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Celebrating 75 Years of Impact

3 weeks ago | bendbulletin.com | Mark Johnson

They gathered in downtown Bend at the original Bend High School, in the evening, in the basement, for classes like typing and algebra, attending a college that didn't yet have a permanent home - or a name. The date was Sept. 20, 1949, and Central Oregon was seeing its first-ever higher education "campus" open its doors, with 109 students enrolled. Oregon's first community college, later to be named Central Oregon Community College, was off and running.
Celebrating 75 Years of Impact

3 weeks ago | redmondspokesman.com | Mark Johnson

They gathered in downtown Bend at the original Bend High School, in the evening, in the basement, for classes like typing and algebra, attending a college that didn’t yet have a permanent home — or a name. The date was Sept. 20, 1949, and Central Oregon was seeing its first-ever higher education “campus” open its doors, with 109 students enrolled. Oregon’s first community college, later to be named Central Oregon Community College, was off and running.
Planning for Easter

1 month ago | hometownsource.com | Mark Johnson

Lent is upon us. Reminders include the lengthening days, the hints of spring, and for Christians in some traditions – Wednesday evening worship services. Lent is a time of preparing our hearts and minds for Holy Week and, ultimately, Easter. So start planning. This year, Palm Sunday lands on April 13. That’s when followers of Christ remember His glorious entrance into Jerusalem when He received a hero’s welcome from the crowds.
Deciphering the role of evapotranspiration in declining relative humidity trends over land - Communications Earth & Environment

2 months ago | nature.com | Yeonuk Kim |Mark Johnson

AbstractIn recent decades, relative humidity over land has declined, driving increases in droughts and wildfires. Previous explanations attribute this trend to insufficient moisture advection from the ocean to sustain the current level, but this ignores atmospheric moisture supplied from terrestrial evapotranspiration. Importantly, current state-of-the-art climate models continue to underestimate the observed relative humidity trend over land.
Affordable Living for College Studies

Dec 3, 2024 | bendbulletin.com | Mark Johnson

Buckling down with homework has certain perks in Wickiup Residence Hall at Central Oregon Community College (COCC), where on the southwest side of the building, mountain-facing study rooms offer no shortage of inspiring views: miles of evergreen treetops that spool out to snow-glazed Cascades. But there's more to the residence hall than academics - a lot more.
Affordable Living for College Studies

Dec 3, 2024 | redmondspokesman.com | Mark Johnson

Buckling down with homework has certain perks in Wickiup Residence Hall at Central Oregon Community College (COCC), where on the southwest side of the building, mountain-facing study rooms offer no shortage of inspiring views: miles of evergreen treetops that spool out to snow-glazed Cascades. But there’s more to the residence hall than academics — a lot more.
California's lack of Veterans Treatment Courts leaves veterans vulnerable

Nov 11, 2024 | dailyjournal.com | Allan Dollison |Mark Johnson

10 Most ReadNov. 7, 2024Nov. 11, 2024Nov. 14, 2024Nov. 8, 2024Nov. 11, 2024Nov. 11, 2024Nov. 11, 2024Sign up for Daily Journal emailsVeterans Day is an important day of recognition, a time when Americans thank and honor the dedication and sacrifice of the best among us. Yet, the authors of this piece, a retired superior court judge and former prosecutor, both veterans and Retired Army Colonels, must sadly report many California counties fail their veterans. This article suggests a solution.
The peri-germ cell membrane: poorly characterized but key interface for plant reproduction - Nature Plants

Oct 15, 2024 | nature.com | Naoya Sugi |Marina Millan-Blanquez |Jörg Becker |Kevin Begcy |Frédéric Berger |Cécile Bousquet-Antonelli | +33 more

Over the past 50 years, only a few studies have examined the peri-germ cell membrane. Nonetheless, it has been assigned multiple names. For example, the peri-germ cell membrane was identified in 1969 (ref. 1) as the ‘generative cell envelope’. Subsequent ultrastructural work in the 1980s led to new names, including ‘internal plasma membrane of the vegetative cell’, ‘inner plasma membrane of the pollen grain’ and ‘inner vegetative cell plasma membrane’2,3,4,5,6.
Vedci dosiahli významný míľnik v neurovede. Zmapovali mozog vínnej mušky

Oct 4, 2024 | tech.sme.sk | Mark Johnson

Rozrezali ho na viac ako sedemtisíc ultratenkých rezov. Vínna muška. (Zdroj: Adobe Stock)Text vyšiel pôvodne v denníku The Washington Post. Stovky vedcov z celého sveta zmapovali viac ako 50 miliónov spojení v malom mozgu vínnej mušky. Ide o významný krok, vďaka ktorému by mohla jedného dňa vzniknúť aj zložitá mapa ľudského mozgu – pomohla by pochopiť a potenciálne liečiť mnohé zdravotné stavy, ako sú napríklad Parkinsonova choroba, nadmerné jedenie, depresia alebo užívanie návykových látok.
Vedci začínajú dekódovať, čo hovoria veľryby

May 9, 2024 | tech.sme.sk | Mark Johnson

U vorvaňov objavili fonetickú abecedu. Vorvane plávajúce vo vodách pri Dominike. (Zdroj: Amanda Cotton)Text vyšiel pôvodne v denníku Washington Post. Vedci skúmajúci tisíce nahrávok volaní vorvaňov objavili, že majú akúsi „fonetickú abecedu“ - je zakomponovaná v reťazcoch „klikavých“ zvukov, ktoré živočíchy vydávajú. Zistenie naznačuje, že tieto veľryby majú komunikačný systém podstatne zložitejší, než sa doteraz predpokladalo.