University News

National Academy of Engineering Elects 64 Members and Nine Foreign Associates
Secretary of Energy Announces Eight E.O. Lawrence Award Winners
Harvard Names Drew G. Faust As its 28th President
Alan MacDiarmid Nobel-winning Chemist Dies
National Academy of Sciences Elects Home Secretary and Councilors
Zimmer Announces Additional $50 Million in Aid for Graduate Students in Social Sciences, Humanities
LaMarche Named Princeton Vice Provost
Kastner of Physics is New MIT Dean of Science

Industry News

NTT DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric, Sharp, and Sony Ericsson to Jointly Develop Platform for 3G Mobile Phone Handsets
Italian Insurance Giant Fondiaria-Sai Signs $463 Million IT Services Agreement with EDS
Intel Research Chip Advances 'Era Of Tera'
Lockheed Martin Awarded $186 Million Contract to Upgrade P-3C Maritime Surveillance Aircraft Mission Systems for Pakistan Navy
General Dynamics Awarded $43 Million Contract for Submarine Support Work
IBM, AMD and Novell Team on Linux Offering for Informix Dynamic Server
Dell Announces New Global Operations Organization with Responsibility For All Manufacturing, Procurement and Supply Chain Activities Worldwide
Raytheon Names Salvador Vice President for New Product Lines at Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC
SAP Names Christoph Liedtke Vice President of Global Media Relations
3M Expands its Medical Diagnostics Platform with Acquisition of Acolyte Biomedica Ltd.

Venture Capital News

Biopharmaceutical Industry Research & Development Tops $55 Billion In 2006
Seasoned Executive and Technology Funding Veteran Keith Grinstein Joins NetSuite's Board of Directors Motorola Invests In Tango Networks
Richard Wong Joins Accel Partners

Commentary

The Children Neglected by No Child Left Behind - Kristen Stephens and Jan Riggsbee

Upcoming Events

2007 Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids (March 5-8, 2007)
SOLAS Science 2007: A SOLAS Open Science Conference (March 6-9 2007)
LPSC 2007: Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (March 12–16, 2007)
NHA Annual Hydrogen Conference 2007 (March 19-22, 2007)
2007 IRMA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology (May 19-23, 2007)
ETech 2007: Emerging Technology Conference (March 26-29, 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)
Sensors Expo 2007 (June 11-13, 2007)
PPPS 2007: Plasma Science and Pulsed Power Conference (June 17-22, 2007)