• Obama’s CTO Nominee Offers Some Thoughts - Wall Street Journal

    Amy Schatz reports on the FCC and tech policy. President Barack Obama ’s pick to be the nation’s first chief technology officer, Virginia Secretary of Technology Aneesh Chopra , made his first public remarks on what he’d do in the new post ...
    2009-05-19 06:17:00
  • Pharmacy SFIs petition HC on admission rules - Times of India

    AHMEDABAD: The dispute between self-financed pharmacy colleges and the state government about restricting A' group students from taking admission in degree pharmacy courses has now reached Gujarat High Court. Acting on a petition by Association of ...
    2009-05-19 05:34:00
  • Educators should stop majoring in the minors - Seattle Times

    Kati Haycock, one of the nation's most outspoken advocates of eduction reform, has a bead on why change is coming at a snail's pace: people distracted by the small stuff. Education leaders could happily spend another decade arguing philosophies about ...
    2009-05-19 07:22:00
  • NASA awards $6.4M to enhance learning - The Money Times

    Washington -- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration says it has awarded $6.4 million in U.S. grants to enhance learning through its Earth science resources. The grants were awarded to institutions of higher education and not-for-profit ...
    2009-05-19 09:02:00
  • Combination Of Old And New Media Deepens Mathematical Understanding - Science Daily

    The researchers studied the interaction between learning, teaching and the use of technological tools. To this end they developed so-called applets, small interactive software components that can be accessed through an Internet browser. The applets ...
    2009-05-19 06:53:00
  • Gromov receives 'mathematics Nobel' - ninemsn

    Franco-Russian mathematician Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov on Tuesday received the world's leading mathematics award, the Abel Prize, for his "revolutionary contributions to geometry". Norway's King Harald V presented Gromov with six million kroner ($A1 ...
    2009-05-19 05:06:00
  • Senior Profile: Samantha John, SEAS (Columbia Daily Spectator)

    When asked about her peculiar choice of studies, Samantha John, a senior in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences majoring in applied mathematics and minoring in English, calls them “actually complementary.”
    2009-05-19 08:35:25
  • Gromov receives 'mathematics Nobel' (BigPond News)

    Franco-Russian mathematician Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov has received the world's leading mathematics award, the Abel Prize.
    2009-05-19 08:06:54
  • Director named for LSSU regional center in Gaylord - Gaylord Herald Times

    GAYLORD - Lake Superior State University (LSSU) has hired Gaylord resident Sheila Simpson as director of the newly created LSSU-Gaylord Regional Center, based in the University Center at Gaylord. Simpson, a former advisor with Davenport University ...
    2009-05-19 02:21:00
  • Kiwi woman aiming for the stars - Stuff

    A stellar academic is in line to boldly go where no New Zealander has gone before and she has Darth Vader to thank for reaching for the stars. Karen Willcox, an associate professor at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is in the ...
    2009-05-19 11:51:00
  • West Virginia State University CASTEM has WV seeing stars - WOWK

    West Virginia State University (WVSU) Center for the Advancement of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (CASTEM) has recently become the owner of a Star Lab. INSTITUTE -- West Virginia State University Center for the Advancement of ...
    2009-05-19 10:10:00
  • 4 BSHS students headed for state academic contest - Big Spring Herald

    Four Big Spring High School will be competing in the State University Interscholastic League Academic Contest, to be held next week in Austin. The students hit paydirt in the form of gold, silver and bronze recently at the UIL 4A Region I Academic ...
    2009-05-19 12:41:00
  • Whytheville Community College Graduates Class of 2009 - TriCities.com

    Wytheville Community College celebrated the graduation of its Class of 2009 during two commencement exercises held May 8. Degrees were conferred on nearly 370 students. Both commencement ceremonies were held at the Wytheville Meeting Center adjoining ...
    2009-05-19 01:02:00
  • 'Math Noble' for geometry - Straits Times

    OSLO - FRANCO-Russian mathematician Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov on Tuesday received the world's leading mathematics award, the Abel Prize, for his 'revolutionary contributions to geometry.' Norway's King Harald V presented Gromov with six million ...
    2009-05-19 11:51:00
  • PAR opposes bills lowering 8th-grade standards - Baton Rouge Advocate

    The Public Affairs Research Council has come out in opposition to two bills before the Legislature that would lower the minimum scores an eighth-grader must get on the LEAP test be promoted to the ninth grade. Currently, an eighth-grade student in ...
    2009-05-19 01:59:00
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