Tag: university
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Dissertation Grants Available for Entrepreneurship Studies
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri has opened applications for its 2011-2012 Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program. The online request for proposals runs through 14 September 2011. The Kauffman Foundation plans to award 15 fellowship grants of $20,000 each for Ph.D., D.B.A, and other doctoral students who include studies of entrepreneurship as part…
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Encryption Hardware Designed for Non-Volatile Main Memory
Computer scientists at North Carolina State University in Raleigh have developed a new technology for encrypting data in non-volatile main memory found increasingly in new computer systems and devices. The team will discuss their findings next month at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture in San Jose, California. Non-volatile main memory (NVMM) allows computers to…
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Initiative Aims to Improve Honey Bee Health
An initiative led by several universities and supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture seeks to establish a nationwide network to monitor and maintain honey bee health. The program, called the Bee Informed Partnership, is funded by a $5 million grant from USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Beekeeping is not only an industry…
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Engineers Develop Efficient Nanotech Solar Energy Film
An engineering team from the universities of Missouri and Colorado, Idaho National Lab, and MicroContinuum Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts are developing a flexible solar sheet that captures more than 90 percent of available light, for manufacture in the next few years. Their lab findings have appeared in the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering. Current photovoltaic…
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Regulatory Agency Funding Increases in Federal Budgets
A new report from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and George Washington University in Washington, DC describe increases in funding and staff at federal regulatory agencies over the two most recent fiscal years. Fiscal Stalemate Reflected in Regulators Budget: An Analysis of the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2011 and 2012, by…
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Engineers Demo Collaborative Mapping Robot Vehicles
A team from Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania and California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) developed and demonstrated miniature vehicles that work by themselves to create a detailed floor plan of an office building. The researchers described their findings in a paper presented last month at the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing…
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U.K. University Offering Space Data for Smaller Companies
The University of Leicester in the U.K. is making available Earth observation data from a European Union space program to small and medium-sized businesses in the East Midlands, where the university is located. The university’s Space Technology Exchange Partnership will develop practical uses of data generated from the EU’s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security…
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Blood Pressure Drug Helps Regenerate Muscle, Prevent Atrophy
Medical researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland have found the blood pressure drug losartan can help repair injured muscle and protect against muscles wasting away, at least in mice. Their findings appear in this week’s issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine (paid subscription required). Previous research revealed that as humans age, the…
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New 3D Prostate Biopsy Combines MRI, Ultrasound
Researchers from the UCLA Health System in Los Angeles and medical device company Eigen Inc. have developed more targeted biopsies of prostate cancer that combine MRI and ultrasound technologies. The team reported its early results in the online issue of the journal Urologic Oncology (subscription required). National Cancer Institute estimates nearly 218,000 new cases of…
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Silver Nanoparticles Generated in Natural Environment
A team of university and government chemists have found that given a source of silver ions, naturally occurring humic acid can synthesize stable silver nanoparticles. The researchers published their findings last month in the journal Environmental Science and Technology (paid subscription required). Nanoscale silver particles — one nanometer equals one-billionth of a meter — are…