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Season eight features "Great Investors" Steven Romick and Robert Kessler, "Financial Thought Leaders" Niall Ferguson and John Brynjolfsson, and other investment luminariesNEW YORK, June 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Weekly financial series Consuelo Mack WealthTrack launches its eighth season on public television beginning Friday, July 1 at 7:30 p.m. (check local listings) with "Great Investor" Steven Romick, finalist for Morningstar's Domestic Fund Manager...
"Natalie Dessay and Joseph Calleja triumph as the ill-fated operatic lovers" (Associated Press) in Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman's production NEW YORK, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lucia di Lammermoor, with French soprano Natalie Dessay in one of her greatest roles as Donizetti's fragile heroine, will air on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, June 26 at 12 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). In New York, THIRTEEN will air the production on Thursday, June 23 at 8 p.m. The...
NEW YORK, March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In recent months, the nation has turned a spotlight on education and the issues the U.S. faces in order to ensure a quality education for every student. These dialogues will determine our country's future and at times have been divisive. This week, WNET joins the conversation with educators from across the globe in an unprecedented effort to move education forward while honoring teachers for their pivotal role in the lives of our youth. Today, the...
SEATTLE, Feb. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Marijuana Delivery Systems LLC announced today that it has acquired the United States Patent rights to the Medical Marijuana Patch. The patent provides MMDS with exclusive rights for development of the Patch for transcutaneous delivery of medical marijuana to humans and animals. The Patch will be marketed under the trademark TETRACAN and is expected to be available at medical marijuana dispensaries across the United States by year's end. MMDS...
ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- From the beginning, children's media at PBS has been about helping children learn. Today, that mission is more relevant than ever as a new generation of kids spends more time with media and new technologies make it possible for producers of children's media to do more to propel learning. Following a State of the Union address calling for Americans to "out-educate" and "out-innovate," PBS KIDS announces on-air, online and mobile milestones...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and PBS received notification today of a Ready to Learn grant for nearly $72 million from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement. CPB and PBS submitted a joint application in June in response to an RFP designed to fund research, development and deployment of transmedia content to improve the math and literacy skills of children ages 2-8, especially those living in poverty. The...
Members of Congress joined PBS Stations KCET and WETA in the "Third Annual National Child Care Providers Awards Ceremony" WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Seventeen outstanding child care providers were recognized for their commitment and dedication to providing outstanding quality child care at the "Third Annual National Child Care Providers Awards Ceremony" held today on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The ceremony was presented by public television stations KCET (Los...
NEW YORK, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Today's national leadership has made education a top priority, highlighting the need to prepare America's students to successfully compete in the global economy. THIRTEEN & WLIW21, New York's flagship public television stations, have continued in their five-year tradition of hosting the Celebration of Teaching & Learning, a professional development event where over 8,500 educators from all 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico and Canada come together in New...
NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- THIRTEEN & WLIW21, New York's flagship PBS stations, have launched online registration for the fifth annual Celebration of Teaching & Learning, the two-day premier professional development conference for preK-12 educators on March 5-6, 2010 in New York City at the Hilton New York. Once again, the Celebration anticipates over 8,500 teachers, school administrators, business leaders and policymakers to attend, collaborate, learn and help shape the...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Everyone's favorite preschool scientist, Sid, star of SID THE SCIENCE KID, is hearing a lot of talk this fall about how to stay healthy, which leads him to ask lots of questions about what can make a person sick and what he can do to keep from getting sick. In the new special episode "Getting a shot: You Can Do It!" from the Emmy®-nominated series, Sid and his friends will learn the basic science behind germs, viruses and vaccines using...
