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NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As business transactions become increasingly more global, making yourself seen, heard and, most importantly, understood in English - the primary language spoken in more than 50 leading countries - has proven key to an individual's business and personal success. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120906/NY68809-INFO ) While 70 percent of world growth during the next few years will come from emerging markets, only 13 percent of...
New sites added in Russia, India, New Zealand, Albania, and Maine; In WPI’s pioneering undergraduate curriculum, projects are the lifeblood of the student experience Worcester, Mass. (PRWEB) September 04, 2012 Building on a pioneering project-based curriculum and adding to a legacy of experiential learning that has transformed the lives of thousands of students over the course of more than 40 years, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has added five new destinations to its expansive...
NEW YORK, Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The countdown has begun toward the biggest gathering of the best young minds in cyber security, the 9th annual Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) games at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly). In collaboration with AT&T, NYU-Poly has issued this year's first call for entrants in the AT&T Security Research Paper competition, which honors the top published student research paper of the year. (Logo:...
Researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have created an ultra-sensitive biosensor capable of identifying the smallest single virus particles in solution, an advance that may revolutionize early disease detection in a point-of-care setting and shrink test result wait times from weeks to minutes. Stephen Arnold, university professor of applied physics and member of the Othmer-Jacobs Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and researchers of...
NEW YORK, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have created an ultra-sensitive biosensor capable of identifying the smallest single virus particles in solution, an advance that may revolutionize early disease detection in a point-of-care setting and shrink test result wait times from weeks to minutes. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091027/NY99197LOGO ) Stephen Arnold, university professor of applied...
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Move over "Bones" McCoy. Future voyages of the starship Enterprise just might include astro surgery as this dynamic discipline jumps from the pages of fiction to reality. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20020422/CMULOGO ) A team of biomedical engineering researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Louisville are developing surgical tools that could be used for future expeditionary spaceflights to the moon,...
A team of academics and educational consultants has built Prove Your World from the ground up with a robust foundation. Now, they are working with WXXI, the PBS affiliate in Rochester, N.Y., to find a home for the science series on public television. An accompanying website will continue the learning online, connecting kids, teachers and parents with experts and giving kids a science social network. Rochester, N.Y. (PRWEB) August 22, 2012 Prove Your World is not your typical science TV...
HYANNIS, Mass., Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A four way collaboration with JetBlue Airways, Cape Air, the University of North Dakota (UND) and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) has paid off for two Captains joining JetBlue's flight crew as First Officers. Cape Air Captains Shanti Merriman and Daniel Thurber, both Embry-Riddle graduates, successfully passed the JetBlue interview process and report for duty in a few weeks. "I congratulate our first Gateway graduates," says...
NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to escalating cyber attacks on the nation's security, infrastructure and business, Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) in alliance with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will host a high-level conversation among key government, industry and academic officials. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20091027/NY99197LOGO ) Debora A. Plunkett, who oversees the National Security Agency's directorate charged with...
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bausch & Lomb Incorporated ("Bausch + Lomb") announced today the final results of its previously announced tender offer (the "tender offer") to purchase for cash up to $300 million of its outstanding 9 7/8 percent Senior Notes due 2015 (CUSIP Nos. 071707AN3, U07190AA6 and 071707AP8) (the "senior notes"). As of the previously announced "expiration date" of 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on August 17, 2012, according to Global...
