Feb
22
UF Students have mixed reviews for technology that will soonrequire them to scan their hands before entering campus gyms. David Bowles, director of Recreational Sports at UF, saidinstalling hand scanners in campus gyms will eliminate the need forstudents to bring their Gator 1 Cards along for their workouts. David Stopka, UF’s associate director for facility …
Feb
22
Practices form regional pulmonary medicine program Two private pulmonology medical practices led by Dr. Anthony M. Costrini and Dr. James A. Daly, III, have joined forces. Effective Jan. 1, they become Southeast Lung Associates and will continue serving Southeast Georgia and the Lowcountry of South Carolina offering pulmonary, critical care, sleep disorders medicine, interventional pulmonary …
Feb
22
The Alliance for Women in Media (AWM) has endorsed, and will once again, co-present TVNewsCheck’s Women in Technology Leadership Award. The award, which this year will honor Andrea Berry, senior vice president of media services at Fox Network Engineering and Operations, turns a spotlight on women who have contributed significantly toward advancing their industry technologically. …
Feb
22
Bold Commitments Aim for Dramatic Increase in STEM Teacher Corps U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Urges Partners to Raise Bar on STEM Education New Donor Brings 100Kin10 Fund to $24 Million. New Online Registry Facilitates Applications to Fund February 21, 2012, Washington, D.C. - In a dramatic response to the nation’s critical shortage of …
Feb
22
SCI Scholars– Summer 2012 Internships for Undergraduates The program is a joint effort of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) America International Group, the American Chemical Society (ACS), and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and was developed to introduce chemistry and chemical engineering students to careers in the chemical industry. Thirty scholars will …
Feb
22
UNT guest speaker to discuss immigration of Jews to Israel UNT will present a lecture called “Immigration and Israel’s Multicultural Mosaic” by Larissa Remennick, a sociology professor at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, at 3 p.m. Thursday in the Silver Eagle Suite of the University Union, 1155 Union Circle. The lecture is presented by …
Feb
21
William DeWitt DeCourcy, age 90 of The Village at the Presbyterian Home of Summerville, SC died peacefully in his sleep on February 15, 2012. Born August 20,1921 in Corning, NY, he was the son of the late William Dyer DeCourcy and the late Ethel DeWitt DeCourcy. Mr. DeCourcy grew up in Corning NY, graduated from …
Feb
21
Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari has been accused of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. (credit: Lubbock County Sheriff's Office) LUBBOCK (AP) – A Saudi man accused of trying to make a weapon of mass destruction and targeting former President George W. Bush’s home in Dallas is mentally competent to stand trial, a federal judge …
Feb
21
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 The Carnegie Science Center has named Illah Nourbakhsh, professor of robotics, as the winner of the Catalyst Award in this year’s Carnegie Science Awards.The Catalyst Award recognizes excellence in promoting public awareness of scientific issues, and advancing science in society to bring about measurable, beneficial change.Nourbakhsh directs the CREATE Lab, which …
Feb
21
The world’s population is growing at the fastest pace in history, so finding ways to provide for all of us requires innovative and creative ideas. Many of those ideas come from engineers. Engineers Week, observed Feb. 19-25, is dedicated to recognizing how the work of engineers makes our lives easier, healthier, safer, more comfortable and …