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4/1/2008

NANOSCIENCE GETS QUIETER AT U OF O. The University of Oregon has dedicated its new Lorry I. Lokey Laboratories building, an underground science and technology research complex that will house nanoscience research projects supported by 20 ultra-high-precision metrology, probe, lithography, and bio-optics instruments. The bedrock below the building provided unique conditions for architecting a facility with a "quietness factor" that helps shield sensitive instruments (which work in nanoscale) from environmental vibrations. Read more here.

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Mark Frydenberg MASHING IT UP. Mark Frydenberg, a senior lecturer of computer information systems at Bentley College (MA), is using Popfly with first-year students so they may better understand programming in a Web 2.0 world. Popfly is a Microsoft application that makes it easy to create a mashup (a Web 2.0 construct that combines data from multiple sources), making it possible, for example, to include that mashup on a blog or website, or embed it in a Facebook page. Frydenberg says the strategy is helping his students understand software development and deployment concepts at an earlier stage in their college careers than was possible before he employed mashups in his course. Read more here.

Editor's note: Mark Frydenberg will present "A Mashup Experience: Making Data Interactive for the Web 2.0 World" at the Campus Technology 2008 annual summer conference, held in Boston July 28-31.

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