by Gabrielle Levy | Jul 25, 2011 | Education, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON—When the shuttle Atlantis touched down at the Kennedy Space Center Thursday, more than three decades of NASA’s space shuttle program ended. ram. . But the programs that introduced students to the space shuttle aren’t planning on going anywhere. For many...
by Matt Yurus & Noor Wazwaz | Jul 20, 2011 | Business & Tech, Politics, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON–A bipartisan coalition of U.S. politicians urged that the auction of wireless spectrum be used to, in part, fund a public safety wireless network for first responders, which has been stalled since the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks....
by Jacqueline Klimas | Jul 20, 2011 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama announced a plan Wednesday that involves some of the country’s largest food retailers increasing their presence in underserved communities. Over the next five years, Supervalu will build 250 new stores, Walmart will...
by Jacqueline Klimas | Jul 20, 2011 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Pink eye from a classmate. A sprained wrist from after-school basketball. Missing school because of a stomach bug. Children may have difficulty seeing a doctor in a timely matter for these and other common illnesses and injuries if funding for the...
by Kyle Jahner | Jul 19, 2011 | Science + Technology
In 2009 Becky Jones was a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill nursing graduate in the midst of recession. She said that even having graduated from the fourth-ranked nursing school in the country didn’t seem to help at first. “Even we were sweating for jobs,”...
by Kyle Jahner | Jul 19, 2011 | Science + Technology
Working as a nurse in one of the busiest cardiac catheterization labs in the country for the last year and a half, Courtney Nahigian spent a lot of time thinking about the preventability of many of her patients’ heart problems. Kyle Jahner/MEDILL NEWS SERVICEKate...
