Education

A faster tool for cell programming and a new way of allowing quadriplegics to perform simple tasks have won grand prizes of the 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition, a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame sponsored by the Abbott Fund, the non-profit foundation of ...

The Simmons College School of Management in Boston (www.simmons.edu/som) has been ranked No. 15 in the "Global 100" list of business schools by the Aspen Institute in its 2010-2011 MBA ranking, "Beyond Grey Pinstripes....

Bentley University, a leader in business education, and City Year, a leading nationwide youth service organization, recently announced the first "give a year" scholarship winners. Three students who are dedicated to both academic excellence and national service have been nam...

Under a $2 million initiative, IBM (NYSE: IBM) is donating 1,000 Young Explorer(TM) computer centers to preschool and early childhood programs in areas with populations of 40 percent or more Hispanic as part of the IB...

Nearly 400 New York City business and civic leaders kicked off the 2009-10 PENCIL Partnership Program today by participating in a New York tradition-PENCIL's Principal For A Day event.

"For the past fifteen years, PENCIL has been proudly leadin...

The College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley is making major new commitments to advance research and education in sustainable green chemistry, thanks to the financial support of The Dow Chemical Company Foundation and ongoing collaboration with The Dow ...

Sushi has joined the list of favorite menu items at six elementary schools in New Jersey's Hillsborough Township Public Schools. Sodexo, the official student nutrition provider for the district, prepared and served California rolls to 400 adventurous students at lunch in lat...

Sony Pictures Entertainment has signed on to be a corporate sponsor of student interns from Verbum Dei High School, the renowned college preparatory school in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.

"The Verbum Dei and Sony Pictures partners...

Public voting for the winning entries in Walden University's Scholars of Change video contest begins today. Walden students and graduates created and submitted videos on how a Walden University degree will change their lives and empower them to personally effect positive soc...

, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Brazilian educator Beatriz Cardoso launches her commitment "All Kids can Learn" during the Fifth Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting at the New York Sheraton. Cardoso is the president of CEDAC, an NGO which has working for improving the qualit...