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Today marks the the “first time all four USF campuses will be united by a student-run campus radio station heard on WMNF 88.5 HD-2. The partnership represents a unique collaboration between a college radio station and a community station and allows college music to be heard in the Tampa Bay area for the first time ever. Additionally, it is one of the first college radio stations in the nation to broadcast on hi-definition FM”. Earlier today was open house and the first stream of the station.

I think it’s pretty cool that the campuses can be united in the radio station and I’m looking forward to checking out this radio station.

Check out their website at http://www.bullsradio.org

With 131 chemistry theses available full-text online, the chemistry phase of the Master’s Thesis Project is now finished. The chemistry theses are searchable by content, using “Thesis Keyword,” under Advanced Keyword Search in Ignacio.” The image below is from Youling Zou’s 2005 thesis, Attempted identification and characterization of metallothionein in Dictyostelium discoideum, and depicts the life cycle of Dictyostelium discoideum, also known as “slime mold.”

Life cycle of Dictyostelium discoideum

Zou’s description of the diagram is as follows:

“The cells grow as single amoebae feeding on bacteria. When food is exhausted, the amoebae aggregate and the multicellular organism develops through distinct stages into stalk (blue) and spore (red) cells. Spore cells germinate in the presence of food and amoebae emerge again” (Zou 52).

For further reading, check out the Wikipedia article on Dictyostelium discoideum.

Ever needed to ask a question to a bunch of USF students? Ever just wanted to see what some USF students are talking about? Head over to the two USF Livejournal Communities then where posts are frequent and members are plentiful.

http://community.livejournal.com/u_southflorida/

There’s also this community though it is updated less: http://community.livejournal.com/usf_bulls/

Used correctly these communities could be a good way to sell your things, get some insight on a class, post about an event etc.

In 6 Lessons One Campus Learned About E-Textbooks the Chronicle of Higher Education provides an intriguing report on Northwest Missouri State University’s experiment with e-textbooks. In a move to cut costs of the campus textbook-rental program, the university provided 240 students with textbooks on Sony Reader devices. Frustrated with the software and format, the next semester they switched to PC-based e-book software. The results were mixed. About 17 percent of the students said the e-format helped them study more; twice as many said they studied less. But they seemed to like the format better after they had a chance to get used to it. “The more I have used it, the more I have discovered what I can do with it.” wrote one student.

In the fall, six colleges will be testing a new Kindle version designed with textbooks in mind. Northwest Missouri’s president thinks e-textbooks will be common on campuses in 5 years. What say you?

Earlier today as I read back through my twitter friends updates I found an interesting post pointing to a scholarship at WikiAnswers.com, $20,000 up for grabs by 20 people by $1,000. How do you get the money? Answer 50 questions on WikiAnswers and submit an application. Judges will review your 50 answers for quality and accuracy. The scholarship is intended for students planning be enrolled as undergraduate students in the 2009-2010 school year. Hurry though, the deadline to turn in your application (and have 50 answers ready to supply is March 31, 2009.

Link: http://wiki.answers.com/static/scholarship_program.html