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...Armstrong was about to graduate summa cum laude when his life took an unexpected turn. He had been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship to cover his graduate studies in physics, but his House Master John Conway at Leverett House offered him the chance to travel in Europe for a year on a Sheldon travel fellowship. At the time, Armstrong, who had never ventured further than Washington D.C., decided to take the fellowship...
Fortunately, I don’t have mono. According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), most adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep and one acquires a “sleep debt” without this optimum amount of sleep. Sleep debt continually builds up every time you do not sleep enough, and can only be reversed by sleeping more than your optimum. Drowsiness is a sign that your body has accumulated sleep debt. Health experts have proven that teenagers and young adults need even more sleep than adults. According to the 2003 Gallup Youth Survey, 78 percent...
...thing that is emphasized within NSF [in the PECASE nomination process] is the educational aspect of the research,” said Wakeley, who is writing two textbooks that will incorporate his research. “This award will be extremely helpful in promoting my teaching and research efforts to a wider audience...
...recipients, 20 were nominated by the NSF, an independent federal agency that funds research in a broad spectrum of scientific and engineering fields...
Wakeley, who teaches the graduate seminar Organismic Evolutionary Biology 303, “Theoretical Population Genetics” was one of the 20 PECASE award winners that was nominated by the NSF...