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	<title><![CDATA[Students inhibited by maths-fear not maths-ability]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA['Maths-anxiety' may explain the poor application of quantitative skills by some science students, according to a new paper in the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	<link>http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/sobs/1699.html?newsstoryid=11740</link>
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  <usyd:pubDateShort>12 June</usyd:pubDateShort>
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	<title><![CDATA[Teaching Award for Biology team]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[A major review and revamp of junior-year biology units, Concepts in Biology and Living Systems, has been awarded the 2013 Learning and Teaching Award.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	<link>http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/sobs/1699.html?newsstoryid=11594</link>
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  		<usyd:frontImg_url>http://sydney.edu.au/science/biology/images/content/news/2013/TeachingAward-summary.jpg</usyd:frontImg_url>   	<usyd:frontImg_title><![CDATA[Winners of the 2013 Teaching and Learning award]]></usyd:frontImg_title>	</usyd:storyImg>  <usyd:pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</usyd:pubDate>
  <usyd:pubDateShort>20 May</usyd:pubDateShort>
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	<title><![CDATA[Professor Steve Simpson elected to the Royal Society]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The School of Biological Sciences' Professor Steve Simpson has been announced as a new Fellow of the Royal Society.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	<link>http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/sobs/1699.html?newsstoryid=11516</link>
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  <usyd:pubDateShort>8 May</usyd:pubDateShort>
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	<title><![CDATA[Fellowship awarded to study dengue dynamics]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Visitor to the School of Biological Sciences, Dr Prasad Paradkar, studies insect-transmitted viruses. He has recently arrived here on an Eric French Fellowship to learn specialised techniques with Professor Eddie Holmes.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	<link>http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/sobs/1699.html?newsstoryid=11455</link>
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  		<usyd:frontImg_url>http://sydney.edu.au/science/biology/images/content/news/2013/Paradkar-summary.jpg</usyd:frontImg_url>   	<usyd:frontImg_title><![CDATA[Dr Prasad Paradkar]]></usyd:frontImg_title>	</usyd:storyImg>  <usyd:pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT</usyd:pubDate>
  <usyd:pubDateShort>1 May</usyd:pubDateShort>
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	<title><![CDATA[Golden staph fluoresces in rainbow colours]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Images of living Golden Staph cells, containing green and red fluorescent proteins, light up the cover of next month's Applied and Environmental Microbiology.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	<link>http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/sobs/1699.html?newsstoryid=11374</link>
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  		<usyd:frontImg_url>http://sydney.edu.au/science/biology/images/content/news/2013/Brzoska-AEM-cover-summary.jpg</usyd:frontImg_url>   	<usyd:frontImg_title><![CDATA[May 2013 AEM cover]]></usyd:frontImg_title>	</usyd:storyImg>  <usyd:pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</usyd:pubDate>
  <usyd:pubDateShort>16 April</usyd:pubDateShort>
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	<title><![CDATA[Photo competition for first-year biologists]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[They say a picture tells a thousand words and in science photography we want those thousand words to educate, enlighten and explain. Out-of-focus instagram images are of no use here!]]></description>
   <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	<link>http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/sobs/1699.html?newsstoryid=11347</link>
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  		<usyd:frontImg_url>http://sydney.edu.au/science/biology/images/content/news/2013/FYB-photo-comp-summary.jpg</usyd:frontImg_url>   	<usyd:frontImg_title><![CDATA[Photo submitted for microscopy competition]]></usyd:frontImg_title>	</usyd:storyImg>  <usyd:pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</usyd:pubDate>
  <usyd:pubDateShort>11 April</usyd:pubDateShort>
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	<title><![CDATA[Winton Charitable Foundation winners]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Mathematical biology students have been awarded a number of internships and scholarships from the Winton Charitable Foundation. These students will use the power of mathematics to grapple with the complexity of the natural world.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	<link>http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/sobs/1699.html?newsstoryid=11312</link>
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  <usyd:pubDateShort>8 April</usyd:pubDateShort>
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	<title><![CDATA[Converting flowers into branches]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[A newly named gene in the grass species Brachypodium, called MORE SPIKELETS1, has been found by Dr Mary Byrne to convert flowers into branches. A stunning scanning electron micrograph image of this work has made the cover of this month's Plant Physiology.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	<link>http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/sobs/1699.html?newsstoryid=11266</link>
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  		<usyd:frontImg_url>http://sydney.edu.au/science/biology/images/content/news/2013/Byrne-cover-summary.jpg</usyd:frontImg_url>   	<usyd:frontImg_title><![CDATA[March cover Plant Physiology]]></usyd:frontImg_title>	</usyd:storyImg>  <usyd:pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</usyd:pubDate>
  <usyd:pubDateShort>28 March</usyd:pubDateShort>
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	<title><![CDATA[Bringing back the wolves: a chance for the dingoes too?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The re-introduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park offers Fulbright Scholar, Dr Thomas Newsome, the opportunity to ponder the benefits for Australia in using similar measures with dingoes.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	<link>http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/sobs/1699.html?newsstoryid=11228</link>
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  <usyd:pubDateShort>22 March</usyd:pubDateShort>
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	<title><![CDATA[Coral cell-signal for algal control]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Corals need to control the growth of their intra-cellular algae, lest the algae become parasitic. In a paper recently published in FEBS Journal, researcher Dr Adrienne Grant, has demonstrated how a local coral's cell signal exerts that control.]]></description>
   <pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	<link>http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/sobs/1699.html?newsstoryid=11203</link>
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  <usyd:pubDateShort>19 March</usyd:pubDateShort>
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