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DULUTH, Minn. — A Duluth college student has been honored for completing four majors in four years, with a perfect 4.0 grade-point average.

Brock Erdahl says he tried to carefully manage his time from the outset. He says he figured out exactly what he wanted to accomplish and planned accordingly.

He was rewarded Sunday when the College of St. Scholastica honored him as a quadruple major. He earned bachelor’s degrees in history, political science, global culture/language studies and Catholic studies. For good measure, he also minored in French.

History professor Randall Poole calls Erdahl a rare talent whose research papers were of the highest quality.

And his mother, Lynn Erdahl, says her son’s thirst for knowledge is “amazing.”

A Duluth News Tribune reports that says Erdahl’s long-term goal is to work in international relations.

Gain key learning skills to extend Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12

Packt is pleased to announce the publication of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook, an all-in-one guide for developers on how to build different types of extensions using a variety of toolsets. This cookbook will help them through the development process using step-by-step examples.

Oracle E-Business Suite consists of a collection of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Supply-Chain Management (SCM) computer applications either developed by or acquired by Oracle. Oracle EBS Financials Suite is a solution that provides out-of-the-box features to meet global financial reporting and tax requirements with one accounting, tax, banking, and payments model and makes it easy to operate shared services across businesses and regions.

Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook will allow developers to create functions, tabs, items with lookups and personalization to perform validation. They will also be able to build and deploy Oracle workflow with functions, lookups, sub-processes and notifications.

This book focuses on starting an extension right from the beginning and later moves on to deploying it within E-Business Suite. Not only will they be able to configure concurrent programs, but also understand how to write its log and output files. Written in step-by-step format, this book provides clear illustrations and tips to extend Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12.

All Oracle books are published by Packt Enterprise. Packt Enterprise is a publishing division of Packt Publishing, designed to serve the information needs of IT Professionals in the Enterprise space. Packt Enterprise also publishes books on Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Citrix, Java, Amazon, Google and SAP technologies.

At 2 p.m. Sunday, May 27, the class of 2012 will receive their bachelor of arts degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College during commencement exercises at Hollingsworth Field.

No ticket is required if the ceremony is held outdoors. If weather forces college officials to move the ceremony inside, each student will be given three tickets for family and friends to attend the ceremony inside Lund Center. An overflow area will be available for people to watch a telecast of the ceremony. For those unable to attend this year’s commencement, the ceremony will be webcast live at gustavus.edu/events/commencement.

Senior Chloe Radcliffe, who will be receiving her degree in mathematics, has been chosen to give this year’s commencement address. Diane Loomer, a 1962 alumna of the College, will receive an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts Degree in honor of her outstanding career and contribution to choral music and the education of students over the course of several decades. The Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching will be presented to a faculty member by the 2011 winner of the award, Associate Professor of Nursing Barbara Zust.

Graduates will receive their diplomas from the faculty chair in their respective majors, a tradition that began in 1973. For more information about commencement, including a list of answers to frequently asked questions, go online to gustavus.edu/events/commencement. Questions can also be directed to the Office of Marketing and Communication at 507-933-7520.

Staying in education longer may make a person smarter, but it may not make them happier, new research suggests.

A new study has found that those teenagers who were made to stay in education until they were 15 after the leaving age rose in the 1940s had a better memory later in life.

But the extra year’s schooling made little difference to their quality of life.

Academics based in Manchester and Munich compared the mental abilities of those who turned 14 before the school leaving age was raised to 15 in 1947, with those who were 14 just after the change and stayed in school for an extra year. Data was collected every two years between 2002 and 2008.

Those taking part were given a series of tests, including being asked to remember a list of words or items beginning with a certain letter, as well as being given a series of questions about their wellbeing and satisfaction with life.

The findings, published in this month’s Economic Journal, show a link between staying in school longer and having a better memory and mental abilities in old age. But it found no “statistically significant” effect on wellbeing or quality of life.

The authors suggest that those who stayed in school for an additional year were more likely to have better job prospects and more mentally demanding professions which could benefit their mental abilities later on.

Study author Professor James Banks, of Manchester University and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said: “There seems to be, even when we control for other factors, a distinct jump in the mental abilities of those who went to school for an extra year.”

He said that in terms of happiness “we were asking people, how satisfied are they with their life or current circumstances?”. He added: “Those questions did not demonstrate the same jump.”

Professor Banks added that the findings may not necessarily be the same for today’s youngsters who are asked to stay in school until they are 18 rather than 17. From next year teenagers will be asked to stay in school or training until they are 17, and in 2015, this will rise to 18.