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New bomb-sniffing device can identify chemical components of different explosives in open air
By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American, May 6th, 2010
Law enforcement was able to thwart an attempt to set off an explosion in the middle of New York City's Times Square on May 1 thanks to the quick thinking of a T-shirt vendor who noticed smoke coming from a parked SUV. Unfortunately, the signs that a bomb is nearby are often more subtle, detectable...
Intelligent Community Forum Names Recipients of its Annual Founders Awards
April 20th, 2010
Summit at NYU-Poly, awards at Steiner Film Studios in New York on May 21 The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), a New York-based think tank that studies the impact of broadband and related information and communications technologies on the communities of the 21st Century, named the three recipients...
NYU plans expansion
By Tony Davenport, New York Post, March 23rd, 2010
NYU is movin' on up to the East Side -- and to Brooklyn and Governors Island. The school has developed sprawling plans to expand beyond its Greenwich Village campus core. "NYU's strategy for the first time is looking to develop as much outside our core and neighborhood as inside it, in such...
Data Management versus Data Entrepreneurship: Leveraging a Lazy Asset
By Bruce Niswander, CIO Leadership, March 22nd, 2010
Let your eyes drift to the desktop computer; then let your mind’s eye conjure your own business servers and those across the planet. Pause to appreciate them: Today’s business data network represents the single most valuable – and underutilized – resource in the world. Today’s data network...
The foreign universities bill may enhance free flow of knowledge
By Uttara Choudhury, DNA India, March 21st, 2010
US universities are waiting in the wings for the Indian parliament to open up the country’s heavily regulated education sector. The government still needs to ease regulatory roadblocks and find a way to make education a financially viable business for all concerned. But if that can be done, many...
American College Cricket Spring Break Championship Day Two Roundup: USC, UMBC, Auburn and MCC impress
By Peter Della Penna, USA Cricketer, March 19th, 2010
USC bounced back after an opening day loss to notch two wins on day two of the American College Cricket Spring Break Championship in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. In the first of six matches played on the artificial wickets outside the stadium at Central Broward Regional Park on Thursday, USC dominated...
Tracking Down the Mystery of Life's 'Handedness'
PRNewswire, March 18th, 2010
Within the general question of the chemical origin of life lies the question of handedness, or chirality (a term derived from the Greek word for hand). Critically important molecules that make up life — including DNA, RNA, polysaccharides and proteins — are chiral. This means there are mirror image...
Student Teams Prepare For the Ultimate Extracurricular Activity
PRNewswire, March 18th, 2010
As most high school and college students are busy tackling tests or taking it easy during spring break, student teams from across the Americas are preparing for the ultimate extracurricular activity — designing, building, and testing a vehicle that travels the farthest distance using the least...
Road to Fondwa
Big Apple Small Wallet, March 2nd, 2010
Last week I braved some stormy weather and headed to NYU-Poly in Brooklyn for an event called Rediscovering Haiti. Not only did it sound interesting, but it was hosted by their student chapter of Engineers Without Borders! I love those guys! The event started with a historical overview of Haiti......
Top 50 Game Design Programs
Princeton Review, March 1st, 2010
The Princeton Review and GamePro magazine have selected the best institutions in the U.S. and Canada where you can study game design. We ranked the top eight programs and named (alphabetically) 42 distinguished others. We chose these 50 programs based on a 2009-10 survey of administrators at...
