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Kauffman Foundation Announces 2009 Young Scholars Program Recipients; Awards Presented at the 2009 Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting.
January 5, 2009... Byline: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today the 2009 recipients of the Kauffman Young Scholars Program. This program recognizes the...

Thomas Tierney (MBA 1980) Named Chair of HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Advisory Board; Former Bain & Company CEO to Succeed John Whitehead.
January 6, 2009... Byline: Harvard Business School BOSTON, Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI - http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise) announced today that Thomas J. Tierney (MBA 1980), chairman and...

Career Expert Jaye Roseborough Gives College Students a Boost With Innovative Strategies.
January 7, 2009... Byline: Middlebury College MIDDLEBURY, Vt., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Getting people hired is a lot easier when they're known," says Middlebury College Executive Director of Career Services Jaye Roseborough...

Kauffman Foundation Launches Entrepreneur Fellows Program to Increase Number of High-Growth Startup Founders; Fellows' Experiences Will Provide Insight Into the 'Science of Startups'.
January 8, 2009... Byline: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today a new fellowship program that will increase the number of experienced founders for startup...

Minnesota Council on Foundations Releases Two Annual Research Reports; Minnesota Foundations, Corporations Anticipate Drop in Grantmaking.
January 8, 2009... Byline: Minnesota Council on Foundations MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- After several years of increased giving, Minnesota foundations and corporate giving programs expect a decline in grantmaking to nonprofit organizations in...

Collegiate Institutions Earn AACSB International Accounting and Business Accreditation.
January 8, 2009... Byline: AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Five institutions of higher learning have earned initial accreditation in business from AACSB International...

Ethanol's Federal Subsidy Grab Leaves Little for Solar, Wind and Geothermal Energy.
January 8, 2009... Byline: Environmental Working Group WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- As Congress and the incoming Obama administration plan the nation's next major investments in green energy, they need to take a hard, clear-eyed look at...

Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) First Indian University to Offer IEEE Computer Society's CSDA Certification.
January 8, 2009... Byline: IEEE Computer Society LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- VIT University, Vellore has announced that it is the first Indian university to sign an agreement to offer the IEEE Computer Society's Certified Software...

Bush EPA Shirks Responsibility Over Perchlorate Contamination; EPA Call for New Study a Ploy to Prevent Regulation, Aid Defense and Aerospace Industries.
January 8, 2009... Byline: Environmental Working Group WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a last-ditch effort to avoid regulating widespread perchlorate contamination of drinking water, the Bush Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling for...

Job Losses to Continue, Duke Finance Professor Says.
January 9, 2009... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The government's announcement Friday that 524,000 jobs were lost in December alone represents a pattern that should continue in the coming months, says a Duke University...

North American Association of Central Cancer Registries Releases Geocoding Guide to Address Increased Use of Geographic Information Systems in Cancer Surveillance.
January 9, 2009... Byline: North American Association of Central Cancer Registries SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- NAACCR, the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, is pleased to announce the release of "A Geocoding Best...

UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum: Prediction Markets.
January 12, 2009... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California's Haas School of Business today released the following media advisory. - - - - WHAT: Kay-Yut Chen, principal...

California - An Economy in Crisis: A Presentation by the UC Santa Barbara Economic Forecast Project.
January 12, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The press is invited to cover - either in person or via webcast (see below) - this special presentation by the UC Santa Barbara Economic...

RAND Launches Unique Tool to Evaluate Health Care Proposals; 'COMPARE' Provides Global Positioning System for Health Care Policy.
January 13, 2009... Byline: RAND Corporation SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The RAND Corporation today launched an online tool to provide policymakers and interested parties with a unique way of understanding and evaluating the effects...

Bush's U.S. Trade Rep. Returning Home to University of Maryland.
January 13, 2009... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Outgoing U.S. Trade Representative, Susan C. Schwab, will return to her academic home at the University of Maryland after her job officially ends...

Top U.S. Global Health Researcher to Push for More U.S. Support.
January 14, 2009... Byline: School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing has been selected to join a group of 25 experts...

University of Florida Report: Confidence in Florida Real Estate Markets Hits New Low.
January 21, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- An accelerating avalanche of bad economic news has swept over Florida real estate to sink confidence in the industry to its lowest level since a statewide...

Researchers Cooking Up New Gelled Rocket Fuels.
January 21, 2009... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Engineers and food scientists are teaming up to develop a new type of gelled fuel the consistency of orange marmalade designed to improve the safety, performance...

Babson Executive Education and The de Bono Group, LLC, Collaborate on Innovation Research.
January 22, 2009... Byline: Babson College WELLESLEY, Mass., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Babson Executive Education's Center for Business Innovation (http://execed.babson.edu/researchers/centers_innovation.aspx) has announced a collaborative research effort...

Vanderbilt Named Among FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For; First Higher University to Crack Prestigious List.
January 22, 2009... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time Vanderbilt has been named one of the top 100 best places to work in the United States in FORTUNE magazine's annual survey, and it is the first...

CACM Reports: How Information Systems Sustain Economic Relationships in the Developing World; January Issue Explores Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Adopting Information and Communications Technology.
January 23, 2009... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Advances in computing and other information and communications technologies (ICTs) have revolutionized the way we create and share information, with...

Mount Holyoke College Economist Co-Authors Recovery Plan; Professor Fred B. Moseley, a Progressive Economist, Is Among Those Issuing Policy Recommendations to Address Nation's Economic Woes.
January 23, 2009... Byline: Mount Holyoke College SOUTH HADLEY, Mass., Jan. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mount Holyoke professor of economics Fred B. Moseley is one of 20 progressive economists who have issued policy statements designed to contribute to the...

University of Florida Report: Florida Consumer Confidence Rises Despite Weak Economy.
January 27, 2009... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Consumer confidence among Floridians inched up one point to 68 in January despite worse than expected holiday retail sales and the state being tied for 10th...

Interactions Reports: Designing Products That Meet Social and Cultural Concerns to Succeed in Global Markets; Current Issue Also Highlights How Social Networks Change the Way We Connect and Communicate.
January 28, 2009... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Addressing the need to ensure appropriate social and cultural resonance of products and services, the January+February 2009 issue of interactions magazine...

Congress Correct Not to Delay Digital TV Transition, Duke Professor Says.
January 28, 2009... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Congress took the correct action on Wednesday not to push back the date for the nation's transition to digital-only TV (DTV) broadcasting because a delay would have been...

New From The Century Foundation's Building a Stronger America Series: A Plan to Extend Super-Fast Broadband Connections to All Americans.
January 28, 2009... Byline: The Century Foundation NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- - President Barack Obama has made infrastructure investment a major component of his administration's economic recovery plan. A new report from The Century Foundation...

Making a Difference: Spurred by Senator Grassley, Iowa Vaults to Second Place in Wind Energy Production.
January 28, 2009... Byline: Environmental Working Group WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- There is no question that America faces an environmental and energy crisis. Today the American Wind Energy Association reports that Iowa has the second-greatest...

Family Foundations Prioritize Giving for the Economically Disadvantaged, New Foundation Center Report Finds.(Report)
January 29, 2009... Byline: The Foundation Center NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Giving by America's family foundations reached over $18 billion in 2007, a 13 percent increase from the previous year, according to the Foundation Center's new report,...

Experts Available to Discuss the Federal Economic Stimulus Package.
January 29, 2009... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Professional development experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are available to discuss the impact of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of...