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.
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