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A team of eight undergraduates in civil and environmental engineering won the award for fastest construction and took second place overall in the regional Steel Bridge Competition held March 16-17 at the University of Connecticut.

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1. Rapid Sea Level Rise in the Arctic Ocean May Alter Views of Human Migration
   10-11-2006 · Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
   Scientists have found new evidence that the Bering Strait near Alaska flooded into the Arctic Ocean about 11,000 years ago, about 1,000 years earlier than widely believed, closing off the land bridge thought to be the major route for human migration from Asia to the Americas.
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2. Cuba at a crossroads: Can the US hospitality industry help shape a 'new Cuba'?
   10-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
   An analysis of the potential relationship of Cuba and United States tourism interests by Sergei Khrushchev and two co-authors, published in the November 2007 issue of the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, suggests that the US hospitality industry can begin to help bridge the economic gap between Cuba and the United States.
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3. Effective preventive drug against bird flu developed in the mouse
   10-12-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Researchers have developed what could be used as an effective preventive drug against bird flu. In a study published today in the open access journal Respiratory Research, researchers have created antibodies against the avian flu virus H5N1 that work in mice both as a preventive drug, or prophylaxis, when administered before infection, and as a treatment for bird flu.
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4. In case of pandemic flu majority of Americans willing to make major changes in their lives
   10-26-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Harvard survey shows majority of Americans would make major changes in life in case of pandemic flu but would face critical work-related problems.
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5. Mental health problems threaten the knowledge economy
   11-03-2006 · EurekAlert!
   In a knowledge economy, people work increasingly with their heads instead of their hands. This makes mental health a crucial component of economic growth. However, the knowledge economy leads to high levels of stress and mental health problems. By damaging its "mental capital" the knowledge economy undermines the basis for its own success. These are some of the conclusions of the report "Mental Capital" by Rifka Weehuizen, researcher at UNU-MERIT in the Netherlands.
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6. Work may aid study of collagen ailments
   11-14-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   An MIT researcher's mathematical model explains for the first time the distinctive structure of collagen, a material key to healthy human bone, muscles and other tissues. The new model shows collagen's structure from the atomic to the tissue scale.
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7. Working parents concerned about after-school care, companies losing billions in job productivity
   12-05-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Millions of working fathers and mothers are less productive at work due to concerns about what their children are doing in the after-school hours, according to a new study released today by Catalyst, the leading nonprofit research and advisory organization working to build inclusive environments and expand opportunities for women at work. The report, entitled After-School Worries: Tough on Parents, Bad for Business, was conducted in cooperation with the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University.
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8. Software, evolution and micro-inversions -- improving the building of phylogenetic trees
   12-18-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Researchers will reconstruct the process of evolution, determine relationships between species and build phylogenetic trees with greater accuracy thanks to new method for identifying extremely short strings of inverted nucleotides called "micro-inversions." This new work from researchers at UC-San Diego and Brown University will appear in the online version of PNAS on Dec. 18, 2006.
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9. Longer work hours may warm climate
   01-06-2007 · Science News Online
   U.S. workers put in more hours than most other workers around the world, and one consequence is dramatically higher energy and environmental costs per employee.
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10. Human circadian clocks couple to local sun time
    01-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
    By assessing the daily activity patterns of thousands of individuals living in different geographical locations, researchers have found evidence that the human circadian clock becomes coupled to so-called local sun time despite the fact that people live and work according to a common "social time" that is determined by time zones. The work also indicated that city dwellers appear to experience a relatively decreased influence of local sun time relative to those living in more sparsely populated areas.
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