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1. Plan them Plan your breaks before you start studying. give yourself roughly an hour to complete a task, and then schedule a 5-15min break. Keeping breaks this length gives you enough time to get some new snacks, fill up your water supply, have a mini dance party, but...

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Vaudeville star Trixie Friganza (center) with women’s suffrage leaders in New York.

October 28, 1908

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Haley Crockett ‘15 loves inviting friends to spend time in her room in Lamont House. Her simple, minimalist decor, along with a gorgeous view, makes her room her sanctuary.

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Camel antibodies survive trek to tumor cells

Antibodies from camels and alpacas can bring anticancer viruses straight to tumor cells, while leaving other types of cells uninfected, report researchers.

The researchers used human cells grown in the lab for the study. They say it demonstrates the possibility of directly delivering genetically engineered viruses to specific cells. The goal is to infect only cancer cells and then trigger the virus to replicate until the cells burst, killing them and releasing more of the targeted viruses.

The scientists showed that unlike human antibodies or those of most other animals, the antibodies of camels and alpacas survive the harsh environment inside cells and retain the ability to seek out targets, potentially solving a longstanding problem in the field of gene therapy.

“For decades, investigators have been putting human or mouse antibodies on viruses, and they haven’t worked—the antibodies would lose their targeting ability,” says senior author David T. Curiel, professor of radiation oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

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The National Institutes of Health, the Stichting Jo Kolk Studiefonds, and the Dutch Cancer Society supported the work, which appears in Molecular Therapy—Oncolytics.

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Sylvia Plath, in Paris. (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) 

I’m terrified by this dark thing. That sleeps in me; All day i feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrivables? Is it for such i agitate my heart?

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Remember the deadline to be considered for financial aid for our summer programs is March 1st!

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SDO V

NASA put together this gorgeous video showcasing five years of observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, Earth’s eye on our life-giving sun. It’s sometimes mysterious, sometimes violent, but always beautiful. More info at NASA’s website.

Previously: Want to know more about the amazing colors you see, the wavelengths they correspond to, and what each represents? Here’s how to decode SDO’s solar palette. 

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Put the internet to work for you.

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This week we are interviewing Ginny Huang who is a development intern. This is also a bit of a sneak peak, because she’s the one working on the Open Science Framework’s new commenting system. See what she’s up to here at the Center for Open Science!

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Unsung heroes of science

One saved the U.S. space program, another invented a better treatment for leprosy, and a third spawned an industry in the American Midwest. Mary Sherman Morgan, Alice Ball and Rachel Lloyd all had amazing accomplishments in chemistry, but their work was nearly lost to history.

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Promising all 8-10 inches of snow will be gone by the time you all arrive for your Summer at Smith programs! 

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We are coming to you!

Smith College Summer Precollege Programs is very excited to attend the following school fair opportunities! Sunday, Feb. 1 - Sarah Craig and Peter Sapria will be at The 2-15 Educational Forum at Manhattanville College in Purchase, Ny from 9:15 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1 - Wendy Martinez and Meg Thacher will be at the Phillips Academy Summer Opportunities Fair in Andover, MA from 12:00 - 3:00 p.m. Monday, Feb 2 - Sarah Craig and Wendy Martinez will be The Annual Teen Summer Program Expo at Newton South High School in Newton, MA from 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.

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Applications

Those of you interested in applying for our programs should get started! It's truly inspiring reading your personal statements!

http://www.smith.edu/summer/

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Learn more about the amazing Grace Hopper in this short film by FiveThirtyEight.

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It's the start of the Spring semester at Smith! Want to spend your summer here? Apply today!

http://www.smith.edu/summer/

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Winter Break is nearly over here at Smith...

Start your application today for Summer at Smith Precollege programs!

http://www.smith.edu/summer/index.php