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Thousands of Top Students From Six Continents Gather for 1 Million USD Poverty…

In its third year, the Hult GCC has become one of the world's top platforms for social change. College and university students globally recognize it as the largest case competition and non-profit organizations consider it to be a major crowdsourcing platform for social good.
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19/01/2012

Fourier Education Introduces TERRA NOVA™ - Solar & Wind Renewable Energy Science…

The TERRA NOVA Solar Energy Kit will introduce students to the basic concepts and properties of solar energy and enable them to explore the different parameters that impact the electricity produced. The TERRA NOVA Wind Energy Kit aims to guide students in exploring and understanding the parameters of wind energy and how to convert it into electricity. The Solar and Wind Energy Premium Kit allows students to compare and contrast the benefits of either technology and develop a better understanding…
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11/01/2012

Soumitra Dutta Brings a Global Perspective to Cornell's Johnson Graduate School…

Soumitra Dutta, a professor of business and technology and founder and faculty director of a new media and technology innovation lab at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, will become the eleventh dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University effective July 1, 2012, Cornell President David J. Skorton announced today. In appointing Dutta, Johnson becomes the first major business school in the U.S. to hire a dean from a business school outside the country.
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09/01/2012

The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Presents a Symposium of Coral…

The symposium marks the conclusion of four years of Red Sea research by the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, working primarily in collaboration with the Saudi Wildlife Authority (SWA) and the U.S. National Coral Reef Institute (NCRI). Between 2006 and 2009, the Foundation conducted extensive reef surveys along the Saudi Arabian Red Sea coast. Researchers have now combined field data from their SCUBA assessments of corals and fishes with information from satellite imagery and field…
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09/01/2012

Legendary Entrepreneur Werner Otto Died at the age of 102

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27/12/2011

Science Classic: 1880-1996 -- Academics Throughout Russia Gain Access to the…

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announces that the Russian Ministry of Education and Science has selected Science Classic, the digital archives of Science (1880-1996), as the first acquisition in a major project to provide national access to scientific archives. Russian students, scientists, and professors can now access 116 years of Science's archive through a local platform provided by the National Electronic Information Consortium (NEICON).
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22/12/2011

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces Appointment of…

Prior to joining the Trust, Mr. Ettinger served as the Managing Partner at the global law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP from 1999 through 2011, where he successfully led and helped manage a broad expansion of the 160 year-old firm's practice both domestically and internationally. Davis Polk has more than 1,500 lawyers and professional staff in 10 offices across major financial centers in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. The firm's lawyers routinely represent the largest…
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20/12/2011

Elsevier and Beijing Normal University Cooperate to Offer Language Editing…

The language editing services agreement with Beijing Normal University is the first of its kind. This service is normally offered to individual researchers through the Elsevier Webshop platform. It allows researchers worldwide to improve their scientific impact by ensuring the English of their articles is free of grammatical and spelling errors and ready for publication. More than 11,000 individual researchers have already used the service. By creating agreements on an institutional level…
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20/12/2011

Abbott and University of Illinois Establish Center for Nutrition, Learning and…

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced today they have established the first-ever multi-disciplinary nutrition and cognition research center, which will be located on the Urbana campus. The Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory will lead directed and-solicited research on the impact of nutrition on learning and memory in the human brain.
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19/12/2011

Sales of Nativity Outfits Soar as Parents Compete to Create This Year's Best…

Best dressed mum at the school gates is now not enough as the competition is hotting up in the classroom with this year's nativity costumes. George at Asda reports record sales of children's nativity fancy dress costumes compared to this time last year. Outfits are flying off the shelves, with a sheep and angel costumes as coming in as clear favourites, selling out online in a matter of days. Current best sellers include the Shepherd, Star and Mary costumes, with the shepherd costume showing an…
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16/12/2011

Park Inn by Radisson Sofia Supports the Asen Zlatarov Orphanage

The management of the hotel Sofia, together with Tabitha Foundation, donated 100 bedspreads to 70 children aged 7 - 19 who are deprived of parental care and live in the orphanage. With the support of the educational centre in Vratsa, children will practice their sewing abilities to fit the bedspreads to their imaginations.
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16/12/2011

Are Your Toys Safe?

This is the goal of the European Toy Safety Campaign that the European Commission has launched this month; it intends to show how to get the safest toys, and how to use them safely!
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15/12/2011

New Concept Studio School - One of First in London to Open in 2012

One of the first of the new Studio Schools in London and the South East will open in Fulham, South West London in September 2012.
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14/12/2011

Students Compete to Win an Internship Around the World

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14/12/2011

Increase in Female Start-Ups as Women Entrepreneurs Capitalise on Lifestyle…

The company has seen a 12 per cent increase in quote requests from women starting up businesses over the past twelve months, with women now accounting for 37 per cent of all start-up businesses, up from 33 per cent last year.
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12/12/2011

The European Union Signs Grant Contract to Fund a 2 Million Euro Biotechnology…

The Joint Management Authority of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI CBC MED program) has informed Prof Nava Ben Zvi, President of Hadassah College in Israel that they will award a contract of up to 2 million Euro for the Bio-Xplore Project. This project, initiated and directed by Hadassah College, will be implemented in partnership with the Biodiversity and Environmental Research Center of the Palestinian Authority, Leitat Technological Center in Spain, and the Hellenic…
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09/12/2011

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Announces Scholarships for…

The scholarships are being offered to Indian students in any of the university's taught masters courses offered in Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Health Sciences.
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07/12/2011

"MOON" SHINES - 2011 Educational Writers' Award Winner Announced

The Award was announced this afternoon by the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society (ALCS) and The Society of Authors at the All Party Writers Group (APWG) Winter Reception at the House of Commons. Winner Stewart Ross was presented with a cheque for £2000.
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06/12/2011

Survey Reveals Social Change is a Global Phenomenon

- Social change issues of greatest importance vary by country and gender
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06/12/2011

Third Red Sea Expedition Underway at KAUST

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06/12/2011

Waleed Ahmed, Hult International Business School Student, Attracts Worldwide…

The invention has already earned the pair more than US$2.07m, with revenues expected to reach US$10m later this year. The rewards are not only financial; Waleed has been tipped by Norwegian broadcasting giant NRK as "Norway'sMark Zuckerberg" and he has been honored by both the Crown Prince of Norway and the UN Foundation Board of Directors, which includes Queen Rania of Jordan and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
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06/12/2011

Six Business Schools From Five Countries Earn AACSB Accreditation

AACSB International (AACSB) announced today that six business schools, from five countries, have earned AACSB Accreditation. Founded in 1916, AACSB International is the longest serving global accrediting body for business schools that offer undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in business and accounting.
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05/12/2011

Hult International Business School launches New Master of International…

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01/12/2011

More than 120 Muslim Leaders Commit to the Future of Afghanistan During…

The conference participants consider this gathering, discussion and commitment for peace and non-violence as the establishment of a historically significant point of reference for Islamic teachings of moderation, tolerance, peace and cooperation.
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30/11/2011
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