New report by UCLA Luskin Center provides strategies for reducing inequality
The importance of quality mentorships is one of eight key recommendations in a new Luskin Center for Innovation report about strategies for increasing diversity and retaining women in high-tech careers. (more…)
ANN ARBOR — An international team of engineers and biologists will gain unprecedented insights into how birds fly so efficiently and then turn that knowledge to building unmanned aircraft with shapeshifting wings. (more…)
2016 has been a tumultuous year for American politics. The highly-involved electorate have raised concerns about everything from superdelegates to contested conventions. And the voters aren’t the only ones looking to make sense out of this year’s lengthy and complicated election process. As technological requirements grow on both sides of the political spectrum, companies like Microsoft are stepping in to meet the need. (more…)
Business scholar’s analysis of mandatory retirement policies shows institutional knowledge, experience and age are all factors that shareholders should consider in corporate governance
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Approximately half of the companies listed with Standard & Poor have adopted policies mandating retirement based on age. A new study from the University of Missouri has found that although these mandatory retirement polices represent an effective way to address underperforming CEOs, accumulated job experience improves performance and counters age-related declines. (more…)
At two manufacturing plants, one in Mexico, the other in Malaysia, history is being made, in addition to a range of products. (more…)
Physiker der Universität Kassel und der Universität Mainz bauen die kleinste Wärmekraftmaschine der Welt; sie arbeitet mit einem einzelnen Atom.
Das Wissenschaftsmagazin Science berichtet in seiner aktuellen Ausgabe über eine neuartige Wärmekraftmaschine, die mit nur einem einzelnen Atom funktioniert. Es handelt sich um Experimente, die unter Leitung von Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kilian Singer, Leiter des Fachgebiets Experimentalphysik I an der Universität Kassel, noch in seiner Zeit an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU) aufgebaut und in Zusammenarbeit mit theoretischen Physikern der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg durchgeführt wurden.
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Technique developed by UCLA researchers may be especially useful in helping to diagnose diseases
Researchers from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA have created a new technique that greatly enhances digital microscopy images. (more…)
Matt Long and Mark Nichols have a particular affinity for balloons – but not the kind that you see at birthday parties or ride with in big baskets, or find in 80s one-hit wonders. They’re focused on the kind that can go to near space – and take thousands of people along for the ride, virtually, in a demonstration of the Internet of Things in action. (more…)
