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Albany, NY – THE SCHOLAR SHIP -
Building bridges through international education. If policy-makers
want to share the best of the world, one avenue is through students.
We frequently hear of universities signing agreements to work together.
Others are forming consortiums. Most universities actively seek to
attract students from foreign countries onto their campuses. Now,
joining these trends and taking the idea of global education on another
tack, is The Scholar Ship. The Scholar Ship makes its maiden voyage
in September from Barcelona, Spain, and sails westward to stops that
include: Panama, Equador, Tahiti, Fiji, Australia, China, and Japan.
TBOOK learns more about this exciting new voyage of discovery into
higher education. And the enrollment period is still open.
Glenn Busby reports. (12:43)
**(Attention Program Directors. For more information about The
Scholar Ship, or to get an enrollment application, go to their website: www.thescholarship.com)**
ORIGINS OF LIFE - SCIENCE RESEARCH IN EDUCATION SERIES
TITAN'S ELUSIVE WORLD , Pt. 1 of 2 -
Astronomers have just been surprised again by new findings.
In this story, which reads like science fiction...researchers...using
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope...are discovering that planetary
systems are at least as abundant in twin-star systems, as they are
in those, like our own, with only one sun. Since more that half of
all stars are twins...the finding suggests that the universe is packed
with planets that have two suns.
Closer to home, in our solar system, scientists are still operating the
planned decade long Cassini mission to Saturn and its moons.
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has intrigued scientists for years, in
part, because its size and atmosphere make it like no other moon
we know of. We've reported on the Cassini-Huygens mission
previously here on The Best of Our Knowledge. It still has at least
two more years circling Saturn and making passes of Titan, mapping
that moon's surface. One of the team researchers for the Cassini
mission is with us today. Dr. Caitlin Griffith is a Professor of Planetary Atmospheres, and works in the Lunar & Planetary Laboratory at the
University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Griffith opens our story
on the elusive world of Titan.
Glenn Busby reports. (6:06)
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