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		<title>Messenger Spacecraft Reveals New Facts About Mercury.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times (6/17, A23, Chang, Subscription Publication) reports new results from the Messenger spacecraft orbiting around Mercury &#8220;is painting a more vibrant picture of the solar system&#8217;s innermost planet.&#8221; Scientists, reporting the finds at a NASA news conference, explained how the planet has unique features in the solar system &#8220;and its mineralogy is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Academy of Engineering&#8217;s second Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From December 13 through December 16, 53 early-career engineering educators will convene in Irvine, California for the second Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium. The selected educators, from academe, government labs, and industry, had to be nominated by either a senior engineer or a dean. A complete list of attendees, as well as their affiliate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA Science &amp; Engineering Festival: October 10-October 24, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival will be kicking off the start of two week&#8217;s worth of events, exhibits, contests and more on October 10. The festival, held in Washington DC on and around the National Mall, is completely free to all who wish to attend.  According to the festival&#8217;s official website, their mission [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.asee.org/engineeringand/usa-science-engineering-festival-october-10-october-24-2010/</link>
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		<title>Turning Proteins Into Glass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Duke University researchers developed a glassification technique that could bring about protein-based drugs that are cheaper to make and easier to deliver than current techniques which render proteins into freeze dried powders to preserve them. Duke engineer and chemist David Needham describes this glassification process as &#8220;molecular water surgery&#8221; because it removes virtually all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water for People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting clean water is a huge issue for billions of people each day. This is a well known issue that engineers and others have attempted to address. While much has been done, much is left to be done. Such a large and critical issue requires many people to help implement and maintain solutions. Related: Water, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Lab Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National Lab Day Promotional Video Today, scientists, engineers, technologists, and mathematicians from across the country will team up with K–12 schools for project-based learning experiences for National Lab Day. National Lab Day is a long-term program/collaboration between STEM professionals and K–12 classroom teachers. A coalition of educators, science and engineering associations, philanthropies and other organizations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA Science and Engineering Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo courtesy of the USA Science and Engineering Festival In October, Washington DC will be host to the USA Science and Engineering Festival, the country’s first national science festival. “The Festival promises to be the ultimate multi-cultural, multi-generational and multi-disciplinary celebration of science in the United States.” Two of the fifteen days of the Festival [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Rebuilding a Real Economy&#8230;&#8221; Forum Summary Published</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Americans feel prosperous based largely on the performance of three key economic indicators, said Ali Velshi, chief business correspondent for CNN. Are the values of their homes rising faster than inflation? Are their investments, whether for their children&#8217;s education or their own retirement, growing? And do their incomes equal or exceed increases in the cost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.asee.org/engineeringand/%e2%80%9crebuilding-a-real-economy-forum-summary-published/</link>
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		<title>Jeanine Plummer, Impacting Tomorrow&#8217;s Engineers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo courtesy of WPI&#8217;s Faculty Directory &#8220;Jeanine Plummer has demonstrated a remarkable passion for teaching and mentoring students since she came to WPI {Worcester Polytechnic Institute}. It is particularly fitting that her remarkable efforts are in environmental engineering. She and her students are literally engineering a better future for the planet and its people, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.asee.org/engineeringand/jeanine-plummer-impacting-tomorrows-engineers/</link>
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		<title>Ada Lovelace Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo courtesy of Wikipedia March 24th is celebrated as Ada Lovelace Day, a day dedicated to celebrate the achievements of women in science and technology. On this day, people across the world have pledged to blog about their favorite female scientist. Agusta Ada King, or simply Ada Lovelace, is credited as writing the first computer [...]]]></description>
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