Interest: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced a $26.5 million gift from alumnus James H. Simons and his wife, Marilyn, to create the Simons Center for the Social Brain.
Interest: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology may not be known for its moviemaking skills, but an incredible new film out of the school’s Media Lab has ricocheted around the Web at the speed of well…you get it.
Interest: The Post 200 charts the region’s biggest companies and organizations in 2011. Who is waiting in the wings? To get some ideas, the Buzz asked some local executives which companies and businesspeople are on their radars for 2012 and beyond.
Interest: The brainchild of Alan Hurt and a team of Northern Illinois University students, a lightweight, low-cost generator they've designed could help bring power and light to homes of impoverished Africans.
Interest: The partnership is part of Dow’s new long-term investment of $25 million per year over a decade in 11 U.S. colleges, including the University of Minnesota.
Interest: After the first of the year, a startup in Ludington or Traverse City will be able to tap into services from a business incubator two hours away in Midland -- part of a program that one observer of incubators says is the first of its kind in Michigan.
Interest: Start-ups in the United States will gain increased access to capital and resources, after US President Barack Obama announced a $2 billion package to aid budding entrepreneurs.
Interest: As the University of Connecticut attempts to morph itself into a major player in the technology transfer field, the school has a ways to go before it competes with the big names.
Interest: ustin, Texas — As part of its national environmental grant program, Wells Fargo today announced that it has provided a $125,000 grant to the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin that will fund a new Clean Energy track within the 2012 Global Venture Labs Investment Competition (GVLIC).
Interest: The state of Washington is chipping in $5 million from a federal jobs program to put the finishing touch on a new $25 million investment fund that will look to spin more startups out of research labs at the University of Washington, Washington State University, and other local research institutions.
Interest: COLUMBIA, Md. - The Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO) announced today that it has awarded 12 Maryland researchers a total of $485,000 through its University Technology Development Fund (UTDF) and TechStart programs.
Interest: La Jolla, already in the vanguard of scientific research, has become the hub of San Diego’s stem cell research community with the dedication of the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine (SCRM).
Interest: Clarkson University celebrated today the launch of plans for the North Country’s first green data center using IBM technologies and renovations to the institution’s historic Old Main building in downtown Potsdam, which will house the data center, as well as serve as research facilities for Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, a subsidiary of Clarkson University.
Interest: (Nanowerk News) The largest-ever graduating class at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany (UAlbany) is providing a shot in the arm for New York's rapidly expanding nanotechnology industry as they launch careers with leading global high-tech companies in the Empire State.
Interest: Neuron transplants have repaired brain circuitry and substantially normalized function in mice with a brain disorder, an advance indicating that key areas of the mammalian brain are more reparable than was widely believed.
Interest: A year after a U.S. senator said northwest Ohio's solar-panel industry was helping the state to become known as "the Silicon Valley of clean energy," industry experts predict the global industry will undergo a major shakeout that will break all but a handful of solar panel producers worldwide.
Interest: North Carolina's unemployment rate remains substantially higher than the national average and, for the last decade, the median per capita income of North Carolinians has declined compared to that of the nation.
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