For Ben King, an associate professor of chemistry at the school, one of the challenges in making the connection between science and technology is the gulf in communication between people.

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The Russian connection continues through a framework agreement with the Russian Academy of Science.

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His book, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, details the connection.

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