Science Education & Policy

Critics may say the US is losing its competitive edge but nonetheless she remains dominant in science and technology worldwide by a large margin, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today. The United States accounts for 40 percent of the total world's spending on scientific research and development, employs 70 percent of the world's Nobel Prize winners and is home to three-quarters of the world's top 40 universities. An inflow of foreign students in the sciences -- as well as scientists and engineers from overseas -- has helped the United States build and maintain its worldwide lead…

TORONTO, Canada, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Redline Communications Group Inc. ("Redline") (TSX and AIM: RDL), a leading provider of WiMAX and broadband wireless infrastructure products, today announced that its RedMAX 4C(TM) family of Mobile WiMAX has received the 2008 North American Product Innovation Award from Frost & Sullivan. The Frost & Sullivan Award for product innovation is presented each year to companies demonstrating excellence in new products and technologies within their industry. Redline Communications has received the award for its advanced RedMAX 4C(TM) family of mobile…

Organic, natural food is all the rage but in some instances it reaffirms why people only lived to be 35 years old. A comparison of swine raised in antibiotic-free and conventional pork production settings revealed that pigs raised outdoors without antibiotics had higher rates of three food-borne pathogens than did pigs on conventional farms, which remain indoors and receive preventive doses of antimicrobial drugs. The study was funded by a grant from the National Pork Board so if funding sources lead you to believe that results are biased, stop reading now. More than half of the pigs on…

In a bid to control greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, the European Union has been operating the world's first system to limit and to trade carbon dioxide. Despite its hasty adoption and somewhat rocky beginning three years ago, the EU "cap-and-trade" system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to an MIT analysis. The MIT results provide both encouragement and guidance to policy makers working to design a carbon dioxide (CO2)-trading scheme for the United States and for the world. A key finding may be that everything…

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pennsylvania, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- - Study of the project management profession to be focus of 13-16 July, 2008 event in Warsaw, Poland Academicians, scholars and project management professionals from throughout the world will gather in Warsaw, Poland, on 13-16 July 2008 to hear the preliminary findings of a three year-long research study on the "Value of Project Management." Commissioned by the Project Management Institute and conducted by researchers at Athabasca University in Canada, the study will look at more than 60 case studies from a globally dispersed array of…

WASHINGTON, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- - Jonathan Zittrain of Oxford University Delivers Keynote This past Thursday, the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) held its London Online Brand Abuses and Internet Governance Education Forum. Broad in its geographical scope, the forum welcomed companies from the US, UK, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland, with half of the attendees representing Global 500 companies. These attendees came together because of concerns over issues such as online brand dilution and the often-ineffective governance of ICANN. This was the first of two international…

PARIS, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The International School of Management (ISM), an American organization with headquarters in Paris, France and programs in New York, Tokyo and Shanghai, is proud to announce the 10 year, unconditional reaffirmation of accreditation of its business programs -- the MBA, IEMBA, DBA, and Ph.D. -- by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). Founded in 1988, ACBSP recognizes best practices in business education, and accredits qualified business programs. As the leading specialized accreditation association for business education, the ACBSP…

LEGAU, Germany, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The finalists of the first, international "One World Award" have been announced. The visit of the five selected projects has confirmed that the activities of the prize-winners agreed with the aims of the "One World Award". The five finalists of the "One World Award" 2008 carry their parts with extraordinary engagement and have all shown commitment to showing that the future of globalization is positive. The finalists are: Harald Schutzeichel, he started the foundation for solar energy in Ethiopia in 2004 with the aim of supplying the rural population…

READING, England, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- - DediPower to Provide Managed Hosting Services for New Secondary School Curriculum DediPower, one of the UK's fastest growing managed hosting providers, is working with Oculus, a leading integrated design and communications agency to deliver newsecondarycurriculum.org, a website that underpins a major government education initiative in England. DediPower is providing all the managed hosting requirements. In order to support the introduction and rollout of a new secondary school curriculum the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)…

Making a virginity pledge may help some young people postpone the start of sexual activity, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Researchers found that adolescents who made pledges to remain virgins until they are married were less likely to be sexually active over the three-year study period than other youth who were similar to them, but who did not make a virginity pledge, according to the study published online by the Journal of Adolescent Health. "These findings do not suggest that virginity pledges should be a substitute for comprehensive sexual education programs, or that they…