The nominations are in and the stage is set for An Evening with the Stars, the annual sparkling celebration of all that is good about Johns Hopkins Nursing. Its Shining Star Awards honor outstanding nurses in the Hopkins community. Nominees are invited to the event and winners are announced at the ceremony.
Several units at the University of Louisville will join together with groups from throughout Louisville and the United States to commemorate the end of World War II.
Case Western Reserve University will host Innovation Summit 2015: Models of Innovation to explore the opportunities and challenges of various models of innovation at the global scale. On Oct. 26-28, corporate leaders, entrepreneurs, academic experts and policy makers nationally will examine how diverse regions and industries leverage their strengths to fuel new companies, products, technologies and ideas.
A TV chef, a pioneer of Coventry’s musical heritage and a polar explorer and will be helping to highlight the contribution the University of Warwick has made at home and abroad since it was established 50 years ago
The second annual Senior Executive Cybersecurity Conference (Thursday, Sept. 10, at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore) will focus on the conflict between crime fighting and privacy. Early-bird discount registration prices are in effect through Aug. 15.
Georgia Campus - Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine celebrates 10 years of impact. Since opening its doors in 2005, the college has generated millions of dollars in economic impact, created dozens of jobs and helped train hundreds of students to do more for themselves, the community and the world.
Two-day festival inspired by J. K. Rowling's books takes over downtown Chestertown, on Maryland's Eastern Shore Oct. 2-3, as fans of all ages celebrate their favorite stories and characters from the Harry Potter series.
This summer mathematicians from around the world will come to Washington, D.C., for a once-in-a-century event: the Mathematical Association of America’s (MAA) centennial celebration at MathFest. MAA MathFest 2015 will be the cumulative event honoring the MAA’s 100 years as a professional society, which promises a wide-ranging program for attendees.
The weekend begins with a reception on Friday evening and includes a full day of presentations and discussion groups on Saturday and a half day on Sunday. Our featured speaker will be Dr. Issam Awad, Chair of the Angioma Alliance Scientific Advisory Board. There will be panel discussions on rehabilitation and on coping/self-care. We will have a separate program for children and teens. Please check our website at www.angioma.org/pages.aspx?content=447 for full conference details.
This special, free interactive presentation will give participants a chance to learn about NASA’s New Horizons mission — the first to fly by Pluto and into the Kuiper Belt.
One of the most promising areas of research in the fight against cancer is immunotherapy, or stimulating the body’s own immune system to destroy cancer. Jason Chesney, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the University of Louisville Department of Medicine and the deputy director of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, is conducting clinical trials using checkpoint inhibitors as well as modified herpes virus in the treatment of melanoma with impressive results.
An Argentine science journalist and former mathematics professor, Paenza is presenting his lecture about mathematics education called “The Wrong Door” on Tuesday, July 7, at 6:30 p.m. at the Embassy of Argentina, 1600 New Hampshire Avenue, Washington, D.C. The lecture is hosted by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and Embassy of Argentina.
University of Oklahoma hosts 2015 CUR Professional Development Conference from June 23-25, 2015
This summer, Broward College students are among the first to participate in Workday@College, a new initiative that trains students enrolled at higher education institutions with the leading-edge skills and real-world experience required to join the next generation of consultants that will support Workday customers.
A major conference will get underway today (18 June 2015) bringing together journalists, international researchers, privacy advocates and technology developers to discuss the relationship between the state, its citizens and the media in the aftermath of the Snowden leaks.
Researchers from around the world – and across the Internet – with gather at Canada’s Perimeter Institute to discuss the future of physics during the Convergence conference, June 20-24, 2015.
More than 1,700 scientists are expected to attend the 20th International C. elegans Meeting, organized by the Genetics Society of America (GSA), June 24–28, 2015, in Los Angeles, California. This biennial meeting is the world's largest assembly of scientists conducting cutting-edge research using the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans, a model organism that lends itself to easy investigation where findings can easily be translated to humans.
Rusk Rehabilitation Celebrates 65 Years as Leaders in Rehabilitation Medicine with Research Symposium and other special events
The University of Southampton’s world-leading achievements in autonomous systems and artificial intelligence will be celebrated at a special event in London next week to mark the inaugural lecture of Professor Nick Jennings, who has been awarded a Regius Professorship in Computer Science.
This one-day symposium at MIT will examine the heterogeneity within tumors that shape their evolutions and allow them to resist treatments. Nearly 1,000 cancer researchers and clinical oncologists will assemble to learn about the latest breakthroughs in overcoming the clinical challenges this complexity creates for cancer diagnostics and therapy.
Wes Anson, accomplished author, international intellectual property (IP) valuation and licensing expert and chair of CONSOR, an intellectual asset consulting firm, will be the keynote speaker for Georgia State University College of Law’s 11th annual IP Hot Topics Luncheon at noon, Wednesday, June 10, at the Georgia State Student Center, 44 Courtland St. SE.
Registration is open for the 41st Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) Annual Educational Conference on September 30-October 3, 2015, in New Orleans, which provides a forum for knowledge sharing and engagement that features the finest educators and thought leaders in the world of rehabilitation nursing. No matter the type of setting, rehabilitation nursing principles and practical clinical topics are the same for all nurses working with people experiencing a traumatic injury or chronic illness.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) will host Emerging Issues in Tissue Allocation, on June 8, 2015, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
NYIT will once again bring together public and private experts to explore and debate key energy issues. The annual energy conference features panel discussions and presentations on energy, water, and climate change.
“Born Free” ruled the box office and the Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” topped the Billboard charts when UC Irvine’s first graduating class of 14 students received their diplomas. On June 25, 1966, in what is now the Libraries Gateway Study Center, they gathered with family and friends at tables draped in harvest-gold linens and shook the hand of founding Chancellor Daniel G. Aldrich Jr. This year – representing the scale by which the campus has grown – ceremonies for UCI’s 50th graduating class will stretch over four days in the Bren Events Center, and 7,057 Anteaters will participate. Ten school-based events will be held, featuring addresses by renowned leaders in business, technology, athletics and law.
At Stony Brook University’s 55th commencement ceremony today at Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium, 6,298 students had their degrees conferred, becoming the University’s newest alumni. They joined more than 155,000 of their forerunners around the globe whose lives and work personify the mission of Stony Brook
The Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing celebrated several special events for graduate and undergraduate Nursing, Health Systems Management, Exercise Science and Dietetics students recently.
Having contributed $1.4 million over the past decade to research efforts at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the Century for the Cure charity bike ride is gearing up for another successful year to support early-stage studies in leukemia, lymphomas and kidney cancer.
Noting that she was cut three times before finally making the United States Olympic team, Meghan Musnicki challenged the Ithaca College class of 2015 to “fail forward.” Musnicki, who won a gold medal as a member of the women’s crew team at the 2012 Summer Olympics, delivered the main address at Ithaca College’s 120th Commencement ceremony.
Medical students, advanced practice nurses, military dentists, and scientists, clinical psychologists, and public health professionals will move from student to alumni status on Saturday, May 16 – Armed Forces Day – as they receive their degrees at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) 36th commencement exercise at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
Berkeley-Haas' Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics presents its annual real estate conference in San Francisco, CA
Don Greenberg was thrilled to be announced as one of this year’s student Commencement speakers for Binghamton University’s Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science. However, when he learned that his Commencement ceremony was on Shabbat, it appeared as if all hope was lost. Growing up as an Orthodox Jew, Shabbat had always been a time for Greenberg to spend with friends and family, while also resting. For many Jews, Shabbat is a time to disregard many of the typical demands of modernity, such as driving, using electronics, writing, cooking and other forms of “work.”
While we can’t stop solar storms and CMEs, we can mitigate their effect on the electric grid. Join a S&T and NASA discussion on the work.
Case Western Reserve University Professor of Organizational Behavior Diana Bilimoria is attracting a global audience to her expertise on how women and men can achieve their full leadership potential in their workplaces. Her massive open online course (MOOC), called Women in Leadership: Inspiring Positive Change, begins Friday, May 15. Offered free through the Coursera platform, the course allows enrolled students to participate online from anywhere. It’s a way to experience and learn from concepts Bilimoria has developed through her well-known and highly regarded management research.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute business students and alumni and alumnae at the Lally School of Management are transforming the world every day. Two Lally students from the graduating Class of 2015, Chloe Hutchinson and Steven Moretti, are highlighted. They represent some of the many dedicated Rensselaer students who want to answer the challenges of a rapidly changing global economy, whether as innovative decision makers in existing companies, or as self-propelled entrepreneurs.
A Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, a pioneer in health care information technology, an ethics expert who influenced national health policy, and a Nobel Prize-winning neurologist were honored at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s 46th annual commencement ceremony at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center on May 8th, 2015.
A team of engineering students representing Wichita State University is among 20 university teams from around the world selected for the second round of the Valeo Innovation Challenge.
Medical missionary and Indiana University School of Medicine alumnus Dr. Kent Brantly challenged 2015 graduates to remain true to their calling during his May 9 commencement address.
National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins will deliver the Presidential lecture during the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) annual Research Days symposium, May 12-13. More than 300 basic and clinical scientists and students will also present their scholarly works during the two-day event held on the university’s Bethesda, Md., campus.
Several academic units at UA have entered into collaboration with Court 13, a New Orleans-based film cooperative that produced the Academy Award-nominated “Beasts of the Southern Wild.”
The severity of climate change as a global issue and whether humans are causing climate shifts have been hotly debated among individuals and politicians in recent years. At the next Beer with a Scientist event, a UofL scientist will discuss the science behind the issue.
Celebrated Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov to Deliver 2015 Commencement Address at Saint Louis University May 16.
On Friday, May 1st, the University of Chicago will host the Latin American Policy Forum 2015, a day-long event in which prestigious and high-ranking practitioners and policy players from Latin America are invited to the University to discuss relevant and pressing issues for the region.
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Announces Major General Margaret C. Wilmoth as Commencement Speaker on May 18, 3 p.m. at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia
Stephanie Courtney, who graduated from Harpur College with an English degree in 1992, will speak at Binghamton University's Harpur Fine Arts/Humanities ceremony at noon Sunday, May 27, where she will be honored as an alumna.
Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University will hold a public forum on May 6, 2015 that will address the rising popularity of e-cigarettes in the United States—and the public health consequences of that trend.
On May 1, 2015, the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center is hosting the annual Spring Flours Gluten-Free Gala. The event will feature a multi-course, gluten-free dinner created by some of Chicago’s best chefs and bakers.
CUR to Honor Champion of Undergraduate Research at Capitol Hill Event The Honorable Eddie Bernice Johnson to Receive Honorary CUR Fellow Award
Apple CEO Tim Cook will deliver the George Washington University's Commencement address before graduates on May 17.
Admiral Michelle Howard, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, will address graduates on May 30 at the 209th Commencement Ceremony of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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