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A schism among American University trustees is widening over the future of suspended President Benjamin Ladner, with some beginning private negotiations with his attorneys for a new contract and others pressing for his ouster. … Complicating an already tangled process, Ladner supporters on the board have divided themselves into three strategy groups, according to two sources familiar with the negotiations. One group reviewed some of the more than $500,000 of the president's spending questioned in an independent report and determined that he should reimburse the university roughly $21,000. Another group is bringing in a tax expert for advice. And a third is putting together terms of a new contract for Ladner that would reduce his compensation while adding controls over his spending and other activities, the sources said.
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The University of North Florida is one of only 20 other schools in the nation that offers a bachelor's degree in American Sign Language/English Interpreting. The new degree program was covered by WTLV Ch. 12.
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ARLINGTON, Va., May 25 /PRNewswire/ -- University of Florida researchers have discovered a way to reduce plaque deposits on the brain that could slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Their findings, which will be highlighted at the upcoming 2005 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists' (AAPS) National Biotechnology Conference in San Francisco, brings renewed hope to the 4.5 million Americans who have Alzheimer's disease.
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John Tofik Karam, assistant professor of the Latin American and Latino studies at DePaul University, was interviewed June 28, 2006, on Latino USA radio. Karam spoke with host Maria Hinojosa about Arab history in Latin America, including a more than 100-year migration history. He ... discussed the Lebanese-Brazilian community and the current Israel-Lebanon conflict. Thousands of Lebanese-Brazilians vacationing in Lebanon, he said, were caught in recent Israeli bombing attacks.
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Prior to his tenure at Utah, Dr. Machen was the provost and vice president for academic affairs and dean of the School of Dentistry at the University of Michigan. He served as an assistant and an associate dean in the School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He held faculty appointments as associate professor and professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He attended Vanderbilt University and received his doctor of dental surgery degree from St. Louis University. He ... has a master's in pediatric dentistry and a doctorate in educational psychology, both from the University of Iowa. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and was president of the American Association of Dental Schools.
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A computer visualization tool developed by Arizona State University researchers can simulate the effects environmental and policy factors have on the future of water availability in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The program, called WaterSim, was scheduled for demonstration Feb. 17 by ASU geography professor Patricia Gober at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco. WaterSim takes a cue from the SimCity video games, said Gober. It allows users to adjust factors such as population growth, climate change, land development, technological innovations and policy decisions and see how they could affect water supply in central Arizona. It was created by researchers at ASU's Decision Center for a Desert City (DCDC), which studies the interplay between climate and water management. News Release_ 2/17/07
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