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Los Alamos, New Mexico, August 11, 2009 - Los Alamos National Laboratory has selected Adaptive Radio Technologies, Los Alamos Visualization Associates, Mesa Tech International Inc.

BERKELEY — Hiring the nearly 800,000 workers needed to eliminate the staggering shortage of health care professionals in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015 will cost $2.6 billion a year, or 2&pe

Princeton - Princeton The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory will receive a two-year federal grant of $13.8 million as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 30, 2009—Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) and Los Alamos National Laboratory have entered into new mentor-protégé agreements with SDV Construction and Trillacorpe Construction, both service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses.

July 28, 2009 — Coral Gables — A national fellowship program focused on expanding the role of nurses to lead change in the U.S. health care system has been awarded to Elias Provencio-Vasquez, Ph.D. N.P. F.A.A.N. F.A.A.N.P., associate professor at the University of Miami (UM) School of Nursing and Health Studies.

Is school closure effective in reducing the impact of flu pandemics? Closing schools may reduce the total number of flu cases, but there are costs, say scientists - %0A > Click here to read a brie

Many Muslim women are now actively involved in fighting Islamophobia and also working hard to promote community cohesion, according to research at the University of Birmingham.

PA 196/09 A low-cost generator with the potential to transform lives in the world's poorest communities is now being tested across the UK and in Nepal.

Solar sells: Imperial students help Rwandan villagers set up energy business Students install ?solar kiosk?

BERKELEY — Dr. Sanjay Kumar, a bioengineer from the University of California, Berkeley, is one of 100 researchers to receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the White House announced today (Thursday, July 9).

Just months before world leaders are scheduled to meet to devise a new international treaty on climate change, a research team led by Princeton University scientists has developed a new way of dividing responsibility for carbon emissions among countries.

PA 182/09 Many bosses of small- to medium-size businesses are cautious about predicting 'green shoots' of economic recovery according to the latest findings from Nottingham University Business School's Institute for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI) Barometer project.

Giving the keynote speech at the launch of the UCL Energy Institute on 29 June 2009, Lord Hunt, Minister of State for the UK Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC), said that high-quality academic research would provide the blueprint for a low-carbon world.

Twenty Princeton students will defer the start of their freshman year at Princeton this fall to spend a tuition-free enrichment period abroad focused on public service as the first participants in the University's Bridge Year Program .

The Technology Strategy Board - the government body that exists to promote business innovation in technology - has announced that a West Midlands based consortium is one of the eight winners from acr

BERKELEY — The current U.S. health care system — with its ever-rising price tag and its gaping discrepancies in care — is a "ticking time bomb" for the federal budget, President Obama warned members of the American Medical Association.

PA 171/09 How will climate change affect when, where and how we travel? And how should this influence those planning the transport systems of the future? These questions are being addressed by The Un

PA 169/09 Where we are born not only determines how we speak but also how we taste our food and drink. The taste preferences of the UK's major regions have been analysed by Professor Andy Taylor, an expert in flavour technology at The University of Nottingham and Greg Tucker a leading food psychologist.

New research the University of Birmingham and the University of Manchester warns that there's no quick fix for tackling public sector failure. In fact it is often a harder and slower process than governments and regulators are willing to admit. When things go wrong, as has been well-documented in the Baby Peter case, regulators are too willing to blame frontline workers, or sack chief executives.

PA 151/09 Revolutionary ultrasonic nanotechnology that could allow scientists to see inside a patient's individual cells to help diagnose serious illnesses is being developed by researchers at The University of Nottingham.

PA 150/09 Thermo-chromic window films which regulate room temperature; a heart and breathing rate monitor which could revolutionise the monitoring of babies during childbirth; and improved tests for

Delivered by Holger Staude Commencement June 2, 2009 Princeton University Class of 2009 Thank you, President Tilghman, for giving me the opportunity to speak to my classmates today.