‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York. Running from August 12 until September 11, it attempts to tackle the issues currently shared by today’s youth. Using art in a variety of mediums, from painting, sculpture, photography, film and even performance art, the exhibit vividly narrates the story [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Community, News on September 12th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania. This team is working to devise an early-warning system for train operations which makes use of [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Technology on September 11th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: infrastructure, innovation, research, sustainability
Around the country, private colleges have been providing better financial support for students in their own areas to improve enrollment rates and also to strengthen ties with the community.
One such example comes from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. With its “Good Neighbor, Great University” program, it offers financial aid to incoming freshmen who have graduated [...]
Known as the leading manufacturer of computer chips, it was only a matter of time before Intel set its sights on the mobile technology industry. The company has recently agreed to purchase the wireless chip division of Infineon Technologies AG, a German semiconductor and system solutions provider. At a whopping price of $1.4 billion, the [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on September 9th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: brands, Business, communication, growth, industry, News, Technology
With China’s plans to spend billions on healthcare reform, a great deal of financial resources have been set aside to go into technological upgrades. Because of this, companies such as Dell Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) have been working to secure the market potential from this development.
Managing medical data has proven to [...]
Filed under: Business, Healthcare, News, Technology on September 8th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Business, global, healthcare, industry, infrastructure, Technology
With the rise of an economy placing an increasing importance in environmental sustainability, there also comes a need for leaders educated in matters of green technology. For this, community colleges have begun offering training through new courses and degree programs.
According to a March 2010 report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory financed by the Energy [...]
When we were kids, we were always told to eat lots of fruits and vegetables so we could keep our minds and bodies healthy. According to a new study published by Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, not only does eating a variety of produce improve one’s [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on September 6th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: healthcare, research
As a way of keeping up with the times and maintaining more efficient student administration, colleges and universities across the United States have decided to create their own tailored social networking sites, with the help of a couple of tech-savvy startups.
Having an official fan page on Facebook is great for creating a niche for students, [...]
Eight years ago, there seemed to be no hope for the Sumatran tiger. With only 500 tigers believed to be in existence, it was claimed that the magnificent animal would be extinct by 2014. This year, the opinion has taken a 180-degree turn as announced at the recent Bali Tiger Summit. Findings have shown that [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on September 4th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Community, Environment, global
The streets of London are littered with irresponsibly discarded chewing gum. More than 30,000 pieces of gum get stuck on Oxford Street alone everyday and it costs a fortune – £150 million to be exact – to hose all of it off each year. Seeing these statistics, and perhaps because she was tired of getting [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on September 3rd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Environment, innovation, innovative
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.