 Viet Nam News At a national conference on the application of science and technology in the agricultural sector from 2006-11 held last month, it was announced that Viet Nam had spent VND2.6 trillion (US$125 million) over the last five years on scientific research in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ole Miss, USM part of $112.5M oil spill impact probe Jackson Clarion Ledger The lead investigator on that team is Raymond Highsmith, director of Ole Miss' National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology, which is basically a partnership between Ole Miss and USM. "Dr. Highsmith, who hand-picked the people involved in his ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Australopithecus sediba paved the way for Homo species, new studies suggest EurekAlert (press release) The report by Pickering et al. was funded by the South African Department of Science andTechnology, the South African National Research Foundation, the Institute for Human Evolution, the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Shortage of engineering skills 'overstated', says academic People Management Magazine Online Many science and technology graduates are struggling to find work despite claims of a skills shortage in these areas, new research has suggested. Fewer than half of graduates who leave university with a degree in engineering are working in the field ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Iowa gets $20 million energy grant DesMoinesRegister.com (blog) ... minorities and first-generation college students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. The $20 million grant is part of the National Science Foundation's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Making Translational Research Tangible ScienceCareers.org At the core of the campaign is a belief that translating science into practical technologies means not only finding applications for scientific breakthroughs but also finding ways to turn them into viable business strategies. UNC has brought in venture ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Preparing for Disasters: Where's the Science? Huffington Post (blog) Despite existing technology that can solve this challenge, ten years after September 11, interoperable communication remains unfulfilled with no legislative mandate and appropriate funding to achieve it. Children and Disasters. Several studies in the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NSF grant will encourage NIU students to study science, technology ... NIU Today The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Northern Illinois University with a $2 million grant to ramp up efforts to encourage more students to choose career paths in the fields of science,technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Hidden health hazards of modern conveniences Times of India With the advancement of science and technology, human beings have developed new and innovative ways to lessen their manual labor and make life easier. While this has helped us reach new heights, very little attention is paid to the effects that such ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Brain shrinks in new head surgery method Johns Hopkins News-Letter How can we alter an organ that we know so little about and remains the topic of heavy research? With bipolar duraplasty, surgeons use heat to gingerly and strategically shrink that brain, bringing it back to normal proportions and allowing for the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| New schools already bursting at the seams with students Vancouver Sun “At Monsignor Fee Otterson, how they've addressed this is, they have classes being held in the music room, the career technology studies room, the science room, the foods and fashion room, the library, the atrium, the staff room — so they have ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Join Doctoral Students in Examining the Intersections Among Media, Technology ... Big Think (blog) In this course you will find research not only from the discipline of communication, but also from psychology, sociology and political science. I invite you to follow along each week with the course and with the ideas and analysis presented by the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NAPLAN skews curriculum: study Ninemsn Teachers are shunning science, arts and social and environmental studies in favour of literacy and numeracy to boost NAPLAN results, a study has found. Queensland University of Technology(QUT) Professor Barbara Comber says the mandatory national tests ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 'Abelard to Apple' Inside Higher Ed ... of Technology. DeMillo is the author of more than 100 articles, books, and patents -- and he also has held key positions outside of academe, having served as director of the Computer and Computation Research Division of the National Science ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| fMRI identifies language-specific areas of brain Health Imaging & IT The primary difference in the MIT study compared to previous research was in methodology. Otherstudies may have asked the question, but they were asking it the wrong way, according to Fedorenko. fMRI studies of language had generally been conducted as ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| National Math and Science Initiative Turning the Tide in US Math and Science ... MarketWatch (press release) NMSI Board Member Kenneth Cohen of ExxonMobil, a founding sponsor of NMSI, said, "This program goes a long way in ensuring students have the foundation and confidence to pursue math and science studies after graduating from high school. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| AtheroNova and Maxwell Biotech Group Agree on Deal Terms to Develop New ... MarketWatch (press release) "Maxwell has committed to fund these clinical studies following extensive due diligence during which they vetted not only our science, intellectual property, projected market size and development pathway, but also the potential of our plaque regression ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Materials Views Interviews: Franco Cacialli Materials Views I find the tool of supramolecular chemistry particularly powerful as it is in principle the only one allowing bridging the science and technology of the nanoscale to the one of the meso, micro and macroscale. How does this work fit into a wider ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Payoff for DHS S&T's Investment in Basic Research HSToday (blog) The field of terrorism studies was traditionally a marginalized area of scholarship among social scientists. We are lucky that a few pioneers in political science, criminology, psychology and sociology were committed to work on understanding terrorism ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tech researchers meet with delegates to rebuild science programs in Iraq The Daily Toreador (registration) The Tech Center for Environmental Radiation Studies has implemented programs in order to retrain scientists based on peaceful research geared toward benefiting society, Chesser said. “Now that Iraq is a sovereign country and a new democracy, ... See all stories on this topic » |
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