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University of Calgary has made the grade as one of Canada's leading research universities. More than 28,200 students are enrolled in the 4-year public university, which earns about $282 million of its revenues from sponsored research, primarily in the field of medicine. The full-time equivalent teaching and research faculty numbers more than 2,200; the university has more than 50 departments and programs, as well as 30 research institutes. Its fields of study include education, engineering, humanities, management (Haskayne School of Business), medicine, and social work. It is started a veterinary medicine program in 2006. Founded as a branch of the University of Alberta in 1945, it became independent in 1966.
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AMS's partnership with the University of Calgary began in 1991 with support for the History of Medicine Program. In 1995, with contributions from AMS and the Alberta Medical Foundation, Dr. Cruse was appointed Hannah Affiliate Professor in the History of Medicine. At that time AMS undertook to contribute towards the endowment of a position in the history of medicine. AMS ... provides a separate grant for the annual History of Medicine Days.
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Researchers at Amsterdam University have developed software to monitor the mood swings throughout the blogosphere and identify the events that prompted the shift, with the ultimate goal of developing new approaches to search and analyze the Web. The university's Gilad Mishne said that the researchers began collecting information from the mood labels attached to postings on LiveJournal. Moodviews keeps track of the roughly 150,000 new LiveJournal posts that are created each day with a mood label (out of a total 250,000 daily postings) and records them in a graph to track shifts in the emotional state of the blogging community. A companion program called Moodsignals attempts to correlate these fluctuations with events happening in the real world by scanning for less frequently used words in blog posts when a spike in label usage is identified. Moodsignals found that the increase in usage of labels to convey excitement in July 2005 was related to the publication of the new Harry Potter book by recognizing the unusually common appearance of words such as 'Harry,' 'Potter,' 'shop,' and 'book.' The long-term goal of the research is to develop an emotionally-cognizant search engine for release later this year to measure bloggers' attitudes toward particular words, yielding a raft of data that is not innately machine-codable, despite the common disparity between bloggers' online personas and who they are in real life. The research could have more immediately commercial applications ... as an investment banker has expressed interest in the software as a vehicle for measuring consumer confidence in various products.
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The Faculty of Kinesiology is a major contributor to the research profile of the University of Calgary. The Faculty complex is based on the philosophy of integrating research, primary and rehabilitative medical care and recreational/athletic participation. The integrated facilities include some of the finest research laboratories, sports medicine research and clinical space and athletic/recreational training facilities found anywhere in the world. Research is supported by extensive library holdings, a major teaching hospital and medical research laboratories, the National Sport Centre (Calgary) and most importantly a research-active, internationally regarded faculty. The faculty actively collaborate with colleagues in the Faculties of Engineering, Medicine, Education, Social Sciences and Science to enhance their abilities to address fundamental research problems.
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The University of Calgary confers bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in the liberal arts and the sciences. It ... offers degrees in a broad range of professional fields, including law and medicine. The university is a major research center, housing more than 20 research institutes. These include the Arctic Institute of North America, established in 1945 by the Canadian government; the Canadian/Communications Research Group; and the Knowledge Science Institute. Alumni of the university include Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk and James Gosling, one of the creators of the computer software program Java.
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In July 2007, scientists from Arizona State University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine discovered a new method aimed at safely and effectively killing viruses. By using an intense pulse of visible light, the researchers claim that mechanical vibrations rock the virus shell (capsid) causing irreversible damage to its reproduction and ending in the virus’ disintegration. Since UV irradiation is known to cause viral mutations and damage to the DNA of surrounding, healthy cells, the use of visible light is turning heads in the fight against infectious diseases.
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