Interest: The Lowcountry has the potential to become a knowledge and life science hub and should tweak parts of its higher-level educational system to better prepare workers for those jobs, business leaders said Thursday.
Interest: In Tennessee, the unemployment/under-employment rates are consistent with the national average, but in some counties unemployment is over 18 percent.
Interest: Fifty-nine Purdue University faculty, staff and students whose discoveries received patents during the 2010-2011 fiscal year will be recognized Wednesday (Nov. 2) during the Purdue Research Foundation's annual Inventors Recognition Reception.
Interest: A Colorado State University research team has obtained a five-year, $1.2 million grant to develop brain-computer interactions that could help people with severe motor impairments do something as simple as turn on a TV by changing what they are thinking about.
Interest: Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that they have entered into an exclusive, worldwide collaboration and license agreement under which both companies will develop and commercialize highly selective, novel oral Syk inhibitors for the treatment of various autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
Interest: $1 million i6 Green award to the Iowa Innovation Council I6 Green Project is an investment that will help spur the creation of new technologies in one of the fastest growing sectors of the global economy, and that, ultimately, will lead to jobs for Iowans
Interest: With a generous grant from Google.org, the search engine giant's philanthropic arm, two scientists from Southern Methodist University (SMU) have pooled together the results from more than 35,000 data sites to paint a very different, almost rosy, energy picture for the United States and, indeed, the world.
Interest: T3 Motion, a Costa Mesa-based clean technology innovator specializing in single-passenger vehicles, has expanded its growing list of clientele to include college campuses across the country.
Interest: The technology hinges on using single photons - the tiny particles that make up light - for switching and routing in future computers that might harness the exotic principles of quantum mechanics.
Interest: Eden Research plc, the agrochemical and encapsulation company, is pleased to announce that it has acquired the
exclusive, global rights to a next-generation encapsulation delivery system based on scientific research at the
University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, USA ("UMMS").
Interest: Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN)‘s stock had its “neutral” rating reaffirmed by equities research analysts at Zacks Investment Research in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday.
Interest: Purdue Research Foundation's Office of Technology Commercialization has launched a service to quickly bring mobile applications developed with university resources to market. The service released its first app, Phototate, October 17.
Interest: T3 Motion, Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TTTM) a producer of clean technology electric vehicles, announced today that Saint Louis University (SLU) has purchased T3 Electric Stand-up Vehicles (ESV) for university security patrol.
Interest: University researcher Fotis Sotiropoulos made one last phone call Tuesday afternoon, and the person on the other end flipped the switch on a wind turbine at the Eolos Wind Research Station.
Interest: In the AIP's journal AIP Advances, research collaborators from the University of Pennsylvania and Alabama State University report encouraging early results toward the development of just such a tool.
Interest: New research by engineers at the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science demonstrates that nanomechanical resonators can operate at much higher amplitudes than previously thought.
Interest: Aculon, Inc., a leading nanotechnology enabled performance coatings company, today announced that Connect has announced Aculon as a finalist for the 24th annual Most Innovative Product Award.
Interest: The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany has struck a deal to take over the former Veeco Instruments solar manufacturing research facility here, keeping 17 jobs intact after Veeco decided to exit the business earlier this year.