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Barack Obama on Monday promised to double public funding of scientific research to exceed the level Washington spent during the “space race” unleashed by Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy 50 years ago. The US president’s pledge, made in a ...
2009-04-27 03:08:00
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The 2009 Community Youth Service Awards will honor 10 Sonoma County high school students May 5 for volunteer efforts and leadership in their communities. More Photos: Youth Service - Music Youth Service - Math/Technical Youth Service - Journalism ...
2009-04-27 01:57:00
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Last week, Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine launched a series of new K-12 education initiatives that includes Virginia on iTunes U and a program to develop new mobile education apps to help students learn math. Virginia will use iTunes U—a learning ...
2009-04-27 05:53:00
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NEW YORK, April 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cowen Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: COWN) today announced a series of key new hires in its Portfolio Trading Division. Based in New York, Rafael Paredes and Andrew Chao join as Directors of the expanded ...
2009-04-27 01:57:00
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A former Liberty University professor accused of sexual misconduct with a female student in his office was granted a $25,000 secured bond Monday afternoon. Joshua Young Moon, of Durham, N.C., taught mathematics at LU. His employment was terminated in ...
2009-04-27 04:34:00
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - As GM and Chrysler struggle to stay afloat, the technology for the cars of the future may have been tested Monday at O'Reilly Raceway Park, and it was high school students getting a thousand or more miles per gallon. No two cars ...
2009-04-27 06:07:00
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- At a black-tie event Thursday night, Duval County's 2009 teacher of the year will be named during the annual EDDY Awards gala. The five finalists for the award were pulled from the 157 teachers of the year -- one from each Duval ...
2009-04-27 04:34:00
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Sixteen Salinas-area high school seniors competed Sunday in the finals of Bank of America’s 61st annual Achievement Awards program. Through the rigorous half-day oral and written competition, the bank recognized outstanding high school students ...
2009-04-27 04:56:00
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Workforce Central Florida has announced it will offer up to 20 $2,500 scholarships to 2009 high school graduates in Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Lake and Sumter counties who plan to major in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, education or healthcare.
2009-04-27 01:38:02
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One more Caltech senior has been named the recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship this year. Ila Varma, who will graduate with a degree in mathematics this June, will use the grant to pursue research and a master's degree at the University of Leiden. Click here to read about Caltech's other two winners, Alex Hudson and Julie Huang. For more information on the Fulbright Scholarship ...
2009-04-27 06:35:11
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St. Joseph’s Hospital has launched a new surgical safety checklist. Its sister hospital, Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, implemented the surgical safety checklist earlier. Used with all surgical procedures in the operating room, the one-page ...
2009-04-27 08:35:00
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President Obama used a speech to the 146th annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences to tell Americans that a potential swine flu epidemic was "not a cause for alarm." He said the issue demonstrated the need for a renewed emphasis on ...
2009-04-27 10:08:00
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Wendell Long was born into Oklahoma’s Choctaw Nation. He attended Princeton University and worked in New Jersey’s casino industry dealing blackjack on weekends and holidays. In 1983, two years into Princeton, his roommates decided to travel to ...
2009-04-27 10:22:00
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Thumbs up to Western Massachusetts Electric Company and the Regional Employment Board of Hampden County Inc. for making a smart investment in area vocational and technical high school students interested in electrical careers. Five students from ...
2009-04-27 09:32:00
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In the computer science lab where they work at MIT, Erik and Martin Demaine have a three-foot-tall metal and plastic sculpture that resembles a sleek, modernist version of a child's Tinkertoy creation. Erik, a math prodigy, and his father Martin, an ...
2009-04-27 11:12:00
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