University News
Institute of Medicine Elects 64 New Members, Five Foreign Associates
NCI Awards $25 Million for Patient Navigator Research Program for Minority and Underserved Cancer Patients
Tsakopoulos Family Endows Professorship
$2 Million Gift to School of the Arts Funds Visual Arts Fellowships
Wang Receives Prestigious National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology
UK Universities Join Forces for Center of Excellence
MIT and Nokia Establish Joint Laboratory
Financial Times Ranks UTD’s EMBA Program Among the Top 25 in U.S., Top 46 in World
New Chair Announced for Civil & Environmental Engineering
Industry News
General Dynamics Awarded US$13 Million Contract for Abrams Spare Parts
NOAA Awards Lockheed Martin $10 Million Contract
EDS Creates New Office of the Chief Operating Officer
Rockwell Automation Establishes Asia-Pacific Business Center in Singapore
Ericsson Wins Push E-mail Contract with MobileCom in Jordan
IBM Acquires the Business of iPhrase Systems, Inc.
Intel Opens 65nm, 300mm High-Volume Wafer Manufacturing Facility In Arizona
LG Electronics, Nortel Launch Joint Ventures for Telecom, Networking
Raytheon Awarded Information Assurance Contract by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Venture Capital News
Venture Capital Fund-raising On Rise
Oncomethylome Sciences Raises €15 Million in Series B
Nanopoint Gets Financing for Microscope
Les Brownlee, Former U.S. Army Acting Secretary, to Work with American Capital
AREVA Announces the Closing of the Sale of FCI to Bain Capital
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Upcoming Events
Micro & Nano-Systems Distinguished Speaker Series Nanostructured Materials for Infrared Detection (Nov. 8)
UTD NanoTech Director Ray Baughman Gives Presentation On Innovative Carbon Nanotubes (Nov. 9)
Building A Medical Product Development Services Company In North Texas (Nov. 9)
North Texas Emerging Technology Fund (Nov. 10)
Micro & Nano-Systems Distinguished Speaker Series Wafer-Level Microencapsulation (Nov. 10)
Seminar Series for Life-long Learners: Teachers – Inquiry in the Science Classroom (Nov. 14)
IEEE: Ten Tips to Moving to a Culture of Disciplined Execution (Nov. 14)
Micro & Nano-Systems Distinguished Speaker Series High Aspect Ratio MEMS/NEMS for RF, Photonics, and Bio Applications (Nov. 15)
Society of Women Engineering Meeting: Combining Work and Family (Nov. 15)
MIT Forum: The Power of Revolutionary Thinking (Nov. 17)
Information Session on Professional Certificate Programs in Supply Chain Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Lean Six Sigma and Sourcing Management (Nov. 22)
5th Annual State of Technology Luncheon (Dec. 1)
