The Importance of Research

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Study Implications The purpose of research is to inform action.  Thus, your study should seek to contextualize its findings within the larger body of research.  Research must always be high quality in order to produce knowledge that is applicable outside of the research setting with implications that go beyond the group that has participated in [...]

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Problem-Solving

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It has been an interesting day in at school setting up the classroom. With all of the greatest intentions and plans in the world, all I really achieved was a wonderful problem-solving adventure with my Activ-Board! I have always been a rather big lateral thinker and tend to thoroughly enjoy riddles, problems, word puzzles, crosswords, [...]

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Predictions Of New Year’s

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I did this last year, and looking back, I was right about a lot of things. The Dow finished a little higher than I thought, but the Yankees did win the World Series like I predicted (and the Red Wings made the finals.) And a lot of my other economic predictions came true in one [...]

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What are Informational Interviews?

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What exactly is an informational interview?  An informational interview is where you interview a professional in your industry about their career, industry, or position.  Informational interviews are especially useful in situations where there isn’t an intern position posted in your desired company, if you’re trying to learn more about a company, or wanting to expand [...]

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Harnessing The Power To Succeed

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Inspiration is the first step towards greatness. The next step is learning how to harness that inspiring power in order to succeed. How do you capture the essence that is inspiration and turn it into a tool for success? First of all, you must really want to succeed, without that desire, the inspiration will die [...]

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Nature versus The Key Debates

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The nature versus nurture debate has been raging for decades, with researchers arguing about the roles genetics and the environment play in human development. Most researchers agree that many aspects of our personalities are influenced by a combination of genetics (nature) and our outside environment (nurture). However, there are some nature versus nurture issues that [...]

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Smoking may erode your problem-solving capacity

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Smoking may be a risk factor for dementia among the elderly that erodes their problem-solving capacity and self-control and makes them see things which are not there. Severine Sabia, University College London and colleagues based their findings on the Whitehall II cohort study, involving British Civil Service employees. They examined the link between smoking and [...]

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Award nomination period open

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The nomination period has opened for Mississippi State’s 2012 Research Awards and the Ralph E. Powe Research Excellence Award. Employees and students are encouraged to submit nominations for this year’s program. Research Awards recognize individuals who contribute significantly to the university’s mission of research, as well as honor and reward students, faculty and staff for [...]

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Best Actor and Best Picture

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The Academy Award nominations are set to be announced Tuesday morning, and undaunted by our so-so performance at the Golden Globes (we called eight of the 14 movie winners), we’re right back with a new set of stone-cold locks, otherwise known as guesses. So, the nominees will (probably) be… SNUB ALERT: Angelina Jolie, no; Christian [...]

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