AScribe Business & Economics News Service back issues from January 2009:
Kauffman Foundation Announces 2009 Young Scholars Program Recipients; Awards Presented at the 2009 Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting.
Jan 05, 2009 ... Byline: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today the 2009 recipients of the Kauffman Young Scholars Program. This program recognizes the achievements of three sets of young scholars who ...
Thomas Tierney (MBA 1980) Named Chair of HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Advisory Board; Former Bain & Company CEO to Succeed John Whitehead.
Jan 06, 2009 ... Byline: Harvard Business School BOSTON, Jan. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI - http://www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise) announced today that Thomas J. Tierney (MBA 1980), chairman and co-founder of the Bridgespan Group, will ...
Career Expert Jaye Roseborough Gives College Students a Boost With Innovative Strategies.
Jan 07, 2009 ... Byline: Middlebury College MIDDLEBURY, Vt., Jan. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- "Getting people hired is a lot easier when they're known," says Middlebury College Executive Director of Career Services Jaye Roseborough ...
Kauffman Foundation Launches Entrepreneur Fellows Program to Increase Number of High-Growth Startup Founders; Fellows' Experiences Will Provide Insight Into the 'Science of Startups'.
Jan 08, 2009 ... Byline: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today a new fellowship program that will increase the number of experienced founders for startup companies and help the Foundation better ...
Minnesota Council on Foundations Releases Two Annual Research Reports; Minnesota Foundations, Corporations Anticipate Drop in Grantmaking.
Jan 08, 2009 ... Byline: Minnesota Council on Foundations MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- After several years of increased giving, Minnesota foundations and corporate giving programs expect a decline in grantmaking to nonprofit organizations in 2009 versus 2008. According to the 2009 ...
Collegiate Institutions Earn AACSB International Accounting and Business Accreditation.
Jan 08, 2009 ... Byline: AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business TAMPA, Fla., Dec. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Five institutions of higher learning have earned initial accreditation in business from AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate ...
Ethanol's Federal Subsidy Grab Leaves Little for Solar, Wind and Geothermal Energy.
Jan 08, 2009 ... Byline: Environmental Working Group WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- As Congress and the incoming Obama administration plan the nation's next major investments in green energy, they need to take a hard, clear-eyed look at Department of Energy data documenting corn-based ...
Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) First Indian University to Offer IEEE Computer Society's CSDA Certification.
Jan 08, 2009 ... Byline: IEEE Computer Society LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- VIT University, Vellore has announced that it is the first Indian university to sign an agreement to offer the IEEE Computer Society's Certified Software Development Associate (CSDA) certification ...
Bush EPA Shirks Responsibility Over Perchlorate Contamination; EPA Call for New Study a Ploy to Prevent Regulation, Aid Defense and Aerospace Industries.
Jan 08, 2009 ... Byline: Environmental Working Group WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- In a last-ditch effort to avoid regulating widespread perchlorate contamination of drinking water, the Bush Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling for yet another blue-ribbon study of the ...
Job Losses to Continue, Duke Finance Professor Says.
Jan 09, 2009 ... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- The government's announcement Friday that 524,000 jobs were lost in December alone represents a pattern that should continue in the coming months, says a Duke University finance expert. Campbell ...
North American Association of Central Cancer Registries Releases Geocoding Guide to Address Increased Use of Geographic Information Systems in Cancer Surveillance.
Jan 09, 2009 ... Byline: North American Association of Central Cancer Registries SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Jan. 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- NAACCR, the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, is pleased to announce the release of "A Geocoding Best Practices Guide," which will serve as an ...
UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum: Prediction Markets.
Jan 12, 2009 ... Byline: Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The University of California's Haas School of Business today released the following media advisory. - - - - WHAT: Kay-Yut Chen, principal scientist at ...
California - An Economy in Crisis: A Presentation by the UC Santa Barbara Economic Forecast Project.
Jan 12, 2009 ... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- The press is invited to cover - either in person or via webcast (see below) - this special presentation by the UC Santa Barbara Economic Forecast Project on the state of the ...
RAND Launches Unique Tool to Evaluate Health Care Proposals; 'COMPARE' Provides Global Positioning System for Health Care Policy.
Jan 13, 2009 ... Byline: RAND Corporation SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- The RAND Corporation today launched an online tool to provide policymakers and interested parties with a unique way of understanding and evaluating the effects and unintended consequences of health care ...
Bush's U.S. Trade Rep. Returning Home to University of Maryland.
Jan 13, 2009 ... Byline: University of Maryland, College Park COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Outgoing U.S. Trade Representative, Susan C. Schwab, will return to her academic home at the University of Maryland after her job officially ends on Jan. 20. Schwab's bio is available ...
Top U.S. Global Health Researcher to Push for More U.S. Support.
Jan 14, 2009 ... Byline: School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- Jacquelyn C. Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing has been selected to join a group of 25 experts in global health research who will ...
University of Florida Report: Confidence in Florida Real Estate Markets Hits New Low.
Jan 21, 2009 ... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- An accelerating avalanche of bad economic news has swept over Florida real estate to sink confidence in the industry to its lowest level since a statewide survey of economic experts began three years ...
Researchers Cooking Up New Gelled Rocket Fuels.
Jan 21, 2009 ... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Jan. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Engineers and food scientists are teaming up to develop a new type of gelled fuel the consistency of orange marmalade designed to improve the safety, performance and range of rockets for space and ...
Babson Executive Education and The de Bono Group, LLC, Collaborate on Innovation Research.
Jan 22, 2009 ... Byline: Babson College WELLESLEY, Mass., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Babson Executive Education's Center for Business Innovation (http://execed.babson.edu/researchers/centers_innovation.aspx) has announced a collaborative research effort with The de Bono Group, LLC ...
Vanderbilt Named Among FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For; First Higher University to Crack Prestigious List.
Jan 22, 2009 ... Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time Vanderbilt has been named one of the top 100 best places to work in the United States in FORTUNE magazine's annual survey, and it is the first university to ever be named to the ...
CACM Reports: How Information Systems Sustain Economic Relationships in the Developing World; January Issue Explores Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Adopting Information and Communications Technology.
Jan 23, 2009 ... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, Jan. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Advances in computing and other information and communications technologies (ICTs) have revolutionized the way we create and share information, with implications for medicine, economics, ...
Mount Holyoke College Economist Co-Authors Recovery Plan; Professor Fred B. Moseley, a Progressive Economist, Is Among Those Issuing Policy Recommendations to Address Nation's Economic Woes.
Jan 23, 2009 ... Byline: Mount Holyoke College SOUTH HADLEY, Mass., Jan. 23 (AScribe Newswire) -- Mount Holyoke professor of economics Fred B. Moseley is one of 20 progressive economists who have issued policy statements designed to contribute to the national debate as the Obama administration ...
University of Florida Report: Florida Consumer Confidence Rises Despite Weak Economy.
Jan 27, 2009 ... Byline: University of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Consumer confidence among Floridians inched up one point to 68 in January despite worse than expected holiday retail sales and the state being tied for 10th place in the percentage of unemployed ...
Interactions Reports: Designing Products That Meet Social and Cultural Concerns to Succeed in Global Markets; Current Issue Also Highlights How Social Networks Change the Way We Connect and Communicate.
Jan 28, 2009 ... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Addressing the need to ensure appropriate social and cultural resonance of products and services, the January+February 2009 issue of interactions magazine (http://interactions.acm.org/) explores ...
Congress Correct Not to Delay Digital TV Transition, Duke Professor Says.
Jan 28, 2009 ... Byline: Duke University DURHAM, N.C., Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Congress took the correct action on Wednesday not to push back the date for the nation's transition to digital-only TV (DTV) broadcasting because a delay would have been neither politically shrewd nor in the ...
New From The Century Foundation's Building a Stronger America Series: A Plan to Extend Super-Fast Broadband Connections to All Americans.
Jan 28, 2009 ... Byline: The Century Foundation NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- - President Barack Obama has made infrastructure investment a major component of his administration's economic recovery plan. A new report from The Century Foundation says broadband communications are ...
Making a Difference: Spurred by Senator Grassley, Iowa Vaults to Second Place in Wind Energy Production.
Jan 28, 2009 ... Byline: Environmental Working Group WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- There is no question that America faces an environmental and energy crisis. Today the American Wind Energy Association reports that Iowa has the second-greatest wind energy generating capacity, topped ...
Family Foundations Prioritize Giving for the Economically Disadvantaged, New Foundation Center Report Finds.(Report)
Jan 29, 2009 ... Byline: The Foundation Center NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Giving by America's family foundations reached over $18 billion in 2007, a 13 percent increase from the previous year, according to the Foundation Center's new report, "Key Facts on Family Foundations" (2009 ...
Experts Available to Discuss the Federal Economic Stimulus Package.
Jan 29, 2009 ... Byline: University of Wisconsin - Madison MADISON, Wis., Jan. 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- Professional development experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are available to discuss the impact of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA 2009) on the nation's ...