Interest: "College students have a high-impact, problem-oriented focus. And their energy, idealism, connectedness and unique point of view are crucial to success in solving the world's greatest problems."
Interest: "UI Professor Stephen Long, deputy director of the institute, said he's been assured by BP's London office that it will stand by its commitment of $50 million per year for the project "despite the current crisis.""
Interest: "Today, genes that were first sequenced by Celera are about 30 percent less likely to be the subject of new scientific publications compared with genes sequenced as part of the public effort, reports Heidi Williams in a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper released in July."
Interest: SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher said, "Relying on the established expertise of the SUNY research community, our goal is to build a best-in-class innovation infrastructure that cultivates entrepreneurial thinking, drives new industry, creates jobs and improves the quality of life in our communities."
Interest: TransFS "provides a comparison shopping Web site for credit-card processors, including ratings, reviews and explanations of how contracts work" so small businesses can save money on credit card processing fees.
Interest: "NC State will use IBM's advanced analytics technology to streamline the time consuming process of searching and matching potential university research projects with investment and partnership opportunities."
Interest: The Michigan Strategic Economic Investment & Commercialization Board "hopes to leverage its investment to spur creation of new home-grown investors who back Michigan-based startups that can create jobs and diversify the state’s economy."
"Michigan Accelerator Fund I in Grand Rapids will put 70 percent of its money in life sciences companies. The rest would go to advanced manufacturing, homeland security and alternative energy."
Interest: "Sandia Science & Technology Park (SS&TP) businesses and Sandia National Laboratories sites in the research park spent $1.2 billion on goods and services and $2.3 billion in wages for more than a decade, giving the local economy a major boost, according to a new report by the Mid-Region Council of Governments (MRCOG)."
Interest: "MGP Ingredients, Inc. is teaming up with key academic institutions in Kansas to stay on the cutting edge of developing new products that can increase U.S. energy independence, provide environmental benefits and offer exciting commercialization opportunities."
Interest: US President Obama considers reforming higher education an integral part in economic recovery."Obama argued that investing in education is the “single most important” move his administration can make toward building a solid economic foundation."
Interest: Sridhar Vembu, the 41-year-old CEO of Zoho, an upstart maker of online applications, is an accidental software entrepreneur. After getting a doctoral degree from Princeton University, he went to work at Qualcomm when it was just a start-up.
Interest: "Scientists at Ohio State University have demonstrated a form of plastic computer memory that uses the spin of electrons to read and write data."
Interest: "A new European-funded initiative is advocating an entirely new system of science publishing, in which scientists avoid the hassles of traditional peer review by taking a quietly radical step: post their results on their websites." This means, research materials will be directly accessible to the scientific community at no cost.
Interest: To fuel game-changing ideas and generate excitement for the unique challenges Department of Defense encounters now and in the future, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected 33 researchers at 24 U.S. universities to participate in DARPA’s Young Faculty Award program.
Interest: Arbor Networks, founded by U-M engineering professor Farnam Jahanian and then-doctoral student Rob Malan in 2000, is a major source of network security services. The company, whose security software monitors traffic on more than 70 percent of the world's Internet service providers, is based in Massachusetts.
Interest: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have granted a UT Dallas researcher and a University-affiliated biomedical firm $1.7 million to investigate whether nerve stimulation offers a long-term cure for tinnitus.
Interest: "The lightweight prosthesis straps onto the arm and reads signals from the muscles to give a patient an assist when he or she moves the limb." The efficacy of the robotic arm has yet to be fully determined.
Interest: Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said, “We believe that this national research center will enhance and expand areas of automotive research, and create tremendous economic activity in Southside Virginia. It will also develop new products that can save energy and improve the safety of motorists around the world."
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