University News
Gene D. Block Named New UCLA Chancellor
Gov. Schwarzenegger Proposes $95 Million for Research, Innovation, Green Technology
Developer of World Wide Web, Father of Biomechanics, and Exceptional Educators Win Highest Engineering Honors of 2007
University of Chicago Names Donald Levy Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories
UCLA’s J. Fraser Stoddart Adds Knight Bachelor to His List of Honors
NSF Provides $14 Million to Advance Research in Comparative Genomics of Economically Important Plants
State Gives Yale $7.8 Million for Stem Cell Research
Delegation from Israel’s Technion to Visit UT Dallas; Joint Nanotech, Life Sciences Symposium Planned
Astronomers Discover a Quasar Trio
Industry News
Lockheed Martin Receives $654 Million Contract
General Dynamics Awarded $77 Million Contract to Supply RG-31 Mk5 Mine Protected Vehicles to the U.S. Army
Raytheon Receives $60 Million in Contracts for Standard Missile-1 Support Services
Alcatel-Lucent Completes its Acquisition of Nortel’s UMTS Radio Access Business
Cisco Completes Acquisition of Tivella, Inc
Dyneon to Acquire Empore Solid Phase Extraction Family of Products
Venture Capital News
Institutional Investor Announces Socially Responsible Investing Forum: Jan 30
Split Rock Partners Announces Josh Baltzell Promotion to Director and Relocation to Menlo Park
Online Venture Capital Database Helps Angel Investors
Commentary
A Whitepaper on Alan G. MacDiarmid Institute of Renewable Energy
Upcoming Events
ACSC 2007: Australasian Computer Science Conference (Jan 29 – Feb. 2, 2007)
SOLAS Science 2007: A SOLAS Open Science Conference (March 6-9 2007)
LPSC 2007: Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (March 12–16, 2007)
2007 Conference on O.R. Practice (April 29-May 1, 2007)
CLEO/QELS 2007: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS) (May 6-11, 2007)
2007 Decision & Risk Management Conference: Convergence Between Finance and Industry (May 21-22)
EuroCogSci07: Cognitive Science Conference (May 23- 27, 2007)
PPPS 2007: Plasma Science and Pulsed Power Conference (June 17-22, 2007)
