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February 28, 2013
ӰƵ’s School of Engineering has launched three new master’s degree programs that respond to shifts in industry and workforce demand.
The advanced degrees are aimed at professionals and recent graduates who seek specific training in wireless health, fire science and engin...
February 28, 2013
Extroverts may win “most popular,” but author Susan Cain says that their quieter counterparts deserve a second look. The talents of introverts may be less pronounced, but can be just as valuable at home, work and across society.
Cain explains her perspective in the bestseller Quiet: The Power of In...
February 27, 2013
After 11 years at ӰƵ, Dorothy Miller, director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women, will retire at the end of this semester.
Miller came to ӰƵ in 2002, after she was recruited from Wichita State University to establish the new women’s center at ...
February 27, 2013
When the White House assembled a panel of experts for today’s discussion about preventing school violence, Vice President Joseph Biden made sure Dan Flannery was on it.
Flannery, director of ӰƵ’s Dr. Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and ...
February 25, 2013
Using modified laws of gravity, researchers from ӰƵ and Weizmann Institute of Science closely predicted a key property measured in faint dwarf galaxies that are satellites of the nearby giant spiral galaxy Andromeda.
The predicted property in this study is the velocity ...
February 25, 2013
New research by ӰƵ School of Dental Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine finds that cultures commonly used to detect bacterial infections in low birth-weight newborns with early onset sepsis may actually overlook some germs.
The research done at Case Western ...
February 25, 2013
The President’s Committee on Child Care Options (PCCCO) is sponsoring two spring break camps this year for children of ӰƵ faculty, staff and students. One weeklong program will take place on the university campus through a partnership with The Music Settlement, while the other will...
February 22, 2013
Update Monday, Feb. 25: The panel now can be viewed online.
An idea emerging from research at ӰƵ will be pulled from the ivory tower and placed squarely among executives from IDEO, Google and Udacity at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference in San Francisco today.
Anthony Jack, as...
February 22, 2013
Return to Think By Numbers, the 2012-2013 Annual Report
Professor Lee Thompson takes an unusual approach to teaching her course “Life of the Mind,” a First Seminar in SAGES (the Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship) at ӰƵ.
Thompson, chair of the Depart...
February 21, 2013
What it takes to succeed doesn’t waiver, whether winning in business or a Super Bowl, advises an executive who’s done both.
“It requires the ability to be strategic, tenacious and opportunistic,” said Andrew Wasynczuk, a former principal with the National Football League’s New England Patriots and ...