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Date	Title	Related Media
05/12/2009	60 pro (Germany), Friday, May 8
	Researchers at Miami University and their colleagues at Yale can now prove that older people with a positive life adjustment lived an average of 7.5 years longer than those who are pessimistic.
11/30/2006	94.1 radio, Tuesday, Nov. 28
	Story about a study by Larry Sherman (educational leadership) and Richard Hofmann (emeritus, educational leadership) that shows students in a large majority of community schools are performing at a level "unequivocally below" the performance of those in traditional public schools.
03/02/2007	AARP The Magazine March/April 2007
	In a 23-year study of how perceptions of aging affect longevity, researchers at Yale and Miami universities concluded that people who viewed aging positively lived an average of 7.5 years longer than those who saw it negatively.
01/25/2007	ABCNews and The Charlotte Observer, Wednesday, Jan. 24 and The Journal News (NY) and Daily Herald, Thursday, Jan. 25
	Associated Press stories about Miami students working with edun Live on Campus quote Miami students Andy Mitchelides, president of edun Live on Campus, and Treviana Delmastro and cite Brett Smith (Center for Social Entrepreneurship).
05/22/2008	ABC News, JournalNews and Dayton Daily News, Wednesday, May 21
	A Miami junior from Bellbrook who died Saturday was in a lofted bed with his girlfriend when he fell and suffered a head injury and there is no reason to suspect foul play or criminal activity, Oxford police said. All stories quote Claire Wagner (news and public information).
09/23/2008	ABCNews, Monday, Sept. 22
	Nicholas Money (botany) was one of the researchers who documented the extraordinarily fast movements of certain microscopic fungi, to measure the speeds of their spores and figure out how their "catapulting" mechanisms work.
05/29/2007	ABCNews, Thursday, May 24
	Stories about the research by Robin Thomas (psychology) that shows people associate certain facial features with certain names quotes Thomas.
07/03/2008	abc News, Tuesday, July 1
	Robert Weinberg (kinesiology and health) is quoted in a story about whether or not there is a double standard for aggressive athletes.
09/24/2007	ABC's Good Morning, America, Thursday, Sept. 20
	Daryl Baldwin, director of the Myaamia Project at Miami, is among linguists working to keep native languages from dying out. Daryl is not part of the printed story, but is in the video story that plays on the right side of the screen.
07/12/2007	About Campus, May-June 2007
	Article by Craig Bennett (Center for American and World Cultures) about the Strength Through Cultural Diversity course he teaches at Miami says because he and colleagues struggle to find students who can give examples of instances in which they had been in the minority, they use an assignment called The Minority Experience. The assignment challenges students to participate in a cultural event in which they can experience minority status.
08/06/2009	About.com, Wednesday, Aug. 5
	Miami's zoology program is one of 14 programs in the United States included in a quick-click guide to zoology programs.
10/19/2006	Adresseavisen, Norway, Thursday, Oct. 19
	Miami botanist John Kiss has experiments being performed on the International Space Station this week, with equipment from the European Space Agency. He is in Norway to communicate with flight specialists and download data.
09/29/2006	Advertiser Tribune, Monday, Sept. 11
	Article about graduation rates improving at Ohio State as the school's admissions policies have become more selective cites Richard Little (university communications).
11/21/2006	Advertiser Tribune, Saturday, Oct. 28
	In an article about alumnus Steve Brickner, who has been engaged in antibiotics research for 25 years, Brickner says he engaged in undergraduate research at Miami, studying chemistry in a nurturing environment.
07/24/2007	Advertiser-Tribune, Tuesday, July 24
	Story about Terra Community College hosting the fourth annual legislative reception says there was discussion about the need for technicians in the nuclear industry, and it was mentioned that Terra, in conjunction with Miami University, has initiated a program in electro-mechanical engineering technology.
02/27/2008	Advertising Age, Monday, Feb. 11
	James Brock (economics) is quoted in a story about the influence of FCC's Michael Copps even though he is not the FCC chairman and, as one of two Democratic commissioners, is usually outvoted by the three Republicans commissioners.
12/21/2006	Aerospace America, December 2006
	Article about space and missile systems mentions the TROPI phototropism/gravitropism experiment led by John Kiss (botany).
02/26/2007	Aerospace America, February 2007
	Question and answer with alumna Nicole Smith, winner of the Lawrence Sperry Award from the AIAA Young Professional Committee, mentions Miami's mechanical and manufacturing engineering department and Richard Walker (emeritus).
07/24/2009	AIArchitect, Friday, July 24
	Story about AIA West Virginia recognizing design firms and awarding scholarships says Orin Kincade (grad student, architecture) received a $3,000 Scholarship for Merit in Design.
07/31/2009	AIArchitect, Friday, July 31
	A call for entries issued by the AIA and ACSA has generated a range of proposals worthy of American Reinvestment and Recovery Act funding. One such entry is "Sustainable Republic," a proposal by the Miami University Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine submitted by John Blake (coordinator of community projects/instructor, architecture & interior design). Quotes Blake.

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