percent on    .. more …