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Author: PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST

Source: PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST

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.

Link: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=364200011

Author: TPMidealLab

Source: TPMidealLab

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.

Link: http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/

Author: Thomas Heath

Source: The Washington Post

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.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/capital-buzz-a-rundown-of-the-up-and-comers-part-1/2011/12/13/gIQAkItH3O_story.html

Author: Jack McCarthy

Source: Special to the Tribune

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.

Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-niu-kids-do-good-1211-20111211,0,2745432.story

Author: YASIN MOHAMUD

Source: mndaily.com

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.

Link: http://www.mndaily.com/2011/12/08/cse-receives-17m-grant-dow-chemical-co

Author: Jenny Cromie

Source: Crain's Detroit Business

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.

Link: http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20111211/SUB01/312119975/midland-center-becoming-long-distance-incubator#

Author: Michelle Hammond

Source: startupsmart

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.

Link: http://www.startupsmart.com.au/growth/obama-announces-$2bn-package-for-us-start-ups/201112124834.html

Author: JEFF HARGARTEN

Source: mndaily.com

Interest: Studies into hypersonic spacecraft arrivals, cancer and even the production of scouting robots thrive on the University of Minnesota campus.

Link: http://www.mndaily.com/2011/12/12/department-defense-projects-bring-military-touch-civilian-research

Author: mndaily.com

Source: mndaily.com

Interest: The University of Minnesota took another move to reach out to the business community.

Link: http://www.mndaily.com/2011/12/12/u-unveils-easier-approach-sponsored-research

Author: Greg Bordonaro

Source: HARTFORD BUSINESS JOURNAL ONLINE

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.

Link: http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/news21803.html

Author: THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS NEWS

Source: THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS NEWS

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).

Link: http://www.utexas.edu/news/2011/12/05/wells_fargo_grant/

Author: Luke Timmerman

Source: Luke Timmerman

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.

Link: http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2011/12/05/w-fund-nabs-5m-from-state-to-top-off-25m-investment-pool/

Author: BALTIMORE CITYBIZLIST

Source: BALTIMORE CITYBIZLIST

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.

Link: http://baltimore.citybizlist.com/1/2011/12/5/TEDCO-Awards-Nearly-500000-to-Local-Researchers-Through-Its-University-Technology-Development-Fund-and-TechStart-Programs.aspx

Author: Lynne Friedmann

Source: Lynne Friedmann

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).

Link: http://www.lajollalight.com/2011/12/05/unique-hub-for-stem-cell-research-opens-doors-in-lajolla/

Author: CLARKSON UNIVERSITY NEWS AND EVENT

Source: CLARKSON UNIVERSITY NEWS AND EVENT

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.

Link: http://clarkson.edu/news/2011/news-release_2011-12-5-1.html

Author: NANOWERK NEWS

Source: NANOWERK NEWS

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.

Link: http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=23637.php

Author: HARVARD SCIENCE

Source: HARVARD SCIENCE

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.

Link: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/11/rebuilding-the-brain’s-circuitry/

Author: Usra Hussain

Source: ANIMAL BLWAG

Interest: The University of Pennsylvania houses as many as 5,000 animals a year at their medical and veterinary schools.

Link: http://animalblawg.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/reducing-funding-for-animal-research/

Author: JON CHAVEZ

Source: BLADE BUSINESS WRITER

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.

Link: http://www.toledoblade.com/Energy/2011/12/04/Local-solar-firms-confident-despite-industry-challenges.html

Author: Louis E. Buck and John W. Bardo

Source: CITIZEN-TIMES.com

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.

Link: http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20111204/NEWS/312040040/Columnists-Innovation-entrepreneurship-state-tax-policy?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Frontpage|s