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Scottsdale-based ImmuneRegen Biosciences is getting one of the biggest breaks a biotech company can hope for: partnership with a famous, well-funded cancer research center.
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CDEX Inc. announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Gregory Firmbach as its new President. Firmbach, formerly CDEX Senior Vice President, has served for over 25 years in senior positions in the healthcare industry. He has led divisions and companies (both public and private) in all aspects of successful development, launch and expansion of both software and hardware products related to the healthcare industry. In his new role, he will lead the company's strategic growth.
Arizona: Let the (science and engineering) games begin!
WHAT
Arizona Math, Engineering and Science Achievement (MESA) Regional Competition
About 100 middle school and high school students from Peoria, Tempe, Deer Valley, Phoenix High School Union, Maricopa, Kyrene, Littleton, Creighton and Murphy school districts will showcase their design, problem-solving and communication skills.
The MESA Regional competition is a preliminary event for Phoenix-area MESA students. Top performers go on to compete at the state championships on MESA Day, April 24, in Tucson.
WHERE
Arizona State University, Tempe, Murdock Auditorium (Room 101)
(Campus map at http://www.asu.edu/map/interactive/)
WHEN
Saturday, Feb. 27, 9 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
An awards ceremony will be at 12:15 p.m., following the last competitive event
ADMISSION: Free
DETAILS
Competitive events are designed to capture student imagination and encourage interest in science, technology, engineering and math concepts.
ASU students, faculty and business professionals will serve as volunteers and judges as 7th to 12th graders compete in engineering challenges.
HIGHLIGHTS
Cargo Bottle Rocket: Teams construct a bottle rocket (using 2-liter soda bottle) and a device that launches an “astronaut” (an egg). To win, the rocket must fly the farthest distance within the testing zone without injuring the egg-astronaut.
Wind Energy Challenge: Students construct and test a windmill device that uses wind energy to transport a vehicle, lift an object and produce power.
Solar Oven: From commonly found materials, students design, build and test a solar oven that will generate temperatures hot enough to cook food.
Paper Truss Bridge: Using regular copy paper and glue, teams design and build a paper truss bridge. The bridge that can support the greatest amount of weight wins.
BACKGROUND
The Arizona MESA Central Region chapter is based in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. MESA is an academic program designed to assist females, diverse and disadvantaged students in pursuing higher education, and possibly careers in math, engineering and science. The program provides after-school support in a collaborative learning environment that enables 7th through 12th grade students to engage in activities and competitions related to math, engineering, science and college preparation.
The year-long MESA program provides individual academic guidance and exposure to college and industry role models, and promotes a strong academic foundation in mathematics and science as the key to college admission and success. MESA is a free program to participating students and a quality low-cost, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) resource for Title I or diversified schools in the Phoenix metro areas and surrounding areas.
TO LEARN MORE
See the web site: http://engineering.asu.edu/k12outreach, or MESA USA: http://mesa.ucop.edu/about/mesausa.html
SOURCE:
Lauren Majure, [email protected]
K-12 Outreach Coordinator
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
(480) 965-8258
Media contact on day of the event:
Lauren Majure: (480) 818-0920 (cell)
ASU MEDIA CONTACT:
Joe Kullman, [email protected]
(480) 965-8122 office
(480) 773-1364 mobile
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
http://engineering.asu.edu/
A new report commissioned by Science Foundation Arizona says that high-paying technology jobs remained stable in 2008 even as other private-sector employment began to melt away at the start of the recession.
The annual report, completed by Ohio-based technology consultant Battelle, indicates that Arizona lost just one-tenth of 1 percent of its technology jobs in 2008 while private-sector jobs overall dipped 3.2 percent.
Arizona State University is moving forward to build the most expensive single building in the institution’s history despite the sluggish economy and uncertainty over the state budget.
The $185 million science-and-technology building is planned on the site of a parking lot south of the Biodesign Institute on the Tempe campus.
Hartwell has helmed the Hutch since 1997, a year after joining the center as a full member and senior advisor for scientific affairs. While Hartwell is retiring from the Hutchinson center, he will not be idle, having agreed to establish and co-direct the Center for Sustainable Health at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University.
At ASU, Hartwell will be the university's second Virginia G. Piper Chair of Personalized Medicine; serve as a tenured professor in the College of Teacher Education and Leadership, and hold tenured appointments at ASU's School of Life Sciences and its School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering.
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It is, with apologies to the boys from Liverpool, the music of the beetles.
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A research assistant suggested using sounds to aggravate the beetles, much as police sometimes blare music in hostage situations. The researchers tried Queen and Guns N' Roses and played snippets of radio talker Rush Limbaugh backward. None produced the desired results.
Stuart Lindsay, Arizona State University Regents' professor and director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics, has just released the first comprehensive guide to a tiny world a million times smaller than a single grain of sand. Introduction to Nanoscience (published by Oxford University Press) provides readers with an overview of an emerging discipline which has in recent years, produced remarkable achievements in areas as varied as DNA sequencing, molecular machinery, nanocrystals and microscopy.
For information about Bioscience, please contact:
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