Press Releases by Category Science & Education
Colorado State University-Global Campus Launches New Initiative for Military Stu …
New Scholarship and Military Specific Resources Will Help Active Duty Service Members, Veterans and Their Families Complete Their Degrees Online
Greenwood Village, CO, September 26, 2013 – In an effort to best support military students seeking to complete their degree, Colorado State University-Global Campus (CSUGlobal.edu) announced today the launch of Operation EDU. This new initiative features services, resources and a new scholarship program exclusively designed to help active duty service members,…
AGRICOM Conference on Challenges in Hydroponic and Irrigational Training Success …
Viterbo, September 2013 – The AGRICOM Final Conference came to a successful conclusion on the premises of the University of Tuscia in Viterbo, Italy on September 20th. Highlights of the conference include keynotes by Cecilia Stanghellini from the innovative Wageningen University Research Centre, Dimitrios Savvas of the Agricultural University of Athens, and Dietmar Schwarz and Henrike Perner from the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops. Their contributions concerning water…
AssessmentTA from ExamSoft Helps Faculty Members Give Students More than Just a …
Leading provider of intelligent assessments offers new way for faculty to enrich the feedback students receive, improve the way exams are created, delivered, and analyzed, saving faculty valuable time, so they can focus on instruction instead of grading
Dallas, Texas, September 24, 2013 – ExamSoft, the leading provider of intelligent embedded assessment solutions, today announced, AssessmentTA, a combination of easy-to-use software and dedicated services that will help faculty focus on teaching,…
Career Step Publishes New Infographic on Factors Keeping Adults from Higher Educ …
PROVO, Utah—September 24, 2013—Career Step, an online school offering career-focused education, has published a new infographic with statistics on the factors keeping adults from returning to school despite the well-publicized benefits of higher education. The infographic includes data from a survey conducted by Career Step in August 2013.
“Career Step’s mission is to help individuals improve their lives through education, and we conducted this survey to better understand the challenges…
Nanion Starts Shipping the SyncroPatch 384 Patch Engine - a Revolutionary Instru …
The brand-new SyncroPatch 384 Patch Engine (PE) now released by Nanion Technologies propels ion channel drug discovery to a new level. Designed for seamless integration into process-automated drug screening environments, the Patch Engine is equipped with 384 patch clamp amplifiers and an advanced 384 channel liquid handling robot.
The SyncroPatch 384PE is the high quality, automated patch clamp system able to finally thrust gold standard electrophysiology from secondary to primary…
Chicago-Based Company Releases Online Financial Education Program
Financial Education of America, LLC announces release of Futurebuck course to increase financial literacy in young adults
Chicago, IL, September 21, 2013 -- Financial Education of America, LLC announces the release of Futurebuck, an online education course designed to teach young adults about financial, credit and debt management. Through a series of ten short, interactive video modules, the program covers essential financial topics such as credit cards, student loans and budget…
Scope to Present “Metadata – Enhancing Discoverability and Search Precision” at …
Scope e-Knowledge Center, a leading provider of content enhancement and knowledge services, will be presenting “Metadata – Enhancing Discoverability and Search Precision" at the Professional & Scientific Information (Hall 4.2) Hot Spot stage on October 10, 2013 from 11.30 am – 12 noon at the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair. Rich Kobel, Vice President, Business Development will explore the challenges of creating accurate and consistent descriptive metadata…
Career Step Releases Its New ICD-10 FastTrack Course
PROVO, Utah—September 20, 2013— Career Step, an online school offering career-focused education, is pleased to announce the release of its new ICD-10 FastTrack course, which is designed to prepare ICD-9 trained and experienced medical coders for the October 1, 2014 transition to the ICD-10 code set. This streamlined program was developed in collaboration with renowned industry experts Ann Zeisset, RHIT, CCS, CCS-P, and Gail Smith, MA, RHIA, CCS-P, as well…
Epic CNC Training Academy Launches Website
Epic CNC Training Academy is proud to announce the official launch of its website, epiccncacademy.com. Epic CNC Training Academy offers an 8-week training and certification program that prepares CNC Machinists for a career in CNC Milling and Turning through hands-on training and education.
Featuring streamlined navigation and a clean user-friendly design, the website provides in-depth information about the school, curriculum, program objectives, class schedules and admission requirements. The site encourages…
Education Management Solutions Makes Lead411 Tech 200 List of Fastest-Growing US …
Exton, Pa. (September 19, 2013) Information services company Lead411 recently released the Tech 200, its annual list of the fastest growing technology companies and top revenue-producing startups in the US.
Lead411’s Tech 200 list identifies companies are privately held and show growth in the technology and marketing sectors, and earned more than $1 million in revenue in 2012.
Those with the highest percentage of revenue growth from 2010 to 2012 are ranked,…
Beirut Evangelical School for Girls and Boys Decides to Implement White Mountain …
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(Beirut, Lebanon) 18 September 2013 – The Beirut Evangelical School for Girls and Boys (BESGB) recently signed with White Mountain Technologies to put into operation Skoolee, the school management and student information system for K-12 academic institutions. The comprehensiveness of the software and multi-user feature of Skoolee were most appealing to the Beirut Evangelical School for Girls and Boys.
BESGB and White Mountain held a series of fit-gap…
ECTS credits for MOOCs on iversity
Bernau, 18 September 2013 – For the first time, ECTS credits will be granted for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). iversity, a platform for academic online teaching, is taking this unprecedented step in cooperation with the University of Osnabrück and the Lübeck University of Applied Sciences.
Prof. Oliver Vornberger, Ars Legendi laureate (a prestigious German prize for teaching excellence) and e-learning expert at the University of Osnabrück, will offer the…
New massive open online course (MOOC) will connect global community of K-12 onli …
(McVeytown, PA) – Online teachers around the world are enrolling in the Blended Schools Network’s newest MOOC, “Today’s Online Teacher”. The course is designed to educate teachers about trends and best practices in online teaching. Each week of the seven-week course includes a live session, course materials, sharing by participants, and feedback on projects. It’s also filled with opportunities for teachers to make connections and build a learning community. Throughout…
All Star Spanish Announces New Spanish Language Program for High School Students
All Star Spanish announces a new all inclusive Spanish language study program for homeschool and unschool students. Located in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, "Our program helps teens to significantly improve their Spanish comprehension and conversation skills in a very short time while living in a safe, beautiful resort environment," says All Star founder, Scot Cowan.
Home school students face a unique set of disadvantages when studying a foreign…
Nitiride and Silicon — analysis systems in miniature format
How can molecules or cells be analysed fast and precise? And how are instruments manufactured that allow studying each single molecule? iX-factory GmbH fabricates Biochips out of glass and silicon with integrated nanomembranes out of nitride. These layers can have a thickness of subnanometers up to several hundred nanometers. Using state-of-the-art etching technologies allows iX-factory to create different structures on the membranes, which allow the detection / analysis of single…
TEDxFriedrichshain City 2.0 Live from New York – Broadcast event
Berlin, Friedrichshain - The organizers of TEDxFriedrichshain are very excited to announce the streaming of the third session of the TEDxCity2.0 event live from New York City on September 20, 2013 - Dream me. Build me. Make me real.
Join a night filled with 2 hours of talks that will inspire, entertain, and challenge your thinking and enjoy lively & interesting conversations afterwards.
The broadcast of Session 3 - Reimagining the City will…
Eduboard.com Introduces a New Improved Tutoring Platform
FL, USA – September 1, 2013 – Eduboard.com, one of the most reliable and effective online tutoring service providers and the TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award winner of 2013, today announced the availability of a new improved tutoring platform equipped with a shared whiteboard, text and voice chat tools. Eduboard is the leading tutoring marketplace that allows students of all ages and grade levels to connect to expert tutors from all over…
ORGIDS: Open data portal with more than a decade of ophthalmic data
The Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute (R.O.I.) launches ORGIDS (http://orgids.com), an open data portal containing data from clinical glaucoma research that was acquired during more than a decade. Commonly, when ophthalmologists and scientists start a new clinical study to get a better insight into diseases such as glaucoma, a large amount of resources is spent on getting data from patients which is then analyzed. The R.O.I. now makes data that was collected…
Winning ideas for the cities of tomorrow
Morgenstadt (city of the future) and the “Fraunhofer IZS elektromobilisiert” living lab honored in 2013 competition as Landmarks in the Land of Ideas
Fraunhofer IAO’s “Fraunhofer IZS elektromobilisiert” living lab, located at the Fraunhofer campus Stuttgart IZS, and Fraunhofer’s Morgenstadt (city of the future) initiative examine what life will be like in the cities and communities of tomorrow. The pioneering nature of these research efforts impressed the jury for the Germany…
Project Management Being Interesting With Online CAPM Certification
Certified Associate in Project Management, commonly known as CAPM, clearly spells out the merit in attaining knowledge and utilizing the trends and updates going on in the domain of project management. The CAPM Training and Certification adds very intrinsic features in a professional, from traits of planning to execution and from having super creativity to vision, it improves the work performance and organizational profits taken together. To support the idea…
Blood Donation. A CSR initiative by Earth Infrastructures Ltd.
With the motto "Give the gift of life: donate blood", Earth Infrastructures Limited organized a Blood Donation Camp at the Naraina Office on Saturday the September 14th 2103. Towards this CSR activity, roughly 75 employees of Earth Infrastructures Limited voluntarily participated in making the camp very successful which was conducted in association with the Lions Club.
The focus was on the value of donated blood to the disadvantaged and not…
Ancient Egypt Project: “Mind-to-Mind” Communication
Primary Means of Communication for Leading Project Participants!
Filming the movie “Gamer”, Scottish actor Gerard James Butler was inspired to develop telepathy - a craft most people associate totally with sci-fi movies or eccentric spiritual gurus. “I was taken aback by how easy it was to learn and recognize that mind-to-mind communication is as basic as thinking of someone and having him or her call you up minutes later,”…
SEA has scheduled two Pacific ocean studies trips for the Spring of 2014
Woods Hole, MA, September 4, 2013—Sea Education Association (httsea.edu) has scheduled two Pacific ocean studies trips for the Spring of 2014. The early spring semester at sea takes place January through March and is entitled Sustainability in Polynesian Island Cultures & Ecosystems. After attending classes in Woods Hole, students will embark on a seven week ocean studies sailing voyage to several South Pacific islands aboard the tall ship SSV Robert…
Mercury Solutions Limited has been awarded with EC-Council Circle of Excellence …
Mercury Solutions has been recently awarded with EC-Council’s Circle of Excellence ATC, recognizing the organization’s exceptional track record for delivering EC-Council certification programs for the year 2013.
The organization has been delivering world-class quality Information Security trainings in various innovative methods, being one the most sought after ATC in India for EC-Council in South Asia.
EC-Council “Circle of Excellence” to ATCs Award recognizes their ongoing commitment of Accredited Training centers…
ANGEL MEDFLIGHT AND AZBAA TO AWARD SCHOLARSHIP
Sept. 11, 2013 – Angel MedFlight Worldwide Air Ambulance announces for the fourth consecutive year it is partnering with the Arizona Business Aviation Association to award the Scholarship for Excellence in Aviation.
Students who are actively pursuing a degree in the aviation field at an Arizona college or university are urged to apply. All video applications must be postmarked by Oct. 25, 2013 to be considered. The recipient of the Scholarship…
Madison Area Technical College Opens Doors to Opportunity
Learners at Madison College will master clinical skills in a safe learning environment
Exton, Pa. (September 11, 2013) Today Madison Area Technical College’s Health Simulation Center opens its doors to big opportunities. Madison Area Technical College’s District Board, college president Dr. Jack Daniels III, administration, faculty, staff, local and state politicians, key internal and external stakeholders, and members of the community will be in attendance at the ribbon cutting to commemorate…
Sonoran Desert Institute Announces New AR-15 Certificate Program
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Sonoran Desert Institute (SDI), an industry leader in providing accredited and accelerated distance learning, announces a highly anticipated upgrade to its curriculum with the addition of a “AR-15 Armorer Certificate,” a detailed learning program specializing in the AR-15 platform.
The new curriculum delivers a comprehensive review on the AR-15, from history to accessories to parts and functions, and instructs students on building and milling their own 80% Lower…
Saelig Announces Deepest Memory High Performance PC Oscilloscopes
Saelig Company, Inc. (saelig.com) has introduced the new PicoScope 6000 Series high-performance 4-channel PC oscilloscopes with deep buffer memory and a USB 3.0 SuperSpeed interface. With up to 500 MHz bandwidth on all four channels, and an industry-leading 2 Gsamples of buffer memory, the PS6000 Series has the performance and the advanced analysis capability to speed the debug of today’s complex electronic designs. With a real-time sampling rate of…
Webinar Discusses How to Enhance Fidelity of Medical Simulation Scenarios
Exton, Pa. (September 10, 2013) As the use of simulation continues to grow, so do the numbers of new educators, coordinators, and technicians required to support this field of medical education.
Join Education Management Solutions (EMS) for tomorrow’s free webinar, September 11, 2013 from 2:00-3:00 PM EDT. presented by Roger Chow, Simulation Program Coordinator at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
Chow will explain the importance of “humanizing” the manikin during a…
cynora and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology jointly launch Project cyFLEX to de …
Karlsruhe, Germany-based cynora GmbH and the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) jointly announce the successful launch of Project cyFLEX. Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) will serve as a basis for generating flexible and luminescent surfaces for smart packaging and advertising applications. Self-luminous packaging and ultrathin flexible advertising panels for all kinds of products may soon become reality and will revolutionize product marketing.
The purpose of the cyFLEX joint project is to develop…
Nanion Introduces New Product Family: CardioExcyte 96 for Cardiac Toxicity Profi …
Munich, Germany, September 12, 2013; The CardioExcyte 96 is a high resolution device recording contractility in intact cardiomyocyte networks utilizing non-invasive impedance measurements. The system allows cost-efficient, early compound safety profiling using stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes, freshly dissociated cardiomyocytes or beating 3D-cell clusters.
Cardiac safety assessment is a vital part of drug development since late withdrawals of compound candidates, due to heart liability issues such as ventricular arrhythmia, are very…
PMP Certification: A Step Ahead Towards Efficient Project Management
Owing to the dynamism and complexities in the businesses presently belonging to any industry with variance in nature and scope, managing projects proficiently is nothing less than art and science. The growing consumer and project requirements have transformed the life of a project manager from difficult to very difficult. It gets too hard for him sometimes to be the best while managing his team resources, monetary conditions, timelines and closure…
Ploughshare Innovations to showcase new technologies at DSEI 2013
The world’s largest fully-integrated defence and security exhibition, DSEI, is coming to London next week and will offer the chance for the entire industry to develop global relationships with suppliers from across 50 countries.
The event – which will be held at ExCel on September 10-13 – will bring together 1,400 international exhibitors, offering unrivalled access to key global markets. DSEI will provide the opportunity to develop international relationships and generate…
World-renowned Autism Expert Temple Grandin, Ph.D. to Speak at Adelphi Universit …
As part of the Joseph Napolitano Memorial Lecture series, Temple Grandin, doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, will deliver the talk “The World Needs all Kinds of Minds” at Adelphi University on Wednesday, September 25, 2013. This is her third lecture at the University. Dr. Grandin is a best-selling author and activist on the topics of autism and animal welfare. She is also a consultant to…
Google, Shell and Deutsche Bank declare iversity a lighthouse project in higher …
After the award at Berlin Innovation ConSensus, iversity announces eight more MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
Berlin, 03.09.2013 – iversity, the Internet platform for massive open online courses, was declared a lighthouse project in higher education at Berlin Innovation ConSenus, an initiative by Google, Shell and Deutsche Bank. 34 members of the jury, stemming from Germany’s largest corporations, firms from the “Mittelstand”, start-ups, universities and cultural institutions, selected iversity from over…
ABLE and Aspiring Minds Join Hands to Evaluate Biotech Talent Potential
New Delhi, September 2, 2013: In its endeavor to meet the requirement of the biotechnology sector, Association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises (ABLE) along with Aspiring Minds launched AMCAT ABLE Life Sciences Certification program, an online testing tool to evaluate the employability quotient of students aspiring to work for the Biotech industry. With the aim of bringing up an inclusive employability platform for the Indian youth, this platform assesses the…
SASM Institute releases Six Step Crowdfunding Model
“Successful Crowdfunding” is a complete guide to today’s crowdfunding ecosystem that details a simple 6-step model for campaigning on Kickstarter or Indiegogo
San Francisco, CA - August 26 2013 - The SASM Institute announced today the launch of a new eBook titled “Successful Crowdfunding – a Simple Effective Guide for Reward Crowdfunding” by SASM co-founder Dr. Adam Weigold. The eBook extensively covers the crowdfunding landscape, reveals some very useful facts about…
Bio-Synthesis Inc. Pioneers the use of Multi Functional Bridged Nucleic Acid for …
As a pioneer in oligonucleotide synthesis, Bio-Synthesis Inc. has been pursuing the development of new oligonucleotide based technologies that can provide compounds which have superior binding affinity and chemical/biological stability. As such, Bio-Synthesis is excited to begin collaborations for commercial applications using Bridged Nucleic Acids (BNA). These RNA analogues can be synthesized and spiked with DNA or RNA in order to modify the formation of nucleic acid helices. …
NEW COMPETITION PLATFORM HELPS STUDENTS MAKE AN IMPACT ON SOCIETY
August 15th, 2013 marked the offical launch of a new student competition platform, topstudentchallenges.com. The website will help students from all over the world and all academic disciplines make an impact on society and on their careers.
The visually appealing collection focuses on presenting the most prestigious and impactful student competitions that tackle problems in society, business, education, and the environment. Through this website, students from all academic backgrounds…
16th ITI Symposium promotes network-based product development
Integrated System Simulation at the Dawn of ‘Industry 4.0’
Dresden, August 22, 2013 – ITI GmbH, one of the global leaders in CAE and system simulation, today published the official program for its 16th ITI Symposium running from November 12 through 13, 2013, at the International Congress Center Dresden. This year’s event revolves around “Network-Based Product Development” and lays the focus on cross-industry applications of ITI’s simulation software SimulationX. More than…
College career services in the cloud will serve domestic and international stude …
Don Philabaum, President and CEO of Internet Strategies Group, co-founder of TalentMarks and author of The Employed Grad joins Michael Waxman-Lenz, founder and CEO of Intead in an informative conversation about the role of parents, career services and students in the hunt for post-graduation employment. While institutions have been committed to educating students and helping them to earn a degree, they have not historically served the role of educating students…
Presentation Skills Workshop at Eton Institute to Bring the Best out of Individu …
Eton Institute is conducting a Presentation Skills Workshop on the 27th August 2013, to help benefit individuals in becoming more efficient and proficient with the skills of providing information to others and building their self-confidence.
Dubai, 20th August 2013 – Studies have found that public speaking is one of the most common fears amongst individuals, outranking flying, snakes and even death. It is also one of the skills that…
La Dolce Vita Courses are waiting People of any Age for Learning Italian
After almost ten years of great popularity, the special program La Dolce Vita will come back in September in all the venues of Scuola Leonardo da Vinci.
Scuola Leonardo da Vinci is among the most renowned schools that offer Italian language and culture courses to foreign people from all over the world. The four venues are located in Florence, Milan, Rome and Siena.
Founded in Florence in 1977, the school guarantees a…
L.G.P. Intl. New Analytical Instruments Helps Designing Precision Materials
New materials should meet many requirements for each particular application. Success in development materials designed "precisely" for optics, medicine, health care, aerospace, and other applications depends on how easy, and accurately one can measure their key physical characteristics.
A new universal platform for building analytical instruments for glass science and technology has been developed, and tested by L.G.P. Intl.. The platform has up to 36 channels to receive signals from various…
kPoint launches ‘C made easy’; an initiative for engineering students and profes …
Searchable kPoint kapsule library helps students find help on “C”.
Pune, August 08, 2013, kPoint Technologies launched a new initiative “C made easy” for engineering students and professors. There are over 300 carefully created kapsules that cover different topics in C, to help students with programming.Students can either follow a structured flow provided on cfaq.kpoint.com or visit the library on tutorials.kpoint.comdirectly. In the search for keywords, kPoint finds the right…
Mandamus’s educational business now a separate division, MandamusEdu.
Bangalore, India, July 4, 2013 -- Bangalore-based Cyber Fraud Management Company, Mandamus Info Knowledge Consultants today announced the revamping of its education/training division as MandamusEdu.
Mandamus has carved out its education/training businesses into a separate wing branded as MandamusEdu. The move, which has been speculated for at least a year now, was justified on the grounds that the training business has attained a scale that demands much focused attention and…
Eight Indian Students Win British Council IELTS Scholarship Award 2013
Eight Indian students have been declared as winners of the British Council IELTS Scholarship Award 2013 and will receive INR 300,000 each towards the cost of tuition fees. Five winners will pursue full-time post-graduate programmes in the UK and three others will study in Australia, Canada and the United States of America.
The British Council IELTS Scholarship Award was launched in the year 2010 with the objective of assisting Indian students…
SDI Partners with Veterans Group for New Scholarships
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Sonoran Desert Institute (SDI), an industry leader in providing accredited and accelerated distance learning, has partnered with the United States Military Educators Association - Online to provide new scholarships to student veterans. The new program establishes 12 all-new tuition scholarships — $3,200 each — for student veterans within the USMEA network.
“We’re very proud to work together with USMEA-Online in providing these new scholarships for student veterans,” says…
Pride of Mewar Sangam University Bhilwara Rajasthan – Grand Freshmen Welcome
While for many top ranking universities across the globe, freshmen welcome is as glamorous as the graduating students convocation function, its importance in India today is no less.
“Where Aspiration Meets Opportunity” Sangam University Bhilwara brings a triveni of intellectual, cultural as well as ethical values which aim to transform the enrolled students as leaders who know the way, go the way and show the way. Behind every great institution, there…
Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology Selects Mobile Simulati …
Exton, Pa. (April 24, 2013) Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST) in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada recently selected a web-based mobile solution to expand the efforts of their simulation center. Ideal for on-the-go simulation training, this solution contains all components needed for recording and debriefing a simulation session, managing participants, scoring, and generating reports.
In SIAST’s simulated learning center, students learn through reality-based activities, practicing hands-on skills in a…
