University News

Penn Leads $98 Million Translational Medicine Collaboration
Macular Degeneration Immune Studies at Emory Eye Center Receive $1 Million Grant
Thomas Rosenbaum to Be Next Provost of University of Chicago
Marketing Strategist Susan Rogers Joins UT Dallas as VP for Communications
New Executive Director Announced for Blum Center for Developing Economies
Christiansen Named Sole Finalist for Director of Texas Transportation Institute
Princeton Establishes Research Computing Facility

Industry News

Raytheon Awarded $285 Million Contract to Continue Producing TOW ITAS Precision Guidance Systems
Satoshi Ikeuchi Appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Fujitsu Network Communications
U.S. Navy Awards General Dynamics $35 Million Contract to Support Naval Submarine Base Work
Rockwell Collins Announces Executive Appointments
SAP Names John Hanley as Senior Vice President in SAP Services Organization
3M to Acquire Biotrace International PLC
BP Acquires North Sea Acreage
IBM Acquires Ubiquity's DORANA Product Line

Venture Capital News

Deloitte Launches Greater Washington, D.C. Tech Venture Center
Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity Acquires Grupo Convermex From J.P. Morgan Partners
Houston Technology Center Announces Three New Gulf Coast Region ETF Grant Recipients
Mark Hoover Joins Woodside Fund as Venture Partner
Reva Secures Cisco Systems and SAP Ventures Investments

Nobel Prize

2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2006 Nobel Prize in Physics
2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Upcoming Events

11th Annual International Business Achievement Awards (IBAA) (Oct. 10)
Ready to Commercialize 2006 (Oct. 12)
IEEE Communication and Vehicular Technologies Society: Cybersecurity and Emergency Preparedness (Oct. 17)
Society of Women Engineers Meeting: Investing on a Shoestring Budget (Oct. 17)
BioDFW Breakfast Series: Xilas Medical: Story of an ETF Recipient (Oct. 19)
The World of Nanotechnology (Oct. 20)
BioEnergy Texas (Oct. 24-26)
4th Annual National IECG Conference - "Compliance and Beyond: Creating Shareholder Value" (Oct. 26)
Society of Women Engineers Meeting: "How to Manage and Promote Your Career and Move Forward" (Nov. 21)