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Watch the video http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/19/university-researchers-create-networked-flying-robots-build-complex-structures/#
The Chronicle of Higher Education (7/10, Labi) reported, “If ambitious plans outlined” at a recent conference at Columbia University is realized, “several of the world’s leading universities could soon be collaborating on engineering-design projects and research activities, exchanging students and professors, and pooling their expertise to work more closely with industry.” During the conference, “deans …
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USA Today (7/14, Davidson) reports, “Jobs in science, technology, engineering and math fields pay an average 26% more than other occupations and grew three times faster the past decade, according to a Commerce Department study to be released today.” The Obama Administration “is citing the report partly to put numbers behind its push to invest …
employers are increasingly picky: “They are all looking for the same kind of people — people who not only have the critical thinking skills to do the value-adding jobs that technology can’t, but also people who can invent, adapt and reinvent their jobs every day, in a market that changes faster than ever.” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/opinion/13friedman.html?_r=2
THE 22ND ANNUAL COMPETE THROUGH SERVICE SYMPOSIUM Presented by the Center for Services Leadership with IBM November 2-4, 2011 The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Phoenix, AZ Explore the Symposium Website
OPINIONATOR: Vocationalism, Academic Freedom and Tenure A new book questions how necessary academic freedom is in the context of higher education today. http://nyti.ms/rnVGjc
Martha Russell (Stanford MediaX) convened us for #IESummit. http://www.innovation-ecosystems.org
Janet Unruh has the right idea in Recycle Everything. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eokh-6d6QVc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Z Corp Burlington MA from National Geographic on 3D printing of tools. See