MRS is pleased to announce the appointment of Ramamoorthy Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as the next Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Materials Research.
A recent report by a company that specializes in information technology services predicted social commerce worldwide will grow into a $1.2 trillion business by 2025. We talked to Pei-yu Sharon Chen about how realistic this prediction is. Chen is the chair and professor in the Department of Information Systems and co-director of the Actionable Analytics Lab in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
Salt Lake County’s housing shortage and high home prices have led to the “tightest” apartment market in the county’s history, according to research released today by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.
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Affiliation agreement allows the organizations to work together to support breakthroughs in biomedical research and technologies within the Hackensack Meridian Health network, the largest and most comprehensive in New Jersey.
According to the researchers, investors in social funds may view their investment as a contribution to social causes.
MITRE named Dr. Stephen Ondra as the new Chief Medical Advisor for its work as operator of the CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare federally funded research and development center (Health FFRDC).
A new study has found that artificial intelligence (AI) apps helped protect small and medium-sized businesses against many of the risks that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic – yet only a quarter of small firms currently use them.
Elevate Ventures has recognized as one of Indiana’s most active professional investors in its annual assessment of venture investment activity in the Hoosier state.
CUR congratulates its 2021 Campus-Wide Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishments (AURA) awardees Elon University (Elon, NC), Mercer University (Georgia), and University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (La Crosse, WI). This award recognizes institutions with exemplary programs that provide high-quality research experiences for undergraduates. A celebration of these awardees will take place during the national Undergraduate Research Week (URW) on Thursday, April 21, 2022.
During a press conference, a reporter asked Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY, “What do you make of Senator Manchin’s proposal to have more domestic oil production?” Schumer answered, "the U.S. is a major oil producer; we only get one percent of any imports from Russia.” We find this claim to be mostly false. Although it fluctuates month to month, about 8% of the oil imported to the U.S. is from Russia.
Utah’s consumer sentiment rose by 1.9 points from January to February, increasing to 78.8, according to the Kem C. Gardner Institute’s Utah Consumer Sentiment Survey.
Working a nontraditional schedule, and checking in at all hours of the day, night and weekends, is not necessarily beneficial for the 21st-century workforce, according to new Cornell University research.
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Associate Professor Alessandro Rebucci explains how economic sanctions could impact Russia and the global economy.
The Center for Global Business at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business on June 3 will host a second annual event recognizing Maryland-based Global Businesses for Innovative Pandemic-Era Pivots.
Chicago-based Rush University System for Health is expanding services in Northwest Indiana with a new outpatient center opening in Munster in late summer.
Thomas O. Ryder, an investor, entrepreneur, and retired corporate executive, was elected to the Focused Ultrasound Foundation's Board of Directors at their March 1 meeting.
The Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Foundation and the Aspen Institute Latinos and Society Program announced that Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso’s Veronique Masterson received the Woody and Gayle Hunt Aspen Institute Fellowship. Masterson serves as assistant vice president for marketing and communications with the Office of Institutional Advancement at TTUHSC El Paso. The university is the only health sciences center on the U.S.-Mexico border designated as a Title V Hispanic-Serving Institution.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Tennessee Valley Authority, or TVA, are joining forces to advance decarbonization technologies from discovery through deployment through a new memorandum of understanding, or MOU.
The study finds that consumers are more likely to use mobile payment methods when they receive price incentives for doing so. The transition can last for a few days, even after the price incentives end.
Maryland Smith hosts an annual conference designed to deepen the understanding of strategy, policy and systems fostering health IT and analytics’ effective use, to stimulate new ideas with both policy and business implications, and facilitate collaboration among academia, government and industry.
Ten Sandia National Laboratories engineers received Black Engineer of the Year Awards this year, including Most Promising Scientist in Government, Research Leadership, Science Spectrum Trailblazers and Modern-Day Technology Leaders.
Whether they’re getting a new shirt, a new computer, or taking a trip, people derive less “purchase happiness” from buying things when they feel financial stress, research from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business shows.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) today announced the pharmaceutical company, Baudax Bio, as a new ASA Industry Supporter, supporting the work of the Society and physician anesthesiologists to reduce reliance on opioids during or following surgery and ensuring that non-opioid alternatives are available to patients.
A new analysis of U.S. jobs data shows that during 2020 and the first six months of 2021, the average wages for health care workers rose less than wages for workers in other industries.
Big banking is saying little on how they will combat climate change through their financing, shows a new study which finds minimal, clear commitments to aid financing away from fossil fuels.
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 24, 2022 — The University of California, Irvine has received over 142,000 applications for fall 2022, setting a new record and continuing to solidify its position as one of the most desired schools in the country. A total of 119,165 aspiring freshmen applied for fall admittance to UCI, an increase of more than 11,000 from last year.
The most common demands of the 140,000 striking American workers in 2021 involved health and safety protocols, pay and health care benefits, according to a new report from the Cornell University ILR Labor Action Tracker 2021.
Ken and Randy Kendrick's contribution to West Virginia University's John Chambers College of Business and Economics will expand business education at both WVU and across West Virginia.
Beth Israel Lahey Health announced the opening of an on-site pharmacy at Bowdoin Street Health Center that will expand access to convenient medications for the health center’s approximately 11,000 patients other members of the Bowdoin-Geneva community in Massachusetts.
CEO activism can be a net positive for firms, but only when a majority of employees are in agreement with the CEO, according to research from lead author Adam Wowak and John Busenbark, management professors in Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, along with Donald Hambrick from Penn State University.
Enhanced oversight over the auditing profession and firms’ financial reporting has led to a proliferation of models to predict financial statement fraud. But one of the first forensic models, the M-Score, devised by an Indiana University Kelley School of Business professor in the late 90s, remains accurate and is the most economically viable for investors to use, according to a forthcoming paper in The Accounting Review — the official journal of the American Accounting Association.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) today announced the acquisition of Anesthesia Toolbox, a collaborative education platform and learning community for anesthesiology residency programs, from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, Oregon.
Student researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso Aerospace Center will engage in nuclear materials technology research through a five-year, $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The award renews the Partnership for Research and Education Consortium in Ceramics and Polymers (PRE-CCAP).
Made possible by a generous gift from University of Miami alumnus and trustee Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., the Taylor Family/UTrailblazers Experience includes a trove of archival materials from the period immediately after and beyond the institution’s desegregation.
The urgent drive to build financial resilience and identify practical, accessible solutions to overcome financial illiteracy is taking a giant leap ahead thanks to new, multiyear support through Next Gen Personal Finance for the groundbreaking G53 Financial Literacy and Personal Finance Research Network.
About half of the world’s population is self-employed, and self-employed women earn only about half as much as men, according to the World Bank. Social scientists believed for years that increasing women’s access to capital would shrink the earnings gap.
More states are requiring employers to disclose information about their workers’ salaries with the hope it will reduce gender and racial pay gaps. But increasing pay transparency can also have some surprising impacts on worker productivity, according to a new large-scale study that is the first to examine how employees respond when they find out how much both their peers and bosses make
Mercy Medical Center has been ranked as one of the top 500 midsize employers (1,000-5,000 employees) in the United States for 2022 by Forbes magazine, a leading national business publication.
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