Holiday Mail for Heroes ### Holiday Mail for Heroes Program Overview The holiday season is just around the corner and it’s time again to start thinking about being part of the 2011 American Red Cross Holiday Mail for Heroes. For a fifth year, American Red Cross and Pitney Bowes are partnering to ensure all Americans […]

Saluting Our Troops This Holiday Season … … Holiday Mail for Heroes Washington DC kick-off event. ### Holiday Mail for Heroes Program Overview The holiday season is just around the corner and it’s time again to start thinking about being part of the 2011 American Red Cross Holiday Mail for Heroes. For a fifth year, […]

Women Veterans’ Stories of Service: Peggy Mikelonis Peggy Mikelonis, U.S. Army Nurse Corps “Probably one of the greatest things I learned from my time in the service is collegiality … you hear of how people who served in the military come away with an entirely different sense of family.”

Women Veterans’ Stories of Service: Vivian Greeno Vivian Greeno, U.S. Navy “My biggest accomplishment didn’t occur until after I left, but I lobbied for women to be on board submarines and now they can go on board submarines.”

Women Veterans’ Stories of Service: Katrina Goldby Katrina Goldby, U.S. Army Reserve “I joined in 1991 during Desert Storm; served in a medical unit, reserve unit, for the first nine years and pretty much the only place that I went was San Antonio…and then in 2001, of course, 9/11 occurred. After that happened we started […]

Women Veterans’ Stories of Service: Brigadier General Wilma Vaught  Brigadier General Wilma Vaught, U.S. Air Force “I was the first woman ever to deploy on a Strategic Air Command deployment so there were three thousand and some men in the unit and me. I thought that was about the right mix.”

Science Nation – Mind Reading Computer System May Help People with Locked-in Syndrome … Mind Reading Computer System May Help People with Locked-in Syndrome … Imagine living a life in which you are completely aware of the world around you but you’re prevented from engaging in it because you are completely paralyzed. Even speaking is […]

Science Nation – Teens and Stress … Science Nation – Teens and Stress (Video). … Ever wonder what is going on in the mind of a teenager, especially one who is stressed out? UCLA Psychologist Adriana Galvan is on a quest to find out. With support from the National Science Foundation, she’s investigating the effects […]

Science Nation – Babies and Learning (Video). … Science Nation – Babies and Learning … Are we pre-wired to know right from wrong or are we blank slates who learn solely by our exposure to the environment? The question isn’t new, but by studying the behavior of newborns, psychologist Karen Wynn of Yale University believes […]

Science Nation – Dams: What Goes Up Must Come Down, and Then What? … Science Nation – Dams: What Goes Up Must Come Down, and Then What? … There’s been a lot of research on what happens to a river when dams go up, but what happens when the dam comes down? With support from […]