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September 22, 2009

Roundup 9/22: Threatening Clouds Edition

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by Eli Kintisch

The African Science Academy Development Initiative will hold a workshop in Ghana in November to tackle maternal, newborn, and child health in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Joel Myers, founder of AccuWeather.com, has given $2 million to Pennsylvania State University to start a weather center.

The 2009 Canadian Science Policy Conference will meet in Toronto 28–30 October.

Retired faculty are filling in as science professors at state universities as budgets continue to whither.

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