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This happens all too frequently. I recently wrote a short post about something that was apparently happening with YouTube and soon after received an angry email from a PR person at the company first scolding me for not contacting Google PR first and then demanding that I insert some PR babble paragraph that said nothing that addressed the key questions raised in the post in “response.” This made no sense to me. If I got something factually wrong, I have no problem having someone point out what was in error, but demanding that I first contact them and then include a meaningless statement is ridiculous. If the PR folks have something to say, they’re free to take it up in our comments.

It seems that Michael Arrington, over at TechCrunch, has run into something similar (and I’m sure it happens to him all the time as well). After briefly (really, in passing) mentioning the infamous Video Professor in his post on marketing scams, the company first tried to get him to post their response, and when he told them no (in less friendly words), the company instead complained to the Washington Post, who syndicated the same TechCrunch post (as it has done for a while with TechCrunch posts). The real issue, of course, is that The Video Professor didn’t like getting called out on its marketing practices. The company is notoriously sensitive over its reputation and has gone legal on people multiple times in the past. At issue is the fact that people are told they’re getting a “free” product, but don’t realize they’re really signing up to pay a lot of money if they don’t follow the fine print carefully. Arrington called this a “scam” and plenty of folks agree. The Video Professor did not agree, but if that’s the case, it has every right to clarify its own marketing material, rather than going after those who call them out on their less-than-clear practices.

But the bigger issue with these types of situations is that companies need to realize that just because someone doesn’t like the way you’re acting and states an opinion, on that subject, it doesn’t mean that they first need to contact you or get a meaningless PR quote from you. You have a right to respond, but on your own website — or within open comments if they’re available (as they are on this site). For too long, companies have hid behind bland PR statements and the willingness of the press to “balance” stories with an accusation and a denial, but no real effort to get to the bottom of things. That’s changing, and it’s time that companies and their PR reps caught up to what’s happening.

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KODE ICD-10 : A63.0 : Genital warts ( Condyloma acuminata )

Condyloma acuminata (kondiloma akuminata, genital warts, kutil kelamin) atau lebih dikenal dengan istilah penyakit Jengger Ayam, mungkin karena bentuknya yang mirip Jengger Ayam pada condyloma yang luas, adalah kelainan kulit berbentuk kutil dengan permukaan berlekuk-lekuk mirip jengger ayam, yang disebabkan oleh Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) tipe tertentu. Jika pembaca pernah melihat kutil (bahasa jawa: caplak, veruka), seperti itulah bentuk condyloma acuminata. Hanya saja kutil tersebut letaknya di kelamin dan sekitarnya. Bahkan dapat menyebar ke anus (condyloma anogenital). Gambar 1: silahkan klik untuk melihat gambar condyloma acuminata di penis.

Identifikasi HPV untuk pertama kali pada tahun 1907. Kini, lebih 120 jenis subtype HPV telah dapat diidentifikasi. Tapi tidak semua type dapat menyebabkan condyloma acuminata. Sekitar 90 % condyloma acuminata diyakini berhubungan dengan type 6 dan type 11. Belasan tye lainnya dijumpai pula pada penderita condyloma acuminata. Para ahli menengarai HPV type tertentu memiliki kecenderungan onkogenk (potensial menjadi kanker), terutama type 16 dan type 18.

Penyebaran Penyakit

Penyebaran condyloma acuminata bersifat kosmopolitan, artinya merambah ke seluruh belahan dunia tanpa memandang ras.

Berdasarkan jenis kelamin, frekuensi kejadian antara pria dan wanita sama besarnya. Sedangkan berdasarkan kelompok umur disebutkan bahwa condyloma acuminata lebih sering dijumpai pada usia dewasa muda dan pada usia tigapuluhan. Hal ini dikaitkan dengan peningkatan aktifitas seksual. ( Gambar 2: silahkan klik untuk melihat condyloma acuminata di vagina )

Penularan dan Perjalanan Penyakit

HPV ditularkan melalui kontak langsung, dari mulut ke organ kelamin, dari jari ke organ kelamin dan sebaliknya, serta melalui hubungan seksual, sehingga condyloma acuminata dikelompokkan sebagai Penyakit Menular Seksual (PMS, STD).

Bagaimana mengenalinya ?

Masa inkubasi condyloma acuminata berkisar antara 3 minggu sampai 8 bulan dengan rata-rata 3 bulan.

Condyloma acuminata relatif mudah dikenali karena bentuknya yang khas, mirip jengger ayam, yakni kutil dengan permukaan berlekuk-lekuk (berjonjot-jonjot) di organ kelamin dan sekitarnya. Kutil-kutil kecil dapat bergabung membentuk kelompok yang lebih besar mirip dengan bunga kol.

Pada umumnya condyloma acuminata berwarna kemerahan, coklat kemerahan, keabu-abuan hingga ada yang berwarna kehitaman.

Jika mengalami infeksi sekunder (oleh garukan, gesekan atau sebab lain), condyloma acuminata berubah warna menjadi kehitaman, mudah berdarah dan berbau tak sedap.

Pada pria, tempat yang paling disukai (predileksi) Condyloma acuminata diantaranya: gland penis (topi baja si cucakrowo), lekukan antara kepala dan batang penis (sulkus koronarius), jaringan tipis di bawah ujung saluran kencing (frenulum), batang penis dan adakalanya di sekitar anus.

Sedangkan pada wanita, tempat yang paling digemari si Condyloma acuminata diantaranya: labium (bibir vagina), vagina dan dapat juga mengenai serviks.

Seorang dokter dapat mendiagnosa condyloma acuminata berdasarkan gejala klinis, yakni dengan melihat bentuk dan predileksi kutil (jonjot-jonjot) pada area kelamin.

Jika meragukan, maka akan dilakukan test sederhana menggunakan asam asetat 5% yang dioleskan di permukaan kutil selama 3-5 menit. Pada condyloma acuminata maka kutil akan berubah warna menjadi putih.

PENGOBATAN

Hingga kini belum ada obat yang benar-benar memuaskan untuk menghilangkan HPV. Pengobatan yang lazim dilakukan adalah untuk menghilangkan condyloma acuminata, meliputi:

• Kemoterapi, yakni pengobatan menggunakan Tinctura Podofilin 25 %, Podofilotoksin 0,5 %, Asam Trikloroasetat 25 % – 50 % dan Krim 5-flurourasil 1-5 %. Pada wanita hamil digunakan obat Asam Trikloroasetat 25-50 % seminggu sekali hingga condyloma acuminata bersih.
• Tindakan Pembedahan, meliputi: Bedah scalpel (menggunakan pisau bedah), Bedah Listrik (elektrokauterisasi) dan Bedah Beku menggunakan Nitrogen cair. Bedah beku merupakan salah satu pilihan untuk pengobatan condyloma acuminata pada wanita hamil selain menggunakan Asam Trikloroasetat.
• Laser karbondioksida. Metode ini lebih sedikit meninggalkan jaringan parut ketimbang Bedah Listrik.
• Interferon. Dikenal 2 bentuk interferon, yakni interferon alfa (berbentuk suntikan dan krim) yang diberikan 3 kali seminggu selama 6 minggu dan interferon beta (suntikan) yang diberikan selama 10 hari.
• Imunoterapi. Metode pengobatan imunoterapi digunakan pada penderita dengan condyloma acuminata yang luas dan resisten (kebal) terhadap pengobatan lain.

Meski mudah kambuh (residif), condyloma acuminata memiliki prognosis yang baik. Artinya tidak berbahaya.

VAKSINASI

Saat ini telah digunakan vaksin Papilloma virus (Gardasil) yang ditujukan untuk pencegahan kanker serviks. Adapun untuk pencegahan terhadap condyloma acuminata oleh HPV type 6 dan type 11, vaksin Gardasil diberikan pada anak laki-laki, pria dewasa dan wanita usia 9-26 tahun.

PENCEGAHAN HPV

Secara garis besar, upaya pencegahan terhadap penularan HPV dapat dilakukan dengan:

• Menjaga hygiene organ genital.
• Menghindari gonta-ganti pasangan.
• Penggunaan pengaman (kondom) ditengarai tidak menjamin terjadinya penularan. Namun demikian tetap dianjurkan menggunakan pengaman (kondom) jika memiliki pasangan dengan riwayat condyloma acuminata.
• Dianjurkan untuk tidak berhubungan intim selama masa pengobatan hingga pengobatan selesai dan benar-benar dinyatakan aman oleh dokter yang merawat.

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For every loan approved, three more loans are deteriorating, according to Lender Processing Services’ November monitor report.

LPS provides mortgage performance data and analytics. Its November report provides a summary of mortgage industry performance based on data collected through October.

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So often, the tag of “Special Edition” comes with a not-so-special price increase. Fortunately for Subaru fans, the newly-introduced Impreza WRX STI Special Edition is actually less costly. At $32,995 it’s actually $2,000 cheaper than the base price of the standard STI.

Of course, buyers of the Special Edition will have to go without certain features, namely HID headlights, premium audio, and automatic climate control. It’s not just a de-contented package, though, as the car also comes with the suspension from the spec C model in Japan that includes a thicker rear stabilizer bar, stiffer bushings and stiffer springs.

Initially, each car will be painted in Aspen white with the charcoal-colored 14-spoke wheels also cribbed from the spec C. Just 125 examples will be built in the first quarter of 2010, although Subaru says that more will be available later in the year in additional colors. High-res gallery below, pricing press release available after the jump.

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New York, New York | Inspired Inventions

When a young man in Manhattan writes a letter to his girl in Brooklyn, the love letter gets blown to her through a pneumatic tube—pfft—just like that. — E.B. White, “Here Is New York”

The Pneumatic Tube system was once an essential part of New York life. Cylinders containing letters, packages, or at least in one case a live cat, were shot through tubes by air pressure, at a rate of 35 mph, and these tubes ran all over New York from Harlem to the Lower East Side, from Canal Street to the Planetarium, even from Manhattan to Brooklyn itself.

Put into operation in New York in 1897 by the American Pneumatic Service Company the 27 mile system connected 22 post offices in Manhattan, and the the General Post office in Brooklyn. The pipes ran between 4 to 12 feet underground, and in some places the tubes ran along the subway tunnels of the 4, 5 and 6 lines. At the height of its operation it carried around 95,000 letters a day, or 1/3 of all the mail being routed through out New York city.

“I still remember those canisters popping out of the tube,”They were spaced one every minute or so, and when they came out, they were a little warm with a slight slick of oil.” said Nathan Halpern, a veteran postal worker in “Underground Mail Road.”

On at least one occasion the tubes carried not just mail, but a live cat. “The postal workers seemed as fascinated by the nearly magical tube system as everyone else and, at least once, even routed a luckless cat through the city’s tubes.‘He was a little dizzy, but he made it.” – Joseph H. Cohen, historian for the New York City Post Office.

But the New York pneumatic tube system wasn’t to last forever. The tubes were expensive to maintain and were limited in the amount of mail they could deliver. At the turn of the century a new technological marvel took over the spotlight, the motor-wagon. Though most cities stopped using their pneumatic tubes around 1918, New York City, “because of the high population density and a great amount of lobbying from contractors” used its tube system until Dec. 1, 1953, “when it was suspended pending a review.”

The pneumatic tube that ran over the Brooklyn bridge was removed during a renovation in the 1950’s, and the rest of tunnels throughout the city, (though still there, they were never dug up) fell silent. Even the buildings that housed there own mini pneumatic systems such as the Waldorf Astoria dismantled them in favor of other methods of communication.

But there is one, wonderful New York location, where the pneumatic tubes have proven quicker and more nimble then their modern day electronic substitutes; the stacks of the NY Humanities and Social Sciences library. When one hands their paper slip to the librarian, they slip it into a small pneumatic tube and send it flying down past seven floors of books deep underground. The request is received, the book located, and it is sent up on an ever turning oval ferris wheel of books.

So successful is the old pneumatic system in the NY Humanities and Social Sciences library that they installed a new system in the Science, Industry and Business Library on Madison Avenue in 1998.

Interestingly, the disused NY pneumatic tubes may end up serving a purpose once again, one remarkably similar to what they once did, carrying information. Randolph Stark, an entrepreneur, plans to run fiber optic cables though them.”If even a small amount of these tubes still exist, it’s a pretty valuable piece of property,” he said.

Take a look at these cookies. Have you ever seen a more modest, unassuming cookie? Each one is slightly misshapen and a little crooked. Well, who cares what they look like. They are wafer-thin explosions of taste and spice and warmth, and as soon as the weather gets cold, they are what we bake.

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When Winston Churchill, in the 1932 essay “Fifty Years Hence,” mused that “we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium,” he may have been more prescient than credited. Alexis Carrel had already been keeping a cultured chunk of chicken heart “alive” in a Pyrex flask for the past twenty years by feeding it nutrients (though Carrel was only interested in whether cell death was inevitable, not whether meat could be grown in a lab for human consumption). Sci-fi author Frederik Pohl was one man who took the idea of in vitro meat seriously enough to write about it – in the novel The Space Merchants, where cultured meat is the primary source of protein. That was science fiction, sure, but most good sci-fi is borne of the author’s honest opinion of what the future might hold and it’s usually inspired by the scientific advancements of the day. And sometimes, science fiction comes true. Like this time.

Dutch scientists were able to grow pork in a lab test tube. They extracted myoblast cells from the muscle of a living pig, incubated them in a piglet fetus-blood-nutrient solution, and got “a soggy form of pork.” No one’s tried the “pork” due to lab rules, but it’s derived from the same myoblast cells that generate muscle in response to tissue damage in an actual animal – ideally, this would taste exactly like pork muscle meat. They’ve even got plans to “exercise” the tissue, which could conceivably do away with the sogginess and provide a meatier chewing experience.

The Dutch scientists weren’t the first; four years ago, a research paper detailed plans to engineer in vitro meat on a massive, industrial scale, and others have been trying in vain for years to produce a decent lab-grown steak. The soggy pork is perhaps the closest they’ve gotten. Every researcher runs into a couple basic issues. First, there are generally two accepted methods for growing in vitro meat: the generation of either loose muscle cells or structured, “real” muscle. The latter is the ideal path, because it might make cohesive cuts of meat possible, but it’s also the most challenging. Real muscle growth depends on perfusion, or the delivery of arterial blood bearing nutrients to biological tissue, and a similar system might be required for “real” lab grown muscle. Until then, only thin sheets of muscle meat have been grown. These can be compressed into meat sheets or ground up, but a three-dimensional, juicy rare steak is still far off. The easy way out is to grow loose muscle cells, but unless you’re prepared for a future of unrecognizable meat products, you might want to wait for that soggy pork to firm up.

Where do I stand on the idea of in vitro meat? Well, I’m more than a little skeptical as you might imagine. Natural animal reproduction already does a pretty good job at growing meat, and major deviations from the natural order have a spotty track record. Big Pharma, for example, represents one big attempt after another to replace the natural order. It gets things right from time to time – I won’t argue against that – but it also creates unnecessary products that purport to protect patients from conditions that could otherwise be handled through lifestyle modifications. Both Big Pharma and the in vitro meat researchers are trying to understand incredibly complicated physiological processes that took millions of years to develop naturally. The vast interplay between hormones, nutrients, and environmental factors (including exercise, diet, and drugs) in the human body is difficult – if not impossible – to parse, but that’s exactly what medicine tries to do. When you take a drug, you’ve got to hope pharmacists took every possible factor into account. They can make educated guesses, and they’re often right, but not always. Statins, as prescribed, do a helluva job at lowering cholesterol (a pretty pointless gesture, but they do what they say they’ll do – note that they don’t promise reductions in actual heart disease), but they do so by interrupting the same passages used by other important bodily players – like CoQ10. It’s a complex thing, the human body.

Animal bodies are no different, and a steak isn’t just a matrix of muscle cells. It’s got fat (several kinds!), blood vessels, collagen, and different textures (which depend on the activity level of the animal; the lab meat cubes better have access to treadmills). Nutrients have to be shuttled in and waste out (grass-fed in vitro meat?). If you want a real steak with a bloody center, how is that achieved in the lab? Blood pockets? What’s the blood made of? What if I want a cowboy ribeye, bone-in – are they trying to grow bone, too? And I worry about the saturated fat content. One scientist mentioned replacing the Omega 6s with Omega 3s, which sounds promising, but I can only think the next step is to replace the saturated fats with even more Omega 3s (or, shudder, canola oil). Will it even taste the same?

At the same time, I remain open-minded. If they’re able to grow meat with perfect Omega 3/Omega 6 ratios, no hormones, no antibiotics, on a “diet” that recreates real grassy pasture, that tastes like meat, has the same texture as meat, the same saturated fat content as meat – I might be convinced to give it a shot. And if it’s cheaper than grass-fed meat, easier on the environment than industrial farming, and easy to produce on a mass scale without sacrificing quality, why wouldn’t I support it? Remember: I don’t glorify the ancestral, natural ways because they are ancestral and natural. It’s just that paying attention to evolution and being wary of modern “improvements” has paid off. The Primal Blueprint works. If in vitro meat works (and it’s proven beyond a doubt that it’s identical to real meat – a tall order, I grant you), why shouldn’t we give it a shot?

Still, I can’t help but doubt it. It’s not so much that I’m wary of processed food, because perfect in vitro meat that recreates actual meat is theoretically different than HFCS, boxed goods, and industrial vegetable oils, and it has the potential to revolutionize food (you mean I get to eat a black panther steak? Sign me up!); it’s that following the natural order has been so good to me. I eat according to human evolution, I exercise in accordance with my body’s design, and things have generally worked out well. Eating real steak raised the way it was intended to live has also worked out okay. I’ll keep my real meat for now and watch warily from the sidelines, curious and always skeptical.

Both Pohl and Churchill were undoubtedly inspired by Carrel’s experiment, but the prevailing public opinion was that the decades-old chicken heart was an abomination. It still lived when Carrel died, 28 years later, but the experiment was soon halted. If it weren’t for the negative public reaction, that chicken heart might still be pumping today. I suspect the initial public reaction to in vitro meat would be pretty similar, but what do you think?

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There’s been plenty of ink spilled, so to speak, over the whole Google versus newspapers debacle yet, for the most part, the search giant has been calm and unperturbed satisfied to issue out the occasional “you can always de-index” argument. Not anymore, it seems, as Google is on an all-out offensive, though usually with a peace offering at the same time, the latest of which comes straight from the man up top, Eric Schimidt. The CEO is making a case for the company with an op-ed in the News Corp.-owned Wall Street Journal of all places.

He doesn’t really come out with anything new in the lengthy piece but he does go through all of the main arguments the company has been making for a while, Google doesn’t really make that much from news content, it’s not “stealing” the content and is actually sending news sites a lot of free traffic.

“With dwindling revenue and diminished resources, frustrated newspaper executives are looking for someone to blame. Much of their anger is currently directed at Google, whom many executives view as getting all the benefit from the business relationship without giving much in return. The facts, I believe, suggest otherwise,” Schmidt starts off by acknowledging the problems the industry is facing.

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Surprisingly, Ford decided to slip out U.S. pricing for its hotly anticipated 2011 Fiesta with no fanfare at all. No major announcements at the LA Auto Show, no wordy press releases… nothing. But, if you head on over to Ford’s official page for the new Fiesta, you’ll see that it starts at $13,320 (plus a $675 destination charge).

Even better, the full Build and Price section is available, meaning you can see each and every individual option and its price. We went ahead and spent some time perusing the options list, and we see that the low base price is for the base S model, which comes exclusively in sedan form. The least expensive hatchback model is $15,120 (about $800 more than a comparably-equipped sedan).

Step up to a hatchback with Ford’s new six-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission and you’re looking at $16,190, and the uprated SES hatchback starts at $17,120 ($18,190 with the auto). Click past the jump for more interesting little tidbits that we noticed when pricing out our own Fiestas, including what Ford is offering for reserving one early.

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First off let me state boldly and clearly CMIS is an important document management (a.k.a., ECM) standard, the most important standard. But if your world is solely one of HTML and CSS then you can stop reading right here…

CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Standard) was recently ratified by OASIS and is already appearing in many RFPs. Nevertheless, it is a little misunderstood by some, and at times gets overlooked or misplaced. So here are three concise and valid reasons for putting CMIS on your list of RFP requirements.

1) If you have legacy document repositories, add CMIS to your list of requirements.

Almost every large organization has a collection of legacy DM and ECM repositories, closing those down or migrating content out of them can be tortuous and expensive, sometimes near impossible. Building a CMIS interface and federating access and viewing (no matter how basic) may well be your best option.

2) If the system you buy  has a CMIS API, then you go some way to avoiding vendor lock-in at a future point.

CMIS in and off itself cannot resolve all the issues of vendor lock tricks, but its a great step in the right direction.

3) (And don’t underestimate the value of this one) You demonstrate to the vendors on your shortlist your intentions and industry savvy.

When a vendor sees a specification or standard such as CMIS or XAM on an RFP they know you have done your homework, they know you are aware that committing to a vendors proprietary system can be difficult and costly, and that you intend to do what you can to mitigate against that risk.

Let’s be clear about this, CMIS is important for the sole fact that it is simple (today) and should actually work. It does have the support of all the major vendors in the sector, but their enthusiasm can wane at the drop of a hat. Particularly as CMIS is a standard that empowers buyers and users of the technology, but not the vendors so much — so the only way to ensure its success is for buyers to demand compliance from product vendors.

We work with buyers and users of document management and ECM technology every day. We help them construct RFPs, we shortlist and hand-hold our advisory clients and subscribers all the way from initial strategy through to the conclusion of the selection process. Our world is not one of expensive dinners at the vendors’ expense and optimistic market forecasting.  It is a world spent at the coalface. The global organizations we are working with are dealing with the dull and grinding issues that relate to legacy, integration, migration, and implementation.  For them, CMIS is no silver bullet, but it’s far better than nothing. And nothing is exactly what we had prior to CMIS.

KNOXVILLE – The University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have established a new Distinguished Fellowship designed to attract top graduate students in science and engineering.

The first-of-its-kind program, funded jointly by UT Knoxville and ORNL, will provide students with an unparalleled opportunity to take part in cutting-edge research at both institutions and build on similar programs to attract to research faculty. Recruiting is now under way for the inaugural class of students, who will be admitted for fall 2010. The application deadline is Feb. 1, 2010.

“These fellowships open a new level of partnership between UT Knoxville and Oak Ridge,” said UT Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek. “By combining the opportunities available at our two institutions, we will attract the best graduate students in fields vital to our nation’s future and continue to develop the strong relationship between our institutions.”

The combination of hands-on research work at the nation’s largest science and energy laboratory combined with their academic and research work toward a degree in the highly-ranked scientific programs at UT Knoxville is expected to serve as a major attraction for students.

Fellowships will be available in materials science, computational science, nuclear science and neutron science with coursework in UT Knoxville’s College of Engineering and College of Arts and Sciences. Applicants should have academic experience in at least one discipline of the physical or computational sciences.

“These fellowships are sure to attract even more of the nation’s top talent to UT and ORNL,” said Thom Mason, Director of ORNL. “This program is another example of a partnership that is bringing enormous value to both the university and the laboratory.”

The fellowships offer paid tuition, along with a $30,000 annual stipend. Renewable up to five years contingent on the student’s academic and research progress, the package represents an opportunity competitive with other top institutions.

Graduate students in the sciences and engineering play a vital role in the advancement of research by helping top faculty advance their research projects while also generating their own research. In addition, these positions can be expected to have a positive impact on the area’s economy by attracting and retaining talented students.

Students selected for the fellowships will undertake summer research internships at ORNL beginning the summer before they start coursework at UT Knoxville. Their work at ORNL and UT Knoxville will provide them with research opportunities at world-class facilities and centers, including the UT-ORNL joint institutes for computational, biological, neutron and advanced material sciences.

“We have been able to attract world-leading scientists to UT Knoxville and ORNL through the Governor’s Chair program, and the scientific resources that helped draw them to East Tennessee will help draw students to the Distinguished Fellowship as well,” said UT Knoxville Provost Susan Martin.

More information on the program, along with application materials, is available online.

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