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Nike Founder Phil Knight to Give $105 Million to Stanford Business School; Commitment Believed to Be Largest Ever to a Business School.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Nike Inc. founder and chairman Philip H. Knight, MBA '62, will give $105 million to Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. It is...

Summer Smog Season Is Also Asthma Season: Which Cars Let Us Breathe Easier?
August 1, 2006... Byline: Environmental Working Group WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- As a killer heat wave moves across the nation, federal and local air quality officials are declaring "Ozone Action Days" in much of the Midwest and the...

New System Provides Power, Water, Refrigeration From One Source for Emergency, Military Use.
August 2, 2006... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Aug. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- When hurricanes, wars or other emergencies force authorities to respond, three essentials top their list of must-haves: water, electricity and refrigeration. ...

At Global Roundtables, Business School Deans Discuss Models for Business Education, Impact of Globalization.
August 2, 2006... Byline: Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth HANOVER, N.H., Aug. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Deans from business schools in China, Europe, Latin America, and the United States recently gathered for a series of roundtable meetings to discuss the...

Female Life Scientists in Academia File Fewer Patents.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Women life scientists in higher education patent their work at a rate of 40 percent of their male peers, according to a recently published article...

The Other Bioeconomy: Ethanol - It's More Than Just a Trendy Way to Fill the Gas Tank.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich., Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- Stills used to mean moonshine in the United States. But a Michigan State University professor's expertise is nearly single-handedly bringing stills not...

Rotman School Introduces Interactive Trader Simulation Platform.
August 3, 2006... Byline: Rotman School of Management TORONTO, Aug. 3 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new breakthrough tool in trading education, the Rotman Interactive Trader (RIT) platform, has been launched by the Rotman School of Management's state of the art...

National University of Singapore Launches New Centre With RAND Health.
August 4, 2006... Byline: National University of Singapore SINGAPORE, Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- In line with the National University of Singapore's (NUS) mission to develop high impact research and education in service of the country, the Yong Loo Lin...

Panel Calls for States to Lead Fight Against Addiction.
August 4, 2006... Byline: Join Together BOSTON, Aug. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- States will never be able to significantly reduce the number of their citizens with drug and alcohol problems unless they change the way they currently address these issues,...

GetActive Software's Nonprofit Clients, Partners Share Best Practices at GetTogether 2006, Third Annual User Conference.
August 7, 2006... Byline: GetActive Software BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- GetActive Software today released the following media advisory. - - - - WHAT (http://www.getactive.com/gettogether/2006/index.html ) Third annual user...

Companies Led by Their Founders Are Winners on the Stock Market.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Companies that are still run by the men and women who started them tend to perform better in the stock market than do other firms, a new study suggests. Firms...

Puerto Rican and African-American Children Show Different Patterns of Asthma Care; Differences in Clinic Visits, Hospitalizations.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Children's Hospital Boston BOSTON, Aug. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Asthma has been on the rise for the past two decades, and minority populations have an especially high prevalence. A study in the August issue of the journal Chest...

New Pomona College Research Shows Beating Stock Market May Be Easier Than Investors Think.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Pomona College CLAREMONT, Calif., Aug. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Beating the stock market may be easier than investors think - as easy as following a popular magazine's most-admired companies list, according to new research from a...

Consumer Reports Rates Mazda3 Best in Tests of Four Versatile Hatchbacks; 2007 Dodge Caliber Falls Short in CR's Performance Tests.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Mazda3 achieved a "Very Good" overall score and became Consumer Reports' top-rated hatchback following tests of four hatchbacks for the September issue. The...

Consumer Reports' Personal Banking Survey Ranks Commerce Bank Best for Overall Customer Satisfaction; National City, Wachovia, Regions Bank Also Highly Rated in CR's Survey; Wells Fargo, Bank One, Chase Rank Towards the Bottom.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Consumer Reports' Personal Banking Survey of more than 11,000 subscribers has named Commerce Bank - a regional bank chain with emphasis on customer service and convenience...

U.S. Consumers Lose More Than $8 Billion to Online Threats, According to Consumer Reports Survey; Consumers Have 1 in 3 Chance of Becoming a Cybervictim; Phishing Victim's Losses Up Five-Fold Since 2005 Survey; CR Rates Protection Software.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- The risks associated with using the Internet remain high, according to Consumer Reports' latest "State of the Net" survey. Consumer Reports projects that U.S. consumers...

Consumer Reports Rates 13 Ladders 'Not Acceptable' for Safety Risks; Multiple Consumer Weight Classifications, Voluntary Standards Troublesome; Ladder Ratings and Tips on Safe Use.
August 7, 2006... Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Every year there are roughly 180,000 emergency-room visits and 150 deaths associated with household ladder use. And while human error may explain some of these problems,...

Purdue Research Helps Advance New Rocket Technology.
August 8, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Purdue University engineers are conducting research to help the United States develop a type of advanced rocket technology that uses kerosene and would not...

Tepper School Start-Up to Ring NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell; Moot CorpR Winner Developing Innovative Device to Measure Brain Pressure.
August 8, 2006... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Aug. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- This year's winning Global Moot CorpR team from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University will ring the The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell at...

Indiana Governor, Ford VP Join National Leaders at Energy Summit.
August 8, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- Indiana's governor and Ford Motor Co.'s vice president of environment and safety engineering will join other national leaders as part of an energy summit convened...

Iowa State University Food Scientist Is Changing the Way We Look at Pork.
August 10, 2006... Byline: Iowa State University AMES, Iowa, Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- You may never look at a cut of pork in the same way again. In fact, research by an Iowa State University food scientist could have you seeing red. Ken Prusa, a...

Turning Small Talk Into Big Ideas: Professor Toby Stuart Honored by Kauffman Foundation for His Insightful Research Into Social Networks.
August 14, 2006... Byline: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- To be a successful entrepreneur, the people you know are as important as your ideas, according to the winner of the 2007 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize...

Grocery Circulars Do Attract Shoppers.
August 15, 2006... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Whether they're inserts in newspapers or special mailings, weekly ad circulars announcing the latest local grocery specials seem to be a regular...

Bureaucracy Contributed to 9/11 Attacks.
August 15, 2006... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the months prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, an FBI agent shot an angry email to an FBI analyst who was blocking him from following up on an...

Marketing Directly to Physicians Reaps Higher Returns for Drug Companies.
August 15, 2006... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Direct-to-consumer advertising may help a drug company's competitors as much as it helps the advertiser's product by expanding demand for an entire...

Diverse Backgrounds, Personalities Can Strengthen Groups.
August 15, 2006... Byline: Stanford Graduate School of Business STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Human resource executives say that diversity in the workplace can have a number of benefits, including improved understanding of the marketplace,...

Babson Executive Education, USA, Partners With Tsinghua University, China; Will Deliver Entrepreneurial Edge Program to Large Chinese Companies.
August 15, 2006... Byline: Babson College WELLESLEY, Mass., Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Babson Executive Education, USA, and Tsinghua University, China, are partnering to deliver a new program, Entrepreneurial Strategies for Innovation and Growth at Large...

Consumer Reports Offers Safety Advice for Laptop Owners in Wake of Federal Battery Recall; Millions of Dell Laptop Computer Batteries Recalled for Fire Hazard by Consumer Product Safety Commission.
August 15, 2006... Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- The federal Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the recall of more than 4 million rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in dozens of Dell laptop computers...

Class of '08 Switching Careers, Earning Second Degrees to Enter Nursing.
August 15, 2006... Byline: School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Aug. 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- More than two thirds of students entering the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) traditional baccalaureate Class of 2008 already...

30 Leading Accounting, Economic Experts Call on SEC to Repeal New Stock Options Expensing Rule; Experts Call Expensing Stock Options Improper Accounting.
August 16, 2006... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A University of California, Berkeley management journal became the focus in reopening the debate on stock option expensing last week when it...

Ford Foundation Grants for Gulf Coast Revitalization to Surpass $20 Million as Anniversary Nears; Multi-Year Commitment Will Address the Region's Long-Term Needs.
August 16, 2006... Byline: Ford Foundation NEW YORK, Aug. 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Ford Foundation announced today that its grants for Gulf Coast recovery will surpass $20 million around the time of the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The...

Push to Get Climate-Friendly Technology for Midwest Power Plants; $3 Million in Joyce Foundation Grants to Boost Clean Coal.
August 17, 2006... Byline: Joyce Foundation CHICAGO, Aug. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Joyce Foundation is awarding grants totaling over $3 million to promote cleaner, climate-friendly ways of generating power from coal. The grants are part of an overall $7...

At Tuck School of Business, Future CEOs Start With Community Service.
August 18, 2006... Byline: Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth HANOVER, N.H., Aug. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Before the country's future CEOs and business leaders begin their course work at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth this year, they will first...

University of Maryland Wins Computerworld Horizon Award for Web-Based Opinion Analysis System.
August 21, 2006... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Computerworld magazine today named the University of Maryland one of the winners of its second annual Computerworld Horizon Awards for...

'Emerging Faces in Hispanic Advertising': Top National Advertising Executives Share Secrets to Success; Mark Your Calendars for Conference Oct. 25-28, 2006, at the University of Texas at El Paso.
August 21, 2006... Byline: University of Texas at El Paso EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of Texas at El Paso Department of Communication, in cooperation with its Sam Donaldson Center for Communication Studies, presents "Emerging...

Wireless Pioneer Viterbi Headlines ACM MobiCom '06; Conference Features Latest Advances in Mobile Computing.
August 21, 2006... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- The world's top researchers, practitioners, students, and executives will gather at MobiCom'06, the Twelfth Annual International Conference on Mobile...

Expert Sources on the Anniversary of Katrina.
August 22, 2006... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., Aug. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- The following University of California, Davis faculty members are available to speak on topics related to the year's anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and...

Management Professors Employ Industrial Methods to Re-Engineer Health-Care Clinic.
August 22, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- What began as an MBA class project at Purdue University's Krannert School of Management ended up applying factory management techniques that hold promise for...

Columbia Business School Appoints Cliff Cramer Director of New MBA Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program.
August 23, 2006... Byline: Columbia Business School NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean of Columbia Business School, has appointed Clifford S. Cramer as Director of its new MBA Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program. This...

Plan B Over-the-Counter Access a Long Overdue Victory; for Some Women Teen Prescription Requirement Is Shortsighted; Emergency Contraception Pharmacy Access More Critical Than Ever.
August 24, 2006... Byline: Public Health Institute OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Following is a statement by Belle Taylor-McGhee, Executive Director, Pharmacy Access Partnership - - - - The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA)...

Recreational Shoppers Don't Just Browse - They Spend More Than Others.
August 24, 2006... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Leisure shoppers are bullish on buying, says a University of Florida researcher whose study finds these recreational consumers are intensely involved in the...

Women Entrepreneurs Maximize Creative Financing to Grow Their Firms.
August 24, 2006... Byline: Babson College BABSON PARK, Mass., Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- Women entrepreneurs who take advantage of every financing opportunity, and who finance creatively, are more likely to reach the rapid growth stage in their...

Compumentor Elects Two New Board Members; Michael Brown, Partech, And Reto Jauch, Jauch Associates, Reflect on Organization's New Strategic Direction.
August 24, 2006... Byline: CompuMentor SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24 (AScribe Newswire) -- CompuMentor, home of TechSoup, (www.compumentor.org), one of the most comprehensive nonprofit technology assistance providers in the U.S., welcomes Michael Brown, Principal...

Levels of Serious Mental Illness in Katrina Survivors Doubled Compared to Earlier Pre-Katrina Survey; Thoughts of Suicide Did Not Increase; Feelings of Resiliency May Explain Discrepancy, but Could Also Be Temporary Shield.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Aug. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- According to the most comprehensive survey yet completed of mental health among Hurricane Katrina survivors from Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the...

Comprehensive Katrina Survey Shows Vast Majority of Those Affected Experienced Significant Financial Loss, Many Suffered Extreme Physical Adversity, Many Show Signs of Post-Traumatic Stress; Large Majority Also Now Have Deeper Sense of Meaning or Purpose in Life.
August 28, 2006... Byline: Harvard University Medical School BOSTON, Aug. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- According to the most comprehensive survey of people affected by Hurricane Katrina, the vast majority of pre-hurricane residents of the affected areas in...

New Statistics Show Teen Drug Use Continues on the Decline in Dayton, Ohio Area.
August 29, 2006... Byline: Wright State University School of Medicine DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The 2006 Dayton Area Drug Survey (DADS) results show that there is good news for those concerned about the health, safety, and welfare of young...

Beyond Britney and Beyonce: New Website Challenges Girls to Think Critically About Pop Media.
August 29, 2006... Byline: Temple University PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- It may be back-to-school time, but pre-teen and 'tween age girls will continue to spend hours watching MTV, thumbing through teen and celebrity magazines, surfing the...

Purdue University President Comments at Energy Security Summit.
August 29, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The comments below were made today (Tuesday, Aug. 29) at the Sen. Richard G. Lugar - Purdue University Summit on Energy Security. The summit drew more than 600...

Sen. Lugar Says Imported Oil Makes U.S. Vulnerable; Outlines Energy Program for America.
August 29, 2006... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- The comments below were made today (Tuesday, Aug. 29) at the Sen. Richard G. Lugar - Purdue University Summit on Energy Security. The summit drew more than 600...

Florida Consumer Confidence in August Dips to Lowest Level in 13 Years.
August 29, 2006... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Aug. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- High energy costs, volatility in the stock market and especially the housing slump are to blame for consumer confidence among Floridians plummeting 11 points to...

Better After-School Snack Choices Boost Nutrition for Low-Income Kids, University of California at Davis Research Confirms; Study of a Sacramento-Area Program Finds Kids Will Eat More Fruits, Less Fat.
August 30, 2006... Byline: Univ. of California, Davis, Medical Center SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- School lunches and vending machines aren't the only places to look for ways to improve students' nutrition. Modest changes in the kinds of...

World Trade Center Memorial Foundation Launches National Ad Campaign for Fifth Anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001; Campaign Reflects on Events of Sept. 11 by Asking the Question, 'Where Were You When It Happened?'; Multimedia Campaign Created Pro Bono by TBWA\Chiat\Day New York Will Be Supported Through Donated Media.
August 30, 2006... Byline: World Trade Center Memorial Foundation NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation today launched the second phase of its pro bono national, multi-media advertising campaign in time for the...

Privacy and the Downside of Right to Remain Silent: Professors at University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business Punch Holes in Arguments Over Privacy Rights and Technology.
August 31, 2006... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- These days, Internet bookstores track what you like to read, TiVo knows your television viewing habits, and airlines keep a record of where you...

Teen Researcher Seeks a Better Way to Treat Tuberculosis; High School Student Helps Johns Hopkins Team Develop Slow-Release Drug Implants.
August 31, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Aug. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- While still a senior in high school, a Baltimore teenager toiled 10 hours a week in a Johns Hopkins University engineering lab, helping to develop a new drug...

In Break From Past, Some New MIT Sloan MBAs Coming Right From College; Other Class of 2008 Backgrounds Run From Peace Corps to Martha Stewart.
August 31, 2006... Byline: Sloan School of Management, MIT CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Their backgrounds range from serving as a Peace Corps volunteer at a rural health clinic in West Africa to helping launch a magazine for Martha Stewart...

Carnegie Mellon, General Motors Will Compete in 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge; Driverless Vehicles Will Navigate Simulated City Traffic, Obstacles.
August 31, 2006... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, Aug. 31 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University will partner with General Motors Corp. to form Tartan Racing, a team that will enter a driverless Chevy Tahoe in the $2 million Defense...