Related News ItemsBenson elected fellow for science, technology studies related to lawThu, 29 Jul 2010 07:17:33 -0700
An area district judge is one of three in Minnesota recently elected fellows in the national Advanced Science and Technology Adjudication Resource Center, or ASTAR.
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Applied Materials had to fly in 100 interviewers just to screen all the job applicants for its new Solar Technology Center in Xi'an, China, last year. The company wanted to fill 260 high-tech jobs. It got 26,000 resumes. A fraction of those applicants were invited to interview. The final selectees, board member Andy Karsner tells me, "were top-of-their-class, English-speaking engineers. They're ...
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Professor Rosemary Lyster from Sydney Law School writes that climate change needs to be separated from politics.
Read More... Making 'BioArt' a cultural practiceThu, 29 Jul 2010 14:14:25 -0700
At this year's Society for Social Studies Conference at the University of Tokyo, Aug. 25-29, there will be a session on "BioArt," which begs the question: What would that be? BioArt describes the variety of art forms emerging in the last two decades that use biotechnology or genetics to manipulate living things, altering food, plants, even livestock. In best do-it- yourself tradition, artists ...
Read More... The rise of engineers in China is leaving the US behindThu, 29 Jul 2010 07:43:00 -0700
Applied Materials had to fly in 100 interviewers just to screen all the job applicants for its new Solar Technology Center in Xi'an, China, last year. The company wanted to fill 260 high-tech jobs.
Read More... Science journalists in Africa urged to scale up reportingTue, 27 Jul 2010 03:58:20 -0700
Executive Director of the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS) Dr. Kevin Urama says science journalists need to go out of their way to identify and focus on issues such as poverty which scientists and policy makers need to address.
Read More... Local Morris County residents earn honors, graduate with distinctionFri, 30 Jul 2010 04:21:15 -0700
Evan Mendelsohn, son of Lisa Gottesman and Hank Mendelsohn of Mountain Lakes, was named to the dean’s list at Washington University at Saint Louis in Saint Louis, Mo., for the spring 2010 semester, in his sophomore year. Mendelsohn, who will be a junior in September, is pursuing a double major in political science and anthropology with a minor in public health.
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