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Twenty student-led startups will receive a total of $200,000 in funding. Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) May 22, 2013 Twenty student-led startup companies at Arizona State University will spend the next year participating in an intensive startup accelerator designed to help them execute their business models, deliver valuable products or services and create local jobs as part of ASU’s Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative. Each year the Edson initiative offers approximately 20 student teams up...

New AREA48 formation space will reuse abandoned restaurant to host collaboration and training. Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) May 21, 2013 Arizona State University is seeking aspiring entrepreneurs, innovators and inventors who want to develop their ideas into solutions, products and services in a free summer program. The university is recruiting participants for AREA48 (Applied Regional Economic Activity), a revolutionary new “formation space” that provides early-stage entrepreneurs with...

New startup developing commercial applications based on Arizona State University technologies. Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) May 06, 2013 Early-stage nanotech company SiO2 Nanotech has begun beta testing commercial applications of its anti-fogging technology for corporate partners. The new technology, which was developed from patented research conducted in the lab of Dr. Nicole Herbots, professor emerita in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University, can be used on a variety of...

ASU and Scottsdale Public Library system open first collaboration space as plans to expand the network are announced, adding at least five more spaces this year. Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) May 02, 2013 The Alexandria Co-working Network will officially launch in Scottsdale, Arizona, today with the opening of its first collaboration space at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library. Earlier this year, ASU Venture Catalyst, the startup unit of Arizona State University, along with the Scottsdale...

An Arizona State University biologist and her team have found that the Asian subspecies of great bustard, one of the heaviest birds capable of flight, covers migratory routes of more than 2,000 miles, traveling to and from its breeding grounds in northern Mongolia and wintering grounds in Shaanxi province in China. The research study, which is available online and will be published in the next volume of the Journal of Avian Biology, is the first of its kind to monitor the movement of this...

Carbon Nation(TM) producer, director to teach sustainability, film production TEMPE, Ariz., April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Arizona State University has appointed documentary filmmaker Peter Byck to jointly serve as Professor of Practice for the Global Institute of Sustainability's School of Sustainability and for the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Byck focuses on issues of environmental sustainability and he has more than 20 years' experience as a...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- HotChalk, a leader in online education, today announced the release of the HotChalk Education Index report. The HotChalk Education Index is based on the company's analysis of more than 30 billion data points and 25,000 surveys collected during a 90 day window; representing teachers, parents, students, administrators and tutors from every wired country on the planet. The company will publish insights from the HotChalk Education Index...

Arizona-based signage provider expands to Las Vegas market Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) April 15, 2013 Arizona State University startup company Illumin8 Outdoor Media has entered into an agreement with MGM Grand Resort and Casino in Las Vegas to provide signage for the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Illumin8’s portable signage platforms use LED technologies to create attractive, highly visible signage products that range from informational and directional signage to revenue-generating advertising...

TEMPE, Ariz., April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU) today announced plans to offer its renowned Bachelor of Science in Engineering (B.S.E.) in Electrical Engineering in an online format beginning in the fall 2013 semester. "Today's rapidly changing world requires innovative approaches to education," said Paul Johnson, dean and professor of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. "We offer an impressive online...

Active military personnel, veterans invited to learn about Venture Catalyst programs and initiatives. Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) April 05, 2013 MEDIA ADVISORY WHAT: ASU Venture Catalyst Military, Defense and Veterans Open House and Luncheon WHO: Active military personnel, veterans and members of the aerospace/defense industry WHEN: Friday, April 12, 11 a.m.-1p.m. WHERE: ASU SkySong, 1475 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale, AZ 85257 RSVP at http://asuopenhouse.eventbrite.com Active military...