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COCONUT GROVE, Fla., April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Med-Tek, LLC is pleased to announce the formal appointment of several new directors to our Board of Directors which include Tom Leamon, Ph.D., Frank Del Rio, Eitan Machover, Stefano Rocca, Michael Cusumano, Thomas Bongard. "It is with great pleasure I am able to announce the appointments of our new directors, each one brings a depth of experience to Med-Tek," said Med-Tek's Executive Director, David A. Schwedel. Tom B. Leamon,...
A contingent of science and engineering graduate students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will deliver a petition in support of research funding to members of Congress on Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Stand With Science is an effort to bring together America's science and engineering graduate community and add their voice to the ongoing discussion about the federal deficit. (www.standwithscience.com) "Stand With Science has drafted a letter to the members of congress, urging them...
NEW YORK, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AppOrchard, the leading Enterprise iOS services and software company, today announced that CTO Scott Penberthy will join senior executives from around the world as a featured panelist at the ninth annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. Dr. Penberthy, who has over 18 years experience building Enterprise software and leading engineering teams at IBM, Photobucket and Gilt Groupe, will participate in the May 22nd panel, "Separating the Best from the Rest:...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- From toddlers to tweens, life is an ebook, ready to download. Kids can - and do - play, connect and communicate 24/7. The 2012 Annual Sandbox Summit, April 17-18, will make sense of what this real-time technology is teaching our kids and what their usage is teaching us. Taking place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the country's most respected academic institutions, Sandbox Summit will bring together experts in...
Harvard's Robert Wood and MIT's Scott Aaronson win NSF's most prestigious award, which will help fuel their research pursuits Today the National Science Foundation (NSF) named two young scientists, Robert Wood of Harvard University and Scott Aaronson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to receive this year's Alan T. Waterman Award. The annual award recognizes an outstanding researcher under the age of 35 in any field of science or engineering NSF supports. In addition...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Smowtion, a technology company focused on providing products and support for advertising networks, will be a Silver Sponsor of the 15th annual MIT Latin American Conference, the oldest Latin American Conference among U.S. business schools. The event will be held on Saturday, March 10th, in the Wong Auditorium at MIT's Sloan School of Management and is organized in partnership with BrasiIinvest. An established Sell Side Platform...
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Organovo, Inc. (OTCQB: ONVO) has been included in the 2012 TR50, Technology Review's annual list of the world's most innovative technology companies, for three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting technology. TR50 members are nominated by Technology Review's editors, who look for companies that over the last year have demonstrated original and valuable technology, are bringing that technology to market at a significant scale, and are clearly...
As the Earth's climate changes, the worst inundations from hurricanes and tropical storms could become far more common in low-lying coastal areas, a new study suggests. Researchers from Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) found that regions such as the New York City metropolitan area that currently experience a disastrous flood every century could instead become submerged every one or two decades. The researchers report in the journal Nature Climate...
LUBBOCK, Texas, Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Positron Corporation (OTCBB: POSC), through its wholly owned subsidiary, Manhattan Isotope Technology, LLC (MIT), is proud to announce that on February 15, 2012, MIT, in partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory, was awarded the 2012 Federal Laboratory Consortium 'Excellence in Technology Transfer Award' for "Recycling of Strontium-82 for Use in Medical Diagnostic Imaging". The Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer is...
BOSTON, Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Is America obsessed with dieting? This thought-provoking question is explored and exposed in the compelling new documentary, "America the Beautiful 2: The Thin Commandments" by director Darryl Roberts. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110727/CG42761LOGO) Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center, Active Minds @ MIT and ELA are hosting a free special screening of Roberts' new film. The event will be held from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. on...
