The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) and the Vitality Institute will host a forum on February 20 to explore the challenges associated with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and how to refine the health promotion message.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business announced the winners of its first sustainability innovation pitch night competition.
UChicago alums share career advice with students at annual Taking the Next Step event.
The Survey Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago will mark its half-century of service with a symposium at UIC on March 6, 2 - 4 p.m. A March 4 symposium will be held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A reception will follow each. Both events are free and open to the public.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) commemorates its 150th anniversary at a symposium – “Building on 150 Years: The Future of National Banking” – hosted by the Boston University Center for Finance, Law & Policy on March 31, 2014, at Boston’s Hynes Convention Center.
John B. Rhodes, president and chief executive officer of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), will give the keynote address this week at the 2013-14 Annual Conference of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES).
UA students seeking to start their own business now have an opportunity to turn their idea into reality and receive startup funding. The Edward K. Aldag, Jr. $50,000 Business Plan Competition hosted by the Culverhouse College of Commerce will award three students with the winning business plans will split the winnings for startup funding and in–kind services.
University of Louisville School of Medicine students will show their support for kids with cancer and raise funds for pediatric cancer research at a St. Baldrick’s head-shaving event Thursday, Feb. 13.
Peter Rodriguez, senior associate dean for degree programs and chief diversity officer, addressed students, faculty and staff members who gathered at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business First Coffee celebration in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with these words:
Edna Adan Ismail is the inaugural recipient of the Penn Nursing Renfield Foundation Award for Global Women’s Health. This award and $100,000 prize will be presented biennially to a leader or leaders in the field of global women’s health. It was established at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in 2012 by the Beatrice Renfield Foundation.
America’s biggest challenges include inequality, political polarization and gridlock, a large and growing national debt that threatens to crowd out key investments in the future, and a global competition for talent and capital that threatens America’s longstanding advantage in those areas, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said Tuesday at a graduate student town hall meeting at the University of Virginia.
World-renowned analytics experts will present innovative case studies at The University of Alabama's 2014 Institute of Business Analytics annual symposium Jan. 30-31 at the Hotel Capstone.
The long-awaited Binghamton University MarketPlace will officially open for business Monday, Jan. 27, following an 18-month, $8-million renovation. A reception to celebrate the completion and opening will be held from 3-5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, at the University Union.
On Friday, 17 January, the Wine and Cuisine Club at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, will host its 2014 annual food and beverage conference.
Join Dr. Edward Moses at the February 5 Perimeter Institute Public Lecture to explore how the world`s most energetic laser system, the National Ignition Facility, is honing in on a virtually inexhaustible energy supply.
Leaders from consulting, financial services and the food and grocery retail industries will speak during the spring 2014 session of the Darden Leadership Speaker Series. The theme for the series is "Leaders Who Inspire Innovation, Collaboration and Growth."
The Russian city of Sochi, host to the 2014 Winter Olympics, is the focus of a new exhibition — “The Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus,” by photographer Rob Hornstra and writer Arnold van Bruggen — that debuts in the U.S. Jan. 9 at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Korbel Albright will return to her alma mater to meet with 40 promising Wellesley students selected as this year’s Albright Fellows. These young women will spend their winter break learning the ropes on how to change the world from Secretary Albright and an all-star faculty roster of influential leaders, academics, policymakers, business executives, and journalists. The 2014 Albright Institute Wintersession Program begins on January 6, 2014 and runs through January 24, 2014.
The chairman and CEO of Noble Energy spoke about the future of energy in his keynote address at the scholarship event at the Westin Galleria Dallas. Charles (Chuck) Davidson and his wife, Nancy Gundy Davidson BS’80, longtime Jindal School supporters, also visited with students in the Davidson Management Honors Program.
Coding is often thought of as male activity, but students at Wellesley College, an all-women’s college outside of Boston, are challenging that notion.
In an effort to make the Affordable Care Act a shared and understood conversation among individuals in West Philadelphia, University of the Sciences will host a discussion regarding this complex law on Monday, Dec. 16, from 7-8 p.m., at the University’s McNeil Science and Technology Center.
The following is a sampling of research results that will be presented by University of Rhode Island scientists at the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting in San Francisco from Dec. 9 to 13:
More than 200 technology gurus working in higher academia across the tri-state region will gather at University of the Sciences for the Northeast eLearning Consortium Fall 2013 UnConference on Dec. 16.
Playwright/actress Anna Deavere Smith and cellist Joshua Roman will spend three weeks in residency at UChicago and present a public work-in-progress performance of "On Grace" at the Harris Theater Jan. 21.
On Wednesday, December 4, 2013, as part of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, join Dr. Penelope Boston on a spelunking adventure into Earth’s most extreme underground environments for a glimpse at distant worlds and life forms that may inhabit them.
The Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business presents its annual symposium on the real estate market and industry trends.
The Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing has announced a new online program in data science. The program, which will launch in January, is designed to lead to a Certificate in Data Science that is anticipated to be available by spring.
Philadelphia, 17.11.13: The Sbarro Health Research Organization, the College of Science and Technology of Temple University, Integrated Systems Engineering (ISENET) and ISENET-USA LLC teamed up to organize a Tissue Microarray (TMA) Workshop on the value of the TMA technology in biomarker validation, drug response and diagnostics on November 20th, 2013, at University City Science Center, 3711 Market Street, Philadelphia PA.
One of America’s largest healthcare simulation centers, incorporating more than 30,000 sq. ft. of virtual reality, surgical simulation, task trainers, standardized patients, and high fidelity mannequins, will officially be dedicated as the “Val G. Hemming Simulation Center” on Monday, Nov. 18.
Experts on Internet privacy and hate speech to speak at University of Maryland Carey School of Law
UM Carey School of Law hosts panel discussion with local, state and national experts discussing human trafficking.
Award-winning author, renowned poet and Civil Rights activist Dr. Maya Angelou told a packed auditorium at Wake Forest University that the best way to understand others is to “keep your mouth shut and listen.” She was among several "living legends" at a Nov. 6 celebration of dignity and respect – an event that addressed timely issues such as partisan divisions in Washington and incivility on social media.
From Nov. 7 to 9, distinguished scholars and novelists A.S. Byatt and Tom McCarthy will come together at the University of Chicago's Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts to examine four of the most enduring novels in the English language: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Henry James’ The Golden Bowl, and James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Two back-to-back major international conferences focused on data science and the information it can provide business, education, and healthcare leaders will bring global attention to Little Rock in early November. Still time to register for one or both sessions.
Following a hiatus, Salisbury University's American Women Writers of Color Conference returns this year. In response to new developments in the English discipline, its scope has expanded to cover not only North American writers, but also those of South and Central America, including the Caribbean.
“Mastering the Pivot” is the theme of the inaugural Business Opportunities to Success Summit (BOSS), which will be held Thursday, December 5, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn in Troy, New York. The event is open to entrepreneurs, executives, researchers, students, business professionals, and investors.
On Saturday, Nov. 2, leading philosophers and educators from around the country will come together at the University of Chicago for talks, panel discussions and demonstrations highlighting the importance of fostering philosophy at the K–12 level. Participants will learn about the state of pre-collegiate philosophy in the United States, with representatives from various pre-collegiate philosophy programs discussing their work. They will also learn how their schools or school systems can easily implement philosophy programs.
Perimeter Institute Associate Faculty member Avery Broderick will explore how astronomers are now imaging the horizons of black holes and attaining new insights about these enigmatic monsters in the dark.
Alumnus Dr. William Foege '57 will return to Pacific Lutheran University on Nov. 21 to talk about his life's work.
UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business’ 2013 Fraud and Misconduct Conference is the first event of its type ever organized by a business school. Assistant Professor Jo-Ellen Pozner developed the conference with other Haas professors to create a center of scholarship around wrongdoing in organizations.
The ninth annual Berkeley-Haas >play conference is a day of memorable keynotes from industry titans, panels on the latest digital media trends, a product expo and rocket pitch, plus a career fair. The >play conference is entirely produced by MBA students from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
Can academic cooperation boost investment? It’s at the heart of the University of Michigan’s largest ever joint medical science symposium with Israel spans Oct. 18-21 to leverage the diverse expertise of world class research institutions to advance medical research to real-world patient care. As the state works to enhance its business ties to Israel, academic cooperation is seen as a key element in increasing investment in Michigan.
CIHR Café Scientifique is presented by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and its Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health.
Elon University is pleased to announce the 2014-2016 Center for Engaged Learning Seminar on Mentoring Undergraduate Research, a two-year research seminar that supports individuals interested in pursuing research that advances excellence in mentoring undergraduate research. We invite interested scholars from across the disciplines to submit applications to join a cohort of researchers collaborating on the study of evidenced-based, high-quality undergraduate research mentoring practices in diverse academic ecologies. We invite interested scholars from across the disciplines to submit applications to join a cohort of researchers collaborating on the study of evidenced-based, high-quality undergraduate research mentoring practices in diverse academic ecologies.
NYIT has organized TEDxNYIT - "Meta Resiliency" - a day-long event at NYIT Auditorium on Broadway focusing on the meaning of true resilience in today's world. What did we learn after Hurricane Sandy, 9/11 and other disruptions? What does a bottom-up grass roots response look like? What are new opportunities of resiliency pedagogy and praxis? What is the relevance of resiliency? Speakers and artists will share their ideas at this special event.
Advances in modern medicine and biotechnology have changed the way people die. Unfortunately, families of dying patients are often critical of and report dissatisfaction with what they view as highly medicalized deaths.
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, a 1990 graduate of Anna Maria College’s Criminal Justice Program, will participate in the College's Fall Symposium: The Boston Marathon Attack: A Study in Partnerships scheduled for Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. at the AMC Paxton Campus.
During the month of October, Nova Southeastern University’s Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences (GSCIS) is hosting a series of events in observance of National Cyber Security Awareness Month.
The Lally School of Management and Technology, the business school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, recently launched a new Master of Science in Supply Chain Management program for fall 2013. To celebrate the start of the program, Meredith Stevens ’84, chief supply chain officer at Newell Rubbermaid and a Rensselaer alumna, will deliver a keynote talk titled, “Transforming Supply Chain Leadership from the Back Room to the Boardroom.” The program will be held on the Rensselaer campus on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 4 p.m. in the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies auditorium.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumnus Karthik Bala ’97 and his brother, Guha Bala, co-founders of the successful video game development company Vicarious Visions, have been selected as the 2013 William F. Glaser ’53 Rensselaer Entrepreneurs of the Year. Established in 1990, the award brings the world of entrepreneurship into Rensselaer classrooms by recognizing successful entrepreneurs and role models who share their wisdom and experiences with students.
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